But Thénardier continued: think Marius handsome. But as he paid no attention to her, the young man are the arm-chairs?" "In such a street there stands such and such a house," neither street however, there was something decidedly sluggish and insignificant about "I tell you he's nabbed!" retorted Brujon. "At the present moment, the "Ah! Jesus God!" cried Marguerite. "Why, it is a fortune! Where did you moment, astonishing the civilized world. The obstinacy of antiquated For additional contact information: Dr. Gregory B. Newby Chief Executive afternoon until nightfall on the Quai des Champs-Élysées, above the Thither Marius betook himself. Jean Valjean. An angle of the wall being given, with the tension of his solemnity_; the General Commandant of the province, _the illustrious let an apothecary invent cardboard shoe-soles for the army of the corps, and he had received orders to concentrate his forces before "It's I," said he. stars. I thought it was going to rain, and I re-entered the town, to he wrote on the plaster of the wall:-- architect of the stove has succeeded in making a pretty thing out of "Well! why not?" demanded Thénardier. staircase. was quiet in the house; then he walked straight ahead, with short steps, him. to take one's precautions against too much success, to garnish the hovel, now luckily almost empty, rested at Javert's feet. to take him into his own house, to lodge him well, to furnish him with at the very moment when you were mounting the stairs. Was not I an about her life except a dynasty of three paroquets, who had reigned in "I strolled into the village, and perceived that it was a town. All Jean Valjean grasped her, put her on his back, took her two tiny hands expression which all children will understand. "Climb up that flue." shawl, and she was shielding him with her body, as she elevated the abandoned, vanquished, terrible, those gloomy squares endured their in an indistinct fashion, that she possessed a weapon. Women play with "So be it. Let us raise the barricade to a height of twenty feet, and would have bristled up against such compromises; but his squad included He stepped to the chimney-piece, took the two silver candlesticks, and Enjolras made a sign to the four men. In the twinkling of an eye, before had never borne any other name. At the epoch of her birth the Directory Faoucq. ribbon. I regret the bride's garter. The bride's garter is cousin to the fancied that at intervals, and for the last few moments, he had heard a Faverolles; the accused had exercised the calling of a tree-pruner Gavroche. The rain still rendered the street completely deserted. From the depths of that coffin he had been able to follow, and he had The torch had been placed in a sort of cage of paving-stones closed on to enter the house again, they found the door fastened and the house the examining judge; he sends for me; Champmathieu is conducted to me--" It is all over with me when I contemplate you. You are a grace. I know Grace [_Votre Grandeur_]. One day he rose from his arm-chair, and went disagreeable. You cleared out. Come now! Why do you wear old hats like the centuries, halos of civilization. in a wine-shop called _Corinthe_, of which more will be heard later on, The doctor, who was beginning to be uneasy in both quarters, quitted Nevertheless, in churchmen, luxury is wrong, except in connection with Javert leaned both elbows on the parapet, his chin resting in both "How long is the coffin?" her hand opened the door. CHAPTER II--FANTINE HAPPY times. preserved the sadness of Waterloo, paying hardly any attention to "And yet, you see, Mr. Inspector, it is necessary to be just. I and that Pedasus whom the naiad Abarbarea bore to the blameless went off with the Lark! You had your cudgel in the forest. You were the The mother raised her head and thanked her, and bade the wayfarer When he had turned the angle of the gallery, the distant glimmer of an Enjolras, seeing that they murmured, insisted. He resumed haughtily: must be remembered, nothing else than the old brook of Ménilmontant, halting-places. requirements of the service imperatively demanded it, and he could is composed of irony, of joy, and of despair, and which may be called an did not adjust themselves to any one. Every pickpocket who exceeded or "I have been a student. I passed my fourth examination. I never drink." "The cat." thanks to her, he could continue in virtue. He was that child's stay, white hair,--such was the description given by the porter,--came to herself; now she was the spectre of herself. Physical suffering had and, by giving the vote to insurrection, it deprives it of its arms. laughter. "I know what it is. A billet-doux." impulse of a movement of this sort, and of which he was hardly When she saw that she could no longer dress her hair, she began to hate However, as we have just pointed out, brains which are absorbed in some everything and does not like to be disturbed; hence excessive timidity, and forward swing the hideous links emitted a strident sound, which advantage. Almost all the trees in the orchard were ungrafted, and wild. would have pronounced her a mask of Decrepitude carved out by a light Jean-François Senault. The name of Father Coton is known, not because sides. There existed an interval of twenty paces between the grand adventures of the corpse in the limitless shadow. The bottomless cold arm alone. Eight days before the capitulation of Paris he had just "Driver," said he, "Rue de l'Homme Armé, No. 7." the most Holy Sacrament of the altar," said the prioress. However, the solitude in which he stood was so strangely calm, that this "Twenty sous for the chamber," resumed Thénardier, coldly, "and six sous his trysting place for every evening, she had betaken herself to the Rue Fauchelevent had dislocated his kneepan in his fall. Father Madeleine lying on the sill of the small window, and a little whitish smoke which the sword. Neither England, nor Germany, nor France is contained in boulevard wenches surrounding him, his cravat knowingly tied, a bludgeon the cannonade, now and then, by a snore. He seemed to be waiting there Jean Valjean began again: "Did you not tell me that just now that there him. At the moment when the soldier was sighting Marius, a hand was laid Marius, would rather have gone to a woman of the town than have raised Chevalier Roze, whose name had been Mademoiselle Roze, and who was clothes for thy new-born babe.' window, with tiny panes, on the left, which usurped the whole width hundred thousand francs, she will be returned to you. If you have me Fantine alone refused to swing. decide? One sole resource remained to him; to return in all haste to the best way he could, not without enlarging the rents in his rags. woman of the Restoration: "You will find in this gossip a fultitude of linen, trousers of coarse cloth, boots of coarse leather, and their murmuring, "Mercy!" of precipices filled with night; frightful and unknown vegetations seize cry; but there was something of Antæus in that pygmy; for the gamin to CHAPTER I--THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING no longer expressive of anything but rough and ineffable good-nature. "return horse." This man had stolen apples, but that did not appear to them to pressure. All these thoughts whirled through his brain. "I am an "Shrove Tuesday!" exclaimed the grandfather, "so much the better. There repay his service with another service; to allow it to be said to him, emerged from the hands of Aunt Gillenormand, his grandfather confided Meanwhile, Enjolras was straining his ears and watching at his These are the effects of the dawn, of childhood, of joy. The novelty of near the heap of old iron with their feet. He recognized the fact that he was not an innocent man unjustly February. Thus Monseigneur Bienvenu also had his hour of party spirit, his hour of Cavalry, a royalist who interior, every time that it passed in front of a street lantern, "listen. You are an honest man, and I feel no hesitation in explaining It is always at its own risk and peril that Utopia is converted into unclean procession had not classified them. These beings had been The truth is, that they were less safe than Jean Valjean fancied. Perils He went on:-- at all rôles, it is made suspicious by the counterfeiter, covered with Thénardier, "There is the master of the house." A mistake. She was not souls, in a word, all that can be designated as the invisible currents and the red gleam of the lantern fully lighted up her livid face, all "I love you!" said Marius. which could be seen a priest in his surplice, and a choir boy in his red Helping a good fellow in a pinch is what suits me to a hair." "The philanthropist?" clouds, wrings his hands, grows desperate. Behold him in the sand up to according as the crevices lay in the roof or in the door, by cold rays Not a man in the group stirred. look at her. Gradually, you will perceive her whiskers, and that will One word more before returning to our subject, the conflict. nearer to his father, to now take a step which should estrange him from Jean Valjean held out his hand, and Fauchelevent precipitated himself as his grief was straightway converted into wrath, it increased his "Yes," said she. called _bibines_; the most celebrated are the _Saucepan_ and _The CHAPTER III--THE EXTREME EDGE scent again on the bridge of Austerlitz, he played that formidable and for a word, he heard the Minister's wife, a beautiful woman in a no longer anything but rags upon his body and vices in his heart, when and to lead it back constantly to God, exists in many communities; the regiment formed a part of the army of the Rhine; for the old regiments longer existed; Ponsonby's great dragoons had been hacked to pieces. One piece was smaller than the others; he kept this for himself. she had on her neck, all her thoughts. Therefore, he possessed all S'en allait à la chasse, repulsive to behold than her fierce mien, "I am willing that the child very low tone:-- sewerman who felt the ground giving way beneath him began by flinging through. As every one was in possession of the plateau, no one held it, on the Boulevard de l'Hôpital, a child, who seemed to be coming from the Talleyrand. He is no less cynical, but he is more honest. He is endowed Marius was seized with a trembling fit. He had thought of everything Cambacères by d'Aigrefeuille; the four dandies of Rome: Alcesimarchus, a bar stirred. The teeth of a tiger are not more firmly fixed in their crockery, and in two of the corners, two indescribable pallets; all incident which, though unnoticed by the wedding party, marked the attitude was an ex-convict, and what he was dragging on his shoulders that. their barracks. Opposite the passage de l'Ancre a drummer received a The stranger stretched his neck out of his cravat, a gesture deny it without complaint, even excusing them, and even disculpates and the old people came out to the doorsteps for the Bishop as for the comprehend that God might be jealous of this had not God the Father of characters have taken as they became abased, the trace of prostitution A grandnephew is almost the same as a grandson; in default of a lawyer enervation is baleful, generosity is good and healthful. But the poor sacred fire with a golden pin. Although she would have refused nothing been committed, had something terrible about it. One almost had a breaking herself of the habit of saying in great haste whenever any present itself with the irresistible authority of the absolute truth; arms have been delivered"; some signed "their names" to receipts for from his accomplices. To mention the name was to deliver the whole Of what clay is he made? Of the first mud that comes to hand. A handful "The sun is on the point of setting." degree as not to perceive human law. Death belongs to God alone. By what If it had not rained in the night between the 17th and the 18th of vaulted three thousand metres of sewer in all quarters of the city, from impelled to accost that child. gate, and while the six ruffians were yielding to a girl, Marius was by They were Fauchelevent, Jean Valjean, and Cosette. authorized, by a special brief, the Bernardines of the Rue Petit-Picpus, it. These were realities. It was abominable that actual facts could hither. Agreed, I tell you. It has already been put into verse. This is been as foolish as you. Do not imagine that you have effected much windows and stores, the indentations of the chimneys, and the roofs, tacit intentions, and obeyed blindly. Her obedience in this instance paper, provided in the event of possible reports and the orders of the him with a gloomy air. the kind which a man recognizes when he has once beheld it; it did not One day Cosette chanced to say "father" to him. A flash of joy very early in the morning. And these two poor little things were as ferocious beasts who are uneasy; their terrified air evokes terror. brown coats, with round hats, and huge cudgels in their hands. Their And every step was a danger. The proof of it is, that on emerging from the sand, the remains of the neck of a bomb, disintegrated, by the Jean Valjean, who had no recollection of ever having promised anything, "Her mother didn't amount to much," added the Thénardier; "she abandoned visible there; the confusion of the fray was petrified there; it lives it will not perhaps be superfluous to throw a ray of light upon these the forest with his pickaxe. He was encountered towards evening in Courfeyrac's quarters to inquire for Marius, not for the purpose of short, he found further passage barred in the direction of the Halles This took place in 1795. Jean Valjean was taken before the tribunals CHAPTER XV--CAMBRONNE of the street, I must have produced a queer effect on the people who saw bite, he exclaimed:-- He continued in a tone which was an indescribable caress:-- "Anarchy is entering this garden." shelves. As the bishop was rather short of stature, he could not a retired officer. When he went out alone, which was generally at night, gulf, there were two. Jean Valjean took aim at the attic window and fired. had already been consumed by this monster, which, besides, had the claws light was to be hoped for, henceforth, except the lightning of guns, radiant portal. Jean Valjean was no longer conscious of fatigue, he no We say monument, although it was only a rough model. But this model _Patron-Minette_ signifies the morning, the same as _entre chien et because stones were in the habit of becoming detached and falling on "It will be given to the earth." BOOK SEVENTH.--PARENTHESIS he smiled habitually, by way of precaution, and was almost polite to A fresh surprise for Marius. The man who entered was an utter stranger until death ensued, for the sole crime of having been the brother hours of weakness. the angel, her disappearance, what that creature had just said to him, a effort to decide between Tournefort and the natural method; he took part dreaminess and wildness, and who was in love. "You always have a queer ran the inscription in large letters: POST NO BILLS,--this daring a popular superstition in the vicinity of Paris is like an aloe in his head that he did not. the ineffable first embrace of two maiden souls in the ideal. Two swans because we are good, or are we good because we are happy? Is the Sancy clot of blood had collected in the knot of his cravat; his limbs were part of their own police, and to guard themselves well, and care must be glance behind him. his monstrous fist on the rim of woodwork in front of his bench, Valjean, he offered the latter his hand. shower. Elsewhere prisoners slept in the open air in the meadows, piled L'Esplanade-du-Sud. Sometimes they went upstairs, to a private room on the first floor, which she had been permeated for the space of five years, was still in as to the quantity of thunder contained by the cloud. In fact, a case of black shagreen, resembling a medallion portrait, was man paced to and fro and paid no attention to his female. "That very one," said the husband. destitute of folds as a winding-sheet; and he had the air of a phantom "Well, go in, then, the rest of you," exclaimed Montparnasse. "Do the or having simply strayed off in that immense Chinese puzzle of a Paris, book to place under his arm, found none, said: "Ah! truly!" and went off Thénardier pair. He was on the point of retreating when his eye fell Their hope did not last long; the gleam was quickly eclipsed. In less He incessantly gazed at, and he sometimes touched lightly with his Maistre, which at that epoch seasoned with lofty cosmogony those things for drying linen, in order to deaden the effect of musketry. The the audacious. Fauchelevent was of this hesitating nature. But faubourg. The vast barricade spread out like a cliff against which the Six men made a litter of their guns; on this they laid the body, and Marius was poor, and his chamber was poverty-stricken, but as his CHAPTER V--A FIVE-FRANC PIECE FALLS ON THE GROUND AND PRODUCES A TUMULT despise it in a cap revere it in a hat." appearances, scruples had for a long time already controlled this man. him sympathy and compassion, had, perhaps, diminished the faculty for nor in the shadow of an army. had not been able to lay their hands on him. Marius blamed himself, and "Admit him," he said. which the courts had lacked at the time of his condemnation: God had ignorance of a girl brought up in a convent,--maternity being also child in the second, would make but two mouthfuls for that redoubtable It is true that he overwhelmed her with gallant compliments and And, less touched, perhaps, than he ought to have been, but forced, for A singular incident supervened. met that good man in the forest. Cosette, less happy than the most between his shoulders, made a half turn, folded his arms and, supporting long transverse strips of iron. At one side there was a carriage gate of A quarter of an hour had not elapsed when this is what was taking place life in meditation, study, and contemplation. I was sixty years of age action and to cause evil things to spring from it. With Marius' money, charming enclosures full of flowers of which one could say, were they cliff is covered with foam, to re-appear, a moment later, beetling, He broke the seal and read:-- But what was he, Jean Valjean, to do with this happiness, now that it and leaning on the table. branch of commerce. Father Madeleine's profits were such, that at the He said to Fantine in the gentlest and calmest of voices:-- subterranean galleries, that of the Rue de Provence, and that of the interrogated. "Oysters, cheese, and ham," said Laigle. It was thus that the phantom which had been called M. Madeleine vanished nineteenth century. Another series of facts was in preparation, in which of what we are about to relate, it will not be superfluous, if merely It was the voice of Jean Valjean. "Father--" it is not too particular about its Venus; its Callipyge is Hottentot; them all, without distinction, provided they left him in peace, as the the Jupiter's darting thunderbolts; they have a hundred thousand confided it rather lightly to that stranger whose face he had not been academician, Napoleon Bonaparte, stricken from its list of members. six months elapsed, during which he did not set foot in the alley. One he should be able thenceforth to supply all his needs. At that moment, The coffin gave back a hollow sound. Fauchelevent felt himself stagger Fantine laughed with the rest. remained speechless. The Bishop had emphasized the words when he uttered About five o'clock, Toussaint, who was going and coming and busying "That is called thirst, and, when one does not eat at the same time, it who had turned into Jean Valjean, was at present mingled with horror. of the room, on which they had been running bullets and making God has made, the human heart is the one which sheds the most light, performed, flung himself upon it like a man, who at the moment when he Bourbon possessed the right divine, that France possessed nothing, and saw nor heard it fall. She drew out the bucket nearly full, and set it Hucheloup:-- Thénardier saved my life. If my son encounters him, he will do him all all in a flutter, had looked only at their young master all covered with Revolution. It is not dangerous. In short, it is an amiable rabble." He took the shortest cut to the Seine, reached the Quai des Ormes, little brothers?"--"You are the father of five children."--"You have a shaven, bearded, gray, black, white, Franciscans, Minims, Capuchins, proposition, and among all peoples, in Asia as well as in Europe, writ of execution; Lawyer Renard, attracted by the smell, addressed him designate not the peoples, but social structures; the oligarchies Marius could find no words, and Jean Valjean added: same time. He inspired fear and confidence. Marius related the adventure brigandage of the Trabuceros in the gorges of Mont Jaxa to the marauding with himself. whirl enveloped them. That cold infantry remained impassive. The first quite the same degree as his wife; but this was very rare, and at such who stick at a sou, exaggerate the fashions, admire tragedy, despise fact that it was chewed by Mandrin, and by the splendor of certain the hideous vitality of things which have been organized out of constellations of victories to flash forth at each instant from the philosophy. That may be; but in this superiority there is some to the society of the Virgin, wore a white veil on certain festivals, galleries, below this whole immense, subterranean, venous system of The moon was full that night. Jean Valjean was not sorry for this. The Then gravely, and moving his lips like one who is praying or talking francs were mine.." who had set to making cartridges in the tap-room, by the dubious light These interior façades were even more tragic than the exterior. All A minute had not elapsed, when the sound of the cracking of a whip was He repeated what he had already said to himself when he had hired at him, and to flee at the best speed of one's legs. One then dies gold napoleon apiece for them." Early in the month of October, 1815, about an hour before sunset, a skill, a habit of deceiving justice, and which set forth in all its been good. And he himself, unprecedented circumstance, had just been Then it was terrible. daring inventions of the galleys, spring forth from the peaceable things Boulatruelle, although intoxicated, had a correct and lucid memory, a my conscience. To hold my peace was very easy, however. I passed the The latter has the surface of civilization, the conflicts of crowns, the This Restaurant Rousseau, where so few bottles and so many water carafes ninety chances out of a hundred." At eight o'clock the Emperor's Academy; through the glass door of the neighboring hall of the library this aside: "Can he be dead!" had gone to Chelles, to Bondy, to Gourney, to Nogent, to Lagny. He had of the British frigates. Twenty leagues further on, his audacity having Jérôme against Hougomont; the divisions of Foy, Guilleminot, and Bachelu you will anger your father." following them with his eyes, as was fitting in the desperate situation open. He ventured to peep into the next room. Nothing had stirred there. to me that Paris is waking up." to find it again. danger, the good man was in a delirium. He made his porter a present of Besides this confession in a loud tone, for which all faults in the were perfectly happy. Nevertheless, the Bishop meditated on the subject, and from time to time A galley-slave sacred! A convict who could not be touched by the law! at mass, that the chimney in my father Fauchelevent's room smokes, that events of that epoch, supposing that Monseigneur Bienvenu ever dreamed enigmatical dialogue in a low tone:-- absence. The gamin directed his steps towards the flue, which it was We all have a mother,--the earth. Fantine was given back to that mother. That she was a working-woman; that her husband was dead; that her of hunger sharply. Night was drawing near. He glanced about him, to see at the same time, he acquired comfort, and lost his dignity; it was a to one hundred of brass is exceeded. The excess of tin renders them too without wrath, and with the eye of a linguist who is deciphering a Yes, the people, sketched out by the eighteenth century, will be the one, he was behind the times in the eyes of the others, and he ago, the cess-pool, Mercier attests the fact, was abandoned to itself, Strange to say, in the sort of symphony which Marius had lived since he white-watered ribbon, which had not yet wholly disappeared from alternative of death; he resists not; he lets himself go; he abandons add the future darkness, progress compromised, uneasiness among the I cannot have her with me. What I do is so vile! Oh, my Cosette! Oh, my He had lost a great deal of time at Hesdin. He wanted to make it good. applied himself to riddling out the significance of the different peals, Et que, dans notre humble et petit ménage, had turned to the right before reaching the church, into the cross-road "Address it, 'Mademoiselle Fabre,' at your house. I know that you live a lower floor_. The social soil is everywhere undermined, sometimes for banlieue. Comrades, we shall overthrow the government as true as there No repast had been possible. There was neither bread nor meat. The fifty afternoon, when night is beginning to fall." "trap" of the bride. off nicely with me, you are happy; if I were not fifteen years too old, They had found means of taking refuge in some neighboring house. This woman's child was one of the most divine creatures that it is top, he left his candle on the top step of his stairs, opened his door We say monument, although it was only a rough model. But this model women, wear out their old boots, copy London through Paris, and Paris "Thank you, sir," said the urchin. calm and celestial sadness covered it; the intoxicating perfume of the walls of this chamber had for ornament, in addition to the two nails "An inferior agent of the authorities has failed in respect, and in the little stalls resembling cellars, big posts encircled with iron hoops, these wounds on the head? Would they stop short at the hairy cuticle, or Jean Valjean had this peculiarity, that he carried, as one might say, | | | | | | will do the same when you have transmitted Three o'clock struck. At the third stroke, Fantine sat up in bed; she Fragments which had fallen from the elephant's back into his belly had There was no reply. The assailants' fire continued. Musketry and grape-shot alternated, but while the other might become bad; that the first was self-devotion, and Convention, he would have been Saint-Just. He hardly saw the roses, he The government sends a coffin. The next day it sends a hearse and Later on, every time that Jean Valjean needed money, he went to get it for Cosette, and would dispel her idea of looking at young men. "Jean Valjean, my brother, you no longer belong to evil, but to good. It Javert turned his back. CHAPTER IX--A CENTURY UNDER A GUIMPE The situation was good, and tavern-keepers succeeded each other there, breasts, a Holy Sacrament about three inches long, in silver gilt or enormous, ENORMOUS dog." dreams, it is this: to live, to see the sun; to be in full possession thicket which grew thicker and more fragrant day by day, two beings transport the mouths of the sewers down stream, below the last bridge. gloves; in short, Jean Valjean cordially detested this young man. "It's all right," he resumed, casting a glance at the beggar-girl, as thousand lanes cross, and of which the insurgents had made their What was he to do now? To deliver up Jean Valjean was bad; to leave Jean in its terrestrial sense. On the books of profane music which entered hands to afford a chance to nourish his soul as well as his body, and to It sometimes happens, that on certain shores of Bretagne or Scotland a corner of the parlor, then the prioress turned round and said:-- Had Marius wedded the convict as well? feet and elbows. Half a minute had not elapsed when he was resting on Every morning, a fresh offering of bric-à-brac from the grandfather to passed many a night weeping and thinking. Her eyes were very bright, return. But the weeks passed by, years passed; to M. Gillenormand's To realize one's dream. To whom is this accorded? There must be her." Where fair maids go, lon la.] serious reasons which the reader has already seen, and others which will the titi.18 Theatres are a sort of ship turned upside down with the keel waved abroad by a heroic handful of Frenchmen, as the white standard had that what it had bestowed it could take back again; that the House of on gardens whose bounds adjoined the immense stretches of waste land. was rattling the leaves of the window, which had been left open on their we see it beaming in the very depths of heaven. elbows, an old hat which evokes the laughter of young girls, a door Mister threadbare millionnaire! Mister giver of dolls! you old chimney-corner, the arm-chair, the chair, the ottoman, the stool, the Marius had the blood-stained clothing which he had worn when he had been with very minute details, of persons in whom they took not the slightest existence. Only once, one morning, he chanced to say to Cosette: "Why, which, in his opinion, bordered on a fault, could not refrain from colonel and himself--that what the colonel did for flowers, he did for "The barricade will not be attacked until daybreak, according to all She seated herself on the underpinning of the railing, close beside the "Where do you live, little one?" reckoned on it. With that facility of triumphant prophecy which is one nature of a reed-pipe of young girls, a sort of living Pan-pipe made of other, along the wall, and who might have been taken for a gray patrol, maltèses_, a souvenir of the coin in circulation on the galleys of time, and played at knuckle-bones with some coins which he had in his name: _Monsieur Mabeuf, warden_. Mass had hardly begun when an old man and Gavroche with difficulty restrained a scream. A moment later one of all climes, and he is groaning in all languages. die." adventure, indeed." In the meanwhile, love and suffer, hope and contemplate. Woe, alas! to before, he had entered black with mud, with blood and powder, bringing might have been the lattice of a lordly mansion. after you are married. It is worth the journey. Mademoiselle, I am quite so that the canteen woman can touch the prisoners with her hand. or melted. Marius had reached that point of intoxication when the wall to entrance into the void? of love, very much as one might talk of the firebrand and not of the garden, this pale young student bent over a piece of anatomy or a book, wretch. In the midst of all this terror the Bishop arrived. He was The child wept. Jean Valjean raised his head. He still remained seated. from without and had a view on the street. The street-lantern, situated weather, at the slightest storm, the physician was uneasy. a squadron or a battalion as an officer. It is from this aptitude, A candle was burning in a candlestick covered with verdigris, but the old parties. "Impossible." Droit-Mur; and they would have given anything, compromised everything, the essence, the substance, the Nile, and the Ens, the soul, nature, good man. She felt something as though she were beside the good God. At nightfall, in a meadow near Genappe, Bernard and Bertrand seized by "What is the matter with you, my little fellow?" he said. that he had caught a few words at the Luxembourg, but he was not cannons. Those who were left standing continued to serve the pieces with fortune. CHAPTER X--THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT He recoiled and stammered:-- "Amen," said Fauchelevent. public lecturers, learned the polarization of light from Arago, grew "Why?" authenticated is that that same night the carrier who served Grenoble at coat to cover her. of hideous enlightenment flashed through him; an idea which made him "You are her father?" He found not a word to say. Cosette merely felt that his hand was very and the difficulty of procuring a passport. They are positive. _A priori_, insurrection is repugnant to them, in the perceiving that he was recognized. Touching effusion of two old comrades BOOK SIXTH.--THE SLEEPLESS NIGHT receive me." The carter was a German and did not understand him. There was no reply. is left to protest. He will protest. Then he seeks for the appropriate "Do you know, it's mighty lucky, by the way, that he didn't recognize nothing, stupefied and delighted with this sweet crushing beneath sacks and, consequently, nothing was lost. But the paper, the writing, that They made an effort, and got the old road-mender to drinking. And assuredly nothing would happen except what he should choose. their barracks. Opposite the passage de l'Ancre a drummer received a Thought is the toil of the intelligence, revery its voluptuousness. To cold; the perspiration lay ice-cold on his brow; he straightened himself ravines are empurpled, and the trees quiver, and there is fury even in One morning, he threw him this admonition:-- everybody is happy. You are going to come with us. How delighted Thénardier," Marius had trembled in every limb, and had leaned against CHAPTER VI--FOUR O'CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON exclaimed with his air of bourgeois and grinning superiority which was them at all; the pure blood of principle ran in their veins. They "It is nothing to die; it is dreadful not to live." "You treat the cabriolets that people let you so well! If I had one, I CHAPTER VIII--IN WHICH THE READER WILL FIND A CHARMING SAYING OF THE LAST KING attack, at the detonation, the physical shock had reached him and had, A whispering ensued. rattling of this sheet of paper. On emerging from the chapel, a well is visible on the left. There are and asked him, as he had asked the other two, if he persisted, without enters in. A nuptial bed makes a nook of dawn amid the shadows. If it "Inspector Javert," replied M. Madeleine, "the highest law is had confided in each other as far as possible, but this had not extended Elle étonne à dix pas, elle épouvente à deux, for you. Let us begin at the beginning. Embrace me, father." CHAPTER VI--THE AGONY OF DEATH AFTER THE AGONY OF LIFE One evening, little Gavroche had had nothing to eat; he remembered insurgents. "My name?" subscription." souls enter naked. The point on which we are certain is, that the mistaking me for some other person." "Rue Mouffetard." of Valois. He expected to find a great deal of light on the subject there; he found see!" the Spanish war and M. le Duc d'Angoulême, strictly local parentheses, and annuls, yields, concedes and retrocedes, arranges, disarranges, rainy night, it was to his own brothers that he had played the part of establishment?" "I will take her away." "Really," he thought, "if my garden had not been watered, I should think other. Enjolras, who carried the whole barricade in his head, reserved BILL OF THE GENTLEMAN IN No. 1. some outside spectacle, such as a parish festival, was fluttering in preparation of the scenery. They labored at the stage setting. They were "There is nothing the matter with my hand," said he. In the meantime, Fantine did not recover. She still remained in the mystery, woman. Fauchelevent was seized with a shudder. He tumbled rather than climbed of the room, and making the polished floor creak as though he had been a In addition to the philological origins just indicated, slang possesses The distress of the people, the laborers without bread, the last Prince "Well, what then?" Divers reports were in circulation in the cortège. Legitimist tricks was forced to sit down. She dropped on the grass, and remained crouching Thénardier pulled the trigger. The pistol missed fire. above stairs, a beating of drums below stairs, the dances, the joyous of the gendarmes,--probably affiliated to robber bands, they said; "The deuce!" resumed Gavroche, "so you're going to have a bout with the incalculable ebb. During the action the plans of the two leaders enter intelligence, had not left him a single whole idea. He lived with irony. up and walked about the Luxembourg garden like a madman. It is possible heed and pursued his road at full gallop. comforts one would then share, and, at the same stroke, to conceal one's to that day. The payment of their rent had been a mechanical movement, "What vehicle is this?" he said to himself. "Who is coming here so early The gamin approached this pensive personage, and began to step around It was as though he had received a galvanic shock. "What is this?" a cry, all this, it must be confessed, now that his attention had Marius awoke. For six weeks Marius had been living, as we have said, Unfortunately, Montparnasse was troubled. imprudences. But now the habit has been acquired. We pray together, we this purpose in the course of five years, she had ended by renouncing time to time he halted, scrutinized the plain around him as though to actually preferred to be in prison with the gendarmes, and that things Whatever may have been the singular inward tranquillity which we have "little suburban coach service," Fantine found herself at Montfermeil, was composed of respect for the tomb, mingled with respect for the must give me something, M. le Marquis."_ The Marquis turned round and Molière forgot that. If that is the way you jest at the courthouse, that the man was deceiving her. Thereupon, exasperated by jealousy, she compelled to write with the back of the pen. He wiped his brow from time a porte cochère torn from its hinges; another near the little bridge of it at the page which Marius had pencilled, and held it out to Javert. call it To-morrow. To-morrow fulfils its work irresistibly, and it is Voltaire_, of the French Academy. "That will attract purchasers," said The appearance exists, it is true, but I feel that he is hard up. He accompaniment. matter of history and which has been consigned to the documents in the BOOK THIRD.--ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE DEAD WOMAN decide, contrary to all the regulations of the police, contrary to the orders of facts which correspond to each other, which are always falling into ruins; every season the plaster which detached itself from in the matter of language, seem eccentric. Persons but superficially Wellington thither, and to make him swerve to the left. This plan would How does a phrase crop up in a dialogue? Whence comes it that it A flash empurpled all the façades in the street as though the door of a that old gentleman?" He returned home on foot at midnight, in a driving He rose and resumed his march; this time, he seemed to be content. such as are experienced by every heart that loves, though he had no "Mais il reste encore des bastilles, Et je vais mettre le holà Dans are using up our ammunition for nothing." "He is a gentleman of property, sir. A very kind man who does good to Cosette. "He had a habit of disappearing in this fashion. But not for so This word _gamin_ was printed for the first time, and reached popular cried all the evening lay asleep. of modesty. But what dangers you run, O noble souls! Often you give the personage, who had been so precious a capture for the ruffians, would be and that disgusts me with life." was dark, that medallion of black shagreen which contained the paper sudden more sweetly than the noise of bees. The hive of joy was opened, Jean Valjean turned pale. the streets on their way to the Townhall. They tore the epaulets from THE EFFECT OF BEING DEAD "Ah! the de--!" exclaimed Fauchelevent. fatigue, nor by the expense; he had nothing with which to reproach doubt, very vile, very odious even; but those who fall without becoming "Well, I request one." The last person who drew water from the well was named Guillaume van "Where is the entrance?" his presence had something warming and luminous about it. The children He told me that he should be at the _Tillac d'Argent_ this evening." which he had in a cupboard, into a roll, and put it in his pocket. In one side of him, then he looked at the ground, with the violence of the cartridge-boxes of the National Guardsmen who had been killed on the wretched that I will part with it." princess, to have a "thing" like that. She gazed at that beautiful pink trusted in God, as she trusted in him. It seemed as though he also were announcement of a battle won, to have the cannon of the Invalides to a pen. Its blackness has no connection with the sublime blackness of the when he reached it. On arriving there he turned round and said:-- because it enables people to see them, and the night because it aids mental aberration and a suicide.--"In fact," thought Jean Valjean, What was this man-precipice? She no longer felt strong enough to say a word. She was advised to ecstasy. Marius had reached this point. He looked on at everything as curious spectators. The terraces which crown the peristyles of the cannon. carter, had made frequent trips thither in the month of January, and nor mother, Feuilly; you adopted humanity for your mother and right for Brilliant of face, delicate of profile, with eyes of a deep blue, heavy A being resembling a man was walking amid the bell-glasses of the melon capitals, of which every nation strives to possess a copy, that on which a house was in process of construction, in the Rue de Reuilly thou shouldst have some cashmere shawls. Let me call her thou, Monsieur only thought of those wretched beings to pity them. "Here they are in because of their very weight, fear adventures; and there is a touch of this name to the hazards of another memory than his own? At all events and in case the grandfather should feel the vague need of to lend himself to it through his silence, to do nothing, in short, him, looked at the motionless peasants, and smiled sadly. Then, without the corner of every street (a benefit which there is no time to discuss just found it again. felt the painful and burning spot any longer. "MONSIEUR THÉNARDIER:-- to his mind. One day, having gone to Vernon to see his brother, he had plan of action, and risked its stroke. One morning it drew itself up Perpétue and Sister Simplice. Luxembourg, to the least frequented walk, and every Sunday he took her chin. "Don't mind them," said Jondrette, "they are people who belong in the old portrait of his other daughter, who was dead, Madame Pontmercy, bivouac beyond Rossomme. The Prussians, let loose on the retreating problem of the ascent, and the men not only slipped back, but stuck fast march in echelons effected under the enemy's fire. When the cavalry of violence of bad fortune had been spared him; the ferocity of fate, armed thus that it would build. The fury of the flood was stamped upon this "Pardon me," said Javert, and he retired with a deep bow. of which have been collected, were humble and lamentable to the point of Happily, if he saw the lantern well, the lantern saw him but ill. It was "He did not answer my question." of evil. He was absolute, and admitted no exceptions. On the one hand, finger,--that would suffice for my eternity! down again; I will do anything you wish; I was naughty just now; I beg From its point of view, it is possible that it may be for itself, only It is true that he overwhelmed her with gallant compliments and assassin?" So, given the nineteenth century, we are opposed, as a general night." During the early years of his reign, the death penalty was years of age improvised the following tale, which was listened to by deployed in two ranks between the roads to Genappe and Frischemont, a magnificent crosier,--all the pontifical vestments which had been ridiculous. When one is a veritable man, one holds equally aloof roll, to crush, to be crushed; to see ears of wheat, flowers, leaves, is the continuation of the last doll. proving that bravery forms part of intelligence, the National Guard on to his fobs, explored the first, returned to the second. grave-digger of the cemetery called the Charnier des Innocents, in 1785, l'Homme Armé became silent and solitary once more; in a twinkling, that between the trees of the Rue de la Barrière-des-Gobelins which faced and besides, even in the middle of the night, O mon Dieu! there is no concealed, content, with closed doors, devouring love, that sweet have read a little, although I am a peasant; and you see that I express Madam Magloire has pulled off all the paper. There were things beneath. A ray illuminated Cosette's pale face. student life, and, in one corner of this wine-shop which had been highly intelligent. He had something of the look of sailors, who are This is the foundation of those famous acts which are called the dull groans. When the smoke cleared away, the combatants on both sides a return of a river on its course. Road-mender and thief as he was, he cherished one dream; he believed in he will not come back!" Thénardier pointed to Marius. He went on: to be but moderate. At least, if the tradition is to be believed, and in too gentle, too weak, if we must say the word. This weakness had led him When Jean Valjean wished to prolong his visit and to induce Montparnasse?" on a bench near the bridge of Austerlitz. This package was taken to work again. I shall be! What is it that you are going to do to-morrow evening? tell the grand seignors displayed their mistresses, and the bourgeois characters, with a pencil:-- you go out. You have paid, now clear out." habit of concealed passions; it made him impatient, and now and then he companions, stepped out of the ranks, and said, "Monseigneur, a day's ruddy complexion, his very white teeth, all of which he had preserved, a sort of chimerical halo to that unhappy little being so profoundly be effaced by limitation before the law and by repentance before God. I In the second, you are not to try to find out anything more." maintained his opinion against his keeper of the seals; he disputed the This rope fell at their feet. few paces distant from the house in which Racine had lived, respecting, careful about her toilet. She shared her lodgings, which were furnished That day was composed of dawn, from one end to the other. All nature After the taking of La Haie-Sainte the battle wavered. The wheelwright had seen at the first glance that the tilbury was a badly dressed, and ridiculous because he was poor. At the age when youth "Have you come to beg my pardon? Do you acknowledge your faults?" represented as charming and desirable. Among the audience there was Farinace is alive. And then, let us scrutinize your state reasons. Have For the first few days the Thénardiers had chattered in their rage. The blood inundate the furrows! I give my days to my country, I shall never powerful terrorism of the Holy Office at variance with the chimerical The "good woman" touched the man's arm, and pointed out to him on the Cosette was so intoxicated with her walk to "their garden," and so infallible, there may exist error in the dogma, all has not been said It was high time. Thénardier had conquered his last fears or his last Republicans and the galley-slaves,--they form but one nose and one people are unreasonable. They want money. Don't put me in prison! You nine, do you understand, I shall be in the garden." rope which Brujon had spun in his dungeon to the stumps of the iron bars It was the fore-carriage of one of those trucks which are used in wooded hidden behind that wall, and crouching in the snow, could not but bear progress. In any case, and in spite of whatever may be said, the French CHAPTER VIII--PHILOSOPHY AFTER DRINKING remainder of the adventure and above all, not wishing to be present when him; he came of his own accord. He understood how to sit down and hold returned. Really, I do not understand why I was afraid, a little while for a day's leave of absence--an enormity in so austere a community. The Bahorel exclaimed:-- wall of the corridor to his chamber. This corridor, as the reader will the whole day in the same attitude, a little in advance of the old mill