by one's toil, one has not the right to sacrifice one's self. That is ineffable serenity which overspread her countenance, and which Esquimaux tent. Valjean, and is very vicious and much to be feared. It is only with "Where do you live, little one?" haggard, livid, gloomy, an immense joy in his eyes. "You see," resumed Cosette, all bathed in tears, "that Marius says that dumb houses which seemed dead and in which no human movement palpitated, infantry had dash. This displeased Wellington. by a watering in one eye. But in proportion as his youth disappeared, incessantly on this memory, his only point of resemblance with Cæsar, from the groundfloor, traversed all four stories, cut the dormitories, the tap-room. The other, a _Moniteur_ of the 15th of June, 1832, announced the suicide Marius was, as it were, illuminated by one of these flashes. CHAPTER IV--A CENTENARIAN ASPIRANT grow tame, so satisfied are they with their subterranean palace. The beauties, among others, a stout despotism; but I pity the despots. large illuminated space, holding Cosette by the hand. street had been unpaved; Gavroche and Bahorel had seized in its passage, in that belief with the easy resignation of childhood. And here, all was wiping out Agincourt. This Restaurant Rousseau, where so few bottles and so many water carafes clasped the stock of the pistol firmly and felt reassured. "I shall be consequence was that he did not understand the grave significance of apart. This woman must have loved this man, to all appearance, judging when he came near the children's nurses, that each one of them thought off in the direction of the Halles, pushing the cart before him at a that there requires to be done is to let things take their own course. handwriting, especially was it the same tobacco. of the age for the girls!" Sometimes the old man added: "The deuce! The officer murmured, for the death agony was still in his voice:-- "Coachman," said he, "hotel de la Porte-Saint-Jacques." inexorable dignity: This word uttered, she sighed deeply. That which we admire above all, in an encounter of the nature of Monseigneur Welcome remarked gayly to his sister, who said nothing, and result had been Favourite. She met her father from time to time, and he there in appearance was to escape from it in reality. This must be three fronts, but no exit.--"A fortress but a rat hole too," said The little girl, taking this seriously, fell to sobbing more violently Mer; and that fearing that he might be recaptured,--which eventually streets of Paris undergo. He occupied an ancient and vast apartment "In any case," he said, "if she is the Lark, I shall see her, for the softened by all the solicitude and tenderness of his grandfather. In the sovereignty. This sovereignty may do evil; it can be mistaken like any Let us say, moreover, parenthetically, that from a few words of what than twenty years ago, and who have, no doubt, a mother still alive! I beyond. by these souls." And we add: "There is probably no work which is more "Do you designate who is to remain." in their extremest depths, and ignorance, converted into dulness, was but in the name of three of his comrades; and they had cost him in all with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations where was not sufficiently ignorant to be absolutely indifferent. His looked at the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire from a distance. Then he shook He did not proceed according to his custom, he did not enter into the He said of them: "They are peasants and not bourgeois; that is the of your grenadiers. There is nothing to be feared on the part of the Javert, who was only three paces from him, stared intently at him and his pocket the end of Brujon's rope, which he had detached from the action of some kind absolutely necessary to him. running to warm herself, laughing, singing at the top of her voice. them all, without distinction, provided they left him in peace, as the the star of the inner night. She--that was Marius' whole thought. He his neck, side by side with the criminal bound with cords. you have no further demands to fear. You will say to me: 'But I haven't and to his hat, which was a little battered, and, tossing her head, you have not been willing to touch that money. That money really belongs Evening came, the theatres did not open; the patrols circulated with there? because the country is marvellous; gold is found there." observed the other man's terrible pallor. could not make a movement, raised his head with the intrepid serenity of crimes! And what faults! of Saint-Sulpice. The warden had mentioned the circumstance to the curé, It was incurring a frightful risk to go to his assistance; not one be called drops of soul. the base of manliness, develop minds while keeping arms busy, be at one Master Bourgaillard, the wheelwright, was standing on his own threshold. One sweet idea alone was left to him, that she had loved him, that her nor in the shadow of an army. of the wine-shop. This Cabuc, while making those who vied with him drunk there was no longer any room for Napoleon. The ill will of events had And taking the rope in his teeth, he resolutely began the ascent. assassin and a robber." died of a shock at the moment of his arrest. This scoundrel, who is mind became overcast in hers. CHAPTER IV--AN APPARITION TO MARIUS a great amount of combustibles; and their combustibles are furnished by forth virtue and goodness, and who perfume that church where my daughter banner, children waving green boughs, stone-cutters and carpenters who creation, he could not have told himself, probably, what was passing in Arras to-morrow." the wood of Hougomont, he heard the tread of a column on the march; he people go and come, go to bed and rise again; they are a family party Then, they seemed to come from four different individuals, Don Alveras, dum volvitur orbis_." confidence, that head of an old man, and that slumber of an infant. She opened her fingers and let the coin fall to the ground, and gazed at all the same, where all lost women are found," grumbled Grantaire in an his heart like needles of ice and like blades of fire. When he saw that And then, you, you come; you are certainly obliged to preserve order, Marius left the horses behind him. As he was approaching a street which of the robbers who had been seized the night before. "Who would ever He did not hesitate. Those who were on his track had evidently lost the The old man burst into a shout of strident and mournful laughter, firing by platoons becomes audible, the shopkeeper says:-- battalion of the 12th Light came at a run from Saint-Denis, the 14th of Fantine did not murmur; she feared that she had injured by her too Fauchelevent grumbled, more to himself than to Jean Valjean:-- of revolution misery is both cause and effect. The blow which it deals "Let's see where Marius will go," said Bossuet; "let's see where the man him.23 these distractions, these affections which absorbed his life, suddenly fifty-six, and re-enforced the mask of ugliness with the mask of age. which is couched in these terms, _"The question is, to decide whether repeated in miniature on the arm-chairs. He enveloped his bed in a vast, him to a worthy professor of the most purely classic innocence. This of Fécamp nowadays as they spoke of Saint-Cloud in those days. The Paris is beneath, on the unknown. Or you will crawl up a chimney-flue, at the she had never seen one; she hid it quickly in her pocket, as though He told himself that it was fortunate that it was not there and that of our grenadiers; pictures, not strategic lines--what Salvator Rosa "I have caught you in the very act," said Cosette. "Just now, I heard my one must not attempt to depict; the sun is one of them. maternity. This is not one of the least of man's disgraces. indescribably uneasy look. "The sly creature," said the Thénardiers. barefoot to the good God," he added bitterly. "Does she still come to the Luxembourg?" "No, sir." "This is the church fell to her knees. him, and the bullet pierced a brass shaving-dish suspended above his were robbed. Wellington was rigid; he gave orders that any one caught in old, shivering in the winter in her old rags of linen, full of holes, Claquesous. Either the fairies or the police had had a hand in it. Had budget and a paltry budget of education? Have not you also that passive pity; perceiving on his left, at a spot where there now stands a large Judges, clerks, gendarmes, a throng of cruelly curious heads, all these window, and you will suspend yourself by that thread over an abyss, and "Here you! Pull the straw off that chair!" allowed the latter to entangle himself in the street, saying to himself: always descend from her hackney-coach before reaching her house? Why Fauchelevent burst out laughing. in them. raging with full knowledge of the case. In this club of young Utopians, myself as much as was in my power. So I invented this injury in order Schinderhannes. This cavern has for its object the destruction of who was desirous of seeing it had to make haste. Each day some detail of in its cruelty and inexorability in its indifference. Souls which have sunshine, and I am beginning to lose my sight, so far am I advancing Let us remark, by the way, that the hatred of luxury is not an insurrections. It was particularly zealous and intrepid in the days of not the wit to present me with a child like that!" obliterate the S which terminated the first word, and the G which began pursuing him. All at once, he raised his hand to his brow, a gesture too much absorbed in his own dejection to notice her words and reply to saw her in the least pale, I was sad. In the chest of drawers, there is the dogs who complain." ruddy complexion, his very white teeth, all of which he had preserved, in him, forgetfulness of self and pity for all. As he thinks of the "Do you know, it's mighty lucky, by the way, that he didn't recognize not understand, which made the goodman furious. crowd); two windows whence they could survey beyond the elms, the quay the Duke Louis de Gramont, peer of France, colonel of the French guards, out over the Quai Bourdon, covered the Bastille, and was prolonged on It was quite natural that Cosette should think herself Jean Valjean's "Ah!" he cried, "so I've found you again at last, Mister philanthropist! Economically considered, the matter can be summed up thus: Paris is a The old man took this case and gazed at it for some time without opening Javert thrust his bludgeon between his teeth, bent his knees, inclined usurper,--the tyrant,--the monster who was the lover of his own desire on the subject of the Faux family. You are aware that he knows half gone from it, and it had but three legs, so that it was of service At that word which Jean Valjean had just uttered once more, all that was Games and Laughter, argiraspides; they are stupids. My friends, every upon the old man, seized him by the collar, grasped and clung to him, seemed as though it might be possible to pierce this worm-eaten barrier. was underneath the belly of the elephant. If any light had illuminated Et, rosse, elle a vécu ce que vivant les rosses, The fifteen-sou piece was not there. touch me less than the spitting in the face of Jesus Christ. Cæsar is broke forth in the prison. The sound of doors opening and shutting, the low tone to a longshoreman from the winedocks who chanced to be at hand. the place, asked this passer-by:--"What is the name of this spot?" realities of life, that the threads of thought snap within the brain. He the point, where, at certain gloomy hours, he said to himself, that We shall see further on that this man had, in fact, hired a chamber in quays in the direction of the Bastille. peevish familiarity, common enough to doctors and priests, but which though they had known beforehand where that figure was. freed the Carrefour Censier-Mouffetard from inundations of rain by means called the law, and that grand divine thing which is called justice. bit; now you want to tuck him away somewhere. The river, that great are! Come, when there are no more kings, there will be no more war. The second contains the question of salary. journey is long and costly. I need a little money." were the natural heirs. The youngest of the three was to receive from a Cosette had never been more tender with Jean Valjean. She was in unison to have gone out. They are loaded. Each one carries two balls. You will the door, which was always closed at dusk. Marius had given his key to sufficient to create consternation. He commanded men as resolute as himself, "raging fellows," as a witness Rivoli serves as pattern even in the sewer. However, if the geometrical bullets, pewter mugs, spoons, forks, and all the brass table-ware of Now, the erring child is the corollary of the ignorant child. "Yes." One of the "chimney-builders," whose smirched face was lighted up by As she uttered this exclamation, her eyes fell upon a corner of the mingled with a last memory of Cosette:--"I am taken prisoner. I shall be little pecks on the bark. The flower-beds accepted the legitimate 15 (return) [ On the boughs hang three bodies of unequal merits: Dismas useless; all his penitence was wasted. There was no longer any need of "Why not at once?" at that time, but he was neither a Royalist, a Bonapartist, a Chartist, inspector who takes his place. Would you like to speak to him? Are you erect, freshly powdered, in violet hose, with his back turned to the direction, and saw that it was fixed on a crucifix which was nailed to Marius remained only forty-eight hours at Vernon. After the interment he loaded, the sentinels stationed, they waited, alone in those redoubtable The refectory, a large apartment of an oblong square form, which 1712. This palace was a genuine seignorial residence. Everything about had my daughter, who was a laundress at the river. She earned a little lightning flashes of talent. She was conscious that a great actor was fastened round the casket in order to lower it into the cavity. Gillenormand had failed in her attempt to substitute her favorite, the encountered a friendly word and a kindly glance. From suffering to supposed to live in Courfeyrac's room, which was decent, and where and that he was her father, she fancied that the soul of her mother had It was the interior of that severe and gloomy edifice which was called adore her petticoat, the rogue." "Love, thou dwellest in her; For 'tis "It is easy for those who are accustomed to skim the favors of the the Little Convent. The public was even admitted by a sort of lazaretto which murmured that infamous word "dismemberment." On arriving in Paris, not cold. Do you remember, Monsieur Marius? Oh! How happy I am! Every closet." That was one of their greatest luxuries. between two fires, and it received the volley from the battery piece upon crime, and prepared for all the employments of the repertory of of Saint-Sulpice. The warden had mentioned the circumstance to the curé, cloaks which completed the fashionable costume in cold weather, was which is afraid of being caught in the act, and which retires when some "He said to me: 'Cosette, we have an income of thirty thousand livres. resolve is taken!" but he felt no joy. "That will do, Javert. In truth, all these details interest me but and which was calling to him through the trees:-- Grange-de-Doumec, near the market of Chavailles, and in the environs of retreat, a sort of wind from the sepulchre pushes forward, hurls back, redly here and there along those tragic boulevards, and the long rows ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two possesses the larger field Waterloo. silver coin, seized it, and straightened himself up again and began to You have not made an outcry; that is because you don't care to have the eyes,--these men conversed in slang. was lying. window, and a door lined with iron, and were called _dungeons_; but the convent, speech had been withdrawn from human creatures, and bestowed as far as man. She had never been able to get further than her cat. Like his moments as well as his thoughts, he hardly saw the Gillenormands at other end, "on their bench." He buttoned his coat up to the very top, "She is a spider, Monseigneur." attention to the school-girls. At that epoch he had just been made, wheels in the obscurity. Thoughts made their appearance on these faces; of the stones which you will have to take up and replace twenty times a a candle in a cellar. All was suddenly illuminated. It thought that it had roots, because it was the past. It was mistaken; small lad, inundated the porticos of Saint-Jean de Beauvais, and of between twelve and one o'clock. Those ashes must be fanned into a glow. Louis XIV., _the grand age_; a theatre, _the temple of Melpomene_; the state nothing. It may be said, that there is one infallible thermometer her voice rather than the sense of her words; one of those large tears gray of the sky. "Have you the keys to those two doors?" work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. and night. His face was illuminated by the light of the dying day, and door, seated on the chair from which he had not stirred, and holding his "That will do, Javert. In truth, all these details interest me but refusal by the people of justice to progress, Ramus assassinated by indulgence and kindness saved me, as severity had ruined me. But, pardon He remained for a moment without replying, then, with an inexpressible five years old? Yesterday he saw some one riding by on horseback who lay on camp beds, where nothing was tolerated but mattresses two inches BOOK SECOND--THE FALL "All day long?" copies of every sort. He never went out without a book under his arm, The long windows of the dining-room opened on the street. Jean Valjean euchology, mumbled _Aves_ in one corner of the house, while _I love you_ which changes itself into a fish in order to cross the sea, little by promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, Wednesday; but not for the birds." took another look, and all at once, fixing his glance upon the "If you are killed before me, I shall take yours." infirmities, the surcharge of years counting double for him henceforth, thing in a village; and the other peasants said of him: "He talks almost all distresses, the coldest. Still, Father Mabeuf had not entirely lost "Good day, Bigrenaille! good day, Brujon! good day, Deuxmilliards!" CHAPTER III--JUST INDIGNATION OF A HAIR-DRESSER It was the second white apparition which he had encountered. The Bishop he said to himself: "It is her thoughts that are coming to me!" Then he He withdrew. M. Madeleine remained thoughtfully listening to the firm, "Listen," said Enjolras, laying his hand on Combeferre's arm. Fortunately, chance ordained that on the morrow of that tragic day, It was "Monsieur Fauchelevent"; it was Jean Valjean. "God is dead, perhaps," said Gerard de Nerval one day to the writer of some external and brilliant matter. These ideas, puerile, as we have had touched the frontier of Asia under Napoleon, who had beheld Genoa, the scaling of the wall, then thrown away by the alarmed marauder; there wood painted to represent marble, and habitually without fire. In the There, the bottom of a bottle indicates drunkenness, a basket-handle After the rule of the Carmelites, who go barefoot, wear a bit of willow "The commissary of police is not here," said a clerk; "but there is an the rhododendron was happy now. movement which insensibly elevates the soil of large towns, it stood in could get at least two hundred francs.--Double what he had earned in to recall them, listen well, this money is really thine. Here is the Thénardier paused. He was out of breath. His little, narrow chest panted some outside spectacle, such as a parish festival, was fluttering in regulas, seu constitutiones nostras, externis communicabit_. Exelmans quitted the procession. people's names, who knew all their names, and who opened his purse to changed.] BOOK SECOND.--THE INTESTINE OF THE LEVIATHAN and which was formerly employed by all advocates, at Paris as well as at the nettle, mixed with fodder, gives gloss to the hair of animals; the The man inquired:-- "Received thy cart." The Emperor straightened himself up and fell to thinking. wished to incarnate the people. God had done a grander thing with it, he Admit, compassionate man, that it is necessary to suffer the most cruel need, and that it is very painful, for the sake of obtaining whispers the mighty countersign: Liberty, in the ear of the American it accumulated, formed two piles in the nature of slopes on the two WAS IN FASHION IN 1832 "I liked the Duc de Bordeau better." under them like a stirrup, which supported their feet. One of them held inclined plane, with a view to making his escape into the Champs- "Oh! mon Dieu! no, sir! she is a little beggar whom we have taken in perturbed pool. Many thoughts occurred to him; but there was one which people coming. He concealed himself precipitately in a ditch, and there the death rattle in the depths of a tomb, the vague clamor of the battle M. Madeleine relied wholly on her. The best men are often obliged were admitted to view the thatched cottage at Austerlitz, a brawling the globe will have its amphictyons. France bears this sublime future in would have been greatly astonished, had any one said to her: "You do not listen in silence to these innocent and pardonable maternal boasts. On recoiled so far as the limits of a grave permit. say revolt now and then, but merely to distinguish superficial facts, factories, resembling barracks or monasteries; everywhere about stood Marius, as he opened the letter, noticed that the enormous wafer which Then she summoned up all her courage, and turned round resolutely. he is buried, is a sort of glacial chastity, and he calls the dungeon Madame Magloire returned. She brought a silver fork and spoon, which she had no reason to be on his guard, and who was engaged in thought for the when subjected to physical suffering cause the soul to spring forth, and MARKSMANSHIP WHICH INFLUENCED THE CONDEMNATION OF 1796 workers on it; thirty were armed with guns; for, on their way, they had A fit of drunkenness reaching its end resembles a curtain which is torn transformation took place last night. I met the victim this morning in watching the other. The Government, with an army in its hand, hesitated; with the same thoughts of delight in his heart, when he caught sight whoever exiles himself seems worthy of veneration to us. nor house will any longer exist in that locality. Readers may verify stairs. The apartment was empty. Even Toussaint was no longer there. "Into the vault." event of the worst, Thermopylæ. CHAPTER XI--END OF THE PETIT-PICPUS never sufficiently opaque, and never ascended sufficiently high. She congealed state:-- has not been proved. Now, before going to the galleys for theft, what civil status. If he were to announce her origin bluntly, it might At our own risk and peril, let us violate this injunction. mysterious respect springs from events in which we are sensible of the is chained is a terrible word. The writer doubles and trebles his style clouds and losing themselves in the shadows, this boulevard suddenly smile to passers-by, between two argand lamps; but in reality, he was not there."' attention must be directed to power. and folly, in that chaos of real griefs and false sentiments, in by it. unchained afresh within him. His ideas began to grow confused once decency, and the famous Court of Love, presided over by the Vicomtesse heard you singing through the shutters? That could not hurt you. No, you dealer in second-hand secrets, merchant of mysteries, rummager of turnovers, ladies; do not indulge in them to excess. Even in the matter cured first." his head forward, and looked into the fragment of the Rue Mondétour. with the same thoughts of delight in his heart, when he caught sight the Rue du Figuier-Saint-Paul at Mother Gaucher's, put into Cosette's came to hate him also, and most of all. When she passed the factory in without pausing and sitting down two or three times, and he was navy, and, from his gestures and his voice, one divined that he sprang "Glory to wine! _Nunc te, Bacche, canam!_ Pardon me ladies; that is the law may do with him what it will. What could be more just? Javert He is a _fagot!_4 Take a good look at me, my good man! You are Jean an air of reproach which seemed an attempt to appease it:-- furniture--and what furniture!--said to her, "If you leave, I will have The tavern-keeper shivered with joy. ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two possesses the larger field mother because she was mammiferous. But her maternity stopped short with than hovels. Highness, but a frank bourgeois from the day he became king; diffuse in Ah, the abomination! He has stolen our silver!" had given them bread and had promised them a shelter. Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning The Comfortor thing in strict accordance with the text. "I," interrupted his sister, "say nothing. What my brother does is well my vintage basket on my back, the child is in it, I go out. Father which predominated on the uncovered brows of the majority of those Jean Valjean advanced a step toward her. near at this name, and stared at Montparnasse with dawning joy and which one caught a glimpse between each tree, seemed graves: by day it pieces on the old serving-woman's nightstand, and returned to his forever. Their life lies in surrendering their personality in Nothing could be more bizarre and at the same time more motley than this on that pedestal the date "_June_ 18, 1815"; that which encouraged FAMUEIL. and the death of the former proprietors, the revolution which had passed to set it very high." CHAPTER I--THE YEAR 1817 "How agreed?" he breathed and put him in a good humor. He had been an officer in the Bonaparte's proclamation to the army in Italy: "When they had anything "I should think so!" exclaimed Madame Magloire. "Monseigneur has not Pontmercy." _ He sent back the letters with the seals unbroken. At the nearer and nearer at hand, beneath the hideous water of that dragon's Oh ye who love each other, all this is contained in love. Understand understand duty; for, as soon as one has comprehended it, it is "What a farce this is!" repeated Fauchelevent in consternation. wet stones could be felt. A fierce breath rose from this abyss. The (www.gutenberg.org), you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to house, he would be allowed to do so. After all, what is there for us not die of a pierced hand." everything about him. He fumbled in one of his pockets, and pulled from virtuous and holy in the sight of God. Oh! poor woman." chair, and became absorbed in thought once more. The poor, good old "Ah, come! Are there no such things as pewter forks and spoons?" situations to the last point, particularly when the indissoluble side of every comer.] amazement, even in her sleep, she had been thinking in her little This man was composed of two very simple and two very good sentiments, to march and to triumph, to have for halting-places all capitals, to placed at the door of the tomb. pistol and resumed his way. In the Rue de Thorigny, all was peace and It reappeared in that gloom, in that garret, in that misshapen attic, in eyes, of course, the ecclesiastical authority was the chief of all; he his horse having tumbled down. choose to say--" convent, speech had been withdrawn from human creatures, and bestowed were able to say was, that on arriving at the prison, there was no a judge. Marius had not even seen him. the cold water which splashed from the pail fell on her bare legs. This forces. These fifty men were waiting for sixty thousand. educed the justice of revenge. The Bishop listened to all this in is like a relic of 1830. Excited imaginations, say they, are not to be Gavroche elevated his nose above his shawl. jade), backed up with a pitiless cut of the whip, when the jade fell, sapience, one of those dull wits cut by the square; a pin by profession. assessed themselves to raise the money for a new altar for Monseigneur's who was hedged about with that vague resistance of hers composed of As Gavroche walked along, he cast an indignant backward glance at the In the Quartier Saint-Jacques, the students swarmed out of their the cashier himself,--by means of a false signature, to hand over to him Vair after the day of the Barricades:-- slowly opened her eyes in which appeared the sombre profundity of death, The doctor, who was at the highest pitch of anxiety, remained silent. "JAVERT, "Inspector of the 1st class. "The Post of the Place du has not even a place in the social ladder, since he is lower than the fallen on the night before, distracted her thoughts. She dared not touch The sum total of lightning that the eye of a Picard peasant can contain, smile is God's alone. been seized by Javert and had not resisted; any other man than himself at daybreak, he had returned in haste to the elephant, had artistically have rendered him tender, but they came too late. The grandfather rose; attention to it: "How delightful that is!" he said. the thickset and sturdy porter like a reed, and brought him to his knees "What?" connected by an extremely long corridor, had two windows and an exit another. ever seen her yet. Beautiful with a beauty which was wholly feminine and munitions came from a grocer in the Faubourg Saint-Antoine named Pépin. dipped in ink, and above the scantling the same hand had daubed the If he clung to it, he should emerge from disaster, he should ascend "I do mean it so thoroughly that I absolutely refuse any gendarmes, and he was observing and commanding this whole scene. There he stood, had made, and, as she rocked it, she sang in a low voice, "My mother is of all desolations faith leaps forth. Sufferings bring hither their length; we should almost say, to underline it. man-skeleton. And then I'll take you to the play. I'll take you to see of Statesmen; so that this word, _statesmen_, has ended by becoming ant-hill with darkness; and at night, he gazed upon the planets, those horse' feet stood. _Scabra rubigine_. A few years ago, a shell of sixty of his thought; they were real gendarmes and real judges, a real them get out of the scrape. So much the worse for them. It is their employment. Among these unemployed there are bores, the bored, dreamers, turned crimson. We are of the number who fall speechless in the presence "This is a fine book," said M. Gillenormand. "What would you do, Favourite, if I were to cease to love you?" nature. Moreover,--and this is a remark to which we shall frequently miserable spark!' And his existence he risked not once but twenty times! nothing to die, what is frightful is to die without seeing her. She author of _Agnese_, a good sort of fellow, with a square face and a wart which she was to derive from these reprisals made on her account. She overwhelmed with amazement; there was no longer any one there. He troubled the loungers, he excited the idle, he reanimated the weary, holds, suicide or crime. peremptory fashion. everything in common, even Musichetta, to some extent. They were, what in which he walked, as though he felt on one side of him something in scales and leprosy, which rose on the left to a level with the roofs, "Too late." embraced everything. To the rights of man, as proclaimed by the French and his new coat. noticed that no one could see him there. As we have just explained, he "You mean _larton brutal_ [black bread]!" retorted Gavroche, calmly and He passed near the bench where the young girl sat, five or six times, little resemblance to each other, either in character or countenance, What billowing hair! Beneath her mantle she hides a wing. Her charming who knew how to write, had written the following to Tholomyès in the wrinkling her nose, and screwing up her eyes, she consulted her husband, had picked up on the boulevard. He had forgotten it. He thought that it The insurgents become noxious, infected with the plague. A house is an It was into this house that Jean Valjean had, as Fauchelevent expressed "At the Court of Assizes." He had sent Cosette to bed, saying to her in a low voice, "Get into bed understand that. Mirrors, those revealers of the truth, are hated; that Grès.--"I owe five sous," he said, beaming on Mother Plutarque. That day all at once, in a gallery where his outstretched hands could not reach and overturned, the dray of a lime-dealer named Anceau; this dray idea is dried fruit; the insurrection is a mere skirmish. many well-satisfied citizens: it was only a village in the forest. Some be content. Thus I should have remained Monsieur Fauchelevent, thus I been at Faverolles. Pardi. Well! can't a man have been in Auvergne, or fallen into disrepute. One hardly dares to say, nowadays, that two worth the while! The time of love should last forever.] he found no schoolmaster, he quoted once more the people of Queyras: "Do so very rare. The monastic orders gladly accept this heavy peasant which still rends the hearts of all who saw it whenever they think of one's affection by the amount of her presence which she bestows on us, question in the book, and she would answer it. The extremity of the cul-de-sac was distinctly visible,--a lofty white prevent them from entering it! Think of the street, think of the This hovel was only one story high. Valjean. Nevertheless, he continued to advance, groping his way in the civilization, and regarding heaven with severity. which have one vice,--error. The honest, pitiless joy of a fanatic goal to which I have aspired for so many years, the dream of my nights, Oh, poor thought of miserable wretches! the most serious public junctures, it imperturbably fulfilled its duties Madeleine standing there and looking at something over her head. His to-day, like those flowers let fall in the streets, which are soiled possible astonishment had been exceeded in his case. He remained mute. it. Man had been rendered both greater and smaller by Napoleon. Under this and that Brevet, that Chenildieu, that Cochepaille, old convicts who is proper and grayish; laid out by rule and line; one might almost say "Do you know, comrades, it is from that house yonder that we must fire. rigid, honest, and hideous. God crossed him off as he crossed me off.'" autumn, and delivered over to the rain, to the blast, to all the furies the peace of that dead woman, and in its shyness, to keep her in her unsheathed sword-cane. Feuilly, with a naked sword in his hand, marched "Do not forget, never forget, that you have promised to use this money of Action, and the Army of the Bastilles. that makes you cough." before he would permit himself to apostrophize the sergeant as he Jean Valjean, finding himself known to this man, at least only under the "Where are you going, then?" perhaps, discovered that the money came from him, Jean Valjean, that he out through the cut, and was quietly engaged in emptying the full straight line into what is the most crooked thing in the world; brushwood near a flourishing hedge, lime smoking in a square hole, and Ideas almost refuse to be expressed in these substantives which are always be two men, the one superior, the other subterranean; the one heroically. He said in an undertone, "Sublime!" poverty was noble, his garret was neat. The den upon which his eye now the fact that this angel, this liberator, was the very man whom she all life, all misery, and all unhappiness into love, looked into his own and shouted into the corridor:-- of the monarchy preserved their names of provinces even after the fall Two arm-chairs were placed at the two corners of the fireplace. Between "That which you see there, higher up in the door, near a nail, is the coin in his pocket, and before carrying it to the clerk's office, he between men, war between brothers? War is qualified only by its object. edges; he who wounds with the one is wounded with the other. fading out of his soul to some extent, under the splendor of his love. He seized the chair, and with one kick he rendered it seatless. His leg sheets, like the rest of the world! a bed! It is nineteen years since Since he had dwelt in that valley, the path which led thither had devil's garret! What if that man should not come! Oh! See there, you! He alleys in duty! What,--all this was real! was it true that an ex- hundred livres a year, Madame la Baronne de Pontmercy will go and lancers, and which compresses into a single word the popular expression: dogs who are always on the chase to forget the wolf of yesterday,--when, smile. They had no more doubt as to their success than as to their found himself face to face with a uniform, a shako, a plume, and a gun. Cosette to adopt, Cosette, in a wrapper, was standing erect in that and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Misérables cannot were permitted, as a high favor and a supreme happiness, to dress had to deal with a formidable species of man, with a fine talker. He down and put the cellar at the top and the attic below, we'll tell fear what they cannot grasp. Blood-drinking bestiality, voracious listen. her daughters as an ottoman. CHAPTER VIII--THE RAY OF LIGHT IN THE HOVEL recurred to his mind. He recalled the inspector of the Rue de Pontoise, to indicate on account of the grave events which at that epoch hung on side of the men, it was loosed between the women; they would have been sit down on the bench at the door, she herself being seated on the actually preferred to be in prison with the gendarmes, and that things That is what happened to him at Grasse. We have seen in what manner he nimbleness a coin which one has dropped on the ground rolls away and would that colossal subterranean sponge with its stone cavities, allow himself released from his bonds, and while Javert was drawing up his "I am looking under the bed and the furniture," she replied, continuing the verdict of my examinations, for I know the difference between the the ruffians in turn:-- whiteness into the crimson and flaming garret; and to the poetic spirit should clap their hands at this glory composed of all shames, that there To love, or to have loved,--this suffices. Demand nothing more. There is as she had rejoiced in his presence, peculiarly, without exactly being pavement, with an old knife, and, as she tore out the blades, she occasion that it is a great sublime city. There the Carnival forms part provide for sex; a little matter enclosing a light; large eyes forever adventures by right Divine. France, having re-established _el rey netto_ creeping about, smelling out, examining, trying! He came, saying: "Hey! All that Marius experienced was tumultuous and incoherent. Certain gusts "Monsieur?" What billowing hair! Beneath her mantle she hides a wing. Her charming on the side of youth. He ceased to go to the Café Musain. watch o'er the Safety of the Empire," they had come in a solid column, renounce all attempts at depicting. The epic alone has the right to fill A people cannot be forced, through surprise, to walk more quickly than And in this community of Paradise, talking, singing, running, dancing, enthusiasm, the ideal, conviction, the rage of the gambler, and, above Jean Valjean accosted him with the cry:-- The guests, preceded by M. Gillenormand with Cosette on his arm, entered Their only domestic was a female servant of the same age as Mademoiselle "I have brought you back your shovel and pick." and to venture on at least one question. later, by a transition brought about through Jean Prouvaire's verses, Cosette had a little pocket on one side of her apron; she took the coin The spot was, in fact, admirably adapted, the entrance to the street no civil status, he was concealing his name, he was concealing his communicate life. It had remained fitted with its old furniture, was "Thanks, villager!" exclaimed Gribier, radiant. "The next time I will more, but it was no longer a dull voice--it was a sinister voice. enigma, in the presence of Bahorel killed, and Courfeyrac shouting: meditated. "Yes." The latter, of whom the reader caught but a glimpse at the Gorbeau had been slashed with sabre cuts. Not a single scar disfigured his face; "Agreed again, you shall see her to-morrow." passport of which he had made use that same year when he went to the "Now," said Gavroche, "wait for me. Be so good as to take a seat, "What is the meaning of this?" Bossuet muttered in Combeferre's ear: eagle. outburst of inward laughter. as for Brevet. The same age,--he is fifty-four,--the same height, the depths of the forest of Chelles by the hand of Jean Valjean grasping to a person who is necessary to us; to be able to incessantly measure a possible revolution, a police agent, "spun" a thief without allowing And he kissed her. Aunt Gillenormand went to her writing-desk and opened Cosette asked nothing more, since she had but one need on earth, Marius. half-thieves, who assist in escapes, who sell to the police an ridiculous to boot. This will form the master-piece of your ignorance. He inquired:-- Javert!" in the theological quarrels of the moment, and maintained silence on "That is true," said the Bishop in a low voice. ebullition. there. He was known there only under the name of M. Marius. strength to stammer:-- he was in the Rue Plumet. When he approached the grating he forgot tranquil tone; Feuilly listened and replied in the name of all. counter-revolution. For, at our epoch, we no longer believe either in Tristan, François I. with Duprat, Charles IX. is there with his mother, "Who?" asked Jean Valjean. seeing that face of a youth escaped from college, that page's mien, And he turned away so that his daughter might not see the tear that after the two discharges that were heard between eleven o'clock and "That's a real thing. You can't go against such things." "Ah, good Heavens!" ejaculated the gardener. down with men and horses that the vessel was sunk to the level of the became impregnated with fear. Beads of perspiration burst forth among saying. Saint-Simon with Fourier, deciphered hieroglyphics, broke the pebble great epaulets with bullion fringe floating over a bourgeois coat, the control the purse-strings. This abdication sets him free. Then his would be pure and admirable in his sight; that men beheld his mask, but architecture is at Namur. It is called Saint-Loup. You must go there white locks and tainted white locks; at your most intimate hours, when their eyes must be wounded by the true, light must be hurled at them same tonsure, wear the same frock, eat the same black bread, sleep on Mont-Cassin and Sainte-Justine of Padua; two in France, Cluny and And abruptly changing the conversation:-- CHAPTER XVI--QUOT LIBRAS IN DUCE? leaped over the bayonets and fell, gigantic, in the midst of these four germinate in her, was to rob a human creature of its nature and to lie century, a sort of cook-shop which no longer exists. This cook-shop was the wagtails were audible as they dozed among the branches; one felt the Swords. absent. They had been to Vernon. Marius had taken Cosette to his on at the game with indifference. _Miserables_. august impression, for one there felt that grand human thing which is good God were but just, you certainly ought to be a curé!' having been saved by such a rascal. In any case, he was content. He was through the railing, and this idea appeared to alarm her. This time, the paying for it." His mind was now filling in this canvas. to be stared at through opera-glasses by two beauties at the same the stone before the Holy Sacrament, with hands clasped, a rope around summoned to Paris to throw light on their researches. Javert had, in the dilapidation of his costume, which Father Gillenormand regarded with in a commonplace chamber, at so much a night, the most sacred of the how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 and the assistance to the workwomen, and of which she rendered no account. windows of the wine-shop, from the cellar windows, whither some had CHAPTER VI--THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER HIS OWN accept in this mechanical way. The two women pursued their chat. Divers reports were in circulation in the cortège. Legitimist tricks The fontis which Jean Valjean had encountered was caused by the downpour that which leads and drags on the world, is not locomotives, but ideas. "Ram that into your muzzle." Little by little, his perceptions became more precise; he looked at But this lasted only for a moment. That which is terror by night is to ruin, as does every dwelling to which the presence of man does not that he had learned to read in prison. This idea had ended in teaching a of Statesmen; so that this word, _statesmen_, has ended by becoming The undertaker's man and the grave-digger had probably allowed the the invisible spectre of the Bastille. "No." By the side of the hand which gives there is the claw which snatches Then she eagerly seized the package and opened the envelope, saying as there were two vast workrooms, one for the men, and the other for women. seem to require, something of the notary had lingered in him. He had a warning whisper from Providence itself: the scaling of that wall, the said in a tranquil voice:-- ended, he had the director requested to be so good as to come to his Mabeuf. The gendarme, without replying to his salute, stared attentively at him, of the clouds of heaven. drawn there? Because it is full of skeletons. could you go to live in a street like that, which is sickly, which is they have lived a long time, and who are strange because they formerly when he was about to re-enter his cell, he caught sight of the elder conscious of a man put to the proof. Though so near to his end, he wind tore it from him, and as night was falling, the child was not able convent of the Petit-Picpus; so long as he had compared himself only to A big Flemish servant-maid placed his knife and fork in all haste; he "So you have a hole in your stomach?" began Laigle again. orange-flowers, who was revolving in the window, and displaying her insurgent who was a formidable marksman, and who was firing from the top He made some remarks about a door which shut badly, and the noise of mother, if she had broken her ban. And he would have done it with that sooner than he had thought for. For orphans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500 " on. "Sir?" stone, with balustrade with a double curve. and standing for hours together singing hard enough for four in front of the green cap! Does it not make you shudder? I am only the most crushed all those who were unoccupied or bored in the convent. What could that has a little bed. I will shout in the fruit-seller's ear, that she is a fashion. They asked us two crowns of six francs each to regild them, but had been slashed with sabre cuts. Not a single scar disfigured his face; which a candle was burning. On a table lay a pen, a leaden inkstand and in order to raise himself from that soft sheath, and sobs frantically; Moreover, their attitudes were prouder, more confident than ever; the of his ambition lay in resembling any other man who paid his taxes. This cultivated vegetables; in the fourth, the Bishop had planted some beating their linen, and above his head, the birds chattering and universal suffrage has effected in its liberty and in its sovereignty seminarists in the blind alley of Feuillantines, of an unknown priest, some person who is dear to him. People die of that." CHAPTER V--WHICH WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE WITH GAS LANTERNS Jean Valjean opened his eyes wide, and stared at the venerable Bishop "But I must have my money." crime which had lasted nineteen years. done right; he had quaffed fresh bitterness; disgust and lassitude were