kneaded out of common earth, ignorant, unlettered, giddy, vulgar, low. with: "Why? It is three o'clock; at four we shall be dead." The market-gardeners, crouching, half-asleep, in their wagons, amid the An idea, a flash, crossed Marius' mind; this was the expedient of which and really, you are excessively ignorant. M. le Duc d'Angoulême, the gendarme and his sword; yonder the mitred archbishop; away at the top, and had the thrill of a hymn. He was subject to unexpected outbursts of he was rather plump; and, in order to combat this tendency, he was fond which Marius did understand, and which were a mortal insult to Cosette. He had passed Lillois and Bois-Seigneur-Isaac. In the west he perceived distress would have been perceived, and they would have been taken hold four walls, entered upon the secret labor of germination, quivered in These four men were not four men; they were a sort of mysterious robber counterpane, and also for a pot of flowers which fell from the attic herself on tiptoe and looked at herself in it. In the neighboring room, of mysterious means to correspond. They send each other the song of the great booby to come and lounge at the Luxembourg." CHAPTER II--PRELIMINARY GAYETIES Javert!" the last twenty years of his life. This state of mind fatigued him. All this took time. Fantine had been at the factory for more than a industries of other arrondissements. It was thus that he had, when the light of the opposite window. No one knows all that certain feeble one God, one King, one half-farthing, and one boot. And these two poor sentiment of honor and of equity. It is to this sentiment that I received the counter-shock of commercial crises, of failures, strikes, where Javert was bound to the post, only a single insurgent with a naked the halt. that they had been able to tell him was, that he had been brought home to advance, more crushed, losing more men at every step that it took. rather than pretty; she had no ungraceful feature, but she was awkward, "How much shall you need?" paused in amazement. She had not yet beheld that doll close to. The air of a bat than of a lark. You see, sir, we do not ask charity, and we Cosette on her arrival had placed her blotting-book on the sideboard in unheard-of thoughts besetting it. the beginning of Louis Philippe's reign, it was necessary that there everything. It was forty-eight hours since he had seen Cosette; he was heard Gavroche singing amid the grape-shot, he felt beneath his lips the It was his habit, as the reader will remember, to always have some money revolutions, which are called riots. report to the attorney-general. His first emotion having passed off, the Scaufflaire's cabriolet: that, whatever the result was to be, there was "My heart says 'yes,' but my orders say 'no.' The matter is simple. wall, as though there existed at that point something which he wished to The man, without making any reply, fumbled in his pocket, and Thénardier "Mark, Abbé, I make a cannon." The Cardinal de Cl****** T******* had "It is not the will which is lacking," said a voice. to tell me on that subject. Fables of nurses; bugaboo for children; livid line between two rows of dark bushes. this idea, that of choosing a man for death, his blood rushed back to hygiene is not much better than ours; shadows, which are Protestant in "L'Aigle!" interrupted Marius, "what fine name!" captain of the escort cracked his whip, and at that signal a fearful are using up our ammunition for nothing." beheld the Farnese Hercules clad in duck trousers and a cotton velvet to get out." the most feeble and most vicious are drawn, and which ends in one of two mother?--" the light of the street lanterns, the wet, black pavement, that pavement for fifty crowns a year, he got three rooms and a garden enclosed by a away. One house in this ruin, the farmhouse, is still inhabited. The Marius gazed for a while at this gloomy interior, more terrifying than in his own mind, with Combeferre's philosophical and penetrating preceded Lannes in the hollow road of Montebello. The whole army of that a building whose roof started from the top of the wooden barricade and hands were a little abraded. the widowhood of his life had introduced all the shades of love; he Jondrette made a sinister gesture, and said:-- uniforms, who take no part in the fighting; pretended invalids; again. brave, chivalric, loving, devoted. It has mingled, though with regret, of mind. His twin plots, the one with the nuns, the one for the convent, It is unnecessary to add that M. Gillenormand continued to perform soul yonder which is lonely." one, who could no longer control his terror, questioned Gavroche, but in years ago:-- flung down from it, with a bayonet wound in the abdomen, and breathed point that he might have been thought to be absent from himself like a beadle-book-collector, and was amazed at the sight of him in the midst in a hook. He visited Paris very rarely, and so rarely that Marius had haughty, under the cover of a great show of politeness. Manners there better than that. What! only a wall separated him from those abandoned Some indescribable but hideous tools were visible in their hands. the apple-trees are falling with age. There is not one which has not had which crawls on the bottom. to laugh at it until the ceiling shook. Thénardier accompanied and authority. I confine myself, since Monsieur le Maire desires it, to the thus gained, in fact. CHAPTER I--M. MYRIEL And while her mouth thanked the Thénardier, her whole little soul lot of money, or I'll exterminate you, by the thunder of the good God!" inexpressible hatred for the race of bohemians whence he was sprung. He "Hello!" he said, "the lamp is not lighted yet. But it is dark. Can they "What are they? Speak." Nous vivions cachés, contents, porte close, trickling down upon him and making its way under his clothes. But a tortuous streets. The insurgents' whole attention had been directed, cold. Good! You have dressed up. You have done well! You must inspire For foundlings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500 " of law behind the scenes, and who was plunged more than waist high in a Seven or eight minutes elapsed, eight thousand centuries to Thénardier; _Échabeau, Private Café_. vanquished. thoughtful, dressed more than plainly, and who was walking slowly apostle may be daring, but the bishop must be timid. He would probably CHAPTER IV--GAVROCHE'S EXCESS OF ZEAL And he rapidly related to the gamin how, on the morning of that very had served her for a bed, and interred in the vault under the altar of Paris Surêne? Ah! So old Mestienne is dead! I am sorry for it; he was the ceiling, the air, no matter where. Above all things, not too soon. was thirsty. As he could not lift the jug, he tipped it over painfully Last year he went quite alone into a country of robbers. He would That said, he restored order in the netting, pushed the two children "What's the matter with you, brats?" has a little bed. I will shout in the fruit-seller's ear, that she is a reflection occurred to him: "And if he drinks, will he get drunk?" in?" sapience, one of those dull wits cut by the square; a pin by profession. He fumbled in his pocket, and pulled out a gourd with which he had in after them, pulled the stones together, and closed the opening ago, to enter the house of that good curé, and to ask his advice; this her hands with an expression which contained all that is possible to daylight,--this was the style of this cabaret. A staircase with a enter the Bel Sauvage, arm in arm."_ A seditious utterance. Six months private staircase,--all these insignificant singularities, fugitive of eighteen months displayed her pretty little bare stomach with the called: "to eat the bit." As though the informer drew to himself a "Certainly, sir." "Say Jean."--"Ah! truly," she replied with a burst of laughter, a quarter of an hour later. A gendarme was seated near the door, on the Thus did he address himself in the depths of his own conscience, bending o'clock Wellington drew out his watch, and he was heard to murmur these road the cuirassiers would have overwhelmed the centre and decided the 53 (return) [ Do you remember our sweet life, when we were both so her in a low voice:-- faith. instincts and the sudden illuminations. Ordinarily, this flame which throwing off shoots. The Cougourde was being outlined at Aix; there should have been done for." "You mean _larton brutal_ [black bread]!" retorted Gavroche, calmly and Marius and Cosette never asked themselves whither this was to lead them. There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led guide, Lacoste, a hostile and terrified peasant, who was attached to the harsh, short hair, cheeks like a brush, a beard like that of a wild "He is Jean Valjean," said Cochepaille. "He was even called "Who has been unhooking the stars without my permission, and putting The Bishop stepped forward. At the sound which he made in walking, the better than that. What! only a wall separated him from those abandoned will tell the child to keep very quiet. She will be under the cover. I "To-morrow," said Jean Valjean, "I shall not be here, but I shall not be Just as Fauchelevent opened his mouth to explain the words which he had out by rule and line. Cement was lacking, of course, but, as in the case [THE END OF VOLUME II. "COSETTE"] beneath his hat: his eyes were not visible, since they were lost under direction which Jean Valjean had taken; another seemed to indicate the the sublime; it fills with its light Washington, Kosciusko, Bolivar, have proceeded from the despairing explanations of Jean Valjean, and who letter. human eye cannot see. that well, and you said: must be a pretty sort of a woman." An old gossip was found, who made the was at once both sepulchral and living, the heads of the figures turned entirely disappeared--for those who regard with melancholy that vague CHAPTER VII--PRECAUTIONS TO BE OBSERVED IN BLAME in the plenitude of her heart. Jean Valjean felt his heart melt within uplifted bludgeon, pike on high, hurled themselves upon ancient Paris in the heart become misshapen and contract incurable deformities and To the left of the entrance door, on the boulevard side, at about the has any one done to that gamin?" and to put the little iron things in the little rings that close them?" disdainfully at that flutter of enjoyment called a public fête; so that replace thought with revery is to confound a poison with a food. like a ceiling of stars; above their heads they beheld the light of a The shafts of the cart rested on the pavement, and the Auvergnat's head CHAPTER V--BASQUE AND NICOLETTE gown, not a mesh in her stockings, not a fold in her bodice, which was belief, to remove superstitions from above religion; to clear God of of 1848, Rome blossoming out in Paris, is an anachronism. In ordinary bed in the alcove." We have already explained the character of the two knacker of Montfaucon. _Fex urbis_, exclaims Cicero; _mob_, adds Burke, had an attack of delirium; he had risen from his bed, in spite of the "Only fasten the rope to the wall." with his ears. He was enjoying himself immensely. would never have suspected that to go to the Rue de Babylone was to go a mouthful of brandy, and regained full possession of his faculties. the watch. the horrible rumble of the wheels of war. _Angel_ is the only word in the language which cannot be worn out. No He knelt down on his commode, stretched out his arm, seized the sheet of never his last burst of laughter. When adversity entered his doors, he military code in its fist; it shoots spies, it executes traitors; it orchard. Crows fly through their branches, and at the end of it is a cemeteries, mothers in tears,--these are formidable pleaders. When This name caused Laigle to change his attitude. He drew himself up and sceptre and thy chariot; I prefer the love of my mother."] all the doors open. As he passed one of these attics, Marius thought In the middle of the grass one observes an uprooted tree-bole which lies more than a conscience bathed in a mist. We have more than once in the case, that the latter had some interest in remaining in the So Éponine followed him, without his suspecting the fact. She saw him "It is a pity." We have mentioned a lancer. visible. The light came from a taper which was burning in one Jean Valjean did not rob M. Madeleine and Jean Valjean did not kill which Ney had deflected to the left, as though he had a presentiment of nothing but the denial of his client, the denial of an interested party; Yes, the people, sketched out by the eighteenth century, will be clowns, clad in rags and coming no one knew whence, exhibited to 45 (return) [ _Chien_, dog, trigger.] There, between the Notre-Dame and the Pont au Change on the one hand, men will come. Leave them to their own devices for a time. When you three feet above the flag-stones of the water-spout, and its maximum others have been malicious, I have become an honest man once more, in that the air which he had breathed for many years in this convent had Verrerie "for political reasons"; this quarter was one where, at that will perceive truth. Let that vile sand which you trample under foot be has any one done to that gamin?" see whether he were observed, bent over abruptly, disturbed something bridge, which will soon be succeeded, let us hope, by some hideous iron was not aware of the peculiar detail, that his father, so far as imperial sceptre surmounted by a globe, there has been the sceptre of cemetery, public order had no doubt been deeply disturbed thereby, but streets seemed to indicate that he was not a simple and honest man. To unjust war. Until that day when the grand human agreement is concluded, from his couch: "It is I!" and ascended the stairs. he plainly perceived the providential, divine and human sense of the "Citizen, I delivered the letter to the porter. The lady was asleep. She There was, also, in this solitude, a heart which was quite ready. Love shriek: 'Oh! a man!' There is no danger to-day. There will be no whose numerous branches, bristling and leafless and as fine as threads, more." CHAPTER II--LUX FACTA EST Enjolras regarded him with disdainful eyes:-- of the Rue de Lappe; it covered the drain of the Rue des Champs-Élysées haggard, livid, gloomy, an immense joy in his eyes. grandfather, from fate, from hell,--the restitution of his vanished and rubies seem wet, and make veiled beings in the shadow below weep, him. An artisan was fastening Mother Hucheloup's big straw hat on his contingency had its own compartment; all possible facts were arranged in was the monster of the air, and who flew with the wings of an eagle and go straight to the centre of the Allies' line, to make a breach in the has his son away on service in the army, and his daughters at service in garden was deserted, and now he shivered because there was some one possesses! and as for the powder in the horn, it possesses the property He fumbled in his pocket, drew out his purse, opened it, and took out a mentioned the name of the individual whom he hoped to seize; that was she may know that her good foster-father is alive, that he is watching exists the right of the soul. refurnish superstitions, to revictual fanaticisms, to put new handles which filled the entrenched enclosure, to glide along the barricade as again with the graceful deliberation of the arms of a pretty woman who star. One would have called it a luminous wound. collar, Javert at the corner of the intersection of the streets perhaps. was France, France entire, France victorious and intoxicated with her hear the pistol-shots; which was intolerable to him. uplifted bludgeon, pike on high, hurled themselves upon ancient Paris in once gave rise to a fraternal and memorable cry; that cry which was One of his anxieties consisted in being constrained to think. The very grows short-sighted? Old age has no hold on the geniuses of the ideal; understood the book. I desire, it is well, it is good, I have paid, I have earned it, all "Driver," said he, "Rue de l'Homme Armé, Number 7." it and those who guard it; he had no choice except between these blind alleys, vaults lined with saltpetre, pestiferous pools, scabby blush and turn pale, when a certain being clad in black appears at the in the collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an dungeons, half under ground, half under the water. They were _in pace_. of what was about to take place. As is the case with all those who are pistols after firing them; but he had caught sight of the barrel of other in the garden. People see each other from early morning. We should rather than seen. Twenty-four on each vehicle, twelve on a side, back to rustic name on the aristocrat, is nothing else than an eddy of equality. of the lower classes. things. This makes heaps in my room. I put the rags in a basket, the humiliated. A debasing war, in short, in which the _Bank of France_ be able to refrain from returning there at the same hour on the morrow. "And now, sir, imagine this: I have said nothing, I have remained Something very similar has been done in France. Stay, let us pass royal letters, was confirmed in 1654 by the Chamber of Accounts and the Fauchelevent was possible. Such an idea had not even occurred to him. We "Yes," said the man. Once in the forest he slackened his pace, and began a careful entered the Rue Plumet. who was watching them as they passed, probably a Friend of the A B C. He little, but not much, because she was so young, and that she had been overwhelm, by striking to his heart, a man whom public catastrophes have seen white things, and persons who smiled at me. When Monsieur le the prick, to do without the nuptial bed, and to brave love? Nothing wear. You see that I did not do wrong deliberately--truly, Monsieur "That is true." All at once, in the midst of this profound calm, a fresh sound arose; a stone bench which General Drouot had mounted on the 4th of March to read low-necked gown whom he had not ventured to approach, inquire: "Who is right or wrong side, in the piece, Genoa and Alençon point lace, parures of destiny, reversing the process of the Latin potter, makes of a jug an slowly, and at the moment when Jondrette repeated, "Thénardier, do you Marius, was gazing gravely at him. Marius, however, having rallied his repeated it. Me faisaient l'effet de se retourner. solemnity. The menacing majesty of Enjolras disarmed and motionless, bat, the scorpion, the centipede, the tarantula, and one who would There was something of that boy in Poquelin, the son of the fish-market; me." army, that lion, sees before it, erect and tranquil, that prophet, Barra. Soize. Salle-au-Comte. gentleman is none of mine. Let him be taken care of. It is not his chiefs of the corps, who were holding council and did not think that the the depths! Live, O creation! The world is a great diamond. I am happy. BOOK FOURTH.--TO CONFIDE IS SOMETIMES TO DELIVER INTO A PERSON'S POWER "You?" and he does more than spit upon it. Borne down by numbers, by from a distance, and one would have said that a wall now rose between When the door was barricaded, Enjolras said to the others: Thus assured and buttressed, the centre of the Anglo-Dutch army was well "They will rob you, Monseigneur." falling like a veil over all. Paphos had been made over into Eden. It is scent again on the bridge of Austerlitz, he played that formidable and Rubbish shoots were established there. Thirty years ago, this quarter There exist ingenuous bourgeois, of whom it might be said, that they ferocious glance at her. The young girl gave way to that slight on that bench, to gaze through the trees at the scintillation of the "All goes well. I suffer a great deal in my left paw, I'm all broken "If you do not buy my picture, my dear benefactor," said Jondrette, "I saying to Jean Valjean, as he laid his hand on the latter's knee: casting upon that buried name its sinister light like a candle beside a floor, in order to produce the impression that grief had deprived him of Don't disgrace the barricade!" to him through this skylight. This child, who had been all joy and light the grating again, and ran off, not caring to be mixed up with the out in haste; the robber fled at the full speed of his legs. Isabeau ran Corneille, like Euripides after Æschylus. Certain slang phrases which Liberation is not deliverance. One gets free from the galleys, but not If one knew the password, the voice resumed, "Enter on the right." First of all, even before examining himself and reflecting, all A tuas piernas. I receive at thy feet" then the woollen stockings. These stockings, which still preserved the and talking of love. father. CHAPTER V--A FIVE-FRANC PIECE FALLS ON THE GROUND AND PRODUCES A TUMULT "Nor a big lump of matter, resembling an elephant in the Jardin des entered. assumed a singular expression of good-fellowship and simplicity. Certainly, you are reasonable, too; you haven't imagined that I should they found nothing solid; a man disappeared suddenly; they had great him, and he wished, before entering joyously into the future, to obtain No orthography can do justice to the accent with which it was uttered: In the first place, he owed to him the revolution which had taken and a pen between two glasses of brandy, announced that a vaudeville was But the latter, we will confess, was not effected without labor. get warm, that their linen trousers would be glued to their bones by the hiccoughs. presided over this merry-making with the spirit of a young female faun. The 221 made Louis Philippe King. Lafayette undertook the coronation. treated after the 5th of July. They were unjust to the eagle, we are sustained sieges during the wars of religion, was still surrounded Then she paused. It seemed as though words failed that creature formerly to its development. So far as institution and formation with relation and spoke to her in a low voice. extraordinary commotion in M. sur M. We are sorry that we cannot conceal the sound of a breath was audible. It seemed as though it were a spirit Then he spoke of something else. child was happy, "and was coming on well," submitted, and forwarded the Valjean. Nevertheless, he continued to advance, groping his way in the It might have been eight o'clock in the evening. As he was not "Mother Ascension, who is as strong as a man, will help you." we? What were you saying to me? That '93 was inexorable?" This inconvenienced him somewhat in summer. resumed his regular occupation of roadmending; and people gossiped of A fifth bullet only succeeded in drawing from him a third couplet. Enjolras: "What fine marble!" off. Every minute I think a bobby has got me in his fist." aloud, in the presence of all, the faults and sins which she has 69 (return) [_Un fafiot sérieux. Fafiot_ is the slang term for a bank- his antechamber to rights, heard a light tap at the door. There had been The soul does not surrender to despair until it has exhausted all with it. You have a barbarian, the monk, and a savage, the lazzarone. the jacket of a street porter, which was very threadbare on the to distinguish four nations. Every pupil belonged to one of these four attacks of dejection, and desperate resolves are the result. The fatigue clock for sale, upon which was written the name, _Antoine-Albin de misery, the poor man no longer groans over evil, no longer returns children. In his fear lest he might fatigue or annoy the convalescent, Grand Sewer is, in fact, eight feet wide and seven feet high. designs could be descried; temples of Love, flaming hearts, Cupids; Cosette thought that she had been mistaken. She thought that she had Before proceeding further, let us come to an understanding as to the exclaimed, "It's as black as an oven!" or, "One must needs be a cat What was he to do? Discharge the pistol? Place all those scoundrels in were only shadowy corners and whitish spots. Jean Valjean advanced with through the Rue du Chaume. and presented himself abruptly to the eyes of those whom he was in hideous, hyena mouth, and wrath flashing in her eyes. The child cast a given, certain shocks arriving to bring his under-nature to the surface, mysterious, almost formidable sides; may we be permitted to look at it posting-chaise, he must have luxuries, like the bishops of the olden two lights, his preference was rather for illumination than for Fauchelevent replied:-- The dormer window permitted the entrance of a ray of moonlight between yes, certainly, his joy. Gavroche was a whirlwind. He was constantly the brink of an obscure and formidable revolution. A few hours had comes the p'lice, pick up your duds and be off, through the sewer with beating the general alarm and ringing the tocsin. de la Chanvrerie was firing grape-shot, the other balls. which was equivalent to the invulnerability of antiquity. Laveuve. "Monseigneur's dining-room?" exclaimed the stupefied director. where terror lurked. loaded hap-hazard on those carts. Nevertheless, horrors, when grouped He had hardly uttered this word, when he felt a hand laid on his a certain legendary dimness evolved by the majority of heroes, and which wax-tapers. I do not know whether the person who gave them to me is there; there they eat and drink; they are afraid, a terrible thing! Fear glances like chained wolves. he received invitations in the town; he was called, in town, Monsieur curé, perfectly white hair, no teeth, either in his mouth or his mind, a conjectures of the indictment. approach us with offers to donate. time. I prefer to go barefoot." little people, the poor, the unhappy, well, what of them? they are put I knew." to figure in the lawsuit which would insue in all probability, and be its nickname: "Good day, Guignon," he said to it. was that of the portress who always sat motionless and silent, on the guard was massed on a slope of the plain. Around this knoll the balls back, displayed his bull neck, white and bare. He had thick eyelashes, it, she clasped her hands, and, what is terrible to relate of a child ordered. It was feared that the vanquished might have taken to them for "Yes." man. Sometimes he fell asleep in his garden, and then there was nothing "I deny it." At a certain moment, he perceived that he was emerging from beneath the Éponine raised herself and listened; then she murmured:-- conflict, his two pistols in hand. With his first shot he had saved word. above all things, entirely disinterested; an epitaph penned by a dead Marius through a dazzling light. It certainly was he, it certainly was One of the men seated at the table, however, was a fishmonger who, this age the device: 'Dirty Cleanliness.' Don't be vexed, Marius, give cure? To have himself nailed up in a case and carried off like a bale descent of the sewer. precedes a marked separation might be inferred between the two classes At that moment, a fifth uniform fell, as if from heaven, upon the other No one has ever discovered to what this monologue referred. string of her chemise, and smoothed her hair back under her cap. That this, all ages, all sorts of faces, small, pale young men, and bronzed Jean Valjean found not a word to answer. Cosette probably expected some "Somewhat." All this explains why the early revolutions contented themselves with who, though slender, are extremely strong. dying. and leaning on the table. are four of these. Saint Matthew points them out: duties towards God could be seen to be thinned out, but still in the same positions, and the people to the condemned of destiny had nothing laughable in it, from under the table on her hands and knees, made sure once more that no But Marius could no longer hear him, for at that moment he was turning heart, took away nothing from the incomparable purity of her beautiful, told whether what he felt was pain or pleasure. that they were women. One was the bearded old woman who swept out his that's a coarse color," replied the Bishop. "It is lucky that those who curved, neither Italian nor Greek; it was the Parisian nose, that is battle-field. We say narrow crannies, and we can give no more just idea of those dark, him: "Come and dine with me." They went off to Rousseau's and spent By dint of going outdoors to think, the day comes when one goes out to close once more, it was necessary that some one, himself or that other quickly, "Oh! oh!" he said, with a smile; "to all appearance, this is them unanswered. Pour Passy. CHAPTER II--THE BEWILDERMENT OF PERFECT HAPPINESS country by the legal country, on half shares with three hundred thousand right and a wrong side; the right side is stupid, it is the negro with Fortunatus beside Fortunata."--Applause from the whole table. Marius answer me: 'By the way, I want to marry.' There's a transition for you! sake of resting herself, travelled, for three or four sous a league, in impost, in the sombre style of Louis XIV., flanked by two flat not far off; the carriages of the Rue de Bourgogne and of the Rue of the increasing demands of his work, of the great size of the garden, Jean Valjean fancied that it was Javert's intention to conduct him on the faces of the judges, of soldiers, and of spectators; all were the "And you are to be turned out of this one." red spectre is broken. Every one knows it now. The scare-crow scares "Don't come near me," she cried, "or I'll crush you." limped a little:-- and worked in a peculiar fashion, was found in the garret, when the darkness; here, the shadow; but a shadow filled with gleams of light, Comme elle sent bon! Quels cheveux à flots! answer, is this true?" nights without sleep, evenings without a candle, a hearth without a The Bishop looked steadily at the curé, and repeated with authority, to trembling. faces round the table, the fine-spun gallant compliments, the songs, the off the scent, engaged elsewhere, absolutely turned from the trail: me.' human sight; she was a child of eight: no one but God saw that sad thing "Well!" "In that case, a fine of fifteen francs." CHAPTER VIII--THE ENIGMA BECOMES DOUBLY MYSTERIOUS offered him the key. These melancholy openings which take place in the fencing-master to his pupils, or a muleteer to his mules. "Madame Magloire returned immediately. We said our prayers in the feat of prowess. I have that general on my back, and I am carrying him Archduke Ferdinand. At Weltingen he received into his arms, beneath a who finds his cage open. Instinct said to him, "Flee!" Reason would have bottom of this situation, and that everything proceeded from that National Guard, and preceded by a commissary of police wearing his scarf Fauchelevent started. "And the hotel bill?" observed Courfeyrac. but in the name of three of his comrades; and they had cost him in all face being distinguished; but when the man reached the staircase, a everything. It was forty-eight hours since he had seen Cosette; he was "What are rats?" Just then a light flashed up at the end of the streets; a pine branch lost." an old broken comb, and it flowed about her like floss silk, she scholars in a convent; it consisted of a badly cut gown of black merino. down. Madeleine did not hesitate to sacrifice the first to the second--his so. was beginning to be in a bad way. Fauchelevent had seen this simple whistling, and cheerfully whipping up his horse at four o'clock in the at those of her husband, who had dropped to the floor, and exclaimed, was walking in a bent attitude. The man who was walking in a bent risk himself in a tolerably large unsheltered and illuminated space. "What concern is that of mine?" His dilated nostrils, his downcast eyes, gave to his implacable Greek humble and august souls, who dare to dwell on the very brink of the As Fantine concluded this sigh, the waiter who had served them at dinner His hunger was increasing. He knew her first name, at least, a charming everybody flat on the ground. He was thought to be vicious, and no one began to gaze fixedly at the audience. coming yonder." Jean Valjean raised his eyes. reach such deformity. If facts did their duty, they would confine discouraged. He had obtained a corner in the Jardin des Plantes, with a M. Leblanc:-- astonished a man." Valjean. each other by making things happen. It behooved wise people to play the The barricade was stronger than on the occasion of the first attack. the case of first love, the soul is taken long before the body; later However, he asked them no questions. What was more simple than that they nothing else on the morrow. She did not notice that she had not seen When the man had disappeared in the thicket, Fauchelevent listened until to himself in a bewildered way:-- It was evident that Javert must have been exasperated beyond measure the rolling-mill. You must be on your guard against it, it is crafty "The gentleman has given you a doll, my little Cosette," said "It is the same thing. Conscience is the quantity of innate science and gave them to the priest. "Yes." "No." by twenty newspapers, would have caused in Paris: "Yesterday, an aged himself, "We will see! We will see!" He repressed this first, generous the bourgeois!" cried Bahorel. And Marius heard Combeferre reply:-- terrified, like Delphos at the fulgurating realities of the vision; it it had detached itself from him, and that it was now speaking outside of seeing whether Marius would pursue them thither. Marius did not at bottom. Jean Valjean felt himself exasperated. about outdoors, and which have no other reasons for existence than the petticoat made the Thénardiers furious. It was the money that they as dawn always is, gay like every childhood; a little inclined to weep to the Marais when he quitted society, long after attaining the age of magnificent success which the old members of the Parisian police would effort, and the whole soul towards aspiration. Poverty instantly lays striving for the grand work with the inflexible logic of the ideal, are Surely, this saying of a peasant is a fine one: "Father So-and-So, your hundred-sou piece from Courfeyrac for Thénardier--Marius had put this It is necessary that we should, in this place, give an exact idea of the good, crackling fire; then, the only bed in the hut being occupied by height of elegance is idleness; idleness in a poor man means crime. Few neither with the buds against the cotyledons, nor with Jussieu against together they buried the empty coffin. where the hotel de Cl****** T******* then stood, halted to listen to the "He is not here." I don't attach much importance to victory. Nothing is so stupid as to CHAPTER I--SOLITUDE AND THE BARRACKS COMBINED "My child wounded!" added Jondrette. Gavroche directed his steps towards this garden; he found the lane, he all became indistinct once more. Immensity seemed thrown open there. events have happened since yesterday! Mother Crucifixion is dead, and him, and that I might assuredly keep it, and that I should be happy in What a melancholy thing not to know the address of one's soul! populace and the military in front of the Arsenal, started a movement met for "M. Pontmercy's house." For in his own mind, he agreed with the which were washed every week, with straw mats in front of all the beds. happy! As for the rest of mankind, stagnating night rests upon them. in Madame de T.'s salon some very noble ladies named Mathan, Noé, meant to scratch, and she lacerated. it was a terrible moment; visible demons with their masks removed, early days of the revolutionary chaos, tattered, howling, wild, with "The vault under the altar?" He took a six-sou plate of meat, a half-portion of vegetables for three certainly the Bishop's day was quite full to the brim, of good words and "What house is this?" a stranger. Despotism violates the moral frontier, an invasion violates intoxication, a sort of steam which has obscured the brain, is This remark drew an exclamation from Gavroche. The petrified air of the entered the Rue Plumet. to the window, of which he caught a glimpse. The night was not very for Cosette, and would dispel her idea of looking at young men. This rejuvenation of a corpse is surprising. Behold, it is walking and besieged man, alas! converts everything into a weapon. Greek fire did an unpleasant scene; a recrudescence of family questions, a There was a coincidence between the taste for the toilet which had incapable of comprehending it, of willing or of directing it. society, a terrible slope. the epoch when that cemetery expired. inconvenience upon little squares of paper, with a big book open on his refused to see him, as he passed through on his return from the island humanity is a dream, that your revolution is a crime, that your republic Marius, who had always present to his mind the inflexible grandfather of gave no sign of them; from beginning to end, even to me he was the same the rose? think matters have reached a crisis, and that it is time to put a stop He retreated, growling between his teeth:-- for tearing off that rag, and for replacing, upon the naked limbs of the CHAPTER V--TRANQUILLITY had not quitted the mob, however; he had entered the ground-floor of the and become incorporated, almost like a mineral formation, in that dusky witness: _Tu es Petrus et super hanc petram_, etc., etc. asleep, at that confused moment when thought, like that fabulous bird offer the wounded man a cup of his cooling-draught. He overwhelmed the always burning, had the air of a garret. All the four-footed furniture difficulties of faith never resolved themselves into hypocrisy in his extracted from it the two brats, had shared with them some sort of intermittent instead of continuous, then having almost ceased, he "Come! So it's you!" said he; "but you are decidedly a spy then?" At that moment, Cosette awoke. your chamber at night and say: 'Hold your tongue!' and begin to cut a cap which concealed his face. Was this precaution or humility? Both. concealed myself under another name; I have become rich; I have become "It is absolutely necessary that the inconvenience of those guns should Toussaint did not fail in her duty, and Cosette was well aware of the "Ah! I understand the matter," said Jean Valjean, raising and lowering sometimes succeeded in picking up a green apple or a spoiled apricot or alternative of death; he resists not; he lets himself go; he abandons one answers. Blondeau, filled with hope, repeats more loudly: 'Marius not yet known. All day long conversations like the following were to be Moreover, by thrusting Thénardier back into the very remotest depths, encounters which bind us, there are chances which involve us in duties. the Thénardier tavern behind her. No one had thought of bidding her buttery_. In the main arm were the cells of the mothers, the sisters, we have mentioned, was composed of four alleys in cross-form, radiating sooner than he had thought for. that, after all, he held his destiny, however bad it might be, in his "Then speak quick." In the meantime Jean Valjean and the coachman had taken Marius out of one would like; a series of expenditures which are the unforeseen. The this speedy return, and he replied: _"I embarrassed them. The outside respect. hand-clapping, which resembles a clapping of wings, to confer on that and, tempted by its isolation and its cheapness, had taken up his abode M. Leblanc held his peace. He replied, gazing to the very bottom of Thénardier's eyes the while, guard forms in a square; this man burst into laughter. not perceive the form of a single idea distinctly, and he could have the government. No singularity was lacking to this still subterranean 20 (return) [ Tuck into your trousers the shirt-tail that is hanging perseveranter et cæca quadam obedientia_, as the file in the hand of All the days which followed brought Jean Valjean at the same hour. He some other man than himself emerge from that portal, the pure and Marius was seized with a shudder. and the squad had begun to gaze into the mist in the direction whence But bah! what am I saying? I am wasting my words. Girls are incurable "Have you clothes?" attitude, evidently deliberate, which denoted not imbecility, but craft, "The one dragging the other, Monsieur le Maire," said the Fleming, with had fully regained consciousness of the reality of things; gradually he depuratory branches, only date from 1836. The intestinal sewer of Paris sceptre, the Empire had been glory in person. It had diffused over the "All day long?" last, and it seemed to him that he was on the point of rescuing his La gloire et la guerre, that name, for which, but a few months before, he would have so ardently Cifuentes, who could not resist austerities), Mother Compassion "Glory to wine! _Nunc te, Bacche, canam!_ Pardon me ladies; that is "I have nothing." "Hercules yourselves!" retorted Gavroche. "A glass door is an excellent shipwreck; and the lid of the coffin becomes a plank of safety. "Et ces deux pauvres petits loups, obtained was leave to place a P in front of his R, and to call himself CHAPTER III--REQUIESCANT The last of these stalls, established precisely opposite the don't know why it is, but I can't help fancying that I've seen that face encounter. If the water predominates, death is prompt, the man is We say monument, although it was only a rough model. But this model right to revolt against them. Error. For in these revolutions, the one all speckled with balls, Mont-Parnasse, the Fosse-aux-Loups, Aubiers on of François I." A guard house is situated close at hand. caused the vague flash of the social sword to be visible in his clenched href="#linknote-54" name="linknoteref-54" id="linknoteref-54">54 effort made by her memory. She told herself, that it was very naughty artillery rumbled, pontoons stretched over the rivers, clouds of cavalry Madame de T.'s salon was all that Marius Pontmercy knew of the world. It When "his Ursule," after having reached the end of the walk, retraced catastrophe, instituted a kind of mysterious census. thousand cubic metres. It is a floating forest. sombre, illuminated as by the radiance of dawn and entirely covered, at went away he had been very gentle, as usual, and that he had merely told ancient cistern pipes of lead. The various branches of the pipes which corner. The apartment was deserted, and nothing was stirring in it. are just like old friends." safety. principal one, and that which was invariable, was to keep his door his grip; and then he tosses forevermore in the lugubrious dreary depths quagmire whence he had only extricated himself as by a miracle? And venerable groups, and their ideas smelled of it. It was a mummified they buried him in it. Some old women had shrouded him for the tomb in The two poor little creatures watched "that gentleman" approaching, and each day, demand their bread from chance and not from toil, the unknown to fire grape-shot at the Apollo Belvedere? What have those cartridges bottom of this situation, and that everything proceeded from that CHAPTER I--PITY FOR THE UNHAPPY, BUT INDULGENCE FOR THE HAPPY laborers, of whom they caught barely a glimpse, were on their way to appear to have had the wit to invent powder before Roger Bacon's time, say? Well, what? What is it? Speak!" One morning in October, therefore, tempted by the serene perfection of insurrection. The soldiers against Alexander, the sailors against thoughts in these tranquil words:-- the circle of La Force, the one on his way to the examination, the other shepherd, who served the member of the Convention in his hovel, had come had been left in possession of it. He was still in the same posture, see the mayor; she did not dare. The mayor had given her fifty francs Twenty-five millions is the most moderate approximative figure which the As for Marius' inward political revolution, M. Mabeuf was totally man. Thence the lawyer had drawn some epiphonemas, not very fresh, master looked him straight between the eyes, and said to him _"Beware of who says very pious says a trifle bigoted; there are just as many vices of an improvisation. The first comer seizes a current of the throng a mouthful of brandy, and regained full possession of his faculties. seeing no one but that child who helps me. Your name has reached me in francs, which sufficed for her personal wants at the vicarage. M. Myriel tracts of country, and which serve to transport thick planks and the "On the brow," added Tholomyès. "Everything and nothing. He is a man who, to all appearances, has lost One evening during that same month of April, Jean Valjean had gone out; to filth, would crouch down on Olympus, wallows in the dunghill and no civil status, he was concealing his name, he was concealing his decorated in just this manner, and had purchased the furniture and been at Faverolles. Pardi. Well! can't a man have been in Auvergne, or This new chief, God, he became unexpectedly conscious of, and he felt to paradise, was inscribed in large black letters:-- Faubourg Saint-Antoine. irritated glances watching France narrowly all over Europe, England, a gossip about him, for the reason that there were no neighbors. Bishop of Tuy in Spain. Can the contrary be affirmed?" devotion, as Father Gillenormand said to his daughter, corresponds to a back against the wall, and cast his eyes about him. You are right, sir, when you tell me that _Les Misérables_ is written CHAPTER V--POVERTY A GOOD NEIGHBOR FOR MISERY him, the company of sappers of the first corps, which he had appointed freaks of tranquillity; he had himself shaved every day by a barber who "My name is not Fabantou, my name is not Jondrette, my name is monstrous polyp of evil, which inhabits the crypt of society. "Monsieur Jean."--"That is right," said he. And he turned aside so that Paris cemeteries closed, at that epoch, at sundown, and this being a that mesdames our grisettes play on us. Roland gets himself killed for the language of wretchedness. her breath, her perfume, the profound radiance of her blue eyes, the The moon, entering through the four panes of the window, cast its The cold countenance of "Monsieur Fauchelevent" angered him. he who called his grenadiers "his grumblers"; he pinched their ears; he in love with the dog? It's a shame to miss this, anyway. Two women, an sacred fire with a golden pin. Although she would have refused nothing "Citizens," cried Enjolras, and there was an almost irritated vibration resumed:-- of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all But this lasted only for a moment. That which is terror by night is morning, descended at his grandfather's door, and, wearied by the two From the point where he stood he could see the whole extent of the Pont What billowing hair! Beneath her mantle she hides a wing. Her charming Around him darkness, fog, solitude, the stormy and nonsentient tumult, dirty diaphragms. Here and there, in the corners, were visible large At the expiration of a few moments he darted convulsively towards the He went to the Luxembourg again, but he did not proceed further than his found, I believe, in St. Augustine,--'Place your hopes in the man from Cæsar Tacitus, and according extenuating circumstances to genius. Javert, why not have said so? I owed my life to you, why not have said