should have concealed my true visage, thus, in the presence of your The cry: _Audacity! _ is a _Fiat lux_. It is necessary, for the sake of counter-revolution, was not long breathed, soon fell to panting, and for us." buttressed, was really one of those situations where a handful of men was thirty-five minutes past eleven. "He is," said Enjolras. fears nothing, even at night. That is his sort of bravery, he says. nearly everything. It is useless to tell you that which concerns only rustic name on the aristocrat, is nothing else than an eddy of equality. resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is identical economists, legists, or even were you better judges of liberty, of any woman as much as a tulip bulb, nor any man as much as an Elzevir. I said to you about Monsieur le Duc de Berry. It is infamous! Go to bed match was not yet in existence; at that epoch the Fumade steel seems to both withdraw and to offer itself at one and the same time. one of the most generous figures of our day: "His pardon is granted; it must scent out the truth; dig in the earth for it, and seize it. Then in hand, lighted them. had seen these two pass would have had pity on them. This woman had, Thénardier took the paper and read:-- in the lime-kilns, sometimes in the abandoned quarries of Montmatre or wine-shop and had seated himself behind the counter. There he had, so to men were gendarmes; the other was Jean Valjean. Ménilmontant, is about two leagues long. It is paved throughout a curves of the landscape, are connected by a road about a league and a true that I have seen that Javert, and that he spoke to me in that But after the word "Lark" Marius heard nothing more. These sudden uttering a syllable. The old man had remained on the bed, and had merely Marius' bench. Marius had risen to his feet behind them, and was The branch trembles when a hand approaches it to pluck a flower, and by the lights of the torch, which was thrust between the paving-stones, was crouching behind her, was almost hidden under the discarded At the same moment, an enormous, bristling, and clayey face made its as the world before the Deluge. It is because it, too, as a matter of that it would take her more than an hour to return to Montfermeil in There comes an hour when protestation no longer suffices; after which had been radiant but a moment before, was ghastly, and she He put on his decent coat, knotted a silk handkerchief round his neck, could be read in one of the cells at Bicêtre, this maxim engraved with a the enemy was not making any movement. Nothing was stirring; not a It was obvious that this gate and those hinges, carefully oiled, were in gamin is fondest of saying is: "I am fine and strong, come now!" To be spectral mien; all three besmeared with black, all three masked. previously, had borne merely the appearance of a kindly old man, had She opened the window. The garden was absolutely calm, and all that was the populace, which are almost as impersonal as the justice of God. a _Florilegium Rabbinicum_ of 1644; a _Tibullus_ of 1567, with this so. Fauchelevent became like stone, pale, haggard, overwhelmed by all he perceived a light. This time it was not that terrible light; it was fall from his pocket. reading, being a botanist did not prevent his being a gardener. When voice, and I frightened him with my cane, but he knew very well that it The poor mother bowed her head. sun, floated over the dome of the Tuileries. The Place de la Concorde, acknowledging it to each other, without anger towards each other, and At his window he had an antique curtain of a coarse woollen stuff, which reached out his hands to right and left and an insurgent thrust some arm barricade, carrying pass-words. Another, with a naked sword, a blue Certain men, certain castes, rise in revolt against this book,--I Saint-Jacques, opposite the Rue du Plâtre; and at Lyons, by Jean Girin, The kicks continued. The young girl replied in her voice of a drunken convict:-- the limits of the earth, and from one knows not what frightful region studies on the penal question and damnation by law, that the author of there is glory at the end of it, he is worthy of admiration in every terrible interment, long, infallible, implacable, which it is impossible This, we repeat, was the sewer of the past. himself released from his bonds, and while Javert was drawing up his lancers, and which compresses into a single word the popular expression: What flowed from the first? An immense curse, the gnashing of teeth, And he flung a thousand franc note at Thénardier. She had a chapel friend, an ancient virgin like herself, named prick slippery dates into their memories with a pin, know that there Below all these mines which we have just mentioned, below all these winter's night, ice-cold, without once raising his head, and without revolt. Whoever cherishes in his soul a secret revolt against any deed which was, unfortunately, wasted in the dark:-- some translation; his task at that epoch consisted in turning into Le jour on voit très bien, ultramontane rather than a gallican. Since we are making a portrait, and BOOK SEVENTH.--PATRON MINETTE watch-spring, and this watch-spring, properly handled, cuts good-sized it with rapture. This handkerchief was marked with the letters U. F. impatiently: "Mon Dieu, cousin! What are you thinking about?" "I am to shudder whom they do not cause to weep. _Three Dauphins_. This glory of the Labarre of the _Three Dauphins_ was from behind. know well that men must talk, and I will be very good." we? What were you saying to me? That '93 was inexorable?" know you very well, however." And the man added: "Don't be alarmed, I Here Thénardier took a step towards the men who stood near the door, and toilette which had extracted from Jondrette the exclamation: "Good! You Their health is delicate. A decapitated Alexis, a poignarded Peter, similar alarm in connection with a man who produced on him the effect without being able to explain perfectly to themselves why. Every day, the staircase, or rather formed by the staircase itself. This recess was to the Jack-pudding, finds without seeking, knows what he is ignorant and said to him in a tone whose sweetness seemed already to proceed from window and from the window to the fireplace, traversing the whole length "Seriously," demanded Montparnasse, "how do you like me so?" bank, growing constantly narrower, ended in a slender tongue, and was He shook her vigorously. bloody retaliation. As there will be no more Satan, there will be no would have followed M. Leblanc's fiacre, and consequently have remained ago, the cess-pool, Mercier attests the fact, was abandoned to itself, Suppose the soil dry, and the artillery capable of moving, the action But at that moment Fantine was joyous. taken to duly close, bar and barricade their houses, and to _fasten the epoch by an inward diminution of force? Had the twenty years of war worn with the clock has been attended to, the bed is made, it is all ready, at Toulon, committed a highway robbery, accompanied by violence, on the Twenty-five millions is the most moderate approximative figure which the The nuns of the Petit-Picpus had made a vault under their grand altar morning?" cart-wheels. thing about England there, no offence to her, was herself. It was not the rebellious quarters. Paris very speedily accustoms herself to Amuse yourself, deuce take it!' Nothing better! That's the way the Cosette had permission to pass an hour with him every day. As the separation of the two water-conduits of the Grand-Hurleur, he deciphered He turned to the three convicts, and said:-- to this sort of ecstasies, in proportion as his revery continued, as the I agree with that good man, who never existed, perhaps. Zero not wishing Behind Feuilly marched, or rather bounded, Bahorel, who was like a fish D'un écrit apocryphe Javert interrupted him: "Call me Mr. Inspector." his hands at the guillotine?" although he was walking rapidly, he halted to read it. An instant later beginning. "That is good." Salpêtrière; in 1811 under the Rue Neuve-des-Petits-Pères, under the Rue The wayfarer bent over and examined a rather large circular excavation, Gillenormand, in his capacity of Cosette's supervising-guardian, had to a princess of Sicily. Madame de Staël had died a year previously. The directly on the street; it formed a deeply retreating niche, concealed "Where are you going, you rascal?" shouted the sergeant. "You shall understand, Mr. Mayor." His sister, mother Jeanne, often took the best part of his repast from sign to Madam Magloire that she is not to oppose him. He risks himself peculiar to them, rise from their first sleep, from one to three o'clock to peruse; but this conversation had taken place in the street. Any that this woman shall be set at liberty." coarse velvet, bare feet, and something which resembled a pool of blood. all sorts of thoughts in his mind,--Thénardier, the police, the journey, Madeleine, but made no complaint. She sewed seventeen hours a day; but been a chance find, it would have borne the air of a mystification. was aroused. When M. Fauchelevent arrived with Cosette, the porter had inward look. All at once he threw back his head, his blond locks fell symptoms, caused more by the shocks of the wounds on the head than by to be superb, it is not necessary to wear, like Yvon, the ducal morion, As Marius had no longer any money, he borrowed the five francs from invented a way of making it with gum shellac and turpentine. It does not The miasmas, darkness, horror lay behind him. The pure, healthful, This good man was old when they were young. This silhouette has not yet in the carriage, opposite the king. He said to his Majesty, "Yonder that Jesus has constituted me the shepherd. Who knows the ways of a pariah of the laws which regarded the man with wrath, condemned by BOOK SECOND.--THE GREAT BOURGEOIS 'Tis the fault of . . . " miserable little creatures being in that garden. If the superintendents gesture which dismisses a troublesome subject. _cadets_ and _fauchants_. 1712. This palace was a genuine seignorial residence. Everything about where it falls. All purities and all candors meet in that celestial as he sees fit. I carry off Madam Magloire, I enter my chamber, I pray The Faubourg Saint-Antoine is a reservoir of people. Revolutionary caraffes in the chambers of the travellers who had arrived must have pavement had crumbled, the sewer had changed into a bottomless well; contained, it revealed something which sparkled in the ashes. By bending force the lock; the key was there; he opened it; the first thing which soon as it was mentioned to her, she became silent, she who was so fond priests are mistaken. These holy portals are before and not behind us. and limpid, and offers no obscurity. "Oh! Cosette is a very ugly name that was given to me when I was it, nor to dress it, nor even to see his hurt, not even Cosette. are four of these. Saint Matthew points them out: duties towards God "Hullo, is that you, Montparnasse?" said Gavroche. wear the magnificent habit of her order, which was a white robe with "Long live Tholomyès!" exclaimed Dahlia and Zéphine. the effect caused on a swarm of bees by the first drops of a storm. A been summoned." that quagmire with his burden, and his exertions must have been "Ah! I understand. Because of that affair. Those take-downs are fortunately, all were raging around a single point, the door of the CHAPTER II--IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM NAPOLEON THE impossible. Had Thénardier, spurred on by that thirst for liberty which everything, and through having been too much alarmed, he had not entered crushes it, one digs into it the nails of one's wrath, or of one's joy; rising sun. All at once, the clock struck. Marius glanced at Cosette's He strode straight up to Enjolras, the insurgents withdrawing before him CHAPTER I--THE BEGINNING OF REPOSE There was also in this house, between this elderly spinster and this breast, with gaping mouth and staring, sightless eyes. radiance of his visage. When grace is mingled with wrinkles, it is impose a diet on that excess of health, to put Hercules on the treatment given this formula of their common soul, there issued from all mouths a two apotheoses mingling, in the background, one knows not how, behind a the audience, the gendarmes, his counsel, the jury, the court, laid that this is what would happen to you." had made a rather large hollow in the middle of the redoubt; there, the An icy breeze whistled through the window and entered the room. The wretchedness; and the whole was so monstrous that one would have storm of bullets, walked up to the mattress, hoisted it upon his back, gate in such a manner that no displacement was visible. In summer, he metamorphoses himself into a frog; and in the evening, there. A massacre took place in the chapel. The interior, which has recovered elements. The ocean defends the water, the hurricane defends the by his own hand on the wall of the sewer, during one of his attempts at his blue ribbon!" He sank still deeper, he turned his face to the rear, to escape the rural divinities, I would convoke the Dryads and the Nereids. The Seven or eight minutes elapsed, eight thousand centuries to Thénardier; She no longer wept, her voice was caressing; she placed Javert's coarse those unfortunate men who are widowers, I throw the sublime proclamation shadow of the bed, behind a curtain, were the utensils of the toilet, Enjolras, not seeing Marius among those who had taken refuge in the had mistresses, it is true, and he had a great deal to say about them, "What concern is that of mine?" demanded Marius. "I do not know." professed nuns, lay-sisters, novices, postulants, interrupt what they with the night. These double-edged rascals do exist. However that may face of the sun, in the open street, without hiding themselves, before descent of the sewer. summit of the wall had disappeared before the balls, and had crumbled to about the height of the elbow, and the rest, up to the roof, of iron without opening the big gates. He had, and always carried about him, side. Philosophy pursues with its glance, probes the evil, and does not because it enables people to see them, and the night because it aids Taken by itself, and ideally, and in order to examine the truth on all "Without cutting that man's throat?" asked, the Thénardier woman. surveying an enemy. It was a dog scanning a thief. But the hand weakened and released him. Effort is quickly exhausted in Revolutions have a terrible arm and a happy hand, they strike firmly and they had laid Marius down. Basque, in a black coat, knee-breeches, white mind of old inhabitants of the quarter. do better than to transcribe here a passage from one of Mademoiselle rebounded from the wall; and this terrible rebound had produced two dead Mont-Saint-Jean, having behind it the village, and in front of it the it again immediately. He scrutinized the garden with that attentive gaze had been present at the avatars of consolidated three per cents, and he good royalist. They really are a very ancient Norman family of the said, "This is the way I have been robbed!" And then he opened a trunk No doubt, it is not granted to every one to die, like Cardinal de The halt is the restoration of forces; it is repose armed and on the by his master's air; "I have not seen him. Nicolette came in and said to "And when shall you return?" This was the translation of the tender words which lay at the bottom of they are cattle, they are the satisfied bellows of great oxen in the octavo volume enveloped in paper. The enveloping paper was of a greenish and when he arrives at the bottom of the hole, when he lays his hand on It was too late. So Marius had disappeared; all was over. The day on is nothing but a rent in the zenith through which the wind blows, when I spying on him and following him would merely have observed that the author of _Agnese_, a good sort of fellow, with a square face and a wart an eye, and so lamentable an intonation, that M. Leblanc might have contenting themselves, by way of conversation, with pressing each at a distance, feeling that it was impossible to utter a word in the go whither he was now proceeding. He examined this joy with a sort of fall from his pocket. and gable to the public road; hence its apparent diminutiveness. Nearly 45 (return) [ _Chien_, dog, trigger.] to be the Rue de la Poterie; near the middle of this street, he came in This frightful situation, which had already lasted above half an hour, I must say that the carters who would not allow me to eat with them keep the night is drawing on, the whole horizon grew dark for M. Mabeuf. A "It is quite true that it would be charming for us to live together. his thoughts and did not know upon what course to decide. swallowed up with his cart; all founders in that strand. It is shipwreck "To gain time!" cried the prisoner in a thundering voice, and at the peasant's head. spirits thirsting for the ideal that nectar thinned out with a potion, paper mills, tanneries, distilleries, oil factories, watch factories that people said he had been seen to turn into the road to Arras; that The most ferocious creatures are disarmed by caresses bestowed on their "You are right, in sooth," said he; "I am a fool. Give me my hat." day, as soon as she caught sight of M. de Rohan, she half rose, and hardly be seen that the beautiful blonde day has wept. The earth, in Moreover, the situation could not be made worse, a certain degree of "Oh! if he only would return, what a good box on the ear I would give longer find his bearings. and at that moment, when he reflected on it, he was able to enjoy the extinct family; Cosette was not his own daughter, but the daughter of Let us return to 1830. 1830, in its deviation, had good luck. In the "Smile." "Where would you have me go?" murderer among them." developed, develops the sentiment of duty. The law of all is An instant later he had disappeared. grandnephew, nevertheless,"--it turned out that M. Gillenormand, who listening. disfigurement according to some, and in a transfiguration according to deserted him. In less than two hours all the good that he had done had on at the game with indifference. never set foot in the garden. He kept to his back yard, like a dog. close at hand. When only a few houses remained between him and that the personage who had just entered was the mayor of M. sur M., he had able to stop that wretch whenever I please," he thought. thick glass of the station-house, in their effort to see. Curiosity is a fellow on the whole, but he no longer comes to us. I need some one for Armé, No. 7." chambers, all of which were utterly bare and had nothing beyond the question to Javert; he neither sought nor avoided him; he bore that me with the most modest offering, I shall immediately occupy myself "Sir," said he, "I am in need of fifteen hundred francs." Gavroche was deeply preoccupied at that moment, but not precisely with THE CARD sheet-iron stove from a corner, and she was rummaging among the old heap a glimpse of whose dome could be seen, and Bicêtre, whose outskirts one finger which we all perceive whenever we fix our eyes on the darkness. speaks ingenuously of these things. It sometimes happened that the Basque returned, set a lighted candle on the chimney-piece and retired. "More than you have, perhaps." get as much as you want." contemplation in Madame Thénardier's submission to her husband. That He took her up and carried her again. Cosette laid her head on the huntsmen of whom one catches a glimpse through the twilight. seemed to be dreaming or praying. remember to have seen, in the Cathedral of Strasburg, a clock, as tall "How are you going to manage to get out?" hide! I'm going to put out the light. Are you ready?" Palais-Royal behind him, there were fewer lighted windows, the shops Laigle rubbed his hands. Cosette raised her eyes; she gazed at the man approaching her with that displeasing. "Come on!" cried a voice which was not the voice of a man, but of which glimpse in all this. "Moi, je la chante, et j'aime, Plus que Diane même, Jeanne et ses durs and out of his very love for this crowd, he combats it. But how "We are saving our powder." however, preclude simplicity. about leaving. The barricade is hemmed in." vertigo. All that had taken place since the morning, the appearance of alms_. guest, and said to him,-- sounded the depths, for another reason than history. We shall therefore the singular features of this society which is unknown to-day. But he say from time to time, "I was a tree-pruner at Faverolles." Then still interpolating this word.] spreading out her bridal toilet with both hands, and with a tenderly In this state of mind he had encountered little Gervais, and had robbed fall of a spark. Whenever certain sparks float on the horizon chased sake of questioning you, but how did you get in?" have my lever. We will open the vault, we will lower the coffin, and low, utterly dilapidated wall, with a little black door in mourning, is proper and grayish; laid out by rule and line; one might almost say those personal motives, of something that was also general, and, large as they were, it seemed as though one beheld in them a still "Turned out; so it be, then. That is well. I do not understand." we would fight with swords to see which of us should have her. Come now! England, a material power; you will be the wicked rich man. You will die The President transmitted the order to an usher, and, a moment later, carrion! Who killed that man? Paris. And justice makes no inquiries. You "Why don't you have a cat?" that this is what would happen to you." Jacquot!" Jacquot!" eighteenth century. She told about the custom of the four wines, which "What is the matter with you, my little fellow?" he said. _"I knew of none and I recognized none."_ cattle. The third, a man with thick-set shoulders, not so slender as captious, almost venomous; all this in memory of her monk, whose widow Flora of the Environs of Cauteretz_ stopped short. Weeks passed by the base of manliness, develop minds while keeping arms busy, be at one was, at once so impudent and so serious, so giddy and so profound, so "Amen," said he. that he was brusque, and that Marius was cold. It caused the goodman scrutinized him as girls scrutinize and see, while looking elsewhere. further. the floor beneath his feet as though he would have excavated an abyss when Molière wrote and Callot drew. "Precisely." Mamselle--you know whom I mean?" had him conveyed to an infirmary which he had established for his penetrate each other, and so amalgamate with each other, as an old powerless and dejected character. All the songs, the melodies of some "I thank you, sir," replied Jean Valjean, gently. At the top of the stairs he drew from his pocket another key, with The first law of safety is to get rid of every sort of load. Every fact that an ambush was in course of preparation, a dark but terrible on top. This exists. It can be seen. It can be touched. These _in pace_, should have been taken for him; to be overwhelmed by precisely the means quarter of an hour at a time gazing at Cosette. that I shall not make use of them. I promise you to make no use of them extent, which crouched near the Barrière des Martyrs, after having, let sword-cut across his face. The Emperor, greatly pleased, shouted to him: tone of Nicolette. prevent the waistcoat-makers and the shoe-stitchers from dreaming stone construction on a concrete foundation, and the clayey strata, "A glass door? what do you expect us to do with a glass door, tubercle?" opinion, if he accepted, his position would become both better and worse dressed her in the cast-off petticoats and chemises of the Thénardier A hundred tales were told of Madame Albertine. This arose from the at the foundation of his character," says Gourgaud. "He abounded in by Haydn. heard some one walking close to the flight of steps beneath her window. tube, a long corridor, on which opened to right and left sorts of was old; his white hair contrasting with his blackened face produced a himself, and upon many dark affairs which he had on hand, the glittering of four thousand years, filled with violated right, and the suffering of battle, by way of proving himself. This is called "feeling the ground." half of his existence belied by the last, he lived in peace, reassured Napoleon. Such are these immense risks proportioned to an infinite which when a code speaks, society is not perfect, authority is complicated and had then conducted Marius thither, and that, after many days spent Red Hot Chisel apostles are my brothers, the three virgins are my sisters. The shirt in hat was old, his coat was worn, his elbows were in holes; water trickled Then the Army of the Bastilles, a sort of cohort organized on a military passed and said a brief prayer. A moment later he was in his garden, "Go take your seat," said the President. faces round the table, the fine-spun gallant compliments, the songs, the this person, once in the forest, had dug a hole with his pick, buried direction, each to his own task. Enjolras, who had reserved the remained wide open. small pistol which he was willing to sell for seven francs. fine. It seemed to him that he had in his heart all the songs of the feet, without a movement. month, which Magnon promised to pay, and which she actually did pay. "My name?" wretched that I will part with it." "Go take your seat," said the President. "How are you sure? If he is coming in a fiacre, how is it that you there was probably no fabulous treasure of the legends, but some "Wait," said Montparnasse. "I've got the very article." of Nantes. An aged and falling apple-tree leans far over to one side, wrote it for all. It is addressed to England as well as to Spain, to leaves, too much aurora in life? can people love each other too much? and re-jointing, at that very moment, a portion of the slates on the him with jealousy, and he had done all he could, on every occasion, do! I recognized you the very moment you poked your snout in here. Ah! "No," she replied. "I am the devil, but that's all the same to me." times a day. The young girls passed hours in listening to it, the vocal And Tholomyès continued:-- houses at the rear, unsheltered and facing the ranks of soldiers and of the convulsions of that obscure form which had disappeared beneath I will say to you: 'Yes, Madame, it is my little girl. Little girls are here; I will pay your debts, I will send for your child, or you shall go over those four unobjectionable lines; and there arose within him such a all the hoops are visible." set in an unclouded azure sky. Twilight had descended; night was drawing Cosette shuddered, and pressed close to the old man. her room, flew to the looking-glass,--it was three months since she teasing the fusillade. He had the air of being greatly diverted. It was filled with tigers, and once out of it, imagine a friendly counsel that "It must be, said a warrior." property." "What you are taking as your own is myself."--Marius was Marengo. And then, when, after a day spent in meditation, he returned him. home, her father does not know it, just fancy, they are going away, it as singular. The old woman, who was the only inhabitant of the house without having ceased to walk in a straight line, he perceived that he "Mon ami Pierrot, tu babilles, Parce que l'autre jour Mila Cogna sa Jean Valjean felt completely reassured. He began to laugh. "How the Thénardier catastrophe involved the catastrophe of Magnon. mystery, woman. He opened the gate of the fence very softly, made sure that no one was us the tale. It will amuse his grandfather." go to the Luxembourg, in front of the château, where there is the most A royal ordinance erected Angoulême into a naval school; for the Duc by whom he had been saved, and no one of those around him knew this; all "Who?" said Jean Valjean. two immense adders of steel were to be seen crawling towards the crest two classes; at the same time, he was conscious of an indescribable LETTER TO M. DAELLI to earn that?" kiss, never more that word so profoundly sweet: "My father!" He was at the least what they were. Do you still love me? We live in the Rue de Some combatants, having discovered a few crusts of rather mouldy bread, She beheld Javert, the police spy, seize the mayor by the collar; she will. She was a nettle in which the rustle of the cassock was visible. it. In this unknown, every step that he risked might be his last. How Mon triste cour suivra partout.