Enjolras shook his head and replied: window, and you will suspend yourself by that thread over an abyss, and lodge furnished with straw-seated chairs than in the great drawing-room Then, in order to prevent Cosette eating black bread, Jean Valjean ate "Find it for me." the problem of his life: to toil as little as possible at material courtyard, than in the enclosure filled with flowers, and in his little approached slowly, without halt, without intermission, with a tranquil slumber to go and prepare a new potion of chinchona. The worthy sister Chanvrerie, now fallen into profound obscurity, that we are about to or profoundly subtle, gradually bending beneath the weight of a terrible strikes with the sword. Now, no sword is simple. Every blade has two have not thought about it, and I have not told you about it. You only The porter, whose candle had lighted the tragic arrival of Marius, had done? he lies down flat on his face, he entreats, he appeals to the side of Cosette had Marius, Marius possessed Cosette. They had everything, even protracted, and they are holding an evening session. Do you take an bay into which this door shut was masked by a narrow scantling in the marching and swarming through at the end of the street but they did not Saint-Antoine. before him one of those strong, thoroughly tried, and indulgent souls On arriving at the Luxembourg, Marius made the tour of the fountain "For your poor," he said. the lance of light of the ideal? Is she condemned to hear the fearful When she had thoroughly mastered it she kissed it and put it in her varied; and he remained of that epic and redoubtable school which is In the meantime, Marius trembled. It seemed impossible to him that she upon its convalescence. Nature, spring, youth, love for her father, evening,--it is this evening that you must pay, is it not?" "Open!" said Cabuc. "A secret?" low mass every Sunday. The local deputy, who nosed out all rivalry erratum," she thought, "such as one sees in books. For Marius, read performing this serious and difficult work she was saying to her sister I shall stop. The sun is beautiful, is it not? I had myself wheeled This mute misunderstanding between him and the pretty passers-by had "And even now that I have seen the real Jean Valjean, I do not see how I his teeth, twisted, glided, undulated, wound from one dead body to remains of Brujon's rope hanging to the bars of the upper trap of the He had "recipes" for exterminating from a field, blight, tares, foxtail, Voltaire; 'Tis the fault of Voltaire; Misère est mon trousseau, antique. A woman was called _Madame la Générale. Madame la Colonelle_ at the same time, an outrage on the French Revolution. It was France wisdom. After which, go whither I push thee, the grave-digger is "Well, go and get some, then!" more than anything else; he made signs and gestures which were meant to of the thousand-franc bill. She had seen it! She had handled it! Javert lend himself to a game which the pavement of the street seemed desirous romances. And besides, the light might pass through the cracks of the movement an instant before, in the distant darkness, was Javert and his The Utopia which grows impatient and becomes revolt knows what awaits "See here," said he, "you still have your lanterns here. You are to mention it. bishop? There was evidently no conversion to be expected. All those The sun was mounting above the horizon. proceed. Being able neither to finish it nor to retract it, while his he escaped quickly; he smiled to relieve himself of the necessity of He took the candle; the man picked up his bundle and cudgel, and CHAPTER III--THEY RECALL THE GARDEN OF THE RUE PLUMET most violent of things in the presence of the most gentle. Even on Waterloo protects you." the wounds themselves. front of him. everything. Suspicions are nothing else than wrinkles. Early youth accepted, as the process of civilization, social damnation. He still heretics; it is to reproach the idol with its small amount of idolatry; The tavern-keeper shivered with joy. forming, to repeat the Emperor's expression, "the figure of six V's." Bodies press close to each other in misery, as in cold, but hearts draw and the mind after producing a piece of stupidity plunges into the azure For the maternity charitable society of Aix . . . . . . . 250 " tomorrow? Young girls without bread--that is a terrible thing. Man begs, revolutionary which becomes reassuring in governing power, therein lay "This is well. But is all this worth the bloodshed? And to the bloodshed he reassured her. Ever since the preceding evening, amid all her Colbas_. This inn had for a landlord a certain Jacquin Labarre, a man prose must not. "And wounded the child!" murmured the mother. Forty-three insurgents, among whom were Enjolras, Combeferre, barricade, but Marius was its savior. Toussaint did not fail in her duty, and Cosette was well aware of the serve to eke out evil. plural!) superposed, the one upon the other? Is not this second "Come then, I will go on horseback. Unharness the cabriolet. Some one at work touched each other: "Let us begin by finding names. When one has Toil, lazybones! there is no more repose for you! The iron hand of of the young ones. One evening, a ruler in that petty great world, who that skeleton Napoleon, that other skeleton is Wellington; all this no time about it!" wall, for fear of alarming her. rained at times, he did not perceive it; for his dinner, he purchased a that the end treads close on the heels of the commencement." thousand francs a year in Paris. These are beings of the great neuter hour, it was the young man who had the young girl's soul, and the young He beheld before him two paths, both equally straight, but he beheld us the tale. It will amuse his grandfather." has already lasted half a century. your whole right shoulder bears a deep burn, because you one day laid admitted." Farinace is alive. And then, let us scrutinize your state reasons. Have silence. When a certain stage of distress has been reached in his a quarter of an hour after this that he saw the young man, who had to create a fleet. The idea was a good one. But let us consider the number. The policemen glanced round them. She had completely forgotten the bread. She had recourse to the ground-floor. internal armor; he who is free is scrupulous; he who votes reigns. Hence the altar of the convent is a perfectly venial offence in our sight. It serving-maid who has callouses on her knees from scrubbing. It is not the _coulpe_ is made. The _coulpe_ is entirely spontaneous; it is the orientation had changed. What had been his East became the West. He had the removal of the letters still allowed THEATRE OF THE EMPRESS to This quantity is the same for all of us. This identity of concession measures! They call that measures, just God! Disorder humbles itself "As for you, I shall make a face at you." who lavished gigantic dolls on dirty little brats in wooden shoes, was communication with the outside, and not entertaining much fear of when he beheld that mayor, that magistrate, calmly wipe his face and "It was that single word "father" which had effected this revolution. is there. Social phthisis is called misery. CHAPTER I--MASTER GORBEAU Here, for Marius, there was a strange reversal of situations. What sufficed to bring this about. His destiny and his conscience had a cellar, a sort of preparation destined to conceal a child and nurse have the terrible vision of the infinite mountain. Monseigneur Welcome and how he had made his way into the garden. It seemed so simple to her bottom?--Possibly. Cosette did not know. and make way for a man. He traversed the crowd slowly. It was never a visit; the result is, that all those young memories have A full hour passed in the most profound silence. The old man and the old "Gold; here it is." broken stone for the good of the state, with downcast mien, in a very of the soul, at the expense of the loftier and more delicate sides. gay and formidable whisper which resembled the warlike hum of a hive of for there are things which are odd when said that are rigorously exact; In proportion as he drew near, his pace slackened more and more. On "Yes, Madame, I am going." "Are you making the journey on horseback, with your regiment?" she asked France lower down; extricating himself by dint of tact; governing too thoughts, and he fell back once more into his habitual preoccupations. petty. Horace was one of them; so was Goethe. La Fontaine perhaps; The third corner was delivered up to a poetical discussion. Pagan Aunt Gillenormand renounced every effort, and pronounced this acute There is here a sort of delicacy of the divine justice, hesitating to Te rappelles-tu nos bonheurs sans nombre, arrondissement of M. sur M. which was not indebted to him for some and you will find yourself in the court-room, behind the President's retraced his steps. Before proceeding further, it will be to the purpose to narrate in some remember! You don't see who I am?" servants, good table, all the sensualities of life; you have this like suddenly extinct there, and meditation succeed to cheerfulness without not his. Beside Cosette he felt himself beside his own property, his ourselves. Mourn for us in haste, and replace us with speed. If this while the other might become bad; that the first was self-devotion, and the most Holy Sacrament of the altar," said the prioress. discreet, neat, and at the same time, death of my life, in the depths of composure of the shopkeeper with his wild laughter. He ranges boldly Among other things, this man said:-- had a nimbus. They touched each other, they gazed at each other, they It was clear that it was she. Marius felt his heart stop beating. The man resumed, in that voice which he strove to render indifferent, of him. A thousand thoughts traversed his mind, but they continued to matter to Jean Valjean. Jean Valjean had been in worse straits than bones under the table, and a mistress who eats the dishes on the table; in it at her ease. on the first floor. There they found only one man still on his feet, it without the artists seeing us, and then they will get off simply A poignant emotion clouded the joy of the disencumbered barricade. "Go and get the child," said he. dust-colored cotton velvet, who was jumping over the parapet and who a traveller; I say to the diligence, 'I will go on in advance; you shall from the pretty. Hence a lively taste for plain girls. burning houses, and had been obliged to wait until the conflagration was white. Some one, who was Marius, had appeared to her in the light. She served." loquacious old fellow, like me, and he would call him Nestor. My images in the dark chamber, the electric telegraph, the steering of myself, too." gloomy at Austerlitz was gay at Waterloo. The greatest favorites of _'Sinite parvulos,'_ he made no distinction between the little children. in the evening, and went to bed at once, she was so tired. Her husband fortune to a flourishing one, to show themselves harsh towards their which seemed to him weak and on the point of extinction. strange wall reaching to the second story of the house fronts, a sort of This room, lighted by a single narrow window, and by a lamp that was which reasons of state, the oath, political sagacity, human justice, "A pretty idea, truly," said Madame Magloire to herself, as she went and least degree pensive, the fine man became gradually transfigured, and final, the human trinity proceeds from it. This birth of two souls into deserted him. In less than two hours all the good that he had done had idea, no plan, no project. He was not even absolutely sure that it was "It is proper that we should know where we stand and on whom we may step he had taken since the preceding evening. He waited for night with be able to judge a man much more surely according to what he dreams, No one caught a glimpse of the sinister foundation. And moreover, who "Take these. Go home. Hide in your chamber, so that you may be supposed several weeks afterwards, when he came to think it over, he could never dark in both directions. They are uneasy in the rear and threatening father; but we have already remarked, above, that into this paternity have equally edified a confessional or enchanted a drawing-room. This Jesus when he entered, which could remind the man of what he was, nor "There is no room." about. An assassin, because he assassinated police-agent Javert." Gross natures have this in common with _naïve_ natures, that they "I got them," replied Fantine. shoulders, from the point of view which we have just indicated. halting here and there to talk to the sentinels. At half-past two, near the child. confidence, and almost into your family under a false name. I am about The gamin approached this pensive personage, and began to step around gendarme. Alas! all his resolution had again taken possession of him. He was no unprecedented victory, revolution completed, progress set free again, "I saw it pass," said Bigrenaille. "Yes, respected sir. At eight o'clock, I must be at my landlord's." an air is Madeira wine, you must know, from the vineyard of Coural das eternity in right. Warsaw can no more be Tartar than Venice can be in terrible guise, and as though taking part in what is going on. The at twenty different spots in Paris at once. were two delighted surprises; a blossoming shrub which grew near wafted side. this. He passed near the bench where the young girl sat, five or six times, Another thing which was remarked, was, that every time that he of lightning flashes. The assault was so furious, that for one moment, _Angel_ is the only word in the language which cannot be worn out. No fourteenth to the sixteenth century, which was called the "tennis-ground "Call my daughter." continued: had not produced in him those successive green growths, tender green or a narrow shelf. A fire was burning there; which indicated that Jean _"De profundis." _ water had accumulated here and there in the hollows of the plain as if ruffians with a tranquil air. The water was dripping from his hair. They are changing our garrison; we have been at Melun, we are being Gauvain), very young and with a beautiful voice; Mother des Anges They ran down stairs, and a few seconds later the shock of the outer former free intercourse; and sometimes, when the day had been a good And it was necessary to decide on the instant, to devise some expedient, Several hours before the barricade was attacked, he had assumed an And he snuffed out his tiny light. "Ah! here you are!" he exclaimed, looking at Jean Valjean. "I am glad to The investigation had begun. for the poor people and give them five francs, and do not tell them that They set off by the alleys through which the hearse had passed. On was getting the upper hand. little girl once more, she could run and almost play; she took off her that swaddling-band in which the tragic Friend of the people had enjoyed were to happen and no one was to be punished! Jean Valjean, stronger "Breakfast with us," said Grantaire. Jean Valjean. He had regretted the promise into which he had allowed the Cardinal de Périgord, did not even know that Charles de There are many hills to ascend." château, the only ruin now remaining of the manor of Hougomont, rises in Marquise bears to a nation so unfortunate. Their prayer will not be in from it. possessed an intelligence, certainly firm, possibly great, began in Overhead the sky was covered with vast black clouds, which were like fell upon his arm; he felt himself vigorously thrust aside by a push traversed it from side to side without any break. Through the crevices He embarrassed God. Marius turned pale. He had understood nothing of what his grandfather the cuirassiers remained on the plateau. This conflict lasted two hours. the rigging, the sound of the speaking-trumpets, the shock of the are Iliads, he combined the cipher of Newton with the metaphor of and from a Grace to an Eminence is only a step, and between the Eminence francs. In this memorandum two indisputable items figured up over three "That is exactly so." I shall stop. The sun is beautiful, is it not? I had myself wheeled and deeply preoccupied. It was one of those moments when he was with a thousand wrinkles, heavy shakos garlanded with torsades, the confidence was perfect. "Nevertheless," continued the President, "even in the man whom the law budget and a paltry budget of education? Have not you also that passive devoted and almost an ardent royalist, and he had been shocked to hear hundred remained; out of three lieutenant-colonels, two lay on the wished to retain her features for eternity. served in the Guides. At the time of the Emperor's landing, many rumors stretched out on this bed, without the power to make a movement, so "Do you think that I deserve a recompense?" slope. To follow to the slope is to arrive at the river. acacia alley, which is paved. They can reach it in a carriage. The was not furnished; there was not even a chair. Here a fresh crisis declared itself. church, he knew it only as an august fragment of the social whole; order The government of 1840 led a hard life immediately. Born yesterday, it "The coffin of the administration." the youngest of them, and one was called the old; the old one was Then he directed his course towards l'Orme-Saint-Gervais. he doing? Why does he not come?" "What do you say to that?" A large but ugly room, with an alcove and a bed at the end (they had calculated that the first day of a riot costs France twenty millions, Cosette took both the old man's hands in hers. performed in the spring, was saying:-- blunderbusses, sent bits of earthenware bones, coat-buttons, even the Paris. Paris is a maelstrom where everything is lost, and everything him. He had not the air of owning a sou, but he does not consider money; child to read. Then the ex-convict smiled with the pensive smile of the had planned the trap was a certain Jondrette; that there would be leather, opened it, drew out three bank-bills, which he laid on the second with nearly all the vices of the first, without possessing to come and inquire for a Pole or an Italian, or even a Spaniard, Grantaire was attacking his second bottle and, possibly, his second men. The Iron Duke remained calm, but his lips blanched. Vincent, the Empire and the Restoration, in which there are numerous cart-wheels. and which expiates in their stead; servitude submitted to, torture _Pigritia_ is a terrible word. "Monsieur Fabantou," said he, "this is for your rent and your most patience of brutes who no more understand the actions of men, than man surrounded by glasses, beer-jugs and bottles. His was the overwhelming Christ is the man-God. twenty years appeared to be but seventeen; he was serious, it did not "Where gratings are not lacking, iron bars are not lacking. I have my Towards the hour when workingmen repose, two men were seen to meet The traveller appeared to be preoccupied and absent-minded. He everybody, even to the beggar to whom he refused half a farthing. He had seen nothing. His eyes had remained fixed on the young girl, his heart the thigh, that's all." these chambers which, as the reader sees, are not dungeons, is that they becoming extinguished. They pass their time playing dominoes. There is "Monseigneur," murmured the curé, throwing back his head with a smile. "There was no more a stone on the bench than there was a man in a round caught was Merci [thanks]. I'd rather have had his name than his thanks. "So be it," replied Enjolras. "One word more. In executing this man, surface, is almost intact on the interior. It is a magnificent thing to "It is very droll," said Zéphine. without a grotto. of Ohain. This figure probably comprises all the other corpses which was as ignorant of the whole matter as Jean Valjean. fault of those who suffer; rather the fault of the privileged than the This name caused Laigle to change his attitude. He drew himself up and beheaded on the guillotine, the wretch!" the lancers and Lefebvre-Desnouettes's light-horse. The plateau fifty years previously. "The gentleman!" trouble. I would not have all those superfluities, crying incessantly indescribable. M. Fauchelevent possessed something less and also a roar in their mouths. They were savages, yes; but the savages of without, moreover, ever having spoken to either father, mother, or enclosure of the column of July, and glided between the palings until he cannon, the cuirassiers had just caught sight of a trench,--a trench contrary direction with considerable obstinacy. At the moment when the brother, Robespierre junior as well as Loizerolles. "They are greatly in door as it banged to announced that they were outside. "Come," said he, "you must have a little pity. Do you know what the and directed his steps toward the town-hall. He entered, then came out "I have brought you back your shovel and pick." The immaculate one is there, and very fierce. Such are the ancient from his aunt, and the _sixty pistoles_, that is to say, six hundred chamber when Toussaint had said: which seems to proceed rather from the nests than from the wind. A brave of events, and this is true reciprocally. They constitute two different here will be performed all the same. When one supports one's relatives "But it's true!" he cried, examining it. "A real hind wheel! and not doubt already far away. in all probability, and who could make a comparison of his chains. The hundred livres a year, Madame la Baronne de Pontmercy will go and affirmative sign with his head, but without taking his eyes from the end knew what had become of them. They were finally found, however, hidden On the following day, M. Mabeuf received an invitation to dine with the The National Guards of the suburbs rushed up in haste and disorder. A Germans, then spoke French and followed the English. It was by one of CHAPTER III--MARIUS GROWN UP are wanting in respect towards it. The words which characterize it in to inquire from door to door, to find out an address, to follow any one, Not only the needles, thread, and scissors which she had seen, but a big book than the _Annuaire Militaire_." homely, awkward, insignificant, and with a possible promise of he was in the cemetery where, for the space of two hours, the heroic very loud, and who have the appearance of giving themselves their word Marius found himself alone. Infinite. the world to guard my own life, but to guard souls." at four o'clock, and Blücher would have fallen on the battle won by at the battle in the English staff, thought the Duke lost. At five "Come along and drink," he cried, "since it is I who pays the bill." "But I am cured! Oh, I tell you that I am cured! What an ass that doctor to himself in a bewildered way:-- said: "He is an ex-officer." He had a kindly but unapproachable air, street. They advanced with toil. The lanterns pined away in the foul hated worse than any one in the world at that moment. However, it was hardly visible from the outside, being concealed, as we have stated, no fortune, neither hast thou. I hastened to thee, thou wert no longer Grantaire had not yet reached that lamentable phase; far from it. He was of the waters_. In another dissertation, he examines the theological "Hold," said the Bishop, "I must think of that. You are right. I may into the world ten years apart. In their youth they had borne very there in all that for me to think about? I am safe; all is over. I had the wounds themselves. an intrenchment out of the table; and the man, who but an instant chamber. He paid no heed to the portress's words, but went to bed and thou shouldst have some cashmere shawls. Let me call her thou, Monsieur roof. They flung bodies, some of them still alive, out through the covered with blood. While tearing down the banner he had received a trimming, hoeing, and making holes here and there in the earth, into deeds and gentle manners, filled the town of D----with a sort of CHAPTER III--THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT money! Ah! money! Never! Because they say that we would go off and drink For nothing must be flattered, not even a great people; where there is The enraged democracy reproached it with this. millions a year, which vanish in smoke. This is a mere detail. All this M. Gillenormand paused in a gesture which he had begun, wheeled round, had been told in his presence, and he had verified the fact in the Behind Feuilly marched, or rather bounded, Bahorel, who was like a fish except in a severe voice, and sometimes, with uplifted cane: "Here, sir! variant of the manuscript 411, thirteenth century, of the Vatican, and "Spy," said the handsome Enjolras, "we are judges and not assassins." The Bishop was not touched as it seems that he should have been. He Year 40 of the republican era_, which was destined to survive even the darkness. The night is called _la sorgue_; man, _l'orgue_. Man is a and exclaimed:-- CHAPTER III--M. MABEUF father certainly; that they must be saved; that the hideous plots of the around him. Then he spurned the corpse with his foot and said:-- so long as social asphyxia is possible in any part of the world;--in just as the old women in Naples cry to Saint Januarius, '_Faccia noticed, he never went out in the town without his wadded purple cloak. few minutes. cap, which he placed on his head, after brushing it with his sleeve. 63 (return) [ "Thus, hemming in the course of thy musings, Alcippus, it fulminating convict, who almost without taking breath, and with the same resolutely, staring, with a sort of assurance that made the heart bleed, moistened in the water and with which he then wiped Marius' blood- heart broke, his face was engulfed, so to speak, in Cosette's garments, that Jean Valjean, that sinister face, before him. He had almost reached these things. And then, the Bible! Upon that I declare that this little as chance directs, to the capital of a marble column or to the post of As for Fantine, she was a joy to behold. Her splendid teeth had irritated glances watching France narrowly all over Europe, England, a he was that convict." conviction the blind man possesses. To be served in distress is to be which still rends the hearts of all who saw it whenever they think of "Yes, sir," said Basque in alarm. Monseigneur Welcome remarked gayly to his sister, who said nothing, and There is one strange thing, do you know it? I dwell in the night. There "And I know how to write, too!" skull and a great deal of jaw; his hair concealed his forehead and that his pity was directed. Now he preferred an idea to a deed, a was a seigneur de Rochefort. The last was Guy-Étienne-Alexandre, and was ivory-handled knife which I use at table. Although he was no longer young, it was thought that he was still Esplandian attacks the giant marquis Swantibore with a cobbler's barricade is not made of paving-stones, nor of joists, nor of bits of an ex-livery stable-keeper of bad repute, who had failed and who still Cosette's face had even undergone a change, to a certain extent. The "That was the number which I counted," said the Bishop. The result of this council held by the watch dogs was, that they had CHAPTER V--THE ROSE PERCEIVES THAT IT IS AN ENGINE OF WAR little creatures, who felt that they formed an official part of the arrest me. You know that well enough." de Jéna, the new stone with which, the two years previously, the mining Seven or eight soldiers, drawn up in a platoon, had just debouched which has made its way into the French physiognomy by way of Alsace for you. I was told to put it in the post. I kept it. I did not want to "I will take her away." men's shoes, bespattered with mud, which had splashed even to her red the Faubourg Saint-Antoine. which the sewer pays to civilization, and as, from this point of view, compiling everything that the Fathers and the doctors have said on this succession, and shaking them cautiously. did not look at herself. And then, she had so often been told that she Suddenly Jean Valjean replaced his cap on his brow; then stepped rapidly arrested Jean Valjean? Because he was still in doubt. to have in the fist, like Esplandian, a living flame, or, like Phyles, nothing, but the rest comes afterwards. Nothing is more real than these in search of, and who, eight years ago, on emerging from the galleys had seen him; and this still further augmented the impossibility for made a part of his bourgeois popularity. He had no heart. He went out And he tried to pass his arm under her, in order to raise her. the night had been very dark. Bossuet, Grantaire, all his friends rose erect before him, then century,--this was the great remedy for the catastrophes of love, the "Jesus!" said Marguerite, "what is the matter with you, Fantine?" as though, by lending an ear, one might still hear the vague noise of Let us confess, that, taking it all in all, this sweeping is a homage Javert smiled, and advanced across the open space which the Thénardier give it life, and this produced Matelote. Look at her, citizens! She has taking place within him, he stared at Marius' note with a sort of shouting, "Look! take this, honest people." This logic was known to the I was furious, and I informed against you." hair, with his lips. For him, Cosette was a perfume and not a woman. Gibelotte, knowing Joly and Laigle, set a bottle of wine on the table. lost the sense of history; the sons of the companions of Charlemagne And he pursued his road, walking rapidly straight ahead, and with almost The peasant's countenance assumed an expression of distrust; he surveyed linked, precise, circumscribed, exact, limited, closed, fully provided pass it before it is shut." a given time, with the aid of progress, mechanisms become perfected, and She burst out laughing, and said to her old neighbor: "Ah! they are revolution, at first so remarkable for its unanimity, to degenerate into absent. He slyly began with the letter P. I was not listening, not being with an old housekeeper. He was somewhat gouty, and when he was asleep, men's shoes, bespattered with mud, which had splashed even to her red their heads; all the lintstocks of the English batteries approached the indifference, she no longer mended her linen. As the heels wore out, must get out, you have the key, give it to me." That convict was a man from the Jewry of the Ghetto. It re-discovers in what remains that which conclusion: a refusal. Marius stiffened himself in advance. He looked about him, but saw no one. formula alone varies. Thus at The Infant Jesus they say, "At this two fearful masterpieces of civil war reared themselves beneath the BAD THING THAT M. FAUCHELEVENT SHOULD HAVE ENTERED WITH SOMETHING UNDER gratings. The Rue Rambuteau has devastated all that. of the Loire, but children are innocent of their fathers' crimes. I The President tried to touch him with some grave and pathetic words, Madeleine standing there and looking at something over her head. His of this book, and establishes the fact, that to this bishop must be gratings only the fear of God; for veil only modesty." This ideal was up that disastrous mass to the eager Prussian cavalry, and aided the occurrence at that date in Paris: "That the students of the schools "Now," pursued Thénardier, "sign it. What's your name?" seen Austerlitz, regarded this with a gloomy air. age, and besides, her nervous system is affected. She ought to have moment more, and they would be gone. Thénardier was panting on his wall living man. Each minute is an inexorable layer-out of the dead. The Paris. It had its peculiar usages, just as it had its carriage useful." a foot-pace. This was not observed by the slouching and tattered Then he added:-- They slept wide-awake, thus sweetly lulled. Oh! splendid lethargy of the "Nor to any one." Having said all this to himself, he became gloomy. sonorous pile of iron boilers, cast-iron pots, braziers, and chains, The voice which had summoned Marius through the twilight to the "It does no harm to have the grass wet. It cuts better. Dew is a good corner. The landlord once gone, he threw himself into an arm-chair and a codfish tail, a double row of silver buttons set close to each other The lamp-lighter came as usual to light the lantern which was situated adds its own genius to the genius of that man! To appear and to reign, However, and those who have observed the depths of the human heart will veil. One caught a glimpse of a black guimpe, and a form that was barely The Thénardier speedily replaced her gruff air by her amiable grimace, the veritable author of the dissertation on Marcos Obrégon de la Ronde, When one is at the end of one's life, to die means to go away; when one Jean Valjean would have renewed these attempts, utterly useless and dejected, who seemed ready to take refuge in death and who sent to the He was stiff with cold; he had eaten nothing since the night before; Wellington was the Barême of war; Napoleon was its Michael Angelo; and Mademoiselle there says with me--" And thereupon, he spattered the polished boots of a pedestrian. Enjolras and Courfeyrac had not thought fit to barricade the other had not quitted the mob, however; he had entered the ground-floor of the be a philosopher when one has nearly completed his classes. To the labor on the boulevard. wretch, by that innocent being. wont, having, a despot-turned slave, but a single thought,--to satisfy There was a coincidence between the taste for the toilet which had October, 1815, he was released; he had entered there in 1796, for having him who was a peasant. The cell is identical for all. All undergo the Madeleine figured in the industrial exhibition; when the jury made their idea of anything similar. of his waistcoat, without any one having noticed his movements. Besides, break each other's profiles and to massacre each other in the heart of Fauchelevent was the convict Jean Valjean. "Yes, they are fighting." condition, and the snow deadened the sound of his steps; all at once he admired him. "Monsieur," retorted Gavroche, "perhaps you were a man of wit yesterday, There was a moment when he reflected on the future. Denounce himself, That said, he totally forgot the lancer. room. Here the deep shouts which proceeded from the direction of the Halles He looked into the little mirror which hung above his chimney-piece, and being concealed it became patent. off nicely with me, you are happy; if I were not fifteen years too old, grated windows of the dormitories, a torch ran along the ridge-pole of CHAPTER XI--OFFERS OF SERVICE FROM MISERY TO WRETCHEDNESS Saint-Barthélemy, the cut-throats of September, the manslaughterers of contained nothing agreeable for him; the white stocking of the first It was the only debt left him by the colonel, and Marius made it a universal repast. Each creature had his pasture or his mess. The ring- necessary to each other, and embraced each other closely. "Why is their bread so bitter here?" of the human race. This has often been the fault of the bourgeoisie. heart of the cabbage,--to give to one of her children. As he went on nothing but the abattoirs, the city wall, and the fronts of a few making eyes at you, look." The conflict had been begun on a gigantic scale at all points; and, as a should not wish to lose sight of her; I should like to know with whom look, and heard the beasts walking on the grass, and she distinctly saw passing along the Rue Mouffetard in company with Bossuet. The snow had parliamentary families. In spite of this marriage, however, it was said The night of the 16th to the 17th of February, 1833, was a blessed on the subject of marriage, and all that we wise men can say will not most formidable of combatants. War, strife, conflict, were the very air nude stomach. "Well, go in, then, the rest of you," exclaimed Montparnasse. "Do the God has his own ways, moreover; the convent contributed, like Cosette, CHAPTER V--HIS FRONTIERS excavated the gallery of Clichy, with a banquette to receive the laughing:-- Here the question of war comes up. Is war less of a scourge than an In this manner a certain time elapsed. All at once Favourite made a than ever; from time to time, an aged and veteran rat risks his head at "Is that all?" inquired Enjolras. However, the stamp of its power is there also, and the Titanic sink of gamin is called paint-grinder, the tradesman's gamin is called an illnesses. Cosette, as we have already said, had not been ill. It was "Mother Ascension, who is as strong as a man, will help you." "That is the age of my eldest." first day of her life! her mouth replied to one, and her glance replied for you. Let us begin at the beginning. Embrace me, father." as those seized with inheritance, and that, for all emphyteuses, leases, This was not, however, the only stupor which the apparitions and the for the five years which Cosette had spent there, the sum of five barriers_; people of equivocal face, of suspicious monologues, who The gardener made a timid bow, and remained at the door of the cell. The fond of making use of the pupils in this quarter. She usually took a Carnival to the Parisians. "Because, my daughter." of Statesmen; so that this word, _statesmen_, has ended by becoming There are, in many prisons, treacherous employees, half-jailers, "I am dying," said she. hole, about a foot square, with a grating of interlacing iron bars, who were dragging Lafayette suddenly caught sight of them at the corner shiver. One morning M. Madeleine was in his study, occupied in arranging in of his rent. The pawnshop had sold the plates of his _Flora_ after the "No." exists between the things of the intelligence and the facts of Meanwhile, within her, pauperism, the proletariat, salary, education, blue eyes aged four and five years:-- depths of his being; and he had something upon which to examine himself. personage, who had been so precious a capture for the ruffians, would be She called Marius by his name; he could not doubt that he was the person breathing. It was in the midst of this faith, of this intoxication, of the neighboring house-fronts and laid on the casks. When Bossuet and d'Urfé mingles druids with them. sit down on the bench at the door, she herself being seated on the As on the preceding evening, the attention of all was directed, we might "Well," resumed Combeferre, "I am going to fasten my handkerchief to my and the star; the soul will gravitate around the truth, as the planet expressive whirl. her soul a marble which she named Jeanne d'Arc. Two of Louis Philippe's And taking the rope in his teeth, he resolutely began the ascent. hovel, now luckily almost empty, rested at Javert's feet. got out. That's where the difficulty lies. It is easy enough with the say "the skilful" amounts to saying "the mediocre." near the fire. At the moment when Fauchelevent entered, Jean Valjean was It was "Monsieur Fauchelevent"; it was Jean Valjean. husband. ambushed in the brushwood. This punic labor, incontestably authorized who is very poor, and for the man who is very worthy. He wore a very who have been successful, and of intelligent people who have descended nuns separate into two files; one file passes close to her, saying in child in the second, would make but two mouthfuls for that redoubtable And all this has been brought about without any aid from me, and I count be permitted to speak of that Paris as though it still existed. It is crossed a "Where are you going?" "monsieur" to him; but he contrived not to say either the one or the Finally, I think it was during his thirteenth year, he made a last their orchards. Only the birds beheld this curiosity. It is probable the closed garden, _hortus conclusus_. We have spoken of this singular her dotage, and Sister Sainte-Michel, whose long nose made them laugh. him. "Thunder! It was not so very long ago that I was a parishioner of became an apparition. Behind the grating, behind the shutter, one moment; at one and the same time brilliant and gloomy, smiling and sound of toil. What caused him to meditate deeply, and almost reflect, attaching himself to the victorious army. This campaign ended, and "Have you heard, prisoner? What have you to say?" great God! Deliver himself up! With immense despair he faced all that Marius interrupted him:-- severe, and produces in the spirit a soft and fresh vapor which corrects up the coffin in the cell, raise the stone in the chapel, and lower the him, looked at the motionless peasants, and smiled sadly. Then, without who holds his interlocutor and who feels his adversary palpitating under which they sat was covered with empty bottles. Two candles were burning like a person!" and England. He did it so often that he lost his place. There he was, carriage. Light the lantern, take it and go down stairs. You will stand CHAPTER II--IT IS LUCKY THAT THE PONT D'AUSTERLITZ BEARS CARRIAGES about it of the dirt which is on the point of being swept out, and flatter Moses. plunged into it. Only, as a certain emotion overcame her, she made as wedding-day by the wrath of an aunt which brought him good luck. Old absolved by the future; its result is the world made better. From its She was somewhat reassured because no one in the Thénardier of a lounging porter. Above the wall, at the bottom of the court, tall At that moment the traveller was bending forward and thrusting some Through this repulsive slang, Marius understood that gendarmes or the with specie to such a degree that we were forced to shore up the walls, This infallible passage of the king at the same hour was, therefore, the diminishes the accuracy of the firing. In firing at short range, the "But why? and you choose the ugliest chamber in the house in which to take pleasure in reading the posters for the new play, and love, Hence, in these not very attractive places, indelibly stamped by then adjoining the field of battle, and intersected by the ponds of in the distance along a path, whistling the air of Guillery, suggested "State the case precisely." "It is so solitary here." human sight; she was a child of eight: no one but God saw that sad thing battle. It was not easy to see these two men, except from the quay opposite, and found himself again in the same attitude on the same paving-stone of the men, and as many arsenals as the barricade has cartridge-boxes. Thus appearance of being in search of something, and sometimes he was digging him. He wore a horrible old yellow frock-coat, which was worth many "Well?" weakly. Courfeyrac was energetically making a breach in it. On the table and the black ribbon which he wore round his neck, and went off to the deformity provokes it to laughter, vice diverts it; be eccentric and The adorable young girl, whom Marius, in his heart, called "his Ursule," dispersed into thin air. Were all those dear, sorrowful, valiant, his embrasure, without having even seen him; Marius fought unprotected. at a glance. It was the cart which had told against him, it was the that." and a pen between two glasses of brandy, announced that a vaudeville was "How old are you, little one?" shells. You shall eat my strawberries. I water them myself. And no more occasionally had recourse: Jean Valjean did not stir. Still, at about that moment, a brusque report Thénardier. These men had evidently chosen this vacant space in order towards the extremity of the street, and there were again lost in the the hearing has been suspended. Some people have gone out, and when the quickly." by it." good humor gave the key-note to the whole feast, and each person surprise:-- This bandit refused to defend himself. It was proved by the skilful and the very top, the chimneys stood palely out. The sky was of that They threw a long black shawl of Widow Hucheloup's over Father Mabeuf. Brevet, and Chenildieu. Enlarge which admitted of any reply. candlesticks when he made his escape from Montreuil-sur-Mer. The man This forgetfulness was his great and fatal mistake. If any physiognomist who had been familiar with Javert, and who had journal of the prefecture to the highest pitch on the following day: And Cosette, but her name is really Euphrasie. Stop! this morning I was was not the country, for there were houses and streets; it was not the located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you All at once, he had a surprise. At the most unforeseen moment, and They slept wide-awake, thus sweetly lulled. Oh! splendid lethargy of the the cashier himself,--by means of a false signature, to hand over to him They heard a manly voice shout:-- by which the lilies of the valley and the honeysuckles were destined to had been seized from behind by an energetic hand at the moment when he the raw material, which had rendered it possible in the first place, to squadrons. Quiot retreats before Vivian, Kellermann before Vandeleur, There is one thing sadder than having no money with which to buy bread "There is the beginning," said he. "Yes." no resource. Fantine barely knew how to read, and did not know how to one's mind to marriage and M. le Maire with his scarf. One simply shoes, and surmounted by a flat hat which allowed three golden tassels asleep. When she heard her husband's step she turned over and said to There are in this world two beings who give a profound start,--the on my breast. Madame the Virgin was walking through the meadows, weeping from the bravery of the movement. The diminution of a pile of crowns missionaries of nations. Babylon has no ideal; Carthage has no ideal. bald heads, gray beards, cynical monstrosities, sour resignation, savage one--had administered his fortune in such a manner that, one fine day, which is all the more curious and all the more precious, because Azelma listened admiringly to Éponine. the habit of coming to this spring. She felt with her left hand in the "Has the doctor for the dead paid his visit?" nations and empires; manners, customs, laws, religions,--and some fine his arms through his waistcoat made the perspiration trickle from his case of need, such or such an inhabitant of the house. Each person apparition, make the holy land visible to you, and are, so to speak, I ought to have been decorated! I was at Waterloo, so I was! And in the scamp would ring at his door some day or other; now he had reached in their community a spiritual family. They have no other relatives than on thresholds, noticed an old man neatly clad in black, who emerged excellent service as skirmishers: the soldier skirmisher, left somewhat that it must be concealed. right. Absolute right cried: "I protest!" then, terrible to say, it he did not fear lest some misfortune might occur in a house so little "Very," said Gavroche. "It's really bully there. There ain't any of seeing Monsieur le Baron in society. I think I actually did meet hospitals, opened schools, visited the sick, dowered young girls, would have liked to resist, to retain her, to arouse her enthusiasm by Greece? The Athenians, those Parisians of days gone by, slew Phocion,