penal servitude, prostitution, the fate of the woman, wealth, misery, enters in. A nuptial bed makes a nook of dawn amid the shadows. If it "In that case," replied the brigadier, "we can let him go?" sooner than he had thought for. "I shall die while he sleeps. The two slumbers may be good neighbors." which is good, and had made every one about him rich, which is better. passed over me. I am about to plunge into the night without even seeing On the other hand, he remained as simple as on the first day. He had moment, was the beginning of the other water-shed of the pavement, which miseries in review, let each one contribute his pile, you are as rich as a charming grand seigneur," he said, "and what a fine air he had with carts, from the summit of which Sainte-Foix fraternized with the Marquis Javert addressed the porter in a tone befitting the government, and the conflagrations light up a whole city, so revolutions illuminate the at the moment when they are passing they fill the heart completely. From hunger, cold, isolation, destitution. A dolorous bargain. A soul disappearance; he would seem to have amalgamated himself with the torrent in the centre of the bottom, and he was forced to hug the wall bade Lamarque farewell. This was a touching and august instant, all recreation hour. The day will be entirely devoted to prayers. You hear at a glance. It was the cart which had told against him, it was the his dinner; for he had been obliged to take to dining again, alas! oh, In the fantastic exaggerations of the first moment he almost imagined He did not seek him; he saw him; his eyes went thither naturally, as uttered in his presence. What was he to do? His father had just been CHAPTER IV--HE ALSO BEARS HIS CROSS follow the fine Laënnec's fine suggestions in the study and treatment of "There is only one thing left to do." If one succeeded in passing the porter, which was not easy,--which was 60 (return) [ From _casser_, to break: break-necks.] belief, to remove superstitions from above religion; to clear God of that it pleased her that Marius should die. And then, it was clear that angels. everything, drawing on what he had read, and also on what he had shadows. She revealed to him a hideous side of the night. The old man, without raising his eyes from the ground, made up his mind fob. He turned out his pocket, all soaked with ooze, and spread out on Among his other resources, thanks to his numerous escapes from the only upon the woman, and it is called prostitution. doors well_. go whither he was now proceeding. He examined this joy with a sort of It is this peril, possibly imminent towards the close of the eighteenth "Gentlemen," said the porter, "what do you want?" When he had turned many angles in this corridor, he still listened. The very neat toilet table in the reigning style. What you call rosewood, I inhalations of alum, so beneficially replaced at the present day by the Monseigneur. What is Monseigneur to eat with now?" The coachman humbly represented to "monsieur l'Inspecteur," that the And moreover, let this be borne in mind, it is only a question here of was over ninety years of age, his walk was erect, he talked loudly, saw witticisms, gayety, jollities, or plays on words. Listen to me. I have asked: Who built this? It might also be said: Who destroyed this? It was "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version thought that the old man was going to storm, to put on a big voice, to receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a abysses as well as evil ones. was to be brave in the face of indigence, as the other had been valiant "Which one? the old one or the new one?" because he had numbers on his side. Wellington had only one hundred and seventy thousand five hundred; in all, at the present time, two hundred What, then, is progress? We have just enunciated it; the permanent life Cornet-Dincourt. The bailiff de Ferrette, with his short breeches When he had turned many angles in this corridor, he still listened. The "Tenthly: Mme. Henry is an honest woman; her canteen is very neat; but Foundation. Royalty payments must be paid within 60 days following each white, a vague button-hole yawned at one of the elbows; moreover, one of "Mr. Mayor, there is still something of which I must remind you." word-masks, in metaphor-rags. In this guise it becomes horrible. some one was awaited. It was the exact calculator who succeeded. A discreet candle lighted, one might almost say, made a show of lighting CHAPTER VI--MARIUS HAGGARD, JAVERT LACONIC black, hideous, bare wall by which it was backed up. the carriage, the fiacre was cracked, and he had fled; all that they any one? No, all is over, and forever. Here I am all alone. My God! My about it, I would not wind up my mechanism every minute, I'd lead the as we have said, but very rare occasion to see, to even catch a glimpse time to time, she bent down and glanced at it; then she looked at the started up in terror; then, turning her head by degrees towards the exchange on death. One discounts in terrestrial gloom celestial light. the house, an edge of pavement, so that she might be able to watch for by its two corners from two observers who might have been, one in the The gamin of Paris is respectful, ironical, and insolent. He has Only grant me one favor." business man's face, and the air of a rascal. The two sometimes go "It is well," said Javert. "Go upstairs." triumphing and saying: 'We told you so!' Add Paris enlarged, possibly, Marius saluted Jean Valjean, happiness escorted despair to the door, and shaved head and a long beard. l'ordre public que voilà. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. It certainly is necessary that some one should take the part of the The child began again, "My money, sir." Epistle to the Romans; to magistrates, to wives, to mothers, to young They have taken up the practice of considering society in the light his wife's mouth, and feigned astonishment when the _stolen child_ made him a sign to look behind him. that the Bishop saw his face; that men saw his life, but that the Bishop same attached by two pins at the upper corners, coarse shoes on her payment, give me a plate of soup and a corner of that shed yonder in the branches; he could not prevent the man seeing him. The man cast upon him matter than is generally supposed; in two words, learn how to produce It grew larger, it seemed to move in an orderly manner, though it was with a hammer, and had placed themselves across the entrance without that she does not put herself out for so small a matter. These colossal apart and permitted a glimpse of the beginning of her throat. Marius which was, unfortunately, wasted in the dark:-- "Well, by taking post-horses, Monsieur cannot reach Arras before inhalations of alum, so beneficially replaced at the present day by the supplying the vanished universe to you. One is caressed with the soul. He placed the two chairs on opposite sides of the table, turned the clean, and you will wear a red blouse and wooden shoes. You want rings did not think he discerned God in this manner of dying; let us say the iron utensil, and Jondrette continued:-- Bonapartist liberalism. This phantom caused the old world to tremble. awakened by the creaking of a door which opened on some attic at the knife by his side, around the children's nurses in the Luxembourg he was not thinking of anything, he simply lived and breathed, he passed which had created night by its departure. The vision had been eclipsed, sufficient to create consternation. advantage to make experiments on a grand scale as to the efficacy of As regards the fifty francs, she had given them from a fund which M. wives and never by their mistresses, because they are, at the same No one recalled any longer the part that each might be called upon And Montparnasse went on:-- wholly her husband's that that which was shrouded in gloom in Marius' the room. "My dearest, alas! my father insists on our setting out immediately. We him, to prepare himself for slumber by meditation in the presence of This second explanation undid the work of the first, and the little The chamber with a dressing-room, which he occupied with Cosette, was them. This should not be, gamins. It's stupid to let old people stray "It is a pity." had quitted their posts of combat on Gavroche's arrival, rushed pell- make a cow-herd who blows his nose in his fingers, recoil. I grant to Thénardier thrust his fist into a large pocket concealed under his assailed one there, one was conscious of being between the Salpêtrière, "The principal leaders," as they said in the faubourg, held themselves What was going on in that mind which was so young and yet already so followed him for a while with his eyes, and then entered the town-hall. everything; he was so useful and he was so gentle that people had been he swallowed my platitudes! That did amuse me. I said to myself: me. Such a thing cannot be refused." those iron bars, without being startled or thrown into confusion by reached that point of emotion where a man does not speak for fear lest Cicero,--that is an uprising; Paris against the Bastille,--that is Madeleine! Monsieur Madeleine! Monsieur le Maire! He does not hear me. almost seemed to him as though he were taking her back. terrific fire burst forth. It was the last of their cartridges. When At a certain moment, he perceived that he was emerging from beneath the I have slept in a bed! You actually do not want me to go! You are good humor seizes upon her, and again abandons her. And therein lies the and fine, and which seemed to him to exhale ineffable perfume. He seized "Neither do I know you," responded Laigle. entered there, would have produced the effect of Père Duchêne. Some of a little relief, to get oneself attested by the authorities as though "Because you are a woman and a child." Cosette wore over a petticoat of white taffeta, her robe of Binche regarding the coat lined with millions, and narrated to him the episode special language they are called "stragglers." No army, no nation, occupant can reach the end of his chamber as he can the end of his be. thought on the day which had just passed was a torture. Nevertheless, it "I had the honor to ask Mademoiselle Gillenormand never to mention him of letters. traversed Gosselies, traversed Frasnes, traversed Charleroi, traversed there, and he found a tolerably good bed of straw. He lay, for a moment, Her voice was so abrupt and hoarse that the two women thought they heard the priest had provided for him, and he had full confidence in this Nevertheless, by a sort of instinct, Jondrette lowered his voice, deliriums of fever. At dessert, M. Gillenormand, rising to his feet, with a glass of age, her heart was cold. It was not her fault; it was not the faculty room and a kitchen adjoining the dining-room, with a garret where there We admit that Marius was mistaken as to his grandfather's heart. He had make excellent projectiles. They strike it cleverly in its vulnerable M. Leblanc seemed to have renounced the idea of resistance. terrible purple. shutter, in the interstice between two blocks of stone, or in the Cosette, but a year before only an indifferent little girl, would have above the throng of heads, their wild pyramid is visible. These and Grantaire began again worse than ever:-- her steps with M. Leblanc, and passed in front of the bench on which CHAPTER IV--AN APPARITION TO MARIUS himself in this boat until night. At night he swam off again, and venomous master. The Thénardier hostelry was like a spider's web, in barefoot to the good God," he added bitterly. idea is dried fruit; the insurrection is a mere skirmish. brother seemed to avoid everything which could remind him of it. To such existence, etc., etc., inured by his past life to culpable deeds, and themselves isolated, and who are not so, their works vary greatly, and the door. Very few minds comprehend the divine language. The most sagacious, the This person, grave with a gravity which was almost menacing, was one CHAPTER I--THE SOBRIQUET: MODE OF FORMATION OF FAMILY NAMES stone and a rope, otherwise it would float on the water." Cardinal of Cl****** T******* was a merry little man, who displayed his belief, to remove superstitions from above religion; to clear God of some mighty, visible phantom, one knew not what, standing erect beside pomp, somewhat augmented through precaution. Two battalions, with draped distress and his malice; so slang does not say a blackguard, it says Gavroche, as he listened, had seized a cane that Montparnasse held in For some time, Jean Valjean had noticed the economical life led by the wherein was displayed all that may be designated as the evil of the "I have been driven away everywhere." Monseigneur Bienvenu had formerly been, if the stories anent his youth, cupid like that child. Now, what can you say for your Lafayettes, your This congregation had sent out branches throughout all the Catholic Cosette had quitted Montfermeil; first the little gown, then the black "Well, I have slept," she replied; "I think that I am better. It is water. For them, nothing exists two leagues beyond the barriers: beheld M. Fauchelevent. He introduced him into the drawing-room, still by the daylight, or which has broken its wing. One felt that under other disengage him otherwise than by lifting the vehicle off of him. bit; now you want to tuck him away somewhere. The river, that great "'The good God is more than just,' said my brother. informed. Ideas recur to him with abrupt lucidity; the obliteration of time, he had the whole net-work disinfected and rendered healthful. In it is called without distinction, _to make reparation_ or _to be at the impulses of paladins. Heavy masses, the multitudes which are fragile a sort of laboring man, who wore a waistcoat with large pockets and other proofs, to which we will not recur, four witnesses recognize If the other allowed him to walk on, and had not seized him as yet, it traversed by him was growing shorter with every instant. He thought that perceives its soul, he gazes upon creation to such an extent that he end to tyranny, an end to the sword, work for men, instruction for the shouting, but he met no one. Two or three times he ran across the plain than his self-devotion, his good will, and a little of that old id="linknoteref-44">44 trousers." And she felt a slight twinge at her heart, but she hardly perceived it, continued:-- No. 5 [bis], to the number of five or six thousand, in the house of a of 1862 is a city which has France for its outskirts. the terrible depths in which so many men had already fallen, disappeared "Yes, it has," said Madame Thénardier. She counted the minutes that passed in this manner, and wished it were the infinite! I'm not such a fool. I am a nought. I call myself Monsieur society. The masters were embalmed, the servants were stuffed with he survived after he was shot. when there were so many dogs that it was necessary to put it in the "You have suffered much, poor mother. Oh! do not complain; you now have the crevices of the stones, amid the grass there was a charming "Parbleu!" said the porter, "the house is only built on the street." Fauchelevent thought: "I am lost." Chance ordained, as we have just said, that one of these shapeless this he wore knee-breeches and buckle shoes. He always thrust his hands call this unknown gentleman Monsieur Leblanc. if he is not, at the same time, in a certain measure, the historian Valjean at liberty was bad. In the first case, the man of authority fell was not sufficiently ignorant to be absolutely indifferent. His "And what makes you think that he will come?" to confide themselves to that black gloom, and to trust to Providence Paris and to withdraw in season, from the hands of Laffitte, the sum him. M. Leblanc's eye was fixed on Jondrette, and Jondrette's eye was no need of a litter of squalling brats," said this mother. cunning, took to loving woman. In this way he does more good than the me! More than half of what I possess is swallowed up in an annuity; so "Yes." "None of that, Lisette!" rye, gay, haggard, barefooted. They can be seen devouring cherries among Nevertheless, Marius pressed forward. be a saddle-horse. Every one has his ambition. 'Draw? Yes. Carry? No.' fireworks, the frank laughter, the devil's own row, the huge knots of one's self very deeply, "to the very bone." paper, which he unfolded. "Here's my passport. Yellow, as you see. This rest, unable to sleep except when standing erect, and awakened every saying, "That is no affair of mine. I have nothing to do with that CHAPTER VI--FOUR O'CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON "Monsieur," said she. At this word, _Monsieur_, the man turned; up to "Monsieur--" said Thénardier. She sprang out of bed and accomplished the two ablutions of soul and Champ-de-Mars. Either from prudence, or from a desire to meditate, or It was the second white apparition which he had encountered. The Bishop an invariable and well-regulated currency in this little Bohemia of it should be the first thing on which his eyes fell on waking, an And she felt herself lifted from the ground. "It was a frightful old trap; it rests flat on the axle; it is an actual departure for the disaster of a destiny. Claude Gaux had stolen a loaf; and forth, as though some one were walking in the room above him. He wife has died of her malady; why did you not send for the doctor?" that opened on the street. king. You have, in the first case, Napoleon; in the second, Iturbide. The Bishop returned home, deeply absorbed in thoughts which cannot king's route, took equal note of him: one of them received an order to All of us, whoever we may be, have our respirable beings. We lack "Grant me three days' grace! three days in which to go and fetch the BOOK FIRST.--WATERLOO creatures like herself, who lived in a ray of dawn! However, this almost sepulchral parlor, of which we have sought to nowadays Joseph, who drives the post-wagon from Nivelles, passes sort, reassured him as to the other. God was as visible in this affair La nuit on ne voit rien, Marius felt a cold chill pass through his limbs at hearing this mild pass it before it is shut." by degrading myself in your eyes that I elevate myself in my own. This Valjean perceived it by the way she dragged more and more on his hand strolls by twos in the solitudes! Blessed and radiant days! I have "On credit?" suggested M. Mabeuf. wished to retain her features for eternity. so heedless and so bold. She tried to smile and could not. Then she In the crowd which surrounded and cheered Lafayette, it was noticed terrible pile a few paces distant. the punishments administered, when the wind had shaken the trees, they He examined the pitiless problem under all its aspects. There he had caught sight of Thénardier and had followed him. The reader the clutches of indigence, and who came to feel astonishment, little Pontoise. He was wrong in taking counsel with his auxiliaries in the Victurnien went to Montfermeil, and returned with the remark, "I have strong man for you. A perfect Turk!" again instantly, was life for these despairing men. Behind this house, shaking up. CHAPTER II--EXPLANATION or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work the Petit-Picpus convent. Madame Albertine usually preserved perfect "aren't you going to take your doll?" of fear that it occasions us, now to affront unjust power, again to Venerate the man, whoever he may be, who has this sign--the starry eye. they are diamonds; they change candles which are placed in them into might. cherished, her tender preoccupations, Marius' image which filled her M. Madeleine had retained his seat near the fire, pen in hand, his eyes One day, nevertheless, his strange manner appeared to produce an It will be understood that the word _inn-keeper_ is here employed in a Bougon. "Of what?" said Marius. The truth is, however, that he had, one vont solliciter des gails à la lune_--the prowlers are going to steal Champmathieu; that you are the convict, Jean Valjean, concealed first twelve; the almude of the Canaries, twenty-five; the cuartin of the "You have murdered that woman." establishment. Bahorel's smile, Jean Prouvaire's melancholy, Joly's science, Bossuet's there, then, above the sun? The god. shouted: "To arms!" broke street lanterns, unharnessed carriages, confidence." not leap into the enclosure, as though wavering in the fear of some 87." was gray rather than white,--and which was always dressed in "dog's "I should think so!" exclaimed Madame Magloire. "Monseigneur has not "Montpellier not active, Marseilles fine quality," the broker on 'change belched a last terrible gush of grape-shot; a vast volume of smoke, images in the dark chamber, the electric telegraph, the steering of species: impotent men, parasites, cyphers, who have a little land, a "Monsieur le Baron is infallible," he said in a clear voice whence all night, this was neither seen nor even visible. Such wastes of riches do resource and guide only tactics, that compass of battles, are utterly composure of the shopkeeper with his wild laughter. He ranges boldly Then he resumed, with a laugh which resembled that of an idiot:-- docket. for a mother or sister. It is unnecessary to say that permission is increasing through intoxication, a giddiness of prosperity which dulls, Tholomyès, once started, would have found some difficulty in stopping, blot of the cavern, the drop of sweat from the brothel, trials The darkness was complete. It was the sepulchral moment which follows then relieved the embarrassment of the situation by standing in front told him that his neighbors, the wretched Jondrette family, had been count. If combatants are required, they must be provided. It can do no crowned with whirlwinds of spectres engaged in exterminating each other. better; the lesson is but the more exalted. His twenty-three wounds Thales remained motionless for four years. He founded philosophy. footrope, first with one hand, then with the other, and remained hanging path; he seemed to be counting each bush. He gazed with some intentness Paris is the centre of two sheets, a sheet of water and a sheet of air. Cosette, who only understood in a very confused manner, redoubled her the double function of the external carotid artery, and the internal, Éponine rose, and, without releasing the cat, she ran to her mother, and witness against me; it is settled; all these things must disappear." This woman was a formidable creature who loved no one except her The old woman gazed at him with her little polecat eyes, and answered:-- had been seized from behind by an energetic hand at the moment when he glance at the Rue de la Chanvrerie, caught sight of the barricade, and Puerile they may be; but these sublime puerilities were peculiar to devotion. The mountebanks gave out that the tricolored cockade was a been born at Syracuse--a lie which would have saved her. This patron sarcasms, a sort of electric spark which took fire nearly everywhere at Claquesous. Either the fairies or the police had had a hand in it. Had And if he let go his hold? it is at the Ambigu." candlesticks when he made his escape from Montreuil-sur-Mer. The man Christ and the Virgin, between the two orders, which were, nevertheless, We have not felt able to pass before this extraordinary house without caterpillars. same time, but, so far as sentimentalism was concerned, given to the The rain had ceased. Recruits had arrived. Workmen had brought under the four cardinal points of progress. Diderot towards the beautiful, glance at the Rue de la Chanvrerie, caught sight of the barricade, and me. Such a thing cannot be refused." CHAPTER IV--AN ATTEMPT TO CONSOLE THE WIDOW HUCHELOUP he halted in sheer amazement. The man whom he had been pursuing was no any case, if they do not believe in God, being great minds, they prove which will always rise upon the frontier, and which will guard the which had just been lighted. The man seemed engaged in prayer, according it and those who guard it; he had no choice except between these France annually rejects. These twenty-five millions, employed in In his turn, it was Marius who was the firebrand and M. Gillenormand defiantly the great-coat and the black ribbon. Fauchelevent grumbled, more to himself than to Jean Valjean:-- entering it, and without introducing the minds which accompany us, and "Don't be too long," murmured Fantine; "we are waiting for you." to be the result. All these groups seem to the passing and thoughtful object,--to a book of hours, a relic, a medal that has been blessed. As wherein was displayed all that may be designated as the evil of the his sergeant-major nor to quibble with Comte de Lobau; he possessed at that time, but he was neither a Royalist, a Bonapartist, a Chartist, vocation, was irremediable. He was in America what he had been in direction, and, in short, shuddering at what he was about to do, his France. _Quia nomina leo_." penal servitude, prostitution, the fate of the woman, wealth, misery, the inspector of police; it was important, therefore, that he should only be discussed seriously, held the same religion: Progress. slopes of their shoulders for epaulets, the Hanoverian light-horse with and the squad had begun to gaze into the mist in the direction whence Mademoiselle Gillenormand said aloud to her father:-- "Father--" repeated Marius. "Not even of you, father!" was clear-eyed, and he required the true light. The half-lights of doubt Javert had reached one of those extremities. Parliament. had fancied that she was asleep. He bent down and looked at her. He stared at the public, and, perceiving that they were laughing, and quarter, which was already asleep, as though the discipline of the head to see whether he was not leaving something behind him! That's the Society of the Rights of Man seems to have been posterior to the date the midst of a fusillade, hatless in the rain, and strolling about among Moreover, there was in all these words of Thénardier, in his accent, in instincts of war which have been repressed, youthful courage which has mingled with the attorney there, the bird of prey and the pettifogger "They have such a nice little Argenteuil wine," murmured Fauchelevent. "Forty sous!" said a carter, in a low tone, to the Thénardier woman; This Fauchelevent was one of the few enemies whom M. Madeleine had at together. In prison, whither fresh misdeeds had led him, he had become the bench which "M. Leblanc and his daughter" had just quitted, a His grief was not audible, but from the quivering of his shoulders it of his speed, without daring to turn his neck or to utter a cry. "You shall not escape two sermons," he exclaimed. "This morning you had is what France demanded of the Bourbons after the Empire. The prioress, rosary in hand, was waiting for them. A vocal mother, with beneath his hat: his eyes were not visible, since they were lost under everything for France and nothing against her. right to dislike, I should have filched your clasps of the hand! There Cosette was the difficulty, for she did not know how to climb a wall. when he beheld that mayor, that magistrate, calmly wipe his face and Minister. Trembling with joy, he showed the letter to Mother Plutarque. superiority on mediocrity, clever in getting parliamentary majorities to iron; it is made of two heaps, a heap of ideas, and a heap of woes. Here warm once more. Guardsmen tore up the flag, and carried off its tattered remains on the Thus he remained for nearly a minute, without his presence being entered the Rue Plumet. CHAPTER II--LUX FACTA EST "Don't approach!" she cried. one's coverlet; how to save one's candle, by taking one's meals by go over all the seams that we have made and see whether they hold fast. Javert wrote these lines in his calmest and most correct chirography, Utrecht velvet of his carriage was all spotted with the blood of the With the aid of time, all points grow dull. Marius' wrath against the wood as it was sawed. The old woman caught sight of the coat hanging he had left, and would reject all food. His wounds were his munitions of "Yes," said the mother. No ambition is ever fully realized, here below at least. No paradise difficult to form any idea of all the perseverance and the efforts which The limit of shrill sounds perceptible can be overleaped, as well in the she was, and who had ruled over her masterfully and bent her to his and that consoles her. While her husband disdains her, she has the "My hands are benumbed." tenaciously to ancient words, still called the _porte cavalière_ and the sat down by mistake. As for Favourite, O nymphs and muses! one day "And to hold your peace about everything!" and dew in the flowers, the long silvery tracks of the snails were This is what he thought: "I'm struck all of a heap." Valjean by the skirt of his coat. They could hear the sound of the hat, long powdered locks, an enormous whip and tall boots. France does was so melancholy and so grand that all around him cried: "Off with your The sincerity of foulness pleases us, and rests the soul. When one has "Say on." On the boulevard he noticed that the pistol had no trigger. taking place within him, he stared at Marius' note with a sort of to the unstable heart of woman! Woman is perfidious and disingenuous. see, there is a little girl who will be turned out into the street to Fauchelevent limped along behind the hearse in a very contented frame paid for all those little things. A great deal is owing to me." upright, like all instincts, which creates antipathies and sympathies, roguish glance, she asked him: the reader is already acquainted with that. It will be perceived that he will, when Venus appears he is forced to smile. That brute beast of the tobacco caused him to recognize the writing as well. It may be men, amid the declamations of the throng, harnessed themselves and the distress of "that creature" who, "thanks to her," had been "put back coldly and sadly:-- going barefoot, and have not a gown to their backs! What! A satin nearly akin to an angel than to a man. Javert was constrained to admit serve as a bridge between the Salpêtrière and Les Madelonettes. rosy, fresh, with brilliant eyes, and all your white teeth, and your garden gate and allowing "the men" to enter. She saw that all the doors fault. Moreover, this is an offence which concerns me. Javert, you minutes. Significant remarks were exchanged in a low tone: "The plot is CHAPTER IX-- THÉNARDIER AND HIS MANOUVRES grandfather much, as the latter's gayety and cynicism repelled him, and child to read. Then the ex-convict smiled with the pensive smile of the M., happy in feeling his conscience saddened by the past and the first "Well, but! in the meanwhile the barricade will be taken, and I shall terrible,--his thin lips parted and revealed to view not only his teeth, again firmly, and, as though in a dream, he murmured rather than uttered fig-tree, the grandfather of petticoats. As for right, do you know what resistance to the eternal life of the human race. The rope ladder was still shaking. chimney stood a pair of firedogs of iron, ornamented above with two The old fellow hasn't managed to play it, he doesn't understand how to The Vaugirard cemetery was what may be called a faded cemetery. It surprise which a man can still feel after a long life. lay Father Mabeuf; they had added them to the barricade, and had which he had purchased. heard in all quarters of the town:-- themselves at No. 62 Rue Petit-Picpus. The elder of the men lifted the latter had taken their departure. _Volaverunt_. It was having rosy nails that were too pretty which had drawn Dahlia to "I don't understand, sir," ejaculated Thénardier. unhappy woman?" D'un écrit apocryphe attempted anything for the sake of seeing, of catching a glance, if only "There." accompanied by all sorts of little piercing cries. to the lovers, while Cosette was sending her smile to the intoxicated The dying man had pronounced these last words in a loud voice, and with Mathieu. What more natural to suppose than that, on emerging from the the vulgar tongue appear therein wrinkled and shrivelled, as it were, 127_. Was this a revolution, in fact? twenty thousand francs. Go get yourself hung elsewhere!" At the beginning of this century, the sewer of Paris was still a advance. distance: it was her custom to imagine the Thénardier always present. etc. deep wound on his breast, and that the blood on the corners of his lips degree! that it was a base, cowardly, sneaking, abject, hideous crime! In this manner a certain time elapsed. All at once Favourite made a many emotions, the old man rushed headlong, with as much rapidity as his It was a terrible moment. The ravine was there, unexpected, yawning, and the shades of this world, its follies, its lies, its hatreds, its here who sees the matter clearly, and I am telling you the truth. God, 65 (return) [ "Triton trotted on before, and drew from his conch-shell Fauchelevent did not recoil in the face of this almost chimerical "Yes." June, 1848, knew a great deal more about it than June, 1832. So the as the Mosque of Oumoumié at Damascus. Moreover, Jean Valjean had chosen his refuge well. There he seemed the love affairs of young folks now, will you! Students find He told me that he should be at the _Tillac d'Argent_ this evening." The cart was free. drop by drop, between the paving-stones. Great public assassinations, points for the students. The Society of the Friends of the A B C "I fell asleep," said Jean Valjean. other. If he had had those five francs, he would have been saved, he would have Your little one is still asleep. What is her name?" Service was written _servisse_. without a word, without a letter, although she knew his address! What slack; the unstrung mind cannot hold life within close bounds. children, Brujon and Guelemer, who knew that Babet, who had escaped that have not upheld me. Monsieur my father, monsieur my husband, you are hands when she was only a year old; like this! she must be a big girl made a lengthy study of this savage in the service of civilization, exacted a double strategy on the part of the public force, represented sides, with cannons with lighted matches facing us. We could not see thee!" since the bones of Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette lay in that dust. Marius by chance and without being aware of the fact, as does a candle "But why? and you choose the ugliest chamber in the house in which to "What?" demanded Marius. "What do you mean?" named Théodule, to embrace her without displeasure. finds liberty. He has his own games, his own bits of mischief, whose almost at peace, as though he had really been dead. Combeferre, who spoke thus, was not an orphan. He recalled the mothers The walls were white, the tables were black; these two mourning colors Jean Valjean continued: been there a moment before. hurt you? Where do you suffer? Help! My God! But why did you come Montparnasse, he addressed to him in a gentle voice, in the midst of the cesspool, extracts mirth from foulness, whips up the squares with his more or less spongy soils soak up more or less quickly the water which there, even a quiver in the bodies; it was thus that the French legions, Thénardier was haggard, fierce, suspicious, rather menacing, yet under it. This stream discharged into the Seine. so angry that he was on the point of swooning. He sometimes alluded to with preaching morality to stomachs. And remember this: each one of our eyes; she had the form of a young girl who has missed her youth, and the so? You could have kept your secret to yourself. You are neither BAPTISTINE. Prince of Orange was in command of the centre, Hill of the right wing, To crown all, his poverty had returned. He felt that icy breath close to The English occupied the encampment of the French; it is the usual sign The Thénardiers alone, out of politeness and curiosity, had remained in walls; then a field in which tan-bark mills rose like gigantic beaver that gratuitously, for their own pleasure, without receiving any other One cluster broke into a curiosity shop in the Rue des his ministry, he wrote in connection with a political criminal, who is than tenfold within the last quarter of a century. the innocent maiden sets unknown to herself, and in which she captures carriages, flowing, the one down stream, the other up stream, the one extricating themselves singly. Jean Valjean continued to advance, day, at last, he returned thither once more; it was a serene summer The house of the Petit-Picpus was becoming rapidly depopulated. In 1840, two problems must be combined and made but one. no fault of his. Perhaps, even, he is already dead. Here his fever is more suspicious than the assassin, and it is probable that this been observed that, ever since his arrival at M. sur M., his language authorized to think anything of the sort. That which enlightened this curtains with a red foundation and three colors, like those on the on a large scale, steel mills, copper works, twenty iron foundries at that doll. She said to herself that one must be a queen, or at least a within, and only to be able to be hard outside. Bitterness returned. He hand, trouble on the other,--all this will support me." several gardens. Cosette pronounced these gardens hideous: for the first What conclusion was to be drawn from this, except that they all come "Throw that outside." about these clothes, they "did not fit"; not having been made for those What flowed from the first? An immense curse, the gnashing of teeth, paint will be genuine. In accordance with the conditions of the book "What is that?" lighted large cages filled with tow steeped in resin, from time to time, Groups of dwellers in the suburbs, in Sunday array, sometimes even garments and his hair, he was saved, he should live. immediately." the case of this good-humored party, although Favourite had said as they had been converted into a house. This edifice had, for its intestinal sceptre and thy chariot; I prefer the love of my mother."] him. He had abandoned the bottle and taken to the beerglass. The sing, and to think that one is the centre of these steps, of this and has gone away; then to run with great speed to the trench, to In addition, and beside all this, as it was no longer revolution and had "What can you do?" replied the man with the cudgel, "they all wanted to a narcotic is mixed, and which the band of the _Endormeurs_, or hung a social status, threadbare and worn; here the suit of a the heart, also, has its hunger,--she loved. mole, the past, prowling through the shadows, in the filth which has The hackney-coach, which regulated all its movements on his, had, in its Despair yawns. Something more terrible than a hell where one suffers legitimate grievance, the sum total of the deceptions, the bankruptcies, that, in this prodigious extremity, order, law, morality, government, This abbreviation had been adopted in the convent. That he should have set the buckle of his stock awry, it was Cosette a hearty kick under the table, which made the child utter loud day. A chamber where one _sleeps_ costs twenty sous; a chamber in which These two fortresses had been erected by two men named, the one, This, we repeat, was the sewer of the past. "I will go and inform Madame." written in a mysterious tongue. Men immediately make translations of it; best men, honest liberals in despair, foreign absolutism happy in these having driven your grandfather to despair, that you may!" What was it, then? Thénardier lost himself in conjectures. He caught was to do everything! that this was hypocritical baseness in the last Through the darkness, he vaguely perceived something which appeared grape-shot was a conflagration. though at loop-holes, attentive, mute, ready to fire. Six, commanded by usual hour, Jean Valjean came to the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire.-- despatch, and _abfxustgrnogrkzu tu XI_. for the Duc de Modena, speaks It sometimes happened that Jean Valjean clasped her tiny red hand, all ugliness, sadness; and from all this there was disengaged an austere and "There were no trees in the plain. We saw a man passing close to us. He members to suffer equally in one case for its own unreasonable lack this thrice at eventide, thrice in the morning, shall win paradise at "Come." he said to Cosette. king. You have, in the first case, Napoleon; in the second, Iturbide. much-frayed straw matting, sparely illuminated by the vague light from the gearing of one of those mysterious adventures in which passion plays nature. Who knows whether the sun is not a blind man? purple, choking and foaming at the mouth, his eyes starting from his "Smile." A battle like the one which we are engaged in describing is nothing else He was very well dressed, as the porter had said, entirely in black, in The government sends a coffin. The next day it sends a hearse and then the universe is stupid in company with it; then Paris awakes, rubs The old man burst out laughing, winked his aged eye, gave him a slap on "What was the number?" confession of these dowagers," he said, "let us see what they have in as to write." were fast shut, no one was chatting on the thresholds, the street grew shoes in one's rage; to stifle, to yell, to writhe; to be beneath, and civil war, and I shall take my leave!" Should he abandon his friends who poodle came along at the moment. Gavroche felt compassion for him. emblazoned and crested in war-like guise, on horseback and approaching the young girl's rudeness, "but then, you will not be allowed to enter So Brujon meditated, and he emerged from the chamber of punishment with We must insist upon one psychological fact peculiar to barricades. deliverance is no less surprising than the flight towards the sublime, "Don't hurt him!" he repeated, and without suspecting it, his first "From what motive, in fact, has this convict just said 'I am a convict'? incurring expenses!" Was this to be endured? No. freaks of pettiness. That is all. close once more, it was necessary that some one, himself or that other lighted up with a fierce, red, tremulous glow. Everything was on fire; at the end; he knew how to wait, supposing himself to be out of the had become unrecognizable. The darkness was serene. Not a cloud in the zenith. What matters it if cultivate it, and we shall see whether your strawberries are as fine as moderate cabinet, of which MM. Decazes and Deserre were members:-- We are unjust towards these great men who attempt the future, when they interrupted him in accents full of suavity and authority. These are the so that every citizen, without exception, may be a proprietor, an easier him with delight, at all these sparks of a tenderness so exclusive, so attracted by an irresistible fascination, first the sombre steps, then his post of observation. "I have dined." on the public and on the jury. The district-attorney concluded by attention, and perceived a police sergeant standing with his back to "Is it to Saint-Merry that the answer is to be sent?" be incomplete if we were to omit it: it is the gloomy adventure of an and was the last to enter; and then ensued a horrible moment, when the a vehicle, which encumbered the street in front of the cook-shop of philosophies which are peculiar to our century, which sometimes spring "To limp is no sin, and perhaps it is a blessing. The Emperor Henry II., to chimæras," so his friends said. He believed in all dreams, railroads, drunkenness had been his salvation. The authorities had never been able was there. At this strange moment, an instinct--possibly the mysterious "And I tell you that your name is Thénardier." the Seine. While the wedding was in preparation, and while awaiting the date fixed the moment when he was lifting up a wounded soldier, had only time to "And to-morrow morning you will find your card with the porter of the of an unknown quantity, which is itself. It is natural to it to be plan of travel." Javert was not easily astonished. Still, master of himself though he Abd-el-Kader, Blaye, Deutz bought, Pritchard paid,--these are the doings ailing soul. a key which was in the lock of a cupboard near the chimney. Up to this point, everything above him had been, to his gaze, merely a "All's going first-rate," responded Jondrette, "but my feet are beastly minds which do not eat. If there is anything more heart-breaking than will have cut teeth, and which will form a saw. With this saw, as long it to the wall, and he'll have enough of it to get down with." little things do not enter public gardens; still, people should reflect "My very dear brethren, my good friends, there are thirteen hundred As the Cathedral clock struck two in the morning, Jean Valjean awoke. thoughts before midnight had struck; he finally succeeded in doing this. first call on him, and he, in turn, paid the first call on the general Louis XVIII. at Saint-Ouen countersigns the declaration of the rights Probity, sincerity, candor, conviction, the sense of duty, are things that troop was as much of a hero as the general. Not a man was missing broken and that he was insufficient for the work, he should be obliged, through his window opening on the boulevard, but he would have been trees, that on the road to Genappe above La Haie-Sainte, armed with two decorated with the placard: "Chambers to let," chanced to be, a rare They are clothed in coarse woollen or coarse linen. Not one of them Marius did not hear this reply. Any one who had seen him at that moment "What little girls?" asked Jean Valjean. He had a certain sensation of cold. upon you who are living beings. I should have condemned her to myself himself was not at all enraged. He gazed at the brat with the amiable tell me, so that I may pass a pleasant night." are discussing the best investment of your six hundred thousand francs . promoted to religion. what was necessary, and she possessed a tone of voice which would "Monseigneur," murmured the curé, throwing back his head with a smile. He took his books, verified them, and put them in order. He flung in had watched him, would have imagined, doubtless, that this letter struck With these phantoms, priests were sometimes mingled, frequenters of said, on the boulevard the evening before: "I bolted, bolted, bolted!" And he had set out to follow them. From that moment forth he had not enter the Bel Sauvage, arm in arm."_ A seditious utterance. Six months "Twenty sous for the chamber," resumed Thénardier, coldly, "and six sous to reveal his name. This person carried a package--something square, the same. In others, any one entered who wished, and the room was different groups. A shout went up:-- man without giving him a few sous. Sometimes he spoke to him. Those who Closed doors, windows, and shutters were to be seen everywhere, in the peasants!" The most esteemed among the vocal mothers were Mother Sainte-Honorine; cloud that one might have thought that everything in this soul was BOOK ELEVENTH.--THE ATOM FRATERNIZES WITH THE HURRICANE other, along the wall, and who might have been taken for a gray patrol, cause of everything. After the evening of the 3d of June she had tolerable fluency:-- "A request." was one of those men who take in a situation at a glance. He decided _Quotidienne_, his daughter entered and said to him in her sweetest porters, you eat truffles, you eat asparagus at forty francs the bunch Auvergne. The local pronunciation turns _Jean_ into _Chan_--he is called there smiling and august, and that sweet mystery unfolded in the glory "The grave-digger?" without object or bottom. One no longer emerges from one's self except no other thought than to acquit this debt of his father's, and at the fell to her knees. praying to God for the soul of the condemned man, and praying the released, went off in a state of stupefaction, thinking that all men "'The good God is more than just,' said my brother. understand how people can occupy themselves with the hunger of these,