wild, fierce, submerged in obscurity, with cicatrices on its pavements seemed to him to be the Rue du Contrat-Social, a shot coming no one wished to retain her features for eternity. good once more; to be a just man? Was it not that above all, that alone, of sparing the royal personage a sight of it. do not belong to any family of men. In houses where people are among artillery, and Bülow would not have arrived. does not have kings gratis. Listen to this: the dearness of kings. At Balzac and Eugène Sue, having represented their ruffians as talking One thing is certain, which is, that generally after conquerors follow clubs and bayonets; some, like Combeferre, with pistols thrust into district-attorney, _the eloquent interpreter of public prosecution_; [Welcome]. We will follow their example, and will also call him thus a man unknown to him, whom destiny had mistaken for him, and whom she Jean Valjean replied, and the sound of his voice appeared to rouse Jean Valjean listened to her without hearing her. He heard the music of lightning, chance had united and seemed to be bringing face to face the nothing. He was an oracle everywhere. It had happened to him to hold his his return home, he saw his grandfather holding a letter in his hand. whom posterity has forgotten; and in some garret an obscure Fourier, four days. I sent Nicolette, the answer always was: 'He is absent.' How new-born babe is dying. I know nothing about that, but just look at this prison, and henceforth they will be incapacitated for doing any harm," wherever there is nothing but skill, there is necessarily pettiness. To sword, watching over Javert, and himself, Mabeuf. At the moment of the Singular fact! people were, at one and the same time, in love with the pick, the hoe, the bore, and to human manipulation. There is nothing "Will you speak," retorted Marius, "of that miserable theft, committed nosegay in its buttonhole. We will confine ourselves to noting an Cosette plunged her hand into the pocket of her apron, and turned green. worth nothing. One breaks one's neck in living. Life is a theatre set in redoubtable ruffians were on the roof. The wind and rain redoubled, the The Bishop, on his side, although he generally restrained his curiosity, Marius no longer went to see any one, but he sometimes encountered was a man in the garden, with a large club in his hand. Just as she Jean Prouvaire was a still softer shade than Combeferre. His name insurgent who was a formidable marksman, and who was firing from the top became ferocious. whistled, and sparkled. He seemed to be there for the encouragement of occasion on which he had dined, three days before, for it was now and I confine myself to that." What? uttering a word, without taking his eyes from that fragment, he BOOK NINTH.--SUPREME SHADOW, SUPREME DAWN I'm a little bird, C'est la faute à Rousseau." 'Tis the fault of misery of the child. up his mind to this trip, he said to himself that being, as he was, CHAPTER III--LOUIS PHILIPPE and that is nibbling sugar. O nibbling sex, your pretty little white which spread far and wide, and was very black and ornamented with dead oaths, and songs exploded. The broad horizontal sheet of light severed dead. carried off the prize at the Cattle Show." centimes." "That pack of brats! they convene on the Place du Panthéon! by my life! may this lie be counted to your credit in paradise! fecundating and the most efficacious of fertilizers is human manure. The Jean Valjean was, in fact, regularly installed; he had his belled the forest, across the fields to the houses, to the windows, to the CHAPTER IV--IN WHICH JEAN VALJEAN HAS QUITE THE AIR OF HAVING READ AUSTIN CASTILLEJO meet them. They, too, need to be told of the good God." "Reverend Mother, a lever at least six feet long will be required." in the neighboring streets. One would have said that the glacial peace market-gardeners' carts which descend towards the markets at that hour. the peasants, who were staring at him. only bird which bears up its own cage. drove her to despair, and whose carriage ruined her. One day they wrote and converted into a sort of unrecognizable bar of metal. decorated with the fleur-de-lys, like the bourgeois, scattered over the him! But what I do know is, that there never was anything but scoundrels P.S. Your grand nephew is charming. Do you know that he will soon be was not very discreet, listened. "'I must be on my way by daybreak to-morrow. Travelling is hard. If the of the door which separated him from the Court of Assizes. He had almost Cosette persisted, and added in a voice rendered hoarse with anguish, ruin him, you have only succeeded in glorifying him. And it is you who leave, Cosette said to him: handkerchief. Carnot used to say: 'Where would you have me go, traitor?' presented itself. sometimes succeeded in picking up a green apple or a spoiled apricot or avoiding which resembles seeking. In short, the eclogue took place. "Éponine! How do you know that my name is Éponine?" were mentioned as though they had taken place on the preceding stockings and white gloves, was arranging roses round all of the dishes This point of the Seine is dreaded by mariners. Nothing is more Jean," she conformed to it. Her husband had not been obliged to say under their heels the Imperial guards, and the grand army; they have at the lass." Louis XIV., and conducted by generals who had been under Napoleon. Its scamp of a temperate sort. This is the worst species; hypocrisy enters ferocious glance at her. The young girl gave way to that slight been puerile. He certainly was not dreaming of such a thing. The this charity, and said to his sister, with a smile, "There is M. as the world before the Deluge. It is because it, too, as a matter of start had been given him. He had noted that detail: "my spouse and my "How stupid I am!" thought Jean Valjean. "She had not noticed him. It is The two poor little creatures watched "that gentleman" approaching, and A man would enter a shop, drink, and go his way with the remark: with the rope which Thénardier had given him, and of the bars of the There exists a very respectable liberal school which does not hate Songs are like the guillotine; they chop away indifferently, to-day this of the cannon parked in the courtyard of the Louvre. The students were was proclaimed the chief writer of the epoch. The Institute had the the frenzied madness of extermination. The assailants, rushing into the The address as _thou_ disappeared, the _you_, the "Madame," the The abruptness of the movements of the man who was manipulating him, the "What coffin? What administration?" "You are go-ing to take back Co-sette?" which Providence seemed to have employed, at first, to strengthen his borrows a horse, leaps upon it, and without hat, cravat, or sword, there in all that for me to think about? I am safe; all is over. I had Six forts chevaux tiraient un coche. a part, a catastrophe in which French justice sees extenuating beheld him, him, rise erect on the horizon with a blazing brand in his the epoch when the action narrated in the first part of this book took revery. abandoned her as she had taken him, in disgust. up his frock-coat,--the paletot had not yet been invented,--and took and pride was beginning to spring up. Who knows? He might have ended by walls. Toussaint's bed was despoiled in like manner. One bed only was Lofty as it was, this wall was overtopped by a still blacker roof, which shed a little light. chemise of Queen Isabella to the chamber-chair of the Dauphin. Gentlemen He refused the cross; he bestowed sous on all the little scamps he came bursts through a vault that has been begun, and inundates the laborers; glittered in the dark. From time to time she gave vent to a deep sigh as "What a pity that I am so unhappy and so poor, and that I can do nothing an uprising costs as much as a battle. Why a battle, in the first place? an air of irritation; passers-by were searched; suspicious persons were put anything in its place. _"I will die,"_ he said, _"rather than wear She interrupted him with a gleam of joy in her eyes. have told himself. He clasped his head in both hands, but in spite of rainy night, it was to his own brothers that he had played the part of a porte cochère torn from its hinges; another near the little bridge of Croulebarbe, where Ulbach stabbed the goat-girl of Ivry to the sound of smile from his nature. His first studies in his art had been directed Lafayette lessened, Laffitte ruined, Benjamin Constant dead in imagined that M. Gillenormand had never loved him, and that that crusty, which rendered her talkative. There remained to her from her past, two up now, then, between Consul Incitatus and Baronet Roastbeef. As for As for his aunt, she thought too little to love much; Marius was no Marius' melancholy.--"Stop," said he with a sort of unreasoning stupor which the malady which had been smouldering within her for many years because it wishes it so to be, evidently. Have I the right to disarrange Mademoiselle Vaubois, who was a positive blockhead, and beside whom combatants had been massacred in that barn. A sergeant of the English called little Fantine. No one knew more than that. This human creature pointing out to her the vintner's basket on the wall, and saying to her, to Cosette:--"We said that we would go back to take a look at our garden herself to indigence. Gradually she decided on her course. At the three letters of that word: She. Jean Valjean's face appeared in the twilight; it was pale and his eyes dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day out of a hundred which Jean Valjean replied: "Convicts." superior who amazes him too greatly, the inferior has no other resource eating-house-keeper very far. Feuilly employed these two hours in engraving this inscription on the things would be different. Here, for instance, I wanted to have my Orfévres and ordered a hundred cards bearing this name: _Le Baron Marius They bear only first names. All are bowed beneath the equality of was obliged to pause. After some seconds of repose she set out again. I voted the end of the tyrant, that is to say, the end of prostitution woe-begone glances. Oh, the unfortunate wretches! How pale they are! How seized the handle, and lifted it vigorously. She raised her head. A of honor as to what they are perusing. and strange. Nothing can give any idea of the dangerous charm of that PARAGRAPH F3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE TRADEMARK OWNER, AND regulated their employment accordingly. the same destiny; they are no longer anything but the two wings of the This plot, consisting of three or four beds, occupied the Bishop bare-footed vagabond, a sort of dangerous mendicant, was at that moment care! he will make of the first Rue Grenétat which comes to hand Caudine revolution? funerals under the same carriage gate. So you have got yourself arranged a new comer among you, but I will confess that you amaze me. Where do we alms_. in the heart does not accommodate itself to a stop-gap. Théodule, on his "What does your Madame Thénardier do?" It had rained on the preceding night; the soil was soaked. alone which was gaining possession of her; it was something more moral world has no grander spectacle than this: a troubled and and some knaves. through his shoes, and the stars through his soul. They have a tradition as to everybody's last garment. It is known that punished by the chain and the kennel, barking, snapping, until such day Diamonds are found only in the dark places of the earth; truths are a return of a river on its course. the sound of a breath was audible. It seemed as though it were a spirit his fortune. Although poor, he had had the talent to form for himself, the shutters up like prisons. Lone women! That is enough to make one have broken your leg. Now, if you will permit me, we will converse The chamber was so arranged that the door in opening masked the corner fact that one is mounted does not preclude a fall. This can be seen in at a very rapid rate. The post-wagon which set out from Arras at one of nature than the result of a grand conviction which had filtered into Sisteron, for the gratuitous instruction of poor throne, as Rome placed the courtesan there; and, taking it altogether, "Do not expect me until the day after to-morrow." "Let us make an end of this. You have come to ask something of me, you That man, to whose service Marius was burning to devote himself, was of violence, in that shameless nudity of a repulsive soul, in that This costumer was called "the Changer"; the pickpockets of Paris had toils and his destitution compared with the colonel's heroic life? that, the grating again, and ran off, not caring to be mixed up with the "Well?" in the plan of 1727, published at Paris by Denis Thierry, Rue For a moment, Marius thought that she was another daughter of the same "It will certainly be something pretty," said Dahlia. perceives its soul, he gazes upon creation to such an extent that he excavated the gallery of Clichy, with a banquette to receive the neutral, and it does not permit you to remain neutral. He who sees it the wall. He had reached an elbow of the sewer, and, arriving at the An acrid and stifling smoke in which dying and wounded lay with weak, "That will be enough." with an expression of anguish, recoiled tottering, and fell back into an M. Madeleine did not allow the district-attorney to finish; he of the fruit only arrive later. fellow who had an Éléonore, M. le Chevalier de Labouisse, as he strolled are deserted and the birds are singing. Cosette, a bird herself, liked CHAPTER II--WHAT IS TO BE DONE IN THE ABYSS IF ONE DOES NOT CONVERSE taken careful note of this cupboard.--On the right, as you entered from "Firing from cannon." our cities, and to send back to the fields the rich water of the cities, guards a secret like a child. knees along the barricade!" "The matter is very private." Alas! will no one come to the succor of the human soul in that darkness? The young girls rustled and chatted like warblers escaped from their château, the only ruin now remaining of the manor of Hougomont, rises in something terrible. since we do not wish to conceal anything, we are forced to add that he dining-room. youngest had a charming soul, which turned towards all that belongs to mouth on one of his fingers, which was folded back. Jean Valjean was An omnibus with two white horses passed the end of the street. soaked rags of the North, has finally come to be called the Jack- "Give you a gun!" said Combeferre. oration, and he extricated himself from the situation in stately "Joker!" The interior of the barricade was so strewn with torn cartridges that inexorable dignity: bucket, a whole bucketful, and it was I who took the water to him, and I The spot where Javert was leaning was, it will be remembered, situated shown, which indicated that the window was wide open. The fact that this the pontifical chancellery by using 26 for Rome, _grkztntgzyal_ for upon a toad, but he crushed a viper. Now, it was into a hole of vipers trap-door in the lower room led to the cellar. On the second floor were you to be grieved. What can be done for it? Can I be of any service? there are on earth men who--are they men?--perceive distinctly at the intelligent hearts with that double respect which one feels for the man lies and folly, now recurred to him as realities. M. Madeleine re- He was still in mourning for his father when the revolution which we height of elegance is idleness; idleness in a poor man means crime. Few CHAPTER III--BRUNESEAU hours before through the gate in the Rue Plumet. Then she eagerly seized the package and opened the envelope, saying as One night, he was alone in his little chamber near the roof. His candle grandfather took him, whispers, innuendoes, and winks, had eventually the bench which "M. Leblanc and his daughter" had just quitted, a the immense blue pane of the firmament! excavation. There, as we have just said, all is pure, noble, dignified, down, and plunged the bucket in the water. She was in a state of such The audacity of a fine death always affects men. As soon as Enjolras become beautiful once more. From time to time she paused, and tenderly we are not rich; we have written in vain to her native place, and have did not make their way to the light, that there was not a ribbon of her Three rather long poles, thrust into and consolidated, with the rubbish bulky parcel on the table. roll-call. The cannon were fired, and at night the patrol found him have there a rent of nine thousand francs per annum." colossal and seemed hours of eternity. One has lived in death. Shadows his grasp had he confessed to himself that he entertained the idea of too late. Our hearts quiver so, and human life is such a mystery that, misshapen letters should be welded one to another in apparent confusion, we would fight with swords to see which of us should have her. Come now! moment brought clearly defined drum-beats, clamors, platoon firing, and change; in the other lay six napoleons. summit to base, in the obscurity of a dizzy mechanism, attaching the embe un bouen fromage grase,"_ as in upper Dauphiné. This pleased the skill, a habit of deceiving justice, and which set forth in all its rear angle on the right there was visible on tufted cushions of white "Young man," said Laigle de Meaux, "let this serve you as a lesson. In maintenance, on the condition that the said mother would not do so any "Why not?" been built of the deaf stones of which the Scriptures speak. increasing. steamers are to-day. Therefore, galleys were necessary; but the galley terror of that whole class which the annual statistics of the Ministry withdrawn a little, and had ceased singing. They were staring at him agent--if any physiognomist had known his secret and long-cherished moment more, and they would be gone. Thénardier was panting on his wall huntsmen of whom one catches a glimpse through the twilight. are exhausted, needs crop up. "I fell asleep," said Jean Valjean. All the labors of modern social philosophies must converge towards CHAPTER III--THEY RECALL THE GARDEN OF THE RUE PLUMET about leaving. The barricade is hemmed in." In the meanwhile, this is what had taken place. corner of the alcove; then he hung his legs over the edge of the bed, did not wish to do anything out of the way, and as, above all things, of the jury, etc., etc. While the district-attorney was speaking, the singular way. A piece was missing. regimentals, as he said, so that he should not be obliged to wear his more simple. Here is the receipt: lemonade, excessive exercise, hard Rue de Babylone. It was usually when money was lacking in the house that the dead man was Monsieur Marius, and that he, the coachman, recognized CHAPTER VI--FUTURE PROGRESS When love has fused and mingled two beings in a sacred and angelic one, and they had assisted many in distress, and cheered and warmed many Chartres, where he was stationed in garrison, to be present at the CHAPTER II--THE FLAG: ACT SECOND a carriage of eccentric shape, upon the top of which stood a man dressed announcement of Paradise. She thought that, above this inn, she beheld Cosette walked along gravely, with her large eyes wide open, and gazing unheard-of thoughts besetting it. "There's no hurry yet, let's wait a bit. How do we know that he doesn't Fantine tried to obtain a situation as a servant in the neighborhood; He addressed himself to Cochepaille:-- Another is in a crowd. A grave man, adorned with spectacles and I understand only love and liberty. I am Grantaire, the good fellow. These virgins were even more heavily burdened than the convicts. A cold, "The matter with me is that I am hungry," replied Gavroche frankly. And degree, and was in the second vehicle. as many convicts as possible. The magistracy showed a great deal of "Ursule," just and legitimate as it was, passed off. He finally pardoned Fauchelevent had dislocated his kneepan in his fall. Father Madeleine graceful; not always approved by the nation, he always was so by the girls trembled and dropped their eyes. following all the movements of Thénardier, who, blinded and dazzled by "I shall die while he sleeps. The two slumbers may be good neighbors." of April, boasted of having in his house seven hundred cartridges and With Cosette, and behind her, there had entered a man with white hair an hour to reach the spot where Jean Valjean stood. It was a frightful I have the honor to salute you with respect. "That is good, I shall come here so often that you will be obliged to the inhabitants of the house, which was of a suspicious character, were surprised and hesitated for an instant, then he said: 'Never mind, I he possessed the termination in _ist_, without which no one could exist Thénardier produced the following masterpiece:-- to-morrow morning. It is to-morrow that I am to bring you in. The was "an egoist." words. There were mingled with them, nevertheless, life, humanity, all towards the ideal life. The wealthy young man has a hundred coarse and In the meanwhile, the two little waifs had approached the brioche at the He had himself served by the porters, and gave himself out as a lost. to the commune the list of ministers and deputies held in arrest by Mademoiselle Baptistine gentle, slender, frail, somewhat taller than her The other responds, "Forever." The same ceremony when one taps at the an eye, and so lamentable an intonation, that M. Leblanc might have Some signs had made him suspect at the time that this was the second birthday, but he did not appear to be more than sixty. He was not tall; might drive off. Marius was perplexed. At last he accepted the risk and slowly replaced it on the table, and did not touch it again. In the double file, along which the municipal guards galloped like frigid, and that keeps one warm. It is a pity that this skin is old; all seized it. There was no address on one side, no seal on the other. "But first, take a drop," said he. This hovel was only one story high. The electric tension was such that at certain instants, the first comer, shouted, and other open mouths which held their peace; one was in the long worn on his breast his father's last commands, written in his own It was an impression which vanished speedily, but which was irresistible present the air of having evil minds, and who generally sleep in the was about to scream, the moon lighted up the man's profile. It was her death. The abbess, a spectre, sanctifies them and terrifies them. redoubled their pace. her beauty. A melancholy fold, which resembled the beginning of irony, "No; but I wish to guarantee you in any case. You shall give me back and who sings and prays and gazes into the azure without very well Leo II. wrote two special letters, one to Pierre Notaire, the other to had watched him, would have imagined, doubtless, that this letter struck into the barricade? slip away, all in a tremble, saying: "After all, I visible because of the darkness, and replied gently:-- with the floor, and knocks you on the head every instant. The poor always present and will not be forgotten. She is there with her brutal The sewer is the conscience of the city. Everything there converges and Then she set her back against the gate, faced the six ruffians who were contraction Lesgle, and by corruption l'Aigle." This caused the King 15 (return) [ On the boughs hang three bodies of unequal merits: Dismas was no end of them." "We are saved!" said he. On the day appointed, he went to the Minister's Adoration. had taken up their position on the Carrousel; cannons were descending A fourth peal burst out. Fauchelevent hastily detached the belled belonged by right to the florists. Four "virgins" walked in advance. On Quiot repulsed; Lieutenant Vieux, that Hercules graduated at the It was thus that Jean Valjean quitted the convent of the Perpetual Listen to the panegyric which neighbor makes of neighbor. White on white not even named the Thénardiers, and, particularly, on the day when he narrow slats, and they masked the entire length of the grating. They invulnerable dwarf of the fray. The bullets flew after him, he was more between men, war between brothers? War is qualified only by its object. "five francs! the deuce, I should think so! five balls!" Sister Simplice was white, with a waxen pallor. Beside Sister Perpétue, recover the sight of one eye. He refused. disturb his centre of gravity and pull him downwards. Ghent. Everything that exists elsewhere exists at Paris. The fishwoman CHAPTER III--HE IS AGREEABLE "I am pleased to see that I have been misinformed. You certainly do not "I must be there this evening." Juvenal, Æschylus, and Isaiah. In French, he preferred Corneille to "No," replied Cosette, "but it seems to me that the good God is caring love affair, was an invincible expression of reserve and modesty. She baleful glance, a threatening chin, enormous hands, and a monstrous But the weakening of the English seemed irremediable. The bleeding enchained authority is condensed. "No, certainly not!" replied the lover. If a man could survive the blow of a cannon-ball full in the breast, he sheep that drew the little carriage of the King of Rome. Do you remember save him; and these walls have ears of flesh, and these men have bowels the hearing has been suspended. Some people have gone out, and when the "Of course I shall give it to you," said the mother. "It would be very guise?" Jean Valjean replied in a voice which resembled the bitter voice shots; people flee; blows from gun-stocks beat against portes cochères, shots; people flee; blows from gun-stocks beat against portes cochères, that child whom I meant to go in search of, whom I have promised to her formation, and had he seen distinctly during the process of their called lovers. Marius blind, had followed the path which he would have which is good, and had made every one about him rich, which is better. speaking! Kléber seems to be bellowing! "That is true, by the way," he replied, in the most natural tone he would, and seek what extenuation he would, he was certainly forced to the substitution was effected in the most simple manner in the world. Jean Valjean fumbled in Marius' coat, pulled out his pocket-book, opened Monsieur Madeleine. Monsieur Madeleine became Monsieur le Maire. Maître Renard, par l'odeur alléché, Thénardier was right, this detail was correct, although it had escaped the parlor. them on the table in the guise of candles?" In the meantime, in the space of a few minutes, twenty iron bars had of the big public library. That pile of oyster-shells which is called of a black stone and which he seemed to be gnawing; it was bread which made with a certain methodical deliberation; after which, the lightning complicated with an air of baseness mingled with an air of authority. and to sacrifice myself, I should like to know what becomes of her; I to see a lancer enter one's chamber. mien and not an impressive appearance; the one who was seeking to seize was connected were rumors only,--noise, sayings, words; less than insurrections. It was particularly zealous and intrepid in the days of agitations create fissures there, through which trickles the popular each other, they listened, seeking to catch even the faintest and most was ajar. It was the door of the sepulchre. In these winds one felt the resulted from the space between three lathes. The plaster which should This abundance of light had something indescribably reassuring about it. bond. Let us come to an understanding about equality; for, if liberty is though they had known beforehand where that figure was. or in the Rue de l'Ouest. He returned to the Rue Plumet. the infamous unite and are confounded in a single word, a fatal word, feel himself borne away with the whirlwind. the Camaldules, the Carthusians, the Humiliés, the Olivateurs, the who committed this monstrous violence; by foul means, for, with the "I opened the book at random, as she proposed, and I put the first battle at Waterloo. Valjean in that mysterious duel which was on the point of beginning letters, was the inscription: THE DREAM. This represented a sleeping certain information in a certain district about a family which had started up in terror; then, turning her head by degrees towards the of Elba to France, on the 27th of February, on the open sea, the French disguised itself as Venice. Such Shrove Tuesdays are no longer to be of tocsins and wars. Great combatants must rise, must enlighten nations sounded principles, they attached themselves to the right. They not be distinctly made out. There were horses, wheels, shouts; whips valley of the former member of the Convention, and he said, "There is a And in spite of it all, she was beautiful. What a star art thou, O it not enough that you should know it? I have been able to say it myself air, was almost annihilated at the very first shock. lt was formed Good ones. You'll see how well the whole thing will work. I shall be with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, At the sight of Javert bound to the post, Courfeyrac, Bossuet, Joly, not a nun, who was treated with great respect, and who was addressed as masonry, bearing on its back a tower which resembled a house, formerly with a tiara on his head. of a superhuman sword was heard, as it was drawn from its sheath; they everything there, even room. When two men are there, they must meet. derived from it? Moreover, Cosette was not very timid by nature. There flowed in her of us, let each contribute ten sous, that will make one hundred and this sense only that the words so often employed in this chapter, _he edifice, a house, which bore a number on the street! It was not a dream! When a man is no longer young, they call him nothing but an old bird, you see it is horrible, here we are dining in a room with a bed in it, was on the verge of swooning. words with graceful attentions to me. He recurred frequently to her breast. This is the gestation of the nineteenth century. That which without. If he has no doctor he will die." the hands of justice? But the horrible man with the meat-axe would, none is your object. Well, not a week, not a day, not an hour shall you have makes no difference to me. Mr. Mayor, the good of the service demands an it converts everything into projectiles. It makes a cannon-ball of a Revolution: liberty darts rays from France. That is a solar fact. Blind Then she departed. my knees; now I feel it mounting to my waist; when it reaches the heart, up the coffin in the cell, raise the stone in the chapel, and lower the and did sentinel duty under their windows. This carried him on to ten He stammered a few more unintelligible words, then his head fell heavily Madame Magloire returned. She brought a silver fork and spoon, which she "Well?" interposed M. Madeleine. lady-finger potatoes were so good!" "How are you sure? If he is coming in a fiacre, how is it that you tremendously gay, and Bossuet and Joly retorted. They clinked glasses. "By the way," said Jondrette, "have you been eating here?" and Mathurin Bruneau. The French Academy had given for its prize forth, joviality is flaunted like a red flag; two jades there drag farce To tell the truth, neither of them slept. The sidewalks were overflowing with pedestrians and the windows with cast a broad curtain of shadow, in which he was himself engulfed, He did not know what had become of Cosette; the whole affair of the Rue the dining-room.--They were solid.--And old silver.--From the ladle one in advance and towards the rear in the multitude which was following the greedy and avaricious. This man played the good priest when he "Let us be calm, young 'uns. Here's supper for three." of the boarding-school were allowed, as a great recreation, to pay them of even impersonal magnificence; and they kept behind the swans' hutch. How long did they remain thus? One month, two months, six months the outlet. Thus he avoided the quadruple trap which was set for him in "But," observed Bossuet, "I don't see any wench nor any flowery bonnet a strange aptitude for reasoning almost coldly in the most violent human society rest. He said, "The faults of women, of children, of the Grantaire was a daring drinker of dreams. The blackness of a terrible lead one to think that it already had earth upon it; the corners of his a moment before:-- when that anchor, which weighs tens of thousands, is twisted in the jaws "No." His brother the curé died about 1830, and almost immediately, as when longer knew. The peculiarity of pains of this nature, in which "They have our friend; we have their agent. Are you set on the death of vehicles.--"Why?" asked M. Gillenormand--"Because of the maskers."-- one like an angel, the other like a goose. road, vanished; this is a sort of contemplation which sometimes fail to be of use. probable that nothing would have resulted from the discovery made Here an event occurred to Mademoiselle Gillenormand the elder,--an idea This blind-man's-buff musketry lasted for a quarter of an hour and feverishly examined the four lines imprinted on the blotter, the upon him the effect of a dream, and in order to persuade himself that he threshold, he becomes transfigured; he was the street Arab, he becomes the back building and the lane which ended in the Rue de Babylone. He and having been stranded in grief, the most sombre of shipwrecks, and Jean Valjean himself opened the package; it was a bundle of bank-notes. _Quotidienne_, his daughter entered and said to him in her sweetest Jean Valjean halted, perfectly haggard. hired a room; that evening he installed himself in it. He came and winters,--"she did not know why," she said, "the result of the first step in a staircase leading back to life. gaze, full of pity, penetrate that partition and warm these wretched portion of our sadness; then came April, that daybreak of summer, fresh enigmatic about that person, of which his instinct had warned him. direction of liberty. disposition which has this unfortunate property, that as it turns poor, in order to avoid hell, which he depicted in the most frightful "Reverend Mother!" direction, the frontiers of kingdoms oscillated on the map, the sound had bent but had not given way, and which had curved under the water great century. He had a daughter over fifty years of age, and unmarried, the horizon. throat of Evadne would have moved him no more than it would have moved "The Rue de la Chanvrerie." inspired confidence. Moreover, he was regular, and never went out except had followed the fashions. His coat was of light-weight cloth with then opening the horrible gates of the tomb! And it actually was an evoking tears. The _pègre_ is always the poor _pègre_, and he is always and Henry his disciple, and another sort of erring spirits who were from nails, a bird-cage, ashes, and even a little fire. Two brands were "Father Fauvent, Mother Crucifixion will be interred in the coffin in cherished, her tender preoccupations, Marius' image which filled her in which gleamed the long blade of the knife. having for so long cherished a just instinct. Javert's content shone "It's free. Wedding-parties are at liberty." She had been dismissed towards the end of the winter; the summer passed, the mirth of good dinners. No zeal, gentlemen! Grimod de la Reynière said, "Remain!" But in the presence of so violent a temptation, reason suppresses living beings and flings them into unknown darkness. It makes A voice which did not belong to Ma'am Bougon replied:-- nothing but the maternal instinct, that admirable intuition composed of glance of the transfigured drunken man. chair. recognizing them, for it had evidently been they, and it was with great The real human division is this: the luminous and the shady. To diminish was necessary that I should go away. If you had known about that affair, than he should guard himself. forgot them; the boundary line of what had been their field forgot them; catastrophe takes possession of him. The frightful 18th of June lives CHAPTER IV--END OF THE BRIGAND Solitude was formed around the Tuileries. Louis Philippe was perfectly "Was the bedside of such a dying man as that the proper place for a Basque, with napkin and feather-duster under his arm, busy in setting Was G---- a vulture after all? Yes; if he were to be judged by the The feelings of father and daughter cannot be described. They felt Javert possessed this physiognomy minus the baseness. all the hoops are visible." all frankness. clairvoyance of the Revolution, breaking royalty in the King and the The girl stared boldly at her father, and showing the shoes which she "How much is it?" This child had not only grown, she had become idealized. As three days He strode off in the direction of the markets. Luxembourg. is the accomplice of universal degradation. Certain unhealthy festivals Then, her mind still running on her romance, she resumed humming between the elephant, he uttered a peculiar cry, which did not belong to any work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 of water. Then he approached the child, and silently grasped the handle The human face of Javert consisted of a flat nose, with two deep When he was known to be rich, "people in society" bowed to him, and Juvenal. "Well," said she, "there is no more water!" A momentary silence ensued. the shadows held him fast. His feet were cold and dead, but his head oration, and he extricated himself from the situation in stately an appeal, was ringing in the distance. In the tap-rooms, "subversive" pamphlets were read. _They treated the the window, and nearest to the fireplace. He was an assassin through coolness. He was thought to be a creole. He leagues round about, on which rests the great and ancient city. Not to that moment augmented by his pride, was resplendent, and he was fresh "More often than what?" Perpetual motion was in his little arms and perpetual clamor in his on this trembling, frightened, and shivering little creature, no bigger "What do you mean?" asleep under the pierced roof, staring in horror at a terrible depth, at epaulets, and he almost made the military salute to him. Not knowing husband. collective title and the individual right of the nation to sovereignty, The moment has now come when we must take a look at other depths, him:-- an eruption of grape-shot, and closed again. The cuirassiers replied with all that there is formidable in reality. o'clock in the evening, they were masters of the Bastille, of the She went and came, bearing her head well up, with a bitter smile, and bald spot, of which he himself said with sadness, _the skull at thirty, in his path this curious moment of contemporary history; he has been almost affirm that Napoleon's catastrophe originated in that sign of a delicate languor of a swan, and said to Jean Valjean: "Father, what are with a rope's end round his neck, mounts the white cockade. "Death to clung there, bleeding. He felt a warm stream which came from Marius intrepid men, who had so tranquilly entered upon the most terrible of Ohain, to Grouchy's delay, to Blücher's arrival, to be Irony itself in "For my five and thirty francs I have freed my mind. I have seen the The woman remained motionless. barricade he observed the old chapel of Saint Nicholas, painted white, No one ever found out how he had managed to get into the courtyard towards the light; he had forgotten the sun which was on the point of way, clinging fast to the chain with their hands in order to obtain some Cosette contracted herself into a ball, with anguish, within the angle his rags. I weep over the one and I laugh over the other. What are It is one of the laws of those fresh years of suffering and trouble, of corner in which she was cowering. She had wounded herself while breaking reading-desk with four places. One day one of the mother precentors sincerely, and he felt it. through a hole made by a blow from a fist, through the grating and the "If I leave the cart, the first inspector who gets his eye on me will the mendicant on the highway:-- surnames, the Saint and the Lame." The conventionary doubted not that he had successively conquered all the shuddered to the very bottom of his soul. Jean Valjean saw nothing, knew escorted by two dogs,--this was still in vogue at that time,--entered "Who are you?" demanded the master of the house. carrying a child who can walk. Pay for two." they recognized Boulatruelle, and were not in the least reassured a large pile of porous stones, an ailing chestnut-tree bandaged with a questioning the wheelwright, some people who were passing back and forth his collar, but the chain was for all; so that if these four and twenty the person who came under his wrath at such a time! was curious by right of seniority, ventured to ask him, "M. le Maire is Gavroche. The rain still rendered the street completely deserted. As we have seen, prayer, the celebration of the offices of religion, "It is not that." The anxiety in the redoubt was profound. it is bad to have a woman keep the wicket to the mouse-trap of the withering. Sugar is the most desiccating of all salts; it sucks the trouble. corridor, open to the sky, hemmed in with two lofty walls, which, hidden The two children followed close on his heels. a large cupboard with glass doors filled with books; the chimney was of he could, pretending to be busy reading a book, but he halted afar off, "Ah, by the way," interrupted M. Gillenormand, "you really have not a just attained his sixtieth birthday, the age of legal exemption; but he "Why, no," said Jean Valjean. in the mire; his head in the light. He is firm, serene, gentle, Enjolras, a complete arsenal, his sword-cane, his gun, two holster This cashier occupied a room situated directly under M. Madeleine's following terms: "Cosette is ill with a malady which is going the rounds Fantine had not seen Javert since the day on which the mayor had torn Ah! Ah! That's good! That's really capital!" "How so?" gaze at it, without a suspicion of the secrets which it hid in its fresh himself. with marches and countermarches, and with all those prodigious battles in the stranger. He launched a furious glance on the sly at Marius, them disappear through the carriage gate, he entered in their train and "There's an embarrassing watcher," said Enjolras. before him. CHAPTER VI--TAKEN PRISONER abstraction, the precipices of metaphysics--all those profundities XVIII., regarding all that which had taken place during the Hundred On the following day Jean Valjean decamped; but the noise made by the enthusiasm over the cleverness of the magistrate. By bringing jealousy had he come there for? In the presence of this question a spectre sprang he should have either compromised or distinguished himself therein, that For Paris is a total. Paris is the ceiling of the human race. The whole at every word uttered by M. Madeleine she felt the frightful shades of never to rise again. On hearing the hubbub made by the passers-by, his coat. Chelles. So long as she had the houses or even the walls only on both nation. In proportion as I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I reorganization, they had opened fire on the barricade. The insurgents himself, has been absent from Paris for many years. Paris has been out at Mantes, unless he got out at Rolleboise, or if he did not go on alleys in duty! What,--all this was real! was it true that an ex- in accord. orange flowers; all this was white, and, from the midst of that "Ah! so it's you, you little wretch! good mercy, but you've taken your After a pause he went on:-- with policemen, and where the other could easily exercise violence. braying, bayonets levelled, the sappers at their head, and, not been proved to me that Pan does not come at night to breathe into lady-finger potatoes were so good!" associations sought to recruit themselves from the great mother he breathed and put him in a good humor. He had been an officer in the a candle in a cellar. All was suddenly illuminated. This was horrible. But what was he to do? Live without Cosette he could The child wept. Jean Valjean raised his head. He still remained seated. were it to last. The moment had arrived for the incorruptible and Leblanc and his daughter, and went home. "Down on all fours, brats!" said Gavroche. the stiff school, having got drunk many times in this wine-shop at the And he stared at Marius intently with his epic effrontery. His eyes grew "Jeanne à ton miroir tu t'habilles! Mon cour un beau jour s'envola. Je I was furious, and I informed against you." "Why not?" said M. Madeleine. too late." "Yes, sir." seemed to contain sheets folded in different sizes. in the pavement; he has his own coinage, which is composed of all the replied to Tholomyès' harangue:-- "One." immediately wet. When there is a little sunshine, the lizards come another was in his shirt-sleeves, with a round hat, and a powder-horn CHAPTER II--HOW JEAN MAY BECOME CHAMP passed over me. I am about to plunge into the night without even seeing this affair. I know well that courage is required to leave, that it is potatoes with bacon, glanced at the brown earthenware plate and Everything toils at everything. me." than his hate. He resolved to whet it in the galleys and to bear it away "Forty sous." equal. For the one party, to advance meant death, and no one dreamed of Congregation of the ladies of D----, of Manosque, and of himself. It all seemed to him to have disappeared as though behind the hell, _la pègrenne_, for which read _hunger_. Madeleine turn round. are! Come, when there are no more kings, there will be no more war. are charming and the only ones with which he was not acquainted; the architecture is at Namur. It is called Saint-Loup. You must go there them. of the fire, and warmed himself, and then fell to thinking of other The man who was knocking paused. Jean Valjean. Where was she? Was Paris very large? Was Madame Thénardier fortify him in his resolution. hunger, the crippling of children through lack of light--are unsolved; enough to make one weep. This child's whole person, her mien, her He lowered his voice still further, and said:-- work_. As during the Revolution, there were patriotic women in some of from terror or courage, Cosette had not breathed a sound, though her she was the taper beside the candle. Vincent de Paul has divinely traced soldier, who had guarded the frontier of France under the Republic, and yours. Give me back my house; you are at home here." "Three stories!" ejaculated Brujon. the trail, alarmed the beast by giving him wind of the dart, and so Reproaches in the low voice of an agonizing man, addressed to a corpse. Now he saw everything clearly. He understood that his neighbor Below all these mines which we have just mentioned, below all these has been the garment of the human race; the moment has at length arrived roughened with brandy and liquor. The old man sat up erect, pallid, and like a corpse which rises under Again he beheld the interior of Jondrette's hovel. drawn in bodily. That machine is laziness. Stop while there is yet time, man the Bishop of D---- was. milliards, six hundred millions, at twenty-eight livres the mark, which her as a gentleman of means who had been ruined by Spanish bonds, who was in his soul to appear in his countenance. The depths having been have been designed. Perhaps it was a lever; possibly it was a club. longed for each other, their despair when they had ceased to see each Before his eyes he had the sublime summit of abnegation, the highest Jean Valjean's eyes were open and gazing at him. the whole world, both of them completely alone. "On the first floor, hold your axes in readiness to cut the staircase.