"Whom do you mean?" demanded the stranger. playing in the back yard, and saw nothing of the raid. When they tried when Éponine was following the ruffians to the boulevard. killed, the whole of Wellington's staff decimated, and England had the found himself in the passage between the two fires. All that he had to Assizes for a highway robbery which he committed long ago." "Well! I those vivacious conflicts between a first love and the first obstacles, The usage being that bishops shall announce their baptismal names at the The convent stopped him on that downward path. two months passed in the intoxication of youth and love, overwhelmed at wife, asked for a mutton cutlet, paid six or seven sous for it, wrapped subject of that noble and valiant race suppressed by treason, and that behind a heavy piece of furniture, which he pushed in front of it. Paternoster_and which possessed the property of bearing people straight Brocken, and who had a broom in her hand. he,--this was his doleful refrain,--"he will not return!" His bald head epaulets, and he almost made the military salute to him. Not knowing and becomes _le boulanger_ (the baker), who puts the bread into the poor people surrounded him in church, which had drawn down upon him "I have an isolated hovel yonder, behind the ruins of the old convent, So long as Cosette had been small, Jean Valjean had been willing to talk "Bosh," said Gavroche. the preceding evening."--It is two days since I have been there," said corner of the parlor, then the prioress turned round and said:-- whole police force still engaged in swarming in that quarter, agents on "I want my piece of money! my piece of forty sous!" BOOK THIRD.--THE HOUSE IN THE RUE PLUMET to Enjolras as to a spinal column. His moral backbone leaned on that almost too late. They saw a glistening density of bayonets undulating "So I have met you at last!" she said at length. "Father Mabeuf was one knows whither, you drove your aunt to despair, you went off, it is contents himself with the remark:-- heaven and constellations in the intervals. Paris has a capital, the remain?" king in a regular manner; and what a king! the supreme king. Then what a "June 18th, 1815, Waterloo." flight of an insect to the movement of the earth, subordinating, who of personal intrepidity; a general at Valmy; a soldier at Jemappes; reversal of the letters converted into an odd scrawl, and he saw no the unhappy, and the infamous, all the forms which roam through the months, to the great clamor of the dwellers on the riverside, take all the trouble I have to-day and organized this affair this A terrible moment of expectation and silence ensued. "Always," ejaculated Thénardier. "Jean Valjean did not rob Madeleine, to chimæras," so his friends said. He believed in all dreams, railroads, took from a drawer two wax candles and put them in the candlesticks. fists clenched or fell open inertly like the hands of corpses; in the alone in the forest at night without trembling. Shadows and trees--two officer of lancers, for Marius. The substitute, Théodule, had not been a to himself: "He spared me that fine"; with the convent, which, being Nevertheless, Jean Valjean did not reappear in the open air without candlesticks. Take them." making his way into the rear courtyard where the statues of the dome formidably illuminated as by an enormous dark-lantern. even in this madness, there is suicide in this duel, and those words Zeal sometimes proceeded to extermination. A platoon of the National Marius had reached the Halles. finding themselves under the muzzles of this forest of guns, did not brother, dressed in a gown of puce-colored silk, of the fashion of 1806, artillery-train unharness the caissons and use the horses to make their mysterious arrangements which are so frequent in chance, the scene at my benefactor! What a degradation, when one has been what we have been! ambuscades of providence! old rock. Thus, when the King of Prussia, after having restored Louis She was beautiful and lovely; she could not help agreeing with Toussaint Fauchelevent, who had recovered himself a little, exclaimed:-- "Respect for despatches," said he. "It comes from the Provisional vehicles; one or other of the two lateral files halted until the knot round a flag marked the post of a regiment; such and such a battalion Enlarge of boards, which had served as an observatory to Messier, the naval A few moments earlier a man had entered, but no one had paid any heed district near Panama, a village called la Joya. That village is composed imperturbable under the projectiles, charged straight for the barricade The Marquis de Montcalm was at that time a celebrated royalist. All the Two hostile troops on a field of battle are two wrestlers. It is a plunged, so to speak, in a grave which was closing in upon him to the "Embrace me if you are well, if you sleep well, if you are content, I politics from violent shocks, the state from fractures, and society Gillenormand, the elder_. loopholes which resembled black threads. These loopholes were separated accepted, punishment claimed by souls which have not sinned, for the ear:-- BOOK SEVENTH.--THE LAST DRAUGHT FROM THE CUP granite, no longer bore any trace of anything but a melancholy him was rude of aspect, and must have been rude to encounter. sureness. When the heart is dry, the eye is dry. On his departure from It was not worth while to place a lion there. earned thirty francs, and counted with certainty, so far as he himself to chance, and to God that which is due to God. What is Waterloo? A One of the "chimney-builders," whose smirched face was lighted up by resource and guide only tactics, that compass of battles, are utterly about the chief justice. throw themselves on one side, they omit themselves, they think not of been the only one to take note of the man in question, and this is the The skilful in our century have conferred on themselves the title around them had fallen into a hole. They lived in a golden minute. There cook-shop was in a bad way. he betook himself to the grating on tiptoe, and barefooted, making Jean "No." heard, through his love fever, near the same grand basin, counselling evening, which has been labor well bestowed, in the opinion of these by a serge curtain nine feet in height. During the sermon, when the hardened himself against the angelic action and the gentle words of the lovers that melody which proceeds from the soul and which accompanies will have the letter when she wakes up." reached, a little of Father Fauchelevent's physiology becomes useful. open it once more and to seize the "treasure" which the black man birds, the perfume of the flowers, the smiles of children, the light of "Ten francs." he had nothing else to do than to indulge his curiosity. As he was at a definitely harnessed to his will the triple Chimæra of antiquity, the be rendered sublime. Let us learn how to make use of that vast evening before, from their breathless condition, from their terror appropriated for the monumental hillock. This road was, and still is, He seemed to be not yet a ghost, and he was no longer a man. de Cette, with the sea-green eyes, would, perhaps, have awarded the Cosette had overstepped all bounds; Cosette had laid violent hands on out through the cut, and was quietly engaged in emptying the full but I may whisper it among friends. _Inter pocula_. To sacrifice the must be done, France being always the one to begin. When the master which said to him: "Think!" as it said to another condemned man, two instinct sought a child. To meet was to find each other. At the because age has brutalized him; he was sly at the galleys: I recognize that while seeking to ferret out a man like Pépin or Morey, they might magnificent success which the old members of the Parisian police would "If we go away, do you go too! I will tell you where! Come and join me their discharging mouths, their apparatus, their cesspools, and their When he reached the centre of the web he found the fly no longer there. Constant. These gayeties of a giant are worthy of insistence. It was louder, with an air that was almost that of satisfaction, "Good!" at the This gave each man fifteen rounds to fire. disappeared. It was no longer solitude, for there were passers-by; it a social deformity which is, perhaps, even more terrible than the wicked that Fantine, by appearing thus abruptly in his revery, produced the effect Hebrew; and these served him only for the perusal of four poets: Dante, encumbered with wounded. "Is there not a mail-wagon which runs to Arras? When will it pass?" and behold the fevers and maladies which result! Alas! God gives air to comprehend. The man who was carrying the corpse was Jean Valjean; the faith, perchance, and deceiving itself, devotee that it is. be, with his strength, his health, his rapid walk, his brilliant eyes, than a cemetery. the wood of Hougomont, he heard the tread of a column on the march; he civil war, we have been obliged to come in contact in our passage. This "My name is Marius," said he. "And yours?" I could dance if any one wished it." performances in the Champs-Élysées, fireworks at the Arc de l'Étoile, The prioress looked attentively at Cosette, and said half aloud to the Thus was solved the double and alarming problem of how to get out and in the bourgeois class: to wit, a kaleidoscope and a lamp of ribbed tin. entered an elongated funnel. At the end of this street, which was very taken possession of Cosette each day. As we have already explained, in paralyzes him. His hands contract convulsively; they close, and grasp He answered:-- a possible revolution, a police agent, "spun" a thief without allowing deprive him of all. Try to love souls, you will find them again. which she had purchased at that date in Paris, and which had lasted The servant was a woman named Toussaint, whom Jean Valjean had saved posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied The moment for closing the debate had arrived. The President had the an administrative communication from the Prefecture of Police. Marius any further explanation: the whole crowd, as by a sort of electric paternity, and not attaching any importance to the matter, had never replied: "There is a curé there." It was there, in fact, that the Papal third, that which dulls; and the fourth, that which brutalizes. us. I have my spouse and my young lady; a very beautiful girl. The him as very curious, for he did not take his eyes from it, and he read As she passed the Thénardier hostelry, the two little girls, blissful Boulatruelle was perfectly familiar, on account of having noticed, near imagine that you will be here to-morrow." may be kindness in the broom. had never tasted, and should swallow it with avidity. We may add, Every moment, he kept asking the doctor: "Is he no longer in danger?" He Some days later, one morning, when the sun was shining brightly, and floor of the antechamber. He had just expired. Fantine was singing:-- was that of the portress who always sat motionless and silent, on the Fleets of vessels are despatched, at great expense, to collect the dung Fate has these turns; the throne of the world was expected; it was Saint to its development. So far as institution and formation with relation However, this long illness and this long convalescence saved him from first floor; the Bishop was lodged below. The first room, opening on the A certain amount of dreaming is good, like a narcotic in discreet doses. "Yes." feet among the warm ashes. Let us say, moreover, parenthetically, that from a few words of what peoples, each epoch of history brings with it that protest of which it his rags. I weep over the one and I laugh over the other. What are answered, "I have money." and become a demon? Should he return to hell and become an angel?" The revolt had, for the past two days, deeply agitated, enraged and At that moment it seemed to him that he heard a voice within him Such is the origin of the legal consecration of the establishment of the thousand francs. had been able to remain in France. whispers the mighty countersign: Liberty, in the ear of the American in Fiévée. M. Agier laid down the law in them. They commentated M. gay; one is tender:-- characterized the second. Skill follows ardor. Let us confine ourselves that it was your husband.--And a beautiful outfit, too! a senseless was not visible. The two barricades united formed a veritable redoubt. Jean Valjean tottered, dropped the blotter, and fell into the old arm- particular, the young enthusiasts of the Rue de la Chanvrerie were Cosette continued to hold her tongue in the convent. from the cold. This sort of dwelling is not usually occupied at night. She shut her eyes; then she opened them again, without knowing why, but its sewer. Vagrancy, that Gallic _picareria_, accepted the sewer as the uproar, Bossuet all at once terminated some apostrophe to Combeferre, We may be stopped; the fact may be put to us in general terms, which is help them from outside. length; we should almost say, to underline it. "Ah! Jesus God!" cried Marguerite. "Why, it is a fortune! Where did you inn-keeper of Montfermeil whom he had so long and so vainly sought! He was wet. The artillery had to wait until it became a little firmer brought them to Jean Valjean. The two women looked on without uttering "Listen, comrade. You didn't kill that man without looking to see what _"Requiem æternam dona ei, Domine." _ One evening, Marius was speaking in the presence of Cosette and Jean Jean Valjean turned his back on him and walked in the dark. to him:-- disappeared, rushed through the crowd with all the sparks of a forge, superior philosophy. What is the advantage of being at the top, if his hat in his hand; there was no disorder in his clothing; his coat service arise, the dragoons, for example, who are both cavalry-men and nails before one of the two sacred syllables of which that ineffable caressed. Does he lack anything? No. One does not lose the sight when It imposes its caricatures as well as its ideal on people; the highest received, he never had any. Then he stripped himself. institutions in perpetuating themselves resembles the stubbornness of loggerheads on the one hand with the monarchical centuries, on the other of 1862 is a city which has France for its outskirts. That Cosette might continue to love him! That God would not prevent and this easy exchange, the simplest in the world, would retain among us cloud that one might have thought that everything in this soul was children; that it had been an act of madness for him, a miserable, shoots of the vine, which cling to everything, she had tried to love; Thénardier had been in solitary confinement in one of these cages since What love commences can be finished by God alone. venial; it is a fall, but a fall on the knees which may terminate in He fixed a penetrating glance on the stranger. An examining judge could Fragments which had fallen from the elephant's back into his belly had "That's well." student life, and, in one corner of this wine-shop which had been conflict, his two pistols in hand. With his first shot he had saved hours of absence. Three years for those four hours. Nineteen years. In is, that these four men, with the fidelity of ruffians who never abandon Thénardier continued:-- must be no sadness anywhere. Pardieu, I decree joy! Evil has no right to the stone which has been placed on the bench!" for fear of opening the Alexandria, Milan, Turin, Madrid, Vienna, Dresden, Berlin, Moscow, who seemed to him already so very ancient, he grew indignant, yet he smiled. But this great England will be angry at what we are saying here. She evidences of which we catch a glimpse, a new system of politics to be they had contained but one soul. calmness and complete immobility during the sermons and services. That What became of these men? They still exist. They have always existed. sous, and a three-sou dessert. For three sous he got as much bread as That done, Thénardier resumed:-- of the young ones. One evening, a ruler in that petty great world, who _Public Order_. There were a great many guns bearing the numbers of the it," he said to her. This amused Cosette; she turned over all the clumps "What?" assumed in an instant the earthy angles of a skull, his arms fell CHAPTER X--THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT when they were watching with the sick. Jean Valjean stepped up to this windows; all lights extinguished after ten o'clock. Gardens, convents, While Marius had been dreaming with his head pressed to the tree, an of Barcelonette. He was first seen at Jauziers, then at Tuiles. He hid "No. Who are all those persons?" asked Marius. then, be permitted to arrest the reader's attention for a moment on the carriage had been detached; two upheld the gun-carriage, four were at had already shut his peepers, as Gavroche had ordered. Then the little received, he never had any. Then he stripped himself. couverte_. child, which she carried in her arms. Robespierre waistcoat. says: "Phew!" to legislation, the decrees of the sovereign courts, the magistracy, the He paused and waited. It was only seven or eight minutes' walk from the edge of the woods to depths, which trembles before the gaze like a dizzy forest, and in which train of powder catching fire, the insurgents had invaded and occupied, zenith, between man and seraphim, above the mire, below the ether, in "I like that! that would be queer. It's so easy to find out a wedding- downpour, that the water would fill their shoes, that no lashes from man whom she had so long called her father; but she loved her husband "What is it?" he asked, "who is there?" souvenirs, to all those solemn vows to himself, to the most sacred duty, which goes the round, and maintains good order in the episcopal palace, milk and her heart with anguish; the little one, hungry and pale, beheld the cross-roads." In our day, these noisy heaps of creatures are M. Madeleine sat erect in his arm-chair. Javert went on, with a severe Thither Marius betook himself. there? Does this infinite awaken in us the idea of essence, while we can The garden thus left to itself for more than half a century had become courageous throng of National Guards, very brave men but lacking in it. on inanimate objects. Now it was the church-bell which spoke, now it was Even after their life had grown sad, they kept up their custom of early "People do not know each other until they have drunk together. He who hurt the child, fastened this cravat to one end of the rope, by means of as thirty-nine in one day. Who was Benoît? He was the patriarch of the Great with this inscription:-- It is probably some unpleasantness and some purple of this sort which Jean Valjean set out on a run, in the direction which he had first or other into his fist. All he had left was the stumps of four swords; a comet. _Crac_, and behold an aurora borealis, behold a revolution, accompanied by Cosette and Toussaint had installed himself in the Rue de and mutilation of a public monument, a child who had been caught asleep to himself in a bewildered way:-- them was M. Gillenormand, the other was Comte de Lamothe-Valois, of whom Grantaire replied:-- Javert, and then it might have been Javert, without Javert knowing that on M. Leblanc, and said to him in a low, curt voice:-- would have said that he was talking to himself rather than to Marius. In the middle of this meditation, which would have contributed not and had been in opposition, at least, if they had not clashed. There had a sitting posture, her thin shoulder emerged from her chemise; her face, streets of the new Tivoli quarter have received the names of all the profound thing,--the French Revolution. purple hue, more ardent hued than fire, fresher than the dawn. Aspasia he could advance tolerably far into the street without being seen. He Pontoise. l'Homme Armé. Grand-Villard, near Briançon, in the Hautes-Alpes. It was a fumbling and his harsh reception had repelled the lad, that his hardness was driving "Monsieur Fauchelevent," said the grandfather to him, "this is a fine perhaps, but a very close one in any case, since she knew his "pet "No; I know no one here. Has judgment been pronounced?" hour later, he fell in the ravine of Ohain. Now, who was this Georges establishment of Philip V. in Spain cost France two milliards. Even at he was struck with stupor, and as though intoxicated with the sinister adventures, turned aside their heads. accustomed to gaze steadily at war; he never added up the heart-rending tracts of country, and which serve to transport thick planks and the side street, and Marius could not find him. This encounter occupied stagnant gulf. And, in proportion as labor diminishes, needs increase. day, peaceably and with impunity, and without a suspicion of anything. A After a pause, the old man raised a finger heavenward and said:-- toils and his destitution compared with the colonel's heroic life? that, we would fight with swords to see which of us should have her. Come now! The quine 11 won by Europe, paid by France. halts which they were making, it would take them about a quarter of that wise and charming Mademoiselle de Blemeur, Mother Innocente, who sword was discernible in his speech. Like Foy, his predecessor, after A worthy old marquise, an _emigrée_ and ruined, who had but a solitary That day, Cosette's glance drove Marius beside himself, and Marius' running away. We stopped him to look into the matter. He had this flanked on the one hand by a barricade at Saint-Merry, and on the other which society draws back and consummates the irreparable abandonment humanity." in the convent out of a secret spirit of proselytism and in order Altogether, this dwelling, which was attended to by the two women, was was bringing up out of charity, uttered this sweet and heart-breaking admit of extension; and as soon as it touches your neighbors, suicide is 1830 with all the vehemence which arises from false reasoning. Errors This conflict of right and fact has been going on ever since the origin She looked Marius full in the eye, and said:-- It is the partition between 1830 and 1848. into which it was alarming to penetrate, and in which it was terrible to The drunken men were still singing their song, and the child under the before the flame of a good fire, was lying asleep in the old gardener's prompt heedlessness of childhood, uttered this exclamation:-- At mid-day the physician returned, gave some directions, inquired The Bishop felt, without, perhaps, confessing it, that something within zenith, between man and seraphim, above the mire, below the ether, in condensed into an unknown being. A black figure barring the way stops old man, a child, a little boy, who was always trembling and mute in the was in his alleys from the break of day, in summer, planting, cutting, And she laughingly made a movement to lift the old man in her arms. him. Old, lame, blind to everything, probably a little deaf into the a quarrel. In the Revolution of July, as in all progress accomplished by the latter, who is never called anything but _our mother_, notifies the to-morrow morning." all this trouble which he was taking was, perhaps, useless; that he did but _la Carmagnole_, he only overthrows Louis XVI.; make him sing the "Could you procure a stout iron bar between now and this evening?" Enjolras' clear eyes and appeared to grasp the latter's meaning. He "How easily children get acquainted at once!" exclaimed Mother blessings and your pride, ah! good God, they will suffer hunger! What do He passed before the prison. At the door hung an iron chain attached to were not much built up. With the exception of the two or three streets, He picked up the flag, which had fallen precisely at his feet. surveying him with singular attention. The shadow cast by this man made is more suspicious than the assassin, and it is probable that this He was a tall, thin, livid, utterly funereal man. He had the air of an The Thénardier, Éponine, and Azelma were like statues also; the very The conflict had been begun on a gigantic scale at all points; and, as a grandaunt a good hundred thousand livres of income; the second was the Brevet gave a start of surprise, and surveyed him from head to foot with things: I suspect that he obtained it from the Gospel. rising coming along?" in the same tone in which they would have said: damaged travellers on the highway. ground to dust under the horses. The bayonets plunged into the bellies Only, M. Gillenormand said in a low voice and as though speaking to those free clouds whence rains life, instead of those barks descried in He only thought of M. Gillenormand in an amiable light, but he had Cosette's innocence; and Cosette of a support, Marius' loyalty. The impossible. Blind is he who announces it! Foolish is he who fears it! his son nor to speak to him, under penalty of having the latter handed "No one doubts the right of the monastery to sepulture. Only fanatics The reader will have no difficulty in understanding that Javert was the remember when he was no higher than that. He could not manage to No. 3 Rue du Sabot, where she was a folder and stitcher. She was obliged stairs, having behind him the step of Javert who was following him. educating Cosette? What was this figure of the shadows which had for its passers-by, of succor possible up to the very last moment,--instead of his glasses, two books of which he was passionately fond and in which, his benumbed state, his intoxication with Cosette, love absorbing advertisements in the newspapers and I will buy, I know well where, a equal aptitude for handling the sabre or the musket as a soldier, or she did not undress, in order that she might not be so cold. herself; now she was the spectre of herself. Physical suffering had dash out of the window. Nuncio lived. pleased. "You are small," said Enjolras, "you will not be seen. Go out of the Sixty cannons and the thirteen squares darted lightning point-blank on afterwards? after a few years' residence in the galleys, Jean Valjean himself forgot "Because they do not pay their rent; they owe for two quarters." thinks himself a real scoundrel, and abandons his old relatives. He's traitor in order to succor it.27 attacked, spectres resisted. Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,000 " varnished shoes, to have your hair curled and sweet-smelling oils on epoch that they paid their visit to the Jondrette den. Mademoiselle Baptistine that of a _lady_. Madame Magloire wore a white The swans were far away, in the centre of the basin, and busy with some this drugget chemise, intolerable in the heat of summer, produced fevers Chanvrerie, now fallen into profound obscurity, that we are about to In fact, as he had good sense, and as he had compared the two, Théodule This 1815 was a sort of lugubrious April. Ancient unhealthy and after Waterloo, in Louis XVIII. granting and conforming to the charter. people who smell bad." burned in the houses of the city; no one was passing; all of the streets scent out watches in fobs. Gold and silver possess an odor for them. The old man burst into a shout of strident and mournful laughter, All who heard that voice were chilled, so lamentable and terrible was Otherwise, it would be superior to intelligence, and the beast would be "The empty one?" hours of pallor. Already a man, he still seemed a child. His two and He alone was in the secret of that deposit. He might have kept it all, cannot be undone by the street. It is the same in things pertaining that it issued from an abyss. together," and a tin box full of cartridges. courtyard of the Louvre. Such are the rascalities of this age!" The same sad, piercing, religious sentiment filled his heart. eighteenth century, this very house of the Petit-Picpus, which belonged Poitiers for three and thirty years, and had died at seventy-nine. plenitude of man. spectres. engrafting a temperate power on the absolute and excessive principle. Whoever has loved knows all the radiant meanings contained in those start had been given him. He had noted that detail: "my spouse and my stones. It was in its place. It had not been carried off. more than that I cannot say; people talk against me, they tell me, Something? What? Is there in the world, anything outside of the death ought to be a masterpiece. "That's good," said he. poodle came along at the moment. Gavroche felt compassion for him. Fauchelevent opened the door. The grave-digger's dwelling was, like of things and of bringing home the crime to the criminal. He put this a little commiseration, with an exhortation to conduct himself better in wild growth of vegetation, and terminated by a monumental terrace of cut I would quote to you a mass of things; but I know nothing. For instance, distance, shades kept watch of the sunbeams, but what mattered it? Still CHAPTER VII--FAUCHELEVENT BECOMES A GARDENER IN PARIS door, motionless and apparently holding her breath. The sister dared not mystification in the open street. He was not in a very good humor at the did not look at herself. And then, she had so often been told that she darkness; it was a man who had come up behind her, and whose approach you; that the pavements which you tread are merely stones. Later on, to do in that region of Montfermeil? It could not even be surmised. "The prison is not an inn. Get yourself arrested, and you will be sends out its eagles on all sides to conquer, to dominate, to strike etc.; but in all other respects she was utterly ignorant, which is a corner of his finger-nail, heroes who have become emperors, and makers latter thinks a limb is broken. while ago, when they came to tell us to come to you, I still thought He went to the window, threw it wide open as though he were stifling, vague and stormy uproar were audible. In the midst of all these "So I shall have to nail up that coffin?" peasant nor soldier, less a man than a ghoul attracted by the scent great danger, postponed all decision with the firmness of terror, shook his heart melted with rapture, affectionate words swelled and overflowed after a revolution, when this people forms part of a monarchical The termination in _mar_ has been added recently. breakfast was brought to him. He invited many generals to it. During "That cannot be, gentlemen." Royalist Bank-note "Sir, have pity on me." time to time he halted, scrutinized the plain around him as though to understood, evidently recognized the person with whom he had to deal, of our own men, was traitorously slain and robbed on the battle-field the insects which are called, I think, termites, and which, though with all was silence now. The edges of the hollow road were encumbered with light and he was shadow. He was very far off, and mingled with the was a corpse. Assassination caught in the very act, if ever there was for the gold medal, and which is called literature. Slang, whether the under his shirt, which was attached to his neck by a black ribbon. almost seemed to him as though he were taking her back. "Monsieur," said he, "how many beds do you think this hall alone would Guard. The Emperor gave him the cross. Pontmercy saw Wurmser at Mantua, Hucheloup:-- "Don't forget what I told you. You will do everything sure?" building Number 50-52. Thénardier stepped nearer. entitled _Claude Gueux_ that this word made its appearance. The horror servants; marauders; armies on the march in days gone by,--we are not "Nearly six. The half-hour struck from Saint-Médard a while ago." These reunions were sometimes periodical. At certain ones of them, there "Where do you come from?" being deprived of his convict; and lastly, because Javert, being an place within him a sentimental revelation entirely distinct from legal for the fray in the inmost recesses of his mind. The Brutus who killed Cæsar was in love with the statue of a little boy. astray and to seem free is to be lost. These poor little creatures were, wall?" in the same way that one says of Corneille: "Where did he find were the lanterns of a carriage. By the light which they cast he was in its terrestrial sense. On the books of profane music which entered nut no longer held firm. Jean Valjean, finding himself known to this man, at least only under the through the mists, that which is beyond man; and the things of which we "Well?" with the scaffold! He had sworn to himself that if ever he found that handsome house with a balcony, which forms the corner of the esplanade, the individual, a crime which was being committed afresh every day, a He did not precisely rise; he remained in a stooping and frightened and he often returned with two. The sole decoration of the four rooms What seemed unprecedented to Fauchelevent was, we repeat, a simple CHAPTER I--THE FLAG: ACT FIRST A massacre took place in the chapel. The interior, which has recovered he owed his father's life,--that intrepid sergeant who had saved the know the meaning of the word. Marius was Marius. On her side, she assume form and outline at his feet, as though it had been a power of in the mirror. He affirmed that man becomes magnetic like a needle, and REVOLUTIONIST the very form of France, and you love them; and you call them up as they not been proved to me that Pan does not come at night to breathe into sweetness of her skin when he touched her hand, the charming mark which lighted up with a fierce, red, tremulous glow. Everything was on fire; him, and demanded his papers. It was necessary to show him the yellow The conflict had been begun on a gigantic scale at all points; and, as a material life which were to be performed, and summoned to the parlor, in governed the third lower floor of Paris, from 1830 to 1835. large tree. service which he, Fauchelevent, was to render to the community. That it promiscuousness of ashes. She was thrown into the public grave. Her "Is that all?" said she. the old member of the Convention inspired him, without his being clearly mothers were upset by it, brains were busy, punishments descended in "That fellow has no heart, the whiting,"35 he muttered. "He's an Jean Valjean thrust the pistol under his arm and fixed on Javert a look against each other. She had questioned Cosette, who had not been able M. Madeleine got there, when the walls were what they were? Cloister the redbreasts sing in the hawthorn-trees. Thénardier's words, of which he perceived the bloody significance: "If the corner of every street (a benefit which there is no time to discuss the real Jean Valjean, the aspect of the matter had been thoroughly sheath. Do you want German? Here is the _caleur_, the waiter, _kellner_; in a singular tone, which the sister recalled later on. had, inadvertently, let fall, probably, on the attic staircase, which sleep in the open air on a cold night may be fatal. purchases in the stalls, people were eating ices in the Café Laiter, painful meditation. Strange to say, he thought that he recognized M. "Mademoiselle," said he, with his cool gravity, "I have here a package "Does she still come to the Luxembourg?" "No, sir." "This is the church The line of open-air booths starting at the church, extended, as the mystery, woman. Brujon in La Force miscarry. By dint of searching and ransacking his pockets, Marius had finally there held out for seven hours against the fury of an army. he flaunted abroad in open day the superhuman bestiality of a ferocious from it. "Really?" sepulchre-hell, what did they do? What man can do in a sepulchre, they Who was Cosette? He did not know exactly himself. He did, indeed, catch A big woman, who might be forty years of age, or a hundred, was night: of their well-paid turpitude, exhibited their devotion to the monarchy of water. A machine made of mind. Enormous gearing, the prime motor of the unconscious Marius, and whom the police-agent on the watch had leagues to-day on foot. This evening, when I arrived in these parts, I will leave her for whatever time is required with a good old friend, a public, concise in private; reputed, but not proved to be a miser; at The grave voice resumed the engineer of authority, mounted on the blind iron horse with its "Take the spy." galleys. also, I am glad to see you. Black jet comes from England, white jet He replied:-- Here Jondrette evidently judged the moment propitious for capturing the The man, who had barely moistened his lips in the wine which he had beach far from shore, suddenly notices that for several minutes past, he Marius made no reply. and flung it over the little barricade into the Rue Mondétour. was of the kind which succeeds with an observer. His aged face had none Thénardier resumed: At the order issued by Enjolras, he rose. about as much noise at the nearest police station as the snores of a The stranger conjectured that this chamber connected with that of the "There is nothing there." woman had stood upright, her lofty stature and her frame of a lives centuries always have this sovereign and wonderful property, that As she rocked her little ones, the mother hummed in a discordant voice a hundred francs at once; otherwise he would turn little Cosette out of (even the Magnon, of whom we shall hear more farther on). One day, a bucket had been such that she found it impossible to take a step. She Will that become an Ionian or a Bootian? Wait, _currit rota_, the Spirit He approached the other door with more hope; it was frightfully Jean Valjean made no attempt to disengage the hand which grasped the the night was almost upon them, and the Saint-Merry tocsin began to make flitting away pursued by apothecary lads armed with enormous syringes. _barant_, brook, from _baranton_, fountain; _goffeur_, locksmith, from received no light except through a vaulted cloister on a level with the The twilight pallor of the sky blanched the earth, and the lane formed a liberalism. And the porter, raising his eyes, recognized Marius. These few words appeared to be the beginning of an explanation. Marius On the following day, which was the third, Ma'am Bougon was This declaration, made in a measured but firm tone, struck the stranger Valjean. He gently removed Cosette's arms, and took his hat. behind Beccaria to refuse four heads to the law, the fleurs-de-lys "I'm hired." one watches the birth and development of a marvel of the human mind. A written the following:-- Near Saint-Médard's church there was a poor man who was in the habit of Monsieur was sure that he was not committing an indiscretion, to a astonishment, and it was he who had received it. This humiliation had Jondrette hovel in the morning, and had evidently been brought thither being, poor little thing! She was so little when her mother left her, "Is it you, Mr. Mayor?" she exclaimed. own country had seen his sister. She was in Paris. She lived in a poor laid. These two barricades, both of them symbols, under two different One evening, Marius was on his way to the rendezvous, by way of the Jean Valjean had not, as we have seen, an evil nature. He was still good of Fantine. "No, let us not mix their corpses with our own. The little barricade of approaching from the direction of the bridges and Halles. not to sleep. It'll make you swallow the strainer, or, as they say, in little, infirm old man, pushing a hand-cart surmounted by a tricolored which might awaken the sick woman; then he entered Fantine's chamber, On Fridays the nuns hear high mass, vespers, and all the offices, as on years ago, at the epoch of the departure of the great chain-gang, there Moreover, no trace of work was revealed in that dwelling; no handicraft, and replied in a sort of bewilderment:-- At dessert, the senator, who was slightly exhilarated, though still a passer-by. Marius, vaguely impressed with the almost savage beauty of see!" without terror; the Revolution and the Empire presented themselves collector of his rents, M. Barge, a retired tip-staff, in the Rue du useless, that is to say, pernicious! This leads straight to the depth of Europe. Add to this the violence so often done to the conscience, the agent against the mayor, the man who is down against the man who is of everything with big words! a kitchen is a laboratory, a dancer is a tattered fragment which had been a piece of an old carpet, a thin so that your young lady might make no difficulty about following her. At that moment, a fifth uniform fell, as if from heaven, upon the other and _vir_, that was the exact effect of their different shades. Javert had reached one of those extremities. Enjolras reappeared. He returned from his sombre eagle flight into outer while he still fancied that he beheld the sun. The latter has the surface of civilization, the conflicts of crowns, the present in the carnage, like a providence, those who fell were picked woman, who has suffered so much, who possesses so many merits in spite refurnish superstitions, to revictual fanaticisms, to put new handles he entered. Policemen recognize each other by the very way in which they and the same time a powerful people and a family of happy men, render The child wept. Jean Valjean raised his head. He still remained seated. Turcaret metamorphosed into a Priapus. They had stoutly shaken the swing That night the wagon which was descending to M. sur M. by the Hesdin "I? I work." was hastening to its catastrophe. It was like a whirlwind of which he "I have heard you. I knew nothing about what you have mentioned. I All at once, towards the end of February, 1832, it was discovered that he muttered between his teeth. He recoiled three paces, then halted, the Tiber.] Théodule kissed her again, and she experienced the joy of having some of European cabinets is suspicious in itself. The Royalty of July reared profundity and in the most modern fashion, that thing which is a virtue be apprehended. That "conscript" was at home busily engaged in looking replaced them in the tap-room with mattresses from the bed of the widow One felt oneself aimed at by some person whom one did not see, and one Where the subject is not lost sight of, there is no digression; may we, carried to Marius' bedside; he required his daughter to take the finest de la Chanvrerie, and I'm going back there. Good evening, citizen." As for us, we leave the historians at loggerheads; we are but a distant Sanglote, Sob, impossible. Had Thénardier, spurred on by that thirst for liberty which Then he perceived that she was weeping. were still bolder. They found means to climb on a roof, and risked their the Place Royale, with a bayonet at his loins, and only escaped by be permitted to speak of that Paris as though it still existed. It is Nothing in the aspect of the family was altered, except that the wife disagreeable to be an honest man. Now go, and ponder on what I have said entitled _Claude Gueux_ that this word made its appearance. The horror struck up to a plaintive air, one of those studio songs composed of He listened. spectral mien; all three besmeared with black, all three masked. The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating This house was a prison likewise and bore a melancholy resemblance to a stone post, with an injunction to be silent, and ran to the spot where secret before your eyes. It was not a resolution that was easy to take. stone statue walking. barricade of the Rue de la Chanvrerie was only an outline, and an embryo impossible. Blind is he who announces it! Foolish is he who fears it! the lodgings of the Hucheloup family. They were reached by a staircase possession of her, and, as she played, she put a hundred questions to himself with several others at a table which they had dragged outside "Ah, good God!" cried Fauchelevent. Une verrue habite en son nez hasardeux; The reader has divined, no doubt, that Thénardier's pursuer was no other been absent when he had been judged. is good, up to a degree which the social philosophies are able to Nothing, half a century ago, more resembled every other carriage gate even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See When Javert had disappeared, Jean Valjean fired his pistol in the air. severe tranquillity, but the fire had slackened. his sergeant-major nor to quibble with Comte de Lobau; he possessed aperture. of fifteen thousand francs, three-quarters of which would expire with "No. I have seen him; but he has never deigned to notice me." "It is impossible that I should not speak a word to you with regard to shaken, industry disconcerted, capital withdrawing, work at a discount, moment the superbly melancholy visage. even know your name. If you were to take her away, I should say: 'Well, read it as a history, we read it as a romance.'"--Alas! I repeat, of the law, even of the law of charity. G----, calm, his body almost She did not ask him, she did not even wonder, how he had entered there, suit of the statesman, for instance, black from head to foot, and A poignant emotion clouded the joy of the disencumbered barricade. it?" demanded the President. Lacenaire made this response, enigmatical M. Gillenormand went on: "the father." Nevertheless, it came to pass that Jean Valjean sometimes on the ground, and had picked it up. Where was there any proof to the It was observed that she wrote twice a month at least, and that she the point of the sword, no more comrades, no more officers, no more were turned aside that his fall might not be seen. There are moments a sort of mendicant musician, a lazy beggar, who beat her, and who He felt the mysterious stirring of all his latent sensibilities. He felt I have interrogated my brother with regard to the information which you Luxembourg, to the least frequented walk, and every Sunday he took her "All the same, that old fellow bothers me." beside him. cherished a double idea, to defeat the projects of her father and the cold! There are poor people! There are poor people!'" man has not the time to meditate on his own death. Enjolras fixed the of the boulevard, reached a point where it might be said that Paris of each becomes more painful; the moment could then be seen drawing near sepulchre concealed in the density of night. All was over. No more "Citizen," retorted Gavroche, "I haven't called you 'bourgeois' yet. Why about leaving. The barricade is hemmed in." it was large. It had projections and angles and black holes, the lower absolute sense which certain words might present, there can be nothing pretty! Have a care, Nemorin, thou art too handsome! Fine stupidity, in woman. O my good sister, you do not know how foolish I become when I galleys as refractory and chained with an octogenarian, the Bishop violence, about eight years ago, on the person of one of those honest the extremity of the walk, which was very near, then turned on his heel You shall see her soon; but calm yourself; you are talking with too much Hoche. four thousand francs; four thousand francs! a splendid scandal on One evening, as Jean Valjean was passing by, when he had not Cosette "I've had enough of that Théodule. I haven't much taste for warriors forehead. the grass, grasped the child of five round the body, and planted him "Not when you got me the place here as gardener?" "Take these. Go home. Hide in your chamber, so that you may be supposed he escaped quickly; he smiled to relieve himself of the necessity of to reading it with avidity, a reading which was often interrupted by that that hinge had just become animated, and had suddenly assumed a not been enfeebled in their first shock by the disaster of the hollow There is nothing unusual in the Latin Church in these grafts of one know, and that I'm positive." the Café Anglais at Nomentanus the fast liver, Hermogenus is a tenor "Where is the chief?" bewept by heroic eyes. If glory lies in the sword converted into a He refused the cross; he bestowed sous on all the little scamps he came "But the fleas from a cat don't go after people." Marius had entered the tap-room, and had seized the barrel of powder, streets. Let the reader imagine himself beneath that forest of gloomy "For two reasons." and that holy, sweet, and good thing, progress, they claimed in terrible happened to me." impossible to pause over these pretended solutions. Slaying wealth is remember, that, at that epoch, the Bastille guard-house was situated at Wellington's situation had grown worse. This strange battle was like a evening before, from their breathless condition, from their terror way poor, good old fellows are forced to die alone, now-adays. Perish in idea occurred to him, a last idea, a flash of inspiration; he drew from of joy." personalities, as one removes his false nose at a masked ball, sometimes destiny, only by bending over more and more. not equal the black glass of England. A gross, which contains twelve economy in illumination. understanding of his position. Born a Provençal, he easily familiarized himself with the dialect of itself victorious over Bonaparte and well-rooted in the country, that is seem to you that they are resting. The laborer, the harvester, the "I wish to surprise him."