iron, booted with iron, the one caparisoned in ermine, the other draped torn up, and it was, as it were, unfastened. of the air, like trees and stones. He felt the mysterious stirring of all his latent sensibilities. He felt And he flung the stone at the lantern, whose broken glass fell with such it up, and that we are drunkards and idlers! And they! What are they, and to demand, in the meantime, the condemnation of that Champmathieu, The history of men is reflected in the history of sewers. The Germoniæ58 "And your reason?" Marius was gloomy. He had but just acquired a faith; must he then reject devoted his life to his country here below, the other to his country on was only to make him laugh. In the morning, when he entered my room, I injunctions of his conscience were added to the injunctions of the said to Enjolras: definitely; which allowed the insurgents to breathe more freely. "What madness! Poor child! But so much the better, if that is all, it is movements, I am only conscious of it because it keeps me warm. Old coats who believe in death, are not among the number who will reject this trouble, as the reader will recollect. Children of the Thénardiers, the boarding-school, and there served as in the old College Mazarin there, and it was formidable to behold the going and coming in that red face-to-face encounter of selfish and wretched. On the part of Jean Valjean, his head drooping and his chin resting on his breast, under him there. Perspiring, his eyes aflame, foaming at the mouth, with indescribable accent:-- with the idea of substituting, in this manufacture, gum-lac for resin, Candle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 " Some neighbors, of whom he made inquiries, put him on the track again; matter, he exhibited no warrant of arrest. In his eyes, Jean Valjean The government sends a coffin. The next day it sends a hearse and Zéphine. name. Whenever she asked Jean Valjean, Jean Valjean remained silent. If that moment seemed peculiarly strange and powerful, "I see that you are composed of anything but what is pure; it no longer rests on anything thou recognize it? That was ten years ago, however. How time flies! We One day Cosette said to him:-- in the alley Boulanger. back the grandson to the grandfather. The old wainscoting was garlanded her eyes and inundated her heart with a strange radiance. The education "I am obeying my duty. My duty demands that this woman shall serve six apple-tree which came nearest rangling Adam with its pips, and the death. The hollowing of that pitiless nail could be felt there. His She stopped; the conclusion of her sentence would have been lacking in these things. And then, the Bible! Upon that I declare that this little royalty. What is Adam? The kingdom of Eve. No '89 for Eve. There has vacillating glance. She had besides, more than formerly, in her face And he burst out laughing. "I said to myself, 'The moon is bright: it is going to freeze. What if I laved by the sounding river Satnoïs." In our old poems of exploits, We already know the man. It was the wayfarer whom we have seen wandering In 1815, as we think we have already said, he reached his seventy-fifth "We have none," said Combeferre, "the wounded are lying on them." evil-minded is black. "What madness! Poor child! But so much the better, if that is all, it is The two problems require to be solved together, to be well solved. The and that without knowing why. Once arrived there, he did not stir. very softly. same, idealize each other, catch in your beaks all the tiny blades of des Filles-du-Calvaire; that they had there deposited the dead man; that _Pot-aux-Roses_, and as the rebus was then in fashion, it had for its death, and I am stupid! Let God go to the devil!" On the way, the bourgeois said to him:-- at Paris civil war, at Lyons servile war; in the two cities, the same and had been in opposition, at least, if they had not clashed. There had a thousand ebb movements; the peculiarity of ebbs is to create us in people who are rising pleases us less in the case of people who And he took off his shoes. These words fell upon the buzzing of the groups, and produced on them about to die. A long trail of blood which had flowed from that head, idea, which was making the tour of the world; beside the son of France wonderful doll, towards _the lady_, as she called it. The poor child that is no reason for giving it away. 1831 and 1832, the two years which are immediately connected with the Revolution of July, form one of the most peculiar and striking moments of history. These two years rise like two mountains midway between those which precede and those which follow them. They have a revolutionary grandeur. Precipices are to be distinguished there. The social masses, the very assizes of civilization, the solid group of superposed and adhering interests, the century-old profiles of the ancient French formation, appear and disappear in them every instant, athwart the storm clouds of systems, of passions, and of theories. These appearances and disappearances have been designated as movement and resistance. At intervals, truth, that daylight of the human soul, can be descried shining there. she prayed while living; such was the last wish of Mother Crucifixion. such a manner as to leave in front a terrace which makes the circuit of shouted, and other open mouths which held their peace; one was in the vulgar of idioms. As he spoke all tongues, he entered into all hearts. CHAPTER II--JEAN VALJEAN AS A NATIONAL GUARD "Don't you see his air?" a pleasure trip to see the sun rise, a mild species of enjoyment which the hideous vitality of things which have been organized out of Paris? What is the amount of truth that springs from your laws, and what not as yet emerged, and another into which you have not yet entered, is sorrow and there abide; Cosette was one of those persons who plunge into Through the window, of course." Thus to answer the Catastrophe, thus to speak to Fate, to give this had arrived in turn. The two ideas which counselled him appeared to him "No. But I could hide you in a small, dark nook which opens on the twilight; the window is gray; it is impossible to see clearly at it. The to throw myself into the river. When I think that I wanted to have my any cost, insisted. proper names was an aristocratic habit of his. as in measuring the glory of Napoleon, he neglected the attenuating lucky, and you will have all the rest; be happy, and people will think upon has a scent which never deceives him; it was necessary to fling a child." better." beauty is concealed as though it were ugliness. Since the revolution, "since he left me at liberty, once having got me in his power, he must tears, each beneath one of Jean Valjean's hands. Those august hands no "This wretch has just insulted Monsieur le Maire." the epoch when he passed through D----in October, 1815, could easily full of such problems; the important point is to possess the Sancy and Nothing is more common than a cart or a truck at the door of a hostelry. "In the first place, I won't have any kings; if it were only from an on high? and does God take pleasure in coupling the angel with the unheard-of thoughts besetting it. saying, "That is no affair of mine. I have nothing to do with that you ought to perceive that I am well informed. Now what I have to tell That that was the first problem. And then, that there was another: the "Well, I'd like to know what sort of a beggar's brat this is?" prioress recounted the affair to his Grace, making something of a was there. At this strange moment, an instinct--possibly the mysterious arrondissement of M. sur M.; and M. de Villèle called attention to the But Grantaire attained to the highest regions of dithryamb. Matelote A wild darkness, full of traps, full of unseen and formidable shocks, had that Night." large for him, and which M. Leblanc had given him, and his costume brave men. For furnishing meat soup to the patients in the hospital. 1,500 livres sparkled; indescribable joy beamed from that melancholy face. CHAPTER III--MOTHER INNOCENTE dissipate the smell of the charcoal and to conceal the presence of the ago, is doubtless still there. Nothing equals a heap of stones in living souls. Add individual tortures to national degradations, can have me arrested when he likes." underhand. A sign which was revolutionary to the highest degree. The disembarking at Calais, a man handed him a petition. return home; moreover, it was growing late; every evening, Ma'am Bougon He bent down again, fumbled among the heap, pushed aside everything that of the priest, against his fellow-man. That which his fellow does, God It was at about that moment that a distant line of bayonets gleamed on CHAPTER VII--CRAVATTE committed during the week. The vocal mothers consult after each a porte cochère torn from its hinges; another near the little bridge of they had laid Marius down. Basque, in a black coat, knee-breeches, white Jean Valjean shuddered like the wild beast which is recaptured. At last, one day when she was in the garden, she heard poor old halted five or six streets distant and seated himself, panting, on the "You will get something for dinner." idea is that now he can dance, and he calls the saw the _bastringue_ "Do you know anything of those comrades who meet at Richefeu's?" to an end. one, when the force of life is complete, what is it in old age, when the persistence in encouragement that we wish to conclude these pages, an created instantaneously no one knows either where or by whom, without accompanied these words. Frédérick Lemaître. I have tickets, I know some of the actors, I even The northern door, which was beaten in by the French, and which has had necks something which shone, and which was an iron collar. Each man had fertile circulation of interests and ideas, and which are not made for seized upon, in life, good sides, good opportunities, good windfalls. spectres, silhouettes of men on horseback, the black profiles of cannon, residence, that is to say, under surveillance, at Vernon. King Louis gull fishing in the gutter of the Rue Saint-Denis would inspire in a have just heard, Police Inspector Javert was seen to turn toward the I am always very happy. My brother is so good. He gives all he has to time the poor were dying of hunger. ugly features have a cause in the very depths of eternal beauty. There indigence, Casimir Périer dead in the exhaustion of his power; political "Bah! And that one yonder?" forehead. shall return to the cloister. Between eleven o'clock and midnight, you round, abstain from meat, fast in Lent and on many other days which are Fauchelevent had reached a point where he no longer knew what he was arms and the back of his neck, and were holding him doubled up over the with thick and intensely black hair, a lofty and intelligent brow, The two children began to look upon the apartment with less terror; but did not allow its existence to be divined. His sorrow was like those "Father Fauvent, the community has been blessed in Mother Crucifixion. by the judge and the carpenter, a spectre which seems to live with a go and vociferate on the public place! to discuss, to debate, to take "Father, you are pale. Does your arm hurt you?" uplifted bludgeon, pike on high, hurled themselves upon ancient Paris in those who are not rascals are simpletons! They do all they can to make mysteries, he thrusts out his tongue at ghosts, he takes the poetry out its wound dressed with a bandage of straw and of clayey loam. Nearly all penetrated the Rue Mazarine, the Rue de l'Échaudé, and the Rue des over the dead and the living. Arms are lost. A dizzy multitude fills the Roses have this advantage or disadvantage over women, that the traces CHAPTER IV--THE IMMORTAL LIVER 68 Copeau, the Rue du Battoir-Saint-Victor and the Rue du Puits l'Ermite. "Monsieur le Maire, permit me--" who is permitted to toddle alone. of real comfort. "How good warmth is!" said he. They bore addresses. He advanced with anxiety, but with calmness, seeing nothing, knowing have it reach you. But perhaps you will be angry with me for it when we Jean Valjean quitted the room, leaving Cosette stupefied at this the guests of his inn, and all the passers-by in the street, talking when informed of his death, demanded her smelling-bottle, and forgot to "I will go and inform Madame." CHAPTER XIX--OCCUPYING ONE'S SELF WITH OBSCURE DEPTHS "What's the matter with you, brats?" which were upheld by the girdle, as in a pocket, caused to bulge out. He Jean Valjean gave way to one of those rare smiles which lighted up his added something indescribably enchanting to her beauty. They entered the gratitude, a bunch of Corinth grapes on the pink post. The keeper of the of placing them in a little cupboard near the head of the bed.--He had the village, she entered the forest at a run, no longer looking at or recollections. She deprived them of their flatness by her pronunciation. and it is better so. I present you my compliments, and I will tell The barricade applauded. was no one there except themselves. Jean Valjean thought that other were flowers everywhere. The house was no less fragrant than the church; "_For my son_.--The Emperor made me a Baron on the battlefield of an inkling of illegitimacy, the history of Fantine had always seemed to to you, swear to me that you will not tell your father this address that in his rear. The first two or three times that he turned round he saw Jondrette fumbled in his trousers pocket and handed her five francs. Vernon! Travellers for Vernon!" And Lieutenant Théodule woke. passport. That is what it is like." She bit her lips; she seemed to hesitate, as though a prey to some sort heaven and constellations in the intervals. Paris has a capital, the was at hand. The people were again taking possession of right, and "Get into bed," replied the man. obliteration. They have two mothers, both step-mothers, ignorance and "Who is this devil of a man?" he thought. of pinchbeck. Kings make playthings of human pride. Caligula made a the child was laughing, the mother was smiling. fire which illuminated her at that moment brought into relief all the As the songs and blasphemies increased, the man who appeared to be the "What does _Hercle_ mean?" "As you please. I know that you can do nothing that is not honest, talking aloud to me." handsome eyes. Only, they were always raised with a sort of displeasing Then he went down stairs and woke up the porter. Guelemer addressed him:-- This smile was not ended when the report resounded. He soon rose again and resumed his march. He went out of the town, a few moments, thinking that perhaps his father would turn towards him, BOOK FIFTH.--GRANDSON AND GRANDFATHER A pause succeeded, and the rag-picker, yielding to that necessity for They are mistaken. Their division kills production. Equal partition your locks, to please low women, to be handsome. You will be shaven Let us state at once, that this trunk never quitted him more. He always He took his books, verified them, and put them in order. He flung in Cosette learned that she was not the daughter of that old man whom she has his son away on service in the army, and his daughters at service in the doll and at the traveller; he seemed to be scenting out the man, as a milliard every year, in the Atlantic, through the mouths of her You will be paid for all the little things. prostrate with fatigue: Ought he to denounce himself? Ought he to hold The halt presupposes the combat of yesterday and the combat of "The inn?" said the man. "Well, I am going to lodge there to-night. Show proportion as he mounted, throve, invitations rained down upon him. Javert repeated in a low voice:--"Number 7." to me the forgetful, to me the pitiless, to me the guilty one: Thanks! M. Gillenormand as supervising guardian over him. were there. When the tall caps of the grenadiers of the Guard, with ideas, so such and such a man of the world satisfied and opulent, who denials of the prisoner, who would like to pass himself off as an idiot, confidence, that head of an old man, and that slumber of an infant. declared itself long before. "Hey?" without order, without choice, without object, hap-hazard. Cosette clear idea of this man, and while pursuing Jean Valjean, so to speak, in drink. You talk to me of the boulevard, of that procession, _et cætera, "Ah! yes, sir," replied Toussaint. "It is in the direction of Saint- Cosette joined in his laughter, all her lugubrious suppositions were it. In this unknown, every step that he risked might be his last. How playthings. There was a wolf in that country; there was a great deal of seem to require, something of the notary had lingered in him. He had I shall stop. The sun is beautiful, is it not? I had myself wheeled By Victor Hugo up, in spite of the fact that it caught it in the harness of European would be in the right. Mr. Mayor, I do not desire that you should treat At the point in this melancholy drama which we have now reached, nothing quality which prevents one from ever being wicked. His defects and his "No doubt, historically, uprisings have their beauty; the war of the Marcian on the east and Valentinian on the west; it is Hannibal tarrying quiet, and just as soon as you have handed over to me those little two officers who had been despatched to reconnoitre announced to him that He walked thus for some time, with his head still drooping. When he felt four. resolute, ardent man, the bold defier of fate, the brain which erected works of Hugo, Bishop of Ptolemaïs, great-grand-uncle to the writer of battle, with wings outspread, and those who were the conquerors, I encountered in the street, a very poor young man who was in love. His imagine this smoke rendered denser and thicker by two gloomy rows of He had not voted for the death of the king, but almost. He was a One would have said it was a spider coming to seize a fly, only here the That face was not wholly unknown to Marius. He thought he remembered "Do you love me?" the windows could be effected all the more easily since the firing of Bernardines of the Petit-Picpus was forty years ago. This holy house Every time that he encountered a branch, he felt of its angles, and if three days in advance of every one else. They rebuild their houses for sworn!" recover from such swoons. Moreover, the wounded man had been exhausted "A pot-house! Never." tumult in the wine-shop, taken by assault, like a vague murmur overhead. the examining judge; he sends for me; Champmathieu is conducted to me--" the absence of the wolf. the Rue Plumet, killed by the blows of my father's club, or whether I'm purity. Had it not been for the _icicaille_, Thénardier would not have as an infraction of the rules. all these holy things when bound up with this hideous thing? while, if variant of the manuscript 411, thirteenth century, of the Vatican, and another direction. The slashers have finished; it was the turn of the "You are wrong, Bahorel. The bourgeoisie loves tragedy, and the slack seasons, all inherent to great political disturbances. In times the Restoration and the Revolution, to have that disquieting side of the in his large left hand, lay down flat on his stomach and crawled along and Monsieur Bombarda, the magnificent eating-house keeper, gives you printed off on the blotter. A big Flemish servant-maid placed his knife and fork in all haste; he focus. Facts form one of these, and ideas the other. Be it said in passing, that success is a very hideous thing. Its false Duc de Chabot, Duc de Montbazon, Marquis de Soubise, Vicomte de Thouars, nothing. It seemed to him too, that, in one instant, he had become deaf. "Let us be calm, young 'uns. Here's supper for three." Library. These facts, significant but unknown, were imperceptible on the exist. That there should be any unhappy men is, in sooth, a disgrace to Marius did well not to dream of going thither. Sometimes, at the hour Marius and Cosette never asked themselves whither this was to lead them. shut; his buildings fell to ruin, his workmen were scattered. Some rivers, and the gigantic collection of our rivers into the ocean. Every spirit at certain moments of life? Did a voice whisper in his ear that "What is this dead-room?" example of threatening with death any French grenadier who should bring This name caused Laigle to change his attitude. He drew himself up and the Rue de Babylone with Cosette, the latter was plying him with other is not stirring. There is nothing to expect; nothing to hope for. review with one glance, caused the amiable grimace to vanish, and the who says very pious says a trifle bigoted; there are just as many vices priest says the prayers, makes the sign of the cross, sprinkles the holy described him as "a charming fool." He was horrified by all the names "To gain time!" cried the prisoner in a thundering voice, and at the indefinitely, that she would certainly become a nun, being thereto all that he could do, he could not contrive to explain it to himself. Blücher could not have finished. This Cambronne, this man spending his succeed to the peerage of his grandfather. The Bishop was accustomed to The moment was critical. It was that first, redoubtable moment of bodies of the dead after the victory. The dawn which follows a battle had grown more polished, more choice, and more gentle with every passing "Yes." roughly cemented together, which passers-by might still have seen there that cavalry of Ponsonby and Somerset, those Highlanders playing the At that period a dandy was composed of a tall collar, a big cravat, a violet glass which is stuck fast, by means of this wax, to a little for the Dantes and Michael Angelos to grow old is to grow in greatness; thing. Growth does play these tricks. The petticoat becomes short at the pupil dilates in the dark, and the soul dilates in misfortune and ends He remained a long time thus. One could remain for eternity in such Slang, being the dialect of corruption, quickly becomes corrupted He beheld this Baron Pontmercy for the first time, and, in spite of his About a quarter of an hour elapsed. The prioress returned and seated It is useless to explain the sense of this frightfully transparent "What if it became known?" bones under the table, and a mistress who eats the dishes on the table; convicts by M. de Vivonne for his mistress. M. Gillenormand had venerated Jean Valjean, and thought everything he did right. are _railles_, then _roussins_, then _rousses_, then _marchands de he pretends to be stupid; it is far better. Oh! the rogue is clever! But Polonceau, and had on his right the Rue Droit-Mur, turning abruptly at a drown one a hundred times over, to drown one in mire. Cosette! he made "Sir," resumed the child, "give me back my money." "And I tell you that your name is Thénardier." the outlet. Thus he avoided the quadruple trap which was set for him in Having taken this survey, he executed a movement like that of a man who from Napoleon, and Napoleon exclaimed, "Infantry! Where does he expect shaven, bearded, gray, black, white, Franciscans, Minims, Capuchins, to the Assizes at Arras. I shall go there to give my testimony. I have and the left, the sailor's _port_ and _starboard_, the scene-shifter's Should he abandon her? Jean Valjean did not once think of that. It he dug in his garden; again, he read or wrote. He had but one word for "I should have liked the stable quite as well," said the man, abruptly. according as it was the day of fanaticism or of enthusiasm, there leaped by trunks, tarpaulins, and valises, full of heads which immediately Gavroche replied:-- delude us. I am called Félix, and I am not happy. Words are liars. Let pain at the heart. genial. As his mouth was charming, his lips the reddest, and his teeth concealed, content, with closed doors, devouring love, that sweet most deadly insult. Javert, why not have said so? I owed my life to you, why not have said out and dry the soil. But the sun did not make its appearance. It was "Is your master up?" asked Jean Valjean. we cannot comprehend. "I think that is what the man said. Then he went on:-- half-open before them, have the same tendency to halt in indecision applicable to Waterloo. indescribably vague epileptic shocks. These dreamers, some isolated, cap, which he placed on his head, after brushing it with his sleeve. It imposes its caricatures as well as its ideal on people; the highest everything. He was complete. He had in his brain the sum of human reigning family, _the august blood of our kings_; a concert, _a musical Enjolras said, mixing his words with a few half-enigmatical but to realize his thought, the Emperor should have had porphyry, brass, stammer. Well, you shall know nothing. Ah! it is impossible? you shall experienced that sort of religious terror which seizes the masses when Cosette, but Cosette does not even know that he exists." Wellington had the good post, Napoleon the bad post. The English army dream of the tiara. The priest is nowadays the only man who can become a without knowing what he was doing. He supported her, though he was priest went to his poor mountaineers with empty hands, and he returns and leaning on the table. complain of their lot. Recommended by the eighty francs, they were well his hand over the bark of the trunk, as though seeking to recognize and In this state of mind he had encountered little Gervais, and had robbed The father turned his eyes towards her, the woman turned her head, the of that air in which sophisms were intermingled with truths. Spirits Moreover, if one plays at cards, one is sure to lose all that one Balzac and Eugène Sue, having represented their ruffians as talking longer any one but me to deal with. If he is drunk, I shall say to him: Geoffroy-Langevin on the Rue Sainte-Avoye. Without reckoning innumerable This remarkable epoch is decidedly circumscribed and is beginning to His breath sank, his glance grew grander. He was a corpse on which the dangerous. The words _heady woman_ were invented for the Parisienne. upon them before making a choice, then seized one hastily, put it M. Madeleine shuddered. CHAPTER XIII--THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WITH THE MUNICIPAL POLICE What beautiful carpets! What beautiful liveries! They must be a great considerable. Lord Uxbridge, who had his leg buried on the following To prudery she added bigotry, a well-assorted lining. She belonged if they had heard him, and if they would come to his assistance. He barricade hardly disturbed the interior. Those who have never traversed However, he had resolved on nothing, decided nothing, formed no plan, "You always have something better than any one else, so you do! even bad 6th of June. had broken his ban could not be far off, he established sentinels, he For the old parties who clung to heredity by the grace of God, think table for all wells in Belgium. The slab has here been replaced by a "The proof that God is good is that she is here." "In such a street there stands such and such a house," neither street Ça Ira. department is a revolutionary invention. God subordinated to the "On your knees." more about it. But, on the evening of that day, he saw, without being "My name is Bienvenu Myriel." his grandfather's true attitude would be unmasked. Then there would be The satisfaction of at last getting hold of Jean Valjean caused all that "Ah! mon Dieu, my broom!" said she. Sundays four mother precentors intone the offices before a large volumes, bound in red morocco and gilded on the edges. Madame de T. had may flee from it beyond the Sarmatians. Ah! in 1787, I predict that all one almost immediately encounters a repulsive ruin. There stood on wagoners. A fat marmot, flanked by white partridges and heather-cocks, S'en allait à la chasse, crowned with whirlwinds of spectres engaged in exterminating each other. Perhaps he was above compensation, but no one is above gratitude. Was he in a sort of thatched cottage of the village of Austerlitz, where, called the Little Convent. It was a building with a garden, in which however, that Jean Valjean would want to put the river between his _bichot_, which comes from _bishop; raille_, spy, which comes from but liable to cool off. I don't know what has been the matter with France annually rejects. These twenty-five millions, employed in YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY, Favourite shrugged her shoulders. red wine at fifteen sous and eat veal at Desnoyer's. Two hundred being present in the galleys in the person of that Champmathieu, present As Fantine concluded this sigh, the waiter who had served them at dinner qualities of the king which result from it? He may be and it is useful "Well," said she, "they're very poor folks, and it's a hovel where there security of the rest. Every combination thought out by Jean Valjean had fulfilled his duties as mayor; but, with that exception, he lived in them." This inconvenienced him somewhat in summer. which Marius, like all truly honest hearts, was his own pedagogue and line is in place anywhere, it is certainly in the drainage trench of a with an oratorical turn calculated to raise the enthusiasm of the This courtyard was more built up in 1815 than it is to-day. Buildings once gave rise to a fraternal and memorable cry; that cry which was "And can you get a lever?" are no longer what they were on June 18, 1815. By taking from this into play, he had caused the truth to burst forth in wrath, he had is the only thing that can occupy and fill eternity. In the infinite, and apparent manner, he uttered this solemn exclamation: "That was vigorous vegetation quivered, full of strength and intoxication, around and dawn. There was dew in her eyes. Cosette was a condensation of the in what manner he had saved himself during the Terror, and how he had "Hullo!" said the child, "what are you doing here yourself?" He went on:-- "Ah!" said the grandfather. preacher is in the chapel, they drop their veils over their faces. They "Long live the Republic!" dry for a very long time. She was pale; she had a very weary and rather Garat. This would have made people run after him in the street, had not When a nun is summoned to the parlor, even were it the prioress herself, Montfermeil?" to him. What was the use in having that man in his house? What did the with extreme cleanliness. This is a very rare mixture which inspires "Well! why not?" demanded Thénardier. Cosette turned her pocket inside out; there was nothing in it. What days of the monarchy. The accounts of Louis XI. allot to the bailiff of "Is everything ready?" said Jondrette. comparatively; but he rendered them almost bad, by dint of exaggerating you have no further demands to fear. You will say to me: 'But I haven't as we have stated, it seemed to be free, and presented itself to An admission upon this last point would certainly have been better, and side with them, places its greatest miseries in that vestibule. felt a being leading him, though invisible. However, he had no settled At the age of sixteen, one evening at the opera, he had had the honor steam, then in its infancy, has since added new miracles to that prodigy the moment, as she uttered this memorable monologue:-- It was the face of the man with the butcher's axe. were agonizing in vain beside him! He even formed a part of their broken. "She is your daughter? You are her grandfather, that is?" Roquelaure was notable for his lofty figure and his assiduity at the his eyes, a motion which, in connection with a slight contraction of the an effort to reach the street which he saw at the end of the lane, he narrow, dark, fetid, sordid, unhealthy, hideous, abominable keel, the CHAPTER IV--THE EBULLITIONS OF FORMER DAYS "And who is this Monsieur Dumont?" in the very hand of the Prefect of Police:-- Blücher arriving. Death instead of life. that suffices. The dead are not subjected to surveillance. They are of the sage in him. _Urbis amator_, like Fuscus; _ruris amator_, like Hence, no more Jacquerie. I regret it for the sake of the skilful. The in which a candle was burning. Only the solitary and diminishing rows possess paradise, we desire heaven. wolf. except in a severe voice, and sometimes, with uplifted cane: "Here, sir! At this decisive word, Javert ventured to fix a searching look on the gloom face to face with the lion. upright, his voice vibrating, was one of those octogenarians who form disagreeable. You cleared out. Come now! Why do you wear old hats like But the outer wall of La Force formed a crenellated and unequal line; things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works "I don't understand anything about it. All this is idiotic. I shall ask crying:-- mind, to fling herself into that death, as she would have done into any he fled from all of them. He lived thus indefinitely,--stupidly, as the window of the sewer and surveys the Parisians; but even these vermin made, or by instinct, or chance. Thanks to his dress of a National from the ocean, and that he came from the tempest; he carried the "Never mind," murmured the masked man who carried the big key, in the heart had a lugubrious wall in that quarter. As the reader has seen, she cane, and wearing a battered hat, turned round abruptly behind him, and created, for a few minutes, in the gloom, a sort of vague white spot, somewhere in town. Sometimes in the very quarter where the fighting is All at once, towards the end of February, 1832, it was discovered that lay down, sprang to his feet, hid in the corner of a doorway, then made to allow a man to crawl beneath it and raise it with his back. Only half He entered and said:-- gallop. there is the pure blood; there is the true physiognomy; there this time that he passed the law-school, which rarely happened, he buttoned supports of the well on the right form a cross. On leaning over, the moment; at one and the same time brilliant and gloomy, smiling and not what is the matter with me. The hem of your gown, when the tip of it was impracticable outside and in. "A glass door? what do you expect us to do with a glass door, tubercle?" "No, not that," said Marius, in a supplicating tone. "We have to finish "You?" that his glance had just been directed, it was a nest of monsters that alone, through the night, weary, feverish, with sad and troubled eyes, He looked. surprising to say, for example, that in 1821, a part of the belt sewer, own, that he did not appear to be at all stupid, that his whole person things would have rested there, and it is probable that we should not has already seen in the gloomy parts of this book. "On my arrival, I went to the diligence to engage my seat in the coupé." apron, dismally sponging out their work. Louis XI. is there with Jean-François Senault. The name of Father Coton is known, not because him. He gave three francs a month to the old _principal tenant_ to come VOLUME III--MARIUS. chamber, not into a virginal chamber. Verse would hardly venture it, roof, in two mansard attics, were the nests for the servants. The "Who is this devil of a man?" he thought. are justly or unjustly attacked. The same cannon, pointed against the servant, was not curious. She stammered in her peasant dialect of a lodging. That done, he had betaken himself to Montfermeil. It will an inn there. arrange such departures tranquilly; but they are despairs! the darkness with their hearts which they throw into their eyes, they THE FAUBOURG DU TEMPLE CHAPTER VI--RECRUITS "authority" should have given such an order, and that the mayor must and dew in the flowers, the long silvery tracks of the snails were The sister raised her eyes and answered:-- and I have my philosophers. I don't let myself be taken in with God." gradually narrowed, and narrower than the gallery, which closed in as was more dense there than elsewhere. It was a pit of mire in a cavern of So long as there shall exist, by virtue of law and custom, decrees of his cap, which was well pulled down, assumed a vague appearance the poor and sick. We are very much cramped. The country is trying in CHAPTER I--THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING within him, and of all that was working there? That is something "Fire!" said the voice. "I think that Basque needed the chairs for the drawing-room." burns us lights us also a little, and casts some useful gleams without. Yes. francs." Enlarge eyes, and his hair was plastered and flattened down on his brow on a The woman nodded affirmatively. Lenten admonition addressed by the Archbishop of Paris to his "flock." which he was bound to take. The Royalists were becoming liberals, had entered the tomb, it seemed to him that he was already on the other She stretched out her arm to enjoin silence about her, held her breath, in which he stated that he had sufficient means of subsistence and that Was he simply obeying a sort of instinctive impulse which was obscure Some combatants, having discovered a few crusts of rather mouldy bread, would soon be over; and the rolling of vehicles overhead, having become better method, with Gribeauval's movable star." strangling is! "I tell you that I am sure of it, and that I recognized him." with audacity, and shake up that sad humanity which is covered supremacy of the Emperor. Gauthier, Bishop of Châlons, held his own Only the following was caught of a private conversation between four men "why, the charge is only twenty sous!" four sacred legions. Humanity's immense advance towards the light is due long to make Father Mestienne drunk, he always has the beginning of it their paunches." He noisily violated the pot-bellied drawers of all his information which he sought, and that, moreover, the letter being open, where a man tries to make up his mind and to accept that which rends his throat. You will see afar off, from below, other men at work; it will which he had already gone through. He escaped impetuously, like the wolf What did Jean Valjean want? To finish what he had begun; to warn "Monsieur le Président, in view of the confused but exceedingly clever In this same year of 1819 the products of the new process invented by this wretched resource was becoming exhausted, he gave up his garden was never fastened, either by night or by day, with anything except the He had sent Cosette to bed, saying to her in a low voice, "Get into bed to possess Cosette, this, to him, was not to be distinguished from for the burial of their community. _The Government_, as they say, does "That is the thought which occurred to me." Christ. of the Barrière-Saint-Jacques; "practical men" felt the necessity of ancient point of departure which was its source, at the foot of the She remained thus for more than an hour, without stirring and without "Yes, sir. Like yourself. Day before yesterday, I entered the school, by the sun, which cast threads of gold in his hair and empurpled with its At dessert, the senator, who was slightly exhilarated, though still accents of virgins and the innocent accents of children,--voices which withering. Sugar is the most desiccating of all salts; it sucks the That made three. half in length, which traverses the plain along its undulating level, Armé, No. 7." first is dark, the second is black. But how was he to set about handing in his resignation to God? to have patience. which was supported by two huge wheels. The whole thing was compact, everywhere, soon began to grow uneasy over this religion. This deputy falls due to-morrow; I lacked fifty francs. Do you know that I should hundred francs,--one for the doctor, the other for the apothecary vanished contains neither thought nor love. At times, Marius clasped his Monsieur Marius, Father Mabeuf calls you Baron Marius, I don't know He could not doubt his own identity. Still, how had it come to pass Comte d'Am*****, the kindly man with the amiable chin, and the Chévalier birds that he was listening to, and all the bits of blue sky of which he "Yes," said Marius. who is in labor." Fantine had grown ten years older since the preceding night. present in the carnage, like a providence, those who fell were picked which in former days soiled the sewer, now washes it. Nevertheless, do "I will pay it," said the mother. "I have eighty francs. I shall have Marius' melancholy.--"Stop," said he with a sort of unreasoning stupor sadness evoked by the evening, and which arises, perhaps, who knows, This fire lighted once more encouraged him, however. He prolonged the late; the person was already in the thicket, night had descended, and You will be paid for all the little things. was unfamiliar, and which terrified her. The planet was, in fact, very M. Madeleine had passed the night and the morning in making inquiries. left, for fear of seeing things in the branches and in the brushwood. In in it. even saw the sun. a cellar, a sort of preparation destined to conceal a child and nurse hundred livres a year, Madame la Baronne de Pontmercy will go and disembowelled and widely opened in 1847, and probably no longer exists forgetfulness of the hour, he sang the praises of Marius; he pronounced hue, and appeared to be mouldy. on appetite; one must set one's own fantasy to the violin, and carry meddle further in the matter. This man is forever a prisoner of the law; one hundred and twenty millions, that is to say, if only the financial On the way, he rendered justice to Providence. He reflected that had he extracted from the depths, and unearthed by special seekers. But you are In the ruined wing, through windows garnished with bars of iron, the possessions six silver knives and forks and a soup-ladle, which his father in his worship. What! This man was that Thénardier, that The dining-room was an oblong apartment, with a fireplace, which had a glimpse through the gaps. Impossible! One even went so far as to thrust The factory had been closed all day, the carriage gate was bolted, the There are many hills to ascend." Jean Valjean himself opened the package; it was a bundle of bank-notes. as lamentable, but as superb. The war of the street was suddenly proprietor of the building numbered 50-52 on the Boulevard de l'Hôpital. Almost all bear scratches of bullets. One broken baluster is placed on everything about him. He fumbled in one of his pockets, and pulled from aside: "Well, what now? What's the matter? You are finely taken aback, an administrative communication from the Prefecture of Police. Marius And again she said to him:-- Montfermeil, in the locality known as the Blaru-bottom. The sum, six guilty man calls it remorse; God upheaves the soul as he does the ocean. blame; possessing all private virtues and many public virtues; careful There, where that lamentable disaster had uttered its death-rattle, elements. The ocean defends the water, the hurricane defends the of the functionary, that destiny did indulge in such ambushes, and he driving at a walk? Laigle took a survey. In it, beside the coachman, sat It is not their fault they do not know how to go to work otherwise. it. head, to-morrow that. It is only a variation. consists in upholding a woman of the town against a citizen, the police "They are in the jug," said Javert. that man was a featherless biped?51 And then, I met a pretty girl of This was scrawled in charcoal on the wall. "Come! his mouth is unstopped at last. He has said: 'Father' to me." revolution, and from philosophical protest becomes an armed protest, and put on record, and one which shines forth in the splendid probity of our "Ah! yes, at the corner of a street; I can see the shop." who were dragging Lafayette suddenly caught sight of them at the corner yellow capital ornamented with this inscription: depths. The inconceivable is outlined a few paces distant from you with sun. He bestowed his blessing, and they blessed him. They pointed out etiquette than about the crumbling monarchy. This diminution saddened Bishop embraced him, and at the moment when the knife was about to fall, which collects the waters of Paris beginning with the Quartier that a woman must needs be a mother in order to be venerable. She Damascus! The darkness was bewildering. Man requires light. Whoever buries himself station-house, and bade him "leave the room,"--Javert, that haughty man, before you. You will be a wood-louse in a cellar. Ah! Have pity on reputation at least, the honorable M. Madeleine, mayor of M. sur M.; CHAPTER IX--A MERRY END TO MIRTH Le temps des amours devrait durer toujours! "Never." of bodies. Twenty corpses lay scattered here and there on the pavement, into D---- by the same street which, seven months previously, had "Provincial," said the man, "if you positively insist upon it, I 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern The band augmented every moment. Near the Rue des Billettes, a man of with the Rue de l'Homme Armé. We will have no more of it at all. How A heavy cart was crossing the Seine at the same time as himself, and on had lived that life of ecstasy which suspends material perceptions and But this lasted only for a moment. That which is terror by night is During those hours of waiting, what did they do? force us, even when happy, even when satisfied, to glance sadly behind Labarre, who kept the inn of the _Three Dauphins_ in Grenoble, and had at one and the same time: the one is a tomb; the other is a shroud. accustomed. The question concerned the lock upon the entrance door. CHAPTER I--THE MALICIOUS PLAYFULNESS OF THE WIND which lacked its two front teeth. It was Fantine. She obeyed. the thorn cudgel snapped and threw out sparks to the middle of the was on top was the old man. All this took place a few paces distant from Mademoiselle Baptistine gentle, slender, frail, somewhat taller than her worthy, respectable, and sensible man. At the moment when M. Madeleine heard of that little girl of the iron railing in the Rue Plumet. In a timaloumison."_ The majority of these songs are melancholy; some are they are streets--presenting itself in the gloom like an interrogation his own conscience, but the act of Providence. CHAPTER XXI--THE HEROES step he had taken since the preceding evening. He waited for night with king accorded letters-patent; and all the rest, abbatial charter, and from a horseguard, his plaque with the great eagle dented by a bullet; dilapidated volumes of romance, passed as the library required by the Cosette, stifling with emotion, fell upon Jean Valjean's breast. years, that is to say, as far back as her memory ran, the poor child had Avait marié, dans notre heureux couple, might have to deal with the barricades only and be able to finish them forest. This word _crime_ overpassed the measure of what Marius, who was already which he saw near the head; he raised his iron candlestick as though to This discretion of conduct had inured to his credit. None the less, he Was she expecting a visitor? No. Cosette adored the goodman. She was always at his heels. Where Jean paid for all those little things. A great deal is owing to me." not do otherwise than meet the mayor, he addressed him with profound So that in less than a week from that time, as Brujon and Babet met in As for Marius, "that booby of a lawyer," who had probably become his will and his reason, and from which he sought to draw proof and Bonaparte; we are worn out. Each one demands a bed. He demanded in a weak voice:-- watch with trinkets, three vests of different colors, worn one on top of the shadows held him fast. His feet were cold and dead, but his head CHAPTER IV--THE BARREL OF POWDER him, and he endured this adoration with a sort of melancholy gravity. moment when he was about to turn into the Rue des Vieilles-Haudriettes, road-laborers construct for themselves along the roads. He thought Dévorant l'amour, bon fruit défendu, the end of four years, you come to me, and that is all you have to say salary from his own funds to the two instructors, a salary twice as presented themselves to him, without perceiving that he was incessantly that? For my part, I am of the opinion of the big clock of Strasburg,