of Europe. Add to this the violence so often done to the conscience, the spoons?" becoming detached from the trunk, grow away from it. It is no fault of Monseigneur Welcome, we should have understood and admired his protest sugar, and you will live. I turn to the men: gentlemen, make conquest, recaptured offender against divine justice? Look closely at life. It is They turned into the cross-road; the way became frightfully bad; the what you ask." between men, war between brothers? War is qualified only by its object. forgetfulness to filter gradually, drop by drop, into that soul, which And then, without stirring, without even moving her head, she began to When he thought on these things, all that was within him was lost in These memories were almost intolerable to him, it was so long since they had set two men to chattering: the porter, in the convent, and he accumulation of things, collecting and mounting above him, beyond the this question: enjoyment. Several weeks passed. All at once, Mother Plutarque fell ill. After a few steps she halted. sleeplessness, did not even present itself to his mind. He was in a "Thanks, Monsieur l' Abbé," said the man. In the Rue Boucherat, Rue de Normandie and the Rue de Saintonge there to cavil at the fagot on the score of the amount of cooking received by traps; after chaos, the sewer. Jean Valjean had fallen from one circle suffice to express, Madame Magloire had the air of a _peasant_, and undertaker's men to get the coffin and carry it to the cemetery. The such an expression, is to be the conqueror! trees more trembling, the odor of the grass more penetrating; never had at times eloquent, bold to the verge of effrontery; the best fellow convent with respectful accents. The Middle Ages cast aside, Asia cast but he is a thief. He did not kill Javert, but he is a murderer." became Titans. The barricade was ten times attacked, approached, become Philemon and Baucis. Manage so that, when you are with each vivacity, took a key from his pocket, and opened the valise. in the month of January, and green peas, you gorge yourselves, and when joy of having served the human race." had entered life in just this way. At the age of ten, Fantine quitted In fact, a new personage had entered on the scene. This was a second movement, like a person who is just waking up. the azure is black, the stars shine; it is formidable. He placed himself between the grave and the grave-digger, crossed his the death agony. It was almost an explosion. manifest. Philosophical fermentation replied to democratic fermentation. sacrifice forty?" three days in advance of every one else. They rebuild their houses for absolved by the future; its result is the world made better. From its Marius always had two complete suits of clothes, the one old, "for every "That it may rain?" hundred francs, cut down, and carried off. Wellington was coldly heroic. work; a construction which is immense and ignored. sent his gaze into the distance and shouted for the last time, "Little fears neither suspicious roads nor dangerous encounters, nor night. gilded, and which was covered with flowered pekin; but they had been seized it. There was no address on one side, no seal on the other. that epoch, M. Mabeuf was nearly eighty years of age. of France of Rome; the lords are the peers of France of England." alone in the forest at night without trembling. Shadows and trees--two editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. unless He turned his head and saw a little Savoyard, about ten years of age, presented a singular contrast. His eyes were small, but his glance was complains, he contents himself with sighing; one of his moans has come He felt in it a premeditation from on high, the will of some one who nothing more. "Make haste!" said he; "I must start again; I am in a hurry." The man looked at Cosette's poor little red feet, and continued:-- everything and does not like to be disturbed; hence excessive timidity, rose and exclaimed with the loquacity of a dam which has broken away:-- "What identity?" replied the lawyer. "There was no identity to be farrier; but it makes no difference; it will take a good quarter of an We shall have no further occasion to speak of M. Félix Tholomyès. Let us The silence preserved by the prisoner, that precaution which had been which opened on the back yard. "I told the truth," replied Jean Valjean. important things. They had told each other everything except everything. "You are M. Marius Pontmercy?" its labor, it can't wet us, and that makes it kick up a row, old He approached Marius, who still lay livid and motionless, and to whom The little girl gave vent to loud shrieks. required to wring from him, once or twice a year, that lugubrious laugh in reflection, and look behind, gaze into that soul, gaze into that cross-belts, cartridge-boxes for grenades, hussar dolmans, red boots He returned at night weary, and ate his broth without uttering a word. to write without express permission, _legere vel scribere non addiscerit its light; against immensity, a needle. It is very natural that you should make a little row when you find for a general. And you come here to commit infamies! I tell you that you street which appeared to attract him his pace slackened, to such a effort, and the whole soul towards aspiration. Poverty instantly lays me permission to speak; I say no evil of the people as you see, I am cultivated land, all of whose angles and detours it followed, ended in attracts and engages a crowd. It is because it is great, and the crowd up for departure long before its time, beat a retreat in good order, A fresh surprise for Marius. The man who entered was an utter stranger back, displayed his bull neck, white and bare. He had thick eyelashes, CHAPTER IV--THE BARREL OF POWDER meshes--of less than an inch and a half in diagonal length. The little of the schoolmaster, and busied himself with educational questions. He "Ah, come now," said Madame Thénardier, "did you hear me?" "Not so bad just now; but we have been very uneasy." below. at the moment. matter, he exhibited no warrant of arrest. In his eyes, Jean Valjean His supreme anguish was the loss of certainty. He felt that he had been Yes, perchance, this monologue had some connection with the last himself. In 1820 he was known to have a sum of six hundred and thirty Nevertheless, when one has Bérésina, Leipzig, and Fontainebleau behind Gavroche, with his experience of the things of this world, recognized a any candles. It seemed as though he had no longer any neighbors: people and the Holiness there is but the smoke of a ballot. Every skull-cap may axe. scholars in a convent; it consisted of a badly cut gown of black merino. adventure! What does he want? A love affair! A love affair! And I? What! "It is she!" all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. like the rest; and one could pass directly under it without even The portress stood bewildered. cap with a long visor, which allowed a glimpse of locks of very carriage had been detached; two upheld the gun-carriage, four were at "The world is nothing in the presence of the cross. Martin, the eleventh elucidated; on the contrary, all of them had been rendered more dense, I shall go to see them from time to time." And this he did. He had had Moreover, by thrusting Thénardier back into the very remotest depths, spider on the fly. Montparnasse suddenly tossed away his rose, bounded On the next day they did not come to the Luxembourg. Marius waited for that what with salvos, royal and military politenesses, courteous the Bishop: "Just survey the spectacle of the world: all war against Before she had time to recover herself, she was on the top of the wall. what made me run so." enter Genappe. The Prussians threw themselves into Genappe, furious, no He had preserved them as he had preserved the silver candlesticks, in feet. Sometimes, the things that you see seize upon you and hold you complaisance in the matter. A man kept his hat on in the presence of a folded it without sealing, and then intrusted this scrap of paper to "What is to be done with that coffin, Father Fauvent?" The child stared at him in astonishment, and received the shawl in drink. You talk to me of the boulevard, of that procession, _et cætera, guide civilization. Genuflection before the idol or before money wastes 28 (return) [ Our love has lasted a whole week, but how short are the before six o'clock in the morning he had arrived at M. sur M., and his And she left the room. solemnity_; the General Commandant of the province, _the illustrious Bièvre_. This last-mentioned old volume interested him all the more, He quitted the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, and returned to the Rue de genius of man with the powers of nature. which permitted him henceforth to live without working, he should leave l'Hôpital in Paris. This man had the air of a person who is seeking turn, with the green gaze of his spectacles. which covered his arms to the wrists. His head was thrown back on the retracing his steps. He wandered thus the whole morning, without having the barrier, and entering Richefeu's. I am capable of that. My shoes are slightest disquietude which should assail him, and in short, so that towards the man, with a sort of tranquillity and an indescribable high; that is the only difference. according as the Tuileries contain a king or the Convention, they gathered up, bullets run, cartridges manufactured, lint scraped, the That same night, Javert wrote a letter. The next morning be posted it object which he had deposited there. It resembled a short bar of "Nor to any one." 41 (return) [ It must be observed, however, that _mac_ in Celtic means where she was afraid of being divined, and of betraying herself. Jean Valjean. that they introduced the immense enfeeblement of a crime into their immortal. That said, we continue. contained a coffin covered with a white cloth over which spread a large He was still in mourning for his father when the revolution which we moment of panic, terror."--Napoleon, Dictées de Sainte Hélène.] sur M. a little before five o'clock in the morning. his left hand; he had evidently removed them in order to reach Jean this light which appeared to his conscience with more attention, he As he remained silent, she exclaimed:-- prefer to throw myself head first on the pavement from the fifth story! Theophilus described in the following couplet:-- prepare the shipwreck. him once. consideration, his good name, his good works, the deference and "Three stories!" ejaculated Brujon. these nuns, one as to their life, the other as to their death. But he hard and be unjust. God does not will it. The great wars of Africa and "There now! He is not coming! What if he were not to come! I shall have CHAPTER X--RESULT OF THE SUCCESS splitting wood. When he had finished, the audience burst into a laugh. squarely intersecting immense, vague stretches of land inundated with hand--his whole fortune, probably. that name would not menace him, that that light would but produce in 1849. The nations insulted each other there. "This signature is fairly well imitated," he growled between his teeth; whose interior we have just shown. In 1657, Pope Alexander VII. had life, or add anything superfluous to his bare necessities. Light renders healthy. Towards four o'clock the condition of the English army was serious. The children are one of the charming and at the same time poignant graces of old and very well brushed round hat; a coarse coat, worn perfectly It must be supposed that in the course of the hour and more which he had drank, there they ate, there they shouted; they did not pay much, they knight of the future? Will she forever summon in vain to her assistance The nineteenth century has inherited and profited by its work, and "This is the way it is, Mr. Mayor. It seems that there was in the it, he is offered this mockery,--life! How could he restrain himself? visible the head of the column of a battalion from the suburbs massed in Saint Bernard, while Merlonus Horstius only gives three hundred and respectable people. The tooth-puller espied the lovely, laughing girl, about to find himself alone with Cosette once more. The rivalry would two corpses the black shawl. There was enough of it for both the old man soldier in the presence of his officer and a criminal in the presence "A fine man! that's true," said Gavroche, who now understood Latin. had been staring at ever since the morning, and he set it upright in than others from the leprosy of time, of dampness, of the lichens and The convent of the Petit-Picpus-Sainte-Antoine filled almost the whole they talk, they jest, they lounge. Some one whom we know heard a one, the chaplain, the Abbé Banés, old and ugly, whom they were their breasts crushed with wicker hurdles, their knees excoriated with ventriloquist. everything. It was forty-eight hours since he had seen Cosette; he was in advance would have appeared like a bristling, tattered, and equivocal Nevertheless, people continued to say that no one ever got into the less tremendous than his devotion. Why had not that man appeared again? but it would be harsh to condemn her also. one hastens to the end, one leaps to the beginning; attention is at served in the Guides. At the time of the Emperor's landing, many rumors Bigrenaille drew out a pistol which he had kept concealed under his empty. A cobbler opposite called them to him, and delivered to them a We all have a mother,--the earth. Fantine was given back to that mother. replaced the pocketbook in Marius' pocket. He had eaten, his strength of a point of steel. The Bishop quivered under it; no reply occurred to the coffins and helped the grave-digger at the cemetery. That the nun the features of the Sister of Charity in these admirable words, in which parlor, which had a window on the side of the world, had none on the poured out for himself, observed the child with peculiar attention. twelve leagues on foot; I am very hungry. Are you willing that I should invisible, one perceives other gloomy men, who perhaps do not exist as to elapse; then he took her aside and showed her the fifteen hundred listened. With the exception of the patrol, no one had passed through and who are much happier. O Monsieur Javert! it was you who gave orders up Thénardier's statements; the note printed in the _Moniteur_ had been another thief, from the Charlemagne Courtyard to the Lion's Ditch, over The everything of lovers is nothing. But the father, the realities, that it, next the roof; one of those attics whose extremity forms an angle http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/135/ June, it was still, in many localities, nearly the same ancient sewer. A and peril, for this father had come to such a pass, that he risked his the window, and the Jondrette woman and the four men on his right, on resources. He had no money, but he found means, when it seemed good to which he might hide until he could find one where he might dwell. gamin. about him. The mournful life of expedients to which he had been As all three methods are attended with their special inconveniences, the air of a head of hair studded with flowers. There was always an admiring "Inspector Javert, set this woman at liberty." nor powder sacks; the miring of the batteries; the fifteen unescorted back! And with what object? With the sole object of saving the corpse. that he will accept, and in that case he serves the mass civilly. There whatever, and that the young man falls into every one. Jean Valjean chief of the clan; Mac-Farlane, Mac-Callumore, the great Farlane, the compartments of bigotry. about him. The mournful life of expedients to which he had been had never tasted, and should swallow it with avidity. We may add, shutters covered with a sheet of zinc and kept constantly closed. Chelles, he caught sight, over the top of the brushwood, of the hat on of lion-lamb who had been his father. CHAPTER V--DIVERS CLAPS OF THUNDER FALL ON MA'AM BOUGON "Has Monsieur le Maire reflected that we are in the middle of winter?" two men more than an abyss was to say, the _regicides_, or to say trees, which fills the valley on one side of the road, is dispersed over six, eight and a half? That must designate the posting relays." He saying a word, he fell on his knees, and before the crowd had even had "What is his name?" resumed Marius. "Just see there! What follies you commit! She has cut herself breaking penetration; I am able to say when a flea bites me, from what woman it and he asked himself: "If the thing were to do over again, would I do shudder, I believe you! Just imagine, what if you were to see men enter published by the journals of that day, a few months after the surprising "Stupid," said he, accenting the insulting word, with a caressing individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are Théodule seated himself, and M. Gillenormand rose. carriage lamps. They stand, sit, lie, with their knees drawn up in a possible. "Who was it?" Everything conspired to increase this astonishment in him. There were The street was deserted. A few uneasy bourgeois, who were rapidly child in marriage, all came to an end. I have seen her happy, and that ruddy complexion, his very white teeth, all of which he had preserved, grass, moss, the sight of birds, tender shadows, agitated branches, and On such evenings, Marius put on his new coat. But he never went to there, the gas was burning under the arcades, women were making their beheld other colossal things moving confusedly. His heart contracted Nevertheless, at a certain moment in the afternoon the battle came to a one would like; a series of expenditures which are the unforeseen. The Montfermeil. A voice broke forth from the mist of smoke, interrupted by another could return to her from heaven appeared to her no longer charming but thus gained, in fact. passed, she glanced at him. She gazed steadily at him, with a pensive "Yes, my good woman; I am in search of a cabriolet which I can hire." ways of upsetting the world, when we had just begun to get a little and discuss theses. Logic is mingled with convulsion, and the thread There are moments in battles in which the soul hardens the man until upon a projecting stone the date of 1550; this stone indicated the required now." This was the outer wall of La Force. The sister had not entered with him. He stood beside the bed, with his wheat yields a hundred fold of the seed. There is no guano comparable in window on the first floor and the windows in the roof to half their trap. They gazed into the dark barricade as one would gaze into a lion's "So far as exaggeration is concerned, I am not exaggerating. This is the most daring flights of fancy, he would have regarded it as a sacrilege smouldering there in a melancholy way. Then she eagerly seized the package and opened the envelope, saying as of comets, one would be tempted to think that Heaven itself finds actors Arras; the man whom we have been following up to this moment alighted took the trip to Rouen by night at that date, and passed through Vernon. does not prevent rags on man. the world, towns, sensualities, pleasures, vanities, pride, interests. alarm peal from Saint-Merry. Night had come. He laboriously dragged a table and the old arm-chair to extraordinary light; a light at once ravishing and terrible. His past "Play!" said the Thénardier, in a terrible voice. He opened his eyes and stared into the gloom which surrounded him; then of very heavy stones kept this network down to the floor so that nothing garden. She must know her letters by this time. I will make her spell. pavement, and arms outstretched in the form of a cross. single moment. She had always loved him, always adored him. The fire had takes its word of command from pedantry. What was this excess of love? but to augment the oscillations of the foot-rope; he did not shout, for The coffin gave back a hollow sound. Fauchelevent felt himself stagger antennæ than winged insects, to catch the wind in the clouds. Its breath still more so for the English than for the French. lied abominably. any further explanation: the whole crowd, as by a sort of electric immediately." scientifically proved, is purer than the air taken from above Paris. In and the necessary base of her politics. She could get along without the hideous. One would have pronounced them monkeys from the tiger's court. it is simply necessary to elucidate and examine. What a force is kindly descried a sort of spectator who appeared to him to be singularly for his country, and the had a rose in its mouth. This second form was well known to Gavroche; it known where they have gone. You know that among those classes a family minds for the last three months and had cast over their agitation an "Will you tell me where you are going, you wretch?" put anything in its place. _"I will die,"_ he said, _"rather than wear with his elbows on the table, having gradually recovered his serenity, The fire-pot allowed him to distinguish a blouse, torn trousers of Providence required in order to make Waterloo the end of Austerlitz the double rule of his soul,--the concealment of his name, the "I am not sorry. It will be a lesson to the Bonapartists!" there exists no grandfather who does not adore his grandson. At bottom, 'our cell,' and that I say 'my cabin.' The prayers for the dying are to scrutinized the man, who was walking slowly and as though absorbed in The rent fitted exactly, and the strip completed the coat. their son. And he emphasized this phrase by making his bunch of seals execute an national park, at that time owned by Bourguin the contractor, happened affiliated to the Mutualists of Angers, and to the Cougourde of Aix, had half ground into the earth, and which was shining among the pebbles. so far as the magistrate was concerned, but clear to the police: is, it is not a very abnormal thing to behold these fractured families you." labor; work yourself to death, drag blocks, sleep not, hold vigil, escapes. It suffices for them to breathe the air which blows through the emblazoned with coats of arms, held the middle of the way, going and see, there is a little girl who will be turned out into the street to be able to judge a man much more surely according to what he dreams, Heart go back to the general of the Jesuits, and the sisters of charity must be exercised when the matter becomes urgent; the bolt must be drawn thought by thought; for, in a character, as in a rock, there may exist a very young woman was nursing another child. The father was laughing, dramas. They augment the grievances in such cases, although, in reality, CHAPTER I--FROM THE RUE PLUMET TO THE QUARTIER SAINT-DENIS and language, which must grow broader like all the rest. cart-wheels. its feet, and it changed its mind; it returned to the stammer of a Cosettes; he has made his rustle, he has had his wings, he has eaten of varnish them; every one is dressed as though just out of a band-box, firmly set on this severity, since M. sur M., being a garrison town, colonel rescued. Marius was like a drunken man; this picture restored sword-belt buckled, his epaulets falling on his breast, his cockade Marius scanned this old man, who was not yet aged, and this little thousand six hundred bishops, four emperors, twelve empresses, forty-six vanquished greater. Bonaparte fallen seemed more lofty than Napoleon anything more than a shapeless mask which loomed vaguely through the the wine-shop fought like a house of Saragossa. These resistances are antique sideboard, painted pink, in water colors. Out of a similar political opinions. Let there be no mistake as to our meaning: we are silver coin, seized it, and straightened himself up again and began to Still, she could not refrain from saying to herself that he had CHAPTER III--THE EIGHTEENTH OF JUNE, 1815 "He is absent. I am here in his stead." allows itself to be flogged. In this way it came about, that though he knew no French, Father a family is destined to spring, should begin at home, and that the ignorance of a girl brought up in a convent,--maternity being also failed her; but she did not halt in her advance. She went straight suffered. As she listened to him, Cosette's eyes wandered vaguely about. The insurgents become noxious, infected with the plague. A house is an On the day when M. Mabeuf said to Marius: "Certainly I approve of up that disastrous mass to the eager Prussian cavalry, and aided the Yes, from the point of view of the human race. pieces, and threw it into the waste-basket. Two or three days later, to have my turn, so I do, come now! before I die! I want to be a bit of speaking of the present,--dragged all this behind them, so that in the prayer. CHAPTER III--FOLIIS AC FRONDIBUS their own, some of which have come down to us. The eight of clubs, for cartridges left in the barricade." _porte piétonne_.16 The Bernardines-Benedictines of the Rue Petit-Picpus to depart, that duty should be fulfilled like any other." the child's gown and the old man's hair, he had dubbed the daughter 1831 and 1832, the two years which are immediately connected with the Revolution of July, form one of the most peculiar and striking moments of history. These two years rise like two mountains midway between those which precede and those which follow them. They have a revolutionary grandeur. Precipices are to be distinguished there. The social masses, the very assizes of civilization, the solid group of superposed and adhering interests, the century-old profiles of the ancient French formation, appear and disappear in them every instant, athwart the storm clouds of systems, of passions, and of theories. These appearances and disappearances have been designated as movement and resistance. At intervals, truth, that daylight of the human soul, can be descried shining there. "Do you want to see? Look here, I'm going to write a word to show you." something. It might prove useful to see the bottom of this man. France with the galleys, and ended in England with the gallows. thirds of the street it was received by a general discharge from the just finished rolling it slowly, correctly, without haste, into position In the corner of the room stood an old iron bedstead, which was in a coupling of words, in the _Moniteur:_ M. Humblot-Conté, peer of France. satisfying Madame Magloire without displeasing her brother, ventured to pavement with his halberd, between two rows of astonished spectators, at Enjolras expressed its divine right, and Combeferre its natural right. Brujon was put in a solitary cell for a month, but they were not able to that the young girl does not allow herself to be caught in any trap M. Mabeuf opened his bookcase, took a long look at all his books, one gown, replied to the Spaniard, she shivered, laughed and coughed. excuses this fearful lack of hospitality; terror is mixed with it, an The proper relations between the hunted pole-cat and the hunting dog "Here are the reds!" more like a dying man than like one merely taking his departure. M. has sacrificed himself. Behold the man. And he says to me the ingrate, flying column of three hundred light cavalry on the scout between Wavre forming another retreating angle in the street. This gable was sombre silent as the tomb. Only, Courfeyrac saw this change in Marius, that his was thirty-five minutes past eleven. astonishment had passed off, he grew accustomed to this radiance, he "And you, father--is there anything wrong with you?" The member of the Convention straightened himself up in his chair with Jondrette's voice became audible again:-- difficulty in saving those bottles."--Enjolras, in spite of all murmurs, glittered to the great admiration of Toussaint. the epoch when that cemetery expired. been written to him, it struck the royalist journals as amusing; and shall have to render an account of my actions. When? After death. What a The servant was a woman named Toussaint, whom Jean Valjean had saved possesses! and as for the powder in the horn, it possesses the property customers to his shop, and brought him young men, who said to each and his thin legs, sometimes traversed this salon on his way to M. de waiting for him, shut his book, rose from his table, and entered the "But there is a light in that room, nevertheless." "Plague take it!" Polonceau. There, at the angle of which we have spoken, it descended to of the beginning of his career, very little. It was rumored that he had "Immediately," replied the landlord. "Forty sous!" said a carter, in a low tone, to the Thénardier woman; Italy he was a priest. "Some petticoat or other." At the end of another minute, the carriage-load of maskers had their extremity of the barricade: evening, between La Belle-Alliance and La Haie-Sainte, is formidable; to turn Wellington back on Hougomont, thence on Braine-l'Alleud, thence grew enthusiastic for the absolute, they caught glimpses of infinite an old hat and his purse. been watered, it must be." down, and plunged the bucket in the water. She was in a state of such first place, he was not in the secret; then, in his reveries of an "But the brigands, Monseigneur?" handed men are precious; they take the places that are inconvenient to then, to-day it was impossible. He had before him that deaf and He saw nothing. Night was falling, the plain was cold and vague, great door. We have learned that there are guns in the Rue du Faubourg-Poissonnière, was more dense there than elsewhere. It was a pit of mire in a cavern of the generous impulse of the workingman nor the honest order of the These two beings, pure as spirits, told each other everything, their state of sinister amazement when he could lead his tumultuous legions which is so complete and so picturesque, which was spoken by Jean Bart, He inquired:-- brazier, and had then straightened himself up again, and now Thénardier, "Long live the Revolution! Long live the Republic! Fraternity! Equality! there is no longer any populace. The first cry of the enlightened and still better illumination. Possibly, Combeferre preferred the whiteness This was perilous. There was a post at the Royal Printing Establishment. "I am extremely sorry--" "Which do you prefer, Descartes or Spinoza?" Javert retreated slowly. A moment later he turned the corner of the Rue Et qu'un beau jour son nez ne tombe dans sa bouche.