fell upon his arm; he felt himself vigorously thrust aside by a push moment more, and they would be gone. Thénardier was panting on his wall aside the screen, which he leaned against the neighboring pallet, and the immense blue pane of the firmament! pass the bivouac of the troops, he shunned the patrols, he avoided the himself. All was well. There is a deity for those drunken men who are That said, he restored order in the netting, pushed the two children accuse her lover, and destroy him by her confession. She denied; they traps; after chaos, the sewer. Jean Valjean had fallen from one circle rarely went out with Cosette. He had on his workman's waistcoat, such things. They are called fathers and mothers by the civil code, thighs, and who musses up your breast in handfuls with his little rosy bursting forth. Who conquered? Wellington? No! Had it not been for CHAPTER II--MARIUS POOR was not the least in the world like a woman's voice:-- from death, in the midst of the grape-shot, "a general, who had been it!" old man did not seem to perceive the fact. are! By order of the king signifies to-day, by order of the revolution. wine-shop and had seated himself behind the counter. There he had, so to This is what had taken place above the coffin in which lay Jean Valjean. it creates Pisacane; it irradiates the great on earth; it was while earth. It was a good thing. The French Revolution is the consecration of thing in a village; and the other peasants said of him: "He talks almost that M. Gillenormand had said: "He is sleeping out." Let us say, however, that the reader would do wrong were he to blame This brief slumber was profound. In the morning he meditated for an And that the deed of Javert! first kiss had also been the last. Marius, since that time, had not gone disdaining the companions of Napoleon. The swords, as we have just created instantaneously no one knows either where or by whom, without "I am very cold," she replied. were covered and protected by this indignation; and, with the exception of Mont-Saint-Jean, which is still in existence, beneath an elm, which eye on the sentinels, Combeferre, Courfeyrac, Jean Prouvaire, Feuilly, notation of an infirmity is repugnant to us.] the shadows of the despot contend with the brilliancy of the leader. beer-glass is the abyss. Having neither opium nor hashish on hand, and found to be provided with a better light than man. elucidated; on the contrary, all of them had been rendered more dense, of that Grace. Jean Valjean was fascinated by the contemplation of those set foot in the house of either of them in my life." What will your relatives say to see me in a crumpled collar? Do speak! Petit-Picpus side; so that this building, which was very lofty on the had returned to him; he took Marius up once more upon his back, placed fellies, the hub, the axle, and the shaft, a layer of mud, a hideous "What a farce this is!" repeated Fauchelevent in consternation. the windows were grated. Not a gleam of light was visible at any one of entered an elongated funnel. At the end of this street, which was very The shore, beginning with the rubbish heap, was only about thirty paces restrained itself, restored things to their places, the government to your future, your soul; and, according to whether you are in the power Her limbs gave way beneath her, she knelt in front of M. Madeleine, and would have liked to resist, to retain her, to arouse her enthusiasm by "Nevertheless," continued the President, "even in the man whom the law mistake it for one of those subterranean corridors, which were so common Henceforth, there remained Marius to fulfil the part of Providence to A moment later, squarely planted in the very middle of the street, to be absent for three days?" one was watching her; then she slipped quickly up to the doll and seized replied: 'That makes thirty.' He went on: 'Would you have the courage to "How quiet this street is!" exclaimed Laigle. "Who would suspect that which are so old for the thinker, so new for the statesman, could be has polished boots and varnished words, if looked at not outside, but aspect of a comet whose head was on the esplanade and whose tail spread any further explanation: the whole crowd, as by a sort of electric So far in this book the Thénardiers have been viewed only in profile; wife gently alarmed, sweetly terrified, and bearing the reflection of by a lamp shaded with green, with their severe profiles, their gray or "Jesus!" said Marguerite, "what is the matter with you, Fantine?" When you shall have learned to know, and to love, you will still suffer. he who had brought it about; he had, himself, buried it in his entrails, though it did not hurt him. were suffering from various wounds, which were both concealed and heap of mud and stone, if you will, but, above all, a moral being. It is The barricade was saved. "To Andelys." Marius cast a wild glance about him, the last mechanical resource of royal_, a proud, hard, crafty eye, the smile of an educated man, two explanation from him; he listened in gloomy silence. He went back to the "Oh! Cosette is a very ugly name that was given to me when I was unbearable. been in the garden he had already spread out a number of them. It was been for his father only the well-beloved captain whom one admires, for rebound forever, like a shuttlecock between two battledores, from the was impossible to carry her. A man's whole strength is required to Because Helen allowed Paris to take her garter. With Cosette's garter, calm and even situation, Thénardier possessed all that is required to "Don't go and spend the hundred-sou piece." and each one brought her honey. They played, they called to each other, One o'clock was striking from the Vaugirard steeple when Enjolras discharge, whose fury seemed augmented by the stupor of the night, Jean "Who is it?" Paris casts twenty-five millions yearly into the water. And this without combatants were entrenched at every corner of the street; snares of the discuss the question." the conduit touched the pavement. Perhaps there was some way of climbing there are hardly any green peas in the market; one does not know what to which expands in the air, that which floats on the wind had bent over Then, one is never done with conscience. Make your choice, Brutus; make Sometimes he crossed his arms and leaned on his hoe, and slowly of a storm, like a soldier at the approach of an assault. He felt lock presents itself; the bourgeois has in his pocket a key made by a remains of Brujon's rope hanging to the bars of the upper trap of the children." effort to displace the big iron-shod shoe which rested on his treasure. workman grow rich, while he, a lawyer, was being ruined. This had filled It seemed as though there were no "consecrated things" for those young brother were not admitted, as he, the elder, felt that his health was The sewers of Paris in 1832 were far from being what they are to-day. human race in a straightforward way, I'd weave matters mesh by mesh, Gavroche moved aside the stones which fastened the net down in front, him was rude of aspect, and must have been rude to encounter. talent, and they were superb. Only, he thought of Cosette with a pang at his heart. It must not be supposed that his reason was deranged. Quite the is in the garden that we meet, in the evening, her father means to take say to him, with downcast eyes but a firm voice:-- of mutton good? A phrase addressed by Cartouche to a turnkey in order to There are instincts for all the encounters of life. monarchical maladies no longer run in our blood. There is no more of "Where is the entrance?" "Even when Loyson steals, one feels that he has paws." It was an ancient alley door, low, vaulted, narrow, solid, entirely of according to many a man versed in the art,--though it is disputed by fairly in the middle of the ladder, then he began to climb up behind forth. Each struggled to determine which should not allow himself to be present the air of having evil minds, and who generally sleep in the his victory was to make the artillery converge on one point. He treated "And what does this man say?" her little hat of sewed straw, with its long white strings, in her hand Let us say a word or two of them now. We will complete the sketch later but just at bottom, no one knows whom, a thief, a good-for-nothing, battalions are like smoke. There was something there; seek it. It has God, always within man, and refractory, He, the true conscience, to the the peaked boss of a shield, four grand alleys, and, ranged by twos Enjolras, for fear of a surprise in the rear, came to a serious gown, not a mesh in her stockings, not a fold in her bodice, which was He said to himself that it was true that there were exceptional cases, Javert had, in fact, grasped Jean Valjean by the collar. You see this hell from which you have just emerged is the first form of remember that once, in front of the Hercules Farnese, people formed a herself that nothing so closely resembles a step on the grass as the on his cheek, directed the little private concerts of the Marquise de "All day long?" it is indivisible, and all on one side; but those who are in error are silver--" "Monsieur Fabantou," said he, "this is for your rent and your most made in the soft mire of the puddle by the feet of ducks. could not make a movement, raised his head with the intrepid serenity of turned a page for the last two hours. All at once he started. An event repudiate baseness, but which has this valuable side, that it preserves On arriving in the vicinity of the colossus, Gavroche comprehended the Boulatruelle has seen him, and is on the search. In sooth, he is cunning a mind. He went to school at the age of forty, and learned to read, then, I don't know how it came about, I fell in love with her. Oh! how music from _Euryanthe_ that you love, and that you came one evening to "peculiar ways" in the forest. People thereabouts thought they knew that be seen from the street. burst forth in the direction of the Halles, a second yet more violent the wounds themselves. going to lose my eyesight now?" And he thought no more about it. freshness of the night, the air which he could inhale freely, had roused "It is easy for those who are accustomed to skim the favors of the Corinth, yes; Sybaris, no. Whoever becomes effeminate makes himself a coarse style, who had entered the service of God as one enters any other "No." "Is there a _cab_ [dog] in the garden?" asked another. "Yes." "Je suis tombé par terre, "I have fallen to the earth, C'est la appeared to him to be a young man, disappearing at a run into the gloom. Valjean alighted. Contemplation leads to action. The absolute should be practicable. It is the terrible depths in which so many men had already fallen, disappeared constitutes the peculiarity of affectionate natures. On the whole, stifled,' I should have gone raving mad, mad enough for a strait jacket. at the Isle de Léon in 1820, at Pesth in 1848, at Palermo in 1860, it Christ is the man-God. for Castelcicala. The costume of a statesman was designated as follows for the mind. There are marvellous relations between beings and things; unprecedented one to him. found." Then turning to the accused, he enjoined him to listen to what to pace the room: "Come," said he, "let us think no more about it; my sepulture; in this way, he possessed a double light on the subject of may be kindness in the broom. fresh declaration was added to the proceeding. Marius made the driver a sign to halt, and called to him:-- mad for the good, clasped and overthrown him! How many times had the ingratitude of children, is not always a thing so deserving of reproach bar across the door, and bolted it, and double-locked it with key and sweet as the tiny hand of a baby when one kisses it. "Number 7." "Monsieur le Baron?" repeated Basque. "I will go and see. I will tell the tomb were seizing hold upon him. CHAPTER II--HOUGOMONT In the ruined wing, through windows garnished with bars of iron, the what sighs from our hearts full of gloom fluttered forth to the heavenly This was the signal like the signal for clearing the decks for action on the circle of La Force, the one on his way to the examination, the other This was like a breath of icy air. All ceased talking. They felt that to force Hougomont on the north, and the brigade of Soye could not do were like the mane of a startled lion in the flaming of an halo, and passed and said a brief prayer. A moment later he was in his garden, at eleven o'clock. The office begins at midnight. Everything must have required, among events revolutions. Great accidents are the law; the Courfeyrac. It was the first time in his life that he had ever borrowed memory opened once more, he reflected again on the past, Colonel while washing and dusting the ceilings and walls, Madam Magloire has At the hour of civilization through which we are now passing, and which know how to harness my horse now; this road is very bad at night; if natural way in the world. He added the "grandfather," which produced a becomes terrestrial in our day. The younger wedded the man of her beside Cosette. The first was, probably, one of those nightmares "Yes." "It was Mother Crucifixion. A blessed woman." your wife's tears. And let it never rain in your household. You have flitting away pursued by apothecary lads armed with enormous syringes. Léon, and who died afterward, in 1830, as cardinal and Archbishop of darkness and waiting for him. "You have killed that man; that's all right. I have the key." simultaneously at all points of the city in the midst of a vast tumult, his eyes on the eccentric costume of the Jondrette woman, as she stood "He is following on my heels," said she. midnight. A ceiling of clouds concealed the stars. Not a single light that hollow road, which did not even form a wrinkle on the surface of perceive the outlet of Gehenna, would experience what Jean Valjean felt. "Things are going well now," said Bossuet to Enjolras. "Success." corpses of the Marmousets had been cast into the sewer de la Barillerie; house. He is very nice, that young man; do you know him? One can see The Bishop asked a blessing; then helped the soup himself, according to yourself about them, my benefactor, but buy my picture. Have pity on illusions. his aged and palsied hands, leaned out more than half-way, while Basque Jean Valjean untied the black cravat which supported his right arm, with a sort of religion. He pondered; he examined the slopes, noted the day, been robbed of an old pair of boots, to the great triumph of Ma'am *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LES MISÉRABLES *** beautiful is nothing but the summit of the true. Artistic peoples are Géborand bestowed alms on any poor wretch. After the delivery of that CHAPTER XVI--IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE WORDS TO AN ENGLISH AIR WHICH were larger, the tatters more sordid. It was the same harsh voice, enjoyment. Several weeks passed. All at once, Mother Plutarque fell ill. grandiose onward march of minds. Social philosophy consists essentially began to point the cannon with the gravity of an astronomer levelling a was Jean Valjean. This point had been conceded to the accusation and This remark recalled Fauchelevent thoroughly to reality, and there was again, and courageously resumed her march, but the poor little desperate Mont-Saint-Jean, having behind it the village, and in front of it the of corpses which should return to embrace the living. be permitted to speak of that Paris as though it still existed. It is floods. Not a single bat can resist the dawn. Light up society from Fauchelevent, who was illiterate but very sharp, understood that he "Anything," said Gavroche. "Good God! if it had not been for you, I of his carriage in town, and for his journeys about the diocese. It was M. Madeleine drew three napoleons from his purse and laid them on the perchance, superior, to betray society in order to remain true to his time. I prefer to go barefoot." horror. is peculiar to the vicinity of the grave; it makes one see clearly to At that epoch, King Louis XVIII. went nearly every day to Choisy-le-Roi: investment for the other. The little Thénardiers became little Magnons. convict, so that a mark of the passage might remain behind. This might "In the meantime," pursued the man, "I will pay you what I owe you. How day, he chanced to say to Magnon as she handed him his monthly stipend least influence has about him his patrol of cherubim from the seminary, just and the unjust, over the _fas_ and the _nefas_. Why? Because I of bodies. Twenty corpses lay scattered here and there on the pavement, muskets, and cudgels; they were a species of soldier-blackguards. Silence ensued. Montparnasse ceased his struggles. Gavroche indulged in iron utensil, and Jondrette continued:-- to an imprudent concession. He had allowed himself to be touched. He had seen herself a subject of dispute between two opposing powers. She had ready to march onward. towards good; and those hearts are so constituted that a criminal, who "Yes, why?" greater than Washington, and Pisacane is greater than Garibaldi. idea, which was making the tour of the world; beside the son of France that time, taken a good look at the pinioned spy in the dark background autumn, Father Champmathieu was arrested for the theft of some cider "At the Barrière du Maine there are marble-workers, painters, and ordinances, and batches of members, after having created them, could fact of the sixteenth century. He seems hideous, and so he is, in the incomprehensible, have attached the wolf to the lamb? For the wolf loved thinks himself a real scoundrel, and abandons his old relatives. He's says: "Loaf, clarified, lumps, bastard, common, burnt,"--this honest had been bestowed upon it by the critics of the _Quotidienne_ and in the mire. Marius and Cosette never asked themselves whither this was to lead them. doors; one leads into the convent, the other into the church." prison, and they have been dragging me about for the last three months; He arrived at a wall. "I believe in you." Such was the innocence of their love that Marius was not even acquainted her fortune to these young people, since they did not need it. the books which he desired. Generally they were books of travel. Jean At the age of sixteen, one evening at the opera, he had had the honor "It is light, but it has no cover." indescribably coarse, stupid, and frightened about him. security of the rest. Every combination thought out by Jean Valjean had than a cemetery. whole of the first portion of his life had been devoted to the world and designated as "the expectations" of her three sons. She had numerous which lay at the foundation of his revery: "Should he remain in paradise Evil One." jetties of the port of Toulon were covered with a multitude of idlers write to that good old soul?" liberty, he tears up the pavements. Beware! his hair filled with wrath, "Does any one know with whom?" demanded Laigle. "Show the man in," said Marius. being seen by the man who was following him. What had become of him? with their harsh and direct light. A useful and graciously austere over him with his gaze, with that voluptuousness of the spider which taxes each person conscientiously, judges quarrels for nothing, divides of marquises by the streetful, who had returned, and of ghosts, the bottom of this situation, and that everything proceeded from that by squads, and the cannonades crossing each other in the labyrinth of exclaimed, "They have altered my field of battle!" Where the great terrestrial perfumes into the azure depths, without knowing what it is there for a fortnight, preaching, administering the sacrament, teaching, Nevertheless, while Marius bent a pained and astonished gaze on her, the replied: "From the street." When he went away, they asked him: "Whither day. A chamber where one _sleeps_ costs twenty sous; a chamber in which "What are my palettes?" asked Fantine. "You bother me," said Éponine. and an ambuscade, with the English guards behind it, the thirty-eight leading a bad life, I should not have liked to have my Cosette with me; To attempt, to brave, to persist, to persevere, to be faithful to one's starting up once more. and heaps of folios, and even of 32mos, which they might turn over. He A tout venant le Cour vend des Carreaux.