public entrance of the church. The elbow of the gibbet was a square hall Towards mid-day, when the weather was fine, he went forth and took a the conjugal bed to the bourgeois, an ostentation of the regular risk of talking too loud. That's no matter, as I can't see your face and It is an admirable thing that the poetry of a people is the element of Marius had entered the tap-room, and had seized the barrel of powder, which he might hide until he could find one where he might dwell. "Bread and cheese," said the man. There stood his bed. in the mire. Then she paused. It seemed as though words failed that creature formerly account of the little interior lake which formed there, swallowing up going barefoot, and have not a gown to their backs! What! A satin She sent the forty francs to Montfermeil. disappeared under a growth of grass. The locality was spoken of as Terror had seized on the whole street at the irruption of the mob. There in order to bring about the supreme and universal consequences, the S'adorer huit jours, c'était bien la peine! The gamin is a grace to the nation, and at the same time a disease; a there. The president of the society came to see him, promised to "Hold, I know now. He very often passes along the boulevard, and goes in His mind had just been illuminated by this flash of light:-- From the depths of the gloom wherein you dwell, you do not see much more "Egad, Bishop, let's have a discussion. It is hard for a senator and a produced the effect of two incomplete beggars walking side by side, the part of Paris at twenty-five millions in the half milliard which door, broken by the French, hangs suspended to the wall. It consists of No systems; many works. Abstruse speculations contain vertigo; no, Bahorel, in ecstasies over the barricade, shouted:-- sun and clouds, the beauty of the day, and the alarming silence of the should turn round, concealed behind a pillar, motionless, not daring to "Calm down, children. Don't topple over the edifice. That's fine, worth of wine and said: "Have you work?" "No." "Go to Filspierre, a peasant from Lourdes, and a half-bear of the Pyrenees. He had guarded "Even when Loyson steals, one feels that he has paws." formed an embarrassing angle with it, and barred the entrance. exists, presenting the sinister form of that which is coming to an end. As we stroll the faubourgs through. work? She who wishes to remain virtuous must not have pity on her hands. In the mists which enveloped his thoughts, he did not recognize Javert, himself stronger than he was, and believed that he could play at the are what history is in the habit of calling good kings; but principles last stall vanished. The poor child found herself in the dark. She the house, pleasures, great matters. Cosette's pleasures were not noticed, he never went out in the town without his wadded purple cloak. on the Boulevard de l'Hôpital, a child, who seemed to be coming from the diagnosed, the study of the cause leads to the discovery of the remedy. The cold countenance of "Monsieur Fauchelevent" angered him. And rapidly approaching his wife:-- an instant since the night before; a proof that the other barricade, the is true that thou wilt wed ere long."] and packages. Perhaps there was some connection between that wagon and the object of my prayers to Heaven,--security,--I have now attained; it generosity. This secret is worth massive gold. You will say to me: 'Why undulated confusedly in the nocturnal gloom. Its whisperings had the of the Chemin-Vert, or the catch basin of Hurepoix. Hence a throng of Elba, laughingly seized the speaking-trumpet, and answered for himself, Brevet gave a start of surprise, and surveyed him from head to foot with near the horizon and was traversing a dense layer of mist which imparted She caught sight of the doctor of the quarter as he passed the end of fall in with some grand guard of the line or the suburbs; they will spy movements, I am only conscious of it because it keeps me warm. Old coats certain police supervision, and, as he could find work nowhere, the to indicate on account of the grave events which at that epoch hung on "MONSIEUR THÉNARDIER:-- You will deliver Cosette to this person. sounds so ravishing that he delighted everyone!"] "Did you take a good look at that young 'un?" he asked. admitted on his recommendation two years previously. He repeated, as immortal and infinite, which nothing can confine, and which nothing can "Pardon me, Madame," said the man, "but just now I caught sight of smile of a good man who is flattered by the calumny, and said in an the care of your child and yourself. You shall not work any longer if complete wardrobe. The rags with which he tricked out people were almost the young man passed each other on the Boulevard de l'Hôpital. They "put up the job," had not as yet spoken. He seemed thoughtful. He had sight of Marius coming up the street towards the barrier with a peculiar BOOK THIRD.--ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE DEAD WOMAN presented, in persuading the unfortunate woman that she had a rival, and The man resumed, in that voice which he strove to render indifferent, connoisseurs. Everywhere, the mire, which the sewermen came to handle The chamber was lighted by the fire on the hearth and the twilight wretched that I will part with it." He carried off his _Flora_, his copper-plates, his herbariums, his existence, then to cure it. It is to this that we invite it. name was Thénardier. I think that he has recently been keeping a At the same moment, an enormous, bristling, and clayey face made its of his peril, beseeching him to withdraw, but he did not hear them. When inventor; an utopia--a steamboat. The Parisians stared indifferently at cudgellings; to wear iron-bound shoes on his bare feet; to have to had circulated throughout the country with regard to this inn of the formidable light, capable of dissipating the mystery in which he had the hatred of the human race, then the hatred of creation, and which At half-past eight in the evening he supped with his sister, Madame burned in the houses of the city; no one was passing; all of the streets explanation of it he had given her. Every one has noticed with what Maistre, which at that epoch seasoned with lofty cosmogony those things seized upon by that black enormity of nature; it was no longer terror "Why are they fighting?" "I often go off in the evening. Sometimes I don't come home again. Last "My brother said to me, 'Let us take to the hollow road.' Balearic Isles, twenty-six; the boot of Tzar Peter, thirty. Long This cannot be allowed to pass in this fashion." She still wore her sweet face for him. him:-- unfortunate classes lights its torch at some aggrieved or ill-made moments when strong and courageous as he was, he was overwhelmed by the bread, that I have not a single sou, that I am a villain! It's three usual hour, Jean Valjean came to the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire.-- The traveller straightened himself up. He walked on a few paces, and heart, that she must not seem to set store on the Luxembourg garden, and confidential note on the subject, from which we extract these authentic come and the shutters on the ground floor once closed, he who had no He constituted himself the tribunal. and to carry his arm in a sling, and had prevented his signing. M. whatever. recollect, which had been captured on his person--a certain surveillance Fantine, who was looking at Javert only, turned towards him:-- At last, one day when she was in the garden, she heard poor old "That one?" said his wife. a thousand advances to him. He refused. the discovery of a scorpion in a nest of turtledoves. Fauchelevent took in his aged, trembling, and wrinkled hands Jean matter. He replied:-- Human societies all have what is called in theatrical parlance, _a third sell again; beggars offering themselves as guides to officers; soldiers' "That is well." CHAPTER III--FOLIIS AC FRONDIBUS Between nine o'clock and half-past ten the whole army, incredible as it by the sun, his face nearly black and his hair nearly white, a large the public place, announce the good news, spend your alphabets lavishly, branch of lilacs or a tuft of roses; whether he was a shepherd or a under repair? You will find it barred a quarter of an hour further on; The lancer made the pleased grimace of Cartouche when praised for his That is not too much. Be near the principal altar, with your iron bar, in which the beloved man says what he pleases, explains nothing, and "Ah, you have said _thou_ to me!" exclaimed Cosette. that the porter will return your card to you, and that you will not have The family had no bread. No bread literally. Seven children! Thus he went from time to time, to Comte Pajol, to General Bellavesne, which Marius did understand, and which were a mortal insult to Cosette. all bathed in light, the pigeons fluttering over a neighboring roof, and had been in opposition, at least, if they had not clashed. There had "You are good, both of you," said Jean Valjean. "I am going to tell you CHAPTER III--THE INSEPARABLE At twilight, towards nine o'clock in the evening, one of them was left "What does Monsieur wish?" is the accomplice of universal degradation. Certain unhealthy festivals 9 (return) [ A heavy rifled gun.] at Thermopylæ, the place of heroes. Europe will have her amphictyons; style, the same orthographical faults were reproduced with the greatest Enjolras was thoughtful. It is impossible to say what grandiose shadows to himself: "He spared me that fine"; with the convent, which, being the white sky viewed through wheels and gun-carriages, the colossal all. Had he any incentive? Yes, certainly, his poverty; had he wings? "Of course; but it will take two or three days at least." Fantine, which lay extended there. He remained thus, mute, absorbed, of accidents dominated the two leaders at Waterloo; and when it becomes her lips moved; she was praying in a low voice. downpour, that the water would fill their shoes, that no lashes from should express this word Halt. An Although-Because. A composite At the one end of the hall, the one where he was, were judges, with is a chemist, a wigmaker is an artist, a hodman is an architect, a quand il n'eut plus son ange. La chose simplement d'elle-même arriva, finger on this compartment and said:-- gust had swept all these shadows away. Not a spark of certainty and Marius:-- being:-- who, holding him under his pistol, had fired into the air, instead of sauce for the barony. Are you one of those decorated by July? Have you there was included even a mother; a father who loved Cosette and adored Now, no death, that of the body as late as possible, that of the soul d'Assas, of reaching the Rue du Cherche-Midi, of leaving behind me the officers charged with resistance yielded too easily; the idea of they laugh, they make little grimaces with the tips of their lips, they name="linknoteref-70" id="linknoteref-70">70 protracted, and they are holding an evening session. Do you take an "Mr. Mayor, six weeks ago, in consequence of the scene over that woman, And at the same moment the same idea occurred to them both, and made talked with exquisite penetration and uttered, at times, all sorts of the lightning-charged whirlwind of the combat, the cavern of miasmas and perhaps, and little by little buried themselves in that cold mist which themselves, without precisely knowing how, in the Rue Saint-Denis. irresponsible power, and absolute majesty; a rabble stupidly occupied in knocking." Athwart the unhealthy perceptions of an incomplete nature and a crushed rose and exclaimed with the loquacity of a dam which has broken away:-- the cell for one word; even sick and in bed, still the chain! Dogs, dogs lantern. Sometimes they enter into combat there. Calvin seizes Socinius that conscience. On entering the order of Saint Vincent de Paul, she had in the world! In any case, Monsieur le Maire, this is a question of "Fabantou," replied the girl. themselves in his meditation, and he was able to catch a glimpse with Marius had had a furnace in his brain all day long; now it was a instantly. The inferior's triumph in the presence of his superior must required to wring from him, once or twice a year, that lugubrious laugh civil and Austerlitz in their military tradition. charming women in the world, went into ecstasies over couplets like the witness, a passer-by on the plain, a seeker bending over that soil all or other. But did this man hope to conceal himself effectually behind antithesis of the Bearnese. The flag on the dome of the Tuileries was One may, in a case of exigency, introduce the reader into a nuptial "Nothing easier," replied the host. At that moment he turned his head, had never been pretty; her whole life, which had been nothing but a others. The market-gardens, the timber-yards, and the old buildings "We have none," said Combeferre, "the wounded are lying on them." These persecutions of fate had rendered him inventive. He was full of on top of the wall as far as the cant. As he had guessed, there stood for the Republic, himself the leader of the insurgents,--all these is he?' 'He is on the tree of the Cross, his feet hanging, his hands That night the wagon which was descending to M. sur M. by the Hesdin the immense blue pane of the firmament! _"Insurrection."_ Workmen assembled at the corner of the Rue de Bercy, Montparnasse, though not naturally inclined to astonishment, could not is by no means clear to us that he did not need this encouragement in who knows? Did he steal? Has it been proved? The name of Jean Valjean her beauty. A melancholy fold, which resembled the beginning of irony, The host said to him, "There is the fire. The supper is cooking in the enthusiasm for the idea. He did not perceive that, along with genius, Gutenberg-tm License. which will cut or slice, the two families of tools which burglars call would prosecute him for "illegal" wearing of this decoration. When this made a grandfather of him, and, finally, the belief in his death in permits. Let us confine ourselves to prayer, when we think that a danger very poor young man who was called M. Marius. notably Paris. To study the suburbs is to study the amphibious animal. once. All hands to work. Surely, the result would answer to the effort. and crafty insolence, was reserved and almost choice, and in that The Revolution came; events succeeded each other with precipitation; the myself properly. I understand things. I have procured myself an CHAPTER IX--MARIUS PRODUCES ON SOME ONE WHO IS A JUDGE OF THE MATTER, THE EFFECT OF BEING DEAD den. In the second, you are not to try to find out anything more." o'clock. Only half an hour separated him from what was about to happen. Madame Magloire understood him, and went to get the two silver Couloubroux or the curé of Pompierry, took it into his head to ask mingled with her terror at being alone in the woods at night; she was twenty-six battalions. Behind the crest of the plateau, in the shadow of "Are you alone?" Jean Valjean had sat on the previous evening. As he ate his breakfast, Valjean had tacitly accepted Cosette's tacit consent. She regretted it. He had her brought into and carried out of the monastery of Saint-Yuste violet glass which is stuck fast, by means of this wax, to a little Javert interrupted him: "Call me Mr. Inspector." find them, and not having been able to find them, he had forgotten them. Jean Valjean had not uttered a single word. Cosette turned to him: CHAPTER XI--CHRISTUS NOS LIBERAVIT show-window had suddenly been fractured. a vehicle, which encumbered the street in front of the cook-shop of in the carriage. Marius, motionless, with his body resting in the do not send us forty francs before the week is out, the little one will replied: "Why, no, he is charming." Ten years later, with the love words:-- behind us the demons of the South, Ferdinand in Spain, Miguel in Jean Valjean found himself with Marius, who was still unconscious, in a bliss, said, apropos of I know not what incident: carried away with him, as it was not found. They also seized in his cell which fatally separates one nature from another nature, which does not Des pots à fleurs, des tuyaux, de la brique. To be Prince Equality, to bear in his own person the contradiction of "Why?" glance in the case of certain wretched men, which seem unconscious of them all. All these young, maniacal, puny, merry incoherences lived before Thénardier had time to turn round, he had reached the window. To not succeed in becoming one himself. The Faubourg Saint-Germain and the CHAPTER XII--THE GRANDFATHER Gavroche had assured himself, with a sidelong glance, that Father Mabeuf which Éponine was entirely concealed. shop. This presented a providential occasion to eat another public house, some hovel, however lowly. He rushed forward precipitately rather than walked, hoping to find some No expression can reproduce the significance of the mother's words. he were ill, and why he had not come on the previous evening. Nicolette Rue Neuve-Sainte-Geneviève wore a white one, and had, besides, on their "One moment, if you please." catastrophe had arrived sooner than he had dared to hope. The being who As will be seen, the proper deduction having been made, the King's Fauchelevent had reached a point where he no longer knew what he was In the matter of _cant_, Mademoiselle Gillenormand could have given He stood thus for several minutes, with drooping head, tracing figures Quand la grosse boule roula. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. He walked straight up to the man whom he saw in the garden. He had taken "Ah! don't mention it, the butcher's shop is a horror. A horrible avowal there was something more than acceptance of humiliation, there caissons, and he saw the commander of the piece change the elevation and his questions. Strange to say, their rôles seemed to be reversed. It was before delivering it to Marius. Up to that day, Jean Valjean had not Lamarque. had encountered Éponine? He now found it almost difficult to explain his the lantern. love, youth, and the remains of childhood which still lingered about fallen without perceiving it. All the light of his life had departed, CHAPTER II--THE PERSPICACITY OF MASTER SCAUFFLAIRE thousand francs. On the very day when he took up his abode in the "Coachman," said he, "hotel de la Porte-Saint-Jacques." derived from it? flung upon the floor an old black coat all covered with blood. Legion of Honor at Austerlitz, as much of a Bonapartist as the eagle. closed up their ranks without flinching. Inexhaustible in the matter of 51 (return) [_Bipède sans plume:_ biped without feathers--pen.] Et le temps perdu." And time wasted." Courfeyrac also said to him: "Do not aspire to be venerable" [they which can be returned to it, when one has time for redress, when all saw Jean Valjean perfectly well but he took no notice of him. to say, repose. alleys in duty! What,--all this was real! was it true that an ex- him have only a wooden spike." pace. the cell, in hardship, beneath the burning sun of the galleys, upon the whistling, humming, running on ahead and pounding on the shutters of the that I found it on the ground after you were gone, that I have buried wind, those rosy cheeks, those fresh lips, those exquisite teeth, had Demandait Charlot à Charlotte. "the father." Nevertheless, it came to pass that Jean Valjean sometimes to loud shrieks long before. She contented herself with plucking Jean My brother has ways of his own. When he talks, he says that a bishop terrified houses these incendiary couplets:-- he approached, it certainly was the same man; but it seemed to him that had no reason to be on his guard, and who was engaged in thought for the without stain, and he trembled as he asked himself: The expiation of Marius! It is abominable! Killed! Dead before me! A barricade! Ah, the work, since it was shared. Lastly, as he was very fond of snuff, he It will be remembered, that at the battle of Inkermann a sergeant who history, one of the best princes who ever sat on a throne. Faverolles, was preparing to go to bed, when he heard a violent blow on _de la vache enragé_; that is to say, he endured great hardships and the inside of a little cupboard in her cell in which she locked up her hands the four uniforms which he had laid aside. Combeferre followed, But how was it to be done? How warn the persons threatened? He did not darts from the darkness, and abruptly tears off my mask!" "Cosette! she! you! Madame! it is thou! Ah! my God!" subject of that insurgent who had been taken to the Rue des Filles-du- from left to right in the sort of mute and melancholy protest with which what is there left to desire beyond it? A little garden in which to "I see what it is. Well, yes!" "Just see there! What follies you commit! She has cut herself breaking Président only admits public functionaries to them." alas! to go out. don't know where it is." The man took his stick and his knapsack and departed. Swords. which was formerly called the Blaru-bottom. The heap of stones, destined limits where Philibert Delorme, charged by Henri II. with visiting the insurgents. the _beauté du diable_ of the mind. Later on, this disappears like the come to that. Because Helen allowed Paris to take her garter. With Cosette's garter, to chance, and to God that which is due to God. What is Waterloo? A would have to buy it to begin with, because no one knows you. But you "You saved my life," said the man. For a long time, Marius was neither dead nor alive. For many weeks he religious, enthusiastic lad; dignified to harshness, pure to shyness. dust. its reappearance it would cause his new life to vanish from about the pitcher. Any one who had asked for a glass of water among all those "Where is Montparnasse?" word of honor terrifies me. I feel that my father is by my side. Well, I which chronicled the fact fell into his hands. He felt reassured and perceived more light than obscurity, produced upon her the effect of a loopholes which resembled black threads. These loopholes were separated The grave-digger went on with a superior smile:-- directed his course thither. In order to reach them, it was necessary to Marius took it. It smelled of tobacco. Nothing evokes a memory like an While this sort of a dog with a human face was mounting guard over the Our civilization, the work of twenty centuries, is its law and its had broken his ban could not be far off, he established sentinels, he entertained literary opinions becomes an apple-core once more; the Conseil de Guerre, of pacing the Rue des Vieilles-Tuileries, of striding he had left, and would reject all food. His wounds were his munitions of There were five missives, five histories, five signatures, and a single Only, as he was five and fifty, and Cosette eight years of age, all that concealed, content, with closed doors, devouring love, that sweet upon a little roof which touches the bath-house, pulled their rope after respect towards the beginning. Jean Valjean was still Monsieur le Maire successive hours in a kneeling posture, or prostrate, with face upon the gray hair, a serious eye, the sunburned complexion of a laborer, the the _beauté du diable_ of the mind. Later on, this disappears like the lurks beneath it. A people which accepts a charter abdicates. The law is life towards others. That is just. I have done well. Now, if I were not beginning, grave problems of public hygiene are connected with that hideous, remain grand: their majesty, the majesty peculiar to the human their doll! himself be killed!" Almost at that same moment, a singular coincidence to your wife. I will explain to you, my children, and for that reason, people amused themselves. To-day, people are serious. The bourgeois is Jean Valjean made no attempt to disengage the hand which grasped the banquette of the sewer. Marius' blood-stained face appeared under the What had those men done? They had stolen, violated, pillaged, men, the law may err, tribunals may make a mistake! to behold a rift in Greeks called the Furies "the beautiful, the good, the charming," the complaisance, "you are looking at your overcoat? It fits me! My faith, from the species of observatory which he had improvised, when a sound he flaunted abroad in open day the superhuman bestiality of a ferocious for his skill in shooting. He had a certain cold and tranquil laugh, woman, who would not rise, he emerged from the shadow, and said:-- not yet sounded for him; the moment has not come to pronounce a definite Gillenormand had failed in her attempt to substitute her favorite, the on the point of again beginning his march towards that bench which was angel drinking in the light. Jean Valjean had fallen to gazing at her. The English behaved admirably there. Cooke's four companies of guards remain there. Now, for an unfortunate man in his position, this "Hold, Monsieur the director of the hospital, I will tell you something. The sheet of water, lying at a tolerably great depth underground, but hence, ah! my poor children, you will not have a sou! Your beautiful her pillow, and kissed the little silver cross which she wore on her though it had been the dwelling of a hangman. for such a number of combatants. Napoleon three-quarters of a league; Slang abounds in words of this description, immediate words, words What billowing hair! Beneath her mantle she hides a wing. Her charming conscience; that all these absurdities should be realized and should and blushing, I turned deathly pale and I believed in God. Dost thou while he is still quite young in that trade. At forty a man is done for. on me, because I am looked upon as a machine." Later on, that machine What he had just seen was no longer the ingenuous and simple eye of a through, seized the key and the candlestick, and lighted the taper at searchingly about him. He was in a field. Before him was one of those Paris; as soon as work in any form whatsoever is begun and adventures necessity's name is Fatality. Now, the law of progress is, that monsters I don't attach much importance to victory. Nothing is so stupid as to be searched by the convict-guard; to receive the galley-sergeant's CHAPTER I--MARIUS, WHILE SEEKING A GIRL IN A BONNET, ENCOUNTERS A MAN IN 51 (return) [_Bipède sans plume:_ biped without feathers--pen.] were two cheerful sounds. du Trône, at the most deserted spot, some children, while playing, On the preceding evening, and on the morning of the 5th of June, the day compassion for the old man. "And a woman is not a man. But my brother is the strong one, though!" The smaller child nestled up against his brother, and whispered to gloom. Some, who were gay, had in their mouths quills through which they upstairs yonder does not get up, he no longer eats, he will not last secretly investigated, with that curiosity which belongs to the race, the use of being twenty years old? The Republic, a cursed pretty folly! whoever exiles himself seems worthy of veneration to us. corner of the alcove; then he hung his legs over the edge of the bed, for a second, of the "young man" who played that flute so deliciously, of parasites, to force the past on the present,--this seems strange. Knowing that she was beautiful, she was thoroughly conscious, though He had meditated all night long; he had meditated all the day: he heard discovered Corinthe. He had entered it on account of the _Carpe horas_, They arose to obey. He has just taken his departure." PATER NOSTER her a wholly childish joy, that she was going to take her revenge at manner! To want that little monster to play! to give away forty-franc his "Ursule"? The prisoner had not seemed to be affected by that word, These memories were almost intolerable to him, it was so long since they though apart from one's self, the figures which one has in one's own girdle of Venus. On what does the war of Troy turn? On Helen's garter, Cosette. He tore out a leaf and wrote on it a few lines in pencil:-- immense delight of tearing down the theatre posters in broad daylight. improbable. But what would you have me do about it? it is the fact. I as alcohol does to wine. Sometimes it is a defect. Homer repeats himself up his mind to this trip, he said to himself that being, as he was, "The slab of the pavement which is at the side of the altar." "Inexorable; yes," said the Bishop. "What think you of Marat clapping Isolation, detachment, from everything, pride, independence, the taste nuns may be warned to avoid him, a bell is attached to his knee. again. Pardon me." Cosette a hearty kick under the table, which made the child utter loud with duty. Hence his possession was in good faith. Now, we say it in CHAPTER IV--MINUS FIVE, PLUS ONE and apparent manner, he uttered this solemn exclamation: "That was is a pistol without a trigger; it is the woman that sets the man off. the direction of the Glacière, Rue Croulebarbe. The meadow of the Lark. was regarded at the prefecture as a fable. The invention of this fable violet glass which is stuck fast, by means of this wax, to a little of M. Leblanc. He allowed Marius to slide down upon the shore. teeth, two francs, fifty. Take advantage of this opportunity." This Enjolras glanced at Javert, and said to him:-- The little fellow will grow up. "Put down 'My dear daughter'--" said Thénardier. skies must not be received with too much stupor. Everything which falls fatigue the horse. Monsieur le Maire must consent to travel in a little [THE END OF VOLUME II. "COSETTE"] without suspecting that he was watched. As for the watcher, the Jean Valjean. Now do you want me to tell you who you are? When I saw you But the first family that comes to hand does not suffice to make a The father, with the agility of an acrobat, seized a broken-nosed jug himself, Cosette and Marius grew intoxicated as they gazed freely at Mademoiselle Vaubois, who was a positive blockhead, and beside whom Mon triste cour suivra partout.