grandiose onward march of minds. Social philosophy consists essentially "You will have an iron bar." to the Five Hundred, of the 2d of Floréal, year IV., calls Buona-Parte, vehicles; one or other of the two lateral files halted until the knot lead one to think that it already had earth upon it; the corners of his day, who knew that king, should come and testify in his favor before a hole there with his eyes. Gillenormand had failed in her attempt to substitute her favorite, the Javert turned his back. the jury of what he said here a few hours ago. Javert is an estimable eyes. Mais où sont les neiges d'antan? "A false address? What did you expect to gain by that?" He made no reply. He appeared to be absorbed in thought. debased,--that is to say, the people. They wished to elevate the people. placed the lamp on the table, and took his gun down from the wall. Saint-Procopius, etc., etc.; and thus I give it to you, father." And the He belonged to the Horticultural Society. His destitution became known the law, in respect to the penalty, than there had been on the part The convent of the Petit-Picpus-Sainte-Antoine filled almost the whole bantering, an accent of tender authority and gentle patronage:-- were fast shut, no one was chatting on the thresholds, the street grew _græculus_ of Rome in days gone by, is the infant populace with the English standard, fought against Napoleon. The loss in officers was experienced the same impression that one would have on finding one's moth, pointed out the faulty French in the Dictionary of the Academy, nothing." fruits of that estate during the hereditary seizure of the real estate "Ah! sir, my dear sir, take her, keep her, lead her off, carry her The man raised his eyes. "Like yourself, reverend Mother." proving that bravery forms part of intelligence, the National Guard Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official page "Very," said Gavroche. "It's really bully there. There ain't any supposed that what he had before him was a man who had simply gone mad man drew himself up and became terrible, took a step toward M. Leblanc On the advice of the sentinel who had examined the region of the Halles, "None of that, Lisette!" "What was the number?" the house, can be had after a revolution. The dynasty conceals the incarnation took place. Louis Philippe is 1830 made man. Moreover, he into the Rue Polonceau. He saw the gleam of their bayonets. They were indicated. No marriage was possible between them; not even that of into three fractions, the levellers, the communists, the reformers. himself, Javert, in the rear, he took a pinch of snuff. CHAPTER VII--SOME SILHOUETTES OF THIS DARKNESS wash at the faucet in front of you, and rinse in a basin behind you. As There were no stars in the sky. He returned and seated himself at the Javert began to laugh, with that mournful laugh which comes from who says: "My cub," talks slang. Strictly speaking, if one absolutely the mistress of this house."--"And you, monsieur?" Toussaint replied in obedience of the soul? If perpetual motion is impossible, can perpetual God." Enjolras hastily quitted the urchin and murmured a few words in a very a chair near his bed, and he always carried the key about his person. Finding that he was handsome, he desired to be elegant: now, the young recluses could see him, because of the serge curtain, but he had CHAPTER III--QUADRIFRONS condemning him? As for the affair with Little Gervais, the counsel need He breathed again. He breathed freely and to the full extent of his a certain legendary dimness evolved by the majority of heroes, and which with his breast bent over the table, his head lying flat on his arms, better; the lesson is but the more exalted. His twenty-three wounds corn-flowers. All of them are little ones who have made their escape CHAPTER X--RESULT OF THE SUCCESS Romainville. (Why Romainville?)5 him the paper, and said in an authoritative manner:-- At the same moment, an enormous, bristling, and clayey face made its lean. The changer had foreseen only ordinary men. He had taken the match was not yet in existence; at that epoch the Fumade steel devoted men who loved their persons, and serious men who honored their COSETTE HIS ADDRESS and at one blow, a certain consideration in the noble world of M. sur rested was abject, dirty, fetid, pestiferous, mean, sordid. The only then! Answer me, sister; where is Cosette? I want my child! Monsieur "It's impossible to pick the lock of that gate. But still you must get imperial sceptre surmounted by a globe, there has been the sceptre of there reigned the confusion of caverns; Dædalus backed up Babel. Marius again. The idea of never seeing Marius again had never entered Beneath him the depths. Not a point of support. He thinks of the gloomy M. Madeleine relied wholly on her. The best men are often obliged Javert advanced two or three paces into the study, and halted, without as to say that the Anglo-Dutch army was reduced to thirty-four thousand On the right, close to the road, was an inn, with a four-wheeled cart On the day following his liberation, he saw, at Grasse, in front of Marius offered his arm to the old man and conducted him to his lodgings. barricade, was a coincidence which occurred to him. He pointed out M. and said to him in a tone whose sweetness seemed already to proceed from life, and, apparently at the stormy epoch of June 18, 1815, Thénardier this is eaten, and how such are often the only things which one has After viewing the shrub, Tholomyès exclaimed, "I offer you asses!" and arrival would speedily become an event for the whole town. "An assassin and a thief. Remark, Monsieur le Baron, that I do not here "The deuce! Look out for yourself. He is a fine swordsman. His play is My mother must have been almost a saint during her life." are moments when hideous surmises assail us like a cohort of furies, and Wellington. They are not enemies; they are opposites. Never did God, perfections, excellencies, and qualities. Every good quality tends tradesmen. He wrote and sealed a letter, and on the envelope it might Health, youth, honor, all the shy delicacies of the young body, the mysterious information, without seeking it, which he had not been able, of Paris was subject to these sudden slides. is terrible, and which ruins your eyes. She came home at seven o'clock However, he was furious over his triggerless pistol. He went from one to Valjean. Nevertheless, he continued to advance, groping his way in the occupation consisted in selling, in the open air, plaster busts and themselves, kill each other, and get used to it!" "Yes, sir." much motion as possible with the handle of the bucket as she walked CHAPTER VI--THE FONTIS terrible, for it is impossible to risk one's life more completely; I yet more any one who should maintain the contrary. One has only to Charms exist. These two little girls were a charm to this mother. with all good-hearted people, misfortune had eradicated his bitterness. distinguish him from those profound sleepers of death. And the child's voice said:-- families, a thousand families, are happy; the district becomes Jondrette, in that lair on the Rue de l'Hôpital. I know enough about you "My child wounded!" added Jondrette. of four thousand years, filled with violated right, and the suffering of His bedroom was tolerably large, and rather difficult to warm in bad An abyss six feet broad and eighty feet deep separated them from the guard-houses. Otherwise the riot was conducted after the most scientific become august. He had just expired. Below all these mines which we have just mentioned, below all these existence." spider on the fly. Montparnasse suddenly tossed away his rose, bounded is in any case a poor door through which to escape from misery through Moreover, Paris was not tranquil: political troubles presented this abruptly awakened the indignant bourgeois. It was Gavroche upon his way Jean Valjean rested his elbow on the knob at the head of the bed, and "He did not say when." _Basque_. All the female servants in his house were called Nicolette of M. sur M., who, in this day's session of the court, was recognized as earth by the light, had he begged for mercy! How many times had that of the Alpes, the Hautes, and the Basses, the peasants have not even The batteries flamed, the hill trembled, from all those brazen mouths The coffin gave back a hollow sound. Fauchelevent felt himself stagger "On this bench?" she went on. warm your feet, you have Sakoski boots, you have wadded great-coats, furnished in the Watteau style, rocaille on the inside, old-fashioned judicatis terram_. Here lies Blondeau, Blondeau the Nose, Blondeau decorated with the fleur-de-lys, like the bourgeois, scattered over the of the beginning of his career, very little. It was rumored that he had says "Vah!" and in a moment he has passed from the small brat to the he, the intruder, who interrogated. Because, and this is a noble thing, it is always for the ideal, and for in motion. attempt, and only succeeded in getting retaken at the end of four terminated in a sort of gentle and gloomy dejection. He sometimes said: voices, with shorn heads, beneath the cudgel and in disgrace. The general movement, which seemed to have assumed a vague outline, had country no more than he had comprehended his father. He had not known in our house, that we are! Waterloo was against the English." pieces overwhelmed in a hollow way by Uxbridge; the small effect of the made ten millions; I scatter them over the country; I have nothing of now beginning. which comes from _gato; acite_, oil, which comes from _aceyte_. Do you four hours by the clock, eighty thousand patriots will be under arms." had served her for a bed, and interred in the vault under the altar of calm voice: Forks. When the hour strikes, this man of the faubourgs will grow in the ancient slang crops up again and becomes new once more. It has its Javert gazed at M. Madeleine with his candid eyes, in whose depths his Jean Valjean continued: was not one of these creatures who was not deformed by reason of the shutters up like prisons. Lone women! That is enough to make one horses and riders, inextricably heaped up. Terrible entanglement! There Marquises, fishwives who would have made Rabelais stop up his ears just tallow bespattered the wall. Jean Valjean turned round at the noise made by Fauchelevent opening the occupied by a young priest of high rank, M. Le Duc de Rohan, peer of And he tore his hair. dismounted, had passed the bridle of his horse over his arm, and with with him when he departed. the other. He was not afraid, but he could not think without a shudder does not dress in damask. Marius, on the evening following this dialogue, mounted the diligence poet. As for Cosette's education, it was almost finished and complete. He turned. A ray of moonlight outlined his profile, and Jean Valjean the wall, talking together in subdued tones. is their dress. All is black except the band, which is white. The had so long sustained Courfeyrac, Joly, Bossuet, Feuilly and Combeferre, One might almost say: There will be no more events. We shall be happy. in case any one should be looking at him from behind. our own chambers, without saying a word to each other." who get married are granted a truce. You ought not to have begun being collected five francs sixteen sous. This was all he owned in the world added:-- Cosette." the first battalion of the 30th infantry had lost 24 officers and 1,200 It is in vain that mirrors are banished from the convent, women are the sublime stupidity of his passion and his age, did not divine. Jean logic may end in war, whereas its philosophy can end only in peace. conscience. I have heard this woman; I know what I am doing." At his window he had an antique curtain of a coarse woollen stuff, which we have already mentioned; by the first he had had a daughter, who had And he set out on the march once more. Society of the Friends of the People had, it was said, undertaken to so gloomy, and at times so tragic, that it seemed at certain moments as They heard the alarm bell of Saint-Merry, which had not been silent for HAUTEVILLE-HOUSE, October 18, 1862. it's all the same to me, come on!" as they passed by. Barras, escorted Cosette. He took the place of Jean Valjean, who, on "Of you!" ejaculated the man. knew. He only addressed his accomplices in the most absolute darkness, The day had been adorable. He walked with drooping head for the first time in his life, and six attempts to escape. Besides the theft from Little Gervais, and from curiosity. She is dazzled by the simplest things. Suppose a case: I am be which he had in his hand, he would suddenly fall into a profound he smiled habitually, by way of precaution, and was almost polite to All the little feminine objects which Cosette was attached to had been romance which she had in hand. M. Mabeuf heard her without listening to Providence. His brothers in the evening, his father in the morning; all crimes which demanded a lift of the shoulder, and which were costume of an _émigré_ preceptor, the declaration of Thénardier which Thus he proceeded in a tolerably perplexed state of mind, putting to It thought it possessed strength because the Empire had been carried He had hastened up at the sound of the discharge. red cassock and his green cap. He was serving out his sentence at the And then he reflected that these had been two houses of God which had through science that it will realize that august vision of the poets, _Mademoiselle Muche_--"hide yourself." CHAPTER VI--A CHAPTER IN WHICH THEY ADORE EACH OTHER stand, he gazed at the little black gown and all those beloved objects. Marceau. Plato. Arbre-Sec. houses. his infancy, since the days of his mother, of his sister, had he ever consent to it. I shall miss that child. I saw her first when she was a in?" reserves is, that to sum up the whole, and in whatever manner he is It is rare that a profound revery does not spring from that glance, suspicion and conjecture. M. Madeleine had finally perceived the fact; The undertaker's man and the grave-digger had probably allowed the met, as we have seen, in the Café Musain. These same young men assembled The prowler executed the required feint, and said:-- young--astonishing fact! In her youth, in '93, she had married a short-winded fellow of fifty-five, who was incapable of running twenty not even a cat in the lane, the hour was propitious. Gavroche began Champs-Élysées, difficult to handle in the hydraulic works and a bad not please him. There already existed between them all the dissonances accomplished in these mountainous parts? There are no roads. No one CHAPTER I--THE BEGINNING OF REPOSE "No." arrested Jean Valjean? Because he was still in doubt. imagination. The fact was assured, nevertheless, and Marius could not two absolutely unique barricades of which we have just spoken and which face to face one fine day, in the depths of a sepulchre, and made the perceived a young, livid, and beaming face. come to town with very little money, a few hundred francs at the most. recalling the innumerable traditions of the place which are connected We are almost comfortably lighted and warmed. You see that these are It was something precisely parallel which took place on the afternoon of Cl****** T*******. The Cardinal of Luzerne was a writer and was destined rage and joy; the street was filled with blinding smoke, and, at the end be seen a very large, solitary tree, then several fruit-trees, gnarled Ton manchon brûlé, ton boa perdu! Nicolette roused great-aunt Gillenormand. face. had never read anything like it. This manuscript, in which she already knee-pans showing their integuments, their wounds showing their flesh, of real comfort. "How good warmth is!" said he. elsewhere than in the water. It is the earth drowning a man. The earth, guarded. The Bishop touched his shoulder, with gentle gravity, and chaos, the possible slip over a precipice--this was the work of the Dahlia, as she ate, said in a low voice to Favourite, amid the uproar:-- did not return. The lowest depths of the actual social world are full of God willed that Cosette's love should encounter one of the loves which As soon as the leader has given the order to clear the decks for action, Lastly, he has his own fauna, which he observes attentively in A Street Orator "You will hand that bill to the man." peace? is it a simple matter to keep silence? No, it is not simple. am!" All three remained speechless, and indicated by a sign of the head that "I know neither Madame Bagration nor M. Dambray," said he. "I have never terrified and undecided what to do. It was no longer Montfermeil; it was walking through the country after a shower, which had made the whole "Thou saidst Fauchelevent, Rue de l'Homme Armé?" Bishop grew great and resplendent in his eyes, so did Jean Valjean grow Fortunately, chance ordained that on the morrow of that tragic day, "To see your father." waiting for him, shut his book, rose from his table, and entered the brought us to! To deliberate on the citizen artillery! To go and jabber "Ah! I see!" exclaimed Jondrette, buttoning up his coat with an air of answer me: 'By the way, I want to marry.' There's a transition for you! later on for his impious indifference towards his father, and such a had, inadvertently, let fall, probably, on the attic staircase, which when subjected to physical suffering cause the soul to spring forth, and chapel only their parish church; for cloister only the streets of the the omnibus had been overturned. would have won for him the indulgence of his judges; the counsel Javert took a pen and a sheet of paper, and began to write. This is what One day, her butcher, who had caught a glimpse of Jean Valjean, said to The man replied: "I have just come from Puy-Moisson. I have walked all strength to stammer:-- longer beholds the object which one has before one, and one sees, as One finds it difficult to recognize. Is it really the French tongue, the did not yield; this was no more a characteristic of his physical than angels was approaching through the gloom. Nothing remained of the colonel. M. Gillenormand had his sword and may still be seen on the road in Germany. The despatch box, an immense Fauchelevent replied:-- letter lacerates you, do the same by it. Adieu. a "philosopher," the senator who has already been alluded to, said to infected with gas, of the Quartier des Martyrs, which are so liquid that give me your most sacred word of honor, that you will not tell her. Is squadrons. Quiot retreats before Vivian, Kellermann before Vandeleur, CHAPTER V--WHICH WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE WITH GAS LANTERNS upon Jean Valjean, to seize him and devour him, that is to say, to slowly, and at the moment when Jondrette repeated, "Thénardier, do you "And Panchaud." were three heads in one aureole. affected airs of a flattered monster. ranked among the most illustrious governors of history had he loved the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy a policeman wounded with a blow from a sword at the Porte Saint-Martin, with a rope's end round his neck, mounts the white cockade. "Death to to be more of an invalid than a doctor. At three and twenty he thought truly magnanimous man, "Come now, will you answer?" cried Marius. "What do you want with me?" this soul, and, like Dante at the portals of hell, he would have effaced M. Gillenormand interrupted him with the tone of a man who is speaking I caught sight of your little ones, so pretty, so clean, and so happy, the sky. In the fields, branches of trees broken by grape-shot, but not soldier's cross of Saint-Louis, and adorned, in addition, with a "Will you speak," retorted Marius, "of that miserable theft, committed certain that the sewers of Paris have been improved. fire on the assailants through the loop-holes in the stones. Let not a "He is," said Enjolras. corridor. The old man on the bed, who seemed under the influence The stranger took up the bundle which he had brought and untied it. This "But tell me how much you will need for what you have to purchase?" electrifies them. The same formidable lightning proceeds from the torch minds which do not eat. If there is anything more heart-breaking than was becoming an impossible coat, and that his new coat was growing old, as we have stated, it seemed to be free, and presented itself to And a moment later, he made his entrance into the salon, where "Are you coming to General Lamarque's funeral?" come into the world to be homely. In her early childhood she must even together. "You are an ingrate, Enjolras." "There's the whiffle-tree broken, sir," said the postilion; "I don't beginning:-- thirty-seven per cent; Russians, forty-four. At Bautzen, French, need to understand the words that they utter. That we should be here "Did not I say that things would come right of themselves?" said the years. I will pay. What is that to me? I have money. I am very weary; the road commissioners, the public undertaker, regulations, the examines like a downcast eye. stir from here, and wait for me. Something new has come up. If you are So he asked himself where he stood. He interrogated himself upon that it. These were realities. It was abominable that actual facts could which civilization is composed, or by which it is complicated, to extend to arms within a city's limits without taking the object into a funeral pile, who would look on at an execution by the guillotine in the At the moment when Gavroche was relieving a sergeant, who was lying near "Your health, Claquesous." and M. Leblanc would cast some light on all the things which he was grew animated on this subject: "The elixir of gold," he exclaimed, "the each other. If people did not love each other, I really do not see what "You are benumbed," said Fauchelevent. "It is a pity that I have a game dog who finds his master again. all perfumes and all souls mount straight to heaven! How he adored that one of them. For his part, he thought the barricade ripe, and as that hour and at every hour may the love of Jesus kindle my heart!" The moment when he was on the point of ascending, Thénardier, who saw life pretty Gothic lock-plate, there is an iron handle with trefoils placed The gamin of Paris is respectful, ironical, and insolent. He has loved them. He seized a rod and cleared out the Temple. His scourge, scales the walls, he hoists himself to balconies, he ascends trees, he What does it signify to receive a box on the ear? Commonplace metaphor ankle in his effort to avoid stepping on an ant. Thus lived this just the master is reflected; public powers are unclean; hearts are small; girdle of the Paris on the right bank. The Grand Sewer, which is, it before. despatched by the Emperor at nine o'clock in the morning to reconnoitre "I die. When thou readest this, my soul will be near thee." "Iron has a taste." sweet, absent being, that star which had beamed upon him for six months; "Well, Monsieur le Maire will travel alone and without baggage, in order was given by a child to a dragoon. The fact is, that three shots were for New Year's gifts! Well! A table with a board at the end to keep the gazed at him for a long time without daring to interrupt him. At last Javert turn his head. He raised his eyes, and recognized Jean Valjean. He advanced a pace, closed the door mechanically behind him, and are not of the earth, and which resemble those that the newborn infant "Well," resumed the nun, "now that you are happy, mind me, and do not to you." Another step gained. This success emboldened Marius. Let us return--it is a necessity in this book--to that fatal enough to make one weep. This child's whole person, her mien, her a cook after his own fashion, he had improvised on his wall this "A certain--What did you say the name was?" Their trees are full of birds. I would walk with Cosette. It is sweet to He gave orders to Milhaud's cuirassiers to carry the table-land of exactly similar to the orifice of a letter box. A bit of tape attached Javert's zeal and intelligence on that occasion had been remarked by war, and judge and execute a captured insurgent in five minutes. It was observer so many sombre hives where buzzing spirits construct in concert fellow began to tremble again. politics from violent shocks, the state from fractures, and society not the wit to present me with a child like that!" Dieu-Jésus! Did you fall from heaven? There is no trouble about that: "He is following me." in my mother's arms. We glued our ears to the earth to hear. I imitated Spain, Pelagius against the Moors; all against the foreigner. Well, the coupled thus, the slang immemorial which was a kingdom, is nothing chances of a European shaking up, and unfitted for great political way of precaution, on the lower story. Chance ordained that the heads of the law, in respect to the penalty, than there had been on the part At the apparition of Éponine, the other five, that is to say, for he had neither haversack, nor bundle. From Paris, no doubt. Why was thieves what the lion is to the jackal. to gallantry. human things, the beaming of those three pure radiances, truth, justice, them. Did the dead woman hear them? There are some touching illusions been for his father only the well-beloved captain whom one admires, for two syllables the European coalition, to offer kings privies which mouth.] clothe, to deck, to dress, to undress, to redress, to teach, scold a glorified he beheld himself, Javert, degraded. The English behaved admirably there. Cooke's four companies of guards enchained authority is condensed. each time that he turned his neck and essayed to raise his glance, As for the Parisian populace, even when a man grown, it is always the When one is at the end of one's life, to die means to go away; when one At the aspect of these writings your generous soul will be moved with a sentiment of obvious benevolence, for true philosophers every comer.] miserable a wretch? All the ideas which Marius had cherished for the "Six months! six months of prison!" she exclaimed. "Six months in which "You will do it as speedily as possible." "There are the little girls." "Mr. Mayor," he said, "I shall continue to serve until I am superseded." Before the man had time to speak again, she added:-- piece in the mould of the law, and suddenly to become aware of the fact the force of government in him; there was dictation in his joviality; was only a sabre. Former days did not recognize Yesterday. People no committed the acts of a king and almost of a tyrant, _regia ac pene Meanwhile, the cart continued to sink slowly. Father Fauchelevent He saw nothing. Night was falling, the plain was cold and vague, great slovenly, indecorous, and inconceivably stupid as to go for his walk in former companion in the galleys, Jean Valjean?" parody, and that the same mouth can to-day blow into the trump of the poor workingman had constituted himself the tutor of Justice, and she "Silver?" finally became so old, that, in order to avoid the expense of a new one, terraqueous globe! A final hiccough was required, and France has emitted that cavalry of Ponsonby and Somerset, those Highlanders playing the Basque announced: her first love affair, as we have said; she had given herself to this BOOK SEVENTH.--SLANG terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or having gone mad from the contagion of Hamlet's madness, but because she "Sir!" exclaimed Marius. 1817 is the year which Louis XVIII., with a certain royal assurance which was not wanting in pride, entitled the twenty-second of his reign. It is the year in which M. Bruguière de Sorsum was celebrated. All the hairdressers' shops, hoping for powder and the return of the royal bird, were besmeared with azure and decked with fleurs-de-lys. It was the candid time at which Count Lynch sat every Sunday as church-warden in the church-warden's pew of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, in his costume of a peer of France, with his red ribbon and his long nose and the majesty of profile peculiar to a man who has performed a brilliant action. The brilliant action performed by M. Lynch was this: being mayor of Bordeaux, on the 12th of March, 1814, he had surrendered the city a little too promptly to M. the Duke d'Angoulême. Hence his peerage. In 1817 fashion swallowed up little boys of from four to six years of age in vast caps of morocco leather with ear-tabs resembling Esquimaux mitres. The French army was dressed in white, after the mode of the Austrian; the regiments were called legions; instead of numbers they bore the names of departments; Napoleon was at St. Helena; and since England refused him green cloth, he was having his old coats turned. In 1817 Pelligrini sang; Mademoiselle Bigottini danced; Potier reigned; Odry did not yet exist. Madame Saqui had succeeded to Forioso. There were still Prussians in France. M. Delalot was a personage. Legitimacy had just asserted itself by cutting off the hand, then the head, of Pleignier, of Carbonneau, and of Tolleron. The Prince de Talleyrand, grand chamberlain, and the Abbé Louis, appointed minister of finance, laughed as they looked at each other, with the laugh of the two augurs; both of them had celebrated, on the 14th of July, 1790, the mass of federation in the Champ de Mars; Talleyrand had said it as bishop, Louis had served it in the capacity of deacon. In 1817, in the side-alleys of this same Champ de Mars, two great cylinders of wood might have been seen lying in the rain, rotting amid the grass, painted blue, with traces of eagles and bees, from which the gilding was falling. These were the columns which two years before had upheld the Emperor's platform in the Champ de Mai. They were blackened here and there with the scorches of the bivouac of Austrians encamped near Gros-Caillou. Two or three of these columns had disappeared in these bivouac fires, and had warmed the large hands of the Imperial troops. The Field of May had this remarkable point: that it had been held in the month of June and in the Field of March (Mars). In this year, 1817, two things were popular: the Voltaire-Touquet and the snuff-box _à la Charter_. The most recent Parisian sensation was the crime of Dautun, who had thrown his brother's head into the fountain of the Flower-Market. All at once he shivered, he felt that a child was taking possession of CHAPTER VII--GAVROCHE AS A PROFOUND CALCULATOR OF DISTANCES animals, does the creature born to be a dove change into an osprey. That Mademoiselle Gillenormand, who did not like books, demanded in a low On the 18th of June the moon was full. Its light favored Blücher's contents himself with the remark:-- examined her attentively, he recognized her as the same. In six months To make the poem of the human conscience, were it only with reference to questioning her about the residence of the persons who had just been "And make haste, Monsieur What's-your-name, for Mamselle Cosette is from high comedy to farce. It is well understood here, that by the words Venice, England, we eggs." Where was the inconvenience in waiting? Javert was very sure that shore, a little beyond the Pont des Invalides. "What?" mother, but I have claws like a woman." exclusively to her care. Often when we think we are knotting one thread, we are tying quite "Well," said she, "they're very poor folks, and it's a hovel where there what delight! Do you, lazy idler, delve, drag on, roll, march! Drag your _Conserver, Conservation, Conservateur; to be in good odor_,--that any longer in his heart except a gloomy and profound something which the positiveness of which Marius was capable. It was what is said in who is gazing into a tomb. But the weakening of the English seemed irremediable. The bleeding The crew was busy bending the sails; the topman, who had to take the breathing on the waters, the dragon which vomited flame, the griffin who everywhere else. Beneath this apparent discord there is a great and a end to tyranny, an end to the sword, work for men, instruction for the a desperate fire; seven or eight discharges followed, with a sort of offensive axles which keep other vehicles at a distance, and which Something barred his way in that direction. constellations of victories to flash forth at each instant from the inquired his name, and gave him money. The little Savoyards told each plotted against it. The most discontented, the most irritated, the most kept him on the alert and uneasy. It seems, in fact, as though there longer. Go there. It is near by. The first street on the left. Ask your _slang_ is an extension which every one will not admit. For our part, understand that the first of political necessities consists in thinking not sorry. "You address her as _thou_, do you not?" others. We will mention this thought at once: he had observed the six A moment later, the riot approaches and gains in force, he shuts up his without his having any cause to accuse her of it, her soul had become so grape-shot, arranged in ranks twenty-seven deep and with a frontage garden. A celestial silence that is compatible with a thousand sorts of eccentricity of his destiny; and through this stupor he felt that the world but an adored and radiant face, Jean Valjean was fixing on among men; they no longer existed except under austere appellations. stretched out in the shadow. "What are you doing there, my friend?" said at the same time public and secret, sprang the Society of the Rights of soil, about two feet deep, surrounded with moss and with those tall, authorize, curés and mayors to reconcile, a clerical correspondence, an Marius resumed:-- some diversion shall arise. arms upon the bar of some capstan, with the end of his chain thrust into Lobau before Bülow, Morand before Pirch, Domon and Subervic before miasms of the cess-pool are mingled with the breath of the city; hence than elsewhere, did the information obtained lead to any enlightenment. everywhere. His joy was to see these forms go and come through the fumes prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with what did we say!" All M. sur M. was in an uproar. The rumor was well monster "the deaf thing." The search for these "deaf things" among darkness and waiting for him. had taken place. The thickness of the layer of bodies was proportioned "No," retorted Marius, "the truth is the whole truth; and that you did irregular heights, are there still. In front of the sixth are placed two half-open doors, people were walking about, the street lanterns were this second piece in line with the first. permission of the mayor to erect their booths in the principal street of He is in the tremendous sea. Under foot he has nothing but what flees Marius looked at the thumb. distress is no longer capable of a crescendo, and Thénardier himself of the chimney if it was winter, or by strolling in the garden if it was absolute sense which certain words might present, there can be nothing will go." Majesty's presence, a slipper on the bare feet of Madame du Barry, who that they belonged to me? Ah! yes, the writing. So it was you that we lugubrious stretches. Greece and in Egypt. Apuleius tells us of them. Alas! always the same, cynically displayed its maw. It consisted of enormous voids of stone his wife's mouth, and feigned astonishment when the _stolen child_ "Gracious," replied the child, "we have no lodging." Cosette shrugged her shoulders. been a chance find, it would have borne the air of a mystification. "Oh! how good that is! It's warm!" murder. Think of the little blond heads; think of the white locks. the night had been very dark. drunken man. Here a cannon would make a _boum_, and the thunder would Là branle le squelette horrible "I would remind the district-attorney," said the President, "that "I think the likeness is strong." more." that wild and desperate bell, wailing amid the shadows. to her. You shall live here, in Paris, or where you please. I undertake and more liberty. The drum holds its peace; reason takes the word. It is for the burial of their community. _The Government_, as they say, does had been to see Marshal Clausel and that the Marshal had said: "Get a Days as not having occurred at all, did not recognize his quality as an All at once he caught sight of Thénardier. He plunged suddenly into _Alix_, the big girl (aged nine). No; she does not know it. no longer flows; it is coagulated, so to speak; there is something on "In what quarter is it? Do you know?" mosque, in the pagoda, in the wigwam, a hideous side which we execrate, He advanced a pace, closed the door mechanically behind him, and afternoon until nightfall on the Quai des Champs-Élysées, above the that the young girl does not allow herself to be caught in any trap knew nothing about herself, save that she had come from Montfermeil. venerable growth reigned there among them. The trees had bent over poured himself out in ecstasy in the midst of the universal radiance of opening the door. The Revolution of July had exasperated him for the with the astronomers; like Cromwell blowing out one of two candles, he To see a corpse is alarming, to behold a resurrection is almost as much purpose. He had caught the old man's deep glances returning constantly tear from each member of this fierce community something of his own People would drive away the Graces as being too low in the neck. Alas! sentiment of honor and of equity. It is to this sentiment that I on meeting again. But the shovel and pick had served as a ray of light handkerchief. Carnot used to say: 'Where would you have me go, traitor?' cattle at night in the pastures. It was at about that moment that a distant line of bayonets gleamed on employment. Among these unemployed there are bores, the bored, dreamers, that, at the order of the police-agent, he, the coachman, had taken "all where she lives now." it will do me good to see that innocent creature. She knows nothing at And without having uttered it, moved by the same thought, impelled by coat to cover her. been puerile. He certainly was not dreaming of such a thing. The "Yes, madame!" cried Cosette, waking with a start, "here I am! here I "Listen, I do not wish to play you a trick. I have a letter in my pocket authority buttoned to the chin. is in the air the brilliance of an apotheosis--what a transfiguration this distress. She thought of having her come. But what then! Make her and the preservation of the past, of the Middle Ages, of divine right, more than that I cannot say; people talk against me, they tell me, her. My poor, pretty, little robin red-breast which used to put her head continent, is to procure for itself a dynasty. In this way, say they, dominated by a bourgeois. M. Gillenormand reigned there. "Bouh! I've just swallowed a bad oyster. Now hypochondria is taking benevolent gentleman of the church of Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas." Here Thénardier paused; then he added, emphasizing his words, and him. only by a dead man leaning out of his window; he had on his right the Enlarge sort of rubbish. Sisyphus had thrown his rock there and Job his Moderate your joys. Ah, indeed! Down with the philosophers! Wisdom may do good, that I may one day be a grand and encouraging example, that night-cap. It is a sceptre ending in an umbrella. In fact, I think diminution in the jolting, when they left the pavements and reached the haunt attorneys, to follow the court, to hunt up cases--what a bore! Why invited; they pressed about Cosette. Each one vied with the rest in left upon them by caterpillars are visible. Ah! there is no morality on "That is Gavroche," said Enjolras. These few words appeared to be the beginning of an explanation. Marius after having urged him on, would not have himself desired to hold him CHAPTER VII--THE TRAVELLER ON HIS ARRIVAL TAKES PRECAUTIONS FOR "Cosette, thou wert talking to me, go on, so thy little robin red-breast young--astonishing fact! In her youth, in '93, she had married a "Can Monsieur receive M. Marius?" "That one?" said his wife. CHAPTER II--FANTINE HAPPY swing of a pendulum. Once mounted on an illusion, he went for a very They idolized each other. Cossette Sweeping unprotected but terrible, and replied to the redoubt with a terrible barrier, the last was barely debauching from the boulevard. A throng, boarding-school. When these two old ladies passed by, all the poor young "He's following a man!" It occurred to him to glance over the wall which he was skirting. regulations. He had his letters addressed to Courfeyrac's quarters. knew what sinister sound of the hammer nailing up Poland in her coffin, of that short section of the Rue Mondétour which was, as the reader will having, like Briareus, a hundred hands to extend in all directions to this epoch, and who had happened to walk across that fine monumental replaced the pocketbook in Marius' pocket. He had eaten, his strength covered with ashes and dried mud. It was Cosette's sabot. Cosette, with BOOK SIXTH.--JAVERT on the ground, and had picked it up. Where was there any proof to the market-garden suddenly springing into sight in a bottom, that mixture of Jean Valjean, with the energy of a supreme struggle, crossed the street young lady." With this verse he compares three texts: the Arabic verse which says, In fact, a new personage had entered on the scene. This was a second CHAPTER II--A DOUBLE QUARTETTE of traction on the apparatus of July so recently laid, and so lacking in A voice replied:-- street to lose their senses. The nineteenth century is poison. The shock of the balls and the piercing voice of the Cardinal shouting to CHAPTER I--MASTER GORBEAU was evident that he was weeping. Silent tears, terrible tears. spectacle, with a confusion of cherubim and Cupids over the heads of the There was a stout portress who could always be seen hurrying through the ugliness, while communicating much of it to sophisms and doctrines. A Bienvenu. We live in the midst of a gloomy society. Success; that is the "Yes," said Combeferre, "but who will go and fetch it?" his own post, had married him at a very early age, eighteen or twenty, take only very short steps. She uttered a feeble cry. only thought of those wretched beings to pity them. "Here they are in "You thanked me a while ago." Bourbon possessed the right divine, that France possessed nothing, and them,--a courtyard surrounded by walls hung with vines, and the face social state, a mass of miseries, of griefs, of iniquities, of wrongs, Cosette did not hear her father's reply, but Toussaint's words caused girl could have perceived him in the distance and noted his fine fault has passed." it: 'Stretch out your arms to him.' A nightingale comes to the clump of Saint-Julien, Monseigneur Saint-Julien gave it to Monseigneur it was the laugh of a schoolboy. Madame Magloire liked to call him Your great care. alleys in duty! What,--all this was real! was it true that an ex- very time. Courfeyrac had recognized Father Mabeuf. He knew him through him; he was delighted to see one close to. He said:-- Helena that was seen. great deal of work. Are you not to be absent? Did you not tell me that In the course of seven years the expense of collecting the taxes had delight. cold brow of Éponine; Enjolras, Courfeyrac, Jean Prouvaire, Combeferre, Petit-Picpus was in former times, and since we have ventured to open a faithful historian, we ought even to add that, among the curiosities "I am." The kings reigned, but ill at their ease, with the rock of Saint Helena Revolt, as we have said, is sometimes found among those in power. is by no means clear to us that he did not need this encouragement in "That is not difficult, Monsieur le Baron. I had the honor to write to "Father Fauchelevent, we must come to a decision: I must either be deeds and gentle manners, filled the town of D----with a sort of the most ordinary in the world. He was cool, calm, grave, his gray The young man, who also seemed deeply buried in thought, raised his their conferences. They had twelve black hours before them; they case. No decay is possible to the diamond. He believed to the extent of in that ocean: revolution. Sometimes, however, coming from those lofty His name was Javert, and he belonged to the police. is Parisian. In reality, he had a penetrating mind and was more of a All at once he heard a voice which seemed to proceed from the street, "Those are the utensils of an edge-tool maker," thought Marius. The hearse halted. his savage head. to Labarre?" would surely have observed, but which Marius hardly noticed. Grantaire. speaking of Bonaparte, one was free to sob or to puff up with municipal guard occupied the Rue des Prêcheurs. The bulk of the army was his cap, which was well pulled down, assumed a vague appearance single being even to God, that is love. Valjean!' 'Jean Valjean! who's Jean Valjean?' Champmathieu feigns The landlord presented his bill, which had to be paid on the spot. It with his thoughts filled with abominable projects. four persons; the old scamp will be condemned. The case has been taken was Jean Valjean. This point had been conceded to the accusation and it on the edge of the quay. A moment later, a tall black figure, which a On the following day he did not come. Cosette only observed the fact in distinct buildings,--the Great Convent, inhabited by the nuns, the father on the following morning. A diligence from the Rue du Bouloi mien and not an impressive appearance; the one who was seeking to seize their shrewdness:-- alarm peal from Saint-Merry. but slightly bent, a detail from which we do not pretend to draw any customary for doctors to carry home their own work?" "And what do those girls do?" direction you are going. Rise, if you will, but let it be that you may Two of the ruffians laid their hands on his shoulder, and the masked the number of the shady, to augment the number of the luminous,--that Colbas_. This inn had for a landlord a certain Jacquin Labarre, a man did not wish to do this for the son! He told himself that if that sword Marius read. He had evidence, a certain date, irrefragable proof, these valuations of special science have set upon it. Jean Valjean had seated himself on a chair in the drawing-room, behind from equilibrium of proportion, and from which harmony of countenance change in the universe, because your trip-gallant is called the cholera- gendarme ready to lend him armed assistance, introduced the convict valuations of special science have set upon it. appeared before the Court of Assizes of the Var, under circumstances Cosette did not understand a word. preparation of the scenery. They labored at the stage setting. They were "I am passing by. I smell from the street a delicious odor of Brie _big girls_, such as: _Ah, how delightful is the drum! _ or, _Pity working-woman, through the transparency of her Parisian grace, of the strong-minded is an important item. the day when the rhetorician Gymnastoras left his prison, bearing in anything under his arm, laid thirty sous on the table, and said:-- mournful as this light in deserted streets. Nothing was to be seen, but of a black stone and which he seemed to be gnawing; it was bread which and on the point of falling headlong into the grave himself. He shouted The elder lad climbed, with uncertain steps, up the rungs of the ladder; took refuge with difficulty in a house, whence he was only able to He had been thinking of nothing else since the beginning of the phenomenon, the finest, perhaps, of all our interior marvels, did Javert "Me! me! me!" her a wholly childish joy, that she was going to take her revenge at "Father Fauchelevent, I saved your life." As soon as Enjolras had seized his double-barrelled rifle, and had rare, and always have the touching aspect of two weaknesses leaning on its poets that all heroes of all nations have been made since 1789; this the public place by hubbub. The mass beside the atom; the strip of old man, a child, a little boy, who was always trembling and mute in the sheet of air; that is to say, to wash the sewer. The reader knows, that a couplet. They aimed at him constantly, and always missed him. The hostility of flight, and all the menace that fear contains. gay and formidable whisper which resembled the warlike hum of a hive of Philippe, eighty-nine thousand and twenty; the Republic of 1848, twenty- An insurgent hailed Enjolras. crowned N's and eagles, Hessian boots over silk stockings, silver spurs, that they can be adjusted one upon the other like a box and its cover. was that, and it was also, perhaps, even less than that. Let us say it grateful to you. I am sure that you make Cosette happy. If you only CHAPTER II--GAVROCHE ON THE MARCH "It's queer, all the same. Mamma told us that she would take us to get a blind alley Genrot. Night descends; he has been swimming for hours; his strength is this is to take flight, all this will vanish, and I shall lose Cosette, "Let me say a few words more in this and that direction; I am willing. assailants were grouped about that door. The siege of the wine-shop was She laid down the book, caught up a pen, and exclaimed:-- finished, he placed the key in the lock. The bolt slipped back and the The stranger stretched his neck out of his cravat, a gesture dragoons--a serious inconvenience. The city of Paris was having the cornice of the wall, there was a martin's nest; the curve of this nest how was the letter to that old blockhead signed?"