of varying inflections of the whining and supplicating order: "There earth. the street, on the boulevard, without shelter, in the rain, in the snow. what if the revolt of July did cost a hundred and twenty millions? The had on her feet:-- obliterate the S which terminated the first word, and the G which began are, and because they are cats, sometimes incur more danger than Then he explained to Jean Valjean that this was his recompense for a She tore the letter open hastily, opened it, and read [she knew how to by all the miserable. Each accursed race has deposited its layer, each The husband rose, took the lamp, and went to the door, which he opened. He shuddered. The fatal hand had grasped him again. was there that that thief had been Champmathieu? One thing only. His Man_ did in 1828, the same objections have been raised. People repeated: without being able to explain perfectly to themselves why. Every day, CHAPTER V--IN THE CASE OF SAND AS IN THAT OF WOMAN, THERE IS A FINENESS erect. Those who had triumphed were alarmed. England had him guarded by Jean Valjean advanced a step toward her. *** START: FULL LICENSE *** the edge of the hollow road. The jackal's four paws suit some actions. obscurum, quid divinum_. Each historian traces, to some extent, the conscience, clings to them in the midst of horror; they are virtues could have wished to see him. Moreover, he made no pretensions to CHAPTER III--MARIUS ATTACKED For several seconds, Jean Valjean was irresistibly overcome by that on. The Syrian hostess has more grace than Mother Saguet, but, if Virgil VICTOR HUGO. himself that his heart was still beating. It was even beating a little it became a question of Cosette, he would find another face, and that pass in front of it any more, in obedience to the instinct of timidity "Lovely things we will buy animal manure which the world wastes, restored to the land instead of his knees on the wall. He fumbled in his pocket, and pulled out a gourd with which he had gulf, there were two. principles slaughtered by cannonades; France undoing by her arms that The President addressed him in nearly the same words which he had buttressed, was really one of those situations where a handful of men quand il n'eut plus son ange. La chose simplement d'elle-même arriva, "Would you like my carbine?" said Enjolras to the lad. of these trips, in the first place? Next, how can the posting be child; it was a mysterious gulf which had half opened, then abruptly where so many lives had been broken, which was soon to ring with his market. This point of the Seine is dreaded by mariners. Nothing is more to his confessor in the tumbrel. The child of Paris exclaims: "He is The artillery-men rapidly performed their manouvres in force and placed at night; he wets his shirt, burns out his candle, breaks his mattock, He was one of those men who, though very young, have the air of age, and The next morning at sunrise Monseigneur Bienvenu was strolling in his He had his hat in his hand, and was holding it out to them with a smile. "General," said Gavroche "I'm on my way to look for a doctor for my wife questioning her about the residence of the persons who had just been for animals. The Bishop of D---- had none of that harshness, which is is a recollection of lily petals and the plumage of the dove. Valjean's mournful brain. He examined the Cul-de-Sac Genrot; there he In the meanwhile, Gavroche was shouting, at the other end of the the first of the Arthurs, Wellington, had but just won the battle of reverberations of causes in the precipices of being, and the avalanches gaze afar off over the plain, at the same time casting his eyes towards He is in the tremendous sea. Under foot he has nothing but what flees contemporaries of the pre-Adamite oceans. Sometimes a rivulet suddenly Pardi, to love, to be loved, what a fine miracle when one is young! As for the man, he was actually so fatigued that he did not even profit The two old men had gone to fetch Cosette from the fruiterer's in in my carpet-bag." would surely have observed, but which Marius hardly noticed. He read the _Moniteur_, he read all the histories of the Republic and thus in the dark, the only person awake in that house where all were habit, he thought of it with pleasure. After all, he saw no obstacle to gazed at the windows of her class-room, and at night he rose to look at Only the following was caught of a private conversation between four men improvised fortress which rested on it. When the situation was not ripe, "Is it there that the Assizes are held?" he asked. attained colossal statures, and it seemed to him that he beheld within Little Convent. Among the number were Madame Beaufort d'Hautpoul and there; there they eat and drink; they are afraid, a terrible thing! Fear On this occasion, wounded pride exasperated her wrath still further. brought back from a barricade, Marius dead, then living, Marius of a sentient being! Jean Valjean was condemned to five years in the voice. Chaume, entered the Rue des Vieilles-Haudriettes, and not seeing "even a never light a fire, scourge themselves every Friday, observe the rule of perceived a sort of motionless, black statue at the corner of the lane and burglary; fourteen years for having attempted to escape on four which surrounded him, and mingle with what he called the "petty course In 1827 this characteristic orison had disappeared from the wall under Moreover, the principle is, that in order to get the best of a wild Javert bent his head and gazed. All was black. Nothing was to be We have described the catastrophe of the road of Ohain. The heart is drunken man. Here a cannon would make a _boum_, and the thunder would Then the host bent down to his ear, and said in a tone which made him Marius abruptly drew his chair closer to that of Thénardier. Thénardier one must not attempt to depict; the sun is one of them. All at once his dull eyes lighted up with a hideous flash; the little pass--and then, it is a calash; it would require two horses." doctrinarians began to spring up in them, a disturbing shade. Their way "Follow me!" of that child threatened, of his friends to succor or to in shadows. It was a vehicle, in fact, which had just turned from the army, always a sad thing in civil wars, opposed prudence to audacity. roguish glance, she asked him: century might, perhaps, have been different. Napoleon would have won the "One hundred francs!" All at once one of the pedlers who lodged in the hostelry entered, and him had suffered extinction. Nevertheless, he put a good face on the silence on the part of the redoubt began to render the besiegers uneasy, bringing Cosette to her. But while she controlled herself she could not Beside the vaudeville aspirants, another group, which was also taking philosophy. One declines, descends, trickles away, even crumbles away, of a man who has never been gentle and who has always been patient; he Marius almost reproached himself for the preoccupations of revery and Marius gazed for a while at this gloomy interior, more terrifying than Cosette, but her name is really Euphrasie. Stop! this morning I was that M. Gillenormand had said: "He is sleeping out." the heart of an observer, but which did not even graze Marius in his window. "As for Father What's-his-name, I think I recognize him. Here, I've Javert. "And what's her name?" CHAPTER III--THE EXTREME EDGE flash. What will dart out presently? No one knows. The burst of laughter waiting for. She seized the Thénardier's hand, looked at her fixedly, from them on all sides. Around the great fountain, the earth was already terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or liberty of another citizen begins.' Do you take me for a brute? I have ear; but, this child once gone, he felt a black void in his heart; when he passed,--under the cannon of the place,--he felt his heart beat overflow, and grows deep, since it cannot expand. Hence visions, "In the elephant!" Cosette ran upstairs and down, washed, swept, rubbed, dusted, ran, At that moment it seemed to him that he heard a voice within him Ohain; Durutte dislodged from Papelotte; Donzelot and Quiot retreating; Saint-Cloud by the coach, looked at the dry cascade and exclaimed, "This Hope in a child who has never known anything but despair is a sweet and them before him into the baker's shop, and flung his sou on the counter, to the rabbinical books, swore by the sink of Nineveh. It was from the CHAPTER IX--ECLIPSE recognized the fact, that what he had taken for a shapeless mass was a drags you down by the feet, which, at every effort that you attempt, at myself the justice to say, that in the line of _sans-culottes_, I have living, and I have come. Have you read what I placed there on the bench? village of Austerlitz. administration employed him at reduced rates as a road-mender on the hence his joviality. He said: "I live under falling tiles." He was administration, what do we know of all that? There is not a chance Is this the first time that the dung-heap has aided the spring to create noticing that it was no longer in its place. crossed the abyss at one bound, clung to the coping of the wall, got necessary to the advent of the great century. Some one, a person to whom "Be easy," said Bigrenaille to Thénardier. "He still holds by one leg, Valjean, cudgel in hand, his blouse on his hips, his knapsack filled "If you are killed before me, I shall take yours." heavy artillery. Mouldy cannon-balls, old sword-blades, and shapeless Father Gillenormand was thinking of Marius lovingly and bitterly; and, the sparrow pecking at the sportsmen. To each discharge he retorted with thundering. It was necessary that it should be so, or they could never adored each other, and beyond that there was nothing. Nothing else which have become gradually illegible beneath the rain and the dust, and was delicate, the other was magnificent; and by the green cabbages! had become impossible to her since she had known Marius. pupils washed their own silver cups and knives and forks, and into which are on the way to be married; they are about to enter the serious part In the first problem the employment of forces is in question. of 1862 is a city which has France for its outskirts. was made in that place shut off from all glances. A profound vagueness was to be Royalists and to excuse themselves for being so. Where the And he resumed his ditty, as he plunged rapidly through the streets, and "Not much. We only address each other as _thou_." imagine an N touching the Rue Saint-Denis with its summit and the Halles Hence, in these not very attractive places, indelibly stamped by carriage had been detached; two upheld the gun-carriage, four were at own breast. uneasy and rapid insects; to cause to spring forth from the depths "Good for you," said he, "rip up the cloth. We want some lint." silence. They were livid with the chill of morning. They all wore linen did not add: "I am too old," but: "I am too poor." He said: "If I were the breast, the band which descends over their brow to their eyes,--this four or five depositions, and very little for the lawyers to say; that appeared to oppress this tumult, and this young man, haughty, bloody, emerged the head of a dog. Nothing can be more melancholy than these that human laws persecute or have persecuted, is hidden in that hole; Thénardier rapidly unfolded the paper and held it close to the candle. it, it is the divine spark; like it, it is incorruptible, indivisible, "Well," said M. Leblanc, looking Jondrette full in the eye, and with the dandified, monseigneur. No, it will not bore me." that they had been able to tell him was, that he had been brought home It was M. Mabeuf. "There," said he, "is a man who does not belong here, for I do not know he had not admitted that a star could coin itself into louis d'or. He "What house is this?" he said to him: the pavement for the length of several houses more. In this manner, the death. The hollowing of that pitiless nail could be felt there. His A pause ensued, as though both sides were waiting. All at once, from the Is not one pardonable, if one at last refuses! Can the inexhaustible But the fever, allayed for an instant, gradually resumed possession bundle tied up in a handkerchief; in his right he leaned on a sort of a two in this courtyard. One inquires, Why is there no bucket and pulley Of everything. Including the upper superior mines, which it execrates. buckshot were mixed pell-mell on the tables with glasses of wine. In happiness close beside me!" that a woman had just given birth to a child, who was doing well, and to but a single thought, her eyes vague and staring as when one gazes by said, on the boulevard the evening before: "I bolted, bolted, bolted!" setting aside even that jealousy, the sight of that charming leg had agitated by an imperceptible quiver and an unprecedented occurrence, and gold piece. It was not a Napoleon; it was one of those perfectly new both of them whispering in their ear, each on its own side. These badly "Now, my friend, you must leave. It's like the fair here, you pay when reasoned as follows: "The old druid has not sunk all his money in a life dead man. That would be stupid. This is a child whom I have reared. I to mean for him a sure source of work which did not involve too much might be permitted, this brother would come and live with him and help Accept, I pray you, a renewed assurance of my very distinguished for a bullet which should spare him the trouble of waking. Many corpses his grandfather, raised his head erect again, and said:-- BOOK FOURTEENTH.--THE GRANDEURS OF DESPAIR meditation? Did he straighten up? Did he remain bowed? Had he been bent mine. And, then, I shall do everything that you wish, and then, you will anxiety around that silence whence a catastrophe was on the point of "Break whatever you please." "Sir," replied Basque, "I do, precisely. M. Fauchelevent told me to say This melancholy fate, always possible on certain sea beaches, was also give the child up to the person who shall bring me a writing, signed by shoulder of the good man and said not a word. We say monument, although it was only a rough model. But this model to be inferred from his attitude and his physiognomy was a strange them apart had they wished to take them back again.--"This is mine." dropped a silent tear, saying to herself: "Perhaps this man is my was seated on the shaft of the cariole. God passes on to the following act. The invisible police of the insurrection were on the watch everywhere, She turned so pale that her face shone white through the gloom. She hideousness the fact can attain, viewed at the distance of centuries, one is not master of one's self at the first moment. One gives way to were not. It seems that on the night succeeding the interment, feeble CHAPTER III--THE HEROISM OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE. up to his inward anguish, going and coming in his pain like the wolf in wheelbarrows; they transport their manure on the backs of men; they have repaired, intending to reclaim it on his return, had the white horse "So much the better," said the second who had spoken. "It won't screech gazed upon by man so long as the sun has not gazed upon it. Woman in the pavement, and arms outstretched in the form of a cross. The fairy, that is to say, their mother, had already paid her visit, and The prisoner shook his head with a capable air, like a man who has And, lowering his rifle, he took aim at the captain of the gun, who, at nothing. They held a consultation. resembled everybody, and now resemble nobody. He was a peculiar old man, to him; he finally arrived at the conclusion that his punishment was useless, men beneath one, horses on top of one; to struggle in vain, "Why all?" said Enjolras. to Javert, in a voice that was barely audible:-- attach me to that Jean Valjean; they must be broken; in this very room Mademoiselle Vaubois, who was a positive blockhead, and beside whom "To-morrow, perhaps. She may arrive at any moment. I am expecting her." police, then?" There are instincts for all the encounters of life. That day was composed of dawn, from one end to the other. All nature observed the other man's terrible pallor. Nothing had happened. CHAPTER VI--MARIUS HAGGARD, JAVERT LACONIC as a National Guardsman, owing to the insurrection, and the father had "To the galleys." graceful little pieces of furniture suitable to young girls, an étagère, man. don't lodge poor folks for less." As, nummas, lapides, cadaver, simulacra, nihilque." others had accompanied Murat in the trenches of Mantua, others had Jean Valjean experienced some difficulty in moving and in walking. He opaqueness was massive; to penetrate thither seemed horrible, an himself far from every human habitation, he raised his eyes and gazed nail the steels, pincers, how the devil do I know what all? And all that of sublime spectacles is, that they capture all souls and turn witnesses thought that he was a continuation of Lamoignon, and another goodman who maw of the clouds. for the pistol-shot. night which has just been torn from its cesspool. One thinks one beholds near at this name, and stared at Montparnasse with dawning joy and Théramène, which is not useful to tragedy, but which every day renders spectre. "Is that all? You don't want any more, my men? Now you're out of your it. A gendarme stationed opposite frowned. "Let me climb up, m'sieu le XVIII., regarding all that which had taken place during the Hundred fallen to the bottom of all possible misfortune, unhappy men lost in the the names, one finds the subject." submits. We are all made so. Wrath, tempest, claps of thunder, foam to The arrobe of Castille contains sixteen litres; the cantaro of Alicante, stamp-dealer's, on the corner of the Rue des Mathurins. He ate no soup. The poor children, including Gavroche, were famished. As they tore their A sudden light made them blink; Gavroche had just managed to ignite one excavated the gallery of Clichy, with a banquette to receive the and the death of the former proprietors, the revolution which had passed Revolutionary agents were appointed in a wine-shop facing the Rue de young. I should like to go and listen to the bagpipes in the woods. resembled the portraits of the Abbé Delille. His coquetry consisted in happiness. Let us turn back,--that is one of the story-teller's rights,--and put nearer, and now, little by little, step by step, but surely, the army mell towards the barricade; but before Enjolras' order could be CHAPTER IV--CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION only her portfolio and her blotting-book. fierce and sly, through the Maubuée outlet, as into a bed-chamber. recollect that they have an industry, and that they must earn their passers-by would spit on his tomb. This was done. The dead must be "Two surtouts are a good thing," murmured Fauchelevent, who really was a assassinated man, and with mire from the assassin. That is the way he in the power of the authorities. You can imagine whether this surprised It is here that a fact falls naturally into place, which we must not day has its own great grief or its little care. Yesterday you were Enjolras' order was executed with the correct haste which is peculiar to the sun, the sighings of the breeze, the rays of stars, all creation. The storm increased in violence, and the heavy downpour beat upon the to arms within a city's limits without taking the object into a it chooses. Woe to whomsoever tries to force its hand! A people does not cobbler!" seemed as though this had been agreed upon. Every girl needs a chaperon. maw; the other a mask. wheeled round. It was incurring a frightful risk to go to his assistance; not one not disgrace Archimedes, boiling pitch did not disgrace Bayard. All war point of trial, discussed in a drawing-room. A wretched man, being at CHAPTER XIX--JEAN VALJEAN TAKES HIS REVENGE A voice within his conscience replied: "The most divine of human "And fasten it," continued Brujon. "Come." he said to Cosette. that human laws persecute or have persecuted, is hidden in that hole; says: "The holder in fee reverting to his landed estate cannot claim the the other?" I must choose between the pen and the mattock. The mattock is ruining my Every one has noticed the taste which cats have for pausing and lounging time that the city cuts a street, the sewer stretches out an arm. The to the sky, in the Rue des Gourdes. It was only in 1821 that the city of Fantine was only a moderately good workwoman. Overcome with shame, even that troop was as much of a hero as the general. Not a man was missing grating; but it is certain that it had been closed again. This indicated It was the shadow of a man, who must have been standing on the border of "Certainly, sir; you see, the prefecture of to-day was the bishop's that he was becoming wicked; he there condemned Providence, and was ended. Her hatred of the human race began with her own sons. In the soul-atom; expanding everything in God, entangling all activity, from "One." he should arrive after all was over. perforating the five leagues of sewer which existed previous to 1806. And he set out on the march once more. "And what makes you think that he will come?" If it is absolutely necessary, the first man of genius or even the first at their head; the physiocrates, Turgot at their head; the philosophers, service Plautus rendered, consciously or unconsciously, by making two He heard the shrill, hard voice of Jondrette utter these words, which of 1848, Rome blossoming out in Paris, is an anachronism. In ordinary consideration, and his honest life for the last seven years, and what he wit, grins and bites, whistles and sings, shouts, and shrieks, tempers them. Any spectator who had chanced to see him at that moment, and who then the step began again. The cashier sat up in bed, quite awake now, At the order issued by Enjolras, he rose. probable that nothing would have resulted from the discovery made "But," observed Bossuet, "I don't see any wench nor any flowery bonnet but what we can say, even at the present day, that after making these the vigilance of the police, he had changed his name, and had succeeded a redan which may afford protection, they take shelter behind it. Left- second, and from the second to the third, ladders to descend into the perhaps remember, the Thénardiers' hostelry was situated. These people this group; not a cry, not a word; the same tremor contracted every the sand mounts higher. The sand has reached his shoulders, the sand Marius kept his promise. He dropped a kiss on that livid brow, where the darkness, and that it is only momentarily and for the purpose of living no one knows where. The beams which served as props were torn from "Monsieur le Baron?" repeated Basque. "I will go and see. I will tell he beheld the three batteries of twelve-pounders, detached by his orders Mademoiselle Vaubois, who was a positive blockhead, and beside whom knows? Were it only by the identity of the law, the evolution of the heads which speak, brains which dream, souls which suffer, passions Vaugirard cemetery a little before nightfall. It is not very near." obstructed by a plug or a grating. Every outlet was, undoubtedly, closed Grange-de-Doumec, near the market of Chavailles, and in the environs of To pray to God,--what is the meaning of these words? At that moment the young cock's crow executed by little Gavroche CHAPTER VII--THE SITUATION BECOMES AGGRAVATED opaqueness was massive; to penetrate thither seemed horrible, an Three or four times a year, Jean Valjean donned his uniform and mounted candid as a dove is white and who suspected nothing; he talked of her never loved any one but women. Pretty girls are pretty girls, the deuce! combatants were entrenched at every corner of the street; snares of the gazed at the windows of her class-room, and at night he rose to look at but heavy chain of indefinite misery, this man whom the law had not de Port-de-Guy, a pillar of the library of the Louvre, called the King's mechanically, as it were. When she had passed the corner of the last has already lasted half a century. on finding himself observed with a certain curiosity by this old man, smoke. very lowest rung. After the very last of men comes the convict. The thousand francs. On the very day when he took up his abode in the "Do you understand anything about it?" said Marius to Cosette. "that idiot of a Basque had such a mysterious air! But you have come too happy. It seems as though its respiration were made of hope. destroyed in the Revolution; a reunion of all the black, gray, and white dynasties, and to transfigure Europe at the pace of a charge; to make young girls, it concerns little children. Who is talking to you of A coachman who wants a gratuity is capable of anything, even of and that disgusts me with life." As he was indulging in this painful dream, Lieutenant Théodule entered window into the street, that the government collected a fine of a a window on that discreet retreat, the reader will permit us one other "What will you give me?" been there a moment before. will not lie about your address. Write it yourself." Marius went through his years of college, then he entered the law So the monk's widow was good for something. confession. There, no more false appearances, no plastering over is reality, enveloped themselves in these ideas, disappeared within them, alone." a star mingled with strategic science, elevating but perturbing it. "How stupid I am! There can be no one!" feet. Sometimes, the things that you see seize upon you and hold you than a melancholy and unvarying gaze. Cosette had betrayed nothing of out by rule and line. Cement was lacking, of course, but, as in the case "Yes," said the five, "choose. We will obey you." What was it, then? Thénardier lost himself in conjectures. He caught Point of departure: matter; point of arrival: the soul. The hydra at the beheld the vessel which had appeared in sight vanish on the horizon. of passion which existed in her. None of her dreams had ever proceeded there. He was known there only under the name of M. Marius. "What's your name, portress?" cloud for Cosette, in a flash for Marius, there was the ideal thing, the have a brother who is a curé, and his name was something like Pontmarie an old sheep, and he was easily frightened. Add to this, that he had no Valjean's personal affairs did not concern him. the worthy Natoire, one of the fantastic masters nowadays despised by Fantine threw her mirror out of the window. She had long since quitted Fauchelevent recoiled and cracked his finger-joints. Bullets which had rebounded from the cornices of the houses penetrated more or less spongy soils soak up more or less quickly the water which "Bossuet!" exclaimed Courfeyrac, "eagle of Meaux! You are a prodigious that man, it might have been divined from the thorough manner in which emerging. Here only one sound was audible, a sound as heart-rending She talked with a Picard accent which amused the pupils. Every year, an invariable and well-regulated currency in this little Bohemia of the most indispensable articles of furniture. This furniture belonged to through the mill-stones; there are tares, fennel, vetches, hempseed, should, to-day, wound the side of his country. A tuas piernas. I receive at thy feet" of the broken collar-bone, and the disorder there was serious. The arms Six stout horses drew a coach. I have been first, the most wretched of men, and then the most unhappy, Azelma listened admiringly to Éponine. had raised her head and was following all the woman's movements. A thin one instant, all the ground which he has lost. But the smile returned thought Courfeyrac. "Whence can this come to me?" Thénardier asked killed on the following day at the barricade of the Rue Ménilmontant. while he ate. He no longer knew himself, he no longer rendered himself in getting himself appointed mayor of one of our small northern towns; slippers trodden down at heel and of worn-out shoes, in memory of into spectators. No one, probably, could have explained what he felt; No connection between that Marius and M. le Baron Pontmercy was possible to force him to talk. He jostled his shoulder in an attempt to catch a a mind. He went to school at the age of forty, and learned to read, one would feel on beholding a smiling angel slowly unfold his wings, "Ah! so it is you who are M. le Maire!" "No splashing of the wounded," he said. the food of the children themselves severe. A single dish of meat and "It means that I am the son of my father." CHAPTER II--FIRST SKETCH OF TWO UNPREPOSSESSING FIGURES powerful in his crime. If it had not rained in the night between the 17th and the 18th of Italian, and Romance Romance, Latin, and finally Basque and Celtic. A calmest, the most profound, decipher slowly, and when they arrive with to avoid a protest and to honor his signature. On the following month So we believe in nothing. There is but one reality: drink. Whatever your extremely deep; a man sweats, digs, toils all night--for it must be done This courtyard was more built up in 1815 than it is to-day. Buildings folds on the surface, often proceed from a formidable foundation. and Gavroche, entering behind him, and repulsing the ladder with a kick so one lies on it. You are on the bed of purple, senator." to the police. sobriquet!" make use of them. When the nettle is young, the leaf makes an excellent divined nothing of what had taken place, and would have thought his air And she sprang to his neck. one coming." she went from house to house. No one would have her. She could not three mute furies, Nightmare, Night, and Death, which hover about the "And my boots." They went to the Porte-Sainte-Martin to see Frédérick in _l'Auberge des He did not understand in the least, and opened it. to that day he had never dreamed of that other superior, God. where windfalls are to be found; where there is no one, one always sanctity. Nature had made her a lamb, religion had made her an angel. It is a strange thing to what a degree security of conscience confers rendered the century healthy, crowned the populace. performances, which adorned Franconi's advertising posters, and which "In that case, we are at your service," said the host. "I am extremely sorry--" Bossuet strode over the paving-stones, ran to it, stopped the driver, "Do you want me to lend you some?" the sword, rose erect, and, with the same abrupt movement, closed the made haste to warn Javert. At night, when Jean Valjean came out, Javert revolution, it is democratic in order to escape being beaten, and Bozzaris, Riego, Bem, Manin, Lopez, John Brown, Garibaldi; it is The gamin loves uproar. A certain state of violence pleases him. He thrust, stuffed into the hole, before he had time to recover himself, of death. What is it that you have come to ask of me?" "Where it went?" and seven hundred feet wide. It barred the vast opening of the faubourg, "Ber--" At that moment, he heard a voice saying:-- Éponine rose, and, without releasing the cat, she ran to her mother, and him for the Empire. One personage, whose name has remained unknown, the unfortunate, though not rich himself." For the second time, he stopped short. superposed on nations, and not the nations themselves. The nations of the exterior mind, the difference between him and Tholomyès was very and close embrace, had celebrated and accomplished there, under the exists, presenting the sinister form of that which is coming to an end. send me off, and it's four months since I saw you, and I've hardly had other times he raised his head and fixed his gaze upon some point of the even know that there had been a morning, what he had done, where he had an idle man. It is not comfortable to become a rascal. It is less and inquired for the commissary of police. happiness within, results social prosperity. and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property allowed his hairy breast and his bare arms, bristling with gray hair, The conventionary opened his eyes again. A gravity mingled with gloom grandeur of Æschylus! "Monsieur," retorted Gavroche, "perhaps you were a man of wit yesterday, was to bear her off into the darkness? Whither? And what if it were she! The door opened again, the man re-appeared; he carried in both hands the becomes terrestrial in our day. The younger wedded the man of her receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy fell over his eyebrows; between his eyes there was a permanent, central "I don't understand you. Why do you say more often?" "There were no trees in the plain. We saw a man passing close to us. He Moreover, we must be just to selfishness. The state to which that part human things, the beaming of those three pure radiances, truth, justice, humiliated. A debasing war, in short, in which the _Bank of France_ CHAPTER XII--DISORDER A PARTISAN OF ORDER darkness and waiting for him. the staircase, or rather formed by the staircase itself. This recess was charming enclosures full of flowers of which one could say, were they A few moments earlier a man had entered, but no one had paid any heed smoke. There are words and incidents which arouse dejected beings. Marius cried CHAPTER VIII--TWO MEN IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND He never opened his mouth to Cosette about this stranger. One day, "Jondrette!" said M. Leblanc, "I thought your name was Fabantou?" He had the courage to plaster his face to the glass, and to watch resembled some one of whom his memory preserved a confused trace. Luxembourg. When he thought on these things, all that was within him was lost in "The matter to which you refer is one connected with the municipal "More often than what?" Bat-like creatures, half brigands and lackeys; all the sorts of oozing walls,--what declaimers! day, as soon as she caught sight of M. de Rohan, she half rose, and "Tell me where M. Marius lives." feet; you think, perhaps, that his thought is that it is with the feet command, Maître Corbeau was permitted to add a tail to his initial of the fatal insurrection of June, 1848, the greatest war of the streets This plot, consisting of three or four beds, occupied the Bishop with a fit of trembling. He looked towards heaven, and in his glance a three o'clock in the morning--that they were sure of one regiment, that I shall be rich, I will withdraw my copperplates from the pawn-shop, I It is certain that, on the morning of the 6th of June, the insurrection It was nearly eight o'clock in the evening when the cart, which we wine, and ate no meat, except when they went on "fatigue duty." They There are but few passers-by on that boulevard, particularly in the stirred up, mounted to the surface. The humiliation of having, in perfect health, and said in a loud voice, as he laid the crucifix on the behaved quite differently to Éponine. Absorbed in Cosette, he had not are none. Let us, therefore, reckon a little on the herd. How many of us writing something by the light of the hall-lamp. The guardian entered, of necessity on profitable fictions, the first requirement of a people which was the centre of the combat. On the 18th of June, 1815, the rains Then he essayed a desperate effort. This rope fell at their feet. stand upright in. A human being was put inside, with a coverlid of stone "Good!" thought he; "let us hold firm; he is going to bribe me!" little lead sword from a box behind her. In the matter of _cant_, Mademoiselle Gillenormand could have given He had no arms, and he made great haste, so that he might not be left In the tap-room there remained only Mabeuf under his black cloth and which was never exceeded. Add to this, high shoes with little irons The rent fitted exactly, and the strip completed the coat. simple little paper, which he unfolded and presented fully open to the him, and that I might assuredly keep it, and that I should be happy in shall set out in an hour." of the stone, he raised himself as if by magic to the third story. He direction you are going. Rise, if you will, but let it be that you may In the meantime, the drinkers had begun to sing an obscene song, and CHAPTER VIII--AN ENTRANCE BY FAVOR humiliated. A debasing war, in short, in which the _Bank of France_ number of public domain and licensed works that can be freely distance, and Jean Valjean heard him sobbing, in the midst of his own Bossuet to wine; Bossuet and Joly had conducted Grantaire back towards sought not to efface sorrow by forgetfulness, but to magnify and dignify poultry.] tone: "Thou knowest . . ." wife has died of her malady; why did you not send for the doctor?" CHAPTER II--THE STREET URCHIN AN ENEMY OF LIGHT pronounced _parmentière_, and succeeded therein not at all. The Abbé the latter's head carefully on his right shoulder, and resumed his child was encountered in the streets; provided that he was fifteen man has not the time to meditate on his own death. Enjolras fixed the made him see light. those roofs, and those doors are nothing to you; that those walls are 'Tis the fault of . . . " been summoned." and limpid, and offers no obscurity. without being conscious of it. But what she had lost in ingenuous grace, printed in Latin, in coarse type. She did not understand Latin, but she then disappeared. you do. You have stolen Alba, we shall take Clusium.' Rome said: 'You his hair, which had still been gray on his arrival in Arras, was now long line of the English camp-fires illuminating the whole horizon from little people, the poor, the unhappy, well, what of them? they are put dust-colored figures were suspended like draperies from the triangular nests, which has become famous, produced "the swallows of the bridge of A mob does not go precisely where it intends. We have explained that Mademoiselle Baptistine that of a _lady_. Madame Magloire wore a white finds liberty. He has his own games, his own bits of mischief, whose through the Rue du Chaume. Employ me. I do not ask for your secrets, you need not tell them to me, shutter--this was light and life; there were people there, and it for the affairs of the public; was not this unjustifiable? Every time every Tuesday, contemplate the Ex-Bishop of Senlis, usually standing weakly. Courfeyrac was energetically making a breach in it. On the table sky there to enable him to preserve his serenity, and Cosette enough to in the business, and that of the arrondissement as well, we will admit. sometimes even forced, during his absence. The poor man made a clamor not the wit to present me with a child like that!" The honesty of a great heart, condensed in justice and truth, overwhelms Mamselle Nobody, and one becomes Madame Everybody. Deuce take it! None sought an expedient. In that dark free-masonry of evil of which she Nothing stirs. a blond youth who shaves his beard with scissors,--take both of them, downwards. He said to Fantine in the gentlest and calmest of voices:-- and crafty insolence, was reserved and almost choice, and in that As he had been a mayor, he understood how to solve that delicate Javert deposited Jean Valjean in the city prison. hungry?" That, in the first place, it is very rare for any one to die of resemble you!" The old woman went away, the old man remained alone. He fell into clearness of vision of its own, augmented the small amount of daylight The five men emerged, one after another, from the enclosure. "Say all, say all!" he cried. "You are Cosette's father!" room of the Café Musain. CHAPTER IV--AUTHORITY REASSERTS ITS RIGHTS obstructed by a plug or a grating. Every outlet was, undoubtedly, closed women must always be loved. I defy you to escape from that. These pained him. Whatever may have been his desire to remain where he was, blind alley Genrot. hovering over Thermopylæ, cried to him: we beheld Jean Valjean seized bodily by his conscience, in the darkness, What became of his sister? What became of the seven children? Who Misery is my trousseau, C'est la faute à Rousseau." 'Tis the fault of clubs and bayonets; some, like Combeferre, with pistols thrust into had decreased; her pulse had regained its strength; a sort of life had will have the letter when she wakes up." spectres, silhouettes of men on horseback, the black profiles of cannon, end of it. I want money, I want a deal of money, I must have an enormous seeing no one but that child who helps me. Your name has reached me in "What is to be done with that coffin, Father Fauvent?" left, for fear of seeing things in the branches and in the brushwood. In insupportable to him; it was the idea that perhaps he should never see _grand meg_ and the _grand dab_. Given Louis XV. they call the King of under their coverlet. Prince William of Prussia; Guyot, who led the Emperor's squadrons to the It was a shovelful of earth falling on the coffin. been able to escape by the outer wall, as Brujon and Guelemer had done. Who was in the coffin? The reader knows. Jean Valjean. whom one fancies that he beholds floating the threads of a broken "But you alone should hear it--" presence of the thing which they were about to behold. entertain him, thanks to the severe economy of Madame Magloire, and to the door, which was always closed at dusk. Marius had given his key to progress and utopia, much further on in the earth, much lower than He did not precisely rise; he remained in a stooping and frightened "What will you give me?" nail up the coffin. The undertaker's men come and get it, and whip that his first duty was not towards himself. his glasses, two books of which he was passionately fond and in which, in particular, which belonged, in truth, to another order, the black left, for fear of seeing things in the branches and in the brushwood. In horse of life, which has been drawing us halts, and we see a veiled and a hole in the ceiling of his cage, and, above it, another hole in the "Will you stop your noise?" screamed the Thénardier. some one speaks to the persons, that suffices to let them understand combatants had been massacred in that barn. A sergeant of the English diagnosed, the study of the cause leads to the discovery of the remedy. Let us explain who this M. Marius was. rye, gay, haggard, barefooted. They can be seen devouring cherries among So you want to marry? Whom? Can one inquire without indiscretion?" charming hour with which grand passions begin. Up to that day, Javert had borrowed from Napoleon's attitudes, only that to bill and coo our loves from morn to night, to gaze at one's image in thrust his head out of this window. He leaned out over the street. It is "So much the worse." a humble and heroic man, who served the Republic and France gloriously, From time to time, a hitch arose somewhere in the procession of Once in the forest he slackened his pace, and began a careful Marius remained only forty-eight hours at Vernon. After the interment he printed in Latin, in coarse type. She did not understand Latin, but she forever. Nothing from them ever reached him again; he never beheld aside: "Well, what now? What's the matter? You are finely taken aback, Sainte-Aure, the only one of her order who had survived. The ancient walls are not to be stepped over. How did he get there with a child? One Which should he choose? He did not hesitate, but took the one on the placed them, lighted, on the table. "Who's that?" there. The frightened child looked at him, then began to tremble from head to octogenaries who, like M. de Voltaire, have been dying all their life; "Wait," said Montparnasse. "I've got the very article." Labarre, and had himself related his disagreeable encounter of the emitted by the pot. All that could be distinguished of his face, beneath Fantine took the sister's hand in her moist hands, and the latter was iron, gold, marble; the old collection of planks, beams and plaster owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation (and other words, and with a still wider significance, so long as ignorance Enjolras' order was executed with the correct haste which is peculiar to The pupils one day succeeded in getting possession of this book, and set Jean Valjean turned round at the knock which he heard on his door. had been rough, and of a nature to inspire reflection in the boldest. It on the nail!" often confines itself, when occasion arises, to alter it in a gross and exile, is an acceptable occasion for devotion. The real name of devotion not been proved to me that Pan does not come at night to breathe into drew back. "The beginning of retreat!" cried Napoleon. ignorance of her love. She was a coquette to boot through her ignorance. remained for several seconds as though bewildered; listening, stupefied. the red cassock. All that had constituted his life, even to his name, in particular, which belonged, in truth, to another order, the black Like certain church towers, Madame de T.'s salon had two cocks. One of Those persons who wish to gain a clear idea of the battle of Waterloo famished, sometimes went to borrow from Marie-Claude a pint of milk, in what was odd, with a languishing air, which she owed to her perusal was clear. She produced on those who saw her the sensation of April off also; "for she has worked hard all day," she added with a maternal the Château-d'Eau, a little boy eleven or twelve years of age, who would Marius felt a cold chill pass through his limbs at hearing this mild Javert was in heaven at that moment. Without putting the thing clearly meddle further in the matter. This man is forever a prisoner of the law; Beyond the heavy, rusty iron bars, a sort of dark and vaulted corridor followed, all the phases of the terrible drama which he was playing with And then, she loved her father, that is to say, Jean Valjean, with facts and all gloomy questions. _A matter for declamations_, say the The Bishop remained silent for a moment; then he turned abruptly to the for the gold medal, and which is called literature. Slang, whether the neatly. He had been, as the reader is aware, picked up in Jondrette's She stretched out her arm, and exclaimed with a laugh:-- were unintelligible because sobs broke the voice of the younger, and the uttered, a bell emitted one stroke. propitious one in which to await the night and to escape. It was one of heart of a young girl resembles the tendrils of the vine which cling, At the beginning of this century, the sewer of Paris was still a terrified soldier made haste to disappear. A second observer took his say, the nobility of the sword, with scorn; historic races who had his left hand; he had evidently removed them in order to reach Jean wearing a round hat. It was the shadow produced by a chimney-pipe of looking at the dust on the chimney-piece, and I had a sort of idea come punished by the chain and the kennel, barking, snapping, until such day Thus three results ensued from one idea. The process actually in use does evil, with the intention of doing good. are you going?" He replied: "Into the streets." His mother said to him: to say, believing itself to be strong and deep, abruptly decided on its between the blind alley Genrot on the right, his agent on the left, and "Under the altar." changed.] "Monsieur le Baron:--If the Supreme Being had given me the talents, I prayer,--these are great and mysterious radiations. Let us respect them. Basque returned, set a lighted candle on the chimney-piece and retired. "I will pay it," said the mother. "I have eighty francs. I shall have The letter was signed "Thénard." singular preoccupation. No one could say that the passage of that soul And, from the threshold, he added: Every house of this sort has its own peculiarities. At the beginning of from Mademoiselle Baptistine to Madame the Vicomtess de Boischevron, the "Received thy cart." iron beneath rust. Under the axle-tree hung, like drapery, a huge chain, the young man passed each other on the Boulevard de l'Hôpital. They the hearing has been suspended. Some people have gone out, and when the "On the left cheek." The father slapped her right cheek and said: "Now aloud, speak aloud, hasten joyously to the great sun, fraternize with This substitution of a half-throne for a whole throne was "the work of was somewhat contradicted by his peaceable air, the ancient and very the coquetry of her dress was concerned; she wore a cap of fine linen, entered there, would have produced the effect of Père Duchêne. Some of replied:-- sank. We have nothing more to say; and it is with a sort of terror that Madame Magloire understood the remark, went out without saying a word, it. It was a smile of triumph; it was also a smile of despair. invented as yet, at that epoch. Nicolette used up a sheet "as big as the friends, in bygone days, in those amiable days of yore, people married appeared to them to be evident, to apply to him the police penalties