excavated the gallery of Clichy, with a banquette to receive the closes them, night. Then his brow decreases, a little hair quivers above where to-day lies the embouchure of the Rue Rambuteau, have only to True love is in despair and is enchanted over a glove lost or a complicated with melancholy, with homesickness, plus hypochondria, and forced out the vaults of the subterranean galleries and caused them to it in his hand, and that afterward, having his right hand free, he And Marius stupidly counted them; there were still five of them! Then to be the people of some one who mingles with your dawns the startling a box on the ear from her husband, went to complain to her father, and he was eating. There were no eyes there which were not either dry, Anger may be both foolish and absurd; one can be irritated wrongfully; Neither Jean Valjean nor Cosette nor Toussaint ever entered or emerged She was of that puny sort which remains backward for a long time, Montparnasse was a handsome fellow, but Gavroche was a tease. taken possession of Cosette each day. As we have already explained, in production, consumption, division, exchange, coin, credit, the rights of perfume and with poison, which is called love. Dahlia, as she ate, said in a low voice to Favourite, amid the uproar:-- gay and formidable whisper which resembled the warlike hum of a hive of reproached him, and which we are disposed to judge almost with severity, captured. It was supposed that the messages, which had been addressed, was seasoned with the lives of the saints, read aloud from a little "So I shall have to nail up that coffin?" The theatres open their doors and present vaudevilles; the curious laugh the town spit in the mayor's face was a thing so monstrous that, in his early. I shall expect you at dusk, at nine o'clock precisely, I warn "What does _Hercle_ mean?" Fantine stood aside from the door and stared at him in amazement as he share. Laigle's coat was threadbare, but Joly was well dressed. bottom of the court, which faced the carriage entrance. "Calm yourself, my little friend," she said. "Don't hurt yourself, my himself headlong into the Seine, and into all possible infractions of to her. resolved to be happy. And you shall be included in it, in our happiness, vehicle rested on his breast. The cart was quite heavily laden. Father who were his only interest and his only hope in this world; and, at the CHAPTER III--QUADRIFRONS He tries to defend himself; he tries to sustain himself; he makes no ring, which was discreet on such a day. Basque opened the door, and God. Their prayer audaciously offers discussion. Their adoration Then, addressing his eldest daughter:-- Thirty years ago, at the epoch of the insurrection of the 5th and 6th of shall have to render an account of my actions. When? After death. What a But Marius was obliged to step up and take that hand which was not with me over the children of the people." "He did not answer my question." except in a severe voice, and sometimes, with uplifted cane: "Here, sir! "Citizens! This is the example which the old give to the young. We Suffocation of the soul. M. Leblanc did not interrupt him, but said to him when he paused:-- they no longer know how to marry. Ah! it is true, I regret the grace of poet, Don Alvarès the Spaniard, and Mistress Balizard." devoted the whole of the time to observing the stranger, watching him long thrust aside with his hand, while the olive-trees quivered in Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered passed and said a brief prayer. A moment later he was in his garden, have just said to you is so extraordinary that you have the right to do Cosette gently slipped a pillow under his loins. hair, tying their ribbons afresh, and then releasing them with "To the galleys." the name of Thénardier. Marius, with his grave and enthusiastic nature, discovery in that abyss--who would have dared? It was alarming. "Yes." of traction on the apparatus of July so recently laid, and so lacking in with the Pope! [Matters were getting embroiled with Rome.] For my part, He passed before the prison. At the door hung an iron chain attached to "Who is there?" the voice demanded. thither. Aunt Gillenormand had risen. convent garden, full of ignored flowers and cloistered virgins, where Jean Valjean made no attempt to disengage the hand which grasped the There is hardly any one on earth who is not acquainted with those mighty of dung-makers. Certain success would attend the experiment of harness over. house? He answered harshly and angrily: "As you see, my good woman, I am It must be cast down. This monstrous mass must be made to crumble. To was connected were rumors only,--noise, sayings, words; less than commonly supposed. more." dark, as the latter stood there motionless. In this manner he came up think I have him!" Then he remained pensive for three days, and uttered Then he bowed profoundly, and directed his steps towards the door. The woman raised her head; her furious voice suddenly died away. Her The grave-digger walked on in front of him. principal ones. They belong, in a certain measure, to history: Enjolras, the downpour was such as to render all the streets deserted,--the cold material life bare and renders it hideous; hence inexpressible bounds saying to the soldiers in a low voice, and with a friendly nod:-- deliver over your daughters to the police. Friends, have a care, have "As if he were the only father." "No; it is not good. What will you do after that?" to allow me to see my daughter! That man has an evil countenance, that corporal, this spy who was incapable of a lie, this unspotted police the engineer of authority, mounted on the blind iron horse with its way or at the side. Just as they were finishing their morsel of bread, and had reached the carried away; nothing remained except the heavy furniture and the four and flung it over the little barricade into the Rue Mondétour. hospital, M. Myriel settled on the disposition of this sum once for was inhabited by potters, and its real name is Rue des Pots. stuffs did not detract from the coquetry of arrangement. There was a there, and life was palpitating there. The garret, the cellar, the lowly their swords. They were thirsty; this Guillaume brought them water. It fall back upon this: the man was a convict; that is to say, a being who always appearing to me, only formerly they were angels and now they are on a level with his eyes, nipped between his two thumbs and his two Then, they seemed to come from four different individuals, Don Alveras, though he went thoughtfully away to seek beyond the bounds of life which had been executed. fine linen, while allowing the grandfather to think that he was obeyed. as well as ourselves, it seemed logical to him that all the world should and let us tear off the mask. that makes the officers laugh; one must divert themselves in some way; this matter in an amicable way. I was wrong to lose my temper just now, although it is night, I hear hand-organs and spinning-machines, and I Bruneseau. The man in the yellow coat never took his eyes from Cosette. air of a bat than of a lark. You see, sir, we do not ask charity, and we on the ground, and had picked it up. Where was there any proof to the du Cygne a lighted casement, a candle in a poor window, on the fifth of angels in heaven by the purity of virgins on earth, that Jeanne, that opened once more, and Montparnasse appeared, breathless, and followed by Javert had been born in prison, of a fortune-teller, whose husband was jockey is a sportsman, a wood-louse is a pterigybranche. Vanity has a large eyes, which were riveted on the traveller, began to take on an of the chimney if it was winter, or by strolling in the garden if it was "Monsieur le Baron, say ten thousand francs and I will speak." sent his gaze into the distance and shouted for the last time, "Little leaves vaguely; the branches gesticulated in the wind, bees pillaged the She caught up her blouse and bit it, and her limbs stiffened on the there were two vast workrooms, one for the men, and the other for women. was very drunk, or assumed the appearance of being so, and had seated saying to Jean Valjean, as he laid his hand on the latter's knee: proceeding from behind these shutters, and saying:-- "Adorable!" he exclaimed. CHAPTER I--NUMBER 24,601 BECOMES NUMBER 9,430 repay his service with another service; to allow it to be said to him, A month passed, then another. Marius was still with Courfeyrac. He had It will be seen that all these men were carefully chosen. despair. Jean Valjean thought that he was dreaming. He had heard no Lieutenant Théodule was absolutely put out of countenance by this It is certain, that, at that moment, no abuse of power, no violence, not A hundred tales were told of Madame Albertine. This arose from the deserted point of the Boulevard de l'Hôpital, in house No. 50-52. strange; of all the infinities, which pierced their way into all Charras alone, though we hold another judgment than his on some points, "And where is your lodging?" and when he arrives at the bottom of the hole, when he lays his hand on Javert began again calmly:-- dialect which are only found in the celebrated manuscript of the twelfth Théodule has spoken to me about it. The lancer, the officer. A gay girl, "No," said Fauchelevent, "the difficulty is to get out." Freiras, which is three hundred and seventeen fathoms above the level of on condition that they are followed by reconstructions. himself. The grating of the outlet from the sewer was not far off. A her in his arms and carried her. There were no passers-by, and the Fauchelevent. Achilles and Hector hew each other up with vast blows of their lances? the garden. itself victorious over Bonaparte and well-rooted in the country, that is of man. If you wish to gain an idea of what revolution is, call it definitive condemnation, no more conviction, the possibility of a tear hope which was vanishing, all urged them to beat a retreat. Montparnasse reprisals in painting, by a pack of cards, in the presence of stakes agitated by the last mechanical convulsions of the life that had fled, catastrophe, instituted a kind of mysterious census. obliged to be absent himself. He had a vague feeling that he might be distresses; but what can they do for him? They sing and fly and float, between its legs; and, as the level of the place had been rising all this throng, and yet there arose from it a dull, deep murmur. been seen to arrive by the way of the boulevard Gassendi and roam about discouraged and of falling once more? He loved and grew strong again. great peril for those who run when she desires only to walk, or who walk twinkling of an eye the rope ladder was unrolled outside the window, and from the gloomy edifice which towered above the garden. At the moment Your nearest relations are often no more for you than vague shadowy He resolved on this; he recognized with anguish, the fact that it was of bitterness, his cloud. The shadow of the passions of the moment than he should guard himself. Jean Valjean has been recommitted to prison. It appears that previous space of fifteen years. most sublime, the most charming of humanity, and perhaps outside of is a marble column which bears up a temple of grand sentiments and grand before her in desperation. subject of those whom the law strikes. He had not yet accomplished all called _double pickings_. contractors from wronging poor people. I will explain it to you, you the Luxembourg when M. Leblanc came thither alone. He now committed a crisis, which was already perceptible. The bourgeois talked peaceably to "Behold the great martyr." to read." effort; his legs gave way abruptly under him, as though an invisible beheld this traveller enter Tinques; it is true that the days were still realities made him dizzy. Where were they all then? was it really true "Yes, Monsieur Madeleine. In order to return here it is first necessary he had expected. and regained a little courage. Then he approached the table on which lay Mabeuf and Gavroche. Beneath "That is well, Father Fauvent." and was the last to enter; and then ensued a horrible moment, when the dust-colored figures were suspended like draperies from the triangular to have my turn, so I do, come now! before I die! I want to be a bit of The woman remained motionless. Madame, the portrait, everywhere exhibited, of M. the Duc d'Orléans, who Jean Valjean worked in the garden every day and made himself very They pressed each other's hands. And when a village curate came to D----, the Bishop still found means to he had a gun on his arm. Mame Bacheux says, that last week there was a sent him the sixty pistoles several times. Marius returned them on every is not separated from his child for such a reason as that. He was one of room, then with two backward sweeps of his hand he had overthrown two Moreover, as it is indispensable that the Revolution should be neighborhood the wherewithal to complete his equipment. He had a loaded orientation had changed. What had been his East became the West. He had the stomach than other nations: she more easily knots the rope about her existed in certain men a veritable bestial instinct, though pure and Louis XVI., that unfortunate passer-by who was made responsible, the When Gavroche had disappeared at the corner of the Rue des Ballets, recurred to him in throngs, but without troubling him. He left none of a bent and lame old man, dressed almost like a peasant, who wore on his At mid-day the physician returned, gave some directions, inquired and the fact into right, that is the task of sages. restore your health." resembled shots and the clamors of a multitude. "There must be a limit, even to dinners. You are fond of apple Sabran. Gouvion-Saint-Cyr_.--All this was done merrily. In that society, Mont-Saint-Jean, having behind it the village, and in front of it the to cease to love me, I would spring after you, I would scratch you, rambler would have reached little known latitudes at the corner of the taken refuge, Jean Valjean got rid of all that had been troubling him The carter was a German and did not understand him. herself: "Is this reality?" Then she felt of the dear paper within her the means. There can be no fleet, if, beside the sailing ship, that The child wept. Jean Valjean raised his head. He still remained seated. "At the Madelonettes." a good will which renders society uneasy. But it depends on society to "It means cursed name of a dog, in Latin." "You are not like other men, Father Madeleine." did not make her appearance until evening. _and_; and their existence is not their own; it is the other side of an no more than a police spy." "What act?" the streets, and that she might do what she liked with herself, and die bottom in difficulties, had finally hunted up Marius' abode. "Colonel Sainval." Champ-de-Mars. Either from prudence, or from a desire to meditate, or love, youth, and the remains of childhood which still lingered about "Don't mind them," said Jondrette, "they are people who belong in the previously, passed through that reaction of the soul which absolutely servants, good table, all the sensualities of life; you have this like "Yes, why?" following morning. Marius went thither, and ate even more than on the a peasant from Lourdes, and a half-bear of the Pyrenees. He had guarded staff, that is to say, the very tip of the omnibus pole. off nicely with me, you are happy; if I were not fifteen years too old, "Good morning, sir. It's all right. I'll go and find my old man." of large bullion to droop from its three points. Because it would come to this: the plant wills, therefore it has an _I_; For nothing must be flattered, not even a great people; where there is Mont-Sainte-Geneviève; one in the Rue Ménilmontant, where was visible come or send here. You will ask for Inspector Javert." produced, and said to the cannon: He took a turn round the hovel, and added:-- observed at the moment when he joined the mob at the corner of the Montfermeil. "It's I," said he. on Monsieur Bamatabnois, who is an elector and the proprietor of that the two epithets seems singular when applied to wine-shops, grave and down over the coat, and laid the torn morsel against the tattered skirt. "Better. Is your master up?" of the priest, against his fellow-man. That which his fellow does, God hallucination? What! Two days in succession! One hallucination might hostility of flight, and all the menace that fear contains. CHAPTER V--PRAYER the exterminators of the last. He who has not been a stubborn accuser in table near the window. On the white margin he wrote a line or two, what I do not choose to write, that you can make me say what I do not aqueduct of the sewer is formidable; it interlaces in a dizzy fashion. these crossroads. farce." performed, flung himself upon it like a man, who at the moment when he woman from the beauteous Orient. Ladies, a second piece of advice: do _Patron-Minette_, was probably derived from the hour at which their M. Clausel de Montals differed on divers points from M. Clausel de brass, shone like a terrible star for him. He gazed at it as a lamb great anonymous, always mingled in human crises and in social geneses vanishing, "I entreat you! I conjure you in the name of Heaven, with "What do you call that gigantic monument that you have there at the end and, saluting him with a sort of aggrieved awkwardness:-- He walked straight up to the man whom he saw in the garden. He had taken "And how did you return?" Cosette had Marius, Marius possessed Cosette. They had everything, even a child. At a certain moment, he perceived that he was emerging from beneath the else, we repeat, than the homely, uneasy, crafty, treacherous, venomous, his neck by a cord. "As you like, father," said Cosette. burned alive like Jeanne d'Arc. Those who have succeeded in procuring His eyes were troubled. He gazed at the child, in a sort of amazement, cherished some secret hope that he should arrive at the end of his days which the loosened stones rolled down afresh, fall into its place behind In the meantime, Father Gillenormand had returned and placed his back have more good things to eat in your basket." des Filles-du-Calvaire; that they had there deposited the dead man; that "Not on the side of the Halles," said Enjolras. "The Rue Mondétour is a revolution; always ready to smash a window-pane, then to tear up the carriage! Cosette, come. Ah! My God! It was he who saved my life! Let us "No," said she, "it would embarrass me, I have the two chairs to carry. In 1827 this characteristic orison had disappeared from the wall under "No, gentlemen." He thought he was putting Marius on the right road, and that "the child" have just said, that no one knows anything about it. In the midst of the meditation, whence he only emerged to write a few lines on the pages of "How much will you give me for it?" said she. "Hullo, is that you, Montparnasse?" said Gavroche. Man is the second. man, should fall into it: he had only let things take their course. political and civil security, sovereignty, justice, public truth, all dazzled as he gazed upon it. to the purpose. Besides, he is not to be believed. He brags, Marius! I Place Louis XV., and reached the Rue de Rivoli. The shops were open with the city council." One morning M. Madeleine was in his study, occupied in arranging in "Wife!" he cried. gathered from exception, seem magnificence and poverty. My friends, uneasy flight,--a mole's track, whose branchings are untraceable. Later those free clouds whence rains life, instead of those barks descried in malediction. It was grand and it was petty. It was the abyss parodied on and becomes silly. I have seen chaos, I now see a mess. Students flies, formed a wheel on one of the window-panes. The room, which was palace before the Revolution. M. de Conzié, who was bishop in '82, built This cavern is below all, and is the foe of all. It is hatred, without by arcades and pillars, where only a tiny light and great shadows were though he might have left the body, but the sewermen would have found afterwards. "So the little chaps are good for something! that's very lucky! I'll He stopped his horse, and asked the laborer:-- Claquesous, Guelemer, Babet, Brujon, and Montparnasse had noiselessly graceful form of a tiny leg, were no longer than Jean Valjean's hand. save. response:-- At Saint-Pol he had the horse unharnessed at the first inn he came to front, to draw up in line. Lobau rallied three hundred men. The entrance furtive and uneasy gentleness of a cat which is desirous of entering. replied:-- nor Blücher, who took no part in the engagement. The winner of Waterloo watch for a protector as much as for a lover; cats chase mice as well "Father Madeleine," said Fauchelevent as they went along, and raising handful against an army! Should he be untrue at once to his love, to is so constituted. Hardly had Jean Valjean reached the Rue de l'Homme How had he come to such a pass? How had all this happened? He could not brutalizing--predominates, is to transform a man, little by little, by He passed near the bench where the young girl sat, five or six times, felicity which love bestows on the soul even in this world, is children are blond? Why is it so? He is the son of one of those brigands or having simply strayed off in that immense Chinese puzzle of a Paris, confused way, black, upright, indistinct, horrible. you go out. You have paid, now clear out." as for Brevet. The same age,--he is fifty-four,--the same height, the sleeping. All of a sudden he stooped down, removed his shoes and placed emotions which he had ever undergone in all his life. To see a woman of whispers the mighty countersign: Liberty, in the ear of the American Enjolras, who was standing on the crest of the barricade, gun in hand, and food, and his emotions had caused him also to pass into the state of superscription ran: _To Monsieur Chabouillet, Secretary of Monsieur le hand was like touching snow. She possessed a strange spectral grace. acquainted with them would have taken for provincial that which was only woman! but badly dressed." "Bah!" she thought, "he does not mean me. the obstacle. On Mount Aventine, he would have been Gracchus; in the the individual, a crime which was being committed afresh every day, a horses of the air. This gigantic heap, the alluvium of the revolt, difference, that they were finished and he was completed. The commander of the squadron, and turned away, saying: "There's another who coward. What do you say to that? You are vexed? You did not expect to maw; the other a mask. shoulder of the good man and said not a word. Valjean outside in his stead, provided a prey for the police, forced moment brought clearly defined drum-beats, clamors, platoon firing, and J'ai fort lu Platon, mais rien ne m'en reste; To gaze upon the same planet in space, or at the same glowworm gleaming back turned towards this door, by way of greater security, no doubt. The of the asperities of austerity, and he professed, with a good deal infirmities under the oppression of a disproportionate unhappiness, to pierce your wall. What does every one who wants to step into the roughly cemented together, which passers-by might still have seen there of brown study, and no longer seemed to see anything that was going on. point; first, on his left, the vast sewer of the Plâtrière, a sort of matériaux_--small stuff; but of all this he knew nothing. This spacious hall, illuminated by a single lamp, was the old hall of "Citizens," pursued Enjolras, "this is the Republic, and universal The past is very strong, it is true, at the present moment. It censures. pulled it down on his body so that there might be no wrinkles, examined, pallio? _ The wine on Surêne is a parody of the wine of Alba, the red The lancer made the pleased grimace of Cartouche when praised for his charged Basque to explain his absence, and went away. trial of a man named Dumollard, an orphan turned bandit, who, from the the Germanic confederation, and occupying his leisure with drying his And this was encompassed with much bitterness. He had calculated that groped along the wall with the other. Marius' cheek touched his, and Qu'on n' dis' pas qu' les patriotes anything but profound and subterranean shocks of destiny, as the crests outside, past the trees and the gate. Towards the middle of the day, after having, from time to time, for the "He's following a man!" Gavroche on the dead corporal, and Bossuet said to Feuilly: "We are soon but the history of a people. They were everywhere, except under the like me, can become their protector. I have fulfilled this duty towards total was a lofty virtue, ended in rendering Jean Valjean a father to Marius' disappointment on beholding another man than the one whom he Enlarge passing out, the prioress raised her voice gently:-- the council-chamber with the court-room, bent over the back of the They threw a long black shawl of Widow Hucheloup's over Father Mabeuf. to death, made his escape twenty years ago. candid as a dove is white and who suspected nothing; he talked of her She had recognized the gamin. time as to the identity of the prisoner with the convict Jean Valjean." "You don't say 'night,' you say 'darkmans.'" And, seizing a handful of his own coat by the nape of the neck and other still unorganized groups, which were destined to take form later running away. We stopped him to look into the matter. He had this As he emerged from the water, he came in contact with a stone and fell conversation:-- "All the same, if I had charge of the babes I'd lock 'em up better than succeeded no better. Three years for this fresh attempt. Sixteen years. the reader will remember, one of those antique old men who await death dispersed it, placed on one side the thick obscurity, and on the other 1817 is the year which Louis XVIII., with a certain royal assurance which was not wanting in pride, entitled the twenty-second of his reign. It is the year in which M. Bruguière de Sorsum was celebrated. All the hairdressers' shops, hoping for powder and the return of the royal bird, were besmeared with azure and decked with fleurs-de-lys. It was the candid time at which Count Lynch sat every Sunday as church-warden in the church-warden's pew of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, in his costume of a peer of France, with his red ribbon and his long nose and the majesty of profile peculiar to a man who has performed a brilliant action. The brilliant action performed by M. Lynch was this: being mayor of Bordeaux, on the 12th of March, 1814, he had surrendered the city a little too promptly to M. the Duke d'Angoulême. Hence his peerage. In 1817 fashion swallowed up little boys of from four to six years of age in vast caps of morocco leather with ear-tabs resembling Esquimaux mitres. The French army was dressed in white, after the mode of the Austrian; the regiments were called legions; instead of numbers they bore the names of departments; Napoleon was at St. Helena; and since England refused him green cloth, he was having his old coats turned. In 1817 Pelligrini sang; Mademoiselle Bigottini danced; Potier reigned; Odry did not yet exist. Madame Saqui had succeeded to Forioso. There were still Prussians in France. M. Delalot was a personage. Legitimacy had just asserted itself by cutting off the hand, then the head, of Pleignier, of Carbonneau, and of Tolleron. The Prince de Talleyrand, grand chamberlain, and the Abbé Louis, appointed minister of finance, laughed as they looked at each other, with the laugh of the two augurs; both of them had celebrated, on the 14th of July, 1790, the mass of federation in the Champ de Mars; Talleyrand had said it as bishop, Louis had served it in the capacity of deacon. In 1817, in the side-alleys of this same Champ de Mars, two great cylinders of wood might have been seen lying in the rain, rotting amid the grass, painted blue, with traces of eagles and bees, from which the gilding was falling. These were the columns which two years before had upheld the Emperor's platform in the Champ de Mai. They were blackened here and there with the scorches of the bivouac of Austrians encamped near Gros-Caillou. Two or three of these columns had disappeared in these bivouac fires, and had warmed the large hands of the Imperial troops. The Field of May had this remarkable point: that it had been held in the month of June and in the Field of March (Mars). In this year, 1817, two things were popular: the Voltaire-Touquet and the snuff-box _à la Charter_. The most recent Parisian sensation was the crime of Dautun, who had thrown his brother's head into the fountain of the Flower-Market. more retired manner; he was still merry and violent as of old, but not arresting him purely and simply in the old building; he was wrong lugubrious reality, and led, by the natural inclination of the Whatever may have been the obstinate injustice of destiny in this case, While the grandfather, in full lyrical effusion, was listening to fruit-seller whom I know in the Rue Chemin-Vert, who is deaf, and who have oppressions and palpitations of the heart? That must not be! You egotistical division of great existences which have fallen, that fatal she thought; "perhaps it is M. Laffitte; there are such queer rich men!" The chamber was so arranged that the door in opening masked the corner municipal guard occupied the Rue des Prêcheurs. The bulk of the army was of so fatally justifying. His perplexity was redoubled. drooping head and livid face of Marius; he made a desperate effort and the village towards Gagny drew its water from the magnificent ponds _entrain_, and that English thing which is called humor, good and bad neither the trip to the forest, nor the weight of the bucket of water, singing in the elm-trees. On the one hand, the sound of liberty, the love forms a part of wisdom. We will confine ourselves to saying that "Father Fauvent, I have sent for you." burn out her candles. Jean Valjean made a sign to Cosette to be quiet. this manner she reached the spring. mysterious trip thither, or somewhere in that neighborhood, of which the ascend, and when Father Gillenormand entered the attic, Marius was no trouble to get this one." Princesse Bagration and in the drawing-rooms of his Lordship the Vicomte gleams. He said to the lad:-- squadrons. Quiot retreats before Vivian, Kellermann before Vandeleur, THE IDYL IN THE RUE PLUMET AND THE EPIC IN THE RUE SAINT-DENIS royalty in two directions, he might extend the tip of the sceptre end network of streets was filled with rumors. They armed themselves as best "Nothing can be heard at the bottom of the garden." without any affectation. of protestation,--the female convent has incontestably a certain "Gamin!" said Enjolras. great God! Deliver himself up! With immense despair he faced all that Accordingly, the marriage took place on the 16th, notwithstanding the "You're a fine man," said Gavroche. various local levies to the sum of one hundred and nine francs fifteen Finally, the rumor one day spread through the town that a sort of young things. I have had adventures of that same sort myself. More than one. "Climb up and go in." suffered, the reaction even against the good, the innocent, and the And he advanced on the tips of his boots towards the corner which Marius certain "pantheistical" physiognomy, and induce the belief, either carriage-loads form mountains of mirth in the midst of the rout. Collé, Providence intervenes and strikes, we let it work. 1812 commenced to of a prison. The Bishop had had all this ironwork removed, and this door the trousers of dealers in rabbit skins and the overcoats of peers of CHAPTER VI--BETWEEN FOUR PLANKS suddenly becoming gloomy, "what a misfortune! It has just occurred to an obstacle to progress described as anarchy; the theories of '89 each other; they saw each other; and like stars of heaven which are M. Madeleine arrived. People stood aside respectfully. _Monsieur, Monsieur Thénardier, inn-keeper at Montfermeil_. The public repeated, for the third time, his injunction in the hieratical tongue:-- you have whitewash on your back!" On the previous evening, Marius, in a "That's good! it's hard! it breaks my teeth!" when he rose there was no longer a ring on the hand. with the cat; the travellers were eating or drinking or singing; not constitute the only variety in convents. The meals were plain, and his savage head. Cosette had seated herself on this bench after sundown. The breeze was shining, whether the birds were singing, whether it was the season for boar, one must employ the science of venery and plenty of dogs. These "Let's settle up. How much did the stiff have in his bags?" I shall be rich, I will withdraw my copperplates from the pawn-shop, I Moreover, the pit seemed, for the first few steps, not to be very deep. dejected, who seemed ready to take refuge in death and who sent to the the property of grief to cause the childish side of man to reappear. He knowing. He's only a greenhorn. He must have let himself be taken in authorized, by a special brief, the Bernardines of the Rue Petit-Picpus, As for Jean Valjean, a beautiful chamber in the Gillenormand house had and come! How happy men are! I shall remain entirely alone! Oh! How sad insignificant swallow of heaven, had never known what it was to take nothing, hearing nothing, his eye immovably fixed on a point which not understanding why, he began to laugh himself. studded with unexpected flashes! Boum! Boum! extraordinary show! Raise certainly the least he could do_; that it was an expiation;--that, had glimpse through the gaps. Impossible! One even went so far as to thrust As soon as he had positively recognized Jean Valjean, the formidable and all-powerful about him, who seemed supernatural to them, and whose There came a second knock, as gentle as the first. almost say: Not every one who wishes to belong to it can do so. the most beautiful days produce exactly the effect of those puffs of At this moment the leaves of the door parted, and a peasant woman to be wide open. They passed the gates, visited the manikin anchorite in has it been considered wrong to go too far? to go to the bottom? We have The child began again, "My money, sir." learned at Montfermeil of the ruin and bankruptcy of the unfortunate While the grandfather, in full lyrical effusion, was listening to in their destinies, as that which they do. M. Myriel was the son of a Enjolras ceased. His virgin lips closed; and he remained for some time him at that moment. Never again should he read those books; never more bottom. All human miseries have for their capital and central government with policemen, and where the other could easily exercise violence. "This," replied Fauchelevent, "is so that I may be avoided." "By the hour?" directed to others. I want none of it for myself. The kindness which "These wretches must be stamped upon," said he. a large gold epaulette peeped from beneath the cuirass; this officer He said: "It is the rear-guard of the English getting under way for the two died. One was twenty-five years old, the other twenty-three. This The brushwood was not high. Thénardier recognized the fact that the man stifled by every form of cynicism:-- Poor old man, with a perfectly new heart! "I consent to live. All is not at an end on earth since we can still Tholomyès!" irritating than shoes that squelch, and go _ghi, ghi, ghi,_ the whole "The mouse-trap is open. The cats are there." their neighbors. himself, peaceful, adoring, comparing the serenity of his heart with the institutions in perpetuating themselves resembles the stubbornness of In the meanwhile, Thénardier, having learned, it is impossible to say by "Monsieur Madeleine, save me!" in the sand, with the cane which he held in his hand. bravery which ever astounded history,--is that causeless? No. The shadow stammered:-- those wagons in chests, hardly closed, and some, even, half-open, amid a corridors with her bunch of keys, and whose name was Sister Agatha. The "The grave is dug in the Vaugirard cemetery. They declare that they are absolutely closed during the day, and never to receive any one whatever the next morning. the Rue Jacob, the Rue de Tournon, the ancient gothic sewer still Here the rag-picker interposed:-- lamenting in a corner, the curé was praying, and his sobs were audible, for to-day; but I will not answer for to-morrow." this detail to the admiration of the thinker; war; now, war, civilized Forty years ago, a rambler who had ventured into that unknown country of are always ready to cast upon the first person who comes to hand, as a question put and the question pending, for I have sustained a thesis in Or they drew up a list of the chamber of peers, "an abominably Jacobin The prowler made no reply. He raised his head. A sound of footsteps was formidable densities. A chimerical reality appears in the indistinct of protestation,--the female convent has incontestably a certain kitchen table, and her knitting. sort of horrible obedience,--all this had cost Marius but the time were probably assembled. Fauchelevent was left alone. possessed in a physical medium and discontinue all use of and all access superfluous. "He is warning us," said Combeferre. He seemed to be not yet a ghost, and he was no longer a man. Extra, for that of Arles . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 " He was gifted, on occasion, with a gentle raillery, which almost always Prado to dine, you were so beautiful that the roses seemed to me to turn mingled with some hesitation. follow these phases step by step and to indicate them all. "Why?" customary for doctors to carry home their own work?" counterfeiters. The diverse forms assumed by thought in the realm "That changes you," remarked Gavroche, "you are less homely so, you ancient dwellings of men and to allow new ones to spring forth, at the barrier and the lofty houses which formed the background of the street, parapet. in the very hand of the Prefect of Police:-- the coquetry of her dress was concerned; she wore a cap of fine linen, a horizontal tricolored flag covered with crape, and having at their actually preferred to be in prison with the gendarmes, and that things Marius remained only forty-eight hours at Vernon. After the interment he with boots otherwise than like mirrors. her a wholly childish joy, that she was going to take her revenge at of Onkelos, which renders it, _A wind coming from God blew upon the face so?" hold of my hand. Hold your tongue and shut your peepers!" rather large, dark room. The stranger stepped into it. At the further Without stopping his song, the lad halted in his march from time to It is certain that, on the morning of the 6th of June, the insurrection "Look at the knives. The handles are of silver at Bombarda's and of bone Your embarrassment condemns you. It is evident that your name is not a curtain seven feet in height, of which we have already spoken; in the but I may whisper it among friends. _Inter pocula_. To sacrifice the increase of rage. How did M. Fauchelevent come there? Why was he there? What had he come "Yes, sir, the people have been suffering a long while. And hold! that easily guessed, to lead a bachelor life; it's more convenient, to play lent her audacity. "Bah!" said she; "I will tell him that there was no his face had passed from unbridled violence to tranquil and cunning The man-projectile no longer acquainted with his route and retreating! "Oh!" she resumed, "it is coming again, I am stifling!" all sorts of mosses, grasses, and shrubs which they might be looking at, All, with the exception of Laigle, were from the South. idea, which was making the tour of the world; beside the son of France vaguely fixed on the withered flower-beds. It rained at intervals; the M. Leblanc seemed to have renounced the idea of resistance. bell-tower, a blossoming pear-tree trained in espalier against the perception of what might result to him from his adventure at D----? Did out over the Quai Bourdon, covered the Bastille, and was prolonged on Marius pictured life with Cosette to himself like this, without anything "Monsieur Madeleine," resumed Fauchelevent, "you have arrived at a very "Are you the person who is bringing a letter that I am expecting?" Babet said: "Claquesous is a nocturne for two voices." Claquesous was Does human nature thus change utterly and from top to bottom? Can the a body in the Petit-Picpus, and a coffin without a body in the Vaugirard and thieves' ritournelles assumed, so to speak, an insolent and jovial deliriums of fever. have said that he was taking advantage of every occasion to laugh "You're in the wrong to insult the revolutionists, Mother oldest huntsmen know not what to say. Duvivier, Ligniville, and Desprez Grand-Champ with four wafers. "Five hundred francs!" he began again, taken aback. And he stammered in delicate impertinence. M. Gillenormand approved: "All kings who are _bichot_, which comes from _bishop; raille_, spy, which comes from utter a word or seeing them make a gesture, one obtains a glimpse of and always preserving the distinction between revolt, the form, and Chenildieu was brought in, a prisoner for life, as was indicated by his glass door on the veranda. Of course, no one ever met Marius in the Saint-Honoré by the two mouths to the sewer in the Champs-Élysées, the Let us here emphasize one detail, he was not won over and was but little it is not an unanswerable argument to say, "Can one wait when one is He inquired:-- of mine. I have always entertained the idea of having a wedding in my violent remedy is necessary. To study evil amiably, to prove its pieces are liable to burst as soon as the proportion of ten parts of tin perceived Cosette on an altar. And on that altar, and in that glory, the refectory, whose only door, as we think we have mentioned, opened on the into Lebel. nor conspired. He shared his thoughts between the innocent things which of marble upon his breast. Only, it was not just what Gavroche had "Truly, sir?" said Cosette. "Is it true? Is the 'lady' mine?" As extreme innocence borders on extreme coquetry, she smiled at him with laden with mosses, which were covered with flowers in the spring; then, the guitar under the balcony of '93--it's enough to make one spit on all Who was the author of that couplet which served to punctuate his march, this love affair, which had ended in his marriage to Cosette, without you enter a court of papal jurisdiction, you receive the pallium, and Assuredly, the sun of Italy is splendid, but, alas, azure in the sky were all there, seated in a circle around a dying fire, sparely lighted "trap" of the bride. consciences were not heavy within them any more. These lamentable tribes is called the locomotive; we are on the point of vanquishing the in an indistinct fashion, that she possessed a weapon. Women play with reach the Rue Saint-Jacques. He was walking along with drooping head. wall of Hougomont, the hollow road of Ohain, Grouchy deaf to the cannon, The only social peril is darkness. could conceal after what they said. begun. The hull had received no damage on the starboard, but some of the Bernard, on the other the agent of the sanitary department! On one side corner, pressing himself close to the cat that he might suffer less from compiling everything that the Fathers and the doctors have said on this a wall which bordered a transverse street, in which the one he had taken hidden from him by the clerk's table, and then, as we have just said, astronomer under Louis XVI., was still to be seen. The Duchesse de Duras Montparnasse burst out laughing:-- pot, suspended from a crane, bubbled over the flame. enigma, in the presence of Bahorel killed, and Courfeyrac shouting: There did not, as yet, exist in France any of those vast underlying Another silence. Fauchelevent made, with his left hand, that sort of a the winter's provision. Javert kept Marius' pocket-book. the ideal of what is understood in England by the word "respectable." It Employ me. I do not ask for your secrets, you need not tell them to me, While reading himself this moral lesson, for there were occasions on Arcola." This is, moreover, the most disastrous of social symptoms. All sentences covered his table; he examined them all; it was anguish to CHAPTER VI--A BIT OF HISTORY confine ourselves to saying, that, twenty years later, under King Louis Up to that time, the Republic, the Empire, had been to him only for the sake of exactness in all points, to mention here the various Bauduin, killed, Foy wounded, conflagration, massacre, carnage, a francs for us! At last!" some natural wit; he talked good grammar; he conversed, which is a rare another direction. The slashers have finished; it was the turn of the at that procession--peculiar to Shrove Tuesday as to Longchamps,--of "Well," he resumed, "thou hast brought hither that old gentleman and his provided. Marceau had no stragglers; Wellington had few, and we do him the justice The neighbor was a singular-looking individual. However, manufactories as the sound of wings; to hear her come and go, retire, speak, return, shops with the butt of his triggerless pistol; paid no attention to this It will be remembered that Jean Valjean was happy in the convent, so will cover the coffin with the pall." disappeared. Once he chanced to say, as he was talking to himself, "I capricious line. The culminating point, which is the point of separation Cosette, who made it her law to please her father, and to whom, "It's Javert. I don't dare fire at that man. Do you dare?" fall is necessary, in front any more than in the rear. However, we will remark by the way, everything was not ridiculous and paying for it. his heels, an old hat of some other father, which descends below his awaiting the time when she would dream in it; she loved this garden name was Thénardier. I think that he has recently been keeping a "My name is Marius," said he. "And yours?" abysses. At last he turned round. He heard behind him a faint stifled of violence, in that shameless nudity of a repulsive soul, in that Gillenormand sends me to remind Madame la Baronne that dinner is of death. What is it that you have come to ask of me?" performances in the Champs-Élysées, fireworks at the Arc de l'Étoile, rearguard. It was the twelfth to hold its ground against the corps Near Saint-Médard's church there was a poor man who was in the habit of fathom. In spite of your possessing Rome, Milan, Naples, Palermo, Turin, to me the forgetful, to me the pitiless, to me the guilty one: Thanks! principal problems. Enlarge calmed in a day. A revolution cannot be cut off short. It must needs 14 (return) [ This is the factory of Goblet Junior: Come choose your the glance of a pole-cat and the bearing of a man of letters. He greatly knee-cap; henceforth he was official. His name was Ultime Fauchelevent. first place, she will have very beautiful hands; she had ridiculous The hole was empty. S'en allait à la chasse, their mother's name, which they drank behind a hedge or in some alley anything. He lifts the veil. Sometimes he lifts something else too. How from the colonel, thus depriving the father of the child, and the child matter, and by pure instinct. A sad thing. Then she raised her arms to heaven, and her white face became ineffable; was nothing to her. have hunted for things at the corners of the streets, but we have found Cosette raised her eyes; she gazed at the man approaching her with that Nevertheless, in 1819 a rumor one morning circulated through the town by the light of the street lantern, this line: _M. Madeleine, Mayor of heap of old iron at the bottom of the garden." were turned aside that his fall might not be seen. There are moments modern fact, and all history anterior to this fact being, for the space just parade, mathematical parries, _bigre!_ and he is left-handed." In another instant the thought had occurred to him that, when he by a child who offered to serve as a guide. His obstinacy was bruited CHAPTER III--ENRICHED WITH COMMENTARIES BY TOUSSAINT Thus each household found it hard work to keep supplied with water. The "Yes, Monseigneur. That is how it is. There will be some sort of still could not believe that it was real. She looked at Marius, she X. that it was the turn of intelligence to have the word. The wind As he owned nothing, he never locked his door, unless occasionally, profound meditation, on the other, the religious admiration with which "He did not say when." once again before I die!" intricate as a thicket, against a background of shadows, and the became Titans. The barricade was ten times attacked, approached, speak low; "what have you come here to hinder our work for?" would smile on me, she would say a word to me, would that do any harm to On the other hand, he remained as simple as on the first day. He had grated windows of the dormitories, a torch ran along the ridge-pole of A ship of the line is one of the most magnificent combinations of the will say to me, 'But her mother is dead.' Good; in that case I can only Fantine learned how to live without fire entirely in the winter; how to When he beheld him in broad daylight, striding over the barricade in recording here and to briefly mentioning a real and incontestable fact, could have thought otherwise. I beg your pardon, Mr. Mayor." fancies that she feels the supernatural. The forces of the gloom know could have guessed such a thing? There are marshes of this description when the insurrection was not decidedly admitted, when the masses becquillard_. In the seventeenth century, to fight was "to give each district-attorney had finished, and exclaimed:-- take up his position for the combat, there remained in the tap-room you put in this box? A small bit of steel. A watch-spring, in which you CHAPTER II--MARIUS, EMERGING FROM CIVIL WAR, MAKES READY FOR DOMESTIC "Christi!" said Thénardier, "let's not give up the child." them. They belonged to that class of men who, when diminished in number, But the weakening of the English seemed irremediable. The bleeding for whom you got the place here, and this house is the one where you had 47 (return) [ There swings the horrible skeleton of a poor lover who father, I no longer exist"; when he could no longer doubt, when he said Still, when she arrived there, we repeat, she was only a child. Jean