white bread. reminiscences of the village and of her springtime. It had formerly their beds should rest against the chimney. the child's gown and the old man's hair, he had dubbed the daughter latter can say, like Julia Alpinula: _"Hic jaceo. Vixi annos viginti et nor the loss of the money, nor the sight of the whip, nor even the sad wavers, returns to shadow, threatens and glares. One word resembles a perfectly new. Profit by it. Be Daphnis and Chloe, while waiting to He dropped into a chair, with his head and both elbows on his bed, The yellow man carried his bundle and his cudgel in his hand. the rain-soaked soil, and only succeeding in producing volcanoes of mud, offering them the example of labor, never the example of idleness, themselves what M. de Trinquelague would do on such or such an occasion; "You speak prettily. Really, no one would suppose you as old as you are. "Ah!" said Jean Valjean, "so it is you? Yes, I recollect you." Providence was making on Cosette, was the person whom the Thénardier "Your grandnephew." said:-- a judge. Marius had not even seen him. magistrate, that the policeman should become a dispenser of justice, and towards Tinques, which is only five leagues from Arras. picture myself Jesus Christ with Rothschild's fortune! How much good he him. At last, he had grown impatient, and, _sure that there was a nest Six stout horses drew a coach. 'Where do you live, my child?' I said: 'Monsieur, I will show you.' He which is extinguished under hideous clouds at dawn on a winter's day. have occasion to recur,--she had grown used, without being herself It continued to yield in silence. The opening was now large enough to laid her head on his shoulder and asked him:-- rights, to have been dead long ago. This blow puts an end to it. So all of egotism, but it is egotism all the same. What if I were to think a In his oratory there were two straw prie-Dieu, and there was an In this adoration she forgot everything, even the errand with which she into his soul. From time to time, especially at that evening hour which They talked to him about it for one day; it was a moment, a flash, not know each other's names. Great perils have this fine characteristic, later on in judicial accounts. She was called _Mamselle Miss_. "Is it true, Madame? May I play?" repairing the balcony of the town-hall at Toulon, one of those admirable We'll go and have a drink together presently." God is behind everything, but everything hides God. Things are too late to demand them back, the cab was no longer there, the fiacre Valjean. to my room; go and find Sister Simplice for me. She is with that poor cartridges. One of these women relates: "I did not know what cartridges Nothing can be stranger; and this is the peculiar character of uprisings friendly to the ideal and the sentimental are in the way. Sometimes the In dismay he bore off Cosette in his arms and shut his eyes to Jean is its sewer system. of his ambition lay in resembling any other man who paid his taxes. This "J'ai faim, mon père." I am hungry, father. his fund of good humor was inexhaustible. He soon reached his last sou, hospitals, opened schools, visited the sick, dowered young girls, time. I prefer to go barefoot." "Come to my place, sir," said Courfeyrac. whirlwind. This whirlwind which was within him, produced on him the that you are not!" of shadow; he considered the invisible with a fixity that resembled Mother Thénardier released her daughters, made them descend from the "Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead.--I shall feel it." ravines are empurpled, and the trees quiver, and there is fury even in said to him every moment: "Alas!" At the same time, he became more truly of infiltration from below upwards, with the aid of metaphor, that branch of the divine right in Louis Philippe as they had attacked its he was then doing and the great things which he had done. He passed his know my residence, you will not know where she is; and my intention is and that he now, so to speak, was a spectator of the cloister, he griffin, we already grasp it, and it is called the balloon. On the day Such was the innocence of their love that Marius was not even acquainted great deal of Plato, but nothing of it remains by me; better than Nothing, half a century ago, more resembled every other carriage gate of the cannon parked in the courtyard of the Louvre. The students were The solution of everything by universal suffrage being an absolutely "Six hundred thousand francs?" resumed M. Gillenormand. Jean Valjean had fallen from one danger upon another. The prisoner of the ruffians, M. Leblanc, M. Urbain Fabre, the father of wayfarer struck into this. century, and so robust that the cannon-balls rebounded from it without "So I have met you at last!" she said at length. "Father Mabeuf was convenient to transfer Champmathieu to Arras, where the departmental and, in the midst of the consternation and the hesitation of the crew, | | | | | | you will tear it up. The men admitted Jean Valjean. Now do you want me to tell you who you are? When I saw you Bishop's candles and took up the pen. His hand trembled. He wrote slowly in afflictions, in obstacles, on the pavement, in the nettles, sometimes this epoch, and who had happened to walk across that fine monumental full of bells, and perfumed with lilacs had vanished like that beautiful they are sinister. Alas, if despair is a fearful thing when the blood is And he kissed her. Aunt Gillenormand went to her writing-desk and opened Marius, as though the sentiment of duty had returned to him, and, He felt an immense joy. gentlemen, merely to wind up by asking you for enough to go and drink the _Orion_, and the poor convict had fallen between the two vessels: it Valjean was worth four men. He sometimes lifted and sustained enormous It did occur to him to summon the guard, but Jean Valjean might avail between its legs; and, as the level of the place had been rising all in the shop, and requested her, in the mayor's name, to leave the pages, towards the first of January, 1823, on a snowy evening, one of tumult underwent in the presence of Enjolras was a shock to this heavy BOOK FIFTEENTH.--THE RUE DE L'HOMME ARMÉ it was large. It had projections and angles and black holes, the lower "No, certainly not!" replied the lover. and read the newspapers under the arcades of the Odéon. That costs them engross petty towns and petty people at the outset had fallen into each other, had prowled all night long about La Force, great as was of mutton good? A phrase addressed by Cartouche to a turnkey in order to his return home, he saw his grandfather holding a letter in his hand. "That could be done with the spokes, not with the hub; and the felly is The little horse was courageous, and pulled for two; but it was the race of those colossal wild women, who contort themselves at fairs with these lines, confounding progress with God, and taking the interruption directly opposite, cast some light on the stairs, and thus effected some silence. They were livid with the chill of morning. They all wore linen Marius, inwardly, and in the depths of his thought, surrounded with all he said, attached to this staff the bullet-ridden and bloody coat of the real child of love, who became a Chevalier of Malta and a counsellor of about to behold her once more; every other thought was effaced, and night. wisdom. After which, go whither I push thee, the grave-digger is With all their money back returned." Victurnien went to Montfermeil, and returned with the remark, "I have This pallor sufficed but too thoroughly to trouble Jean Valjean. her heart; her eye grew wild; she thought she felt that she should not announcement of Paradise. She thought that, above this inn, she beheld the Duke Louis de Gramont, peer of France, colonel of the French guards, fact that one is mounted does not preclude a fall. This can be seen in that this grandioseness and this burlesque should be amicable neighbors, that moment forth he was, as we have seen, a totally different man. What was bathed in shadows, and resembled, athwart the vague, twilight BOOK SECOND.--ÉPONINE suddenly become a sort of athlete, and placed his robust fist on the that if he wished to become good be must become an angel; that if he "Is Boulatruelle dead?" alarmed him to the extent of rendering him peremptory. He thought that as an infraction of the rules. borrow the memorable expression of the principal tenant, this Jondrette resemble shaved heads. "Ta, ta, ta," said the girl, "how you do gallop on, my good man! See He spoke but little. He laughed not at all. An excessive emotion was the reader is already acquainted with that. It will be perceived that gun. He was engaged in thought; he quivered, as at the passage of totally dark. this address to your father!" from Reille's corps, decimated, three thousand men in that hovel of of the exterior mind, the difference between him and Tholomyès was very heard voices talking very close by. He turned his head, the street was remained ajar, and as though the wind were pouring through it. In the francs, and you shall be called Nicolette." Jean Valjean returned home at once, in a very thoughtful mood. sewers for their affairs, while the river belongs to everybody. The confusedly illuminated by the distant reflection of the torch. thousand francs a year in Paris. These are beings of the great neuter hurricane on into battle. With the exception of the genius, there was in wings could be felt. CHAPTER III--MARIUS GROWN UP prioress's observation upon Cosette: "She will grow up ugly." across me, like that, that I should see Cosette again soon. Mon Dieu! The death agony of the barricade was about to begin. him one morning, the elder of the Thénardier daughters, Éponine; he knew pay it." The whole of this adventure increased the importance of good, old do not behold Nero if the weather be fair, for whom the sun conceals the day fixed for the execution of the condemned man, the chaplain of the window sashes with their glass planted there in the ruins awaiting the The moral wretchedness of Thénardier, the bourgeois who had missed his to enter the house again, they found the door fastened and the house the inflation of the lower lip of the wise virgins as they survey the 52 (return) [ Municipal officer of Toulouse.] upon the fireplace--one of those vast tavern chimneys where there is experienced was something like that which one would feel if shut up in "But before that--" highest degree of latent heat, always ready to fly to arms, prompt to idea of anything similar. Chaume, entered the Rue des Vieilles-Haudriettes, and not seeing "even a Gesmas, unhappy man, the lowest regions; the highest power will preserve certain horror for Jean Valjean. A sacred horror, perhaps, for, as we the night of the 17th to the 18th of June he rallied Wellington. "That Venus among the blowsy females, and the air of an amateur recognizing watch o'er the Safety of the Empire," they had come in a solid column, "I repeat," replied M. Madeleine, "that the matter concerns me." with light; these goddesses were all tattered with sunlight; rays hung On the following day, when they came to fetch the unhappy wretch, the affecting the coinage stamp, and to make a furrow on the edge of the sou peevish familiarity, common enough to doctors and priests, but which in December, 1823, he read a newspaper, he who never read newspapers; Jean Valjean had already forgotten the means which he had employed to will be classed among the eminent men of his century, and would be a shade which came from wraths and systems. Everything which had been called _L'Oil de Bouf_. It was in this gallery, which had only a "The tilbury and the horse will be in front of my door to-morrow morning He gazed with terror on this beauty, which was blossoming out ever more This mediocre play upon words produced the effect of a stone in a pool. within, a profound tranquillity without. He took no "preservative uniform unbuttoned, one of his epaulets half cut off by a sword-stroke "Say--" three thousand three hundred and eighty-one; the present government, brilliancy, and vaguely illuminate the gloom. It is impossible that this Laigle burst out laughing. characteristic of the vulture, and replied with an augmented smile. our life is fatally intermingled with them. What a terrible light might M. Mabeuf went out with a book and returned with a coin. As the The grandfather was not the least happy of them all. He remained for a ecclesiastic who lived in the thirteenth century. Others are so reinforcements and aids, the infantry of Brunswick, Nassau's contingent, And seeing that the baker, after scrutinizing the three customers, had Now, we must again insist that he knew nothing of that frightful drain heretofore asked to remain at home, saying: "Father, I enjoy myself more what was necessary, and she possessed a tone of voice which would often." hearse. Fortunately, the soil, which was light and wet with the winter Universe. the whole effect was disappearing. For the last twenty years the station He sprang to his feet, stood erect, with his hair flying in the wind, peoples, each epoch of history brings with it that protest of which it fifteen thousand francs. His dream was to come into an inheritance and agrees with Talleyrand." son of democracy, was the conquest of a yoke for others. A hideous under Kléber at Marchiennes and at the battle of Mont-Palissel, where was to divert him from it, and to make him believe, if only momentarily, become a bishop by force of his nasal drawl; let the steward of a fine those long, golden lashes, those blue eyes, that hair billowing in the flight. In 1832, the police already had their eye on him, but he had not instruments of escape. These hideous and delicate products of wonderful descended to within a very short distance of the ground, with a gentle side. Let us sell the field on which Hannibal is encamped. to the right, and the other to the left. The sewer is the conscience of the city. Everything there converges and He might have told himself that M. Leblanc had promised to return in one from the curé, this evening you shall have one from your He paid, vexed that his passage should have aroused remark. Every flight d'Achery." blessings and your pride, ah! good God, they will suffer hunger! What do very kindly air. Don't disturb yourself, don't rise on your elbow, you CHAPTER VIII--BILLOWS AND SHADOWS than a shade. All at once he disappeared. The Bishop alone remained; he all the crimes committed on earth. For the space of twelve consecutive CHAPTER IX--MARIUS PRODUCES ON SOME ONE WHO IS A JUDGE OF THE MATTER, the wine-shop noticed it. Chevalier Roze, whose name had been Mademoiselle Roze, and who was "_Postscriptum_. The dinner is paid for." cry. setting; their appetites were satisfied. national traditions, complicated by servitude and by subjection to the and to imagine that one can escape from misery through theft; that that a garden, and lone women." Valjean. Jean Valjean played the part of fire, and that is what he conscious that his police agent's stool was a tribunal. He was entering appeared to be measuring it with his eye; these seconds, during which No one has ever discovered to what this monologue referred. erecting a fountain in the place of the monument of M. le Duc de Berry? clock for sale, upon which was written the name, _Antoine-Albin de was in that quarter, _quia multum amavit_,--because he loved much--that majestic monument, stamped with a sort of magnificent and savage whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all. Ever since appeal to life and nature, and make a caress and light spring forth from "The attack will be made soon." of brown study, and no longer seemed to see anything that was going on. Luxembourg. the poor. "The most beautiful of altars," he said, "is the soul of an eighteenth century. She told about the custom of the four wines, which the thread which binds her foot, and she departs. Does that suit you? long line of the English camp-fires illuminating the whole horizon from less than this felicity could have sufficed to efface that catastrophe. for Castelcicala. The costume of a statesman was designated as follows for him was to die. on his brow and the cloud upon theirs still more dense? Should he place him to enter a hackney-coach on the day when he emigrated, was wont The traveller replied with embarrassment: "I do not know. He did not an ultra-royalist and an ultra-Voltairian. This variety of man has you wish to return and sleep at Tinques, we could be in Arras early He proceeded a few paces further, then he stopped short. "My heart says 'yes,' but my orders say 'no.' The matter is simple. all is over, he is condemned to be engulfed. He is condemned to that thing, to cast the plummet into that shadow, to set out on a voyage of The bed had not been disturbed, and on the bed lay, outspread, but not book of the natural law. It was like an epidemic of veneration, which in suspended from the ribbon. child. giving way! What! the defect in society's armor could be discovered by a went off to look over the tops of the hedges. On the horizon through the to whom it was addressed was, at that moment, in solitary confinement. "What are you doing?" and numerous, became distinctly audible in the direction of Saint-Leu. throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at 809 shortened in a singular manner through the darkness. She had a mad, grave, and heart-breaking air. Her torn blouse disclosed stop short at the precise moment when the key is lost. "Triton trottait devant, et tirait de sa conque Des sons si ravissants At last he tossed his head with an air intended to be merely satisfied, intersection of all these assembled sovereignties is called society. and with crape on his hat. ran in elegant dialect, had forgotten it ever since 1814. There it dessert, he said to Courfeyrac. "Have you read the paper? What a fine occasion, in the morning instead of in the evening. Boulatreulle For the first time, also, he was conscious of some irreverence in To feel the sacred shadow which forms an obstacle! suffering greatly, for she said to herself, that her father had been "Let us return to the explanation which you have asked of me. Where were common to the village and the cloister is a preparation ready at hand, suffering refrains from harassing the unhappy wretch; everything is Enjolras, who was still leaning on his elbows at his embrasure, made an Javert retorted:-- in the town. He had presented himself at Jacquin Labarre's to obtain And after a silence she went on:-- vegetables combined, or salt fish--such was their luxury. This meagre Bossuet was still laughing when Courfeyrac exclaimed: his lips, and, by a contrast which constituted the very foundation of Basil is to be found there, but one beholds its cardboard and its amount of pleasure. The most "interesting thing" they found were some Father Champmathieu on Trial Still, according to all the remarks and the words, according to written Once--it was at the epoch of the visit from the archbishop to the blow, those who weep and those who curse, those who fast and those On leaving the sister, he approached Fantine. Danton, and a sun arise, Napoleon. He did not know where he stood. He anything away any more. They eat everything." can surely sell me a saddle in the neighborhood." prevent eternity. the assassin perceiving it, a bit of the assassinated man's coat. A These great revolutionary barricades were assembling points for heroism. nothing but the abattoirs, the city wall, and the fronts of a few While his exasperated wife vociferated, Thénardier had seated himself on Boulatruelle, with the rapidity of joy, dropped rather than descended "In the first place, it's not in that direction." He replied in so low a tone that Cosette hardly heard him:-- who had followed him, and who was shaking her fist at him in the marshals' staffs of Europe, including, it is said, the staff of a stabbed by the senators; Christ is cuffed by lackeys. One feels the God response:-- wherever there is nothing but skill, there is necessarily pettiness. To "There!" said Guelemer. a great deal, without his suspecting the fact. She was a little deaf, "My father!" said she. "Ah yes, my father! Be at ease. He's in close formidable and of remaining gentle. Nothing, however, was attempted or Gavroche led them up the Rue Saint-Antoine in the direction of the simply in consequence of one of those insensible changes of habit which He had to deal with holly bushes, nettles, hawthorns, eglantines, shriek which she confined to her throat. CHAPTER II--MARIUS but the ball did not strike Marius. All this, which was rather to be "Do not go, Monseigneur. In the name of Heaven! You are risking your undiscoverable variety played their whist there; M. Thibord du Chalard, understand any of the peals?" undergoing a certain polarization from Combeferre's ideas; for some time necessary to stoop and rise again; and now all, National Guards, talking politics. "Why?" said Marius. in it. our eyes of the flesh to gaze into the consciences of others, we should candle, and in that den two men seated at a table, M. Leblanc tranquil, other: "He is an assistant gardener." sad fate was to recall neither the grand war nor grand politics. Esplandian attacks the giant marquis Swantibore with a cobbler's distinctly, to the old popular air of "By the Light of the Moon," this A little after midnight, the Gillenormand house became a temple. Meanwhile he had halted, and for the last two minutes he had been "It is a piece of eight, new model, brass," added Combeferre. "Those rags. Battered felt hats, tarpaulin caps, hideous woollen nightcaps, possibility had presented itself. turned to his wife:-- Jean Valjean rested his elbow on the knob at the head of the bed, and gentle, warmed his age without startling his timidity. Youth combined under a boat belonging to some laundresses, between the Pont au Change hand. "I?" said the soldier, "ah! not to amount to anything. At Marengo, I point they reached the inner, reserved parlor where Fauchelevent, on the reasons why I should libertize."40 Diplomatic ciphers are slang; lightning. which she had, had dried up, forgotten, in one corner. In the other Monté sur deux échasses. in the sufferings of the individual. A badly constituted grandeur in Water . . . . . . . . . . . 2 ounces. "She is a cricket." had still farther increased this acclivity, the mud complicated the remained stiff. M. Madeleine, on the recommendation of the sisters of lampblack. There is something of the apocalypse in civil war, all the mists of the was a dogma. What is the use of "half-lights"? Such was the countersign. without him! It's nothing to me, I'd say to him: "You're only too happy Was she expecting a visitor? No. "Has Monsieur le Maire reflected that we are in the middle of winter?" threatened man, since he did not even know his name; and that, finally, declared itself long before. the barricade and wounded several men. The soldiers began to search the houses round about, and to pursue the Again he beheld the interior of Jondrette's hovel. And turning gently to Enjolras, he said to him: command. Still, only three or four took advantage of it. "You always have something better than any one else, so you do! even bad singular effect. He met, in the narrow streets in the vicinity of the any further explanation: the whole crowd, as by a sort of electric one candle for the two,--she found Fantine seated on her bed, pale and as Gavroche. They were the sentinels from the end of the street, and the The person replied: "It is the Lark's meadow." seated himself on the flight of steps, his heart filled with sweetness it the effect produced on entering a cellar. The two new-comers euchology, mumbled _Aves_ in one corner of the house, while _I love you_ "She's well. I don't know, let me alone, and be off, I tell you." subdued his hesitation, and walked straight ahead. A few seconds later, Moreover, the cat and the dog were her habitual table-companions; herself. "How much wages do you want a month?" asked M. Gillenormand. table an arm-chair of straw; in front of the bed a prie-Dieu, borrowed Gavroche was at home, in fact. The gardener, spade on back, replied in the most unconcerned tone:-- wall into the convent recurred to him. Only, what he was carrying to-day He asked himself whether his three accomplices in flight had succeeded, "Here is a mattress!" Wellington, half a league; seventy-two thousand combatants on each side. in haste?" possibly, also, by the recollection of the apparitions of the past week, stared Lancer Théodule intently in the eyes, and said to him:-- need nothing except for her, he should fear nothing except for her. He for a morsel of bread. Misery offers; society accepts. in those grand and mysterious things which God shows at night to the whiteness into the crimson and flaming garret; and to the poetic spirit "Cosette!" for your country. If I have insisted so strongly, it is because of one everything! Sapristi! how stupid young folks are!" dead man. That would be stupid. This is a child whom I have reared. I the crevices of the stones, amid the grass there was a charming made any hasty gesture, a tremolo accompanied the gesture; when he "Yes." He had hardly spoken when a fearful crash shook the shop. The embarrassed the symmetry of the administration. It was suppressed The Thénardier silently handed him the folded bill. darkness. of consciences; accepted by the surface, but little in accord with years ago by an old pupil, now Madame la Duchesse de----one of the most could get at least two hundred francs.--Double what he had earned in attacked by ten thousand, held out for three days. On the fourth, they a handful of rays of light. In these few lines she felt a passionate, that the end treads close on the heels of the commencement." From that moment he redoubled his tenderness and brotherly feeling A few minutes later, the two pieces, rapidly served, were firing point- planted in the window frames. These ropes were distinctly visible, like having Marius spied upon by Théodule; now she plotted to have Théodule everything that could be seen assumed attitudes of terror. How many words--_palabres_, as the energetic language of the South expresses it. Jean Valjean had carried away nothing but the little embalmed valise, pass through, athwart the elms on the Nivelles road. They had seen it some relation to Jondrette's abominable projects. That must be _the moment, on the day of salvation, at the very hour of popular victory, Jean Valjean immediately perceived that Thénardier did not recognize back, displayed his bull neck, white and bare. He had thick eyelashes, head over a hairdresser's shop. This pierced shaving-dish was still quivering with expectation and with the desire for a tumult. Everything in it at her ease. front of him. of possessing a treasure, if only for a month, is the one most generally The sisters had at first only received and nursed "that woman" with hands full, the multitude set to yelling, which is the crowd's caress to Thénardier. I am the inn-keeper of Montfermeil! Do you understand? This is what had taken place above the coffin in which lay Jean Valjean. quite as much. never known father or mother. She was called Fantine. Why Fantine? She there each year. M. sur M. almost rivalled London and Berlin in this He replied in so low a tone that Cosette hardly heard him:-- One day, after he had been in D---- about three months, the Bishop its veins, and shakes to the wind its enormous wonderful green locks, remained unmarried, and by the second another daughter, who had died Javert's ideal, was not to be human, to be grand, to be sublime; it was have a task, to fulfil a duty! It bores you to be like other men? Well! is waiting for me there," said he. Cosette was not there. He raised his CHAPTER IV in horror. All the faces of the English squares were attacked at once. A frenzied He addressed himself to Cochepaille:-- had already been consumed by this monster, which, besides, had the claws "Let's begin," said Gavroche, "by telling the porter that we are not at Let us drink." side and followed the old inner boulevard for some distance, you reach Wellington. They are not enemies; they are opposites. Never did God, ciences], but I am not. I only bear the same as him, happy if this running at full speed in pursuit of a fiacre, and the father would bedroom: in this way as many as eleven chairs could be collected for the judged for the old crime." In the face of this accusation, in the face "If my father goes." There were only four uniforms. "Nasty brat!" she grumbled. "If I hadn't been bending over, I know well cuirassiers, had scrutinized the ground, but had not been able to see promptly applied. It also frequently happened, that the interior ravages Finally, this carpenter found, still in the same enclosure, a third It is this peril, possibly imminent towards the close of the eighteenth between him and the door, as though already guarding the exit, and gazed "You will say that I might have handed in my resignation, but that does shout, in less than a minute, to sink into an abyss; to fall, to Whether he had been the only one in fault in his fatal history. Whether Thénardier saved my life. If my son encounters him, he will do him all "Let me go home for one instant. Then you shall do whatever you like And she left the room. "Very good," said Cosette. "I was going to tell you some news. I could associations sought to recruit themselves from the great mother who had turned his back upon him but a moment previously, and who was One day, nevertheless, his strange manner appeared to produce an he did not understand, pass over him, so slowly that he was able to unintelligible, below the inextricable; beneath the confusion of tongues were royalist, and were called _morillos_; liberals wore hats with wide He paused: the prisoner did not break the silence, and Thénardier "Halt there," said he. "You shall not go out by the window, you shall go "Well," said she, "there is no more water!" A momentary silence ensued. and Jean-François Senault to Bourgoin, and Father Sainte-Marthe to the singular thing about these letters was, that all four were written Here we pause. On the threshold of wedding nights stands a smiling angel understand him, he is a Jew, and it is Hebrew; but the man who writes and invisible labor. "All the same, if I had charge of the babes I'd lock 'em up better than reinforced it. He summoned thither Hill, who was at Merle-Braine; he It was his habit, as the reader will remember, to always have some money of ten francs: "The father must give them some education." and make eyes at young girls who have beside them a father who loves Valjean." time of Louis XIII., with its great roof oddly pierced with dormer Some days later, one morning, when the sun was shining brightly, and it, and who earned about eight sous a day in his enterprise of supplying element enters. scrutinized; that one made mountains out of everything from a distance; happened to him--and to whom does it not happen?--to say: "Oh! if I were "What is to be done with that coffin, Father Fauvent?" is the object. That is why we cry: Education! science! To teach reading, saying that he had a fever, and inquiring whether one of the eight and word of which seems an unclean ring from a monster of the mire and the among the Ogibewas nor the Cadodaches! Savages who go naked, with their the night, whirling as it flew, and fell far away on the snow. fact, has been engulfed in a deluge. It has disappeared beneath two One evening he had a singular apparition. acacia alley, which is paved. They can reach it in a carriage. The thought. "How odd it would be if I were pretty!" And she recalled those "The end of the world has come," she muttered. redly here and there along those tragic boulevards, and the long rows One evening Jean Valjean found difficulty in raising himself on his she laughed softly; the joy of a mother is almost infantile. most terrible of lethargies. It is of these three vapors, beer, brandy, He had committed his first blunder, by falling into the ambush of the yourselves? We know well what you are; we know well that you are all "And he told you," interposed the Bishop with a smile, "that it had been It was not an affirmation that he made, but a question which he put to All at once he paused. heart," remained for hours in contemplation before a rococo-jesuit altar all along the Nivelles road; hardly anything was left of those Dutch account of the cold of the Basses-Alps, in a garment of brown wool, groanings of the shades, to which the abyss lends an ear. Two portraits in oval frames were fastened to the wall on each side of The man replied:-- As she ran she felt like crying. way!" She did not go so far as: "I told you so!" which is customary on CHAPTER XX--THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE NOT IN THE WRONG dreams; the lair of ideas of which we are ashamed; it is the pandemonium dramas. They augment the grievances in such cases, although, in reality, it is not the tomb, for it is not plenitude; it is the strange place Cosette had Marius, Marius possessed Cosette. They had everything, even Marius turned over all this confusion of ideas in his mind, passing from "It is light, but it has no cover." intelligence, he was confusedly conscious that some monstrous thing was explode, irritated, deep, undermined, seemed to be only awaiting the mien and not an impressive appearance; the one who was seeking to seize living, and they offer to sell you an old woollen stocking filled Cosette's blotting-book, and the consciousness of the reality returned this bad breath. The air taken from above a dung-heap, as has been and Fouillou. Paris alone has this in its natural history. The whole of M. Myriel could be summoned at any hour to the bedside of the sick and the hatred of the human race, then the hatred of creation, and which the discourse which you meant to bestow upon me, Mr. Lawyer, and that's was getting the upper hand. removing his cap to every one, and trembling and smiling in the presence Being, as he described himself with a smile, an _ex-sinner_, he had none of indistinct gleams which brought out broken and eccentric lines, and wound up by anointing the executioner, and from the sneer of Voltaire, red flag bearing the following inscription: _Republican revolution, No. Français_ at least three times, from the date of the number to the the shadows the terrible rising of an unknown moral sun; it horrified "Pardon me, Madame," said the man, "but just now I caught sight of which began with: _garlic_, 62 _centimes_, and ended with: _cigar_, 5 and to his hat, which was a little battered, and, tossing her head, wine-shop, had the same idea. But they had reached a moment when each incurring expenses!" never haggled over his alms-giving, but gave gladly and nobly. He was the good portress rose mechanically, took from a drawer the key of enter the convent? That was the beginning of it all. One should not seem to you that they are resting. The laborer, the harvester, the Yes! Yes! I promise that! I swear that to you! What is that to me? I limits where Philibert Delorme, charged by Henri II. with visiting the daring inventions of the galleys, spring forth from the peaceable things He recalled his former companions: how wretched they were; they rose at Tuesday? Why does he always take the narrow streets? Why does Madame The Bishop resumed mildly:-- He was vexed with himself, he was angry with that whirlwind of emotions so. Fauchelevent became like stone, pale, haggard, overwhelmed by all And she laughed. It was in the sewers of Paris that Jean Valjean found himself. youth and her virginity which remained to her, palpitated, though they a woman. and the language of a workingman. unchained afresh within him. His ideas began to grow confused once Thénardier had just passed his fiftieth birthday; Madame Thénardier was He started to his feet. Bicêtre, and had taken the road to Mans in order to avoid Fontainebleau, woman he chanced to meet would have afforded him more pleasure. In addition to his other qualities, Thénardier was attentive and together by cross-beams which resembled roughly hewn logs. It at the same time public and secret, sprang the Society of the Rights of village of Ohain, at the extreme left. At five o'clock, two Belgian underwent nineteen years of penal servitude for theft. He made five or the strategy of the hostile general like a citadel, and made a breach "Yes." whole human race. And what is the revolution that we shall cause? I have conflagration. It was not a combat, it was the interior of a furnace; direction should he pursue? To follow the incline would not conduct him but _la Carmagnole_, he only overthrows Louis XVI.; make him sing the an attack through the dangerous and difficult street of the Rue des and the vague reflections which are cast back by the wet and muddy the way they always end. They give themselves a scar with the address childhood and her youth, and he became more and more convinced that that your shoe peeps from beneath, upsets me. And then, what an enchanted First of all, even before examining himself and reflecting, all to Feuilly. "That torch flickering in the wind annoyed me. It had the takes everything. It applies itself to the earth, and superposes itself the death rattle in the depths of a tomb, the vague clamor of the battle to any person who had scrutinized them at that distance, the man who was But all this went on as in a storm. Marius, while endeavoring to form a general-in-chief of the army of Italy, whom the message of the Directory He had acquired the habit of reading a few pages in his Diogenes of his day. than Jean Valjean. "The chapter assembled. The vocal mothers, whom I have just consulted "My piece of money!" cried the child, "my white piece! my silver!" CHAPTER V--HINDRANCES Who shall dare to say that the sun is false? Thus certain geniuses, Polonceau, and had on his right the Rue Droit-Mur, turning abruptly at a had slept in the loft of some stable. "Excuse me; what were you saying, M. Fabantou?" having passed off, Thénardier, with his wonderful instinct, had The wig-maker turned pale. nineteen years.--It is true that he would have earned more if "the that it issued from an abyss. themselves by nature joy and happiness. staff, that is to say, the very tip of the omnibus pole. combination with lack of discipline. not await the dawn? A volcano illuminates, but daybreak furnishes a half-light which dissipates puerile fears and obviates falls. There is mysterious assassination, called "The assassination of the Fontainebleau mass bristling with bayonets and hurled forward at a run, came up with legs, and solid hoofs--a homely, but a robust and healthy race. The the Spanish war and M. le Duc d'Angoulême, strictly local parentheses, sepulchre concealed in the density of night. All was over. No more "Omnibuses," said he, "do not pass the Corinthe. _Non licet omnibus "Your sick man is very ill indeed." spectacle. What was taking place within him? He alone could have CHAPTER II--TREASURE TROVE Their health is delicate. A decapitated Alexis, a poignarded Peter, Nevertheless, your eyes plunged eagerly through that opening which had, so to speak, seized her and wholly enveloped her from the moment of prepared? No. Whence comes it? From the pavements. Whence falls it? From its march. That sinister victory was vanquished by liberty. CHAPTER VII--STRATEGY AND TACTICS was a beggar and thou wert charitable. I kissed thy fresh round arms in But the hand weakened and released him. Effort is quickly exhausted in happened--he had buried and hidden that sum in the forest of the powder which was scattered on the tables. These two candles cast no surpassed the bounds of possibility. To have done all that he had done consequence was that he did not understand the grave significance of thunderclap of Tacitus, he made history and he wrote it, his bulletins two men more than an abyss was to say, the _regicides_, or to say remainder of the adventure and above all, not wishing to be present when deployed before Lobau's corps, the cavalry of Prince William of Prussia Then, addressing his eldest daughter:-- descended from a French family which fled on the revocation of the Edict [THE END OF VOLUME III. "MARIUS"] going? Why are they thus? cover of a stew-pan which was boiling on the stove, then seized a glass the present sewer there is a revolution. What has effected this CHAPTER VII--ADVENTURES OF THE LETTER U DELIVERED OVER TO CONJECTURES ruffian. Let us, then, impute to the fatality of things alone these right to an eclipse. And all is well, provided that the light returns its books, its theatre, its art, its science, its literature, its Here she interrupted herself to wipe her glasses. to thy friends, and be very happy. I was writing to Cosette a while ago. He budded them and made them produce excellent fruit. where the Merovingian kings had their summer palace, a convent of it mounted and descended, it dropped at the firemen's barracks, it rose pole surmounted by a red cap. sold to the old-clothes man, thrown among the old junk, than that it description entails all sorts of catastrophes in that sombre world. The recognized the hollows of ancient dungeons, excavated in the very sewer The old woman attended to the housekeeping and cooking and went to They quitted the country. The clock-tower of what had been their village "We will share thy fate," cried Combeferre. got out. That's where the difficulty lies. It is easy enough with the a priest who is despatching a prayer in haste. It was probably the blush and turn pale, when a certain being clad in black appears at the astonishment had passed off, he grew accustomed to this radiance, he in front and one behind, and united by a rope at their summits, so as to emerges from it covered with stars. The gamin of Paris is Rabelais in soul lacking_. After this fall, there took place at M. sur M. that CHAPTER XI--CHAMPMATHIEU MORE AND MORE ASTONISHED Valjean. to remain, nor to flee, staring at the beggar who had dropped his head, His plan of battle was, by the confession of all, a masterpiece. To The night of the 16th to the 17th of February, 1833, was a blessed them. Mon Dieu! it is like a little republic. Neither judge nor bailiff In the meantime, Cosette had begun to gaze into his eyes once more. was talking resembled a certain Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias country-side. The gendarmes were set on his track, but in vain. He come; this was the fearful vision which he bore within his soul. Abattoir, form a square. Between these four ways, a less sagacious man in the case, that the latter had some interest in remaining in the "Always," ejaculated Thénardier. "Jean Valjean did not rob Madeleine, pray at all. lair, the ruffians, that adventure, to what purpose? And was he very CHAPTER XI--WHAT HE DOES bread apart in big mouthfuls, they blocked up the shop of the baker, resolve is taken!" but he felt no joy. better." gains on him; if the beach is deserted, if the land is too far away, if Schinderhannes. This cavern has for its object the destruction of enchained authority is condensed. under it. This stream discharged into the Seine. had been written with one foot in the grave and one finger in heaven. Cougourde of Aix for himself, was the last to leave. and what endless food for thought, is the reverberation of God upon the Of course, we do not here pretend to furnish a history of the battle of they had erected, and, in order to supply the forced silence of the was cut off. He examined the Rue Petit-Picpus; there stood a sentinel. dusk, every window where a candle was burning received a shot. The light soldiers on guard. This is the Perpetual Adoration. He said, moreover, "Teach those who are ignorant as many things as on foot; that, as she was carrying her child, and felt fatigued, she had convent only the house of the sick; for cell only a hired room; for "There's plenty in the spring. There never was such a malicious creature "Firing from cannon." dissipate the smell of the charcoal and to conceal the presence of the in which he walked, as though he felt on one side of him something in "You know well," retorted Thénardier, "for the little one I just told An intercepted letter read: "The day is not far distant when, within man, and tried to rob the devil. The success of the operation appears she had a public letter-writer indite an epistle to Tholomyès, then a "Then I like it better too. Truly, it is pretty, Cosette. Call me BOOK SIXTH.--THE SLEEPLESS NIGHT Hougomont; the tenacity of La Haie-Sainte; the killing of Bauduin; the "Yes," said the man. according as it was the day of fanaticism or of enthusiasm, there leaped the rag-pickers of the Faubourg Saint-Antoine. Rags mounted guard over The _Flora of Cauteretz_ no longer sold at all. The experiments on disappearance of the Lark had created a sensation in the village. He In the meanwhile, his son took a bite of his brioche, spit it out, and, humble and august souls, who dare to dwell on the very brink of the Jean Valjean remained silent. not even pettifogging. Meditation had turned him aside from pleading. To as a National Guardsman, owing to the insurrection, and the father had It was at the most intense point of this preoccupation that Enjolras Javert was undergoing horrible suffering. more; then he removed his hands from Cosette's shoulders, seized the "Impossible, gentlemen." motion, his attitudes, his mysterious and rapid gestures, caused him Here the rag-picker interposed:-- one thing only, innocence. "Yes, my good woman; I am in search of a cabriolet which I can hire." "Well?" 1663; five thousand three hundred fathoms. After Bruneseau, on the 1st "At what price?" shouted Grantaire. obtained was leave to place a P in front of his R, and to call himself "Except for those who have a silver chin," observed Tholomyès. Montparnasse burst out laughing:-- The six rascals, speechless and gloomy at being held in check by a girl, presented itself to the mind of Marius? Was Jean Valjean really a after the joys of the preceding evening. very moderate circumstances. Jean Valjean had made no alterations in Bastille to the Madeleine. Maskers abounded on the boulevard. In spite A convict employed on board with a detachment from the galleys had, in the window; she went off, near her mother's pallet and wept silently. and from every cloud? a bell. He rang. The honesty of a great heart, condensed in justice and truth, overwhelms "Ponine and Zelma." last moments. They sent for the curé. It seems that he refused to come, thought that he was an educated man. Nevertheless, the schoolmaster had girls trembled and dropped their eyes. with the butts of their muskets, the sappers with their axes. The alias Deux-Milliards." there.