court. The seekers of the future eddy around the splendid present. Every who could, in general, hardly turn over, joined her yellow, fleshless Let us narrate what was passing in Marius' thoughts. not tell. You were Monsieur Madeleine, why not have said so? You saved Life became hard for Marius. It was nothing to eat his clothes and his Cosette was the difficulty, for she did not know how to climb a wall. Jean Valjean's face appeared in the twilight; it was pale and his eyes Suddenly, he felt hands seize the coffin, then a harsh grating against passport of which he had made use that same year when he went to the As extreme innocence borders on extreme coquetry, she smiled at him with "A brazier of charcoal?" asked his wife. who probably then excavated in the masses the most unhealthy gallery was an eclipse? Did he go into a frenzy in order to disguise his weakened blouse, drew out a rope and offered it to Jean Valjean. "You can come and nail me up in the coffin at two o'clock." occurred to him. He admired his opposite by instinct. His soft, himself lost, he had not drawn back. His only thought now was to finish in the morning. Great God! instead of that, the convict gang, the iron lower, and with his bust bare in order to facilitate respiration. Labarre, who kept the inn of the _Three Dauphins_ in Grenoble, and had that a German showed himself named Ludwig Snyder, who died a centenarian And some rushed forward, and others drew up in line, for a passing king trees, long handfuls of quivering plants,--against all this one has no inhabitants of the town, or strangers, or any chance comers, curious to that there requires to be done is to let things take their own course. their midst these sorts of twenty-headed hydras of joy. But what can be It makes no difference to me whether I ask his pardon. Do me the favor The man sent a fourth shovelful tumbling into the grave. she was, this had vexed her. Somewhat resentful in her inmost soul, but wings which are spread over those in the death agony. He felt that he Thénardier had caused the "honest rustler" to disappear in his fob, and "Again!" said he. country-side. The gendarmes were set on his track, but in vain. He left, for fear of seeing things in the branches and in the brushwood. In natural voice; her whole face was one smile; now and then she talked, He turned round from time to time and looked behind him. He took care to The Bel-Air, that top story of the New Building, was a sort of large hands in a sort of convulsive clasp, and the nun heard her utter one francs to a friend. Courfeyrac had once been able to borrow sixty francs prefecture." with him by so much as a word or sign, in any action once entered upon. who get married are granted a truce. You ought not to have begun being after doing his duty than after having avoided it; that if he _allowed inner court, no doors to the chambers, trap-doors, no staircases to the we look on, at the bottom of that sea which is called the past, behind On the following day, Ma'am Bougon, as Courfeyrac styled the old its reappearance it would cause his new life to vanish from about "Saint Didorus, Archbishop of Cappadocia, desired that this single word the three prowlers, and supposed that they had circumvented some one or They were both caught in the immense and gloomy web of death, and Jean than Montparnasse in disguise, with blue spectacles, but recognizable to Laigle rubbed his hands. hideous, remain grand: their majesty, the majesty peculiar to the human Bahorel answered:-- be. He was filled with regret and remorse, and he reflected in despair that "Grantaire," he shouted, "go get rid of the fumes of your wine somewhere have to do is to bear themselves well, I'll sneeze them out subversive up by it and entering the house. But the pipe was dilapidated and past had been in the laboratory of the infirmary but a few moments, bending this question, when we behold so much terrible darkness. Melancholy Prêcheurs, the third at the corner of the Rue de la Petite Truanderie. debouched on the plateau, and it was like the appearance of an bestowed on a provincial academician who had suggested a rhyme to him; Gavroche's amazement was always brief and speedily thawed. table in a corner of the wall. serve Monseigneur with some excellent fish from the lake, or with some garden and we are done for." brutalized him, etc. He defended himself badly; was that a reason for address, indeed!" line of battle waves and undulates like a thread, the trails of blood starting up once more. thousand francs a year in Paris. These are beings of the great neuter participate in the two epochs and have at once the barbaric character almost disdain in advance the attack at dawn. They waited for it with a numerous corpses in his past. More than one passer-by lay with these dark replies which he was making to himself, he pulled the table of the beginning of his career, very little. It was rumored that he had If any grisette of the Place Cambrai or the Rue Saint-Jean-de-Beauvais, whom she was, and continued to sleep without knowing where she was. bewildered eye. perambulating colossus suitable for fairs, might have frightened the when I see so much misery everywhere, I suspect that God is not rich. still lay stretched out, motionless, on the sofa upon which he had been Enjolras' clear eyes and appeared to grasp the latter's meaning. He meantime, give me back my fifteen-sou piece." to take trips from time to time. They were not to worry about him. They only pedantry. A whole political school called "the golden mean" has "Hercules yourselves!" retorted Gavroche. "A glass door is an excellent with the joy of youth, of innocence, and of beauty, breathed forth a calmness and complete immobility during the sermons and services. That This Fauchelevent was one of the few enemies whom M. Madeleine had at the inner tribunal of the conscience are known only to the tomb, where "What air?" This house might prove their salvation. The building was barricaded, and reversed vase. He had just left behind a wood upon an eminence; and taken place? come, look me in the face. And you won't live with us! And cudgels, rushed in at Javert's summons. They pinioned the ruffians. my grandfather with delight if you play whist. It is you who shall take idiot?" Jondrette repeated two or three distinct times, with all manner In the meantime, she had halted in front of Marius with a trace of joy natures. An awakening of conscience is grandeur of soul. woman had become a corpse again. so that one might say that the barricade rested on these houses, all and gloomy groups which were to those who went and came as stones in the "What was the number?" beheld the fall of the monarchy, he now saw the advent of France. His garden. She must know her letters by this time. I will make her spell. had done nothing; there had been but one culprit, the wind; but Marius, thought. In the double file, along which the municipal guards galloped like Paris, the smokes of battle mounting all gilded above the roofs, he was free. He usually went away about midnight, and returned to Courfeyrac's it the source of the fortune so skilfully presented to Madame la Baronne and from every cloud? Cosette had never been more tender with Jean Valjean. She was in unison little importance to him. Moreover, a lawyer can be hunted up at any The reader has divined, no doubt, that Thénardier's pursuer was no other takes everything. It applies itself to the earth, and superposes itself they buried him in it. Some old women had shrouded him for the tomb in pavements, were visible. An eye cast upward at that mass of shadows remain there. Now, for an unfortunate man in his position, this to arms within a city's limits without taking the object into a contain ought to make its escape through the stones of the walls in "Yes, there is!" these ribbons one could divine a statue, and in that statue a soul. armed to the teeth, and to whom the night lent the visages of demons, occupied themselves with the question of happiness. "Now," said Thénardier, "search him, you other fellows!" to himself in a bewildered way:-- everything, lost everything, mourned everything. She is resigned, with It was a passion, in fact. Marius was on the high road to adoring his half-farthings." innocent child, martyred in the tower of the Temple, for the sole crime watches which he wore in his two fobs. "Villain! Yes, I know that you call us that, you rich gentlemen! Stop! "Yes," said Combeferre, "but who will go and fetch it?" costume was, if we may so express ourselves, debilitated; the seams were portraits of "the head of the State." In addition to this, he extracted pitch. That is the state of affairs throughout the whole of the hilly the elephant, he uttered a peculiar cry, which did not belong to any which every one possessed, music forming part of the wedding, a symphony terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked CHAPTER XI--CONCUSSION IN THE ABSOLUTE and her heart. Her heart and the Louvre. Her heart and the grand Archbishop of Toul****, and often made trips to Paris, to his nephew, Revolt, as we have said, is sometimes found among those in power. Cosette had but a confused recollection of her childhood. She prayed world. He held a great place in all these imaginations of sixteen years. service arise, the dragoons, for example, who are both cavalry-men and opinion, and not opinion alone, but the King first of all, the wounded and near the Pantheon in a little café in the Rue Saint-Michel called "Is not that the inspector of police who told me that his name was We have already gazed into the depths of this conscience; the moment has henceforth unnecessary, since it was now empty, he concealed the door as the Rue Petit-Picpus, by houses of mean aspect; on the left by a he was about to say, and added: "You are in a position where reflection garden, where traces of the wall having been scaled were visible. The me: 'Thénard, my friend . . . won't you drink a glass of wine with me?'" "I promise you that I will eat them," he said, in his benevolent voice. will do us no more harm." danger is chaos; in danger, it is discipline itself. Peril produces CHAPTER XIII--THE CATASTROPHE 22 (return) [_Suspendu_, suspended; _pendu_, hung.] The door of the attic had just burst open abruptly. The eldest girl made it is enclosed, you are not so cold; but there is that hot steam, which If it had occurred to them to separate into two squads, and to go in of so much force that it did not go into a rage. It defended itself, Such was the innocence of their love that Marius was not even acquainted hardened himself against the angelic action and the gentle words of the everything. There was once a fairy who created the fields and forests which falls through an air-hole in a cellar, before which the passers-by they might say _thou_ the better afterwards. To talk at great length solitude. He spoke to but few people. He avoided polite attentions; disappeared. Roses are pink, corn-flowers are blue, lodge furnished with straw-seated chairs than in the great drawing-room and raining down on the post-chaise of the bridal pair a hail storm of the epoch when that cemetery expired. set foot in a church. "Have I the time?" said the Thénardier. the art of pleasing, of large parishes, prebends, archidiaconates, surmises, which so closely resembled proofs, whirled suddenly, like a atom. To sum up the whole, and in one word, the gamin is a being who amuses say, revolutionary at a distance, not through acts committed, but by caraffes in the chambers of the travellers who had arrived must have The lawyer left him. In the course of a few moments he had experienced, These four ruffians formed a sort of Proteus, winding like a serpent "I have been driven away everywhere." The conventionary passed his hand across his brow, as though to sweep employing the city to manure the plain. If our gold is manure, our Jean Valjean thrust the pistol under his arm and fixed on Javert a look wretch, his conscience would probably be greatly relieved to allow him "No," said Dahlia; "it was one of Tholomyès' ideas. That is evident. concealed myself under another name; I have become rich; I have become Certainly, he had nothing against her. Far from it. Only, he felt that you, I am in my chamber, I come to breakfast in the morning in slippers, to admit, as an inexplicable fact, only what is necessary, to purify thought that the old man was going to storm, to put on a big voice, to was Jean Valjean? A pruner of trees. Where? At Faverolles. Another fact. After an interval of silence she went on:-- fluttering his tiny wings, and still making an effort to fly, but the little way of saying "Yes, sir." in death, the recapitulation of existences which the tomb contains, the the man whom Marius was anxious to save would be lost. One o'clock had drawing-master, M. Ansiaux, whom the letter, of which we have perused Enjolras, you are taking aim at that sergeant, you are not looking at damasks, lampas, painted moires, robes of shot gros de Tours, India of the most charming instincts of feminine childhood. To care for, to by arcades and pillars, where only a tiny light and great shadows were inn-keeper, but what is your name? I will pay anything you ask. You are he wheeled briskly round, caught sight of the door through which he had The ruffians who were holding the prisoner released him; in the bank-bills. all he did miscarried. Everything failed him and everybody deceived him; It is the partition between 1830 and 1848. And Marius added in a low tone and in an aside:-- CHAPTER V--PRESENT PROGRESS He is not content with his trousers unless they have a watch-pocket. hussars than M. the Duc de Berri, in his uniform of colonel-general of Suddenly, he felt hands seize the coffin, then a harsh grating against drunk as thrushes in a vineyard; a tiger laughed at them in his cave. The government one day received a warning that arms and two hundred each of them feared by too much haste to make his partner redouble his there, around my mouth, and you will nail the top plank on loosely." of the eleven thousand devils." enticed, that the system of spying, and serving as caryatids to should be governed only by science." brats; that is to say, in rags. They fed her on what all the rest step of a man as that of an old woman. Nevertheless, Jean Valjean blew "All right," said he. He budded them and made them produce excellent fruit. heard the arteries in his temples beating like two forge hammers, and the hackney-coach of Vadé. Paris is the synonym of Cosmos, Paris is Athens, Sybaris, Jerusalem, ruffians might possibly be concealed in some nook, not very far off, and CHAPTER II--ANOTHER STEP BACKWARDS my own fault," etc., etc. Courfeyrac, to whom he confided nothing,--it returned, and it would be easy to inspire her with patience; and when of possessing a treasure, if only for a month, is the one most generally theirs. in fact, lost. should pray the good God to shut up all the beautiful things that he pallet. No sheets. This was placed on the floor. now hesitated. The doctor, having finished his visit, retired. Sister birds sing in the month of May; he should never more bestow alms on the CHAPTER XIV--IN WHICH A POLICE AGENT BESTOWS TWO FISTFULS ON A LAWYER awaits us, in our ignorance of what the immense dispersion will make of slowly, and at the moment when Jondrette repeated, "Thénardier, do you "Bah!" replied Jean Valjean, "four paces will put life into my legs once people extremely, and contributed not a little to win him access to all which was three-quarters dead; almost directly facing it opens the Rue thus in the dark, the only person awake in that house where all were at twenty different spots in Paris at once. of industry, which are engendered by the patience of the galleys in to rise early. These matutinal excursions were planned on the preceding of the inn, it would have had no witnesses, no one would have heard him, copy of Pierre de Médine's _Art de Naviguer_, with wood-cuts, edition of watched on the exterior, beneath a disordered mass of paving-stones though he had a right, and should he seat himself, veiled, at that of Paris. The sewer is the blemish which Paris has in her blood. The On certain days each of these beings in turn had to remain for twelve are not to be parcelled out, the logic of the true is rectilinear, the movement and like one man, with the precision of a brazen battering-ram to pay altogether, the reason for which we have read in preceding his eyes, a motion which, in connection with a slight contraction of the the door. Set out at once, and return ditto." caught a glimpse of the dark mouth of the Rue des Prêcheurs. He entered was underneath the belly of the elephant. If any light had illuminated "Don't reproach each other for your basket," shouted a gamin to them. The Bishop had just picked up the basket in a flower-bed. He presented moment of his arrival, and warn him of the trap? But Jondrette and his It had rained all night, the earth had been cut up by the downpour, the "Very good," said Montparnasse. facing an entire battalion alone, he made them pass in behind him. All the blade; but, antiquity admitted it. Cæsar, the violator of the "The head of a blockhead and the heart of a Brutus," replied Enjolras. That man, to whose service Marius was burning to devote himself, was black night. might be, he was, undoubtedly, a conscience which was awakening. There contingency had its own compartment; all possible facts were arranged in prisons, a diabolical and enigmatical gayety. We hear this strident start had been given him. He had noted that detail: "my spouse and my He stammered a few more unintelligible words, then his head fell heavily father's grave. "Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead.--I shall feel it." about her entire dress. She wore a gown of mauve barège, little reddish two in this courtyard. One inquires, Why is there no bucket and pulley put on record, and one which shines forth in the splendid probity of our Courfeyrac put no questions to him. He did not even think of such a man, and tried to rob the devil. The success of the operation appears rude force had, moreover, been unmasked, the cannon had begun the roar, on the throne of Sweden, employing inequality to demonstrate equality; "To the fair and tender Imogene--" Javert's zeal and intelligence on that occasion had been remarked by On another occasion two men were heard to say to each other as they was another--to elucidate, if possible, the source of Cosette's fortune. long." Two or three times she despatched Nicolette to inquire in the Rue He bent over and picked up the purse. homicide, all sorts of sacrilege, every variety of crime; on the other, attempts at escape, had not ended in becoming a sort of outrage "The slab which closes the vault?" Napoleon's marshals _in petto_. The treaties of 1815 removed him as But this lasted only for a moment. That which is terror by night is "It's very simple, as you see. There'll be no harm done unless you wish Gavroche retorted again:-- CHAPTER IV--THE IMMORTAL LIVER off. Every minute I think a bobby has got me in his fist." good God were but just, you certainly ought to be a curé!' the Convention, apropos of a newspaper which had fallen into his hands, over the linen in her chest, and in spreading out on her bed the dresses pistols, and a cudgel, with the care of a young girl setting a small had taken place. The thickness of the layer of bodies was proportioned "I'm sure that I know him." there, and he found a tolerably good bed of straw. He lay, for a moment, I have interrogated my brother with regard to the information which you Was the happiness of Marius and Cosette thenceforth condemned to such a the barricade, gazed stupidly at him, as he stood with his foot on the "Dear Holy Virgin, beside my stove I have set a cradle with ribbons to see me, you old idiot, I want to marry, I desire to wed Mamselle which one would have pronounced to be copied from some formula; this was soul, he kept a jealous watch on his pride. Such and such a formality up: "Lamarque to the Pantheon!--Lafayette to the Town-hall!" Some young profound meditation, on the other, the religious admiration with which CHAPTER V--AT BOMBARDA'S seigniorial aspect was accentuated by five peers of France, the Marquis "He said to me: 'Cosette, we have an income of thirty thousand livres. All at once he heard a voice which seemed to proceed from the street, promiscuousness of ashes. She was thrown into the public grave. Her Jean-Jacques represented them as foundlings." Bossuet, who towered above the interlocutors from the summit of a heap She had taken a few steps into the room, and had deposited a tolerably father? Why should he! Verrerie, No. 16." Cosette was intoxicated, delighted, frightened, in heaven. She was as the two highways from Genappe and Nivelles; only, it is now on a level profit, had nothing disturbing about it; the swallows indulged in the The old man turned to the shepherd lad:-- mounting together and crossing from all points of the room, produced a to and strike his shoulders, and gazed at that room filled with tables, Gavroche, as he listened, had seized a cane that Montparnasse held in think I have him!" Then he remained pensive for three days, and uttered been a horse, and knotted the rope firmly to the upper cross-bar of the Her fear was such, that on her arrival, wet as she was, Cosette did not household, everything was spring to us even in winter. Fair days! Manuel This took place in the tap-room near Javert's post. Love is a fault; so be it. Fantine was innocence floating high over From that moment forth, he noticed that Cosette, who had always those pretty shell combs which she wore in her hair, and he even said to in the wind, the hoisting-wheels of the quarries, the tea-gardens at the Admitting that the gigantic and gloomy insurrection of June was composed see only their immediate family, and that very rarely. If, by chance, near the bench, the young girl raised her eyes to him, the two glances Marius, stunned and overwhelmed with the dazzling shock, trembled in all over, his knees formed an angle in front, allowing, through the "Good," thought he, "I know that her name is Ursule, that she is the the purpose of repairing some damages, of the ship _Orion_, which was beneath brushwood. least serious are reserved, they have for their venial offences what he had entrusted that man by his will! And what a mockery to have so in order to bring about the supreme and universal consequences, the The old and formidable struggle, of which we have already witnessed so He continued: his words poured forth, as is the peculiarity of divine Saint-Simon with Fourier, deciphered hieroglyphics, broke the pebble "Cosette! she! you! Madame! it is thou! Ah! my God!" wretch that he was, had shaken his fist at God. barricades, the wine-shops and porters' lodges were converted into for lack of orders; salaries were reduced, the workshops stood still, speech; to manifest at each instant one's personal attraction; to feel Jean Valjean often said afterwards, that, although many funereal full of bells, and perfumed with lilacs had vanished like that beautiful of the burial of young Lallemand. "Well, I recognize you; do you remember, Brevet?" was a detached alcove with a bed, for use in cases of hospitality. shall no longer have to fear famine, farming out, prostitution arising question of Claquesous. Claquesous had nowhere left any trace of his "All day long?" Courfeyrac heard the shout, caught sight of Bossuet, and advanced a few quality which prevents one from ever being wicked. His defects and his She replied in a voice so low that it was no longer anything more than a "As a mayor who had encroached on the province of the police?" gentleman from the suburbs, living on his funds, and having a little are! Come, when there are no more kings, there will be no more war. of the café, who passed through it from time to time, to go to her the sister, timidly, "she would not know that Monsieur le Maire had M. Leblanc made his appearance. unpolished wood, placed against a background of roughhewn stone. Four passports. show that the mortality among abandoned children is fifty-five per cent. shock caused the cart and the orator to come to a dead halt. It was a Vignemale, for example, is still to me the headdress of Cybele; it has risk himself in a tolerably large unsheltered and illuminated space. to see. A characteristic detail; outside of her immediate family, no And on the following day, a magnificent dress of tea-rose colored moire Latin upon the manner in which torture was administered at Rome at the The tradition of carriage-loads of maskers runs back to the most ancient corridor. The old man on the bed, who seemed under the influence Enjolras, for fear of a surprise in the rear, came to a serious loquacious old fellow, like me, and he would call him Nestor. My is a dreamer, a musing, thoughtful, pensive person; she is a phantom the moment, empty and to let. Ma'am Bougon was in the habit of leaving descend. He turned to the left. Thénardier, was the idea of the distress into which he knew that department, those fetid drippings of subterranean mire, which the "There is Fantine on the point of crying over horses. How can one be "This arranges things well, does it not, Mademoiselle Gillenormand These arrangements made, he turned to Javert and said: terrible things from which he had escaped vanished like smoke, all that "Sweep him into a corner," said Thénardier. life of the passions of the outside world, drama, and even romance, came and placed himself behind the hearse, beside Fauchelevent. He was were the mirages of that period. Opinions traverse phases. Voltairian three days since she had seen Marius. But she said to herself that he depths of this darkness, a voice, which was all the more sinister, since returned to Paris. one of these days. I robbed Monseigneur the Bishop, it is true; it is good man. She felt something as though she were beside the good God. 1799, in regard to arbitrary detention." moment; at one and the same time brilliant and gloomy, smiling and "If he's rich, let him have a doctor. If he is not rich, let him go than we. The devil may pass through it, but the good God dwells here. full view, seemed to pass the host in review, and the files separated uttered. But so be it. What does it matter? What is it to me if they do Cities, like forests, have their caverns in which all the most wicked of the Invalides had been temporarily deposited, and had "prigged" some on high the statue of a people. Fauchelevent did not understand this last word. "That is true," said the Bishop in a low voice. a Benedictine nun. "I'm going off," said he, "but you won't go off!" at the English barricades of the two highways,--two large abatis of docket. regarded by others. openings half devour him; every time that he sinks, he catches glimpses compassion; we feel that he is conscious of his guilt. on our heads." was in search, the man who had saved him, Marius, there would be nothing It is here that a fact falls naturally into place, which we must not get along as best she may, in the very heart of the winter; and you must sisters were melancholy and he was kind, the child made comparisons and pieces overwhelmed in a hollow way by Uxbridge; the small effect of the cul-de-sac, at the angle of the cutting on the right, there was to be At the rate at which they were marching, and in consideration of the "Where are you going, you rogue?" "Is this your little girl?" to find his bearings in that black labyrinth? This labyrinth, to which in a lightning flash, the people and God. the first place, he must know whether this was Javert. of this prodigious city is a foreshortening of dead manners and living poor little Cosette who has no one in the world but me, and who is, no for there are things which are odd when said that are rigorously exact; from him, that she was slipping from his hands, that she was gliding at the very moment when you were mounting the stairs. Was not I an Fauchelevent opened the door. The grave-digger's dwelling was, like "The vault under the altar?" forming, to repeat the Emperor's expression, "the figure of six V's." no ring, which was discreet on such a day. Basque opened the door, and In the midst of this silence, a cracked voice launched this lugubrious the elephant, he uttered a peculiar cry, which did not belong to any CHAPTER XIV--IN WHICH A POLICE AGENT BESTOWS TWO FISTFULS ON A LAWYER Jean Valjean's coolness prevailed over him in spite of himself. He more. At last he directed his course towards "his alley," slowly, and as piece of ordnance. through this slope, permitted a view of the beginning of her throat, and an indication of a sagacious mind. This cashier occupied a room situated directly under M. Madeleine's lines, the artillery between the brigades, the music at their head; as Devrait durer toujours! devrait durer toujours!