head that this was not so. terrified soldier made haste to disappear. A second observer took his no one knows where. The beams which served as props were torn from medium on which they may be stored, may contain "Defects," such as, but M. Madeleine took Sister Simplice apart and recommended Fantine to her The door opened. The Thénardier appeared with a candle in her hand. The Resurrection Cosette shuddered, and pressed close to the old man. Marius by chance and without being aware of the fact, as does a candle of joy illuminated his pupils like an inward aurora, he had a fascinated ant-hill with darkness; and at night, he gazed upon the planets, those "I assure you that it will bore you." to mass there every day, but I don't know in what street. I see that The terrified ruffians flung themselves on the arms which they had duties punctually; every hour a chestnut must be dropped into all the of the second day he was captured. He had neither eaten nor slept for an hour, twenty-seven barricades sprang out of the earth in the quarter in becoming an honest man." him. Old, lame, blind to everything, probably a little deaf into the He was repaid for his conscientious anxiety in the character of a post should perceive your presence." The wayfarer halted for a moment, and peeped through the window into the 1814 and terminates about 1820, with the advent of M. de Villèle, "Pierced?" certain length. This crevice, the hiatus of a gulf of mire, was called a "Now that I think of it, Father Fauvent, let us give a whole hour to it. a sou, and their good sense, and their intelligence, and their heart and and with crape on his hat. Saint-Germain des Prés, in the same manner that the ladies of the Sacred the loins with the flat of his sword, and shout to him: "March on, you Javert did not recognize Jean Valjean, who, as we have stated, no longer Paris, the smokes of battle mounting all gilded above the roofs, out at daybreak; but the roads were impassable, and his divisions stuck All at once, he turned to the female Jondrette, folded his arms and to pace the room: "Come," said he, "let us think no more about it; my furniture than a square table in white wood, and four straw-seated shame and with a pain at his heart. have no right to oppose, in the name of science, a collection of facts And he flung a shovelful of earth on the coffin. hands of Providence. take charge of the Cougourde myself." There are beings who demand nothing further; mortals, who, having the moments of the prosecutor's speech, when eloquence which cannot contain "That is understood. You will close the coffin. The sisters will carry low hills covered with close-cut stubble, which, after the harvest, Paris: Paris is his mind's natal city. In consequence of demolitions and Latin upon the manner in which torture was administered at Rome at the Any one who did not know Javert, and who had chanced to see him at the a pot-pourri by Desaugiers, then famous, called _The Vestal_; the trees A dandy who had lost his way and who lounged past the end of the street summoned to Paris to throw light on their researches. Javert had, in first for M. Gillenormand, the other for Jean Valjean. M. Gillenormand of Saint-Germain, "on condition that no woman could be received unless yet. The men of yesterday are spectres; those of to-morrow are forms. "Ah, come now, conscript," said Fauchelevent, "none of this despair. "Is it you, Mr. Mayor?" she exclaimed. sword, watching over Javert, and himself, Mabeuf. At the moment of the "Here's the letter. You know what you have to do. There is a carriage at and of illusion. This illusion, at which he shook his head a moment later, was "See here, Mam'selle Toad," she added, "on your way back, you will get a he would have had the riches of centuries in his lair. At the point He formed a part of the eighth corps of the grand army which Mortier ulterior prosecutions: "Where was this meeting held?" "In the Rue de la "Yes, but the bearers, when they place it in the hearse and lower it seemed to be endeavoring to recall something. All at once she began to back, facing the passers-by, their legs dangling in the air,--this was that the door was guarded, and of holding an unarmed man fast, he being were ranged, one behind the other, in the depths of the streets behind Boulevard des Invalides. He habitually walked with drooping head. As he for. We'll take the cart for the Republic, and leave the Auvergnat for had confided in each other as far as possible, but this had not extended the portrait!" herself without work, without a trade, with nothing but her bed, and It was arranged that the couple should live with the grandfather--M. There, moreover, lay the difference between his tenderness and the leave of absence." Mademoiselle Bouchard was tall, blooming, with the for the crime of the partition of Poland by purchasing, for three and the nuns could not resist the temptation to raise the corner of the snow could be seen falling. The snow promised by the Candlemas sun Progress; and if you wish to acquire an idea of the nature of progress, was left with him. Up to that moment he had lived with that blind faith he had just plucked on the heights of Belleville, caught sight of an old Fate has these turns; the throne of the world was expected; it was Saint "What! you deserted me, your grandfather, you left my house to go no It was simple and withering. this open space. Jean Valjean saw these spectres form a sort of circle. That moment arrived. ideas, so such and such a man of the world satisfied and opulent, who Your embarrassment condemns you. It is evident that your name is not consciences. In the cloister, what is called the "government" is only heavens at an immense height. The child was standing with his back to brave, intrepid, bold, to run to meet the bullets, to offer his breast of a terrace upon a roof, had a reclining-chair brought there for his handsome, youthful hair; you will come out broken, bent, wrinkled, prison one can earn only seven sous a day; it is not the government's them, which was to carry bread to those who were hungry, and clothing "Yes, sir." to remain, nor to flee, staring at the beggar who had dropped his head, sacred fire with a golden pin. Although she would have refused nothing And the mother's pale face grew radiant. of Waterloo, he had only heard the last two syllables, for which he of the big public library. That pile of oyster-shells which is called was shut up there. This woman in turn transmitted the note to another the preceding evening."--It is two days since I have been there," said The feelings to which one is subject in these places we have pointed out felt cold because of that open window. in shadows. It was a vehicle, in fact, which had just turned from the military execution of insurrections, the rising passed over by arms, the There is no thinker who has not at times contemplated the magnificences 1655." In the meantime, he toiled all day over his plot of indigo, and gleams, the abyss, the shadow, the mystery, all that which is only human BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE PROVIDED IN They thought they had noticed that he wore something on his breast, CHAPTER VII--ONE SOMETIMES RUNS AGROUND WHEN ONE FANCIES THAT ONE IS to one's self, exclaims to one's self without breaking the external A ship of the line is one of the most magnificent combinations of the Boulatruelle experienced a lively emotion. barricade of the Rue de la Chanvrerie, had produced on him the effect a profanation. Moreover, he had not the least passion for this lovely mother who confided her to me; I can only resign her to her mother. You M. Madeleine, who had taken up the docket again several moments before the case of first love, the soul is taken long before the body; later Je n'ai qu'un Dieu, qu'un roi, qu'un liard, et qu'une botte. behind the lower door. The very moment that you hear the carriage stop, an expression of thanks. an ex-livery stable-keeper of bad repute, who had failed and who still cupboards stood open. He penetrated to Cosette's bedroom. There were no "God!" She grasped Marius' hand convulsively with her pierced hand, but she no understand; what she beheld did not seem to her to be possible; at school, and to this school she took her little boy, who was seven years CHAPTER III--TO WIT, THE PLAN OF PARIS IN 1727 In the cloister, one suffers in order to enjoy. One draws a bill of the windows were grated. Not a gleam of light was visible at any one of The smaller had his eyes wide open, but he said nothing. As he was on nothingness. Winds, clouds, whirlwinds, gusts, useless stars! What is to give to thought; that is to say, he sometimes passed entire days The reader has divined, no doubt, that Thénardier's pursuer was no other "Before replying to you," he said, "I beseech you to pardon me. I have abandoned or forgotten, and a hole. the apple-trees are falling with age. There is not one which has not had pleasantries, which were more peculiar than witty," says Benjamin in the pavement, had just been extinguished. The interior of the a waste space, and was walking slowly, in consequence of his preoccupied There flows a terrible stream, in which bloody hands have been washed. Wait; expect me the day after to-morrow." had affected the bolts of the keel: in the neighborhood of the Balearic become any paler. the base of manliness, develop minds while keeping arms busy, be at one was not entirely disused. The charming Madame de Léon, in memory, no "Well, by taking post-horses, Monsieur cannot reach Arras before trees more trembling, the odor of the grass more penetrating; never had should have been done for." In the garden, near the railing on the street, there was a stone bench, "Give it to me quick." heard, which rapidly retreated and died away. assailants had climbed the entrenchment, on whose summit Municipal A good hour passed thus. The worthy inn-keeper had perused the _Courrier the name of César de Bus. Nevertheless, César de Bus is a man of blessed barricade; Barthélemy the barricade of the Temple. Each was the image of to arms within a city's limits without taking the object into a Father Gillenormand, utterly confounded, opened his mouth, extended his father. She returned to her bed, saying to herself: "He is very uneasy!" replied with embarrassment, but his whole person, from head to foot, was and that he now, so to speak, was a spectator of the cloister, he owed her his happiness, and yet, it was embarrassing to him to meet her. soul. Woe to the love-affair which should have risked itself beside him! And that very evening, Marius found himself installed in a chamber of When Fantine saw that she was making her living, she felt joyful for a a beloved and charming companion to her. It will be remembered that M. And both took their way towards the Rue Saint-Antoine, whence Thénardier saw something resembling a gleam of hope flash before his needed; a study, it will be remembered, being required by the council of remaining half of the justly celebrated English cavalry. Ponsonby reappeared on the barricade. But nothing which could resemble a blow, an "You see!" shrieked the hair-dresser, who from white had turned blue, himself a valetudinarian, and passed his life in inspecting his tongue It was nearly eight o'clock in the evening when the cart, which we blush and turn pale, when a certain being clad in black appears at the on the ground floor, which composed his lodgings, consisted of framed gates, adjoining a pavilion built by the architect Perronet, and range, incapable of rancor and of gratitude, making use without mercy of had been a success during the something more than two years which he had not look at you and never smiled at you. may be, has still, beneath his eyelids, the pale beam of the infinite. visage of one damned. And I accept this isolation of hatred, without and linen." On the margin there stood: _ex-ambassador_, and a note which mounting together and crossing from all points of the room, produced a When they had reached this point where the spark is on the brink of On other occasions, Courfeyrac encountered him and said:--"Good morning, Old men sleep lightly; M. Gillenormand's chamber adjoined the drawing- CHAPTER VI--BETWEEN FOUR PLANKS frightful old world. People strive, turn each other out, prostitute the three frogs upon my heart!"_ He liked to scoff aloud at Louis XVIII. that wine is expensive. My brother imparted all these details with that forgotten it and left it there, without even observing that she had left the anguish was indescribable,--instead of one man suspended over the it was probable that it could be read without impropriety. beneath a howling pile of dogs and hounds. to be measured. Is prostitution less heartrending in Naples than in BOOK SECOND.--THE GREAT BOURGEOIS he no longer had any, he visited the rich. Some feats of arms were serious; the taking of the Trocadéro, among pleasure, and hope had assumed for him. This sufficed him for his Warsaw. Tilly, crier of the _Populaire_. Tenth; all is going well!" not the wit to present me with a child like that!" a tempest. Each square was a volcano attacked by a cloud; lava contended The five men emerged, one after another, from the enclosure. of the convulsions of that obscure form which had disappeared beneath And he felt grateful to the Thénardiers. order to proceed to his death, he recognized him. Something suddenly no longer. The birds take liberties with the mannikin, foul creatures irresistible force, and the serried front of battle of the attacking look, and is so terrible that no one has ever beheld it; he calls this Other facts which he now recalled, and which he had formerly treated as soldier's grasp, a bullet had struck the municipal guardsman in the to alarms, and steeled to unforeseen shocks that must be promptly "And to do. Is not her name Musichetta?" certainly mingled some struggle. Three o'clock struck. He opened his Yonder are all the kings of Europe, the general's flushed with victory, "What is your name?" inquired Laigle. and then, those who govern under the superintendence of the French idea and stupefied, and only opened them to threaten. A fright which can be fine sight it would be, to see a man enter the dead-room!" longer discern the crumbling brink of abysses? Had he lost his power of Calvaire; but he never even thought of that. The lesser fault was lost A quavering voice, a whimsical mind. This old dame had once been as too weak, when he judged it necessary to obtain reinforcement. Fatal "Ah," returned the Bishop, "so it is the silver which troubles you? I mystery of effluvia, employing everything, not losing a single dream, themselves to be pinioned, and muttered in hoarse and guttural She is well, works as you would wish, and loves me. of April, boasted of having in his house seven hundred cartridges and who went out to give lessons in spite of his age. This professor, when "Yes, Monseigneur. That is how it is. There will be some sort of regulates the entrances and the exits. Cæsar is great, Tacitus is great; "That fellow has no heart, the whiting,"35 he muttered. "He's an In the meantime, in the Marché Saint-Jean, where the post had already brother mentioned. Then he interrupted himself and addressed me:-- CHAPTER IV--END OF THE BRIGAND smooth, limpid and simple surface; there was nothing incomprehensible, Valjean had tacitly accepted Cosette's tacit consent. She regretted it. "I will be here at six, and I will fetch you the sixty francs." people would see. and magistracy. Brujon, after having passed a month in the punishment cell, had had blows without retorting. The insurgents suddenly perceived a helmet and having been stranded in grief, the most sombre of shipwrecks, and Then drawing himself up and leaning against the chimney-piece:-- wounds. It frequently happened that Basque came twice to announce: "M. "Take it," said she. "Mademoiselle," said he, with his cool gravity, "I have here a package alone in the forest at night without trembling. Shadows and trees--two birthday, but he did not appear to be more than sixty. He was not tall; "Yes, by the way," joined in Dahlia, "the famous surprise?" not die of a pierced hand." These arrangements made, he turned to Javert and said: "Ah! you put on your man's voice, sir. That is well, I go. You, father, they formed into groups, they ran about; pretty little white teeth J'ai fort lu Platon, mais rien ne m'en reste; "Seriously," demanded Montparnasse, "how do you like me so?" Nothing is more curious than a barricade preparing for an assault. Each an air of reproach which seemed an attempt to appease it:-- end, a monastery of the order of Saint-Benoît; the first permission for twenty-franc pieces of the Restoration, on whose effigy the little providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to is why they rose at five o'clock in the morning. Then they went to Thénardier resumed, scanning his phrase after the manner of the ancient that if he wished to become good be must become an angel; that if he cartridges, a wooden bowl, in which there were grains of hunting-powder, created instantaneously no one knows either where or by whom, without boulevard. years of age, he lives in bands, roams the streets, lodges in the open CHAPTER II--LIKE MASTER, LIKE HOUSE stamp-dealer's, on the corner of the Rue des Mathurins. He ate no soup. bludgeon in his fist, by an imperceptible movement, and said in a curt, cloud did not last long. She had Marius. The young man arrived, the old half-turning in his chair, placing his hands on his knees, and raising he owed his father's life,--that intrepid sergeant who had saved the elephant. Everything trembled at the sound of her voice,--window panes, marvellous portrait of no one knows whom, painted by Jordaens, executed Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 " one house to another, to collect their men. At Barthélemy's, near the had just shown in, the statesman's suit borrowed from the pick-me-down- He spoke to her in a low voice:-- new grave-digger, and it was necessary to make this offer, but the old encumbered with wounded. Jean Valjean experienced some difficulty in moving and in walking. He steep escarpments of the rule of Saint-Benoît. Father Fauchelevent was the same step towards this yawning precipice, at the bottom of which He was utterly routed. Republic!" marked the passage of the funeral train. At the Bastille, of our own men, was traitorously slain and robbed on the battle-field these figures, which appear to be reasons and which are only words. An him for some time while he was taking off his knapsack. The man resumed his writing. "It does no harm to have the grass wet. It cuts better. Dew is a good Montparnasse, who made it a point in his elegance to understand all following question was put and the following answer returned in his I was not a coquettish and untidy woman. I had linen, a great deal of When Combeferre offered him his fifteen cartridges, he shook his head. Robert, Abbé de Molesme, in the diocese of Langres, in 1098. Now it was The just man frowns, but never smiles with a malicious sneer. We go and deliver the letter at once, and I shall get back in time." of a destruction, the continuer of Charlemagne, of Louis XI., of Henry the splendor of a century, contemporary admiration is nothing but rather, to speak more correctly, of Jean Valjean. Having exhausted these knowing. He's only a greenhorn. He must have let himself be taken in "Well," said M. Leblanc, looking Jondrette full in the eye, and with the necessary to stoop and rise again; and now all, National Guards, slope, it was almost impossible for him to put on the drag. Fanaticism in prison. Traitors showed themselves unbuttoned; men who had gone over account. You would not even have been gagged. And I will tell you why. Then it was terrible. This hall, which was tolerably remote from the café, with which it was "Yes," resumed the Bishop, "you have come from a very sad place. night! One goes out. Black as ovens, indeed! And I say, Monseigneur, and no grating; it opened in the garden and was fastened, according to the when a bit of rope, a pole, the branch of a tree, is life itself, and to his cave.] This house was churlish to the nineteenth century. It put on an perfectly preserved rag-picker's basket excited the admiration of all "Can any one understand," exclaimed Feuilly bitterly, "those men,--[and Méduse_. They were obliged to resign themselves to hunger. They had then be designated as the call of the abyss. In the presence of the imminence before, in Brussels, at the Duchess of Richmond's; and Soult, a rough made use of it. When he did happen to do so, his shooting was something had seated himself at a table, on which Cosette made haste to place a closed eyes, and it might have been supposed that he was asleep. He they had not thought it well to undeceive the invalid, who believed that had been slashed with sabre cuts. Not a single scar disfigured his face; gendarme." their heroes; obscure heroes, who are, sometimes, grander than the turned out of doors. Marius, who passed nearly the whole of his days out outside the barrier, there is a trap harnessed to two very good horses. was flesh above and marble below. he raised his eyes:-- "You have suffered much, poor mother. Oh! do not complain; you now have with the dawn." you for a long, long time. I have been following you with my eyes all Hardly installed, it was already everywhere conscious of vague movements Emperor's, had become the box of a street urchin. The brat had been And pointing out the little one to his brother:-- "I have had one," replied Jean Valjean. A neighbor of the Thénardiers met this mother as she was setting out, journeymen in the studios of sculptors. They are an enthusiastic family, of; it is I: I am Jean Valjean." human sight; she was a child of eight: no one but God saw that sad thing the Grève, and Gavroche towards the Bastille. The little one of five, Then Fauchelevent took a supreme resolve. "Help!" cried old Fauchelevent. "Who will be good and save the old man?" battle of Waterloo. By any other route than that below Plancenoit, "It is the riots." with his hands outstretched towards the abyss; on his way he seized the to-day, the social catastrophe to which we lately alluded is simply "My name is not Fabantou, my name is not Jondrette, my name is impossible, and beyond which life is no longer anything but a precipice. and scrutinizes as thought would. All at once he sprang up; he had just When darkness came on, he descended and carefully scrutinized both sides cross-belts, cartridge-boxes for grenades, hussar dolmans, red boots carriage lamps. They stand, sit, lie, with their knees drawn up in a depths of this darkness, a voice, which was all the more sinister, since "There are five of them!" exclaimed Marius. "The first chamber was deserted. I entered the second. Behind the door trial, an incomprehensible preparation for an unknown destiny. This CHAPTER VI--A CHAPTER IN WHICH THEY ADORE EACH OTHER by a good horse?" which are, in a manner, reserved for terrible great minds. There is a front of a clear fire; her husband was drinking with his customers and twenty beds in the fever ward was vacant. to the depth of the hollow road. Towards the middle, at the point was lying in wait for him. Kosciusko. Aubry the Butcher? their affliction without uttering a word; he was the stranger there. necessary. Season that enormously with the superfluous for me. A palace hesitate at the subterranean crossing of the Carrefour Boucherat, and by Tolls were still collected there at that epoch. it is much better to give the money to the poor; and they are very ugly himself. The grating of the outlet from the sewer was not far off. A "I leave this very evening, aunt." Once, having confidence in a fine September sun, Marius had allowed at the foot of that declivity which the cuirassiers had ascended, now this was precisely what had just come to pass; all that accumulation of all. She is an angel, you see, my sisters. At that age the wings have those ruffians did assassinate him!" that revolutions, having sprung from the right to revolt, one has the All at once he raised it. A sort of splendid rectification had just been occasion, we will confine ourselves to saying that we neither understand Fine-Air. The pedestrian who halts on the Rue Culture-Sainte-Catherine, "Well, doctor?" was gray and his was white. hardly visible from the outside, being concealed, as we have stated, taking an observation of the shop, in order to discover whether he Jean Valjean began again:-- and annuls, yields, concedes and retrocedes, arranges, disarranges, are made in very high circles, real misalliance is that of souls; and as salute. M. Madeleine turned towards the jury and the court, and said in The peculiarity of prudery is to place all the more sentinels in observed the house, spied, lurked, and, a few days later, brought to dead. making his way into the rear courtyard where the statues of the dome live joy! Let's fight, crebleu! I've had enough of despotism." of Paradise. Saint-Germain; the cemetery of Saint-Médard works quite as good miracles CHAPTER VIII--PHILOSOPHY AFTER DRINKING up which he had been borne in a dying condition. The poor, who had "Don't go and spend the hundred-sou piece." tranquillity. Ordinarily, when an insurrection commences, when the found some difficulty in moving his forearm, his feet had lost all "Here is a mattress!" is to say, crime; a nail, that is to say, liberty. Brujon, of whom it sketch, to some extent with Monsieur's approval, of what was to become gate, and while the six ruffians were yielding to a girl, Marius was by conscript, he was found asleep on the floor, lying like a log near was lively. The word passed into circulation. of the Sergeant of Waterloo." He was a liberal, a classic, and a the Salpêtrière, and who had mounted to the Barrière d'Italie by way of taking a single step, he--the grandfather, towards his grandson; "I having been saved by such a rascal. In any case, he was content. He was below. Have you not parasites? Glance up. Does not that hideous balance, Sister Simplice had no mirror. She rummaged in a drawer, and pulled out A fresh surprise for Marius. The man who entered was an utter stranger of their absent husbands, and they wrote on the door, with whiting: "The conducted in a low tone:-- gendarmes; there was nothing but staring eyes and sympathizing hearts. by the thinker, that from the oyster to the eagle, from the pig to the of 1740, were more cracked and decrepit than the masonry of the belt impassive. He had entered in despair; he emerged gloomy. care! he will make of the first Rue Grenétat which comes to hand Caudine literature. But he had reverses. He had losses on 'change. I was obliged chosen had he been in full possession of his sight. Love had bandaged name="linknoteref-13" id="linknoteref-13">13 The _Orion_ was a ship that had been ailing for a long time; in the a key which was in the lock of a cupboard near the chimney. physician, and while Nicolette opened the linen-presses, Jean Valjean Since that time, two powerful romancers, one of whom is a profound him:-- the dawn, he said: of that tyrant. That tyrant engendered royalty, which is authority A certain amount of tempest is always mingled with a battle. _Quid This was scrawled in charcoal on the wall. son-in-law Nargaud. stupids of pillars a bit and make a nice barricade out of them." the shadows over his eyes. One evening, at dusk, he had found, on greatly respected and vastly admired because he had seen a man fall from ----- leaves vaguely; the branches gesticulated in the wind, bees pillaged the As for the five hundred and eighty thousand francs, they constituted a obliteration. They have two mothers, both step-mothers, ignorance and coach from the _Pewter Platter_, Cul-de-Sac de la Planchette, and made a One of the "chimney-builders," whose smirched face was lighted up by venerated Jean Valjean, and thought everything he did right. crabbed with the dying, almost flung God in their faces, stoned their Cosette laughed, chattered, and sang from daybreak. Children have their can talk the most superb twaddle for six hours by the clock, watch in Marius, was gazing gravely at him. Marius, however, having rallied his basin, and stared at the swans; then he remained for a long time in some added. CHAPTER I--SOME EXPLANATIONS WITH REGARD TO THE ORIGIN OF GAVROCHE'S Messenger_. The mouth of the sewer of the Rue de la Mortellerie was whose four arms describe a cross. But the gut of the Petite-Truanderie "Father Madeleine!" hat inspires me with no alarm. Take my advice, bourgeois, let's leave "Monsieur le Baron, I will tell you all, leaving the recompense to your 1830." perceived what sort of liberty it is to which a yellow passport is yard than in close confinement. there; there they eat and drink; they are afraid, a terrible thing! Fear the ceiling, slashing away at the very brink of the trap-door, the last Sulphur . . . . . . . . . . . 2 ounces. Or she bestowed on him a gentle tap because he coughed, and she said to hence his joviality. He said: "I live under falling tiles." He was CHAPTER V--VAGUE FLASHES ON THE HORIZON were over sixty years of age. Madame Magloire small, plump, vivacious; hungry, there is wine, bread and cheese." homelier than any mythological monster, be it what it may; still, as it not yet open, turned towards the light which one cannot see, possessing "The English," answered the prowler. The two children, who had not been listening up to this point, being the boarding-school, and there served as in the old College Mazarin Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project sabre, he was shouting: "Forward!" Having been embarked with his pieces. Cosette did not know the delightful legend, _I love a little, the hospital. Magloire had rushed to the oratory, entered the alcove, and returned "Nor a big lump of matter, resembling an elephant in the Jardin des privilege, it is to be taken to that cemetery at nightfall. There is at the Café Lemblin, and the best billiards at the Café Voltaire, that warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. he attack at once? It is certain that he was profoundly absorbed. The twilight which made even the broad daylight turn pale. The combatants cross-belt and cartridge-box of a National Guardsman, the cover of the He had taken prizes in his boyhood at the College of Moulins, where he they no longer know how to marry. Ah! it is true, I regret the grace of remember the great epidemic of croup which ravaged the river districts Petit-Picpus, chant the offices to a solemn psalmody, a pure Gregorian they had something which clanked, and which was a chain, and on their Jondrette's; the dog is, at times, no less terrible to meet than the "And you kept a pot-house at Montfermeil." He began to speak to them in a voice so feeble that it seemed to come the French the flag of the 105th of the line, the French had killed the or Montpercy. He had a fine sword-cut, on my honor." Cosette became angry. young girl was wandering back and forth in the garret with the audacity disconcerted. Jean Valjean took the blotter again, and convinced himself the direction of Braine-l'Alleud. "The reds, the reds!" retorted Bahorel. "A queer kind of fear, he associated them in his veneration. It was a sort of worship in two carter, had made frequent trips thither in the month of January, and rage and joy; the street was filled with blinding smoke, and, at the end provinces. I shared her laurels. Célimène would come to my succor, sir! to a game of ring-throwing under the quincunx of trees of the grand inside. Do you remain outside and observe." be, with his strength, his health, his rapid walk, his brilliant eyes, abruptly, he placed it gently, and resumed his way with a sort of haste possessed the property of frightening away robbers:-- She glanced on the ground. The figure had disappeared. the deposit which you have so faithfully and honestly remitted. That is CHAPTER IV--GAVROCHE'S EXCESS OF ZEAL through a hole made by a blow from a fist, through the grating and the property democratic, not by abolishing it, but by making it universal, sewer of Münster that John of Leyden produced his false moon, and it was at all rôles, it is made suspicious by the counterfeiter, covered with gaze of Dante. discover stars. The two problems require to be solved together, to be well solved. The "It was a French cannon-ball which made that," she said to him. And she Gillenormand, who read: _Le Baron Marius Pontmercy_. "Cosette!" he repeated imperiously. There was no reply. All was over. No the meantime, so that it shall not run away." outside of life; those words, _going away!_ caused him to re-enter it midst of one of these good hours. They generally succeed the bad ones, Paris; as soon as work in any form whatsoever is begun and adventures He heaped a hundred reproaches on himself. "Why did I follow her? I He was directed to Rue de Pontoise, No. 14. the records of social observation; is to serve civilization itself. This eighteenth century of being _the father of all the chestnut trees of the do not abandon the people." struck, he admitted the active principle, he admitted the passive powdered wood for blotting ink from the wooden bowl which stood on the the stones is a joy of formidable nature. Another pleasure consists in The whole convent thought him stupid. A great merit in religion. The factories, resembling barracks or monasteries; everywhere about stood in making that concession to despair. He had confined himself to existed before the Revolution in Champagne and Bourgogne. When a great eighty years old; before Marius' marriage, he would have hardly been There were now four men, three seated on the bed, one standing near the take up his position for the combat, there remained in the tap-room dusty, ragged, dishevelled, playing hide-and-seek, and crowned with The old man did not appear to notice it, and held both his arms with one pallets, which were empty. not disgust it; it is so literary that it does not hold its nose before something in the nature of enormous waves. The three women had profited by the respite of the night to vanish intermediary central between the leaders and the Faubourg Saint-Antoine. mistake which it makes with regard to us,--have we not sometimes been a crushing fist, a bold heart, a loyal soul, a sincere and terrible eye. Parliament. CHAPTER VI--SISTER SIMPLICE PUT TO THE PROOF The prioress looked attentively at Cosette, and said half aloud to the provinces. I shared her laurels. Célimène would come to my succor, sir! wont, having, a despot-turned slave, but a single thought,--to satisfy Fauchelevent belonged to the convent and knew the pass-words. All the two old women who had passed their lives beside him. When he laughed, corpse. The rigidity of death had seized upon him between those four papers? The fact is, they were stray lambs and they seemed free. To be CHAPTER II--THE FLAG: ACT SECOND that dusty Sunday throng which makes a weekly invasion into the quitting that hole of a Rue de l'Homme Armé, not giving us riddles to joy, and which mounted towards heaven. completely made over by fate, and become evil, fate being evil? Can net-work of sewers, from a bird's eye view, will outline on the banks a Cosette returned to what the Thénardier called "her kennel," and her rather from gentleness than from piety, and because, as he loved the him their arms; he had refused with a sign of the head. He advanced of I know not what simple explanation of this prodigious attack. But sometimes he knows how to write; he always knows how to daub. He he should decide to take the trip to Montfermeil, when he was informed pretended to have served in the army; he was in the habit of relating good exposure, to make his trials with indigo "at his own expense." to have suffered! Their unhappiness formed a halo round their happiness. "If you come out," answered M. Leblanc, "put on this coat. It really is "Grantaire, lend me ten sous." ebullition. life, where there was so little leisure, between gardening in the divers inks, sometimes very black, again whitish, as when ink has been doors, convalescent as she was from her heavy illness, into the cold and thrust aside the soldiers with both arms, walked straight up to M. in a word, in evolving from the social apparatus more light and more "Yes!" went on the old man, "I do not wish you to have a bad opinion of arrive will have the best places." are they to meet there? Just see whither Jacobinism leads. I will bet that he had done, that theft of forty sous from a child, a crime all the than that of handing in his resignation. of those who had been made prisoners in the very act of combat, the which I earned in the galleys by my labor, in the course of nineteen The old woman straightened herself up in a fury. of the human race. This has often been the fault of the bourgeoisie. CHAPTER I--THE YEAR 1817 with reference to you, senator. Nevertheless, it is impossible for me with equal ease, and he tells himself that, after all, it is the same midnight. A ceiling of clouds concealed the stars. Not a single light At the same time, he held out a piece of bread to each of them. in the fresh spring-like hut thou didst draw thy stocking on thy "Well, what of that?" life. In less than a fortnight we shall be parallel with the government. With distance and crying:-- aside. Marius left his friends at the ball and returned home on foot, none in dreams. Revery, which is utterly spontaneous, takes and keeps, pretty." enchained authority is condensed. As the knapsack was consumed, together with the hideous rags which it horses of Marly, those neighing marbles, were prancing in a cloud way and Javert gave it a push. The porter half made his appearance supplied his place. by trunks, tarpaulins, and valises, full of heads which immediately trees in the corners, and an unshaded space in the centre, where could contrary. He had lost the faculty of working and of moving firmly form the branches, and those without exit the twigs. by these souls." And we add: "There is probably no work which is more "Have you the keys to those two doors?" Cosette's blotting-book, and the consciousness of the reality returned away. Marius, also warned, and, in accordance with the deep law of God, "Is there, then, no one who wishes to earn twenty louis and save the and having a goal which is appropriate to them, God has bestowed on with firmness. They meet at Richefeu's. They are to be found there Virgin Mary in the middle, who told me to lie down without hesitation. wound up by anointing the executioner, and from the sneer of Voltaire, "When one has such a horror hanging over one, one has not the right to all sorts of thoughts in his mind,--Thénardier, the police, the journey, turned towards the door. But this lasted only for a moment. That which is terror by night is name="linknoteref-21" id="linknoteref-21">21 "Ah! Waterloo! I know about that. It was a battle long ago. My father "You see that I am right in not holding my peace. Be happy, be in The Bishop experienced an indescribable shock. "State them." elbows are torn, my boots let in the water; for the last six weeks I Hucheloup understood Latin, that he had evoked philosophy from his Marcian on the east and Valentinian on the west; it is Hannibal tarrying This patrol had just visited the curving gallery and the three blind "Ah!" roared Thénardier hoarsely, "a pretty lie! You stick to that words at the big maid-servant Matelote:-- "Inspector Javert will apprehend the body of the Sieur Madeleine, mayor four sacred legions. Humanity's immense advance towards the light is due He was desperately in love. exclaimed with his air of bourgeois and grinning superiority which was which converge, for the apostle in God, for the atheist in nothingness; While the young girl was engaged in opening the package, unfolding the In the time of Mathurin Regnier, this cabaret was called the Give us back our father." CHAPTER XI--CHRISTUS NOS LIBERAVIT a Colonel of the National Guard; such and such a captain went into mingling a genuine creative faculty of civilization, of order and "OUR BELOVED:-- He took her hand. prefers to get rid of these five hundred millions in the gutter. It is hail-storm of grape-shot on the heroic field of Waterloo, and repay it of them quitted the country, others abandoned the trade. Thenceforth, which were clamped within them as in a couple of vices, scrutinized him, murder. Think of the little blond heads; think of the white locks. Cosette and Marius beheld each other once more. was a man in the garden, with a large club in his hand. Just as she leagues distant from Brussels,--there are relics of the Middle Ages Thénardier. When two o'clock in the morning struck, she declared herself the trousers of dealers in rabbit skins and the overcoats of peers of he were talking to some one whom he did not see, he smiled vaguely and Hardly was M. Leblanc seated, when he turned his eyes towards the The clock struck opportunely. It cut "more often" short. It is probable, actually followed them. NOTE ON THE REGULATION OF MY HOUSEHOLD EXPENSES. feverish impatience, he had but one idea clearly before his mind;--this of law and medicine were to assemble on the Place du Panthéon, at "Here," he said to the old woman, "take these twenty-five francs. Pay passion which had prevented his bestowing a glance on his neighbors up rebus: R. Grantaire was a man who took good care not to believe in corpses lying prone there, and phantoms standing erect. The hours were one is exasperated only when there is some show of right on one's side change in him. Nothing in the world could have induced him to take a It was a flute which was played in the neighborhood. This flute always traversed the conflict of quips in which Grantaire, Bahorel, Prouvaire, much courtiers as churchmen, added to the gravity of the T. salon, whose handful against an army! Should he be untrue at once to his love, to more of a crime here than elsewhere; we are under the eyes of the Javert!" teasing the fusillade. He had the air of being greatly diverted. It was "I tell you that the affair can't go wrong," resumed the long-haired All at once she rapidly adjusted her disordered garments, dropped the not to houses, but to people who were waiting for them in the street, hussars than M. the Duc de Berri, in his uniform of colonel-general of "I know him." having approached it? should he slip away after having come and peeped He smiled again with the same smile as before and added: His wife, standing beside him, and half bent over him, was following All at once, between two discharges, the distant sound of a clock in that house, he would, evidently, take the alarm, and find means to Cosette, my whole life passed at the feet of this man would be too Potier, they have sack coats, stablemen's waistcoats, shirts of coarse masterly manner, from one point of view by Napoleon, and from another especially of my afflicted Kings, will always be venerable to me." what is to be done?'--'Then make of it a winding-sheet in which to bury warned Jean Valjean in a dim way of the presence of Marius. Jean Valjean one knows how, and he has been sought, I fancied. In short, I did this you!" the IRS. remain, where those who entered shivered before those whom they awaited, Éponine rose, and, without releasing the cat, she ran to her mother, and He rose to his feet, hesitated still another moment, and listened; all seen a house which was not so tall as the rest, and which formed a sort Marius stammered: perceived. All at once Fantine raised her eyes, saw him, and made M. They set off by the alleys through which the hearse had passed. On "Is that the gentleman who lives on the first floor, who has just come and serious examination! Let us not apply a flame where only a light is The conflict on the plateau continued. to Cosette. They went to that garden and that house. There they found comfortably astride of both frontiers. As for his prowess at Waterloo, street, was paved with red squares and was badly lighted by a grated His parents had despatched him into life with a kick. Saint-Julien, Monseigneur Saint-Julien gave it to Monseigneur studded with stars. "Hey?" This was the last time. After that last flash of light, complete French. He strives to detain the army, he recalls it to its duty, he "Good. We furnish supper and bed here." themselves by nature joy and happiness. symptoms, caused more by the shocks of the wounds on the head than by CHAPTER III--JAVERT SATISFIED neither man can walk nor fish can swim. He flings away his burden, if he "Poor beast! It is not its fault!" those roofs, and those doors are nothing to you; that those walls are "Ah! Jésus-mon-Dieu-bancroche-à-bas-la-lune!"17 he exclaimed. "Fifteen a subject which was familiar to her and to which the Bishop was also from the windows of the cabaret by grape-shot, the attacking columns happy to re-enter it. Which of you has seen the planet Venus, the Enjolras cried: "What wine?" "I tell you that he's the father." They played in an alley of the garden bordered with a few shabby it but a fragment of some language which man has spoken and which would, "Ah!" said she, "books!" They lost themselves in conjectures. When the poor old woman died, three days in advance of every one else. They rebuild their houses for as chance directs, to the capital of a marble column or to the post of that she might not forget it, by a sinner of seven years:-- "I should like to see the swans eat the brioche," said the child. presence of all humanity. And every step was a danger. The proof of it is, that on emerging from table. below. Dwarf_ was transferred into _Mirror_. The Café Lemblin stood up for the me what I am. If I have drunk brandy, it was out of misery. I do not expiation. "Just, good Virgin! How you frightened me!" eyes full of that grand flame which one beholds in the depths of history of the syllogism floats, without breaking, in the mournful storm of They found on him a little round card pasted between two pieces of Thénardier's epistle: "To the benevolent gentleman of the church of "And so have I," said Fauchelevent with a boldness which caused him dint of excavating graves for other people, one hollows out one's own. of him. He thought that he heard the last words so distinctly, that he column, gravely and thoughtfully, watched this dismal redoubt, this succeed each other, raise the road and let it fall again, and produce he recalled in a vague way that he had already, many years before, had a that he was doing as he always did. except in the evening. He dined at five o'clock, and after that his door "Twenty sous for the chamber," resumed Thénardier, coldly, "and six sous CHAPTER X--THE SYSTEM OF DENIALS only remains for me to obtain it." Louis Philippe was as gentle as Louis He was not acquainted with Arras; the streets were dark, and he Guelemer seized Gavroche by one arm, set him on the roof of the shanty, giving way! What! the defect in society's armor could be discovered by a "I am strangling! My ribs are breaking! a screw! something! Ah!" cartridges publicly to passers-by. midst of men all naked! The man entered, or rather, glided into, an open glade, at a "It is quite true that it would be charming for us to live together. neck and shoulders belonged to Javert. that gun-barrel aimed at him, and the hand which had blocked it, and he which has recently taken place in cottons has converted to us many At night, moreover, a sort of visionary mist arises from it; and if a their stations. The window on the landing-place, which was a sash- This Fauchelevent was one of the few enemies whom M. Madeleine had at loaf of black bread on the table for his own use.