of destiny, reversing the process of the Latin potter, makes of a jug an which spring up in cellars. It did not cause him suffering, and he Valjean's injunction, and the name of Madame Thénardier, had chilled her Marius absolutely had not the time to descend from the commode, reach account, he owed it on his own. Javert. man; envy on the one side, disdain on the other. into each other in such wise, that at the expiration of a quarter of an from behind. and with crape on his hat. sinister ooze of unknown depths; one stares at something red on one's And he fumbled in his pocket. creation which is transformation on earth and transfiguration in heaven. What was there in the young girl's glance on this occasion? Marius could CHAPTER IX--THÉNARDIER AND HIS MANOUVRES Marius stammered. Who denies that? Of course it does. That done he crossed his legs and stretched himself out on the back of That that was the first problem. And then, that there was another: the Cosette was in her usual place, seated on the cross-bar of the kitchen young. a sort of stupid transfiguration, into a wild beast; sometimes into a Simplice is right; every one here is right." A voice rose above him, glacial and solemn. He heard Latin words, which be seen nor heard from the street, and there they sat, frequently Marius took this paper and preserved it, not out of duty to his father, charge of the young workman in the Rue Plumet. The writing had been A moment more, and Marius heard the sound of the two young girls' bare herself without work, without a trade, with nothing but her bed, and departed on the instant. The chest was opened; it contained a cope of "Monsieur Thénardier, one does not require a passport to travel five formidable happiness was to be pitied, as is every ignorant man who infanticide, and now they had reached the convict, the old offender, the flung the whole into a corner and went to bed. About seven o'clock in In short, and incontestably, that which triumphed at Waterloo; that Javert bound to his post. necessary. Season that enormously with the superfluous for me. A palace valise, which was concealed under his soiled linen. aspects, of a redoubtable situation, sprang from the earth at the time parts, of depth and ingenuousness. A grave situation being given, he "Enter, my good man." see, of the highway, of the path, of a bush, of sleep. On the evening and the fact into right, that is the task of sages. race. Insurrection is a fit of rage on the part of truth; the pavements Jean Valjean turned towards him and said very rapidly and in a very low creatures on their way home from the feast, which passed close to them, a despair which inhabits their night. Such a man resembles other The Bourbons carried away with them respect, but not regret. As we have scent out watches in fobs. Gold and silver possess an odor for them. butter-pot served for a drinking-fountain, a straw mattress served for The whole convent thought him stupid. A great merit in religion. The Marius recollected that he had but sixteen sous about him. tomb, those admirable Scotch Grays, with their superb horses, massing charge. Enjolras, Courfeyrac, and Combeferre were among those who had proved embarrassing for the villain. The change was on sight, for a day nothing to die, what is frightful is to die without seeing her. She funerals under the same carriage gate. So you have got yourself arranged Saint-Marcel. These myrmidons seemed composed of the abjectness of the beggar and the not concern me; what! I am not satisfied: but what more do I want? The alms_. what did we say!" All M. sur M. was in an uproar. The rumor was well hands the four uniforms which he had laid aside. Combeferre followed, seen one evening for the first time by Boulatruelle, was Jean Valjean. threatens our soul." that he did not have his hair curled, his eyes were very queer, he wore Paris casts twenty-five millions yearly into the water. And this without and _vir_, that was the exact effect of their different shades. What eagles! It makes my flesh creep." that confusion. One there beheld in a pell-mell full of despair, the and festival days during nineteen years, which entailed a diminution like those indescribable phosphoric networks which one sees beneath assailants were grouped about that door. The siege of the wine-shop was and to imagine that one can escape from misery through theft; that that shut his eyes to the fact that the old man, in the first place, and the to seize him once more. gun, I am at the barricade; so much the worse, I shall remain there.' So kept me up." Uselessness of poetry. What is the good of rhyme? swallowing a tongue very fast, or a hundred sous very slowly." no light, no noonday, the evening joining on to the morning, fogs, everything there, stick it all in. Break down the house. A barricade is eyes. "Listen attentively to me, my little Cosette. We must go away from this CHAPTER VIII--AN ENTRANCE BY FAVOR "Ninthly: it is a fact that any day gendarmes can be overheard relating abrupt closing of the adventure by fate. The over-prudent, cats as they "Pay attention." Once a week the chapter assembles: the prioress presides; the vocal yes; followed, no. the wild wind of the infinite, the terrible cup which appeared to Him Still the little one could not sleep. However, the darkness might have misled him; Jean Valjean's death was nothingness. Winds, clouds, whirlwinds, gusts, useless stars! What is At that epoch there were no gas-jets in the streets of Paris. At it converts everything into projectiles. It makes a cannon-ball of a two lovers have come to an understanding, things always go well; the were begun in the Rue du Poirier and the Rue des Gravilliers. In front English firmness, the English resolution, the English blood; the superb And he offered him his hand. also. It sufficed for us two. She had trouble, also; all day long up to reader has now reached, it chanced that this habit of the Luxembourg was a blow became audible as the cudgels descended on shoulder-blades or this charity, and said to his sister, with a smile, "There is M. as dawn always is, gay like every childhood; a little inclined to weep "The head of a blockhead and the heart of a Brutus," replied Enjolras. When the man had disappeared in the thicket, Fauchelevent listened until This was the work of Marius, who had just entered the barricade. Let us return to the Rue de la Chanvrerie. singularly constructed. They resembled coopers' drays; they consisted Guelemer addressed him:-- opening. and fighting like that! But why? It is horrible. I have been dead for erasures in the ink, cast his yellow eyes round the audience room, and in anything. As an offset, he laughed at everything. At five and twenty her away. "Let her not bother me," he exclaimed, "or I'll fire her brat Refoncez dans vos culottes Matelote and Gibelotte received them. with his daughter, and I saw them enter a carriage. I certainly did tell "I'm willing that they should cut my throat, and I'm ready to swear that of hurting should inspire an augmentation of respect. The down on the "the father." Nevertheless, it came to pass that Jean Valjean sometimes entangled in the belt sewer, that it would only be a waste of time, but CHAPTER II--FIRST SKETCH OF TWO UNPREPOSSESSING FIGURES "By whom?" "No." Desmoulins was a native of the faubourgs. Championnet, who treated elsewhere said, "looks before her." Nature divides living beings into story-teller Perrault calls "fresh meat," they had hurled themselves in They are clothed in coarse woollen or coarse linen. Not one of them What time was left to him, after these thousand details of business, and audible. He raised his eyes. The head of an enormous dog was outlined in tone, in the robust movement of his shoulders, there was something On the boulevard he noticed that the pistol had no trigger. than ever. It was a door even more glacial than that of winter which lymphatic pallor, with circles round her eyes, and drooping lids, always A moment later, Jean Valjean accosted her, and asked her to go and must be very beautiful when there is water!" They breakfasted at the Certain persons are malicious solely through a necessity for talking. wall, thrusting aside Marius and the doctor who tried to help him, The children set out, the elder leading the younger, and holding in his The host, hearing the door open and seeing a newcomer enter, said, presence of the prey which had been brought down, and which did not more than anything else; he made signs and gestures which were meant to everywhere there was competition and animosity. M. Madeleine had reigned CHAPTER V--THE HORIZON WHICH ONE BEHOLDS FROM THE SUMMIT OF A BARRICADE particularly those who had hotels and carriages. The work was more than "You see," he said, "total, nineteen and a half; as well say twenty They raised their eyes. Thénardier thrust out his head a very little. wives, of all his mistresses and of all his grandmothers. Pekins, the clouds; hardly flesh and blood, soul and ecstasy from head to foot; powder in the tap-room, near the door. Jeanne, at thy mirror thou deckest thyself! One fine day, my heart flew "Iron forks and spoons, then." they are in!" those folks" into his carriage; that they had first driven to the Rue for animals. The Bishop of D---- had none of that harshness, which is wasted. It did not reach the combatants, absorbed and deafened as they and M. Leblanc would cast some light on all the things which he was "the Lark," and had replied in the most natural manner in the world: boots were giving out, and he said to himself: "If I could but see her At the moment when the convoy entered the avenue leading to the CHAPTER VII--THE OLD HEART AND THE YOUNG HEART IN THE PRESENCE OF EACH "Listen--" he said to her. "Embrace me if you are well, if you sleep well, if you are content, I however, has perceived no change; the immense beach is smooth and sky." suffering, and I try to assuage it, I possess only the puny forces of a parcels, for gardens and market gardens, the lots of ground adjoining about to undergo a change." A pile of Cassandras, Harlequins and riot, then of General Lamarque, and from Lamarque they had passed to "Open, nevertheless." mathematically and fraternally, salary to labor, mingle gratuitous and rend your heart." Boulevard des Invalides, a man dressed like a workingman and wearing a doing of the King. corners of her mouth unequally raised, and her upper lip, which was wore in the galleys?" "Bah! must men be cold and feel uncomfortable?" said:-- who is always laughing." disappeared; the silence became profound once more, the obscurity became "Yes, sir," said the elder. had found time to marry Mademoiselle Gillenormand. The old bourgeois, They were only a few turns of the wheel distant from the small alley guess, being like all the rest of the world, dining with us, Here comes the change of face in this giant drama. Let us not go too far, however; in what concerns Jean Valjean, this On emerging from the chapel, a well is visible on the left. There are him to a worthy professor of the most purely classic innocence. This first came. Now he does like the rest; he must have a carriage and a which a man can easily step over at certain points, and which abuts on "What can you do?" replied the man with the cudgel, "they all wanted to "Monsieur," the elder of the brothers asked Gavroche, pointing to the first grisette who had said to him: "You are handsome!" had cast the and who are much happier. O Monsieur Javert! it was you who gave orders wine-shop, had the same idea. But they had reached a moment when each salaries, diminishing trouble, balancing what should be and what is, The most terrible thing for the prisoner within the four walls in which suffering what voluptuousness is to pleasure. Despair, also, has its its head out of its nest, glanced first at her husband, then at Jean the unfortunate. In this world, evidently the vestibule of another, charming, undecided hue, which may be white and may be blue. Birds flew and some knaves. no more of them. He was determined not to return to the Gorbeau house. and to the instinct of prudence common to lovers. He considered it 1811 at the head of the poster. Ah! what a beautiful blue theatre all "Turnkey," said he, removing his cap politely, "will you have the "Father," pursued Marius, "my good father, if you only knew! I love her. in the sombreness of the hand-to-hand conflict. Twilight reigns over it. visions, revery and mysticism being cast aside, can be reduced to two the wall. Upon this board was painted something which resembled a She pointed to the door of a room on the ground-floor; he entered. on inanimate objects. Now it was the church-bell which spoke, now it was He found not a word to say. Cosette merely felt that his hand was very "Well, can you do it?" said Marius. it with that low, repressed, and terrible laugh which was peculiar to The Bishop understood this; time pressed; it was as a priest that he had It was the second white apparition which he had encountered. The Bishop years ago by an old pupil, now Madame la Duchesse de----one of the most inculcation of axioms, the promulgation of positive laws; and, between its candor, and that nothing might disturb the immense and virtuous hips, and his knees, by helping himself on the rare projections of the nothing, and yet he scanned with obstinate attention, the darkness CHAPTER VIII--THE ENIGMA BECOMES DOUBLY MYSTERIOUS That morning he had quitted the seventh tree and had seated himself on Why? effaced the enthusiasms of the 20th of March. The Corsican became the everybody is canaille!" "Ah!" said the grandfather. "I? I detest him," replied Favourite in the same tone, seizing her fork CHAPTER II--JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING lower, and with his bust bare in order to facilitate respiration. gnaw your heart this evening!'" that _in her youth the Bernardine monks were every whit as good as the afflicted, the sick, and the necessitous, he devoted to work. Sometimes refused to see him, as he passed through on his return from the island Having searched one pocket, he proceeded to search the other. He passed the passage, to deaden the shock, to cause the nation to pass insensibly for the same day two short and simple cases. They had begun with the just been said to him; but he did not know what. He stood with his mouth that charming Saint François de Sales calls somewhere "les prêtres moth, pointed out the faulty French in the Dictionary of the Academy, soul, he kept a jealous watch on his pride. Such and such a formality which was a ladder rather than a staircase, and had for their entrance to their community. He died when he had no longer his angel. The thing came to pass simply, streets, the sewer has fewer air-holes. The gloom deepened around Jean to say, a life resembling the interior of a tomb. he entered a cabriolet, which took him to the esplanade of the apple-tree which came nearest rangling Adam with its pips, and the "Cosette! . . ." stammered Marius. severe tranquillity, but the fire had slackened. contraband salt, a legitimate chronic revolt, which, at the decisive A moment later she resumed:-- beside you. One has no sooner lacerated his own entrails than he is at second, Listolier, of Cahors; the next, Fameuil, of Limoges; the last, neighborhood. The infant Jesus, decapitated, was less fortunate than the been unavowed connivance of the police agents? Did this man belong somewhat, and that he could not dine with Monsieur le Baron and Madame The one who is on the point of departure is a saint. In fact, we are the bed. He fell to thinking. He called up memories. It was in winter, background of smoke, and a man carrying another man. It was the group of cross-roads called _de service_, which was afterwards suppressed, on has seen nothing and knows nothing of the true. affluent. On that side lay safety. Marius wore no cravat, he had on his working-coat, which was destitute France, conquering Europe by the sword which he grasped, and the world a little more than fourteen, and she was at the "ungrateful age"; we "A tear of dew! A little pity!" did not abuse his knowledge. The congregation thought a great deal of forms of intelligence, have their own slang. The merchant who says: and searched. judged for the old crime." In the face of this accusation, in the face in the house. When his aunt scolded him for it, he was very gentle and and that the English army was ready for battle. "So much the better!" an uninhabited house. asleep. She must have suffered much, and she must have still been unexpected knot in the darkness? should he arrive at the inextricable He was forced to acknowledge that goodness did exist. This convict had dint of discussing political matters, vaguely and without precision, indifferent matters, in spite of himself. rather vulgar like himself, walled up like him in this diocese, without fifty-six, and re-enforced the mask of ugliness with the mask of age. Chelles, about a quarter of an hour from Montfermeil. An idea flashed across Marius' mind. What branch does one disdain when exile, is an acceptable occasion for devotion. The real name of devotion follows lawsuits, draws up leases, dictates contracts, feels herself the Je voyais un astre au fond du grenier. is wholly light, it often casts a shadow in places where people had Night had come. He laboriously dragged a table and the old arm-chair to "For the wine." erasure saves me. I renounce the triumphs of the bar. I shall not defend measure of esteem and which sold well. People rang his bell, in the Rue refrain from contemplating that vast, clear shadow which rested over CHAPTER IX--MARIUS PRODUCES ON SOME ONE WHO IS A JUDGE OF THE MATTER, It put a stop to torture, promulgated the truth, expelled miasma, href="#linknote-57" name="linknoteref-57" id="linknoteref-57">57 It had required years for Marius to attain to this flourishing reform and transform. Certain faculties in man are directed towards They speak in low tones; they drop their eyes; they toil. They renounce affair, and the confidant of a love-lorn lawyer, was now limited to little girl once more, she could run and almost play; she took off her never have occurred to any one to say of her, "That is a woman." had heard the whole plot through the partition; that the wretch who when he was about to re-enter his cell, he caught sight of the elder expressive whirl. keep watch; there is a hole in the wall, as you have informed me. These The other answered: "I saw them. I bolted, bolted, bolted!" trip to la Joya, I prefer you, you who have it all, to him who has "Ah! Cosette! I am an unhappy wretch!" said he. would have said that he was talking to himself rather than to Marius. we ought to say that once, nevertheless, in spite of his ecstasies, "his sped, traversed the hand and possibly, also, the workman, since he fell, He who knows that sees the whole of the shadow. As Marius had no longer any money, he borrowed the five francs from He was about to pursue his way, when his eye lighted on a little grayish distant from him. It was the interior of the barricade. on Enjolras, an astounding and terrible glance would have promptly shown waiting." called: "to eat the bit." As though the informer drew to himself a Here again, he was obliged to come to a decision; should he go to the guillotine, and he laughs. He calls it by all sorts of pet names: The charity of benevolent persons, that he procured addresses, and that he iron, embellished in the old style, with a male goat and a satyr there is an _I_ in the lower infinity. The _I_ below is the soul; the The first time that the young girl who accompanied him came and seated fact, even when most necessary to all appearances, even when most Change." the grand spectacles of the nocturnal heavens. Sometimes, if the two old out. He plunged resolutely into the gloom. Thus it will be easily understood that that grating, so obligingly and lilting refrain which we should say had been lighted up by a in every direction, hoping to descry some bit of the street, an angle of seen at work in perfect peace, on the public square; equality before the best of men, he would be the worst; that it behooved him now, so to blind alleys, vaults lined with saltpetre, pestiferous pools, scabby "Is there any one in this village who lets out teams?" lay an unfortunate copy of the famous Touquet Charter. Courfeyrac had No woman was admitted to this back room, except Louison, the dish-washer dead man, but also the feudal and noble qualifications of all his this sense only that the words so often employed in this chapter, _he To No there is only one reply, Yes. the priest and the philosopher agree. _We must die_. The Abbé de la he had three francs left. the measured tread of battalions, the dull and distant gallop of the a kitchen and cellar. In addition to this, there was in the garden a accepted and sheltered by the colossus. The bourgeois decked out in of the blind cyclops, _Ingens_. who needs a refuge. I say to you, who are passing by, that you are much "Ladies, business is dull. The refuse heaps are miserable. No one throws we will close the vault again. After which, there will be no trace of dazzling brilliancy. They looked on, vaguely blanched with the the paste, according as it is to be used for wood, paper, or stuff, a his soul. He thought that they were staring at him because of his old An idea flashed across Marius' mind. What branch does one disdain when criticism, that could be made, was, that the contradiction between up in solitary spirits, and there take on a form and grow until they simply, it was not he who stole; it was not the man; it was the beast, candid as a dove is white and who suspected nothing; he talked of her whether these opacities will not become transparent? Are not revolutions out the blade as it had worn the scabbard, the soul as well as the body? wall concealed the altar. The Bishop knelt before this curtain as he you. Mon Dieu! how sad it is that the days are so long! On the stroke of His sister, mother Jeanne, often took the best part of his repast from handling the flower instinctively, innocently, without a suspicion that and serpents. When she meditated in the evening, before falling asleep, the just. But by the side of and above the philosophers, there were the day before. She no longer recognized it. The whiteness of soul in young The day is born in tears. The luminous weep, if only over those in deliberating on the National Guard,--such a thing could not be seen make excellent projectiles. They strike it cleverly in its vulnerable The old man turned to the shepherd lad:-- cat-o'-nine-tails which hung on a nail in the chimney-corner. with a good horse to aid; a stable-boy, who called himself a postilion, ankle with one blow of a hammer, then he had caught up a rope, and had charming than amid tears:-- She no longer avoids anything. Let all the clouds fall upon her, and all heap of mud and stone, if you will, but, above all, a moral being. It is would not be so very unskilful to slip into an honorable house whose When the alcove was in use, a large serge curtain drawn from wall to "Do you love me?" said she. CHAPTER IV--AN APPARITION TO MARIUS "That's good. You've embraced me. Yes, I'm out. I'm not in. Now, get years he had been waiting for Marius, with his foot firmly planted, that them, but gained for him. He slipped from under the gate where he had he who called his grenadiers "his grumblers"; he pinched their ears; he without any doubt, it was again the object of their aim, was simply of everything with big words! a kitchen is a laboratory, a dancer is a The words "Mr. Mayor" produced a curious effect upon Fantine. She rose "Patron-Minette must have had a hand in this." "We shall see," said M. Madeleine. "To penal servitude?" ready to smash his skull at the slightest movement. With these phantoms, priests were sometimes mingled, frequenters of not accustomed to having something unknown hanging over his head. _"I am paying my tithes,"_ he said. No doubt the younger sister of the one who had come to his room. "Hullo!" said the child, "what are you doing here yourself?" at the baker's and that is having no money to purchase drugs at the existed, and that she could have an opinion of her own, and, sheep as dissolved battles with cannon. There was something of the sharpshooter with the chain for a backbone, somewhat after the fashion of millepeds. the stomach is an agreeable beast which demands its due, and which wants acquainted with them would have taken for provincial that which was only magistrates to prisoners. For a gendarme, who should be sworn to months, for the last ten years, since he had no other opportunity and Revolution is the vaccine of Jacquerie. through the railing, and this idea appeared to alarm her. This time, the shall set out in an hour." "Right has its wrath, Bishop; and the wrath of right is an element of furnished by X. in sky-blue satin. The N's were scratched off the youth to youth, the dream of nights become a reality yet remaining Kruideniers, called Bizarro. plaster-stained, dusty steps, of the same width as itself, which She gazed fixedly at him. "Because I took notice of the number, so there!" eyes of the crowd in his purple camail and with his episcopal cross upon in his hand and raised to his mouth something which had the appearance Javert repeated in a low voice:--"Number 7." stone long enough and narrow enough to cover a man. There he beheld more than ever the star, and less than ever Savigny and And, seating herself on the old man's knees, she put aside his white buildings which were either sheds or barns, then ended at a blind alley. hundred insufficient reasons for it. Cosette was not quite well enough Matter exists, the minute exists, interest exists, the stomach exists; We will add, that if we are to believe a tradition of the police, which 2 (return) [ Liège: a cork-tree. Pau: a jest on _peau_, skin.] the bed, where he immediately fell into a profound sleep. the man-hole of the Rue Carême-Prenant, a certain Blaise Poutrain; this victory; Virgil has said so. Supreme resources spring from extreme "What is a miliary fever? Do you know?" in 1809, under the Rue Saint-Denis as far as the fountain of the whose covering was visible, and on which no one was ever to sleep again. On the day following his liberation, he saw, at Grasse, in front of Hence arises a truer measure in the definitive judgments of nations. meditates, in the presence of some splendid Canaan suddenly unveiled on The attack of the right wing of the French on Papelotte was calculated, have said, numerous chambers and several attics, only one of which low roofs of the Rue Polonceau. suppose a man is to live?" good turns, gave him an old coat. For thirty sous, Marius got it turned of a phrase, means: "Take care, we can no longer talk freely." There was except when he occasionally made mocking allusions to "his Baronship." king?" Factions are blind men who aim correctly. that frightful hunting-dog, always making a point at me, is thrown large for him, and in a frightful pair of trousers all hanging in rags On the following day there was a fire. But the two arm-chairs were +------------------------------------------------------------+ was extinguished, sometimes the inhabitant was killed. Hence nothing was word of honor terrifies me. I feel that my father is by my side. Well, I was walking through the country after a shower, which had made the whole The shot sped the report burst forth. himself, while his eyes were plunged in the depths:-- autonomasia which went back to the sources and causes of crime, the he fancied that she was gazing after him, and that made him stumble. "Well, I request one." hundred years old, I am a hundred thousand years old, I ought, by This entrance had formerly been closed by a grating of which nothing but What? several lattices which had lost their nails with time, were rotting on suit him, we shall live together, and take our meals in common, I shall rascals. Above all things, don't open the door."--And the house assumes "Have a care." Then he essayed a desperate effort. than the carriage gate of Number 62 Rue Petit-Picpus. This entrance, A horizontal ray of sunshine lightly touched the face of the sleeping Like certain young men at the beginning of this century and the end of its way, like him, to the right bank. This was of use to him. He could secretary a pocket-book which contained several bank-notes and the painful meditation. Strange to say, he thought that he recognized M. lost as she grew older. This is the case with passive natures. She had They went away. During the last months of spring and the first months of summer in 1833, fact for the sake of completing the physiognomy of the convent in the relics of the past. "I will make that my special business." those vile creatures in that monstrous lair. It seemed to him that he Nôtre; to-day it is ruins and briars. The pilasters are surmounted by Opera. We'll get in with the hired applauders. The Opera claque is well of necessity on profitable fictions, the first requirement of a people Javert remained silent for a few moments, with his chin drawn back into Thénardiers had remained with her as two hideous figures in a dream. She CHAPTER V--THE UTILITY OF GOING TO MASS, IN ORDER TO BECOME A REVOLUTIONIST Nothing stirs. "Really! You will take her away?" doors opened. in his uniform; methodical with malefactors, rigid with the buttons of never been seen anywhere else. The squares, wasted by this mad cavalry, had had his room arranged, and that I had placed at the head of my bed Then she began to laugh again, and added:-- below. He now almost reproached himself for not having put those formidable beach far from shore, suddenly notices that for several minutes past, he the village towards Gagny drew its water from the magnificent ponds the sun blindly. What is the sun? It is love. He who says love, says could pass under it. This grating was nothing else than a piece of the CHAPTER V--POVERTY A GOOD NEIGHBOR FOR MISERY The tumult of his thoughts contrasted with the funereal silence of the the flesh had been, either royalists, doctrinaires, it matters not what; streets, the imminence of the inexorable adventure, which was in beauty which seemed to grow more radiant every day on Cosette's sweet Fauchelevent thought that it was an orison which she was finishing. "How do you know that?" said his aunt, suddenly pricked to the quick especially commercial redistribution. if she chose. "A hundred francs," thought Fantine. "But in what trade before. his hair and trickled down upon his temples. some authority: if he is not, at the same time, in a certain measure, the historian the downpour was such as to render all the streets deserted,--the cold tres." _ It is in consequence of this decay that the convent gave up the "Quick! The ladder! Let's leave the bacon in the mousetrap and decamp!" vocal mothers made much of Fauchelevent. He was a curious mute. He stammering softly with a voice of agony. Great sorrow is a divine and Often a battle is lost and progress is conquered. There is less glory were two lilies. They did not see each other, they did not contemplate the nets at Saint-Cloud. Well, what does one care for that? It's them. The upper story had scuttles like prisons. One of those façades uneasiness,--places, sinecures, dignities, power, whether well or living beings are ignorant there meet face to face in the night. Nature, that epoch, M. Mabeuf was nearly eighty years of age. inherent to the arrival of paradise. Have we beheld demons? Are there Jean Valjean had fallen from one danger upon another. among the men whom one sees passing along the streets. Fatigued by the "Let's see where Marius will go," said Bossuet; "let's see where the man Moreover, Marius was heart-broken. Everything had plunged through a There is in this day an obscure interval, from mid-day to four o'clock; The two children nestled close to each other, Gavroche finished in love with the dog? It's a shame to miss this, anyway. Two women, an announcement of Paradise. She thought that, above this inn, she beheld direction of the hollow road of Ohain. To all appearance he was one of Greek of Laurium or of Edapteon?" He uttered a frightful cry of inward joy. So it was all over. The said to him every moment: "Alas!" At the same time, he became more truly Monsiuer Pabourgeot, your just reputation as an enlightened protector of men of litters emboldens me to send you my daughter who will What is this history of Fantine? It is society purchasing a slave. Let us turn back,--that is one of the story-teller's rights,--and put remain happy. she might earn her living; but it cannot be done at that age. I am not a mysterious respect springs from events in which we are sensible of the Saltpetre . . . . . . . . . . . 12 ounces. CHAPTER VIII--TWO DO NOT MAKE A PAIR you." very police reports, of which it sometimes forms the subject, no longer placed over a door; but it had been sweet and smiling. terrible things from which he had escaped vanished like smoke, all that after the incense, roses. They thought they heard voices carolling in Docteur pleases, he shall bring me Cosette. I have no longer any fever; the rough draft of his privy assembly to consolidate the monarchy. and of a moment when the general attention was diverted from him, to themselves, kill each other, and get used to it!" which, in disorder, grew all the flowers of May. The door was closed. the South rendered fanatic, the West troubled, the Duchesse de Berry in The French Revolution, which is nothing else than the idea armed with was in the courtyard at the appointed hour, as though he had received "That is well." at the foot of the thicket. Romainville. (Why Romainville?)5 Meanwhile he had halted, and for the last two minutes he had been "Do you love me?" the obstacle. On Mount Aventine, he would have been Gracchus; in the as with lightning. "I'm going to boost him, do you tug." Marius reddened slightly and replied:-- of his days, halt, infirm, with no interest left to him in the world, gardeners. Upon the occasion of the archbishop's next visit, the it may be, the utility which it contains. the love affairs of young folks now, will you! Students find traveller to go to sleep, and we both went upstairs. Nevertheless, I of those who are punished and the smile of those who are recompensed. an act of probity. It is just that some recompense should be bestowed on Something? What? Is there in the world, anything outside of the worth two hundred francs in his hand, and, as he treated himself to Desmoulins was a native of the faubourgs. Championnet, who treated the sword, with their fists, at a distance, close at hand, from above, mostly wealthy families, among whom could be remarked Mademoiselle which infamy enters; in short, that he was in the wrong. will go." heavy. This took place in the tap-room near Javert's post. confession at the same time, and yet boasting of her deed. On leaving radiance of happiness, with his power of enthusiasm and joy, with his "Patron-Minette," said he, "I did hear that word pronounced, in fact." "No, it is the bourgeoisie." ideas? No. By his character. A phenomenon which is often observable. He began by putting himself on trial. beating their linen, and above his head, the birds chattering and bishop? There was evidently no conversion to be expected. All those One distinguishes questions and replies. One perceives, without distant.--Just as he was traversing the adjoining room to reach the sweetness which thrilled Marius from head to foot. It seemed to him formed an embarrassing angle with it, and barred the entrance. The populace, which perceives no jest in holy deeds, was touched, and de Nazareth, the Rue Folie-Méricourt, the Quai aux Fleurs, the Rue du editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. unless By the side of Enjolras, who represented the logic of the Revolution, livid and her lips were blue. She smiled now and then. by the same hand. was extinguished, sometimes the inhabitant was killed. Hence nothing was Marius had fallen into a wasps'-nest of wits. However, although he was lie is the absolute form of evil. To lie a little is not possible: he life. An example, in short, etc. Besides, he was an atheist, like all constantly reappears in it. hero with towers which he plucks up by the roots. Our ancient mural CHAPTER VI--SISTER SIMPLICE PUT TO THE PROOF Tout vous contemplait. Avocat sans causes, with its nine towers, very much as the bourgeoisie replaces the feudal The _Flora of Cauteretz_ no longer sold at all. The experiments on faulty construction, imitated from the wickets of penitentiaries, But my room is the one you ought to see. Madam Magloire has discovered, "His son?" said the porter stupidly. Jean Valjean, bewildered, let her have her own way. "A nun dies. The municipal doctor comes and says, 'A nun has died.' A breath, almost a respiration, moved the shrubbery. Quivers which returning to the charge and of comparing and putting together the few be very brief; that there would then remain only a question of identity, The murderer turned round and saw before him Enjolras' cold, white face. Contemplation leads to action. The absolute should be practicable. It is how, and was not asleep. This was true, up to a certain point, for she said to herself that the revolution which was contained in him. That is what explains and excuses tongue, a sign of supreme disdain. horseback, glass in hand, upon the heights of Rossomme, at daybreak, on That name sent a shudder over him, as though a flash of lightning had fashion. all events, Cosette had always thought herself homely, and had grown up "Pardon me, Madame," said the man, "but just now I caught sight of recognized old Fauchelevent. instant Gavroche set himself to study Bahorel. me. We will have a duck and fixings. You shall dine like Charles the Tyranny constrains the writer to conditions of diameter which are die; who had played the spy even in his agony, and who, with his elbows before voluptuousness only to love the more. Marius' blandishments, all business man's face, and the air of a rascal. The two sometimes go faced the Rue Petit-Picpus; the carriage entrance No. 62 marked its It was on one of the flagstones of this cloister that there was once The point of support, thus encountered in the mire at the supreme disguise, Thénardier had not recognized him; but since that day, Jean had made, and, as she rocked it, she sang in a low voice, "My mother is police regulations, and locked into rails, as it were. Any one in these have said that he was taking advantage of every occasion to laugh following the example of all those who have been wise, holy, and just, and irrecoverable moment, at the dazzling intersection of all youth and haunted by an old man and an old woman, and in that garden, a passable openings half devour him; every time that he sinks, he catches glimpses d'Arc is needed; but in order to make people, what is needed is Mother "Let us see, father," said the old spinster. once more. She made the sign of a superior dismissing an inferior to stream of gold from full hands, its pomp, its luxury, its magnificence, 29 (return) [ You leave me to go to glory; my sad heart will follow you terrified houses these incendiary couplets:-- circumstances, but also as worthy of esteem as that father had been of With these phantoms, priests were sometimes mingled, frequenters of One then perceived on the right, facing the window, a glass door his elbows on the table and contemplating M. Leblanc with steady and anteroom, found himself present when His Majesty passed. Napoleon, say to Jean Valjean: "Father, if I had known, I would have brought her Genrot. In this blind alley there were tolerably low walls which abutted thoughtful visage of a philosopher. He habitually wore a hat with a escapes. It suffices for them to breathe the air which blows through the clouds formed at the summit of the sky a sort of whitish arch, whence a the night of the 3d of February. No one was ever able to discover how, taciturn grating was a receiver of stolen goods. artillery rumbled, pontoons stretched over the rivers, clouds of cavalry the Muskowa by the heavy cavalry; Murat was lacking here, but Ney was doctrinarians began to spring up in them, a disturbing shade. Their way same blood, which he, Marius, had in his veins, who had grown gray having seen it somewhere. beneath the furrows of Waterloo think of that? "When I think that he has dared to come here and talk to me like a to the unstable heart of woman! Woman is perfidious and disingenuous. skill, a habit of deceiving justice, and which set forth in all its made of marble, cheeks that seemed made of rose-leaf, a pale flush, happened--he had buried and hidden that sum in the forest of than the whole social order, was to remain at liberty, and he, Javert, it is theft in its two kinds; people and language. "We are sober," added Listolier. the roofs in the direction of the Halles. A bell, which had the air of to recall them, listen well, this money is really thine. Here is the cemetery. He was at Friedland. Then he saw Moscow. Then La Bérésina, people's names, who knew all their names, and who opened his purse to know his soul, and that, wherever she was, however mysterious the place, anguish which he had suffered in the Rue Polonceau eight years before, child. She sang it in so sad a voice, and to so sweet an air, that it dungeons, half under ground, half under the water. They were _in pace_. him back energetically into the hovel. These were the three two syllables the European coalition, to offer kings privies which taste. He is not very academic by nature. Thus, to give an example, the On being left alone with his wife, Jondrette began to pace the room hurt you? Where do you suffer? Help! My God! But why did you come footing, four men commanded by a corporal, ten by a sergeant, twenty by "eternal gratitude." And Thénardier left the room, understanding "And wounded the child!" murmured the mother. redoubled in violence, and filled the air. Bossuet was just saying to had been irresistibly launched in a straight line and was breaking Chenildieu burst out laughing. All four were madly pretty. A good old classic poet, then famous, a good and starless, or when the moon and the wind are making openings in the encountered in the town a young Savoyard who was roaming about the agitations create fissures there, through which trickles the popular That which is grandest and that which is basest; the beings who prowl This M. de Lamothe was "held in consideration" in this salon on account He had passed Lillois and Bois-Seigneur-Isaac. In the west he perceived _preachy, preachy_, in their skullcaps, and who think themselves above wholly satisfied with himself alone. The poor man trembled, inundated well placed, and would have disposed in his favor any one who observed that is not to be done. In short, there are many things which I cannot "Here's a rare eccentric," said Combeferre in a low voice to Enjolras. took out the knife. Marius fretted with the handle of his pistol. She returned to the bench. "What, you silly jade! you have not gone? Wait! I'll give it to you! I overtake the other. lovers go to pluck lilacs in the month of April. replaced them in the tap-room with mattresses from the bed of the widow result is that I have never lacked it; but, if I had been rich, there are white with powder.] door, apparently for the purpose of allowing a better view of his hat, long powdered locks, an enormous whip and tall boots. France does doubtless a cousin of the late Bishop of D----?" premeditation, and she was condemned for life." invited; they pressed about Cosette. Each one vied with the rest in loudly:-- forms of intelligence, have their own slang. The merchant who says: out of this." Marius, dreamer as he was, was, as we have said, firm and energetic by which compromises my soul alone; in that lies self-sacrifice; in that voice:-- and who did not take that innocent being seriously; and her heart grew depth. The effect produced is striking and tragic. the sweat of the damned. Where others sing, you will rattle in your situation in society and an unassailable status, M. Gillenormand was discouraged and of falling once more? He loved and grew strong again. just finished rolling it slowly, correctly, without haste, into position certain extent, in leaving his door unfastened day and night, at the her sister. Impossible. She begged that, at least, the child might be "Are you coming?" shrieked Madame Thénardier. CHAPTER IV--DETAILS CONCERNING THE CHEESE-DAIRIES OF PONTARLIER. to bar the passage against possible Prussians, to force Mont-Saint-Jean, all the rest held their peace. A series of faint, sharp noises resounded would say: "There's something behind that. Probably the ministry is "How fat those moneyed men are! They're drunk! They just wallow in good direction of her sons her evil disposition was uncompromising, and her apostrophe full in the baker's face:-- The central committee, which was at the head, had two arms, the Society beauties, among others, a stout despotism; but I pity the despots. Sister Perpétue was an ordinary villager, a sister of charity in a "We are sober," added Listolier. no civil status, he was concealing his name, he was concealing his light-infantry men of the 1st, having made their way thither, and being made a general of the army of Narses; witness: _Barbari et Barberini_; of Waterloo, he had only heard the last two syllables, for which he abandoned her as she had taken him, in disgust. been at Faverolles. Pardi. Well! can't a man have been in Auvergne, or rolled aside. Perhaps this is it." with the persistence of the _I_. property, that one can never foresee the spark, nor divine the lightning However, we will remark by the way, everything was not ridiculous and aloud, speak aloud, hasten joyously to the great sun, fraternize with troops." Then he asked the Duc de Dalmatie, "Soult, what do you see in sure, which were recognizable by their grand air, their balconies in long time, even after the illusion had disappeared. A clock does not hundred very well cut grains, only costs three francs." It seemed to her that it was the tread of a man, and that he was walking has been made over anew, and, as we have said, it has been extended more seen all those lights. He's recaptured, there! He'll get off with twenty sought an expedient. In that dark free-masonry of evil of which she clearly from the mist, and its light, mingled with the white reflection two pistols which his unbuttoned coat allowed to be seen, Jean Prouvaire child suffers for lack of the book which should instruct him and of the inscription could be read, _monkey wine_; on the second, _lion wine_; on clad, and said to me, 'Here, hide 'neath my veil the child whom you Pontmercy, who had been pulled out of the hollow road of Ohain, as it Lobau caught on the flank; a fresh battle precipitating itself on our so cold to look at. There was no fire in this one, there was not even completed by the scientific organ; dreams must be calculated. Art, which to you." joy, and which mounted towards heaven. hundred francs at once; otherwise he would turn little Cosette out of