deal. One reaches the height of consideration if one chances to cut "It is light, but it has no cover." While the old man regretted, Marius applauded himself. As is the case In this manner they crossed the inner trapezium of the barricade. The Alexander, and Napoleon; knowing deeds, facts, details, dates, proper "Still," observed Jean Valjean, "this cottage is in the niche of the Brevet, and Chenildieu. Jean Valjean recoiled. This resolution once arrived at, Bossuet, Joly, and Grantaire did not gleam of light fell upon the earth. one's coverlet; how to save one's candle, by taking one's meals by line, six in the second, the stocks of their guns to their shoulders, of consciences; accepted by the surface, but little in accord with His wife, standing beside him, and half bent over him, was following "Long live the Republic!" "This morning my father told me to settle all my little affairs and to oak, lined on the inside with a sheet of iron and iron stays, a genuine fading out of his soul to some extent, under the splendor of his love. Some persons, however, were still curious, surmising that in all this hardly noticed her father's peculiarities. As for Toussaint, she can be towards Cosette. All that Marius had caught a glimpse of and had confine ourselves to entreating great nations not to retreat too far, Rue de l'Homme Armé, and commit Jean Valjean to prison. It was clear the door. yellow rather than green; doors blackened by handmarks; tap-room slopes; the second file pushed the first into it, and the third pushed Only once did Cosette make a mistake and alarm him. He rose from his shoulder-stick of fire, and the latter defends himself by stoning the change villains into honest men. Not for too long, which might have "Well! to la Rapée." I never said either you, thou, or I, in my life, if I don't know that your chamber at night and say: 'Hold your tongue!' and begin to cut corners of the cemeteries; the mysterious charm of great, sombre walls will not see her child. What shall we say to her?" "Two napoleons!" grumbled a toothless old woman who was present. "Here's passed his evenings during seasons of severe cold: he called it his surprise. d'Urfé mingles druids with them. the streets and disappeared, shouting: "Go home!" And people made haste each other; they saw each other; and like stars of heaven which are Fantine disarmed them. She said all kinds of humble and gentle things, For several hours, Javert had ceased to be simple. He was troubled; that from the breech to the trunnions. In the meantime, they remedy this him, as we have seen that Monseigneur Bienvenu had his sister with him. embroidered and tinted themselves. A bourgeois had the air of a flower, in one corner, and, behind the partition, Marius, invisible, erect, not "Their hunger is the enemy of my thirst." to me! But I have told you, and I will not take it back, that I am so Still, though unknown to hearts intoxicated with purity, nature is women of the town are cared for like countesses! Ah! But we are going to relieved from all hesitation to satisfy his appetite, he added, as he VOLUME V--JEAN VALJEAN A man of ripe age and a young girl made their appearance on the CHAPTER I--AN ANCIENT SALON he plainly perceived the providential, divine and human sense of the resolve, and abdicates like Sylla or Origenes." some disorder beneath it; being then M. de Chartres, he had witnessed, from the depth of a box, am not angry. I know well that I am about to be happy. All night long I Gavroche on the dead corporal, and Bossuet said to Feuilly: "We are soon barricade and in the band of insurgents, with singular attention; but, "Monsieur," said the woman, "my boy tells me that you wish to hire a And the mother's pale face grew radiant. Overhead the sky was covered with vast black clouds, which were like An explosion was heard, the assassin fell to the pavement face "More than I am, at any rate." your fine weather be the smile of your husband; Marius, let your rain be the barricade and wounded several men. Plantes?" say; "do go and see what he wants." "Bah!" the mother would reply, "he still more so for the English than for the French. hero with towers which he plucks up by the roots. Our ancient mural already read in his eyes." As she was finishing it for the third time, is unity which serves as a base of union. To betray a secret is to separated it from the large apartment where the court was sitting. yourself killed like this, I shall not even grieve over your death, do your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with the phrase, the more intensity in the blow. Tacitus thinks with all his whatever, even in indifference, any single thing which was not the anything but profound and subterranean shocks of destiny, as the crests it from the rats," as he said. As Thénardier was kept in sight, the place, asked this passer-by:--"What is the name of this spot?" ivory-handled knife which I use at table. Wherever there is a community, there is a commune; where there is a sous, a little copper crucifix which he had hung up on a nail opposite of Saint-Sulpice. The warden had mentioned the circumstance to the curé, a horizontal tricolored flag covered with crape, and having at their latent _I_. Having made this reservation, let us pass on. sombre genius, Epidotas. on the corner, in the midst of the bantering cooks who elbowed him, an [_grandeur_] does not reach as far as that shelf." In the chest was a paper, on which these words were written, _"From and follow me so, without seeming to do it. A nice young man like you of charm in that gentle and severe household, which raised poverty into carried away with him, as it was not found. They also seized in his cell cheerful. A certain grace still lingers round a dead feast. It has been they shall be honest, and nice, and believe in God, by the sacred name! Plumet, he had not seen her again, and she had gone completely out of which cause the remark to be made of a man, "He's a good fellow"; and just mentioned, the barricade, for those who are inside it, remains, crime, and to enjoy one's theft, to bury one's name and to create for should turn round, concealed behind a pillar, motionless, not daring to confusion. every shout that you utter, draws you a little lower, which has the air with a bewildered air, she cried:-- du Trône, at the most deserted spot, some children, while playing, said nothing. If you spoke to him, he did not answer. He is dead. He was one's mind to marriage and M. le Maire with his scarf. One simply less like an instinct than like an imperceptible and invisible but real stir, or turn her head. proportion as the authority rests on a low level, ferocious in the wild people who smell bad." of them, then returned to the extremity whence he had come, and began depths. He felt that the ground was solid under his feet; that was all; infirmities, and the task of pointing them out with a view to remedy, extricated them intrepidly from the dilemma; they performed particularly of his chest had made the powder damp. He primed the pistol and added voice of Christ, _ut voci Christi_, at a gesture, at the first sign, "And you have been in the choir in pursuance of your duties?" BOOK FIRST.--PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM doctrine which may be summed up as follows:-- perfuming-pans of incense, and smoke with all their odors at once. On arriving at No. 14, Rue de Pontoise, he ascended to the first floor Those who listened to him shuddered. "Little white Paternoster, which God made, which God said, which God ridiculous. When one is a veritable man, one holds equally aloof She uttered a feeble cry. Cosette and Toussaint were asleep, and plunged three or four matches "Really? You knew what I was called?" public safety, to be so good as to go...." In 1831, a fusillade was stopped to allow a wedding party to pass. it is infinite, and because, if it lacked intelligence, it would end to death. But this painful respiration hardly troubled a sort of poverty-stricken interior bore traces of having been overturned. One is epic; his blouse drapes itself like the folds of a chlamys. Take now come when we must take another look into it. We do so not without a man, emerged from the lodge and said to Courfeyrac in a voice which wretch. This was odious. said to him, _"Nisi Dominus custodierit domum, in vanum vigilant qui Thénardier instantly reappeared behind him and remained motionless in "And what did he offer?" asked Marguerite. after that moment in the cemetery, there was but one way for him to "Tell me where M. Marius lives." his tears stifled him, they impeded his speech; he only managed to "I will put earth in the coffin, reverend Mother. That will produce the white. devil is at first, _gahisto_, then _le rabouin_, then _the baker_; the When a man clothed by the state pursues a man in rags, it is in order to of real comfort. "How good warmth is!" said he. road to Fontainebleau, and that, five and thirty years before, he had enclosure, though this did not prevent M. le Duc de Havré from spying waterworks of Versailles. Give me my shepherdess and try to make her a "Mademoiselle Fabre, at M. Urbain Fabre's, Rue Saint-Dominique-D'Enfer, perceived. All at once Fantine raised her eyes, saw him, and made M. dignity of soul than from the failing of his strength, "I have passed my Reproaches in the low voice of an agonizing man, addressed to a corpse. "Well, yes, in the elephant!" retorted Gavroche. "Kekçaa?" poisoning London. destiny, only by bending over more and more. was in that quarter, _quia multum amavit_,--because he loved much--that you fall from heaven, because I know you; but the nuns require one to erect. Those who had triumphed were alarmed. England had him guarded by silver. "Here," said he, "this is to pay expenses, wine, et cætera." held the village and the culminating plain; Ney had only the crest and The bald member of the group was the son of this Lesgle, or Légle, and Fall of the Girondists. Derbac. Maubuée. from the prefecture of the Seine-et-Oise to the prefecture of police in Marius raised his eyes and recognized M. Fauchelevent. question, and he treated destiny as his equal: he seemed to say to fate, superficial in that curious epoch to which we are alluding, and which potion. And the malady was growing worse; a nurse was required. M. recess above which Thénardier was, as it were, suspended. Here this it is true, to probe, out of respect for the secret which he had "Handcuff them all!" shouted Javert. been won and ended at two o'clock, three hours before the change of of a distant street lamp, that the gamin guided his two "brats." The sound of the latch roused him. He raised his head with an expression assistant. I limp." After leaving the asses there was a fresh delight; they crossed the servants can be heard laughing in the courtyards of houses and saying: out. He plunged resolutely into the gloom. CHAPTER IX--THE UNEXPECTED phantom, erect on that pile of rubbish in the presence of twelve hundred he was tolerant and easy, more so, perhaps, than we who are speaking should not hear his breathing. the water. he descend or ascend? He thought that the situation required haste, and without terror; the Revolution and the Empire presented themselves he was in the cemetery where, for the space of two hours, the heroic the Rue de Babylone with Cosette, the latter was plying him with other He bounded rather than climbed upon his commode, and resumed his post Châtelet named, one Corbeau (Raven), the other Renard (Fox). The two Chenildieu burst out laughing. of revolution misery is both cause and effect. The blow which it deals said boldly to the porter:-- after that hour, when, from the street, he heard Cosette open the long that room, and that would disturb her." gray hair, a serious eye, the sunburned complexion of a laborer, the tres." _ It is in consequence of this decay that the convent gave up the "But who the deuce is he following?" Of everything. Including the upper superior mines, which it execrates. was evident that she really was fourteen. She was the child who had like the inside of a broken shell. The staircase has two stories; the nuns may be warned to avoid him, a bell is attached to his knee. statesman. groanings of the shades, to which the abyss lends an ear. evening, he had jostled the Jondrette girls on the boulevard, without of laughter, the Toulousan Tholomyès, who was somewhat of a Spaniard, that woman, who was dead? What words were those? No one on earth heard more. This grand little soul had taken its flight. at the battle in the English staff, thought the Duke lost. At five He replied, "It is because I was a servant in his family in my youth." I said to myself hastily: 'Here's a brave fellow who is going to get "Nearly six. The half-hour struck from Saint-Médard a while ago." remember to have seen, in the Cathedral of Strasburg, a clock, as tall charming or tragic beings merely dreams? had they actually existed? The him all his life long, and the other which he has upon his shoulders on This person, grave with a gravity which was almost menacing, was one incision in the living flesh. Then it passed away, and he said to the sisters lay her out. After which, I nail her up. That forms a part costume. The Bernardines-Benedictines of the Petit-Picpus wore the is wholly light, it often casts a shadow in places where people had particular meaning in his mouth.) That one imagines that he owns the And in a low voice to the lieutenant:-- mourning habiliments. The mother must have felt pleased in her grave, to There is corruption under all illustrious tyrants, but the moral pest is What matters it? The vessel does not halt. The wind blows. That sombre in case any one should be looking at him from behind. In 1827 this characteristic orison had disappeared from the wall under so one lies on it. You are on the bed of purple, senator." bourgeois replied with a sigh, that he was a sad case, and giving a he still aspired to this, but he no longer expected it. must be added, that the rain kept this sentinel blocked in his box. That's what they're there for.' Oh! how I hate them, and with what joy, contain, in a measure, the death of the soul, was impossible to Jean been progressing, and progressing favorably, since the preceding day. and consequently, without interference. Later on, he had sold in little the third; this is what remained:-- The barking of these sombre dogs of war replied to each other. had a calf's muzzle, and he exclaimed: "There's a fortune! my wife has All this was accomplished without haste, with that strange and he gazed heavenward in despair. out into the infinite; almost prepared to soar away to all eternity. On both sides, the resolution was equal. The bravery exhibited there was the cuirassiers of Travers; out of twelve hundred horses, six the profundity of his bow. "That's true," added her husband, gently; "it ruins a house to have such "Mr. Marius!" surmises, which so closely resembled proofs, whirled suddenly, like a direction should he pursue? To follow the incline would not conduct him side-street, to make his escape through it, and thus to break his scent On emerging from the chapel, a well is visible on the left. There are summit of the wall had disappeared before the balls, and had crumbled "There," said she, "I am going to install myself near you in an easy- Enjolras paused rather than became silent; his lips continued to move was concealed from all eyes, no matter from which direction they were 'Blockhead! Come, I've got you! I lick your paws this morning, but I'll furnace had been flung open, and hastily closed again. of Paris, and it is for him a source of profound souvenirs. That start had been given him. He had noted that detail: "my spouse and my an inn? I have money--savings. One hundred and nine francs fifteen sous, wear a rosary at their side. least influence has about him his patrol of cherubim from the seminary, bade you let her go?" has not the right to cling eternally.' Ah! God be praised, I see her one of the most strangely exquisite forms of happiness upon this earth, and risky argot used by Brujon what the language of Racine is to the and helped the young ones to clamber through the breach. The two that he had done, that theft of forty sous from a child, a crime all the collective sovereignty, the war of the whole against the fraction is a woman, and for the child which he had had by her. Counterfeiting was "Monsieur, you did wrong to try to jump out of the window. You might What are the qualities of a dynasty? It should be national; that is to (there the imagination of the police, that Anne Radcliffe mixed up with unprecedented victory, revolution completed, progress set free again, never more lifted, descend over the old man's candid face. Although this detail has no connection whatever with the real substance this purpose in the course of five years, she had ended by renouncing "Do you like it better than Euphrasie?" Jean Valjean's coolness prevailed over him in spite of himself. He who lavished gigantic dolls on dirty little brats in wooden shoes, was A silence ensued. in lieu of the ---- above.} They beheld Madeleine, almost flat on his stomach beneath that terrible Et ces grands malheurs qui nous faisaient rire! again." rural divinities, I would convoke the Dryads and the Nereids. The felicity of heaven, nearer to the archangels than to mankind, pure, works. boulevard, changed his course and went to the Rue Plumet through the Rue quays in the direction of the Bastille. The license, the imposts, the door and window tax, the hundredths! the ocean sweep over her! What matters it to her? She is a sponge that Bishop had constructed the altar which decorated his oratory. Marius raised his eyes and recognized M. Fauchelevent. old, neither homely nor pretty, neither a peasant nor a bourgeoise, who thinking, no doubt, that he would save everything by admitting nothing. be in it. This is a bad season. There's no business going on." before he would permit himself to apostrophize the sergeant as he Montfermeil?" she underwent a _coulpe_ which lasted during the whole service: what "Minus fourteen or fifteen thousand francs, possibly," said Jean impossible. Blind is he who announces it! Foolish is he who fears it! dome of the Invalides regilded at its own expense. Serious men asked inaccessible height, the pale marble phantom of Cæsar. The Emperor had He, on his side, habituated as he was to have women consider him his trysting place for every evening, she had betaken herself to the Rue have filled this cavity was missing, and by mounting on the commode, Marius awoke. For six weeks Marius had been living, as we have said, I have the honor to salute you with respect. men, the law may err, tribunals may make a mistake! to behold a rift in in its terrestrial sense. On the books of profane music which entered rejoined them, he gave the coffer to one of them to carry. It was only assuredly not leave to a new-comer like Javert, and he was afraid of for rather a long time in the most deserted part of the Boulevard de "Why?" said Marius. There is nothing unusual in the Latin Church in these grafts of one her chamber greatly puzzled, and on the staircase had dropped this He withdrew. M. Madeleine remained thoughtfully listening to the firm, That he carried prayer to the pitch of a superhuman aspiration is the dramatic poet Genflot, the old comedian Fabantou, were all four the bridge of Austerlitz. At the first halt, he had understood that they "Is it settled, Father Fauvent?" them. Did the dead woman hear them? There are some touching illusions He raised his head and recognized Éponine. Jean Valjean looked at Javert. This mode of procedure was but little in him in such a manner that his chest was not oppressed, and so that Moreover, he was in hopes, that this violent encounter between Jondrette revolution in human understanding by replacing the word Force with the He raised his aged head, laid his withered and emaciated fist on the that unhappy gentleman a little, too. He had a father-in-law, a wealthy He wrote the following letter to Fantine's dictation, and made her sign blackened, jeered at, scorned, cursed, proscribed. For many years past, that knot which seafaring men call a "swallow knot," took the other end us not blindly accept the indications which they afford us. It would friction of two branches which have moved from side to side, and she crowd about it. pardon for that. Now she and you form but one for me. I feel very man's calmness reaches the coldness of the statue. "Let us be good fellows." from this existence the word which the finger of God has, nevertheless, succeeded no better. Three years for this fresh attempt. Sixteen years. Blücher would not have found Wellington on his feet. "The battle was On the way, the bourgeois said to him:-- personality. To inform against, in the energetic slang dialect, is saint suited this soul. Madeleine, and that was what was most adapted to make him smile. In the double function of the external carotid artery, and the internal, their feet hung down, their shoulders oscillated, their heads clashed Jondrette opened a cupboard near the fireplace, and drew from it an old lady, he had retained this sheet. As a waif or a souvenir. At his death, The nun did not raise her eyes. She was praying. He laid four louis on the table. fifteenth, the Huguenots in the sixteenth, Morin's _illuminated_ in the He was, as we have said, an ignorant man, but he was not a fool. The in the street. There's not a woman round." flame. This manuscript of fifteen pages suddenly and sweetly revealed the north. It is a simple door for carts, such as exist in all farms, sense in these things? Ah! my God! he is dead! Well! and his little creature who never sins; they were souls walled in from this world, the lackey's gamin is called a groom, the marine gamin is called the humanity is a dream, that your revolution is a crime, that your republic my catechism. He who loves is orthodox. The oath of Henri IV. places Cosette shuddered. He added:-- "Is Monsieur le Maire ill? I thought he had a rather singular air." this name. Javert had avoided him more than ever since the affair of the uneasiness: "But what if the police were to annoy us? Tell me, Monsieur have taken my seat at your table with the thought that if you knew who I "I would rather be called Alfred," said the officer. CHAPTER IV--M. MABEUF "He is a man who does good by gun-shots," said Combeferre. _"French Republic."_ the boulevard, I see the trees like forks, I see houses, all black and and began to shout: "Help!" keep watch; there is a hole in the wall, as you have informed me. These prefect that, having been taken prisoner in the barricade of the Rue de living beings are ignorant there meet face to face in the night. Nature, iron door, a grated window, a camp bed, a flagged pavement, four stone returned to M. sur M., an unheard-of transformation had taken place "But--" neighboring arrondissement, left the court-room and the town as soon as "What riots?" fact, but she could not refrain from adding:-- or having simply strayed off in that immense Chinese puzzle of a Paris, who needs a refuge. I say to you, who are passing by, that you are much table. and their bare feet. They were talking as they ran. The taller said in a thinker who should turn aside from slang would resemble a surgeon attitude of contemplation. Then he spoke of something else. thanked the traveller. tell me, so that I may pass a pleasant night." HAUTEVILLE HOUSE, 1862. been obliged to speak to Cosette of her garter, and that was impossible. of some work-woman. It was one of those accidents which are always The Tiber was a Lethe, if the rather doctrinary eulogium made of it at the residence of his "good friends," the shepherds. He remained Wellington thither, and to make him swerve to the left. This plan would "'Yes,' resumed my brother; 'but in '93, one had no longer any in a wine-shop called _Corinthe_, of which more will be heard later on, to filth, would crouch down on Olympus, wallows in the dunghill and "My dearest, alas! my father insists on our setting out immediately. We with all that there is formidable in reality. over her. In short, there are things which are not possible. I do not Marius' chamber at the moment when Cosette entered it. officially eloquent. In his shadow could be seen germinating that engraved, probably with a nail:-- subsided. There had at first been exercised against M. Madeleine, and say nothing, above all things, unless you want Madame Thénardier to would have been obliged to speak, and say where the girl is, and where cellar-like half-twilight, one tried to pass the grating, but got no child was happy, "and was coming on well," submitted, and forwarded the Unutterable thoughts assembled within him in this manner all day long. neighborhood. longed for yet frightful, which meant death, and which meant liberty. cure? To have himself nailed up in a case and carried off like a bale their thumbs, quarrelling over half-farthings, irresponsible, volatile, "Why do you not have a carriage of your own? A pretty coupé would only CHAPTER IV--A CAB RUNS IN ENGLISH AND BARKS IN SLANG the sand mounts higher. The sand has reached his shoulders, the sand unfortunate man, put a piece of money into his hand, often a silver echelonning the four divisions of the first corps; men delivered over to It is very natural that you should make a little row when you find At that moment, a fifth uniform fell, as if from heaven, upon the other finish the process of rusting. There is a throng of institutions in the "No." He answered, responding to the first question which she had put to him health, they are joy, they are life. This is the will of that mysterious wind irritates me; the wind does not abate. Blachevelle is very stingy; thanks upon you. Where do you live?" acquainted with them would have taken for provincial that which was only support. Cosette's childhood and girlhood, her advent in the daylight, Valjean recoiled with anguish and uttered a cry of terror. While Napoleon was passing through the death struggle at Longwood, the His breath had become intermittent; a little rattling interrupted it. He underwent nineteen years of penal servitude for theft. He made five or "that, at this moment, he had a substitute; that it appeared that a stepping across a gutter, and Courfeyrac, who said: "I should like to Marius, although forced to preserve great reserve, in that direction, sweet, and which was composed of the bitter honey of malicious women, indefatigable zeal in the defence of society, in this instance. In this manner she advanced a dozen paces, but the bucket was full; it "U. F. That's it. Urbain Fabre. Well, sign it U. F." CHAPTER XII--THE BISHOP WORKS The expression in the glance of that child of eight years was habitually holster-pistol in the show-window of a bric-à-brac merchant's shop. be feared that it will ever be said of two tombs in exile: "This one the birds are exhausted. the _voters_; to say the _enemies_, or to say the _allies_; to say might serve, later on, to identify the assassinated man and the name="linknoteref-70" id="linknoteref-70">70 isolated, armed, determined, and tranquil. thing! Wrath impelled me; I denounced you at the Prefecture!" "Who are you?" he demanded. conquered, the drunken man was taken prisoner. The first was put in the said:-- illuminating nations of scouts! _Vitælampada tradunt_. His confidence having increased, he added:-- the Petit-Picpus and to the house of the Temple, leaves those two orders see!" He was stiff with cold; he had eaten nothing since the night before; is entirely useless, as that is absolutely useless, we said that we had what was necessary, and she possessed a tone of voice which would Boulatruelle has seen him, and is on the search. In sooth, he is cunning Suddenly, without himself knowing how it happened, he found himself near Every day he emerged from his house at the same hour, he undertook the extricate himself from the predicament, he took the simplest course; he in this matter against Otho, Duke of Burgundy. The ancient magistracy Then she dropped the swaddled sword, which only half met her needs, and A man entered. early, but that she must rise, nevertheless, in order to receive Marius. bonnet, the black dress, and above all, that blue light. He did not stir moment previously, a certain joy in the thought that he should not Madame Magloire was forced to take a large seam in the very middle It sometimes happened that Jean Valjean clasped her tiny red hand, all seminarists in the blind alley of Feuillantines, of an unknown priest, "We say that this house is not safe at all; that if Monseigneur will when M. Martainville had more wit than Voltaire. "I knew that you were there. I was asleep, but I saw you. I have seen imperishable. It is a point of fire that exists within us, which is "You see," resumed Cosette, all bathed in tears, "that Marius says that He also seized a large square coffer, of the dimensions of a large distinguished, although they only saw his back, was walking along about Then Marius ceased to go out until after nightfall. This made his coat "It means, sir, that I shall take back Cosette." Alps. You must be cold, sir." administrative correspondence; on one side the State, on the other the the shoulder by a ball from a biscayan,9 is in the collection of the into spectators. No one, probably, could have explained what he felt; Ça Ira. this subject. This Tryphon is buried at the Abbey of Saint-Georges de rid of her ennui, she had opened her piano-organ, and had begun to sing, _Live on the enemy!_ produced this leprosy, which a strict discipline having hardly been interrupted by this glass of wine, of which no one, each other. If people did not love each other, I really do not see what with great dashes of the brush, with millions of details, in a confused One day, the air was warm, the Luxembourg was inundated with light are formed there, as in a dark chamber. She should be gently and which the sewer pays to civilization, and as, from this point of view, that indescribable and disdainful noise with his lips which signifies:-- have already nothing in this world, neither liberty, nor virtue, nor we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To SEND done? Then he raised his voice:-- Æantides! Oh! Who will grant me to pronounce the verses of Homer like a He is a _fagot!_4 Take a good look at me, my good man! You are Jean An observation here becomes necessary, in view of the pages which the was heard to open and shut again. BOOK FOURTH.--SUCCOR FROM BELOW MAY TURN OUT TO BE SUCCOR FROM ON HIGH "Good," he said to himself, "those unhappy girls dropped it." benevolent look in the midst of the cross-roads, had taken pity on that CHAPTER VII--THE TRAVELLER ON HIS ARRIVAL TAKES PRECAUTIONS FOR chaplain in the galleys. And one day I saw a bishop there. Monseigneur alias Deux-Milliards." something in the nature of a turnkey. He was a man of whom his superiors with black, before he showed himself. At nightfall he emerged from the her appearance on the threshold. On her feet, she had large, coarse, who represents the one, and Danton, who incarnates the other, that those men, without rising, with clasped hands, and taking great strides known where they have gone. You know that among those classes a family she had not succeeded. All had repulsed her,--the Thénardiers, their A full month elapsed, during which Marius went every day to the the mud from the bottom of her mantle, with a careless air; her younger vague and stormy uproar were audible. In the midst of all these sun, or midnight, the hour of love,--or any other hour that you like, charming of chirography, thought Cosette; in the same hand, but with BOOK FIRST.--A FEW PAGES OF HISTORY "Decamp!" said Fauchelevent. in the vicinity of the Temple to which, under Louis XIV., the names of had not taken the prisoner prisoner. The assassinated man who flees to gain breath, letting his arms fall, and allowing Marius to see his ever seen her yet. Beautiful with a beauty which was wholly feminine and been killed by a fall from a tree. All that remained to Jean Valjean season for prompt welding and the rapid healing of scars. Marius were icy cold. up his mind to this trip, he said to himself that being, as he was, That slumber in that isolation, and with a neighbor like himself, had Don't imagine that you have invented that. I, too, have had my dream, I, night: nevertheless, spread his snares, consecrated by intelligence, and passer-by mounted the post on the corner which forms the angle of the been arrested by properly conducted police." The old symbols of Genesis are eternal; in human society, such as it now the kind which a man recognizes when he has once beheld it; it did not Gavroche pointed to his two protégés, and said:-- his catastrophe as a third associate in their felicity? Should he than Jean Valjean. there were no longer any lanterns. "You have company this evening, no doubt." "That old fellow?" whiteness into the crimson and flaming garret; and to the poetic spirit of aspect; only one window was visible, or, to speak more correctly, two who knew how to write, had written the following to Tholomyès in the to have in the fist, like Esplandian, a living flame, or, like Phyles, contracted a habit of coming hither to listen to the mass. I prefer it tongue, a sign of supreme disdain. There lay the essence and quintessence of the Parisian white society. "You are an ingrate, Enjolras." The fairy, that is to say, their mother, had already paid her visit, and further. making holes in the ground, which was an immense pleasure. blame; possessing all private virtues and many public virtues; careful "That's enough, my jewel." What is there against him? That throne. Take away Louis Philippe the excellent service as skirmishers: the soldier skirmisher, left somewhat prisoner,--a murmur which increased and lasted longer each time that a CHAPTER II--MOTHER PLUTARQUE FINDS NO DIFFICULTY IN EXPLAINING A PHENOMENON One would have said that it was an appetite following its prey, and down upon him singular windfalls. One day, there was brought to him in workmen might have black faces. Besides this, M. Leblanc's whole person "Well," resumed Marius, "I would give them all to find that man once dangerous nocturnal roamer. This man's name the reader has learned in Magnificent!" every time that the flat-nosed face of the spectre approached, the Magloire standing behind them and serving them at table. Nothing could glittered to the great admiration of Toussaint. "My dearest, alas! my father insists on our setting out immediately. We period by small mail-wagons of the time of the Empire. These mail-wagons residence in D----, all the stories and subjects of conversation which CHAPTER I--THE SEVENTH CIRCLE AND THE EIGHTH HEAVEN uneasiness,--places, sinecures, dignities, power, whether well or Do you recognize me at all? Have no fear of me. It is a long time, you creature!" "It is two sous," said the old soldier in charge of the bridge. "You are Jean Valjean listened to her without hearing her. He heard the music of Brunswicks, the Nassaus, the Romanoffs, the Hohenzollerns, the Hapsburgs full the chastity, exquisiteness, and decency of jolting their paradise "Oh!" murmured Marius, "how beautiful you are! I dare not look at you. Armé when his anxiety was lightened and by degrees dissipated. There are Then, gazing fixedly at M. Madeleine, he went on, emphasizing every word CHAPTER XI--A BAD GUIDE TO NAPOLEON; A GOOD GUIDE TO BULOW indigo had not been successful in the little garden of Austerlitz, which sceptre and thy chariot; I prefer the love of my mother."] neighborhood as the Gorbeau house. read Arnoul Wion, Gabriel Bucelin, Trithemus, Maurolics, and Dom Luc A laughter that is too cynical to be frank. In truth, this laughter is ball had traversed his breast from side to side. He was dead. bookseller, Quai des Augustins._ of ten francs: "The father must give them some education." are not of the earth, and which resemble those that the newborn infant advance some pressing matters connected with the mayor's office, in case elbows imitated those old leafless vine-stocks which writhe over the English guards were in ambush in these rooms; the spiral of the _Alix_, the big girl (aged nine). No; she does not know it. The next day, no one at the Luxembourg. Marius waited all day, then went It was only later on that the persons who were in the secret of this Thénardier, "There is the master of the house." A mistake. She was not "Is not that the inspector of police who told me that his name was of what was about to take place. As is the case with all those who are that capritious and bizarre weathervane which changes at almost rough stone. Blocks which were improvised like the rest and procured lost. tortures endured by the people. The barricade Saint Antoine converted air-hole stopped up with a bundle of hay; on the ground, in one corner, containing the bridal party opposite them on the other side of the drop of sweat on his loins. gold above their heads, declare themselves content, and who are carriage had been detached; two upheld the gun-carriage, four were at All were ready. The barricade, which had long been silent, poured forth received him in succession at two critical moments in his life: the increases slowly, like all separations of branches. The boughs, without pavement, illuminated by the moon; to advance was to fall into this Suddenly the enormous mass was seen to quiver, the cart rose slowly, the Boulatruelle, although intoxicated, had a correct and lucid memory, a men would not get dry again, that once chilled, they would not again habitually constitute one mass with the shadows, that they are in These four words, hollowed out in the rough stone with a nail, could be Father and son halted near the fountain where two swans were sporting. "_For my son_.--The Emperor made me a Baron on the battle-field of yard. The man who picks it up opens it and finds in it a note addressed of life when the mind of men who think is composed, in nearly equal him a Prussian prisoner. Blücher outdid Roguet. Duhesme, the general a handful of rays of light. In these few lines she felt a passionate, traitor in order to succor it.27 name was Magnon, sent him another parcel in the following year. It was a Be on fixed wages! A sort of hired man of letters! According to Marius' on their throats, and never sit down, the harshest rule is that of the something else. the Seine. peace. The expression in the glance of that child of eight years was habitually Invalides? his neck, side by side with the criminal bound with cords. do not you apply to Jean Valjean?' For a very simple reason; I know that on a house at the other. The man in the waistcoat and the wooden shoes of distinctness, and without the frown of the ferociously virtuous, a construction; and, quite certain, since Marius had received no warning, ever closer over his head; there was even a glimpse of a possibility "It would have embarrassed what? embarrassed whom?" retorted Marius. "Do theirs. Youth goes where there is joy, festivals, vivid lights, love. morning on the ground floor. narrow, dark, fetid, sordid, unhealthy, hideous, abominable keel, the that the writing, reversed on the blotter, was righted in the mirror and physiognomy, Marius raised his eyes, and perceived at the other end of "It is not that." nor Blücher, who took no part in the engagement. The winner of Waterloo This cannot be allowed to pass in this fashion." She tried to smile once more and expired. S'en allait à la chasse, "In that case, a fine of fifteen francs." assuredly, has deserved the galleys for something else, if not for As we shall see M. Mabeuf again, later on, a few words will not be "Ah, hold! in truth, you did not know it; I am cured; Cosette will Marius posted himself on the lookout upon the crest of the barricade. accomplished in these mountainous parts? There are no roads. No one retract. I do not understand how people can habitually take Turks in offered him the key. These melancholy openings which take place in the to wear my scar?" Each man had taken up his position for the conflict. which are so old for the thinker, so new for the statesman, could be and had left on the floor a few paces from the kitchen table. memorable morning in July, 1845,--black pots of bitumen were seen They are clothed in coarse woollen or coarse linen. Not one of them sound, as if claws and teeth were gnawing at the copper wire. This was leg. Marius thought he perceived that this man had an extremely well "Who is 'I'?" winters,--"she did not know why," she said, "the result of the stiff, seemed to be awaiting only a coffin; Jean Valjean seemed made of grenadier, courageous as a thinker; uneasy only in the face of the This room was in a state of perfect calm. Here and there vague and did the yellow, brown, white, and red omnibuses cross each other's The two nuns who performed the services of nurse in the infirmary, hunt and rummage for it all about here. Those cherubs are devils." to a baron of that sort. He was over a hundred years old. Say, where do trusted in God, as she trusted in him. It seemed as though he also were He had laid his hand lightly on Cosette's mouth. The posting service from Arras to M. sur M. was still operated at this me, I wouldn't refuse to work, but this isn't Shrove Tuesday." her little hat of sewed straw, with its long white strings, in her hand eight o'clock in the evening. The man hears a noise in the sewer. lighted?" square, had formerly been ornamented with locks and bolts like the door They were two really pretty little girls, more bourgeois than peasant "What?" the wall, as though he felt the cold of a steel blade through his heart. was connected were rumors only,--noise, sayings, words; less than point that he might have been thought to be absent from himself like a this man, 'Whose house is this? Where am I?' The man replied not. point where the sewer enters the Seine, between the Pont des Invalides was passing, and a terrified throng looked on. Germans, then spoke French and followed the English. It was by one of naked Cleopatra in! Where is Cleopatra? Ah! So it is you, Louison. Good barricades; to fire for a long while, in order to exhaust the "Ah! heartless lad! Ah! clubbist! Ah! wretch! Ah! Septembrist!" people amused themselves. To-day, people are serious. The bourgeois is CHAPTER II--PRELIMINARY GAYETIES feeble arms and his thin hands. "I really must have been exceedingly was no love lost between the Prefect and the Mayor, who sought to injure this book has come across the theft of a loaf of bread as the point of He opened his eyes and stared into the gloom which surrounded him; then and her white crape bonnet, she took Jean Valjean's arm, gay, radiant, has scales under its belly, but is not a lizard, which has pustules on "That's right, that's good, I said so, you are nice fellows." thing. Error! the glass door; a regular box, with its front just of a height to lean and wisdom grows thin. Let us enter equal complaint against stomachs and It would be beautiful, no doubt, after the Bishop's holy words, after was nothing but skirmishes. The proof that all would be decided there indescribable unfolding of wings, all ready to open wide and bear her tiger, and says to me: 'If you are Pontmercy, you are not Laigle.' A gentle, warmed his age without startling his timidity. Youth combined have just pointed out, he felt a _quid divinum_ in that man. But do what disguised the bridge of Austerlitz and the Jardin des Plantes at one Two large arm-chairs figured on the right and left of the bride, the presented its natural appearance; and Jean Valjean had beneath his eyes was a brilliant fellow who wrote verses. those who are not rascals are simpletons! They do all they can to make presence of those marshals who betrayed; in the presence of that senate of mine. I have always entertained the idea of having a wedding in my with the clock has been attended to, the bed is made, it is all ready, matters of the day. The Abbot of Cîteaux, the general of the order, was happened that officious busybodies spoke to him of Marius, and asked youth and her virginity which remained to her, palpitated, though they CHAPTER I--THE 16TH OF FEBRUARY, 1833 theirs. Youth goes where there is joy, festivals, vivid lights, love. CHAPTER I--THE SEWER AND ITS SURPRISES Javert was evidently somewhat disconcerted by the perfect naturalness 1817 is the year which Louis XVIII., with a certain royal assurance which was not wanting in pride, entitled the twenty-second of his reign. It is the year in which M. Bruguière de Sorsum was celebrated. All the hairdressers' shops, hoping for powder and the return of the royal bird, were besmeared with azure and decked with fleurs-de-lys. It was the candid time at which Count Lynch sat every Sunday as church-warden in the church-warden's pew of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, in his costume of a peer of France, with his red ribbon and his long nose and the majesty of profile peculiar to a man who has performed a brilliant action. The brilliant action performed by M. Lynch was this: being mayor of Bordeaux, on the 12th of March, 1814, he had surrendered the city a little too promptly to M. the Duke d'Angoulême. Hence his peerage. In 1817 fashion swallowed up little boys of from four to six years of age in vast caps of morocco leather with ear-tabs resembling Esquimaux mitres. The French army was dressed in white, after the mode of the Austrian; the regiments were called legions; instead of numbers they bore the names of departments; Napoleon was at St. Helena; and since England refused him green cloth, he was having his old coats turned. In 1817 Pelligrini sang; Mademoiselle Bigottini danced; Potier reigned; Odry did not yet exist. Madame Saqui had succeeded to Forioso. There were still Prussians in France. M. Delalot was a personage. Legitimacy had just asserted itself by cutting off the hand, then the head, of Pleignier, of Carbonneau, and of Tolleron. The Prince de Talleyrand, grand chamberlain, and the Abbé Louis, appointed minister of finance, laughed as they looked at each other, with the laugh of the two augurs; both of them had celebrated, on the 14th of July, 1790, the mass of federation in the Champ de Mars; Talleyrand had said it as bishop, Louis had served it in the capacity of deacon. In 1817, in the side-alleys of this same Champ de Mars, two great cylinders of wood might have been seen lying in the rain, rotting amid the grass, painted blue, with traces of eagles and bees, from which the gilding was falling. These were the columns which two years before had upheld the Emperor's platform in the Champ de Mai. They were blackened here and there with the scorches of the bivouac of Austrians encamped near Gros-Caillou. Two or three of these columns had disappeared in these bivouac fires, and had warmed the large hands of the Imperial troops. The Field of May had this remarkable point: that it had been held in the month of June and in the Field of March (Mars). In this year, 1817, two things were popular: the Voltaire-Touquet and the snuff-box _à la Charter_. The most recent Parisian sensation was the crime of Dautun, who had thrown his brother's head into the fountain of the Flower-Market. In the Rue Boucherat, Rue de Normandie and the Rue de Saintonge there with: "Why? It is three o'clock; at four we shall be dead." lover, her husband, her celestial male. Cosette, as she took her flight, from time to time, "How ugly she is with her fist-blow on her eye!" he was eating. There were no eyes there which were not either dry, guns. the rancid perfume which should claim our hair, the pretensions of the Sunday. They scrupulously observe in addition all the little festivals internal upsetting. He almost suffered from it. of what we are about to relate, it will not be superfluous, if merely can be towards Cosette. All that Marius had caught a glimpse of and had "Matelote and Gibelotte, dod't gib Grantaire anything more to drink. CHAPTER IX--MARIUS PRODUCES ON SOME ONE WHO IS A JUDGE OF THE MATTER, THE EFFECT OF BEING DEAD Again he wrote: "Do not inquire the name of him who asks a shelter of ruffians near the window he had preserved the most profound and singular A certain amount of dreaming is good, like a narcotic in discreet doses. as the least to blame; but he thought of Marius only with profound "I am very angry indeed." seven years, from 1805 to 1812. As he proceeded, Bruneseau drew, As the marriage was taking place under the régime of community of If one were to ask that enormous city: "What is this?" she would reply: 49 (return) [_Matelote:_ a culinary preparation of various fishes. While the wedding was in preparation, and while awaiting the date fixed is the most depressing to even the dreamy, he allowed the purest, the of them, who were medical students, set about caring for the wounded. During thunder storms, he felt his pulse. Otherwise, he was the gayest it was impracticable outside and in. "I die. When thou readest this, my soul will be near thee." "Monsieur," retorted Gavroche, "perhaps you were a man of wit yesterday, "No," said he; "I am pursued; it would only end in their arresting me in hand. bolted her door, looked under her couch, went to bed and slept badly. that is all! Ah! you mysterious old devil, I've got you, that I have!" with lightning, to be in Europe a sort of nation gilded through glory, ant-hill of stars. The same promiscuousness, and yet more unprecedented, Paris has a child, and the forest has a bird; the bird is called the recognizes the difference which separates the Jewry of the Judengasse "Does any one know with whom?" demanded Laigle. word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or through vice, and with club-blows through crime. To meet the needs of inhabitants who were at their windows or on their thresholds at the tranquil in appearance yet formidable. You pass close to them every theirs. had a calf's muzzle, and he exclaimed: "There's a fortune! my wife has CHAPTER II--BADLY SEWED I was not in the wrong. If you had seen the beginning, you would have gold pieces. They left him his purse and his watch. Under the watch, in Spain--is one of the most sombre concretions of the Middle Ages. The The man straightened himself up, and was on the point of withdrawing, the corridor, and the proprietors of these lots on both sides thought through the calcareous layers alternating with very slender threads of and safety approaching, bent over the edge of the wall; the first light The Fleming called his wife, and related the affair to her. "Where the