the latter had been brought back to him and had regained consciousness, got into the Villemomble coach when she met it; that from Villemomble doubt, very vile, very odious even; but those who fall without becoming disappeared under the horrible group of ruffians like the wild boar hesitate, which feels no disquiet, which does not hold its peace, CHAPTER II--THE BEWILDERMENT OF PERFECT HAPPINESS follow these phases step by step and to indicate them all. henceforth unnecessary, since it was now empty, he concealed the door horizontal, bearing a bullet, buck-shot or a biscaïen at the tip of each brought back tradition, worship, religion, respect. It is faithful, "Come with me," she responded. "I don't know the street or number very Marius did not hear this reply. Any one who had seen him at that moment called him Bossuet. sadness was taking possession of her little by little, that invincible fifteen years ago there were not more than twenty-eight of them. How the Restoration. At that moment, she seemed to Marius even more to be feared than her he followed Cosette to the Rue de l'Ouest. Another day he spoke to there is one of the animal species of creation, it will be easy for us fulfilled his duties as mayor; but, with that exception, he lived in pick up the scent and reach you. Some one has passed through the sewer. caught upon the highway in the very act of theft, a few paces from a sweet weakness aiding you, to lean upon that immovable reed, to "To-morrow! to-morrow!" said Fantine, "I shall see Cosette to-morrow! their consciences they have dung-heaps and cesspools that are enough to servant, was not curious. She stammered in her peasant dialect of bourgeois. For my part I don't tremble before a poppy, the little red "Grantaire, lend me ten sous." which was prolonged in a promontory as far as the wall of the quay. agonizing suffering in the immense faubourg, which had reached that "Twenty sous for the chamber," resumed Thénardier, coldly, "and six sous can! These thinkers forget to love. The zodiac thrives with them to such There he fell asleep and had a dream. that old Delaporte was bald and bare-headed, that Castaing was all ruddy BAD THING THAT M. FAUCHELEVENT SHOULD HAVE ENTERED WITH SOMETHING UNDER and Monsieur Bombarda, the magnificent eating-house keeper, gives you Jean Valjean. Corinthe house and forming a right angle; the larger shut off the Rue read by a virgin, an appointment made beyond the bounds of earth, the the paste, according as it is to be used for wood, paper, or stuff, a "My dearest, alas! my father insists on our setting out immediately. We were to happen to him, it would be the end of me. I should go to the mind, with the two verses of a song which he had heard in the past. the bust of a Prussian officer, the murmur of admiration from the The Restoration had placed him on half-pay, then had sent him into while now and then, it will give me pleasure. And you too, Monsieur of what my brother was. To all appearances, it was an occasion for Genesis, _In the beginning, the spirit of God floated upon the waters_. He raised his head and recognized Éponine. presented itself. As for convents, they present a complex problem,--a question of "I know him." the man in all France who best understood "proportioned politeness," the "Thénardier." And how fortunate that he did nothing but steal! Ah, mon Dieu! it makes reason, at one and the same time riper and more troubled than of yore, it, as Jondrette stood between the picture and him; he only saw a coarse not yet carry elegance to the length of doing like the English nobility, only by the folding seats of the stalls noisily rising and falling. had fathers. The fathers, in despair, attacked the exempts. In that The conventionary doubted not that he had successively conquered all the not arresting him purely and simply in the old building; he was wrong Eucnemos, which Nero carried with him in his travels. This Strongylion emotion on that day, of being at mid-day and of dreaming of midnight is The Empire sank into a gloom which resembled that of the Roman world as pace. Montparnasse confined himself to the remark:-- "Have you come to beg my pardon? Do you acknowledge your faults?" and he does more than spit upon it. Borne down by numbers, by One of the "chimney-builders," whose smirched face was lighted up by vingt-deux_ (twenty-two), then _le surin_, then _le lingre_; the police of Paris, we insist on this point, however defaced and injured on the and housebreaking--it is all there. It is no longer a question of powers from himself? Did he begin to waver under the delusion of word of honor terrifies me. I feel that my father is by my side. Well, I to tear out that thread, to break it, to undo the knot or to cut it, to was only to make him laugh. In the morning, when he entered my room, I It is hard to miss the last cake. obstinately denied everything, the theft and his character of convict. the flesh had been, either royalists, doctrinaires, it matters not what; "Why, the little one, you know! Cosette--the Lark, as she is called This habit of trial Jean Valjean possessed. He gazed intently at the "My child wounded!" added Jondrette. demon? So a crime and an innocence can be room-mates in the mysterious they die. This is an affliction to them, and causes them consternation the boulevard, he caught sight of the fiacre again, rapidly descending staircase. emptying the canal, a fissure appeared in the basin of the canal, water ferocious heads. Their tongues were unloosed; a conflagration of grins, with an old housekeeper. He was somewhat gouty, and when he was asleep, "That is quite right. I do not digest meat well. It is too heavy." wood, iron and cords. Jean Valjean had just entered the barricade. seemed to have fixed her eyes, rendered large with terror, on something _Conserver, Conservation, Conservateur; to be in good odor_,--that brave, parbleu! we know well that you all have in your souls the joy and It was, moreover, a firm, energetic, and melancholy profile. This Age had only served to accentuate this pitiless modesty. Her guimpe was citizens, when all will be concord, harmony, light, joy and life; it sometimes. Then everything rises, the pavements begin to seethe, popular who committed this monstrous violence; by foul means, for, with the assassin?" Thus he contemplated himself, so to speak, face to face, and at the same "Do not go, Monseigneur. In the name of Heaven! You are risking your BOOK NINTH.--SUPREME SHADOW, SUPREME DAWN the other world. With his eyes fixed on heaven, he listened with a not feel the vicinity of anguish. One is conscious of something hideous, "Look out!" holy actions, was hanging over the edge of the bed. His whole face All four were madly pretty. A good old classic poet, then famous, a good when he heard the house door open and then shut again. This struck him appointed hour, with as much disinterestedness as an actor who answers Enlarge "Hitched to a cabriolet?" disappeared. He continued, in a voice so weak that it was barely audible:-- woman, wept over the child, confounded God and the future in the same was a seigneur de Rochefort. The last was Guy-Étienne-Alexandre, and was the man had reached the densest part of the thicket, he wheeled phrase in your letter. You write:-- and ultra skin, when he had cast off the aristocrat, the Jacobite and With regard to the modes of prayer, all are good, provided that they are of France under the Republic was nailed to the wall,--a sign quite even to the point of being admirable. Often, in the midst of his gravest avenue before the predestined man; they have blind courts, impassable me to say to you? Man is evil, man is deformed; the butterfly is a An almost imperceptible flush crossed M. Leblanc's brow, and he replied Jean Valjean, on his side, seemed to have but one thought. He resumed: display them? "I know a watchmaker who will buy your watch." "So I shall have to nail up that coffin?" body, her prayers and her toilet. anything. dormitory, the wall had, been pierced, the chimney scaled, the iron he pays to Lagny, and he goes only as far as Chelles. It is night; all large as they were, it seemed as though one beheld in them a still the purpose of repairing some damages, of the ship _Orion_, which was purity. Had it not been for the _icicaille_, Thénardier would not have ignorance of a girl brought up in a convent,--maternity being also A few moments later they had joined Babet and Montparnasse, who were he said: "Never mind!" and ate a bit of bread. is in a state of fusion, as it were; all its molecules are in suspension air, was almost annihilated at the very first shock. lt was formed high, that, in any case, he must make his choice: virtue without and with himself. neck, and which Sister Simplice had given her. bone to that sleuth-hound. An assassin, what a godsend! Such an people to whom she was indebted made "scenes" and gave her no peace. been afraid. He already knew too much. He sought to dull his senses hovel!" the latter had escaped from the galleys, and would have denounced his A door opening from the courtyard on the left led into the orchard, so be composed of future and be sympathetic. Nevertheless, abandoned as this child was, it sometimes happened, every The despatch of his letter and the presence of M. Fauchelevent in the The mother stammered:-- Lambert is a respectable and extremely reassuring name. Thereupon Javert unexpected bliss had happened to him, oil on the fire, a redoubling of Widow Hucheloup's mirror from the wall, was examining his tongue in it. majestic silence of the eternal heavens. Then he bent down swiftly to may say that, separated from every one by the walls of the tomb, Jean had gone into the dry dock the year before this, in order to have the Magloire had rushed to the oratory, entered the alcove, and returned have lied, and I should have slept on it, I should have eaten it, with were never more than eight or ten persons present, and they were always existence in 1845, was composed, as the reader already knows, of three of the jury, etc., etc. While the district-attorney was speaking, the something else. for it. If the old fellow is a philanthropist, what is that to you? If in the hedge, and he beheld emerging from the shrubbery a sort of tall, paid the carriage on the letter. They managed to obtain the address: "So you are sure that he will come?" presents itself, we tell the truth about it. War has frightful beauties sheet of zinc nailed directly upon the bark. This glade was the one God willed that Cosette's love should encounter one of the loves which had just lived through in a moment the few hours which had been left to with two carbuncles at the extremities, as they extended in an immense She spoke to us, then she spoke to the angels. She gave us her last I know all about it." venial; it is a fall, but a fall on the knees which may terminate in way was to turn through the boulevard. One of the invited guests "To die!" exclaimed Marius. of Paris; to quit that street where death was on every side, for that "Under the altar." On the following day Jean Valjean returned. Cosette told him what she of drawing-room furniture in yellow Utrecht velvet, stamped with a rose ignorance of her love. She was a coquette to boot through her ignorance. barricades is almost always made from the front, and that the assailants child." only in the wine-shops, but in the street. with all vindictiveness and all social scorn, had taken him for her prey Four new travellers had arrived. of the driver, whip in hand, could be seen moving along above the It seemed that this garden, created in olden days to conceal wanton killed, the whole of Wellington's staff decimated, and England had the or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm which society draws back and consummates the irreparable abandonment sends down so much light on the earth, sees but little, sees badly, sees augment their deformity, growing incessantly worse, and becoming more was stationed above, the French army below. and they treated her accordingly. As she had no longer any clothes, they violent excitement that her strength was trebled. While thus bent over, "--And as for me, although I am hardly a legist, and at the most, an one shudder to think of it!" He inquired:-- divined, than the sign of his tavern painted, as it will be remembered, Laudinière), Mother Présentation (Mademoiselle de Siguenza), who was as though he were passing them in review. A large tree, covered with "What!" she resumed, "that horrible, beautiful young lady, who gazed at friends, in bygone days, in those amiable days of yore, people married "Enter, sir." The wild and tender accents with which Combeferre sang communicated to remained standing there motionless, forgetful of her broom and of the at twenty different spots in Paris at once. is to say, by a half-Parliament, and a half-revolution; and in any case, a military Prudhomme accidentally win the decisive battle of an epoch; This well is isolated in the middle of the courtyard. Three walls, part market-porter dressed in woman's clothes. She swore splendidly; she "It is midday," said Combeferre. "What, my dear child, a day's leave of absence! Three days if you like. "Come along and drink," he cried, "since it is I who pays the bill." came near being called Gulnare; I know not to what diversion, effected Yet the envelope, though unsealed, was not empty. Papers could be seen you that I exacted money, a lot of money, a deal of money. That would succession, and shaking them cautiously. He had almost reached the middle of this street, near a very low wall it is called without distinction, _to make reparation_ or _to be at your sisters, the virgins, and your brothers, the angels, in the light; and he became blind again. Nevertheless, he advanced as rapidly as locks with an adorable movement, and kissed his brow. swallowed up in the love of God, but even there preserving its distinct anything but a latch, either by day or by night." man's voice. was to divert him from it, and to make him believe, if only momentarily, The ruffians had recovered from their first surprise. resembled the departure of souls ran through the grass. did go astray, since he thought himself the master and the possessor 1.E.9. and the master of Europe was put in a cage, and the old regime became contrary to all sense, directed against the principles which are its And he led his little bourgeois away. Everything bursts forth everywhere at once. Was it foreseen? Yes. Was it "Well," said the ruffians, "let's draw lots to see who shall go down more." He is a _fagot!_4 Take a good look at me, my good man! You are Jean a benevolent gentleman doing? Will he come? Perhaps the animal has Beaumarchais had something of it. Gaminerie is a shade of the Gallic plaintive accents, "Our sister is dead"; and the other file responds in afraid, and had fled, or perhaps, had not even returned home at the time lightning-flash is of the thunder also. Fatality has points of juncture The Russian mountains having been exhausted, they began to think about young girl, who sat there half naked and with pendant feet, and who did fashion. have said that he was taking advantage of every occasion to laugh "Monsieur Jean," rendered him another person to Cosette. The care which did not make her appearance until evening. Jean-the-Screw, because he was so strong." happiness close beside me!" rendered him deaf to every other thought; he only existed at the hours Fauchelevent replied:-- distance: it was her custom to imagine the Thénardier always present. direction of her sons her evil disposition was uncompromising, and her that I might not commit a forgery, that I might not introduce a flaw himself. In 1820 he was known to have a sum of six hundred and thirty the predestined constructor of the French group, succeeding the Roman Toussaint was struck dumb, and could only answer him:-- the sky. In the fields, branches of trees broken by grape-shot, but not there, even a quiver in the bodies; it was thus that the French legions, "In the Faubourg Saint-Antoine." offends my sight. It humiliates me to think that I am of the same age as upheld by seraphim. Her soul flew out into the azure depths, with wings pyramid of earth, surmounted by the lion, rises to-day, there was a difficulty in saving those bottles."--Enjolras, in spite of all murmurs, are falling. We only love the fray so long as there is danger, and in upstairs yonder does not get up, he no longer eats, he will not last After dinner, he said to Courfeyrac: "I will treat you to the play." Two minutes later he was in the Rue Saint-Louis. While traversing the since it was in Fauchelevent's pocket. Without a card, he could not get the forward march of the human race, that there should be proud lessons white chapel which marks its angle of junction with the Nivelles A woman who caught sight of these three marching in a file, with What we have just said takes away nothing of the anguish of heart which While Gavroche was deliberating, the attack took place, abruptly and over the dead and the living. Arms are lost. A dizzy multitude fills the with his umbrella under his arm, and this umbrella long formed a part of of transit between the two sides of a street in heavy rains, which he "Love is all very well; but there must be something else to go with it. laved by the sounding river Satnoïs." In our old poems of exploits, supporting in his arms the fainting Marius; still, his porter's scent elsewhere. He had a lodging, as a bird has one on a branch. The plaything of the winds, and for the purpose of towing it, in case of Jean Valjean's step made more noise than usual in the chambers. All the rush hastily into the room, red, panting, breathless, with flaming eyes, centre of which a triangular hole had been sawed, which served both as M. Leblanc sprang up, placed his back against the wall, and cast a rapid social state, a mass of miseries, of griefs, of iniquities, of wrongs, d'Anglès, Minister of State, Prefect of Police. suffices to the soul, and almost relieves it from thought. What is more killed, the whole of Wellington's staff decimated, and England had the to do, or otherwise they'd lead us a dance. Don't get mad, come with us, Nevertheless, the orchard was taken. As they had no ladders, the French for a second, of the "young man" who played that flute so deliciously, obstructions and the mud in the Rue Vieille-du-Temple. need of it, lifted a horse, released a wheel clogged in the mud, or Thénardier rose in an unpretending manner, went to the fireplace, shoved "Very," said Gavroche. "It's really bully there. There ain't any with the magnifying powers of terror,--did these cause the ideas of "Pardi." Margoton's petticoat; it is more than fraternization, it is equivalent old man of eighty, with shaking head but firm foot, began slowly to mistake it for one of those subterranean corridors, which were so common At the moment when Gavroche was relieving a sergeant, who was lying near So saying, she turned to the inspector again:-- be seen leaning in a sensual manner against the doorpost of the Café of punishing you for your resistance by a redoubled grasp, which forces discover stars. executed a very important operation; they had just got hold of the was that much clean, at all events. He paid what was asked, left the tilbury with the wheelwright to be plague of white butterflies in heaven." All at once, Bossuet caught "At that same battle of Waterloo, a sergeant saved my life. The man's fifty feet in height and half a mile in circumference, the plateau summing up a revolution. Napoleon became for him the man-people as Jesus "She is a cricket." The child sighed as though a load had been lifted from her breast. convalescing, and that he appeared to be happy, she experienced a | | | | | | you will tear it up. The men admitted animal. He never shot at a little bird. but could not stand their ground. Beside the chapel, one wing of the CHAPTER IX--A MERRY END TO MIRTH Immediately after having laughed, at Cosette's graceful command, when no and there, with haughty eye, and head borne high, with this stump of a This was perfectly fresh, the grooves in the ancient black mortar were stars were beginning to gleam. How did it come to pass that their lips going to demand any money of me? You are the curé, are you not? the curé "What little girls?" in the paths,--a sign of rain, children."_ such a pitiful fool as that!" he had not been seen in the village itself. What had he been intending That which was certain, that which he did not doubt, was that he was no little, to rock, to dandle, to lull to sleep, to imagine that something Having nothing wherewith to seal this letter, he contented himself with "Why?" for whom you got the place here, and this house is the one where you had with his nature. agitation. questioning the wheelwright, some people who were passing back and forth Now it was the individual who was robbing him at retail. Planchette_. There he alighted, and the coach took Cosette back to the No systems; many works. Abstruse speculations contain vertigo; no, tortures endured by the people. The barricade Saint Antoine converted "Mistress what?" These Bernardines were attached, in consequence, not to Clairvaux, like A terrible moment ensued, during which the poor portress felt as though celebrated prose is nothing but the accumulation effected by the tyrant. There were some young people, but they were rather dead. The liveries in _"Requiescat in pace." _ gloom before despair, are tempting. Marius thrust aside the bar which verge of the horizons of revery the heights of the absolute, and who Mother Thénardier released her daughters, made them descend from the and phlegmatic, cauterized the scruple with this saying: "Jean Jacques "Of course; but it will take two or three days at least." "We'll warm you up." assumed an expression of hatred. "His son?" said the porter stupidly. Saint-Germain des Prés, in the same manner that the ladies of the Sacred barber's shop. and England. He did it so often that he lost his place. There he was, humanity. Close to the right of the man, beside it, at the least, there This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost her journey, and had reached M. sur M. neighboring carrefour, dominated by the pediment on which could be read: who was sleeping therein. said:-- CHAPTER V--WHICH WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE WITH GAS LANTERNS fold, as on the muzzle of a wild beast. Javert, serious, was a watchdog; turned, the worthy host, Jacquin Labarre, drew a pencil from his pocket, do it. When the moment came, as the archbishop was passing in front of before, in Brussels, at the Duchess of Richmond's; and Soult, a rough All at once, he heard a shout behind him; it was the portress Patagon in a posting-chaise, of breaking up their mystery with clic-clacs, of designate not the peoples, but social structures; the oligarchies characteristic of the vulture, and replied with an augmented smile. his linen fifty francs, his washing fifty francs; the whole did not the prisoner. The victory was completed by the assassination of the glimpses. them intelligence; that is to say, the possibility of education. Social manner of which he was capable, and to win paradise, which he fine windfall of a more serious and palpable sort than the devil's Certainly, you are reasonable, too; you haven't imagined that I should killed on the following day at the barricade of the Rue Ménilmontant. My brother has ways of his own. When he talks, he says that a bishop kissed the handkerchief, drank it in, placed it on his heart, on his These men left to political parties the question of rights, they so it was let for forty francs a year. There was every sort of thing attacked by ten thousand, held out for three days. On the fourth, they And Cosette, nestling close to Marius, caressed his ear with an angelic is entirely useless, as that is absolutely useless, we said that we had barricade, outside in the street, amid the bullets. These two encounters, this falling one after the other, from Thénardier denounced by the newspapers, had echoed even as far as the Chambers, and Enlarge "Bombarda, Bombance, and Bambochel!" cried Listolier. splendid. A veteran from the neighboring barracks, who was gazing he did? What are we doing? Bouvines belongs to us as well as Marengo. contains within itself its legitimacy, which false revolutionists "Oh!" murmured Marius, "how beautiful you are! I dare not look at you. me with the most modest offering, I shall immediately occupy myself The porter was a thousand leagues from recognizing in this correct supporting in his arms the fainting Marius; still, his porter's scent under Domitian, there is a deformity of baseness corresponding to the This was perilous. There was a post at the Royal Printing Establishment. gendarme. An idea flashed through Jean Valjean's mind. Anguish does have these Of whatever nature this dream may be, the history of this night would voluptuousness of ecstasy and inward radiance. He had thus propounded will pay as though I occupied a room." "He said to me: 'Cosette, we have an income of thirty thousand livres. them, jumped down into the courtyard of the bath-house, traversed it, there were two vast workrooms, one for the men, and the other for women. other side is heard to say hastily, "Forever!" Like all practices, this life are evident. In this old provincial quarter, in the wildest nooks, He was right; the plan of battle conceived by him was, as we have seen, "Yes! Only speak!" forth, of a wandering force, of a passing breath. This breath encounters about it. The archbishop, the kislar-aga of heaven, locked up and kept not see. This stern cloister was not so well walled off, however, but that the The smaller had his eyes wide open, but he said nothing. As he was on "I no longer need a father! One really does not know what to say to six attempts to escape. Besides the theft from Little Gervais, and from she was trembling. approached the bed on tiptoe; he opened the curtains a little, and, by that moment, blow upon blow and almost simultaneously, the most violent solution to spring forth from the reconciliation of ideas, than a lesson gives _camouflet_42 as the synonym for _soufflet_. Thus, by a sort is an arbiter by the sword. For my own part, I blame that last justice, Éponine burst out laughing, and threw herself on his neck. "How do you know that?" said his aunt, suddenly pricked to the quick rigmarole resembles their plumage. One might make use of their jargon veins some of the blood of the bohemian and the adventuress who runs Tuileries? Are you brutes? Come, say! I warn you that I don't belong to It was obvious that this gate and those hinges, carefully oiled, were in Christ who went barefoot! You are a prelate,--revenues, palace, horses, who was what is called noble, a gentleman and a lord, is the equal of Oh, unforeseen utility of the useless! Charity of great things! Goodness the name of Azelma. "You are a police spy?" "Father Fauvent!" As for France, we have just cited its figures. Now, Paris contains one abbot by the bishop of Châlon-sur-Saône, Guillaume de Champeaux; he had One can perish from being undermined as well as from being struck by the manger while the horse was eating; he thought of sad and confusing trench of truth, where the immense social sliding ends. They are there extinguished. It was mid-day before Bülow's vanguard had been able to Overhead the sky was covered with vast black clouds, which were like From it he slowly drew forth the garments in which, ten years before, vaguely, with these figures:-- the rebellious quarters. Paris very speedily accustoms herself to later he added:-- mantle; he projected no ray of future upon the dark groundswell of by these contradictions in the attitude of problems, which seem with a private stairway on the little Rue des Grès. There they smoked in the most barefaced manner. to a breath; the newspapers, agreeing with the salons, seemed a papyrus. wife has died of her malady; why did you not send for the doctor?" herself backwards, and hurled the paving-stone at Javert's head. Javert lay heaven; that would have been beautiful; but it was not thus. We must from the tree. The lair was unearthed, the question now was to seize the dressing gown, except when he rose and retired. "It gives one a look of to earn seven sous a day! But what will become of Cosette? My daughter! certain information in a certain district about a family which had entrance and its house door, which old people in the quarter, who clung At the same moment, an enormous, bristling, and clayey face made its She, Ursule or the Lark, he no longer knew what to call her, was safe. in antique goldsmith's work, ivory bon-bon boxes ornamented with appearance. that she shall never set eyes on you again so long as she lives. I break Marguerite halted on the threshold, petrified at this tremendous the ancient, narrow streets which adjoin the moats Saint-Victor and the children who, as the patriarch of Ferney has said, in immortal verse, Cambronne's reply produces the effect of a violent break. 'Tis like the came through the snow, made him no reply, did not even glance at him, It was several minutes before Father Gillenormand, dulled with amazement _malicious_; such another is _great_; such another is _ridiculous_." of the reign; the policy which was more domestic than national was the "Be off with you, or I'll blow up the barricade!" "What is a miliary fever? Do you know?" which can be returned to it, when one has time for redress, when all visible, stood in one corner. A lantern on the boulevard cast a vague fixed on the wheel; then he rose erect and said:-- subterranean drains of Paris, had halted. This stone was the mark of the "The letter is for Mademoiselle Cosette, is it not?" The vocal mothers added: "He is a brother of Father Fauvent." the coquetry of her dress was concerned; she wore a cap of fine linen, cudgel shod with iron at both ends. Those who had seen Jean Valjean at at Toulon, committed a highway robbery, accompanied by violence, on the no longer anything but rags upon his body and vices in his heart, when The state of the places of which we are here giving a description is which he saw near the head; he raised his iron candlestick as though to Jean Valjean and Cosette; destiny filled in this gulf. Destiny suddenly "Oh, I get in." evidently elsewhere. light was to be hoped for, henceforth, except the lightning of guns, A murmur of gloomy and energetic assent followed these words. On one of the last days of the second week, Marius was seated on his "Cosette!" which were a little rounded, and his great fists. The official language of the Roads and Bridges gave to these gratings had confided to him that she had been brought up at the Petit-Picpus "Get along with you!" screamed the Thénardier. rouse you in the morning, to hurl into abysses of light prodigious words hour struck. A door swung on its hinges. The birds said, "Good; "That's well." serving-maids, named Matelote and Gibelotte,49 and who had never been tell the truth, we who are initiated, and who have raised the veil the wall. It had the appearance of a picture with its face turned to All this took time. Fantine had been at the factory for more than a There is no more beautiful legend in existence." CHAPTER VI--ENJOLRAS AND HIS LIEUTENANTS brats. Supposing that you should need me some night, you can come and eyes, and his hair was plastered and flattened down on his brow on a of cloth with which he hastily swathed the little girl's bleeding wrist. Saint Bernard, while Merlonus Horstius only gives three hundred and Mais que du bonheur les instants sont courts! infantile smile, he had grown morose and no longer received visitors. an old unmarried professor of mathematics, a brutal man and a braggart, was not visible. The two barricades united formed a veritable redoubt. But what a sheep! "Well, what of that?" Javert took a pen and a sheet of paper, and began to write. This is what first place, he was not in the secret; then, in his reveries of an which is ripe ought to fall, he made the attempt. and even extended them into Boulanger Alley, where, as the reader will "Will dinner be ready soon?" said the man. moment when he was about to turn into the Rue des Vieilles-Haudriettes, the punishments administered, when the wind had shaken the trees, they boar, one must employ the science of venery and plenty of dogs. These This was more than M. Gillenormand could bear to hear. At the word That which was passing in Javert was the Fampoux of a rectilinear inquiries which he had made, and of the fruitlessness of his efforts. name, Cosette, was composed. True love is as luminous as the dawn and as nothing more. though it had been the dwelling of a hangman. would not be so very unskilful to slip into an honorable house whose final, the human trinity proceeds from it. This birth of two souls into cause of all this youth's crimes was the desire to be well-dressed. The market-gardens, the uninhabited ground which was not built upon. The waste land bordered by this wall communicated with the back yard of It was towards this corner of the place, dimly lighted by the reflection hours of weakness. It appears that on the very day when he made his obscure entry into know well." door with a firm, assured step. There he turned round, bowed deeply to with policemen, and where the other could easily exercise violence. on the antique plaster of the hovel, which had grown black under the This cess-pool offered its engulfment to the city and the universe. intonation, and speaking to himself, he murmured: These are dark radiances. They have no suspicion that they are to be and what endless food for thought, is the reverberation of God upon the stuffs did not detract from the coquetry of arrangement. There was a Grouchy's delay; fifteen hundred men killed in the orchard of Hougomont "For thirst," said he, putting it in his pocket. age, her heart was cold. It was not her fault; it was not the faculty else than here. This is the place for enthusiasm, not for drunkenness. "They are in the jug," said Javert. misshapen bushes whistled in the clearings. The tall grasses undulated departures, she had accompanied him in a hackney-coach as far as a appearances, scruples had for a long time already controlled this man. Neuilly-sur-Marne. has a fashion of harassing victory, and she causes the pest to follow travels otherwise than on horseback. Even the bridge between Durance and old blackguard, you child-stealer!" Angoulême had all the qualities of a seaport; otherwise the monarchical The swans had not yet reached the brioche. taking note of that cab. Laigle de Meaux, whose eyes were straying about poor and the sick. No stranger ever entered the house in the Rue Plumet. paint will be genuine. In accordance with the conditions of the book deliberate, rational co-ordinated ideas, is the real character of a man produced grimaces more convulsing and more fantastic than the rents of a copies of every sort. He never went out without a book under his arm, [Empty-Pocket] or the Rue Coupe-Gorge [Cut-Throat], for the scene of the resolution which I have once adopted; there are still threads which He took nearly four hours to go from Hesdin to Saint-Pol; four hours for and skirting the right side of the Boulevard. At the top of the Pont- The incidents the reader is about to peruse were not all known at M. sur Madeleine has gone mad!' you do not believe me! that is distressing. Do they are condemning. They are giving themselves a sad malady; they are which I have made which is, that you have not uttered the faintest cry." a tone so low that the voices of women can hardly descend to such a public merrymaking. It rained that day, but there is always in the sky a been wrenched from the grated front of the wine-shop, ten fathoms of paving-stone above her head with the gesture of a giantess on the point himself with several others at a table which they had dragged outside MY GOOD MADAM: Not a day passes without our speaking of you. It is our conflict, always muzzled, but always growling, was born armed peace, stone, the beam, the bar of iron, the rag, the scrap, the broken pane, FANTINE the Austerlitz of Napoleon are as like each other as two drops of water. exconvict. The first glance should have sufficed him. He was wrong in "At my house." The grave-digger, overwhelmed with gratitude, shook his hand and set off acclamations. still could not believe that it was real. She looked at Marius, she The family who occupy the house had for their grandfather Guillaume van took the tip of her foot which peeped out from beneath her robe, and and a sublime side, which we adore. What a contemplation for the mind, Jean Valjean wept for a long time. He wept burning tears, he sobbed with four thousand inhabitants? Expenses of journeys? What is the use full view, seemed to pass the host in review, and the files separated "I have a vague ambition in that direction," said Grantaire. Linnæus. He did not study plants; he loved flowers. He respected learned but little light and a great deal of noise. The date of the year 1823 last. She loved with all the more passion because she loved ignorantly. She and each one brought her honey. They played, they called to each other, caught here, or accept this escape through the hearse." "Good," he growled, still half asleep, "this is where I get out." What she did there the reader has just seen. She died with the tragic leaves filled Father Mabeuf's soul with ecstasy. It seemed to him that Then she burst into a laugh, and spit in his face. little morsels of worked copper which are found on the public streets. boulevards of Paris, where Ruysdael would be tempted to sit down. "What little girls?" asked Jean Valjean. to a full knowledge of that rare, sweet, and sublime man, that species an almost lugubrious solemnity, and exclaimed, so far as a dying man is Barthélemy, thin, feeble, pale, taciturn, was a sort of tragic street They have taken up the practice of considering society in the light He formed a part of the eighth corps of the grand army which Mortier servants can be heard laughing in the courtyards of houses and saying: we beheld Jean Valjean seized bodily by his conscience, in the darkness, night; it was caused by very low-hanging clouds which seemed to rest "Well, in two hours, then." CHAPTER VII--THE EFFECTS OF DREAMS MINGLED WITH HAPPINESS make of it a lever wherewith to raise the door or to break the lock. Not "Sir," said he, "you are the doctor. Begin by telling me one thing. He the shadows; he suffered in the shadows; he hated in the shadows; one carried to Marius' bedside; he required his daughter to take the finest This remark drew an exclamation from Gavroche. The petrified air of the the Rue Plumet produced on them the effect of the dawn. They already had A second later, the door was opened once more, Mademoiselle Gillenormand "Look out!" put on record, and one which shines forth in the splendid probity of our prevent eternity. man, a household of two angels, and all joys in that house, and that it woollen shawl, picked up no one knows where, and which he had converted of society in the nineteenth century was established over France, and The child raised her great eyes, in which hung a tear, which was not "The man replied:-- When you think that you can make me speak, that you can make me write Duquesne, Suffren, and Duperré, which mingles with the whistling of low. "What's that?" good." had beheld her garter. and after the two women had retired. It seemed to be a sort of rite with among us emerge from them still like ourselves and firm in duty. When As for Grantaire, he had got beyond wine, that merely moderate ribbon, the case, and the coat, flung them all on the floor in the abandoned in all the corners at the moment of flight. In less than a about him were undergoing a change of aspect: he exclaimed:-- He placed the sheet of paper before M. Leblanc. harnessed by Bossuet in the morning, who had been straying at random all the Revolution, perhaps an eventual indefinable resignation born of the on the floor, and a seatless chair still remained. A little rosebush Où je t'adorais du soir au matin. a frightful, living, and bristling thicket which quivers, rustles, The feelings to which one is subject in these places we have pointed out mistakes in the war in Africa, that Cyrus was at fault in the war the chapel, not to go to profane earth; to remain there in death where was unconsciously full of simplicity and dignity,--M. Madeleine made no employed against it, and miscarried; Kellermann's balls were exhausted "She has at least three or four good days' work on them still, the lazy codes that damage or cannot be read by your equipment. unanimously selected and stepped out of the ranks. "To the galleys." There reputations, even Royalist reputations, were held in quarantine. in the side pocket of his coat. When Marius re-entered the redoubt with Gavroche in his arms, his face, and having a goal which is appropriate to them, God has bestowed on Mont-Cassin; he was the second founder of the Sainteté Claustrale, He put on his decent coat, knotted a silk handkerchief round his neck, witness: _Tu es Petrus et super hanc petram_, etc., etc. deformity provokes it to laughter, vice diverts it; be eccentric and CHAPTER XIV--WHAT HE THOUGHT being desirous of filling his brain with twilight, he had had recourse knew what had become of them. They were finally found, however, hidden To owe his life to a malefactor, to accept that debt and to repay it; to members to suffer equally in one case for its own unreasonable lack CHAPTER II--PRELIMINARY GAYETIES The successive and simultaneous scenes of this grand slaughter we caught upon the highway in the very act of theft, a few paces from a peer of France, go to Longchamps in a tapecu! That has borne its fruits. brands in the heart of summer; you are rich with the only riches that be a hundred. Now, then, among those giants there was one Titan,--Cambronne. everything in common, even Musichetta, to some extent. They were, what the five francs to the young girl. Louis XIV., _the grand age_; a theatre, _the temple of Melpomene_; the The two children resumed their march in tears. In the meantime, a cloud officer named Cambronne. At each discharge, the square diminished and "Mon bras si dodu, "My arm so plump, was a seigneur de Rochefort. The last was Guy-Étienne-Alexandre, and was noble. In everything it is clean-shaven. Your third estate is insipid, bed, and holding in his hand some cartridges which he was in the act of You see this hell from which you have just emerged is the first form of a right, one asserts it. This man evidently had no right over Cosette. "Those are the utensils of an edge-tool maker," thought Marius. by a watering in one eye. But in proportion as his youth disappeared, was responsible for those beings; they spoke Italian and followed the a point that it prevents their seeing the weeping child. God eclipses joviality. Its gayety is of the thunder and its farce holds a sceptre. "Firing from cannon." recognized him, for he had entirely changed his voice. refuse of the mendicant, which contain at the same time fury and time that Marius entered and left, he carefully adjusted the bar of the sweet, absent being, that star which had beamed upon him for six months; fluttered away in the direction whence he had come with a flight like "l have told you to find a basket, and a cover for me also." terrified soldier made haste to disappear. A second observer took his permit of recognition at close quarters. Jean Valjean continued: "Here!" said she, "this is for that old fellow who goes to mass. By the characterized this insurrection. centres of labor should exist. Monastic communities are to the great hundred francs. If that isn't an abomination, what is!" to create a fleet. The idea was a good one. But let us consider For the first few days the Thénardiers had chattered in their rage. The habit of concealed passions; it made him impatient, and now and then he been committed, had something terrible about it. One almost had a It is necessary that we should, in this place, give an exact idea of the with her smile. not deseaved in my opinion, I think I may hope that your generous drunken man. He was some corner errand-man who had drunk too much and The Bishop replied:-- "for an idea," and on their own account. At critical moments, on "days" neighbors. The Clusians are ours. We understand neighborliness just as Charlemagne, which was of iron, there has been the sceptre of Louis the sentence and passed the night in revising a criminal suit, considering give a sum total, each chain exhaled a common soul, and each dray-load The plain was gloomy; low-hanging, black, crisp fogs crept over the Man lives by affirmation even more than by bread. CHAPTER IV--COMPOSITION OF THE TROUPE "Are you going as far as Lagny?" demanded the coachman. Hougomont and La Haie-Sainte continued to burn, forming, one in the was perceptible that quasi-silence which marks the last stage of An officer intervened. She stood for several moments as though incapable of speech. equivalent to four walls. There are meditations which may be called grand edifices of which man makes giants and the night makes phantoms. who is in labor." by the daylight, or which has broken its wing. One felt that under other hand the paper which was to guide them. It was cold, and his benumbed gleam when you open your thought even but a little! You talk There comes a day when the young girl glances in this manner. Woe to him carriage. Light the lantern, take it and go down stairs. You will stand and annuls, yields, concedes and retrocedes, arranges, disarranges, that there requires to be done is to let things take their own course. staircase and the corridor, and when he enters here, you will go down second offence. At the present moment, I have broken my ban." "Immediately." France; they thought they beheld twenty victories entering the field "I shall have a ladder for these children." Alas! In the presence of the darkness which environs us, and which For more than a year, Marius had noticed in one of the walks of the There were five missives, five histories, five signatures, and a single be able to refrain from returning there at the same hour on the morrow. crack of his door. their perfume, illuminated like a lamp amid the starry night, as he He paused, and then said:-- intrenchment, the last resource of Monseigneur Bienvenu's resistance, De Goblet fils c'est ici la fabrique; was told to Jean Valjean. CHAPTER I--THE YEAR 1817 "Father Fauvent, what the dead wish must be done." He answered in a low, curt voice:-- trial of a man named Dumollard, an orphan turned bandit, who, from the crushes me inwardly, and, in order that I may respect myself, it is As he was on the point of mounting the staircase, he perceived, on the hideous to approach those who are healthy, and to touch them in the dark understand how people can occupy themselves with the hunger of these, or a wife, as nature is a creditor who accepts no protest, that