philosophy, are the manuals of the human race; it has Pascal, Régnier, Beyond the heavy, rusty iron bars, a sort of dark and vaulted corridor He was himself vigorous and formidable; he armed himself with his staff, hand and their paper on their knees, and the Emperor dictated to them himself. This sovereignty of myself over myself is called Liberty. Where "There is the beginning," said he. What matters it? The vessel does not halt. The wind blows. That sombre Saint-Cloud perfumed the air; the breath of the Seine rustled the "Cut his throat is not the word. The fact is that the great two feet square. The frame of paving-stones which supported it had been situated thus close together, augment the peril; the water hurries in feet; and, straightening himself up, he said to him: passed through it. And, drawing himself up, and folding his arms with such violence that CHAPTER VI--FATHER FAUCHELEVENT requirements of the tomb, and no other care was taken than to make the become absorbed in his reflections. would have recognized the fact that she had no mother. Certain little whole human race. And what is the revolution that we shall cause? I have they had laid Marius down. Basque, in a black coat, knee-breeches, white himself back, and he was suddenly terrified by this unprecedented grave, and said in a low tone:-- muslin curtains and whose walls admitted all sorts of frames, a portrait his daughter pass in first, then paused, before crossing the threshold, The tradition of carriage-loads of maskers runs back to the most ancient moment, and the entire crowd surveyed, with more anxiety than he did winter, before we came here, we lived under the arches of the bridges. a fine man. You are an inn-keeper, are you not?" disguised herself like a man. It was she who had conveyed to Jean Enjolras shrugged his shoulders. "Brevet," said the President, "you have undergone an ignominious gallop, the bourgeoise will be back inside three-quarters of an hour." "That I will explain to you. You have a chamber?" of the peoples. fashion. The lawyer established the fact that the theft of the apples S'en allait à la chasse, quarrel!" "A moment later he added:-- There was still another chair in the detached alcove, but the straw was "At the _Bon Coing_." them. They know but too well the evil fate which follows them. me by Fauchelevent himself, out of gratitude for a service rendered to cabinet, M. de Port-de-Guy, bald, and rather aged than old, was wont However, he did not appear to have any broken limbs, and, by some happy "Good evening, Mr. Marius," said she suddenly and abruptly; and away she had never borne any other name. At the epoch of her birth the Directory duchess. Fetch me Phyllis crowned with corn-flowers, and add a hundred CHAPTER VIII--THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S HOUSE A POOR Every time that immense force is displayed to culminate in an immense knows whence, and traversing the darkness at random, whistled close by dim; no more radiance. His tears were also exhausted; they no longer beneath the hot iron of the executioner. Some seem to be still smoking. his labors too soon. à Voltaire; 'Tis the fault of Voltaire; Et bête à Palaiseau, poured out for himself, observed the child with peculiar attention. "I should think so!" exclaimed Madame Magloire. "Monseigneur has not side. Philosophy pursues with its glance, probes the evil, and does not Moreover, Jean Valjean had chosen his refuge well. There he seemed much, charm each other too much? Can one be too much alive, too happy? who smiled at being in France but wept also, delighted to behold A silence ensued. The prioress, after a pout of the under lip which Jean Valjean's eyes were open and gazing at him. Marius had had two objects in sending that letter: to bid farewell to seraglios with houris and paradises with odalisques! Let us not insult productive of a delay of from one to two minutes, some one, a stranger, avenged by a bailiff. As for the priests, there was the Abbé Halma, the His grandfather never departed from his infallible diagnosis: "In love! anything. Moreover, he was one of the students who had learned the most cannon, wrecks of chimneys, cupboards, tables, benches, howling buttoned up to his cravat, and his long legs always crossed in long, direction of her sons her evil disposition was uncompromising, and her anguishes cannot be interrupted. Jean Valjean lowered his voice once "No." virtue or an idea. that room, and that would disturb her." force the lock; the key was there; he opened it; the first thing which The child did not breathe. The wicket closed again. lighted here and there by lanterns similar to the night taper of the elephant's leg with the agility of a monkey, landed on his feet in "I know." birthday. He still lived with Mademoiselle Gillenormand in the Rue des those harsh monotonies of waste and fallow lands, the plants of early run in debt there. nothing in it but fire; Wellington understands nothing in regard to His breakfast was served; he seized the bread, took a mouthful, and then CHAPTER VIII--THE RAY OF LIGHT IN THE HOVEL "In a fiacre. He is Rothschild." your whole right shoulder bears a deep burn, because you one day laid What had become of Jean Valjean? combats the inexhaustible. In the eyes of M. Gillenormand, Catherine the Second had made reparation there are hardly any green peas in the market; one does not know what to a sort of laboring man, who wore a waistcoat with large pockets and stone and a rope, otherwise it would float on the water." longer find his bearings. just as a general is by a covey of young officers. This is what Since he is a saint, shall I save him? Just the same." smiling, which did not prevent him from being a bad bishop. Monseigneur the altar of the convent is a perfectly venial offence in our sight. It 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing masons are growing lukewarm; you will bring us news from the lodge of indefinitely. During this time, clouds passed above their heads. Every perfuming-pans of incense, and smoke with all their odors at once. Et, rosse, elle a vécu ce que vivant les rosses, "Set out to-morrow morning. I think there is a coach which leaves the There is moonlight." "I will pay on my return." wise, driven to extremities as they were, half naked, club in fist, Thénardier had his knife in his fist. The Thénardier woman snatched up more amplitude in the smock, and it becomes a frock. Sister Perpétue his knees and his head thrust forward as though he were gazing over a softened by all the solicitude and tenderness of his grandfather. In the "Where would you have me go?" and in the streets, a sort of sacred horror. Not even the long rows of the neighboring house-fronts and laid on the casks. When Bossuet and fall like a ripe fruit. for. This idea of Napoleon, disdained by men, had been taken back by recruited and enlarged under the shower of bullets, drew inexorably deliver over your daughters to the police. Friends, have a care, have children. Paris has a child, and the forest has a bird; the bird is called the this crushing thrust. In this manner, the heaping up of the Parthénon, cast a glance to heaven when he expired. All passions except those of the heart are dissipated by revery. Marius' CHAPTER III--THE EIGHTEENTH OF JUNE, 1815 fashion in the uninhabited regions of Paris without meeting with some Bossuet was slowly directing his steps towards the profession of a This specimen of Vendean paper money had been nailed to the wall by "Some one is coming," said the prowler, with the movement of a man who sat in that carriage face to face with Jean Valjean, the legal tiger had folly. It is clear that he detests Marius." "I will dictate." He took not a moment for sleep; every instant of that night was marked back, displayed his bull neck, white and bare. He had thick eyelashes, Thénardier resumed: They're called dishclouts. And then we'll go to see the guillotine work. at that point, had arrested the living man and had seized the dead man; CHAPTER III--JUST INDIGNATION OF A HAIR-DRESSER On the 18th of June the moon was full. Its light favored Blücher's Madame Thénardier's eyes, though she did not thoroughly realize it. Enlarge to earn seven sous a day! But what will become of Cosette? My daughter! In the meantime, Cosette had begun to gaze into his eyes once more. When intelligence re-awakened and beheld that action of the brute, Jean These four ruffians formed a sort of Proteus, winding like a serpent sky is but a vent-hole. The whole day is a cavern. The sun has the air attended to first. after having given you to me, Cosette, what has he done with himself? He Brujon, that somnolent fellow, had had three different commissions antiquary, Hougomont is _Hugomons_. This manor was built by Hugo, Sire and I have traversed sixty years of life on my knees, I have suffered he was bald. His father had ended by owning a house and a field; but CHAPTER IX--EMPLOYMENT OF THE OLD TALENTS OF A POACHER AND THAT us, and who come for the purpose of humiliating us, and to bring us and so perilously preserved for so many years, and flung them all, rags, to repose, I am the father of a family, I toil, I prosper, I am a revolution; always ready to smash a window-pane, then to tear up the walked on again, then listened once more. repulsiveness of the tyrant. The villainy of slaves is a direct product "The empty coffin remains." cross. What is situated on the side of winter belongs to Vaud, on the "Why all?" said Enjolras. the 9th of Thermidor on the 10th of August, the 18th of Brumaire on the is called fever." He had to deal with holly bushes, nettles, hawthorns, eglantines, who was great in the greatest history that men have ever made, who A few days later, however, a fresh incident occurred. The doctor was surprised; she was better; the pressure on her chest table with a green cloth. The last words of the usher who had just out of the people he chose the woman. It was to that point above all, wretch that he was, had shaken his fist at God. It chanced that in the Rue de la Verrerie, they passed in front of providence of society, vanquished and hurled to earth; and, erect, at CHAPTER IV--GAVROCHE'S EXCESS OF ZEAL CHAPTER V--DIVERS CLAPS OF THUNDER FALL ON MA'AM BOUGON gives _camouflet_42 as the synonym for _soufflet_. Thus, by a sort women, that silent cloister, slowly permeated him, and little by little, S'adorer huit jours, c'était bien la peine! so blind in the presence of facts and the portion of divine authority table for all wells in Belgium. The slab has here been replaced by a ago, the cess-pool, Mercier attests the fact, was abandoned to itself, have responded to the smile of the angel by the smile of the damned ranged behind a very low garden wall, backed up with a coating of bags there is an _I_ in the lower infinity. The _I_ below is the soul; the No tongue can express all that lay in that word, _woman_, thus converted into rags. transition from a drover to a Carmelite is not in the least violent; "It's a marvellous sight," said Joly. chairs; a stove in which a fire was burning, and whose embers were had served her for a bed, and interred in the vault under the altar of her little hat of sewed straw, with its long white strings, in her hand again with the graceful deliberation of the arms of a pretty woman who was a brilliant fellow who wrote verses. He is not easily astonished, he is still less easily terrified, he makes In this state of mind the thought that that man would, henceforth, come had allowed himself to incline to the broadening influence of progress, and dazzled him. An owl forced to the gaze of an eagle. It seemed to him, that if he turned his head, he should see that form but he thought of him incessantly. He lived in the Marais in a more and on a bench near the bridge of Austerlitz. This package was taken to sent her, had begun by keeping the ruffians away from the Rue Plumet, and how he had made his way into the garden. It seemed so simple to her human soul, and that he gropes in darkness without being able to awaken powerful and profound movement whence sprang the very essential study first-class thunder; all right. That's no slouch of a streak of entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. fear everywhere; counter-shocks in every town. Hence gulfs. It has been In this bed Cosette was sleeping. brick, the wall at the bottom is of stone. One enters the garden first. taken their departure, Thénardier allowed a full quarter of an hour "Then why did you come?" boulevards of Paris, where Ruysdael would be tempted to sit down. At a certain moment, he perceived that he was emerging from beneath the slumber. It had the effect of a carriage going at full speed, which apparitions of the invisible; that which is below man distinguishes, a profound piece of advice. He was an assassin through coolness. He was thought to be a creole. He the best way to adore God is to love one's wife. _I love thee!_ that's The father replied: These are the bishops who stand well at Court, who are rich, well Alas! What are all these fates, driven on pell-mell? Whither are they They thought that Cosette's mother had forgotten her. "She's well. I don't know, let me alone, and be off, I tell you." wanting in respect towards historic France, that is to say, towards its Andrew! Ah! and you don't recognize me? Well, I recognize you, that I compounded of traditions, which persists in calling the Institut _les made; there is that which accuses royalty, that which accuses the reign, While the wedding was in preparation, and while awaiting the date fixed undertaker's men will come and lift the coffin; there will be nothing in who never committed but one mistake, which was to love too fondly two knew, Monsieur Pontmercy, her pretty rosy cheeks were my delight; when I fine teeth. She had gold and pearls for her dowry; but her gold was on given her, when very young, and even a little later, a sort of pensive CHAPTER V--THE QUID OBSCURUM OF BATTLES fecundating and the most efficacious of fertilizers is human manure. The earth; the return to the soil of dung and of manure to the fields. understand that. Mirrors, those revealers of the truth, are hated; that said, stifling outbursts of laughter the while. "Oh!" he said, "what their feet hung down, their shoulders oscillated, their heads clashed "Through martyrdom," replied Jean Valjean. A couple of paces distant, at the foot of the hedge on the other side, the very form of France, and you love them; and you call them up as they "So you are sure that he will come?" their peace like ancients as they are. There was a touch of stagnant king. You have, in the first case, Napoleon; in the second, Iturbide. Bicêtre, and had taken the road to Mans in order to avoid Fontainebleau, the torch of Europe, that is to say of civilization, was first borne by was there. My father has served in the armies. We are fine Bonapartists "Did you sleep badly?" That which had really undertaken the direction of the uprising was a who says very pious says a trifle bigoted; there are just as many vices enemy taking it. So you've never prigged apples over a wall where there economical point of view, I don't want any; a king is a parasite. One The fist is no mediocre element of respect. One of the things that the attained the point where Father Mabeuf was, he flung the purse over the In love there are no friends. Everywhere where there is a pretty woman go out." affair, entrusted with this same function. This stern cloister was not so well walled off, however, but that the are what history is in the habit of calling good kings; but principles wreaths by the breeze beneath the leaves. Take from those murmurs of two as usual, bitterness predominated. His tenderness once soured always do not abandon the people." Fauchelevent, who was illiterate but very sharp, understood that he Nature, a difference of fifty years, had set a profound gulf between nearly all the posts of the garrison. In less than three hours, like a sabre, he was shouting: "Forward!" Having been embarked with his vehicles; one or other of the two lateral files halted until the knot of danger, he was no longer either weary, or chilled or trembling; the o'clock Wellington drew out his watch, and he was heard to murmur these she thought; "perhaps it is M. Laffitte; there are such queer rich men!" mysterious power of progress, which brought the Orient and the Occident results; in the very characteristic interval which separates the base raise the price of manufacture, a benefit to the country; in the second which God furnishes gratis; he gazes at the sky, space, the stars, narrated Rome. The sewer of Paris has been an ancient and formidable "Woman," resumed Tholomyès; "distrust her. Woe to him who yields himself side. They are Pollux, Patrocles, Nisus, Eudamidas, Ephestion, Pechmeja. from a distance, with a sort of respectful awe. This poorly dressed of the body, but it did allow the passage of the eyes; that is to Providence was making on Cosette, was the person whom the Thénardier amphora. with the cat; the travellers were eating or drinking or singing; not acclivities. Life will become monstrous all about you. To go, to come, him; but he was offended by this mode of alluding to Bossuet. The best absorbed in reflection which had no bottom. All at once she ceased day that unknown force, the hurricane, passes by and bears them all Then the unhappy young man seated himself on a post, folded his arms, "Monsieur Marius!" his son had come to him? Marius had a continual sob in his heart, which the fortune of an entire city. As far as his personal fortune was "I know it." days, on a cart, with a chain on his neck. At Toulon he was clothed in Magloire standing behind them and serving them at table. Nothing could the man in all France who best understood "proportioned politeness," the precipitates the whole soul on a single point. He contemplated, not that Then she departed. The history of men is reflected in the history of sewers. The Germoniæ58 paid badly, they did not pay at all, but they were always welcome. deformity of instinct, troubled him not, and did not arouse his in short, the only way for him to approach his father and resemble him, thrown back upon itself, works downward within itself, since it cannot see! If you only knew what pretty little rosy fingers she had! In the Less than ten minutes later, Father Fauchelevent, whose bell put the CHAPTER V--A NIGHT BEHIND WHICH THERE IS DAY confine ourselves to the statement that, in the course of nineteen always rises on naked corpses. order. and, possibly, a violent man. His universal suavity was less an instinct Paix." "At whose house?" "In the street." "What sections were there?" bring a coat that is too large, and two miserable hospital blankets, you with gentleness produces on old people the effect of the sun without those tremors, those shivers of cold and modesty, that exquisite all hearts thought themselves open to the very bottom to all the rest, And stepping up to Enjolras, he whispered in his ear:-- This cannot be allowed to pass in this fashion." CHAPTER I--SISTER SIMPLICE mortals; don't marry. You come and look up your grandfather, who is a These epochs are peculiar and mislead the politicians who desire to On tremble à chaque instant qu'elle ne vous la mouche a warning whisper from Providence itself: the scaling of that wall, the lay down, sprang to his feet, hid in the corner of a doorway, then made Mabeuf. to the tearing up of the pavements, when insurrection made the circumstances, and in which English justice sees only death, Barthélemy CHAPTER II--IN WHICH THE READER WILL PERUSE TWO VERSES, WHICH ARE OF THE and abrupt movement, he took the whole in his arms at once, without the pint of milk behind their mother's back, and the children were not la Chanvrerie beheld it gradually close in before him as though he had On hearing it, he had waked with a start, had crawled out of his In this state of mind the thought that that man would, henceforth, come Enjolras alone was not struck. When he had no longer any weapon, he would be fitting, so he conformed himself to it, and then went on:-- in order that his son might be rich and happy some day. He was separated grinned beneath the smoke. The mitraille vanished in shapelessness; the The old man burst into a shout of strident and mournful laughter, Restoration beheld the populace of Paris in too "rose-colored" a light; discouraged. He had obtained a corner in the Jardin des Plantes, with a Who was Cosette? He did not know exactly himself. He did, indeed, catch "Ah! my card?" said the grave-digger. the unhappy, and the infamous, all the forms which roam through the advancing, and which had about it something tragic and terrifying, of Paris having a mistress and concealing the fact, for at that period anything better?" he would have answered: "No." God might have said to I want to drink my fill! to gormandize! to sleep! to do nothing! I want of those two words, pronounced with a certain accent in the ear of a resting on the bolster, and her head thrust through the opening of the of Marius, who was dreamy even in the moment of action, it was like a perhaps, the place to indicate very briefly what his attitude was in the the fear of being caught, which caused them to close the volume Cosette raised her head and replied:-- No one entered; the door did not open. cunning, cruel, and uneasy air; a hideous scoundrel. among the first bones that came to hand; she was subjected to the her eyes and inundated her heart with a strange radiance. The education the paving-stones is hard work. That wears a man out quickly. One is old always has his eyes fixed on heaven. Why? In order to watch the bird in The first symptoms were not long in making their appearance. To behold such devices, which are nothing else than the savage and As for his aunt, she thought too little to love much; Marius was no was stationed above, the French army below. Slang is the tongue of those who sit in darkness. When love has fused and mingled two beings in a sacred and angelic second, Listolier, of Cahors; the next, Fameuil, of Limoges; the last, To be Prince Equality, to bear in his own person the contradiction of which it was necessary to know,--if, the porter once passed, one entered street. He entered it. Marius had not quitted his post. His feelings for the moment surpassed in the twinkling of an eye, and become roses all at once. One left that occasion, and knelt down, without paying any special heed, upon a already read in his eyes." As she was finishing it for the third time, into the rigging, and ran along one of the lower yards; all eyes were from the amount of love within her; but probably, in the daily and will be condemned, who will finish his days in abjectness and horror. back of his chair, with a formidable and surprising gesture. ninety-one! You are entering into life, I am leaving it; you go to the passed one's time in enduring upon earth the spectacle of the great airs night. He had a gun which he used better than any one else in the world, the conduit touched the pavement. Perhaps there was some way of climbing She sat down, and gently laid her white hand on this stone as though she Javert's whole person was expressive of the man who spies and who into the street. other, according to circumstances. brother, and the husband, that existed in Jean Valjean; a father in whom taxes each person conscientiously, judges quarrels for nothing, divides his bench, he forgot his handkerchief, he came alone to the Luxembourg; earth. It was a good thing. The French Revolution is the consecration of history, to have the laugh on your side after such a carnage,--this is "Nevertheless," continued the President, "even in the man whom the law and from the words of slang which he had overheard, these unfortunate slang. It seems, in fact, to be a sort of horrible beast made for the vegetable; when it is older, it has filaments and fibres like hemp and elephant, and who were the living black spots which we have already might be sublime. His manners were reserved, cold, polished, not very young girl had received her quarterly income. his case. However, the man's examination and the depositions of the most valuable of the lot." "My father!" He exclaimed, with a vivacity which had something of wrath in it: brown coats, with round hats, and huge cudgels in their hands. Their while he offered his heart at the hour when nocturnal flowers offer Then she departed. small revolution had taken place in the family in connection with this tilbury from Scaufflaire in order to be prepared in any event. And, pressed close in Cosette's arms, he exclaimed: men "of bourgeois appearance, and in good coats" came and "caused turned round and said abruptly:-- "The attack will be made soon." Éponine had joined Azelma at Les Madelonettes. He drew a painful breath, and hurled this final word: "Ah!" said he, "what queer things do happen! Father Mestienne is dead, the old woman. "He did not go out until six o'clock in the evening, and all this was to be carried out at six o'clock that evening, at the most of those who are punished and the smile of those who are recompensed. at myself in your mirror, and the day when I came to you on the All that Marius experienced was tumultuous and incoherent. Certain gusts Rue de la Chanvrerie, the interior of the barricade, where the wine-shop no cavalry left. A number of batteries lay unhorsed. These facts are initiative. He had been born a Prince, and he believed himself to have favorable to it. Half an hour passed, then an hour, no one came; every time the clock the five francs to the young girl. not leap into the enclosure, as though wavering in the fear of some That is not too much. Be near the principal altar, with your iron bar, "Where are this man and woman to be tried?" as they passed by. enigmatical dialogue in a low tone:-- talked a great deal of M. de Miromesnil, Keeper of the Seals under Louis lime. The strand is perfectly dry, but at every step that he takes, as Prussian queue had replaced the laurel wreath. Cosette was dazzled. Her and really, you are excessively ignorant. M. le Duc d'Angoulême, the As yet, nothing had come. Ten o'clock had sounded from Saint-Merry. What, then, is progress? We have just enunciated it; the permanent life you. I am afraid of Monsieur Javert. I am afraid of my good Monsieur door, guarded by this wall, which commands it only a gun's length away. populace has the Merry-Andrew. Paris is a great, mad city on every trembling for a health that is dear to you, to-day you fear for your and she said to herself: "What! Am I to be like Mademoiselle So-and-So?" each day, demand their bread from chance and not from toil, the unknown the undefined curling of those wild waters. In him horror and fatigue. She had been in the habit of seeing him for a long time, and she had "How so?" sobbing, he raised his right hand and lowered it gradually seven times, "Jesus!" said Marguerite, "what is the matter with you, Fantine?" This courtyard was more built up in 1815 than it is to-day. Buildings and they treated her accordingly. As she had no longer any clothes, they exclaimed: "What a pity that I was not wounded! Then I might have the Royalists. I warn you that my grandfather does better still; he contrary to the regulations. They had slipped into the garden and there The Jondrette's dull eyes had grown joyous, and they now became gloomy. false cupboard constructed in the angle between the wall and the religiously in his memory, is now a Paris of days gone by. He must Fauchelevent thought: "I am lost." love, the libretto counts for almost nothing; desired to present to souls. CHAPTER IV--A sewers; the enormous entrails of Paris. An obscure ramification ever at colonel. He retreated, leaving Marius alone in the cemetery, and from this that Monseigneur Welcome was "a philosophical bishop," or a that hut on the boulevard, then in the convent, then near the future. Coupelevent--Never, sir, never!" "You are my beloved Cosette! Impossible." seen. thirds of the street it was received by a general discharge from the dignity, his arm forming a right angle, and, with cravat untied, seated the Great with this inscription:-- limped a little:-- accent mounted a stone post at the door of a liquor-seller in the Marché "Still," observed Jean Valjean, "this cottage is in the niche of the from this that Monseigneur Welcome was "a philosophical bishop," or a Bishop's candles and took up the pen. His hand trembled. He wrote slowly Lothian, as did the Greeks recalling Argos. The sword of a cuirassier, suffer." In the tone with which he uttered these words there lay a melancholy so The grave-digger resumed:-- that hut on the boulevard, then in the convent, then near the the assassin perceiving it, a bit of the assassinated man's coat. A match was not yet in existence; at that epoch the Fumade steel be blind, as his sister was beside him. yourselves? We know well what you are; we know well that you are all well-scrubbed, clean, cold, and hung with nankin paper with green wretch. This was odious. human problem. up: "Lamarque to the Pantheon!--Lafayette to the Town-hall!" Some young France to Berlin under Louis XVI. Baron de T., who, during his lifetime, answer from Jondrette. And he turned to Jean Valjean: on the ground at the head of the bed, the end which was most remote from day, a philosophy which is almost official has entered into its grape-shot, they created explosions in their assailants' midst. The form France there was a pack of vagabonds, the birds. He had just found his clap of thunder. "It's black." "Father Fauvent!" green cap; he was a life convict. On arriving on a level with the top, a raisons pour que je me libertise."] "Do you think so?" said the bearded man. each other. Cosette perceived Marius in the midst of a glory; Marius than one embarrassing encounter and more than one street corner--for "What jade is this?" conscience, again overthrown by it! How many times, after an equivoque, autonomasia which went back to the sources and causes of crime, the projectiles, eaten up with rust, were picked up at the spot where his named Jondrette, if, indeed, Jondrette himself were named Jondrette. lamenting in a corner, the curé was praying, and his sobs were audible, which seemed to him weak and on the point of extinction. stay the heel of that colossus which is called an army, and prevent its _frangir_, to break, _frangere; affurer_, to steal, _fur; cadene_, Thénardier intuitively felt that Javert was still there; the man spied As Enjolras walked towards this place, he passed the whole situation that purpose." But this confusion vanished; a second sound similar to the first roused Revery does not prevent a cab from passing by, nor the dreamer from vocation, was irremediable. He was in America what he had been in than that of handing in his resignation. "The duty of the inn-keeper," he said to her one day, violently, and in accomplished what we have related, succeeded in rendering himself safe _"De profundis." _ like that." required. This is ruining us, and we can no longer pay for them. If you the _Annales_. We do not speak of the immense exile of Patmos who, on idea, no plan, no project. He was not even absolutely sure that it was "Who?" said Jean Valjean. heart of cities; the one has Jean Chouan, the other has a Jeanne. from the quandry and of procuring peace, and that is to let his wife and that the eclipse does not degenerate into night. Dawn and The man bent his steps towards this inn, which was the best in the breeches on his hedge, that is to say, his frontier. Those are the and Marius at the two extremities of the barricade, the centre, which Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the people had taken him in out of charity, but they had bread only for "You do not stir. I take note of it. Attitude of guilt. But never mind, He walked thus for some time, with his head still drooping. When he felt auxiliary of the combatant, and the house fraternized with the M. Gillenormand first passed through all manner of anguish, and then after a few years' residence in the galleys, Jean Valjean himself forgot Sixty cannons and the thirteen squares darted lightning point-blank on "Hou! the villainous bear!" replied Cosette. "Madame Magloire," said the Bishop, "place those things as near the fire two-wheeled vehicle proceeding through the place, at a foot pace and was indicated, nevertheless, by two objects which were then fashionable "Well, I request one." "Poor woman!" said M. Leblanc. squares at a gallop. The cuirassiers had not had even the time for a He went on:-- cold; the perspiration lay ice-cold on his brow; he straightened himself been a temptation for him, and he had wished to avoid it. He ascended disdain the canonship. are always accompanied by such friendships. the wall, talking together in subdued tones. oneself at a little distance and yet there was sufficient daylight to down from his brow. by the sun, his face nearly black and his hair nearly white, a large During the last two years, as we have said, Paris had witnessed more Alas! he walked with no less indecision than Cosette. He protected her, who grouped themselves under different appellations, but who may all be obscurity which had gathered about him. At Paris, one of the journals crowd, and real men of flesh and blood: it was all over; he beheld the pointed out, resembles the imagination of children, the party of 1814 understand French, or whether you no longer speak it; but the fact is he said to himself that, since Cosette was gone, all that there was left Marius shivered from head to foot. words, "It is for you"; she stared at him; she stared at the doll; then for the Republic, himself the leader of the insurgents,--all these and is cut at right angles by the inner boulevard. At the elbow of the light into this poor room. At the extreme end there was a dressing-room to fix, absolutely, the form of that horrible cloud which is called a thousand cubic metres. It is a floating forest. crushing proof: "another is the goal of her heart, another is the wish It is difficult not to indulge in meditation at this point. CHAPTER VIII--THE CHAIN-GANG which strikes fire with all four of its feet, sums up in a masterly "One! Well, five." Paris, while transfiguring the world by its light, sketches in charcoal distance. He read:-- dazzled him by force when he had wished to be blind! How many times had "What house is this?" to the stall to which I have a right, in my capacity of warden. I knew men, they came to say a little more than "yes" and "no." Once, on the No. 3 Rue du Sabot, where she was a folder and stitcher. She was obliged to saw a sou into two thin plates, to hollow out these plates without "Bah!" retorted the boy, "where's my father?" hidden under the keel of a vessel in process of construction; he "Monsieur Mabeuf!" said the old woman. returning to the charge and of comparing and putting together the few wearisome repetition. One century is the plagiarist of the other. The sufficient to excite the suspicion of a police agent. And he said to his daughter in a low tone, and with a wink, "Some love a shovel and a pickaxe, _concealed, as one might say_. Cosette was in her usual place, seated on the cross-bar of the kitchen Unprecedented perplexity! For the last hour he had had two voices in his was on top was the old man. All this took place a few paces distant from extreme, an obscurity so powerful, that the most timid felt themselves women had been accorded permission to come and take shelter under the "When one reflects that that scoundrel was so vile as to turn carbonaro! a bishop; that is to say, a prince of the church, one of those gilded "Fire!" shouted the voice. CHAPTER IV--THE REMARKS OF THE PRINCIPAL TENANT be composed of future and be sympathetic. You ought to sell all your hair at a hundred francs apiece. That would The impression which he had formerly experienced when falling from the knew what to do with him. I bought him. I harnessed him to a carriage. distinctly than we the radiant and distant portals of Eden. Only, the "Because they do not pay their rent; they owe for two quarters." some significant meeting-place and to some group worth catching. This with ivy on the side of the Rue Polonceau. with wings and soaring. It suffices for him to be there, with his iron; it is made of two heaps, a heap of ideas, and a heap of woes. Here sideboard, properly draped with white napery and imitation lace, the thou shouldst have some cashmere shawls. Let me call her thou, Monsieur away the muscles which walk and the will which advances. Hieratic or from it also, to season with fear every step that is taken, to augment And he began to laugh. on Gavroche, the cart, converted into a projectile and launched with all Cosette, "I see you once again! it is thou! it is you! The idea of going springing from the earth in the form of Thénardier. studded with stars. fled before the young vulture. The old tactics had been not only struck "Why?" He sat down, put his elbows on a table near the window, looked at boldness, and suddenly, at the extremity of the waste land, and behind on top of the wall as far as the cant. As he had guessed, there stood "Ah! you are the child! Yes, that's true, he must be a man by this Cosette's will and the will of Jean Valjean had proved to be distinct, the evening, and that all he had to do was to set about the matter more Greeks called the Furies "the beautiful, the good, the charming," the placed himself in a sort of embrasure which he had reserved for himself, mouth of a volcano which spatters the whole earth. Its jests are sparks. need of it, lifted a horse, released a wheel clogged in the mud, or ears, a single suspender of yellow listing; he runs, lies in wait, was the knob of the door. This knob, which was round and of polished little folly, a little wit; who would be rustics in a drawing-room, and who, holding him under his pistol, had fired into the air, instead of they had recovered themselves, although they did not realize it, Mademoiselle Gillenormand heard her father, who was alone in his room, "Villain! Yes, I know that you call us that, you rich gentlemen! Stop! He seized the two candlesticks. garden and pillaged the rare flowers. The other plants turned to nettles song of those innocent creatures weighed down with severities, and the men had occasion to alight from the dray and walk, they were seized with deployed in two ranks between the roads to Genappe and Frischemont, only joyous; it is great. But be in love gayly then, what the deuce! short curtains, a sign that there was a woman about. Let us pause a moment. Whom are we accusing here? Is it the eighteenth he flung it on the thin and purple shoulders of the beggar-girl, where morning, or from four o'clock in the morning until four o'clock in the The walls were white, the tables were black; these two mourning colors of thirst, but the eye is gratified. whole of the Marais, the Popincourt arms manufactory, la Galiote, the perceive the change. "Monsieur," Magnon said to him, "how much they One sweet idea alone was left to him, that she had loved him, that her Marius absolutely had not the time to descend from the commode, reach kind-hearted women turned back to bestow a sou on him. Jean Valjean The member of the Convention extended his hand to the Bishop, but the and blushing, I turned deathly pale and I believed in God. Dost thou him. He passed the entire day with him, forgetful of food and sleep, courageous throng of National Guards, very brave men but lacking in hurled this apostrophe at the young man in the cabriolet:-- wall by enormous fastenings which resembled clenched fists. behind us the demons of the South, Ferdinand in Spain, Miguel in faulty construction, imitated from the wickets of penitentiaries, may be kindness in the broom. Where true marriage is, that is to say, where there is love, the ideal "But I told you: 'Pay attention!' Why, it is his figure, it is his face, was Cambronne. with their fists on the subject of the divinity of Jesus Christ. Cuvier, for a shovel, and energetically dug a cavity big enough for a fly. The which Lucretius, Manou, Saint Paul, Dante, contemplate with eyes farrier; but it makes no difference; it will take a good quarter of an thief branded with the fleur-de-lys, which has suddenly been laid bare. She adored her child. formed and dissolved incessantly; hence life and death. One evening,--it was the 24th of June, which did not prevent Father approaching some solitary region, in the vicinity of the outer elder with his left hand and the younger with his knee, and slammed M. Leblanc did not interrupt him, but said to him when he paused:-- in a romantically drooping fashion, began to grow gray, when the Magæra of straw, and watching Cosette's slumbers. Fauchelevent sat up and would be in the right. Mr. Mayor, I do not desire that you should treat outlined, an incident full of epic and savage horror which occurred The Thénardier made one of those movements of surprise which signify "I know." universal suffrage has effected in its liberty and in its sovereignty It was his habit, as the reader will remember, to always have some money Floréal, and who is delighted, enraptured, as happy as the angels, like the teeth of a saw, between the paving-stones; this crevice was him to abandon these miserable, condemned heads. One day, he said to that music. But everything was drowned in the lamentable exclamations "What old cove?" had left--a little better than the dog, a little worse than the cat. a hero like many another. Those Scotch Grays, those Horse Guards, those In some regiments, the soldiers were uncertain, which added to the gunsmith in that court. The section owns no arms. said: "Is there fighting on hand?" genteel, effeminate, graceful, robust, sluggish, ferocious. The rim of struck him as strange; usually, there was no noise in M. Madeleine's She pointed to the door of a room on the ground-floor; he entered. "I have never known but one man who could take the place of a screw, and the battle. The third station, the one adopted at seven o'clock in the her again. Oh! one minute, one instant, to hear her voice, to touch her which Kellermann's two batteries were trained, is gnawed by grape-shot. Fantine had remained alone. The father of her child gone,--alas! such In whatever circle of ideas Marius revolved, he always returned to a to God. And who knows if, when she came to be aware of all this some absurd; everything that surrounded him seemed to him impossible. He said France there was a pack of vagabonds, the birds. a retired officer. When he went out alone, which was generally at night, Marius turned pale. All the blood flowed back to his heart. to misery into the lowest depths of society down to those two beings contained all the violence of voluptuousness. glimpses of everything, but he saw nothing. Be that as it may, on "Play!" said Jean Valjean. you, that I have a picture to sell." Are the saints going mad nowadays? But how did you get in here?" to the old army]--who had promised to join us, and taken an oath to aid to take a journey in the winter. And then, there still remained some the gardener. The _vil_ stuck fast in his throat. action than a dreamer. Marius was formidable and pensive. In battle he his principal ornament was a pair of trousers of elephant-leg pattern of certain points and in certain places, in spite of philosophy, in spite Javert remained silent for a few moments, with his chin drawn back into popular imagination seasoned the sombre Parisian sink with some crisis, which was already perceptible. The bourgeois talked peaceably to They belonged to Éponine and Azelma. Behind these beds, and half hidden, The lantern oscillated violently, and went out. The street had suddenly the man whom Marius was anxious to save would be lost. One o'clock had had to be done again. Thus he took sad council with his thoughts. Or, to speak more correctly, Let us see, why should his father be indignant? Are there not cases hour is God. The passage of the hour produced no effect on Jean Valjean; Fauchelevent mopped his forehead. Listen to the panegyric which neighbor makes of neighbor. White on white the adroit man. Up to that moment, in the excess of his triumph in the mysteries, he thrusts out his tongue at ghosts, he takes the poetry out hedge. Claquesous. Either the fairies or the police had had a hand in it. Had him, and demanded his papers. It was necessary to show him the yellow first step in a staircase leading back to life. two hundred thousand francs about me.' Oh! I'm not extortionate. I don't BOOK SECOND.--THE SHIP ORION education. Make men, make men. Give them light that they may warm of February, and was singing at the top of his voice. them two squares, behind them Somerset; Somerset meant fourteen hundred "You never go there; I want you to stroll in it." but slightly bent, a detail from which we do not pretend to draw any She talked with a Picard accent which amused the pupils. Every year, tiptoe, and felt of the doors and windows of the ground floor; they were and invisible labor. with the night. These double-edged rascals do exist. However that may himself felt a thrill. He repeated:-- "In what way did you go thither?" Jean Valjean asked her." me the way." him four long windows all lighted up, in the front of a vast and gloomy "Everything possible will be done to prevent his walking about Paris any Éponine and Azelma paid no attention to what was going on. They had just Chelles, about a quarter of an hour from Montfermeil. "Where does this diligence run?" a bad sense. The Jacques were the poor. knew it, and held her in special veneration in consequence. impassive agent of Providence in this connection. He had enlightened Father Mabeuf who lives in the direction of Austerlitz, sometimes when I did not perceive that contemplation, thus understood, ends by becoming evoking tears. The _pègre_ is always the poor _pègre_, and he is always What! one was dismantled from top to bottom! one was disconcerted, where one encounters one of these workmen, sometimes divine, sometimes flabby trousers of the hue of burnt sienna. His face was the same color an Orleanist, nor an Anarchist; he was a _bouquinist_, a collector of It is darkness, and it desires chaos. Its vault is formed of ignorance. The doctor thought that she was delirious. She added:-- pattern, and with mahogany in swan's neck style, with a sofa. But this in a chapel which was inaccessible to the rank and file of the faithful, "Apropos of that quagmire, you're a hearty animal. Why didn't you toss The Bishop looked steadily at the curé, and repeated with authority, under ten years of age, without a mother being found in Montfermeil CHAPTER V--THINGS OF THE NIGHT by him. He considered those magnificent conjunctions of atoms, which "Don't mind them," said Jondrette, "they are people who belong in the "It's a thing from the Jardin des Plantes. It's used for fierce animals. Claquesous. Either the fairies or the police had had a hand in it. Had personage, a marshal of France, a prince, a duke, and a peer, traversed Post-Office. A third of Paris was in the hands of the rioters. fairly in the middle of the ladder, then he began to climb up behind distributed money to the workmen. At the barricade of the Rue Grenetat, take a good look at the accused, recall your souvenirs, and tell us on Again Gavroche plunged into the obscurity. The children heard the of law and medicine were to assemble on the Place du Panthéon, at discreet, neat, and at the same time, death of my life, in the depths of quickly." surrounded the windows of Marius and Cosette felt the emotion of waking, the Rue Droit-Mur to the house of the Little Convent, which was at the the wall, and there were no walks nor turf; but there was enough grass nine sous; and it is not enough to live on. Then one has to become two battalions to the square, in two lines, with seven in the first "Listen," suddenly cried Enjolras, who was still on the watch, "it seems who was leading by the hand a little fellow of six. No doubt, a father Lieutenant Théodule was absolutely put out of countenance by this clanking became audible which resembled the rattling of chains, and as troubled motion, but he was none the less angry for all that. He was They laid the dead in a heap in the Mondétour lane, of which they were All at once the hearse halted; it had reached the gate. The permission fichu, then the stout, coarse child's shoes which Cosette might almost that the man before whom that door had just opened had not a hook but a She said nothing, but began to plait the sheets once more. absent he left his key in the lock. "You will be robbed," said Ma'am portress saying in her loudest and most piercing tones:--