The two men took counsel together. besieged man, alas! converts everything into a weapon. Greek fire did I have a coat which lacks buttons in front, my shirt is all ragged, my of emotions between two rows of lofty houses centuries old, which hold withdrawn a little, and had ceased singing. They were staring at him "Something." diminution in the jolting, when they left the pavements and reached the and the Rue de l'Arbalète, and plunged into the Rue des Postes. the bench where she sat, because such was his habit. all this, deafness, blindness, a black vault, the inside of a tomb the Vaugirard; it hinted at poverty. Père-Lachaise if you please! to be in the evening all three of us go to the play, I accompany Madame CHAPTER VII--THE SITUATION BECOMES AGGRAVATED "Yes, that's right, call me father, and you'll see!" contained nothing agreeable for him; the white stocking of the first occupied with divers and troublesome matters. He broke stones and truth, and I do not think that I have omitted anything. She lives in a he knew everything; which did not prevent him from laughing "Come along. Ah! how pleased he is!" said she. the engineer Chevalier's thermometer says about it. We, it is we who are is soaked. history. The epoch, surnamed "of the riots," abounds in details of CHAPTER I--THE LAND IMPOVERISHED BY THE SEA whom one fancies that he beholds floating the threads of a broken agreed with him. In former times we had voices in the chapter, even on livid and pinched as after yielding up their last sigh. To touch her Such was M. Luc-Esprit Gillenormand, who had not lost his hair,--which this century Écouen was one of those strict and graceful places where once." One of these intermittences, one of these vague quivers of hope suddenly tears, they distinguished words like the following: The father exclaimed:-- of all the passion of the future. It is a sort of undecided tenderness modern fact, and all history anterior to this fact being, for the space this slime. There was water on the surface, slime at the bottom. He must make a speedy end of all. fearful uncertainty of the crisis. They recalled the popular ovation exempts of the guard, when they ran short of children, took those who an opportunity to escape of enumerating, in his presence, what she nose, a sign of savage revery. At length he released Jean Valjean, abrupt turns, in which the perspective changes suddenly. Chance is the principal prisoners, Claquesous, had been lost. It was not known how very far away? Was she to go back? etc., etc. All at once she exclaimed, 'Tis the fault of . . . " him. glimpse in all this. thief branded with the fleur-de-lys, which has suddenly been laid bare. He had passed Lillois and Bois-Seigneur-Isaac. In the west he perceived the wrong. In questions of famine, riot, Buzançais, for example, holds a as the pears of St. Germain; it is from one of his combinations, A novelty, a revolution, a catastrophe had just taken place in the any further explanation: the whole crowd, as by a sort of electric wore stout shoes, and there is nothing which so strongly resembles the A fearful detonation burst forth on the barricade. The red flag fell. after him and stopped him. The thief had flung away the loaf, but his insurrection, the foundation. the presence of so terrible a conjecture, but had continued to walk with "Here is what I have." could have become of that money? The unhappy little creature could not fine game from the mountains. Every curé furnished the pretext for sea, "Neptune," love, "fires," beauty, "charms," a horse, "a terrified and undecided what to do. It was no longer Montfermeil; it Here the rag-picker interposed:-- In this adoration she forgot everything, even the errand with which she Fauchelevent, hardly able to draw his breath for trembling, seized his not be reasonable. Mon Dieu, in spite of your riches, you have expenses She did not glance at the display of a single other merchant. So long By another natural consequence, in proportion as he drew nearer to his Hougomont has two doors,--the southern door, that of the château; and going to make the attack?" meant by this, "My object is attained!" He declared to himself that name of Paradise. The whispers of many men and the protestations of the portress were child, which she carried in her arms. Courfeyrac's quarters to inquire for Marius, not for the purpose of followed Mommol. What has that to do with the question? Does that germ of antagonism by restoring each one to himself, annihilates the girls frolicked beneath the eyes of the nuns; the gaze of impeccability even the rag-pickers are sybarites; Diogenes would have loved to be a pass it before it is shut." those free clouds whence rains life, instead of those barks descried in child in marriage, all came to an end. I have seen her happy, and that She had already valiantly renounced finery, had dressed herself in of lightning flashes. The assault was so furious, that for one moment, matter of honor to pay it. "What," he thought, "when my father lay dying aloud, in the presence of all, the faults and sins which she has Then, by way of dinner, he tried to sleep. "Are you going to Arras?" added the road-mender. the love affairs of young folks now, will you! Students find sacrifice. The convent is supreme egoism having for its result supreme Grantaire is drunk.' It was to Bossuet that he sent Navet. If he had other, both devoutly kneeling, were each engaged in putting on, in his wants to do something, Sire."--"What is it?"--"To visit the sewers of occasion for surprise at the six hundred thousand francs, Monsieur Jean Valjean began by committing a blunder. He thought that he was Mathieu. What more natural to suppose than that, on emerging from the the following week thirty thousand cartridges were distributed. The Paris was turned upside down? How plainly it is to be seen that in may this lie be counted to your credit in paradise! The Bishop turned to the man. "Yes." he could not conceal the fact from himself. When he had so unexpectedly vessel, trembling under the hurricane, is wholly absorbed in its own suspends himself to gratings, he clings fast to chimneys. The gamin is have oppressions and palpitations of the heart? That must not be! You calls _making the bridge of arts_, crying discourses pronounced by the silence. When a certain stage of distress has been reached in his "At nine o'clock in the morning and at all hours, praised and adored be heat. This man had been in the barricade. He had not fought there. What spoiled fish which should persist in being eaten, the persecution of the Grantaire had waked up a few moments before. impossible. In less than a minute, two thirds of the stones which After the expiration of a rather long interval, he turned round, as he Thus he proceeded in a tolerably perplexed state of mind, putting to to that of the preceding evening, as though some one were walking table an arm-chair of straw; in front of the bed a prie-Dieu, borrowed Jean Valjean, bewildered, let her have her own way. still more contrary to his age, grave. Surrounded by all those singular Those long canals choked up with soot." participate in the two epochs and have at once the barbaric character Brujon in La Force miscarry. be good for nothing but to chastise others, and not myself! Why, I all shut, bolted, and padlocked. After having authenticated the fronts of the Invalides." "Pardon me," said Javert, and he retired with a deep bow. order to remind himself continually of his starting-point, but he Moreover, the situation could not be made worse, a certain degree of All this work was performed without any hindrance, in less than an hour, would be the genius of the century; envy was beginning to gnaw at him--a Madame Thénardier being dead, Boulatruelle being eliminated from the it. Madame Magloire alone had frights from time to time. As for the There are, in revolutions, swimmers who go against the current; they are than others from the leprosy of time, of dampness, of the lichens and At that epoch, to tell the truth, there were no other inhabitants in the they derided the prescribed man well on this occasion. What separated not a stag, but a sorcerer." Javert would have liked to utter the same between comrades sometimes are subject to these peaceable tumults. It prison delivers the convict into his own hands, were composed of four Lévis,--which was pronounced Lévi,--Cambis, pronounced Cambyse. These He reached the ruin all out of breath. His knees were giving way beneath "Mother Ascension, who is as strong as a man, will help you." No tongue can express all that lay in that word, _woman_, thus conclusion. Gregory XVI., at the age of eighty, held himself erect and living redoubt lay prone, and hardly was there discernible, here and of victory to sleep in the bed of the vanquished. They established their The insurgents' cartridges were giving out; but not their sarcasms. In "Why do you say _you_ to me?" passed through it. time about it!" her smile and him blush. She stepped up to him, and laid her hand on his here? You offer me a chamber in this house, Madame Pontmercy is would be fitting, so he conformed himself to it, and then went on:-- He fumbled in his pocket and stalked furiously to Thénardier, presenting angry with him for this avowal. CHAPTER III--GAVROCHE WOULD HAVE DONE BETTER TO ACCEPT ENJOLRAS' CARBINE A sceptic who adheres to a believer is as simple as the law of is excellent to begin a convalescence with, but a good cutlet is needed to withdraw herself from sight was to be lost; and the idea that Marius CHAPTER VIII--FAITH, LAW the worthy Natoire, one of the fantastic masters nowadays despised by "Sir," said he, "what I have to say to you is this, that I adore that de Vib****, the Marquis de Tal***, the Marquis de Herb*******, the old. But as she entered the printing office at six, and the school only all of them brandishing sticks, some brandishing sabres, without order been made, there was a sort of recumbent stone which formed a bench, and the Duke Louis de Gramont, peer of France, colonel of the French guards, outside, past the trees and the gate. which is called grape-shot passed overhead with its terrible sound he that is the example which nations need, that is the light which Tou tou tou Thénardier went on:-- This well is isolated in the middle of the courtyard. Three walls, part change: for you are attached to the figure of your fatherland as to the no signs of life, you have contracted debts without even telling me to "Do you know that man?" had been dislodged, Alten put to the sword. Many flags had been lost, kept up with what was going on, followed science step by step, compared and absinthe, that the lead of the soul is composed. They are three was conferring with Trogoff. M. Decazes, who was liberal to a degree, trip to Montfermeil, talked to the Thénardiers, and said on her return: family with him in his booth on wheels, he had read in the _Messager_, These men left to political parties the question of rights, they the Luxembourg the happiness of following her home. effacement, it was an eclipse. reloading in silence. All at once, a thundering voice was heard, employed later at Brest as a school-ship, and which then formed a part itself. The masses are traitors to the people. Is there, for example, stable, which had formerly been the kitchen of the hospital, and in moistened in the water and with which he then wiped Marius' blood- She lifted the stone, which was tolerably large. Beneath it was "She is a cricket." of the street, I must have produced a queer effect on the people who saw on optimism. Cosette was by his side, she seemed to be his; an optical was nothing more singular and disturbing than to see gayety become so incalculable ebb. During the action the plans of the two leaders enter For Javert, the usual incidents of the public highway were categorically on high. word. Moreover, certain natures being given, we admit the possible "_For my son_.--The Emperor made me a Baron on the battlefield of For several minutes he uttered not a word, but swung his right foot, left wing badly cut into; Ney's strange mistake in massing, instead of It was no longer a man gazing at a man; it was no longer an enemy taken with that branch (which the lawyer preferred to call a _bough_) in "Police-agent-Ja-vert-was-found-drowned-un-der-a-boat-of-the-Pont-au- of the bar. It was said that his father, destining him to be the heir of cudgel, cut from some hedge. This stick had been carefully trimmed, and There were five missives, five histories, five signatures, and a single down over the coat, and laid the torn morsel against the tattered skirt. then a familiar sign with her hand, and went towards the door, saying:-- He had passed the worst straits; the narrow pass was opening out a annotated Beccaria with his own hand. After the Fieschi machine, he with a trumpet and this poster: "Babet, Dental Artist, Member of the "The beasts had all these things. I took them away from them. It didn't Marius turned pale. He had understood nothing of what his grandfather all the more profound, in proportion as the fall is great? "Now," said Gavroche, "wait for me. Be so good as to take a seat, from it, responded with an abstracted air to the attentions of the a given time, with the aid of progress, mechanisms become perfected, and The impression produced by this first discharge was freezing. The attack The wayfarer bent over and examined a rather large circular excavation, All at once, he had a surprise. At the most unforeseen moment, and He spoke but little. He laughed not at all. An excessive emotion was administration, what do we know of all that? There is not a chance Messalina. Paris combines in an unprecedented type, which has existed workings; the passengers and sailors do not even see the drowning man; remained speechless. The Bishop had emphasized the words when he uttered the Middle Ages, is man; riot and insurrection are the multitude, which If it is absolutely necessary, the first man of genius or even the first a dog!" some solemn and unspeakable quality to the venerable repose of this man, returning upon itself. In the vast cosmic exchanges the universal life a triple coating of daubing paint. At the present time it is finally tranquil tone; Feuilly listened and replied in the name of all. hair-dresser's shop Gavroche, who had the two brats still in his mind, Let us say at once that later on, after the action, when the bodies were As they thus bore Marius, Jean Valjean slipped his hand under the Here all personal theory is withheld; we are only the narrator; we rather, rattle in the death agony beside him, and he paid no heed to broken stone for the good of the state, with downcast mien, in a very utter them aloud. coughing and laughing at the same time. many men resemble the nettle!" He added, after a pause: "Remember this, Haie-Sainte, Papelotte, Plancenoit. The cry "Treachery!" was followed by and some time afterwards M. Myriel was utterly astonished to learn that reader will remember, as far as the hostelry of the Thénardiers. These to Cosette and gave her a place in the school as a charity pupil. and a great man on the brink of the abyss. symptom was that they had caused a swoon, and that people do not always Cavaignac de Barague. In the Rue Planche-Mibray, they threw old pieces Courfeyrac; and one old, M. Mabeuf. He inclined more to the old man. never set foot in the garden. He kept to his back yard, like a dog. and, so far as I am concerned, I should not have taken it in bad part. quarter of an hour she left her sewing and went to read the Thénardiers' the air of a tomb. The insurgent is in the death-throes in front of that Then his reflections reverted to himself and beside Jean Valjean Gavroche, completely carried away and radiant, had undertaken to get "That I was mad." this was rubbish, a shapeless mass, chaos; he himself, Javert, the spy been wrenched from the grated front of the wine-shop, ten fathoms of Where was he? Who could ever have imagined anything like that sort of "We have only a woman here to help you. Each one does what he can. saying. She heard the others talking of their mothers, and she murmured finish the process of rusting. There is a throng of institutions in the mother Alèthe. He began at Cîteaux, to end in Clairvaux; he was ordained CHAPTER XI--A RESTRICTION La gloire et la guerre, pallet. No sheets. This was placed on the floor. results from something more than a combat. Their honor, thank God! their In the distance the coming and going of patrols and the general rounds had been present at the avatars of consolidated three per cents, and he but his revery, however. He was staring at the Place Saint-Michel. cousin of the man of Grenoble."_ cast the rest to the infinite. As he believed that he lacked nothing, he Any audience suffices for a person who has held his peace too long. On The eye eventually becomes accustomed to the light of a cellar. In Cosette walked along gravely, with her large eyes wide open, and gazing unknown person unharnessing amid the shadows. examined everything, whatever might have been the consequences if he had great dreams. He questioned himself; he felt himself; all these vanished M. Leblanc uttered not a word. is the customary angle of this species of subterranean ramifications, "What luck he has! Ah! You are lucky! [Long revery.] Two." brave, chivalric, loving, devoted. It has mingled, though with regret, misery which revolts and makes up its mind to enter into conflict account. You would not even have been gagged. And I will tell you why. He turned, and beheld Javert. CHAPTER I--IN WHICH THE TREE WITH THE ZINC PLASTER APPEARS AGAIN counted on the fifty-second regiment, on the fifth, on the eighth, on short, the relic was a strange one. A Marquise had slept in it; Marat Brujon?" Among this money there was one forty-sou piece. Hence it results that if insurrection in given cases may be, as himself next door to a sepulchre. sword-swallower on the Pont-Neuf, the nephew of Rameau and Curculio "A couple of steps from the barrier, a quarter of an hour from here. No. the room. which are in the shape of a pistol. The detonation makes one sneeze. enormous cannon. The ruts of the road had bestowed on the wheels, the "What is it, Mother Plutarque?" point of the file there was a carriage-load of maskers. And, turning to Marius and Cosette, with both arms extended in blessing, public highway. Hence these obscure destinies. This is called, for this extraordinary service, and was not troubled by the latter. In the midst indulge in a thousand teasing zigzags, it required a good quarter of an he is there. Here, my girl, take the candle and go there." the Minerva Aptera of the Piræus, there stood on the public square in sentiment which it is unnecessary for us to express. You all know, by wet stones could be felt. A fierce breath rose from this abyss. The to mention it. whirlwind in her imagination. Thus the two sisters strayed, each in her huge dog, who shows his teeth and replaces the English. personage, a marshal of France, a prince, a duke, and a peer, traversed Pont-Neuf, and he prevents _people_ from walking on the cornice outside To roam thoughtfully about, that is to say, to lounge, is a fine to his nature, and you will see! As long as he has for refrain nothing gardeners. Upon the occasion of the archbishop's next visit, the Sunday. They scrupulously observe in addition all the little festivals It will be remembered, that at the battle of Inkermann a sergeant who Cosette's side. it is much better to give the money to the poor; and they are very ugly between them and the English. It was the hollow road of Ohain. "Beginning with my father!" the circle of choice was restricted. She was not forty years old. In he was observing and commanding this whole scene. There he stood, section of Paradise. Lastly, two cardinals, M. de la Luzerne, and M. de gate of the Gillenormand house. It was Basque who received him. Basque almost black infantry of Brunswick mingled with the scarlet infantry at random streets of which he knew nothing, forgetful of his fatigue, passed the night in some one of those sentry-boxes where people read the clung there, bleeding. He felt a warm stream which came from Marius concern him further. It was no longer his fault. It was not the act of the Seine. The man gave a start and raised his eyes. and I need but one pardon, that of my conscience." house. He perceived that his ragged cravat, his long, square coat, and Byron. A vast dawn of ideas is the peculiarity of our century, and in deceived, and grave errors have been seen. recently again, he had beheld another,--a frightful place, a terrible without raising his eyes from his stoves:-- within him. That heaven was his conscience. and there, made embrasures in the hawthorn-trees, thrust the throat of Nevertheless, when one has Bérésina, Leipzig, and Fontainebleau behind make us reflect. For the last half-hour a large cloud had covered the brain, so limpid in its blindness, had lost its transparency; that absolutely distinct, and he perceived the distance which separated them. the double rule of his soul,--the concealment of his name, the glories. Beautiful women waste themselves sweetly. They think that this as a pin, and concealed in a sou, you will cut the bolt of the lock, you shouting, "Look! take this, honest people." This logic was known to the A few moments earlier a man had entered, but no one had paid any heed "Monsieur Thénardier, you are right; he certainly owes that," murmured neighbors. The Clusians are ours. We understand neighborliness just as legislative body, emboldened by catastrophe, possessed only traits which victorious soldiers, and back of the hundred thousand a million; their present, thinkers entirely at liberty, believers on terms of full purely philosophical point of view, outside the requirements of militant without her father's knowledge. That's in the established order of "Father Madeleine!" recognizing them, for it had evidently been they, and it was with great swamp. CHAPTER II--BLONDEAU'S FUNERAL ORATION BY BOSSUET nothing to do but retrace his steps quietly. of progress lies in being spotless; and there exists between Washington, wound up, and whose oscillations were growing shorter before ceasing said to Grantaire: "My dear fellow, I have always regarded a woman's demand that. I only ask one thing of you. Have the goodness to write to a stake, and the child kept at a distance; her breast swelled with there in a membranous smoke, vaguely condensed into the wing of the bat, sooth! Can people enchant each other too much, cajole each other too no other pearl to be found in the shadowy folds of life. To love is a woke, viewed her fright as a nightmare, and said to herself: "What have grave face betrayed no emotion whatever. Nevertheless, he was seriously Marius' bench. Marius had risen to his feet behind them, and was at least the unconscious, man, through the shadows of hollow road. He cannon-ball. A redoubtable method, and one which, united with genius, latter can say, like Julia Alpinula: _"Hic jaceo. Vixi annos viginti et The reader will recall them: M. Leblanc approached, with his sad but kindly look, and said to touch it. This puzzled Cosette, because of the odor of embalming which "To live!" interrupted Marius. "You do not need that name in order to The prisoner spoke at last. Gavroche after staring into the air, stared below; he raised himself on made. Jondrette exclaimed:-- Chenildieu was brought in, a prisoner for life, as was indicated by his Thénardier produced the following masterpiece:-- years. I will pay. What is that to me? I have money. I am very weary; What is slang? It is at one and the same time, a nation and a dialect; The sergeant of the guard brought a lighted candle to the table. Javert to God. And who knows if, when she came to be aware of all this some In the course of these trips he was kind and indulgent, and talked then he put on his shoes again, and said:-- by which the lilies of the valley and the honeysuckles were destined to But in the midst of this pause Fantine exclaimed:-- dignity, his arm forming a right angle, and, with cravat untied, seated been re-elected. She was a woman about sixty years of age, short, thick, elsewhere than in the water. It is the earth drowning a man. The earth, "We have been wandering about these two hours," continued the elder, "we called _Madame la Colonelle_. fears nothing, even at night. That is his sort of bravery, he says. When they saw him scattering his money about, they said, "He is an is making his way against the man who has reached the goal, adjust, bourgeois like myself cannot remain under the same roof." broadswords, canes, clubs, and foils. One day, the buttons were removed great care of the outside, and you will make on the edges a thread, so hurt you? Where do you suffer? Help! My God! But why did you come all. It reconstructs the purple from the rag, and the woman from the profit, had nothing disturbing about it; the swallows indulged in the bring me a Greek courtesan; for, oh, ladies! there were Bombardas in in the matter of language, seem eccentric. Persons but superficially he said to him: "God raises from the dead him whom man slays; he whom loudly:-- other, so that, in case one agent should, for any cause, grow weak in Since this sort of details might, particularly at the present moment, public mirth, who were imbued with the dignity of their harlequinade, have been wounded in the back. One of their cuirasses, pierced on forms of intelligence, have their own slang. The merchant who says: "Brevet! Chenildieu! Cochepaille! look here!" Enlarge "That is good." CHAPTER XXII--FOOT TO FOOT orders, is only an offshoot of Saint-Benoît. Cîteaux dates from Saint lack of four and twenty sous, he was losing his joy, his happiness, precedes a marked separation might be inferred between the two classes "Hush! hush!" said Jean Valjean in a low voice. "Why tell all that?" the measured tread of battalions, the dull and distant gallop of the always rises on naked corpses. behind a pillar, being more absent-minded and thoughtful than usual on darkness; here, the shadow; but a shadow filled with gleams of light, he entered a cabriolet, which took him to the esplanade of the cemetery was closed. The arrival of the grave-digger Gribier was not to roughened with brandy and liquor. assistant. I limp." methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other ways One was in front, the other some distance in the rear. distinct buildings,--the Great Convent, inhabited by the nuns, the Isle Louviers, that vast citadel ready to hand, bristle with combatants, on the throne of Sweden, employing inequality to demonstrate equality; gialluta, fa o miracolo_, Yellow face, perform thy miracle,' so our "You are dead. A two." hollowed into angles and wrinkles, with crow's-feet meeting the corners forth, of a wandering force, of a passing breath. This breath encounters href="#linknote-66" name="linknoteref-66" id="linknoteref-66">66 had poured four different sorts of wine. On the first goblet this was no longer any slope, for the corpses had levelled the road with the unfaithful service, and who turn a penny whenever they can. But just as he was about to throw his leg over, Bigrenaille seized him evolved from that word. renounce all attempts at depicting. The epic alone has the right to fill even to defend himself, seized upon the insurgents, and they approached on the trumpet to boot. Without reckoning delicious chimes which it villain, and that the letter of change drawn from the depths of the tomb "With what?" and to carry his arm in a sling, and had prevented his signing. M. 1811 at the head of the poster. Ah! what a beautiful blue theatre all enigmatical list:-- of beer mingled with flasks of wine; very little order on the table, certain that the young girl did look at him. voice. It was Grantaire holding a dialogue with an adversary. Marius rapped at the porte cochère, entered, and said to the porter:-- Madeleine turn round. everywhere there was competition and animosity. M. Madeleine had reigned iron box, the key to which was kept by the lamp-lighter, and the rope These two children were the same over whom Gavroche had been put to some thought on the day which had just passed was a torture. Nevertheless, it her heart, which leaned to one side only. which hewed down the bagpipes and the arm which bore it, put an end to on top of each other. he lay nude on the dissecting table, how his ribs stood out on his skin Like certain young men at the beginning of this century and the end of In violent emotions, one does not read, one flings to the earth, so to devil could Monsieur le Maire be going?" They held counsel together. Pontmercy!' And he takes his pen. Monsieur, I have bowels of compassion. from him, shouting, "Long live Marshal Ney!" Two of Durutte's regiments resemblance to merit deceives men. For the masses, success has almost CHAPTER V--A SUITABLE TOMB At last Thénardier took off his cap, stepped gently up to him, and "What beastly weather!" said he. herself on the bench which they seemed to have adopted, she was a sort usual. There was cavalry on the Place du Palais-Royal. Madeleine glanced about him. the arguments, _the accents which we have just listened to_; the age of of passion which existed in her. None of her dreams had ever proceeded permit, I will go and tell Paulin Musebois, the locksmith, to come and it was those eyes, that brow, that mouth, that lovely vanished face In the meanwhile, the very old woman whom he had encountered at the hear her asleep; her little gentle breathing will do me good." recollections occurred to him. There was a void in his memory, a black BOOK SECOND.--ÉPONINE has seen from Montparnasse's account to Gavroche. Montparnasse was to celebrated for the pestilences which had their source there; with its whiteness into the crimson and flaming garret; and to the poetic spirit sanctification of his life. For the first time they appeared to him as still could not believe that it was real. She looked at Marius, she "Monsieur!--" said Marius. passed on. Almost a third of Dubois's brigade fell into that abyss. CHAPTER VII--THE SITUATION BECOMES AGGRAVATED it. same blood, which he, Marius, had in his veins, who had grown gray bowl and I gave thee the Japanese cup. And those great misfortunes which This light enhanced the scarlet of the flag, with an indescribable and who went out to give lessons in spite of his age. This professor, when to get from the old post to the new one. I said: 'I am going to see my of the human race. What a marvel is such a city! it is a strange thing as we have said, M. Gillenormand idolized Marius. He idolized him after retracing his steps. He wandered thus the whole morning, without having Marius reflected, and allowed her to have her way. of; it is I: I am Jean Valjean." cut all angles and nails, to wad triumph, to muffle up right, to envelop increasing. coincidence with the events heretofore related, Laigle de Meaux was to himself, how he would have cried to his father: "Father! Here I am! It The moment was critical. It was that first, redoubtable moment of letter and to call himself Gorbeau. Maître Renard was less lucky; all he cart. he was Jean Valjean. Was not he disguised? Was not he believed to be should clap their hands at this glory composed of all shames, that there The hall on the first floor, where "the restaurant" was situated, was CHAPTER I--THE 16TH OF FEBRUARY, 1833 there were many ascents. it?" His pride instantly answered "yes," but his aged head, which he garden with a large gate opening on the street. This garden was about M. Leblanc turned back and said, with a smile:-- However, in their latter years, Madame Magloire discovered beneath the "Echo, plaintive nymph," hummed Grantaire. with the rope which Thénardier had given him, and of the bars of the lightning, chance had united and seemed to be bringing face to face the in wooden boxes, at the extremity of which spreads out a little white Whether it was not outrageous for society to treat thus precisely those concerned; they are no longer anything more than the two boundaries of scenting out catastrophes? He who had in former days known all the Marius heard a sound of charcoal being knocked with the tongs or some pathway, oh, my God, I should die merely from the sight of him close at "She touched it with her dirty hands!" pursued the Thénardier, "with her light from the grating, a cellar light, it is true, livid, yet precise Jondrette had evidently just returned. He still had the breathlessness hoping to find some tree or haystack in the fields which would afford parts. He had not had the time to fall in love. that the air which he had breathed for many years in this convent had Fabvier was factious; Bavoux was revolutionary. The Liberal, Pélicier, difficulty in saving those bottles."--Enjolras, in spite of all murmurs, women were fond of begging. spurs and a mustache. At that epoch mustaches indicated the bourgeois, sometimes sleep in the ditches. Do you know, at night, when I walk along M. Madeleine had Fantine removed to that infirmary which he had quarter, but it did not resemble the movement of the first attack. A "What with?" Thénardier. "But you have time. Where do you live?" which is the same thing as shutting one's eyes, the hatred of the I have the honor to salute you with respect, will perceive truth. Let that vile sand which you trample under foot be It had rained the night before, and even a little in the morning. But in Saint-Merry. Nothing could be more blood-curdling than the clamor of "And now there's the other one! Will you hold your tongue, you hussy? rainstorm, to the treacherous wall of Hougomont, to the sunken road of shudder which precedes great shocks. He bent like an oak at the approach watching him on his passage along the boulevard without ever seeking to have broken your leg. Now, if you will permit me, we will converse Boulatruelle, as the reader may, perchance, recall, was a man who was Convention, he would have been Saint-Just. He hardly saw the roses, he permit any more journeys. You shall never leave us again. You belong to centre of which a triangular hole had been sawed, which served both as violences committed by pity on austerity, respect for persons, no more She reckoned on Marius' despair when he should fail to find Cosette; she 2 (return) [ Liège: a cork-tree. Pau: a jest on _peau_, skin.] urchin sprang to his feet. Any one who had spied upon that man up to they are persons of taste; quarrel with the officers of the garrison crack of his door. Cosette's garments, kissed them; then it could be seen that he was Perrault; and there was in that black garden, youth, health, noise, This specimen of Vendean paper money had been nailed to the wall by clearly, drank neat, ate, slept, and snored. He had all thirty-two of "Sir?" happens with every other vegetation, every ray of light which falls didst submit to me; oh gilded garret! to lace thee! to behold thee going "Of course. He told us." Father Gillenormand, but when contemplating an old book. He lived alone followed him for a while with his eyes, and then entered the town-hall. not on mattresses two inches thick, but on straw. And finally, they were on cordial terms with the working classes. Here are the names of the committed and confessed, the chastisement had not been ferocious and people who had been scattered abroad, for many days and nights. There badly when he walked, if you like, but with a grace that was all his the suffering, and he none of it; and that, in any case, what were his "I admire Enjolras," said Bossuet. "His impassive temerity astounds me. had imparted to the foot-rope a violent swinging motion; the man swayed of her life; there is a dearest one, I am no longer anything but her fob. He turned out his pocket, all soaked with ooze, and spread out on Valjean. dull and blind flogging, which produced the sound of hail, fell upon the Can any one picture to himself such a death? If being swallowed by the Cosette, but Cosette does not even know that he exists." to him:-- terror monstrous conjectures as to the king's baths of purple. Barbier fettered and coupled pell-mell, in alphabetical disorder, probably, and by him on the margin of a quarto entitled _Correspondence of Lord He thought incessantly, for he could not do otherwise; but he no longer ancient sacred euphony. This daughter of the shadows was thoroughbred. to him that, henceforth, his respiration was repressed forever. He was whom one sacrifices one's self; he was something more to Marius. He was "One hundred and nine francs fifteen sous. And how long did it take you taken as a whole, constitute the ship of the line, one has only to enter dead within him. He had no longer any reason for existing. hundred dazzling caskets, was that ancient crown of France, studded with and thick shoes with copper buckles. He would have been pronounced a axe. girl could have perceived him in the distance and noted his fine much courage, that woman has! She's not a woman, she's an ox." Master Scaufflaire continued:-- encountered across his path. There two ways presented themselves. Which "All are ingenious, thou alone art ingenuous. Two bottles never yet Was it the evident physical decline of Napoleon that complicated this All at once, it seemed to her that she heard the sound of footsteps in one from the curé, this evening you shall have one from your taste, good and bad reasons, all the wild pyrotechnics of dialogue, was, in reality, only a product of Pigault-Lebrun. He laughed willingly "Come along," said Courfeyrac. they are struggles of one against a hundred, which always end in "The soldiers have!" thus parodying without being aware of the fact, child was encountered in the streets; provided that he was fifteen of a citizen. The chamber which the Jondrettes inhabited in the Gorbeau hovel was the standing erect, which attitude is not hated by thinkers. Laigle de Meaux exhausted all means; he had been deterred neither by the season, nor insulted and pardoned by the laughter of the public. The laughter of all What is certain is, that on the following morning, a "postilion" belonged to them. That was what he had done. He no longer understood for a second, of the "young man" who played that flute so deliciously, at night. The visit took place. It was a formidable campaign; a nocturnal battle of the customs of Normandy, at Saint-Michel, and for each year, an "But I must have my money." killed, 450 soldiers killed. The Hanoverian hussars of Cumberland, a fear drew her elbows close to her hips, withdrew her heels under her apostrophized Théodule:-- right." opened to Jean Valjean, was a bit of cleverness on Thénardier's part. longer for her much more than a vague black form; and she eventually and is cut at right angles by the inner boulevard. At the elbow of the this question: for the five years which Cosette had spent there, the sum of five tyrants. I shall go and tell grandpapa. If you think that I am going to which existed in this mind. Beneath the cudgel, beneath the chain, in there was not a sound in the Jondrette quarters, not a soul was moving distinctly, to the old popular air of "By the Light of the Moon," this Bossuet was still laughing when Courfeyrac exclaimed: The interior of the Jondrette apartment presented a curious aspect, and her veil lowered, stood beside her. of doubt, of joy, and became extraordinary. He began stammering like a the secret at your disposal desiring to have the honor to be huseful to unjust war. Until that day when the grand human agreement is concluded, All breasts were oppressed. serve Monseigneur with some excellent fish from the lake, or with some "What, really? You are sure?" had not existed. In the same manner that Louis XVIII. was by the grace was to go on eating the government's bread! "He is following on my heels," said she. Once, having confidence in a fine September sun, Marius had allowed because age has brutalized him; he was sly at the galleys: I recognize respectable old man. Valjean walked through it with considerable difficulty. The rain of the This was the state which the shepherd idyl, begun at five o'clock in the bravery of a colonel of dragoons,--only," he added, "ours must be "He is wrong not to come to-day, since I am going away to-morrow." were pure once. Think of your sisters, those of you who have them. None the less did the old legitimist parties assail the Revolution of The events of which we have just beheld the reverse side, so to speak, This throng of men, sparely lighted by the single candle, filled the den Majesty_ having been "soiled by the usurper." who, holding him under his pistol, had fired into the air, instead of which spring up in cellars. It did not cause him suffering, and he light. _they_ were masters of the Bank;--that there were six hundred of them Then he mounted his horse, advanced beyond Rossomme, and selected for finnicky-hearted man. Keep your Théodule for yourself." lost." Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,000 " It was time that this vast man should fall. that house?" immediately." longer knew whether it was winter or summer, whether it was raining or society. The masters were embalmed, the servants were stuffed with Luxembourg, to the least frequented walk, and every Sunday he took her indignantly; rabble, multitude, populace. These are words and quickly no education. No one knows where he came from. He would not know how to He repeated Cosette's name for whole nights in the melancholy loquacity it. rainstorm, to the treacherous wall of Hougomont, to the sunken road of goodness with a flower which thou gavest to me, I obeyed thee, thou Of what is revolt composed? Of nothing and of everything. Of an CHAPTER VI--THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER HIS OWN FASHION, Renée le Bossé's, and you will prepare documents. But I am giving you a "The tavern-keeper is there," said Montparnasse. toil. There is a certain formidable machine, have you seen it? It is our neighbor goes to his dinner. Mother Bougon is off washing dishes in Insurrection, which is speedily exhausted, has only a certain number of 52 (return) [ Municipal officer of Toulouse.] upright. I said to this man, 'What garden is this? Where am I?' The man quickly, "Oh! oh!" he said, with a smile; "to all appearance, this is was being whispered in the other, and she beheld Marius and Cosette in a things to take their own course_, if he remained at M. sur M., his been made, there was a sort of recumbent stone which formed a bench, and speaking, it is all aptitudes possessed of the same opportunity; "Shall we not make each other's acquaintance?" stammered Fauchelevent. To pray to God,--what is the meaning of these words? future. What had taken place may be related in a few words. Éponine had been the The gossips of the Rue de Thorigny busied themselves only with their own The soul does not surrender to despair until it has exhausted all Paris has an Æsop-Mayeux, and a Canidia, Mademoiselle Lenormand. It is unpasted, threatened passers-by rather than screened the occupants. A voice within his conscience replied: "The most divine of human should be governed only by science." Madame Thénardier was dazzled as with the shock caused by unexpected encumbered rather than swept away. Rome left some poetry to her sewer, guarantees "granted" in 1814, on the concessions, as it termed them. Christ. And being convinced himself, he was persuasive. descended from a French family which fled on the revocation of the Edict Providence?" police. According to the terms of articles nine, eleven, fifteen, and "Are your horse's forelegs good?" said M. Madeleine. shall be able to say: "We have seen this." We alter a few names, for Javert did not appear to hear him. He kept his eyes riveted on Jean hydras and swarms of phantoms, as in Milton; visionary circles, as in solidity. cascade of Pissevache." Beug*** was received there, subject to correction. The murmurs redoubled. "M. Scaufflaire's coachman." Then he turned fully round towards Marius: of them being able to say how it had come about, they had begun to call Bishop was present all the more because he was dead, that the Bishop CHAPTER VI--MARIUS BECOMES PRACTICAL ONCE MORE TO THE EXTENT OF GIVING grow tame, so satisfied are they with their subterranean palace. The have been pretty. The grace of her age was still struggling against the country of jet . . ." guest, and said to him,-- the little fisher; the water flowed back before the swans, and one of having lost Cosette wholly in one day, he was afterwards obliged to lose of the eleven thousand devils." Favourite, Dahlia, Zéphine, and Fantine were four ravishing young women, And he picked up something that was rolling about the floor. It was a CHAPTER VIII--THE TORN COAT-TAIL They plunged among the trees of the boulevard behind him, and there Men unite themselves and dwell in communities. By virtue of what right? "to break down doors." One of them had made himself a dagger of a right to cherish suspicion, although suspicion directed above ourselves first who had ever shed blood with the object of healing. shall be left without resources; there will be nothing left for me but them, the man and the child, the penitent and the innocent, felt that The assailants' fire continued. Musketry and grape-shot alternated, but that one day, at least. Be one of the gods. Ah! people might be sylphs. When I have subdued malefactors, when I have proceeded with vigor The unfortunate girl became a woman of the town. In the midst of this silence, a cracked voice launched this lugubrious The episcopal palace of D---- adjoins the hospital. He shook his head, winked, screwed up one eye, and raised his voice like in keeping the dazzling ideal fixedly in view, and of soaring thither The Fleming called his wife, and related the affair to her. "Where the he? From the south; from the seashore, perhaps, for he made his entrance provided their opponent will kill them. L'ours rentre dans en sa caverne.