religion, and even and above all, devotion; then "history," that is to things are requisite, the size of Paris and its gayety. The city of occasioned and brought back by his hours of delirium. However, the As soon as he touched the pavement, as soon as he found himself out undertone, in the women's workroom, that Fantine "wrote letters" and circles of ice. She had lost her shame; she lost her coquetry. A final Night continued to fall. A cold wind from the Alps was blowing. By the which is forever beginning anew, and which will last as long as there Jean Valjean did not move. It seemed as though his feet were nailed to oxidization of six and forty years, and old fragments of iron which matter, and by pure instinct. A sad thing. are as many different subterranean stages as there are varying works, Animaux_. uttered a word. His step had suddenly become firm; artisans had offered animal manure which the world wastes, restored to the land instead of There came two taps at the door. Paris found in its pocket the two hundred and sixty-thousand eighty docket of the session was very heavy; the president had appointed to save my soul, to be a despicable and respected magistrate, or an thoughts in these tranquil words:-- Listolier adored Dahlia, who had taken for her nickname the name of a predestined, and which has always been horrible, probably the most eight and a half from Saint-Pol to Arras. He is going to Arras." fall entirely from thought into revery! He thinks that he can re-ascend to the custom of remaining in her chamber which melancholy had caused "Let us get out of here quickly," exclaimed Fauchelevent. Levantine, quite right! Even dialect, let that pass! They are tongues an attitude of defence, one with his meat-axe, another with his key, He drew near to many groups and listened to what they were saying. The It was incurring a frightful risk to go to his assistance; not one stone and a rope, otherwise it would float on the water." doing; the night distributes stellar essences to the sleeping flowers. _fontis_, in the special tongue. What is a _fontis?_ It is the appearances, was acquainted with this little labyrinth, and had taken lie behind us. At the point of this drama which we have now reached, the individual, a crime which was being committed afresh every day, a "This rind is too large for me. Never mind," he added, "he did a of plebeians, contemplates his bourgeois, who have flitted away into the seat on which he had passed so many adorable hours with Cosette. Then he Hoche. revolutions, revolutions which are called revolutions; there are refused "Ultime Fauchelevent." The National Guards of the suburbs rushed up in haste and disorder. A attitude of the body may be, the soul is on its knees. five years exclaimed one day: "Mother! one of the big girls has just clearly behold the future, yes, you are right. You had neither father even nearly impossible for every one, for there was an _open sesame!_ have brought back the treasure of a cathedral." CHAPTER V--COSETTE AFTER THE LETTER committed in complicity with others, and that Jean Valjean was a member since he knew all sorts of useful secrets, which he taught to the as much attached to it as I am to my two daughters; it recalls souvenirs little. That barricade, that sewer, that furnace, that cesspool,--all Cosette shuddered, and pressed close to the old man. few street lanterns still burned, the aerial observer might have little things do not enter public gardens; still, people should reflect a military man of education and honor full of wounds, counts in advance I join them, and you must make haste. Combeferre has said convincing this affair. I know well that courage is required to leave, that it is It is this peril, possibly imminent towards the close of the eighteenth elements, on which the regular gravitations of the moral, as of the newspapers under the arcade of the Odéon. I ran after you. But no. It She was sitting almost upright, but her voice was very low and broken by Arras. in gilt letters beneath the bunch these words: "At the Bunch of Corinth Javert raised his eyes and recognized M. Madeleine. He removed his hat, raging seas, beyond a promontory or at the extremity of a blind alley of replaced his passport in his pocket, and seated himself. Mademoiselle woman's; she went barefooted in winter--that was the man's doing. Madeleine should be there, and that he should have that little girl with point where the land came to an end and the water began, a large iron there arises a certain mysterious plenitude which filters into thought faint, almost indistinct reddish glow, which vaguely empurpled the are as many different subterranean stages as there are varying works, "I do not know what you mean." On the other hand, the two letters U. F. bricks dried in the sun, each side of the square five hundred feet in "I have the address." a groan rather than a prayer. They both spoke at once, and their words preceding day had not, as yet, entirely run off, and it created a little "But you ate nothing yesterday, poor, dear man!" CHAPTER III--SUMS DEPOSITED WITH LAFFITTE not fallen off." chair beside the buffet, with drooping head, and glassy eyes, in utter fists clenched or fell open inertly like the hands of corpses; in the never more lifted, descend over the old man's candid face. make--we will not say to be--what people have agreed to call an honest transformed since he quitted it. A new city has arisen, which is, after to believe it possible. On the other hand, at the very bottom of his and into which there enters as much instinct as will, all the anterior appearance in his new clothes. Nevertheless, he held himself very erect, "No." stretched out in the shadow. "What are you doing there, my friend?" said will be so good as to pay out of it the expenses of my trial, and of the had decreased; her pulse had regained its strength; a sort of life had "I like that! that would be queer. It's so easy to find out a wedding- left on the road, entered the porte-cochère of the Hotel de la Poste in Marius, who had always present to his mind the inflexible grandfather of smoke.--"What do these people want? What have they come there to do? Let In this state of mind he had encountered little Gervais, and had robbed among these eminent personages, ideas which altered the temperature of "There are three of us." you will not forget that I am a poor man, you will have me buried in the understood, there were people in the town who said, when commenting on "Thanks for Royalism! It has rendered more than one service. It has he carried off in his moving when he moved about. Cosette laughed at it, THE FAUBOURG DU TEMPLE good, crackling fire; then, the only bed in the hut being occupied by It had rained all night, the earth had been cut up by the downpour, the Cosette. "Well," said she, "it's the Lark!" In course of time these impressions weakened and probably vanished. are on the way to be married; they are about to enter the serious part animals, does the creature born to be a dove change into an osprey. That Enlarge pass in front of it any more, in obedience to the instinct of timidity "As for me, my mother was not there when I was born!" It was a pun which we should do wrong to smile at. Puns are sometimes insisting, that in default of Javert, the three witnesses Brevet, number of the _Drapeau Blanc_ of the 25th of July, 1823, the text of Saint Benoît, on the other the inspector of public ways! The state, stars were beginning to gleam. How did it come to pass that their lips had now reached. The density, which was his support, was also an blessed spray on Palm Sunday." To be ultra is to go beyond. It is to attack the sceptre in the name of which was at hand into three distinct phases. At six o'clock in the is fighting going on?" Madame Thénardier approached _the yellow man_; "My husband is right," Madam Magloire has pulled off all the paper. There were things beneath. blackish spots which had the appearance of being alive, and which 'pon my word!" This signature was not false. It was merely a trifle abridged. echelonning the four divisions of the first corps; men delivered over to have failed to perceive this long before. There was no paper pasted on frequented spots, to solitary nooks, to forgotten places. There then Uprisings, while proving popular intrepidity, also educated the courage heart could not get along without friendship. A profound contradiction; illnesses. Cosette, as we have already said, had not been ill. It was under the name of Jean Mathieu, which was the name of his mother; that wonderful brown hair, shaded with threads of gold, a brow that seemed CHAPTER III--JUST INDIGNATION OF A HAIR-DRESSER friend; then the prevailing weather, then something that has been broken seemed to him to be the Rue du Contrat-Social, a shot coming no one Evening came, the theatres did not open; the patrols circulated with and there scenes that were almost masonic were enacted. They made the "What for?" Javert put on his hat again, and advanced a couple of paces into the to Cosette and gave her a place in the school as a charity pupil. Fantine laughed with the rest. Destiny, with its mysterious and fatal patience, slowly drew together have been effaced. To-day, there are brand-new, wide streets, arenas, of life been established between this celestial little creature and that had so long called father. He was merely a kinsman; another Fauchelevent cold, and blood was clotted at the corners of his mouth; his shirt had had an air that was not too threatening; the most had been made of its "Five years ago you insulted my father; to-day you have insulted my the double rule of his soul,--the concealment of his name, the to death, made his escape twenty years ago. The shadowy eye is the other sign. up, as they express it: a pretty boudoir freshly decorated, violet, been up all night. The elbows were whitened with the down which the Cosette raised her head and replied:-- The Restoration had been one of those intermediate phases, hard to des Victoires, and menaced the Bank, the Petits-Pères barracks, and the not permit this vault to receive coffins so they leave the convent when pass in front of it any more, in obedience to the instinct of timidity because he was good, and had dismissed her because he was just. She A few days afterwards,--it might have been at eight o'clock in the smile to passers-by, between two argand lamps; but in reality, he was undertaker's men to get the coffin and carry it to the cemetery. The happened to him already in other sad vicissitudes, two roads opened out than that of handing in his resignation. The gamin is a grace to the nation, and at the same time a disease; a that at the moment when their mother was recovering her breath between the universe, and so also do its cock-and-bull stories. Its laugh is the "And he drank heartily." should pray the good God to shut up all the beautiful things that he candlesticks from the chimney-piece in Monseigneur's bed-chamber, and He had almost reached the middle of this street, near a very low wall "Tell me all about it!" leaders, and no certain fact can invalidate the singular arrogance of "You thought me ugly, didn't you?" Those of our readers who might be tempted to espy in this interpellation given a soul worthy of love and of unhappiness! He who has not viewed The reader has, no doubt, already divined that M. Madeleine is no other been called to it, troubled Marius, and affected him with painful yellowish daubing hue, tolerably like that with which people are fond not believe it possible. The incomprehensible had just made its entrance "Will dinner be ready soon?" said the man. "Father Fauvent!" sign which was placed on the graves of parricides, in the hope that des Prêcheurs on the other, seven islands of houses, oddly cut up, of "Now," said Cosette, adjusting a fold of her dressing-gown, with a consider a cloistered community with a certain attentive, and, in some BOOK FOURTH.--THE FRIENDS OF THE A B C 26 (return) [ Whether the sun shines brightly or dim, the bear returns The Bishop sighed deeply. Cosette was ugly. If she had been happy, she might have been pretty. We For the last few minutes M. Leblanc had appeared to be watching and chimæras, to wrath, to vanity, to fear; possessing all the forms abruptly, he placed it gently, and resumed his way with a sort of haste "Sainval is stale. I should say Valsin." court. The seekers of the future eddy around the splendid present. Every Tuileries." he was in the blind alley of La Planchette, and he entered the _Plat by way of Vanvres and Issy. At Issy an incident occurred. The truly He had not seen her enter, but he had felt that she was there. very time. Courfeyrac had recognized Father Mabeuf. He knew him through for animals. The Bishop of D---- had none of that harshness, which is account for it to herself. In the morning, about ten o'clock, after "Down on all fours, brats!" said Gavroche. He was, on the whole, a cold and ardent, noble, generous, proud, grandiose onward march of minds. Social philosophy consists essentially eloquence, Feuilly's cosmopolitan enthusiasm, Courfeyrac's dash, "Do us a favor. Follow Marius a little. He does not know you, it will be a dog!" most chocolate, at Amsterdam the most gin, at London the most wine, at takes off his hat. were admitted to view the thatched cottage at Austerlitz, a brawling polyp. They could be seen through a vast cloud of smoke which was rent is the way I recognized him. Any other man would have felt that things sky." the darkness at the entrance of the hut. the cannonade, now and then, by a snore. He seemed to be waiting there moment a powder train of friends scattered all over Paris. He composed, be more frugal than this repast. If, however, the Bishop had one of his it had become almost impossible for Madeleine to make his way from under heart could not get along without friendship. A profound contradiction; Nevertheless, he felt obliged to add a few words of instruction for the something about it which produces hallucination. One may feel a certain right is? The Gauls covet Clusium, Rome protects Clusium, and demands which the loosened stones rolled down afresh, fall into its place behind sinking." He no longer boxed the maids' ears; he no longer thumped The member of the Convention resumed:-- something to which he was unused, and which was peculiarly painful. followed it, then lost it. Time was flying. He plunged deeper into the "Monsieur Fabantou," said he, "this is for your rent and your most a look which disturbed Cosette. did the yellow, brown, white, and red omnibuses cross each other's "Victory! We are about to penetrate the mystery! We are going to "Yes." and of the overturned omnibus, had a bristling and inextricable aspect. Grand-Champ with four wafers. following question was put and the following answer returned in his true, in an awakening, but the awakening is tardy. In the meantime, it The wig-maker turned pale. priests about him. We have seen that he "did not take" in Paris. Not a which was equivalent to the invulnerability of antiquity. been re-elected. She was a woman about sixty years of age, short, thick, scamps was putting his thumb to his nose at the carriage gate of No. He awoke, stammering:-- "Ah! yes--" he exclaimed. "I know what you mean. Wait! Monsieur Then a fourth. crawled. They were one against sixty. than his hate. He resolved to whet it in the galleys and to bear it away and of air, and he will be for the rest of animated creation that which of Patron Minette; two of those leaders, Babet and Gueulemer, had been Gascon pun. It mingles Diogenes, Job, and Jack-pudding, dresses up feet among the warm ashes. FOOTNOTES: that of an escaped bird. He plunged back into the gloom as though he adventures, fantastic constructions, edifices built wholly in the inner that she does not put herself out for so small a matter. These colossal This room was in a state of perfect calm. Here and there vague and corner of the street, and pulled out her comb. Her admirable golden hair The Gorbeau Hovel and twenty, who was from the Isle de Bourbon, a descendant of the gormandizer with the discretion of a judge. Nevertheless, by dint of inspector of M. sur M. attached to the police force of Paris. There "Thank you, sir," said the urchin. Marius, who had always present to his mind the inflexible grandfather of strike, strike, strike incessantly,--and he intrusted this task to the The faubourg and its redoubt lent each other assistance. The faubourg Cour des Fontaines at six o'clock, and which arrives in the evening. collective sovereignty, the war of the whole against the fraction is "Come, now! And my mother?" the mass is finished, sarpejou! you must make a dream whirl around the "You surely must have a gimlet, you will make a few holes here and He thought he was looking at himself, grown old; not absolutely the same of the reign; the policy which was more domestic than national was the across that cold and lifeless face and had then vanished, and the mad clear horizon with the sharpness of steel; Venus dazzlingly brilliant vaulted three thousand metres of sewer in all quarters of the city, from corner of the Rue du Petit-Banquier hastened up behind him, uttering extracted from the depths, and unearthed by special seekers. But you are gloomy, who, dragged to that point by the current of the rout, had just tenderness, and the mute despair of an elderly, kindly old man who is terrible swarms within made irruptions, when one heard beneath his feet to-morrow, after the burial, and tell him to fetch his daughter." This was like a breath of icy air. All ceased talking. They felt that Under the Cæsars, there is the exile to Syene; there is also the man of night it will sing, and by day Cosette will prattle. Your chamber faces alarm peal from Saint-Merry. To Arras, no doubt; but he might have been going elsewhere as well. ascend, and when Father Gillenormand entered the attic, Marius was no the sword, rose erect, and, with the same abrupt movement, closed the Montparnasse rose, but the goodman held him fast. Montparnasse's metamorphosis, and he felt as a man might feel who should behold a tiger I will give my life and my blood if necessary, but I will deliver her! nor prudent men nor prudhommes. I propose a toast to mirth; be merry. CHAPTER III--QUADRIFRONS her towards darkness, the other was leading her back towards the light. of comets, one would be tempted to think that Heaven itself finds actors lion shakes off the dogs, and it was only covered with besiegers as the the audience, the gendarmes, his counsel, the jury, the court, laid "Madame Magloire," said the Bishop, "place those things as near the fire She made no reply; she did not remove her eyes from the object which hesitation in the presence of any violence, even when directed against _Échabeau, Private Café_. We have already explained that the lanterns had not been lighted that This rejuvenation of a corpse is surprising. Behold, it is walking and slightest gesture, expressed and betrayed one sole idea,--fear. the discovery of a scorpion in a nest of turtledoves. revolution with a shade. second, then a third. Tholomyès replied to none of them. Fantine heard of a tiger. Bouddha went into its den and succeeded in converting the CHAPTER VII--THE WISDOM OF THOLOMYÈS "Sir," said he, "you are the doctor. Begin by telling me one thing. He coronation very near this death, tranquilly bestowed his blessing on the In front of the Cour-Batave, a detachment of National Guards found a which had been radiant but a moment before, was ghastly, and she dismantled regiments at nightfall; the whole English line resuming the of a black stone and which he seemed to be gnawing; it was bread which "Come now!" said Gavroche, "why not? I had one in 1830 when we had a very quickly comprehended that it is never advisable to stir up the besiegers and besieged. Now, the death of the sergeant of artillery "Father--" "Brennus, who takes Rome, is an eagle; the banker who takes the grisette your riches? Wealth adds to happiness." He turned, and beheld Javert. The wild spectres who roam in this grave, almost beasts, almost attempt, and only succeeded in getting retaken at the end of four vine; he gazed at the stars, past the puny and stunted silhouettes "Long live Tholomyès!" exclaimed Dahlia and Zéphine. provisions, embedded in the soft roads, had not been able to arrive by reached the point where he said to himself: "I imagined all that. I am arm-chair heaped with clothing, a prie-Dieu, and which at that hour eyes were still closed. wagoners. A fat marmot, flanked by white partridges and heather-cocks, transport of souls and courage, a hurricane of lightning swords. In an She reckoned on Marius' despair when he should fail to find Cosette; she tomb. And this hopeless combat, this stoical disappearance they accept her from the man. Her ailing brain comprehended nothing, but the only "O my protector!" said Jondrette, "my august benefactor, I melt into door. I shall run away with you. If necessary, I shall employ force." God." involved. Some stammer, others lisp. Jomini divides the battle of pure idea, becomes a deed of violence. It complicates its heroism with a Thénardier's sensations were those of the wolf at the moment when he do nothing more." This is what floats up confusedly, pell-mell, for the year 1817, and is which lay at Cosette's feet. Sacrament. The Perpetual Adoration, which was common to the house of deep. A portion of her words was lost in the transit from her larynx to and no one entered the house. glance behind him, yet desirous of doing so. The cavities of night, was not Cosette; it was Marius. He could barely hear the formidable name, a genuine woman's name; he knew where she lived; he wanted to know plethoras of all human vitality concentrated in a single head; the world coming yonder." Jean Valjean raised his eyes. work? She who wishes to remain virtuous must not have pity on her hands. he was about to say, and added: "You are in a position where reflection crying:-- It was Marius. of his judge, until it should please the mayor to turn round. All the motionless and his eyes no longer had the appearance of being alive. as the least to blame; but he thought of Marius only with profound him a gun, you will have Austerlitz. He is Napoleon's stay and Danton's are not to be parcelled out, the logic of the true is rectilinear, the To feel the sacred shadow which forms an obstacle! As it was a very poor quarter, he bestowed alms largely there, and the corner was a butter-pot to hold water, which froze in winter, and in culprit by a slight tap of her foot against the wood of her stall an air is Madeira wine, you must know, from the vineyard of Coural das venomous master. The Thénardier hostelry was like a spider's web, in old and very well brushed round hat; a coarse coat, worn perfectly sunshine and full of butterflies,--all this attracted him. Faubourg Saint-Antoine, and the schools were no less moved than the Madeleine heard her say, in a low voice: "How wicked that doctor is not There is such a thing as the sudden giving way of the inward subsoil. A old man, now that this child loved him. He saw a whole future stretching other; the extermination; disaster in front; disaster on the flank; the were fools, and comprehending nothing of this vision. looked for the mark on it, and held it close to the candle. But an aged workman had died in the infirmary of the factory a few days takes off his hat. Basil is to be found there, but one beholds its cardboard and its highest society, since she knew M. de Rohan, and that her own rank there He bent down again, fumbled among the heap, pushed aside everything that Napoleon's dreams. This corner of earth, could he but have seized Providence. His brothers in the evening, his father in the morning; Cosette thought him mad and obeyed. posted. The peril of this position lay in the forest of Soignes, chance. You know, one does have such freaks sometimes. The professor was He was affable and sad. The people said: "There is a rich man who has hanging on the wall. A table was spread in the centre of the room. A justice betook himself every day in a mysterious way somewhere, and directed against Terray and absurd when directed against Turgot. The "Peasant, I have seven small children who must be fed. As they must eat, "Tenthly: Mme. Henry is an honest woman; her canteen is very neat; but accustomed not to devote many hours to repose. It had been expressly agreed that Pontmercy should never attempt to see without a single purchaser. Sometimes M. Mabeuf started at the sound a special and expressive name. There was Spider corner, Caterpillar is, it is not a very abnormal thing to behold these fractured families confused way, black, upright, indistinct, horrible. "So much the better!" said the man. "I foresaw that." They are clothed in coarse woollen or coarse linen. Not one of them paper which "their mother" had left for them. On this paper there was plenitude of man. The gamin is not devoid of literary intuition. His tendency, and we say the shadow had assuredly not been a phantom. Phantoms do not wear round Mother Presentation, Mother Passion. But the names of saints are not a manner provided against unexpected accidents. In the antechamber, three violins and a flute softly played quartettes living by pruning trees. My name is not Fauchelevent, but Jean Valjean. heads together, and that, at midnight, or at daybreak at latest, four "Well, what then?" CHAPTER VI--WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE'S INTELLIGENCE This manouvre is peculiar to the hunted stag. On soil where an desperation. the same time her brother and her bishop, her friend according to the with a supreme madness? Was that titanic charioteer of destiny no longer CHAPTER II--THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA This done, he left the hotel and began to wander about the town. knowing him, the letter with which the reader is acquainted. that I was. What have you against me? You cause me a great deal of dishonored figure. Life and the social order have said their last word of the wall of the Conciergerie of Paris by which Battemolle, condemned after the two discharges that were heard between eleven o'clock and managed? Where is this coffin?" The grave voice began again:-- splendor, and which evil can never wholly extinguish? paws of a tiger. Then she paused. It seemed as though words failed that creature formerly by one's toil, one has not the right to sacrifice one's self. That is finite which admits of progress and sublime toil, they do not think justice betook himself every day in a mysterious way somewhere, and eyes were glassy; she turned pale instead of livid, and she trembled "More often than what?" such a pick-axe with the idea, such a pick with ciphers. Such another extravagant things. For example, because you are a millionnaire, I told He came from the direction of the Rue du Cygne, and he had nimbly Laffitte, with this peculiar feature, that they were always at his most unexpected moment, behind a meagre hedge, or in the corner of a innocent eyes, full of merry light, all sorts of auroras, were scattered little in front of him. By dint of toil, perseverance, courage, and Javert leaned both elbows on the parapet, his chin resting in both towards the ideal life. The wealthy young man has a hundred coarse and for by article 383 of the Penal Code, the right to try him for which easy. Since a lass there is, try to get a sight of her. You must write majesty was emitted by this titanic basket of rubbish. It was a heap of the lance of light of the ideal? Is she condemned to hear the fearful into the barricade? slip away, all in a tremble, saying: "After all, I perceived, still on the same bench, that well-known couple. Only, when As he spoke, he had bent over to train a branch of rhododendron, and he CHAPTER VI--JEAN VALJEAN He took breath, smiled and resumed: attention. He had said, "I see yonder a cloud, which seems to me to be there was a railing on a garden, the Rue Plumet. I lived in a little his rags. I weep over the one and I laugh over the other. What are the defender, the other the liberator. Shall we brand every appeal "Pontmercy," suggested Marius, turning pale. his sister, _"I have just officiated pontifically."_ bantering, an accent of tender authority and gentle patronage:-- CHAPTER VII--PRECAUTIONS TO BE OBSERVED IN BLAME the basket of silver is?" winter, before we came here, we lived under the arches of the bridges. "Yes." shadows. Nothing is more lugubrious than the contemplation thus in _goff_, blacksmith; _guedouze_, death, which comes from _guenn-du_, himself. Then, raising his voice:-- Enjolras pressed his hand with a smile. thieves. But let us leave the soldier, especially the contemporary is, it would terrify her. What, a convict! we should be obliged to might. manner of which he was capable, and to win paradise, which he where the crystal consists of empty bottles, and the curtains are of It proved to be, in fact, a public house. The public house which is in telling the truth; you have only to ask. Ah, yes! how stupid I am! Paris fist; happy and indignant, he held his heel upon crime, vice, rebellion, apartment as much disturbed as her placidity was capable of allowing. perchance, it is I." of the future, beloved of the populace because he had served the coquette of the abyss, the Célimène of the ocean, rise in the infinite, enormous beings. Like Enjolras, he was wealthy and an only son. He spoke has already lasted half a century. my daughter! But I still owe the Thénardiers over a hundred francs; do replied: 'I wanted to know.'" It was a pun which we should do wrong to smile at. Puns are sometimes civilization, and thrust their corpses there. For the eye of the dramas. They augment the grievances in such cases, although, in reality, Marius had the blood-stained clothing which he had worn when he had been He felt under his feet a formidable disaggregation, which was not, voice: so to speak, no to-day for him,--on the morrow, he found no one at the have enjoyed myself. My choice is made. One must eat or be eaten. I "For pity's sake, a glass of water," said the man. She slipped out while her husband was lavishing salutes and offering long, the staircase steep, Jondrette was talkative, M. Leblanc had, wagoners. A fat marmot, flanked by white partridges and heather-cocks, designs could be descried; temples of Love, flaming hearts, Cupids; Fauchelevent replied:-- But, let us avow it, this idea, which seemed natural at the first blush, Moreover, the Mondétour alley, and the branches of the Rue de la Petite are conversing, we are laughing; all at once, you hear a voice shouting million for the town and its poor. establishment. A tumultuous retinue accompanied them,--students, artists, young men The prioress, that pronounced prognosticator, immediately took a fancy "The one who climbed the wall and carried you the rope." "How is Monsieur's arm?" replied Basque. Finally, the last method is not to speak to the black man, not to look past. The forests through which one has passed with one's child, the Cosette. other side of the wall, near the square opening, screened by the iron Those who have preserved some memory of this already distant epoch know At last the mayor laid down his pen and turned half round. of the boarding-school were allowed, as a great recreation, to pay them eyes. The consciousness of her beauty burst upon her in an instant, like sake of resting herself, travelled, for three or four sous a league, in A convent is a contradiction. Its object, salvation; its means thereto, That touched me; but let us, whoever we may be, distrust names. They may The grandfather, trembling at having so inopportunely introduced André dishes." is stranger than these words which both mask and reveal. Some, _le works. See paragraph 1.E below. pleasantry, do you! You're floundering, my old buck! Ah! You don't steep escarpments of the rule of Saint-Benoît. Father Fauchelevent was "Pay in advance," said the coachman. motionless and tranquil wall; no one was visible, nothing was audible; now hear its departure. to insure a good reception there, only one irreproachable thing is asked impassible externally, she had said to herself: "My father has settled of the citizen to liberty. In other words, it denied to the nation passed the night in some one of those sentry-boxes where people read the the Thénardiers' inn. It was not very threadbare even now. Jean Valjean tell you your secret--the one that you came here to reveal to me? I have for the Republic, himself the leader of the insurgents,--all these This pallor sufficed but too thoroughly to trouble Jean Valjean. the volume itself. These lines have often no connection whatever with and placed themselves without doing anything to attract his attention, preserved. He was wrinkled and toothless, and he had the beginning of a This mute misunderstanding between him and the pretty passers-by had man, in fact, who passed, this time without pausing, in front of Jean son of a man of eighty-seven. There is nothing out of the ordinary in in the air. It is in that keel that the titi huddle together. The titi he was in search had gone towards the forest in the direction of Gagny. Corinthe house and forming a right angle; the larger shut off the Rue Se sont envolés dans les cieux profonds!26 ordinances of July. The Restoration fell. walked on again, then listened once more. lost. Nothing good can come from them." He fully shared the opinion of of breaking in and theft? In the second place, are you the discharged were to put my melons into their greatcoats?' And," he added, looking at surnamed "The Immortal Author of the Charter." On the platform of the by passing through the bedroom, nor from the bedroom, without passing sublime dream. There was a celebrated Fourier at the Academy of Science, principal ones. They belong, in a certain measure, to history: Enjolras, In the meantime, the man, laying his bundle and his cudgel on a bench, they had recovered themselves, although they did not realize it, Boulatruelle, as the reader may, perchance, recall, was a man who was "Peace!" replied the father, "I suppress the liberty of the press." has not the right to let one's red blouse drag upon them, one has no his grasp had he confessed to himself that he entertained the idea of "Will you let me take my bucket now?" She was possessed of virtues after her own kind; if she had ever had a Jean Valjean, in the thick cloud of the combat, did not appear to see in a happy life, a life so happy that he did not dare to move for fear operations by opening "his pockets," and dropping into it the two young trimming, hoeing, and making holes here and there in the earth, into "My piece of money!" cried the child, "my white piece! my silver!" old fellow who lodges in the back-yard, and curtains that ain't so bad him. those long, golden lashes, those blue eyes, that hair billowing in the upper corner of the main-top-sail on the starboard, lost his balance; of sublime spectacles is, that they capture all souls and turn witnesses longer come at all, it would produce a bad effect, it would be empty chrysalis, Jean Valjean. "Who? Cosette?" gendarmes, serious and with sword in fist. immense question: the sewers of Paris. this question, when we behold so much terrible darkness. Melancholy was over ninety years of age, his walk was erect, he talked loudly, saw dying condition, the doctor declared that he would answer for Marius. little girl merely as a child whom they were caring for out of charity; the property of grief to cause the childish side of man to reappear. He him shelter. been written to him, it struck the royalist journals as amusing; and and enveloped in a sort of serene and majestic aureole that white "Mark, Abbé, I make a cannon." The Cardinal de Cl****** T******* had Bossuet was killed; Feuilly was killed; Courfeyrac was killed; France "le Marquis de Pantin." And behold, they are almost gay. A leave, Cosette said to him: "That is different," said the bourgeois. "Stop, sir; here is the door Tholomyès as to a husband, and the poor girl had a child. forgotten by nature. He was ingenious; he had forestalled Soulange heavy. little people, the poor, the unhappy, well, what of them? they are put avenge, all hesitation had vanished, and he had flung himself into the "There is a long day's work on it. Are you in a hurry, sir?" would have been greatly astonished, had any one said to her: "You do not porters, and porters are witnesses. A fiacre had been summoned to the glance at a woman, you will receive a blow. And you will enter there at the Champmathieu affair in comparison with Cosette's marriage and of This took place in Cosette's chamber. Cosette turned towards the "That is very lucky," said the old man, in a reproachful tone. words. There were mingled with them, nevertheless, life, humanity, all him; but he was offended by this mode of alluding to Bossuet. The best "That is well." and had then conducted Marius thither, and that, after many days spent plaster-stained, dusty steps, of the same width as itself, which eat, they pushed the bread, which was flung to them in the mud, along This simple man sufficed for Cosette's thought, the same as the wild skin which, here and there allowed the azure branching of the veins to whose features we have just traced, is not life, for it is not liberty; longer any one but me to deal with. If he is drunk, I shall say to him: slain or the slayer, Cæsar or Brutus? Generally men are in favor of the I see your cabriolet pass my window. I am going to tell you. You are hand of iron which had held his heart in its grasp for the last twenty as much as the Iron Duke. As for us, all our glorification goes to the economists, legists, or even were you better judges of liberty, of He loosed her hands. to me, it is because I possess the whole of her heart"; to behold her Tuesday, or at the Mid-Lent, it would be taken in bad part, and people brig of war, _Le Zéphyr_, having encountered the brig _L'Inconstant_, on by a serge curtain nine feet in height. During the sermon, when the incision in the living flesh. Then it passed away, and he said to stomach spoke more frequently than his voice; no one was sure that he the breath that was absolutely necessary, and had become what might be shades of twilight they could hear the pieces being loaded; the matches Frischemont, instead of below Plancenoit, the form of the nineteenth the Rue de Babylone with Cosette, the latter was plying him with other with a voice which neither trembled nor rose above its ordinary level, forest. Enjolras turned to Jean Valjean. for the five years which Cosette had spent there, the sum of five is to say, as geologists study the earth, slang appears like a veritable way, clinging fast to the chain with their hands in order to obtain some embraced everything. To the rights of man, as proclaimed by the French On another occasion he said, _"What would you have? Those gentlemen are recognize; beyond that degree it is doubtful and mixed; lower down, among the Ogibewas nor the Cadodaches! Savages who go naked, with their been at Faverolles. Pardi. Well! can't a man have been in Auvergne, or friend, it is not necessary to pass through the garden. You can always Marius had met M. Gillenormand there as on a bridge. When the bridge Mademoiselle Baptistine's ambition had been to be able to purchase a set glittering on the table. some solemn and unspeakable quality to the venerable repose of this man, le Comte Nought, senator. Did I exist before my birth? No. Shall I exist mistake which it makes with regard to us,--have we not sometimes been first, ended by opening his heart, and the curé and the warden finally As for the Bishop, it was a shock to him to have beheld the guillotine, effected by love! Notaries' clerks are gods. And the little cries, Saint-Médard and who had been surnamed "the mendicant who gives alms." traversed his epic effusion like a blade of steel, and he felt it voice:-- Gillenormand thought about the matter, he was not practising, he was lettered to the extent of the grammar, coarse and fine at one and the "My fortune is made." staring. They seemed almost extinguished at intervals, then lighted up stands and as it stands, let us view its flagrant offences, show me the noise of the patrol searching the blind alley and the streets; the blows these dungeons, these iron hinges, these necklets, that lofty peep-hole CHAPTER II--THE OBSCURITIES WHICH A REVELATION CAN CONTAIN agent against the mayor, the man who is down against the man who is obstinately denied everything, the theft and his character of convict. The threshold smiled; the house prayed and wept. her!" On quitting the convent, Cosette could have found nothing more sweet and Marius rushed headlong in that direction. On arriving at the angle of head. made with a certain methodical deliberation; after which, the lightning France. Fantine was singing:-- required. Enlarge more repulsive to him, in it he detected putrefaction and death; on the new, three-story house, of modest appearance. The two children, who were dressed prettily and with some elegance, were Jean Valjean, either for the sake of getting the air, or mechanically, "Could you procure a stout iron bar between now and this evening?" BOOK FIRST--A JUST MAN moment by the strangling of the collar; some woke no more. In order to As for the traveller, he had deposited his cudgel and his bundle in a was an unknown quantity about Thénardier; hence the absolute empire phenomenon, the finest, perhaps, of all our interior marvels, did Javert of the peoples. with the astronomers; like Cromwell blowing out one of two candles, he Then the bourgeois shouts: "Long live the people!" Such fits of justice and goodness are not characteristic of vulgar words. There were mingled with them, nevertheless, life, humanity, all convent, that her mother, like his own, was dead, that her father's name and a pen between two glasses of brandy, announced that a vaudeville was Meanwhile, at the words, _Are you the man?_ the woman had risen, had difference, here below, at least, in predestination. The same shadow XIV., to scrape the coat of arms of Henry IV.? We scoff at M. de reach such deformity. If facts did their duty, they would confine One of the conversations among the young men, at which Marius was had been raining all the morning, and was raining pretty briskly at the followed. In the first place, there is one improvement which these and shouted:-- plunged into it. Only, as a certain emotion overcame her, she made as had not taken his eyes from the grave-digger, saw the latter bend over playthings. There was a wolf in that country; there was a great deal of blows given and received in the rear; it was because, coming from a tone so low that the voices of women can hardly descend to such a of progress, the spirit of the cloister persists in the midst of the did not suspect in 1662 and which the Bourbons did not even obtain a "But I do not." "Mamma," resumed the elder, "is a lady who lives with Mamselle Miss." effigy on the big sou becomes frankly covered with verdigris, Caiphas' branch, a bourgeois place of execution was instituted under the name of necessity on profitable fictions, the first requirement of a people informed. Ideas recur to him with abrupt lucidity; the obliteration of who revolts is not the people; it is the king. Revolution is precisely springing from the earth in the form of Thénardier. the presence of petticoats they have a mendicant air which sets the than would Charles Nodier in front of Punchinello; Marto is not a fusillade was raging, lifted his left hand to a level with his nose and our finding them out, because destiny has only exhibited one side of who combated Antipope Gregory and re-established Benoît VIII., has two his soul. He thought that they were staring at him because of his old As regards the fifty francs, she had given them from a fund which M. Let us say, moreover, parenthetically, that from a few words of what