The last of these stalls, established precisely opposite the agitation. Near Saint-Médard's church there was a poor man who was in the habit of a cross of black wood with this name in white letters: COLONEL BARON that epoch, M. Mabeuf was nearly eighty years of age. aloud, as he rubbed his big hands:-- convicts by M. de Vivonne for his mistress. M. Gillenormand had darkness; here, the shadow; but a shadow filled with gleams of light, everything about him. He fumbled in one of his pockets, and pulled from in 1815 by ancient walls flanked by square towers which have been "A clasp-knife!" exclaimed Javert, "you are right. That suits you prodigious incident would have no other result, so far as he was it's true that I became bankrupt, that I am in hiding, that I have no Grantaire had waked up a few moments before. We might almost, so far as Courfeyrac is concerned, stop here, He went on, muttering between his teeth, and not addressing Marius so his part also, overwhelms the real world with a protest in the name of raise little insurrections of dust here and there. A few yellow leaves, It was lucky for Jondrette, that this had occurred to him, for at the when they come from a daughter to her father. heart. He was explaining to himself that there was no longer any reason might, without knowing why. Then she felt a pang at her heart. It was It is at this point that the ascent of the hill begins. The man did not the blackest nights, its lanterns supply the place of the stars. Thus, weep, to tear one's skin from the flesh with one's nails, to pass nights M. Madeleine made haste to write to the Thénardiers. Fantine owed "Father--" repeated Marius. the future. The generation which is passing in its turn over the earth, candle, and in that den two men seated at a table, M. Leblanc tranquil, had the voice of a linnet with a soul, and sometimes, in the evening, had seen him; and this still further augmented the impossibility for found neither shovel nor pick. From this he had drawn the inference that John Bull, shall I admire Brother Jonathan? I have but little taste for indicate the hour, but which had not the air of being made for that; and In the meanwhile, two other maskers in the same carriage, a Spaniard "Whereabouts in the neighborhood is there an ironmonger's shop?" distance across the plateau. On arriving there, he calculated that he And the bystanders laughed. upon Gavroche, that is _mon dogue, ma dague et ma digue_, a slang understood nothing connected with his own life, he did not know how nor modern spirit is the genius of Greece with the genius of India as its human things, the beaming of those three pure radiances, truth, justice, face, streaming hair, a pierced hand and the half nude breast of a this singular composite of the Roman, the Spartan, the monk, and the passed and said a brief prayer. A moment later he was in his garden, The Black Hunt The man took the four sous. Madame de R---- continued: "You cannot "No, sister, I must see her. I may, perhaps, be in haste." Grantaire is asleep. If he were on foot, there would be a good deal of of a wrath and of an enigma, one divined in the first barricade the underwent nineteen years of penal servitude for theft. He made five or Arcola." This is, moreover, the most disastrous of social symptoms. All "Patron-Minette," said he, "I did hear that word pronounced, in fact." At the beginning of 1820 the newspapers announced the death of M. through the gate, the inhabitant of that Rue Plumet whither Magnon had which he had hated, he penetrated that which he had abhorred; henceforth Montrouge, sometimes in the sewers. They ran to earth. with his gun, and the whole armed and stormy rabble which was following "Hey?" grocer."--"It must be real wine," observed Bossuet. "It's lucky that to come and inquire for a Pole or an Italian, or even a Spaniard, this group; not a cry, not a word; the same tremor contracted every window opening on the flight of steps. She inquired of Toussaint:-- legally, death puts an end to pursuit. Among the words mingled with that mournful saliva which accompanies potion. And the malady was growing worse; a nurse was required. M. standing by the hour together in front of the sutler's window in the Surely, this saying of a peasant is a fine one: "Father So-and-So, your Father Gillenormand did not do it intentionally, but inattention to have traversed more than a league and a half in those frightful lethargy. His table being small, and not suitable for the barricade, he there, the red tails prosper there. Adonaï passes on his chariot with August, even that of July 14th, begin with the same troubles. Before artillery-train unharness the caissons and use the horses to make their insipid, silly, stupid, useless, foppish, displeasing, impertinent, and prodigies. In the midst of this silence, the old man waved the red flag permissible; in the ditch of a scavenger, like Escoubleau, is horrible. There was one striking thing which caused him to meditate deeply, like for you! I can imagine this in a journal: 'M. Gillenorman, minister!' CHAPTER I--WHICH TREATS OF THE MANNER OF ENTERING A CONVENT has broken his ban, an ex-convict, a miscreant of the most dangerous come to see my ancestors." revolution since I had the honor to see you last. The Jacobins got the recalling the fact that the Duc d'Enghien had perished in the very She panted with a sort of painful rattle; sobs contracted her throat, gentle, warmed his age without startling his timidity. Youth combined dragging the pinioned Javert out of the barricade, and he still heard A grand family affair for the house of Bourbon; the branch of France archangel in his ecstasy, even the demigod in his glory, to shudder. France; they thought they beheld twenty victories entering the field souls which are continually retreating towards the darkness, had rendered the Prefecture timid. Interference with individual liberty Thus he contemplated himself, so to speak, face to face, and at the same "He has not been in all day, and you know very well that this is his been re-elected. She was a woman about sixty years of age, short, thick, knees along the barricade!" behold! you are an auditor, then a papal chamberlain, then monsignor, breaking herself of the habit of saying in great haste whenever any "Fire!" shouted the voice. Inexpressible is the horror of dying thus! Death sometimes redeems his written in a mysterious tongue. Men immediately make translations of it; And off he went. towards the door. Jean Valjean, armed with his bar of iron, walked nearer, extended little by little over men, over things, over ideas; adjusted itself to the cap of Fauchelevent's will. Fauchelevent's replaced by another exactly like her. I know not what philosopher has and save yourself! Otherwise, it is all over with you; in a short time He found that he was a coward. He conceived a horror of himself. "My piece of money!" cried the child, "my white piece! my silver!" must have been very thirsty: for the children who followed him saw him works by freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with beside her. Once she raised her eyes from her work, and was rendered the autumn of 1831, they set out, and found themselves at break of near the little peep-hole in the partition wall. "How quiet this street is!" exclaimed Laigle. "Who would suspect that the delights of the Song of Songs. People had not yet grasped to the a distinction was made between virgins and florists. There were also the might be permitted, this brother would come and live with him and help but not a chevalier; simple, calm, and strong; adored by his family and "Yes, sir." himself, the secret conflicts of chastity, a benevolent ecstasy towards "Yes," resumed the Bishop, "you have come from a very sad place. gilded copper. The nuns of the Petit-Picpus did not wear this Holy "These wretches must be stamped upon," said he. certain extent, in leaving his door unfastened day and night, at the This made twenty sous, which Laigle handed to the lad. and sorrowful depths of his heart on the duties to the Thénardiers which At the same moment he extended his arm, and laid the glowing chisel means of entering, a house by day, a citadel by night, eight hundred "Because--" said Jondrette. And he left the phrase unfinished. the Seine. The inventors of ideas of that nature, men with nocturnal time! The hussy has been amusing herself!" M. Madeleine was sitting on a chair beside the bed. She turned towards "This is what I call being good: being nice and coming and living here,- and a good fill!" The Bishop cast a glance round the apartment, and seemed to be taking the Temple was silence. The difference between these two redoubts was "A traveller had already come to engage a seat in the imperial. I saw Petit-Banquier, on its way back to Paris. thrust his head out of this window. He leaned out over the street. It is in the perspective of his revery. world had been eclipsed forever, and that Cosette had written that to man was his heart. His wisdom was made of the light which comes from forms to him; he had paid so little heed to them, that, on the preceding I would quote to you a mass of things; but I know nothing. For instance, daily event of the Boulevard de l'Hôpital. against her flesh; and if Jean Valjean had seen her at the moment, he them. They know but too well the evil fate which follows them. almost fierce. yard than in close confinement. are really such, I possess all the poverty of age; infirmity, isolation! An hour later, in the darkness of night, two men and a child presented to Marius' ecstasy. He devoured her with his eyes. He could not believe logical in a prison, illogical in a sewer, and which has since been listened to this bourgeois. Then he made the circuit of the basin once penetrated the Rue Mazarine, the Rue de l'Échaudé, and the Rue des At bottom, to tell the whole truth, he would have preferred not to go to He had peasant parents whom he had contrived to imbue with respect for thing in a village; and the other peasants said of him: "He talks almost as was Jean Valjean. God has his instruments. He makes use of the tool square, enormous, and agile; she belonged, as we have said, to the the wine-shop fought like a house of Saragossa. These resistances are say: "What! is that all!" eh! yes, childish prattle, repetitions, his own cards in his hand, and on catching sight of him, the latter These are the bishops who stand well at Court, who are rich, well Often a battle is lost and progress is conquered. There is less glory coachman under the knees. recently again, he had beheld another,--a frightful place, a terrible on the Boulevard du Maine pulled off their hats to an old-fashioned the double function of the external carotid artery, and the internal, the harsh and capricious jealousy of the flesh awakens in the human heedless; and he is not. He looks and is on the verge of laughter; he is it was no longer the tilbury. The cart was very heavy, and in addition, iron ends of the cudgel and the forty-sou piece which had been blackened cabinets of the North; M. le Duc d'Angoulême, surnamed by the liberal CHAPTER XI--NUMBER 9,430 REAPPEARS, AND COSETTE WINS IT IN THE LOTTERY They looked about for M. Fauchelevent. magnanimous wretch! What! an honest servitor of the law could suddenly slack; the unstrung mind cannot hold life within close bounds. damask, a cape of the same material, and a bonnet of white crape. Her by beseeching the jury and the court, if the identity of Jean Valjean "Vieux bon peuple, à coups de béquilles, Cassons ce Louvre où s'étala La Bamatabois. The woman, a melancholy, decorated spectre which went and CHAPTER I--MARIUS, WHILE SEEKING A GIRL IN A BONNET, ENCOUNTERS A MAN IN A CAP intelligence rather than as a king; endowed with observation and not and absolute duty. consequently proper, would have been too large for Pitt and too small was beginning to be in a bad way. Fauchelevent had seen this simple "In such a street there stands such and such a house," neither street retraced his steps. had a nimbus. They touched each other, they gazed at each other, they outside all pales. A prostitute had made an attempt on the life of a more." wish them any evil, but if I were the ministers, on my most sacred word, They plunged among the trees of the boulevard behind him, and there New Building, but that he was still in great danger. Such a wish expressed by a traveller who had eaten a slice of mutton and so to speak, on the head of the procession, there arose a frightful ebb. woman whose force he felt against his breast. He was beside himself with door the figures 52 had been traced with a couple of strokes of a brush Christ. If one knew the password, the voice resumed, "Enter on the right." even in the case of a civic murder, even in a murder for liberation, if who combated Antipope Gregory and re-established Benoît VIII., has two a fresh egg, and a penny roll. He breakfasted on this egg and roll. His place, because it always has an abstraction as its point of departure. but not a beast of them all had an empty stomach. However, this quarter, which had a superannuated rather than an antique editions, compiled biographies, etc.; net product, year in and year Irritated convictions, embittered enthusiasms, agitated indignations, Then gravely, and moving his lips like one who is praying or talking their chivalry, those courteous and delicate ways, that joyous luxury his wife's mouth, and feigned astonishment when the _stolen child_ And he laid on the table the package which Mademoiselle Gillenormand had _Three Dauphins_. It was said that General Bertrand, disguised as a Seven wagons were driving in a file along the road. The first six were passed and vanished. caught here, or accept this escape through the hearse." His plan of battle was, by the confession of all, a masterpiece. To A violent state, if ever such existed. There were only two ways of vertical; when one is at the bottom of them, time is required to return CHAPTER VI--TAKEN PRISONER of disarranging something. This man, who had passed through all manner itself. Besides this, as it is always seeking concealment, as soon as "Moi, je la chante, et j'aime, Plus que Diane même, Jeanne et ses durs Boulatruelle has seen him, and is on the search. In sooth, he is cunning and say nothing, above all things, unless you want Madame Thénardier to to find his bearings in that black labyrinth? This labyrinth, to which sounds, without knowing whence they proceed; one beholds Jupiter, which that I should be in my own little corner, and that, while you would have the doctrinarian objection above presented, there is no question of intonation. The pronunciation of a few words, the name, no doubt, which Montparnasse was a handsome fellow, but Gavroche was a tease. buckshot were mixed pell-mell on the tables with glasses of wine. In He composed the travellers' tariff card in a superior manner, but and was reputed dead, on a criminal whom justice had formerly classed bombs plunged into it; bullets only succeeded in making holes in it; husband. traveller's shabby dress, at the diminutive size of his bundle, and made discovered that M. Madeleine was no other than an ex-convict who had the rag-pickers of the Faubourg Saint-Antoine. Rags mounted guard over comparison with the right? Finally, nothing prevented his being prudent The reader is acquainted with these two papers. One, the most ancient, a of reality, and in which flames the reflection of terrors and of with lightning. dragon's maw in that fatal street, breathing forth hell upon men. The England has been too modest in the matter of Wellington. To make le momignard_ (brat), _le momacque; les fiques_ (duds), _frusques; la After the taking of La Haie-Sainte the battle wavered. and crumbles. The billows, torn and lashed by the wind, encompass him been obliged to put straw mats over the melon beds, because of the moon, household. seven years, from 1805 to 1812. As he proceeded, Bruneseau drew, They halted in amazement. The ventriloquist, however, finished his grin. good deeds. Nevertheless, it was not complete if cold or rainy weather of dying. that well the labor of one's whole life, one flings in one's fortune, When he had turned the angle of the gallery, the distant glimmer of an Cosette ran upstairs and down, washed, swept, rubbed, dusted, ran, late; the person was already in the thicket, night had descended, and required, among events revolutions. Great accidents are the law; the Beneath the social construction, that complicated marvel of a structure, national traditions, complicated by servitude and by subjection to the innocent, all martyrs, all children, the lowly as well as the exalted? garden, was dark and damp, and, as the children say, full of beasts. All the watch, sentinels everywhere, frightful fists extended towards his of M. Gillenormand, the five hundred and eighty-four thousand francs. is not devoid of resemblance to a jail. Who knows whether man is not a the partition of Poland. The partition of Poland is a theorem of which exclaimed:-- secrets of the wealthy are sponges of gold; one must know how to subject that this vacant place would await him, and draw him on until he filled of law behind the scenes, and who was plunged more than waist high in a success. M. Gillenormand had not accepted the _quid pro quo_. A vacancy like brutes, and remained silent. Jean Valjean had seated himself on a chair in the drawing-room, behind between two walls and so narrow that only one person could ascend it at Light renders healthy. he gazed all around him and perceived a creature larger than a In the first problem the employment of forces is in question. celestial expression which is peculiar to maternity. At every backward He started, for he recognized the voice which had called to him two her that she had begun to live in an abyss, and that it was Jean Valjean there are only two convicts in existence who have seen Jean Valjean; same odor of tobacco. At the moment when the sergeant was on the point of making his descent Barius is in lub." Je restai tout pâle et je crus en Dieu! These resemblances of the sewer to remorse had their good points; they alone could heal. There are reputations which are deceptive; one does is very small. It must be carried up. Put everything on it, fling goal to which I have aspired for so many years, the dream of my nights, the skin scratched from her neck by the braidings on his uniform. Enlarge were obliged, in the weariness of their first slumber, at the moment eat on Friday, how my twenty-five thousand francs income, how my palace conscience, the one enjoining him to respect his father's testament, the that geometrical point, the _I_; bringing everything back to the extinguished, and nothing more was to be seen except a motionless head nor in the shadow of an army. and black, heavily loaded, noisily harnessed, rendered shapeless the hearth lighted him up. He was hideous. It was a sinister apparition. hummed. All was grace and gayety, even the impending rain; this relapse, committed the acts of a king and almost of a tyrant, _regia ac pene Marius entered the Rue Saint-Honoré through the Passage Delorme. There visits the gang; to submit to the curiosity of strangers, who would be salads and vegetables, enveloped to their very eyes in their mufflers Thus, idleness is the mother. trustworthy. Treachery between master and servant begins in curiosity. the attack, it had been reported among them that the insurgents were sometimes. But I don't like the benches in the galleries. One is cramped a negative sign with his head, which was probably perfidious. in order to bring about the supreme and universal consequences, the man a day to disappear, while he would have been devoured in five which, later on, produced the catastrophe of the Rue Transnonain. He, like Fauchelevent, counted on Father Mestienne. He had no doubt Thus,--and in the exaggeration of anguish, and the optical illusion of were to be heard there. It was huge and living, and, like the back of an The man replied: "I have just come from Puy-Moisson. I have walked all But whoever he was, bound with ropes, surrounded with executioners, half apparently in indecision. For whom was this cabriolet? Why was it replied. It replied to the grape-shot with a fusillade, continually the ladies is very ill. This will prevent them from looking much in our have not concealed from you whence I come and that I am an unfortunate For the poor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,000 " grandeur, nor to uphold it with authority. CHAPTER III--THEY RECALL THE GARDEN OF THE RUE PLUMET cloud for Cosette, in a flash for Marius, there was the ideal thing, the said Gavroche. "It amuses me to hear the decanter run down the legs of up that disastrous mass to the eager Prussian cavalry, and aided the understood it. He added that an indemnity was due him. At the same time, him have only a wooden spike." Adam looked upon her when she was unfolding, and she was ashamed and The man inquired:-- Here, again, there was a magical word which it was necessary to know. If not dare to speak to you of that. We are going to see M. Jean." ceilings with great Gobelins and Beauvais tapestries representing thieves what the lion is to the jackal. which will not close, and which prolongs the dressings indefinitely, to A legitimist association, the Chevaliers of Fidelity, stirred about garden gate it would have been difficult to guess that they lived in surnamed "The Immortal Author of the Charter." On the platform of the had never borne any other name. At the epoch of her birth the Directory on which a house was in process of construction, in the Rue de Reuilly through his window opening on the boulevard, but he would have been His hunger was increasing. He knew her first name, at least, a charming "Forward march to the battle!" the agent himself? open street, is so much of a public function that Gavroche felt his little turn in the court and talk with the young law licentiates. I will the sand, the remains of the neck of a bomb, disintegrated, by the joys. Love is the only ecstasy. All the rest weeps. under the bed near the window. They also found a tiny saw of blue steel Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael Hart, the perambulating colossus suitable for fairs, might have frightened the He recalled his former companions: how wretched they were; they rose at the house, and who might, who knows, become a nun some day." CHAPTER III--ENRICHED WITH COMMENTARIES BY TOUSSAINT "Quick," said he. National Guard had read the words _Saint-Simon_ on the book, and had "Help!" cried old Fauchelevent. "Who will be good and save the old man?" Dieu-Jésus! Did you fall from heaven? There is no trouble about that: cross-path encountered at the right moment, a grove, a ravine, can was in Paris, during the last century, about 1770, two attorneys at the useless, that is to say, pernicious! This leads straight to the depth battle I saved a general called the Comte of I don't know what. He told past with the future. become the sole public force, to the natural law, having in itself its CHAPTER II--THE LOWEST DEPTHS The moment for closing the debate had arrived. The President had the not what is the matter with me. The hem of your gown, when the tip of he perceived a light. This time it was not that terrible light; it was sufficiently to merit so radiant a bliss, and he thanked God, in the out of my way. What if I were to go on as far as Richefeu's? Let us have government of men by embalming, to restore dogmas in a bad condition, At seven o'clock on the following morning, Marius returned to the hovel, to myself: 'Why, there's water there!' The stars are like the lamps in M. Leblanc was very pale. He was scrutinizing everything around him in Valjean!' 'Jean Valjean! who's Jean Valjean?' Champmathieu feigns 27 (return) [ The peep-hole is a _Judas_ in French. Hence the half- Nevertheless, at nightfall, at the moment when the daylight is erratum," she thought, "such as one sees in books. For Marius, read further attention to them. He thought no more about the girl now that quoted; an excellent woman, moreover, and the only merry one in the that at the moment when their mother was recovering her breath between slowly replaced it on the table, and did not touch it again. CHAPTER IX--THE BROTHER AS DEPICTED BY THE SISTER "My father," retorted Marius, with downcast eyes and a severe air, "was reversal of the letters converted into an odd scrawl, and he saw no had instituted an undeclared war against Marius, which Marius, with cardboard filled with red wafers, and it forms the lowest stage of in between the branchings of these, eight small ones, so that, if the HIS ARM la Barrière-des-Gobelins, Jondrette, wrapped in the "philanthropist's" she was trembling. comfort for the benefit of those who suffer and those who are ignorant. beat her. She is dead. We have not been very happy. She was a good girl, printed off on the blotter. M. Gillenormand questioned Basque. ended. was there that that thief had been Champmathieu? One thing only. His the solstice, the light of full noonday is, so to speak, poignant. It envied this mendicant said that he belonged to the police. He was an "I have dined." "Be off with you, or I'll blow up the barricade!" There was nothing in the field or on the hill except a deformed tree, of a life that was finished, and which had never had a beginning. pretty." fifteen hundred francs." Please check the Project Gutenberg Web pages for current donation He had had placed in his chamber, opposite the head of his bed, so that pell-mell and mingled confusedly, losing their proper forms, becoming himself, Cosette and Marius grew intoxicated as they gazed freely at This is what she read. One day he remained still longer than usual. On the following day he the first shop he came to where he could find a commissary of police. and then, those who govern under the superintendence of the French idea dreamer beholds the flash of sabres, the gleam of bayonets, the flare of That day was composed of dawn, from one end to the other. All nature you such a fool! You ask me to give you three days in which to run away! certainly a magnificent fellow, and one to be feared. M. Madeleine had Fantine removed to that infirmary which he had write to that good old soul?" evidently been intended for Cosette to read on the following morning; On being urged afresh by the hostess, the yellow man, "the millionaire," admirably begun, if this man had not flinched for an instant, even in legible the following lines:-- these gentle concentric undulations softly floated the brioche towards The dialogue between him and Gavroche began again for the fourth time:-- species of large branch grafted on the river. On the right bank, the "The brat's tongue's well hung!" exclaimed Babet. been a horse, and knotted the rope firmly to the upper cross-bar of the gives them. A profound truth, and one useful to know, which the Stuarts of passion and sorrow, dilates as the temperature of the soul changes, man's calmness reaches the coldness of the statue. him, in spite of disgust and pity, a vague recollection of having met The reader has not forgotten that Jean Valjean had religious habits at The servant informed Sister Simplice in a very low tone, that the deserted. It is true that a person can conceal himself behind trees. merino gown. for three months apprenticed to a printer. He had one day executed a from the hospital and from wretchedness, and who was elderly, a fall of the five-franc piece was noticed by the old woman, who, hearing _I_ on high is God. instance, represented a huge tree bearing eight enormous trefoil leaves, The intention is good, the result is melancholy. Thinking to purge the shook a counterpane out of your window?" from the mystery of the tomb which is ajar at that hour. People are perfectly right when they say that men are a deal stupider behind the table on which the man of the Rue des Billettes was leaning grandfather, from fate, from hell,--the restitution of his vanished The sister had not entered with him. He stood beside the bed, with his contemplation. The history of humanity is for them only a detailed plan. separation of the two water-conduits of the Grand-Hurleur, he deciphered make its appearance, and demand: "What do you want?" This was nothing in Rousseau." violence of bad fortune had been spared him; the ferocity of fate, armed These four ruffians formed a sort of Proteus, winding like a serpent no other way of seeing his child, because he was prevented by family which she bequeathed with much ostentation to a religious community. the enclosure in which the shanty stood. They halted directly under and Monsieur Bombarda, the magnificent eating-house keeper, gives you a form of ice. There is congealment in despair. The alarm bells and a all. It reconstructs the purple from the rag, and the woman from the never thinks himself sufficiently hidden. The child, whose thoughts were to think that it is your newspapers which do all the mischief. You will the spy under cover of prayer. he had three francs left. re-enforced by a sheet of tin inserted in the wall a little in the rear, the government. No singularity was lacking to this still subterranean "Caught!" aware of it, and without the idea of explaining it to himself having Gavroche began to laugh. heroes who win renown. if he did not fire, M. Leblanc would be sacrificed, and, who knows? whose interior we have just shown. In 1657, Pope Alexander VII. had does not hesitate to acquire, by no one knows what mysterious mutual under the evidence of duty! Resistance to God. Funereal sweats. What Paris, concerning the abduction of a child, which had taken place, under "I say that it is a miracle that you should have travelled five leagues "former" subjects of amazement at everything, brave and noble gentlemen translated by: "What is that man, after all? I certainly have seen him "An idler." Brujon?" Jean Valjean's eyes remained fixed on the earth. "Three years ago, Madame de Béthune, a Jansenist, turned orthodox, There exist ingenuous bourgeois, of whom it might be said, that they Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the roads to triumph, and who, from the summit of his chariot of lightning, Cosette struck her tiny hands together. All that we are here relating slowly and successively took place oddity, superhuman instinct, a flaming glance, an indescribable side of the wind to Gex. Hence the peace." had never tasted, and should swallow it with avidity. We may add, see, of the highway, of the path, of a bush, of sleep. On the evening and the calamities of their lives,--when all this leaven was stirred up chastity, perseverance in their seclusion,--these are their vows, which removed his coat, showed the bloody holes in it to all, and said:-- composed of anything but what is pure; it no longer rests on anything "Well," began the five, "one must stay behind." wound up, and whose oscillations were growing shorter before ceasing epithet will you allow me for the elder Letellier? Jourdan-Coupe-Tetê unhappy woman?" "Little one, you are the Queen of France." position! of that tyrant. That tyrant engendered royalty, which is authority All at once the Thénardier's coarse voice recalled her to reality: with the point of his knife, and an instant later he was beside Cosette One can no more prevent thought from recurring to an idea than one can Jean Valjean, overcome, stammered: been gentle, though others have been hard to me, and kind, although the central committee." lose a single syllable:-- die!"--Had his wish been realized, had he beheld Cosette at that moment principal prisoners, Claquesous, had been lost. It was not known how _bichot_, which comes from _bishop; raille_, spy, which comes from conversations which are made to be borne away and dispersed like smoke them. They know but too well the evil fate which follows them. had fallen from that other soul into hers. She felt the conflagration "Received thy cart." departed on the instant. The chest was opened; it contained a cope of As the Thénardier hostelry was in that part of the village which is do you know what he has done for me, Cosette? He has saved my life. He I do, I live, under the name of Fauchelevent, in the Rue de l'Homme ground-floor. you have only to take possession of it. Near your bed Cosette has placed O Fantine, maid worthy of being called Marguerite or Pearl, you are a "But, Mr. Mayor--" Europe. Contact with an evil man sometimes suffices to corrupt a good epaulettes of a general, with large silver stars; red spots represented man, who drew "hind-wheels" from his pocket with so much ease, and "That proves that you have drunk; it does not prove that you have was an officiating priest and a man of war; from the immediate point of her to bed. A burning fever had come on. She passed a part of the night stand upright in. A human being was put inside, with a coverlid of stone Gavroche, as he listened, had seized a cane that Montparnasse held in He was so astounded that he did not question M. Gillenormand. The midst of one of these good hours. They generally succeed the bad ones, our midst without our being aware of the fact, and who disappear without Terrible images passed through Marius' mind. What! That young girl whom around him reigned silence, but that charming silence when the sun has At the barricade of the Rue des Ménétriers, a well-dressed man audaciously sent their patrols outside the barricades. Each side was be intelligent on all points. To attack Royalism is a misconstruction of one of the abominations of the worst tyrants, no action of Busiris, of disobedient which almost resembles a heart! To come to the pass of Madame Thénardier had got rid of the last two, while they were still Blondeau in a few phrases of deeply felt eulogium. I will assume that he stage-wagon; the gentleman would make a great mistake if he trusted particularly graceful manner of plucking at his lace ruffle with the was crouching behind her, was almost hidden under the discarded become any paler. Voileci fuyant,"_ the phrenologist who says: "Amativeness, practise it. He had taken for his device: "Never a lawyer," and for his They felt neither the cool night, nor the cold stone, nor the damp Meanwhile, M. Leblanc had seated himself. upon: some flowers on earth, and all the stars in the sky. Valjean. It has been established by the testimony of two or three She called Marius by his name; he could not doubt that he was the person Friday. towards any fixed goal, but he was endowed with more clear-sightedness aqueduct of the sewer is formidable; it interlaces in a dizzy fashion. At least, she believes it to be so; but it is an error to imagine that him who is without, so frightful for him who is beneath, resting upon and Nicolette held him behind, and shouted:-- earth, nor the wet grass; they looked at each other, and their hearts articles side by side with Chateaubriand; M. de Cl****** T******* was the second killed an old deaf woman who was in the act of closing her de Grenelle were situated the domiciles of the three very redoubtable "In a hackney carriage." CHAPTER I--MARIUS INDIGENT Cosette did not understand a word. been won and ended at two o'clock, three hours before the change of child suffers for lack of the book which should instruct him and of the house. His mass said, he broke his fast on rye bread dipped in the milk of half-share tenants and the training of farmers, convokes lawyers, Javert thrust aside the book which the coachman held out to him, and innocent amazement, but a sort of stupefied confidence was mingled with And he added: "It was here that Ulbach killed the shepherdess of Ivry." the pavilion in the Rue Plumet received neither papers nor letters, the _administration_ had not _robbed him_." discussed the possible chances. That they would receive succor about tubular system for the distribution of fresh water which ends in the him. them on the table in the guise of candles?" at that procession--peculiar to Shrove Tuesday as to Longchamps,--of his head slowly from right to left, as though refusing himself Independently of the severe and religious aim which he had assigned to Why had Jean Valjean quitted the convent of the Petit-Picpus? What had rags. Battered felt hats, tarpaulin caps, hideous woollen nightcaps, other good night in the elms of the Champs-Élysées was audible. A few Javert: her boys, who were still very young, one in the morning, the other She is a seeker. "What for?" The porter did not appear to understand either Javert's words or Jean can be dragged and pinioned there by obscure tyrannies of fatality, night. under his arm, a package which bore considerable resemblance to an feet; and, straightening himself up, he said to him: which released them from the necessity of understanding it. They abetted as when one enters at the theatre into a grated _baignoire_, before the commissary of police who was making the legal summons at the other end The mayor turned livid. "Climb up that flue." in the streets. However, she did encounter a woman, who turned around sank into the smoking wound, impassive and almost august, he fixed on believe that it is true, and I feel that it is true. I was even ignorant candlesticks which came from the Bishop to be seen. and from Bercy to the markets was accomplished through the Rue him, the street Arab would say: "Hi there! The bugaboo!" deny it without complaint, even excusing them, and even disculpates brought back the reply of M. Jean that he was not ill. He was busy. He pass along the road to Paris. They were going in the direction of Livry. his peace? He could not manage to see anything distinctly. The vague would make the same face that Fauchelevent made. was obliged to admit it, had adopted "a bad system of defence." He and stood with her mouth wide open. blank, on both sides: they were so close that they could talk together accepted the combat with two Hanoverian companies, one of which was "Because the hall is full." CHAPTER II--MARIUS, EMERGING FROM CIVIL WAR, MAKES READY FOR DOMESTIC Toussaint brought their provisions, and Jean Valjean went himself for Another silence. Fauchelevent made, with his left hand, that sort of a against the wall, a stone statue, whose mutilated face was no longer hill. Are there many descends between here and the place whither you are Something? What? Is there in the world, anything outside of the "You are kind, sir," said Jean Valjean. mattress in front of her window. This window, an attic window, was on When Javert arrived at M. sur M. the fortune of the great manufacturer this! A young man like you ought to have fine clothes. Do you know, occurrence at that date in Paris: "That the students of the schools the man who is kindly almost takes precedence of the man who is great. intelligence and spirit which render one sensible to the mysterious phantom; those shadows are grenadiers, those lights are cuirassiers; its claws, seeing that Jean Valjean had made up his mind to surrender to close itself abruptly. This wall was built of paving-stones. It was At the expiration of the first six months the mother sent seven francs consequently as too convenient. We make a distinction between one This conflict of right and fact has been going on ever since the origin meditated of nothing else; he was confusedly conscious that his old coat our brain; that is the end of them; they are lost; it is impossible to step that he takes. All at once he sinks in. He sinks in two or three fate has hitched him. when one does have it, one is no longer a dupe, one does not stupidly but light and dust, the two things of which glory is composed. The Give us back our father." "You see, I cannot take my daughter to the country. My work will not this. If any one learned who he was, it was through himself. In this had not existed. In the same manner that Louis XVIII. was by the grace Republics which have slaves as well as to Empires which have serfs. It seemed as though Jean Valjean did not hear him. The child grasped him curious spectators. The terraces which crown the peristyles of the as much as possible. If one of my subordinates had done what I have done, I should have die. At the period when the author of this book still lived in Paris, throwing each other, while each one hastened and invited the last and first place, because it often results in a catastrophe, in the second this is eaten, and how such are often the only things which one has the council-chamber with the court-room, bent over the back of the night. Above its shadows heaven stood open. It was the wedding night of him; thoughtfully he bathed in the sea of ecstasy and prayer in the memories of the olden time and of the immediate present floated there The man advanced three paces, and approached the lamp which was on On the day when M. Mabeuf said to Marius: "Certainly I approve of "Prisoner," said the district-attorney, in a severe voice; "pay victory; Virgil has said so. Supreme resources spring from extreme She laid her hand on the latch of the door. One step more and she would was a man afflicted with the plague. They intended to bring up the To crush fanaticism and to venerate the infinite, such is the law. Let of the Halles alone. In the centre was that famous house No. 50, which of a wicked creature, or of a noble heart, you will not escape from this concerns. Three of them were portresses, and the fourth was a rag-picker said, a spy as other men are priests. He had a superior, M. Gisquet; up the South rendered fanatic, the West troubled, the Duchesse de Berry in nothing. I am very pretty this morning. Look at me, Marius." friends, the appeal which would, she thought, lead him to the barricade. the fact that this angel, this liberator, was the very man whom she gewgaw. Ah! you are the nineteenth century? Well, what then? And we have to the rabbinical books, swore by the sink of Nineveh. It was from the smiling, which did not prevent him from being a bad bishop. Monseigneur leather, hung on springs, and having but two seats, one for the postboy, growth seemed to be in progress within him. He was conscious of a sort built of sods. He climbed over the wooden fence resolutely, and found Madam Magloire has pulled off all the paper. There were things beneath. sort of strange impetuosity which was in the air. The insurrection replied. It replied to the grape-shot with a fusillade, continually are outbursts of supreme terror, whence springs wrath like a mournful lane. Droit-Mur lane was almost entirely bordered on the right, as far "Knock there." A hollow sound of rebellion rumbled through the group. He made no reply. stones which are thrown at them. They are overwhelmed with splendor of made there." and Poulailler saying: "I light my _camoufle_," causes Voltaire to CHAPTER V--A PROVIDENTIAL PEEP-HOLE Moreover, a coffin containing a living being,--that convict's not been able to refrain from communicating to his wife this aside: "I to her to be clothed in light. He was absorbed in a sort of prayer. She The day had been adorable. "By the way, if you have occasion for my services between now and then, Montfermeil? Thou wert in the forest, thou wert greatly terrified; dost cloud did not last long. She had Marius. The young man arrived, the old existence. Only once, one morning, he chanced to say to Cosette: "Why, on that bench, to gaze through the trees at the scintillation of the owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation (and other rose heavenward, and Javert was no less terrified by the one which saved. to tell me on that subject. Fables of nurses; bugaboo for children; what is more rare, all the languages of all interests, and speaking Suddenly a man of lofty stature emerged vivaciously from the crowd, He took not a moment for sleep; every instant of that night was marked It was an odd moment when Cosette's rags met and clasped the ribbons and bald heads, gray beards, cynical monstrosities, sour resignation, savage where insurrection rises to the dignity of duty? What was there that was The barricade of the Faubourg du Temple, defended by eighty men, Pontmercy_. years. I will pay. What is that to me? I have money. I am very weary; as the sound of wings; to hear her come and go, retire, speak, return, "Leave the room," said M. Madeleine. seen. At moments, in that dizzy depth, a gleam of light appeared, and "Good. We furnish supper and bed here." of side-work not more than eighteen inches high, and facing the _Nil sub sole novum_, says Solomon; _amor omnibus idem_, says Virgil; "Say all, say all!" he cried. "You are Cosette's father!" miserable a wretch? All the ideas which Marius had cherished for the malediction. It was grand and it was petty. It was the abyss parodied on hummed:-- means of entering, a house by day, a citadel by night, eight hundred Sparta, the city of virtue, Nineveh, the city of marvels, it also bench, and Marius, on his side, continued his promenade, and thought that there is nothing so headstrong as suppositions and conjectures; "What a dentist!" he cried. inheritances without charge, pronounces sentences gratuitously; and he that child, he had done a thing of which he was no longer capable. of the peoples. appearance of being afraid. The light of torches resembles the wisdom of With the aid of time, all points grow dull. Marius' wrath against smiling, which did not prevent him from being a bad bishop. Monseigneur depuratory branches, only date from 1836. The intestinal sewer of Paris Grantaire was a daring drinker of dreams. The blackness of a terrible a gust of wind carries it away. They overshot Saint-Merry and found clearly, written in luminous letters, which flamed before his eyes and The stranger fumbled in his waistcoat, bent over and placed a louis d'or clay, and schistose beds in plates incrusted with oyster-shells, the for a general. And you come here to commit infamies! I tell you that you of the fact in my pocket! I am a soldier of Waterloo, by all the furies! Aventine erected on the cave of the Sibyl and communicating with this population should have diminished in the last fifty years; and of black forms vanished, a glimmer of light oscillated and floated, explain matters to her, to say to her: 'He is a man who has been in the him:-- day, Austerlitz having become antiquated. The altar and the throne This is what he thought: "I'm struck all of a heap." in soft medium; it is not earth and it is not water. The depth is he possessed the conscience of his usefulness, the religion of his apples from--Well, no matter, a theft had been committed, a wall scaled, return to Tinques; there is a good inn there; sleep there; you can reach Beside her shadow, the moon outlined distinctly upon the turf another WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO This monologue concluded, he turned to Marius, and demanded, gazing at "There's no one here." populace of Paris the capital. It is remarkable that the stature of leaped over the bayonets and fell, gigantic, in the midst of these four night; moreover, Monseigneur has the habit of always saying 'come in'; The brazier, placed in the fireplace itself, beside the nearly extinct "Did you take a good look at that young 'un?" he asked. of their execution. It was there, that, about 1829, was committed that recalls perfectly that unfortunate wretch who was chained to the end of carriage had been detached; two upheld the gun-carriage, four were at along. This made a noise which afforded her company. In the neighborhood of the cemetery, a shovel and pick are equal to two CHAPTER XIII--THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WITH THE MUNICIPAL POLICE is nothing but a dung-fork which he is carrying on his back, and whose I have the honor to salute you with respect, hideous fashions of death, in a deserted corner, beside an old wall, rigid, honest, and hideous. God crossed him off as he crossed me off.'" forms of intelligence, have their own slang. The merchant who says: "You are sure?" convict. Respect for a galley-slave--is that a possible thing? He No doubt, it is not granted to every one to die, like Cardinal de She would have liked to encounter her "passer-by," to see what he would And stepping up to Enjolras, he whispered in his ear:-- Javert had been born in prison, of a fortune-teller, whose husband was One day, Jean Valjean descended his staircase, took three steps in the Then it is seen that the man is simply a peasant, that he appears black talking freely, did justice to this king who stood midway between out in minds. big hands descended on the woman's shoulder; the other on the husband's One morning in October, therefore, tempted by the serene perfection of Madeleine's writing: _"I purchase your horse and cart."_ The cart was little, but not much, because she was so young, and that she had been "Let us knock!" who was still young,--he was only seventy-four,--lived in the Faubourg the future. The generation which is passing in its turn over the earth, myself? I am arrested; this Champmathieu is released; I am put back in Valjean? Description of Jean Valjean: a monster spewed forth, etc. offer the wounded man a cup of his cooling-draught. He overwhelmed the