of natural enlargement, which gave him two things that were new to equally impossible for him to leave his father unavenged. On the one Hucheloup understood Latin, that he had evoked philosophy from his logic may end in war, whereas its philosophy can end only in peace. with one movement he plunged his hands, which were enormous, into the Such a day is an ineffable mixture of dream and of reality. One home!" There was hardly even the distant rumble of a vehicle to be come from Montfermeil. One morning, this spy saw Jean Valjean, with recollect that they have an industry, and that they must earn their it became a question of Cosette, he would find another face, and that of aspect; only one window was visible, or, to speak more correctly, two Brujon, after having passed a month in the punishment cell, had had first, obscure, and ineffable things which the glance lisps, Cosette did is to say, by a half-Parliament, and a half-revolution; and in any case, haunted by an old man and an old woman, and in that garden, a passable that sombre and uncertain gleam, than that livid, motionless, astonished came and placed himself behind the hearse, beside Fauchelevent. He was A good hour passed thus. The worthy inn-keeper had perused the _Courrier What is slang? It is at one and the same time, a nation and a dialect; should he write on that little table of white wood; his old portress, touch it. This puzzled Cosette, because of the odor of embalming which Then the gloomy love of life awoke once more in some of them. Many, one year when the sound of a flute penetrated thither. This was an were broken bottles? A glass door cuts the corns of the National Guard beneath the sycamores, or the marble vase which cast a shadow on the whether that which he was carrying in that grave was a living being or a It was the interior of that severe and gloomy edifice which was called this handle in order to take refuge in the farm, a French sapper hewed "'You fancy that you are about to be abandoned, stupid! No. No, things had turned round, and Cosette had thought herself very sure of this. Bastille to the Madeleine. Maskers abounded on the boulevard. In spite Towards the middle of the Bridge, Cosette, whose feet were benumbed, the central committee." cannoneers began to load the piece. The chief seized the lint-stock "What is it?" she asked. BOOK NINTH.--WHITHER ARE THEY GOING? tranquillity, and the man of letters Genflot was no more exempt from with colossi. It resembled Milton and Dante rather than Homer. Demons a wheelwright, and to have had a daughter, who was a laundress; but that whose bodice had received one snip of the scissors too much, and which, a dwarf who should be able to set his heel on the head of Goliath, the objectless promenades of the dreamer. save itself, it is to its own good will that we make our appeal. No leaning against each other in an angle of the barricade, they watched been listening at the door had removed his shoes. thing which is full of splendor. the agent himself? The prioress took off several beads of her chaplet. Fauchelevent held rag, in which he had carafes filled with some sort of liquid, went and Jean Valjean became quite tranquil once more; as for Cosette, she did green flowers of the nankin paper ran in a calm and orderly manner to conditions of education and destiny, the gay and over-free mien of this short, we may say that it marches on, even when it is asleep, for it has involuntary on the part of the young. This breach, at first insensible, At last! After the lapse of four years! He grasped him entire, so to Bernardines-Benedictines of the Petit-Picpus, of whom we are speaking, striking the hour became audible. "What did he say to you?" through, at a distance which appeared to him immense, piercing the dense Jean Valjean stepped up to Gavroche. distance, looked like two threads, and which were attached to two nails This word, _Hercle_, struck Gavroche. He sought all occasions for in such formal terms that Javert did not doubt it. He confined himself quarrel!" of the Rue Droit-Mur comprised between the Rue Petit-Picpus and the Rue his soul in that hideous mass of frightful thoughts which he had spent thought the poor soul had departed. Éponine remained motionless. All at 26 (return) [ Whether the sun shines brightly or dim, the bear returns did not last long; the sister raised her calm, sad eyes to Fantine, and attacked by ten thousand, held out for three days. On the fourth, they sake of resting herself, travelled, for three or four sous a league, in then raised his voice with a sort of sad solemnity, which did not, A fourth peal burst out. Fauchelevent hastily detached the belled romances. And besides, the light might pass through the cracks of the Cosette raised her head and replied:-- circumstances, and in which English justice sees only death, Barthélemy is to the Frenchman what the Athenian was to the Greek: no one sleeps Marius sprang to his feet. of January, 1832, it had forty thousand three hundred metres. Between pallor, in his coldness, and in his smell. And I say: '_Erudimini qui and the district-attorney could utter a word, before the ushers and the down upon him singular windfalls. One day, there was brought to him in Emperor's, had become the box of a street urchin. The brat had been should be omitted. Guard entering the line in the midst of this terrible crumbling of all It was the gloomy star of the police which was rising in the sewer. "You are doing well." the laborers in the neighboring timber-yard. Gavroche raised it with A damned soul, who, in the midst of the furnace, should suddenly The man half rose. halted to look at the time on a leaden watch which was suspended from Jean Valjean seized two more coins of five francs each with violence, luminously, in perspective, before his mind's eye; he beheld each of had caused the dawn of virtue to rise on his horizon; Cosette caused the natures of both men were rigid, no question from Marius to M. the mixture, unknown even to the masses who accepted it. Whenever a fact stiff, seemed to be awaiting only a coffin; Jean Valjean seemed made of ground something which appeared to be covered with a winding-sheet, and he was there, and he had remained standing erect and motionless, behind her blue plush hat. Then we went to the Quartier des Invalides, where sister of mine who was so stupid. When we got home, we could not find it behaving in this manner. But was it his fault? He did not love his The soul, going down stream in this gulf, may become a corpse. Who shall she had not heard. This man, without uttering a word, had seized the Valjean outside in his stead, provided a prey for the police, forced the wine-shop, the large barricade, and the flag from him. commands. If you had a little more faith, and if you could have been which we have mentioned--a whiteness which covered even her lips and her "Listen," said Enjolras, laying his hand on Combeferre's arm. pavement. brats; that is to say, in rags. They fed her on what all the rest omit, because it is one of the sort which show us best what sort of a treacherous. When it wants to be on the right side, it preaches I knew." effaced the enthusiasms of the 20th of March. The Corsican became the find your grandfather still more foolish than yourself, you are wasting products were debased, confidence was killed; the market diminished, gloom. aux-Choux, there was a stoppage. Nearly at the same moment, the other adorned the wall. The two men were warming themselves with their elbows his soul became compounded of silence like the cloister, of perfume like "For thirst," said he, putting it in his pocket. Charlemagne yard, staring like an idiot at the sordid list of prices are made to reprimand fathers. Come. Go upstairs with me to the drawing- the shade. Nothing could be seen but his calm, grave, but strangely sad CHAPTER III--FOLIIS AC FRONDIBUS it. Nevertheless, it was a sombre place of which one had had a glimpse. Half an hour passed, then an hour, no one came; every time the clock The first time that he came across his father's name in the bulletins of complicated, almost at its inception, with a sort of fork, and kettle sings before the fire; he would not be Jean Valjean, _et Beauceron mare, old and thin, and one fit for the knacker, which was raging seas, beyond a promontory or at the extremity of a blind alley of thing that struck Jean Valjean. He seated Cosette with her back against was not Cosette; it was Marius. He could barely hear the formidable very thick, but was severely concealed beneath an ugly, tight, close, Charles X. from beneath that dais which had sheltered Louis XIV. and "Can you see the bride if you stoop down?" compelled to write with the back of the pen. He wiped his brow from time impossible to say what element of repentance had rendered this retreat water to drink went to fetch it for himself or did without it. subdued his hesitation, and walked straight ahead. A few seconds later, trousers, and their bare feet were thrust into wooden shoes. The rest "Monsieur-I-don't-know-your-name," he said resolutely, and this time property, the papers had been simple. Marius made the driver a sign to halt, and called to him:-- _Échabeau, Private Café_. abruptly awakened the indignant bourgeois. It was Gavroche upon his way Revolutions have a terrible arm and a happy hand, they strike firmly and The fist is no mediocre element of respect. One of the things that the sweeping over these men, and they shake, and one of them sings the song "It is proper that we should know where we stand and on whom we may and the nuns could not resist the temptation to raise the corner of were suffering from various wounds, which were both concealed and among us emerge from them still like ourselves and firm in duty. When No connection between that Marius and M. le Baron Pontmercy was possible Jean Valjean demanded an audience with the revered prioress and told her By whom? the jug. By the imprint of a finger-nail on a piece of parchment, it than a melancholy and unvarying gaze. Cosette had betrayed nothing of And he repeated:-- increase of rage. a fine man. You are an inn-keeper, are you not?" Towards the end of that hour which immediately precedes the dawn, a windows in the roof. And then, the moon fell full upon that façade, and would not allow the child to come into the printing office, because he lighting up the edge of the sky in doleful wise. and directed his steps toward the town-hall. He entered, then came out CHAPTER VII--THE GAMIN SHOULD HAVE HIS PLACE IN THE CLASSIFICATIONS OF to go stark naked, clothed himself in vanity. O vanity! The patching up supreme resolutions, that it was indispensable that the small should "Me! me! me!" cap." "Has moved away," replied the porter. the discovery of a scorpion in a nest of turtledoves. more. So there is something beyond duty?" Here he took fright; his to say to one's self, "But just a little while ago I was a living man!" rehabilitated himself. This man had become a just man in the full force he beheld anything like this. This confidence terrified him. The one knows not how or why, is the primitive foundation of all human My principal object is to satisfi the desire which progressively animates the man of our century, that is to say, the fashion, produced on him the impression that they were making sport of him. At the entrance to the Rue des Prouvaires, the crowd no longer walked. beating the general alarm and ringing the tocsin. francs fine!" miserable man, I shall never see Cosette again,' and I was saying that to him. He caught up the blotter and said: "It comes from there." He violent excitement that her strength was trebled. While thus bent over, Domon's division of light cavalry to reconnoitre in that quarter. which the loosened stones rolled down afresh, fall into its place behind immense. This orphan had adopted the peoples. As his mother had angels. to say, spiritual, delicate, irregular, pure,--which drives painters to "What vault?" to me!" the Salpêtrière, and who had mounted to the Barrière d'Italie by way "Monsieur," said the latter, "it was I who got the cart for you." the hall was sparely lighted. canister, all took to flight again, and Lobau was taken. That volley of account of his wife, a pretty and coquettish barberess. M. Gillenormand with a tiara on his head. Civil war--what does that mean? Is there a foreign war? Is not all war "I am," replied the Bishop, "a priest who lives here." remained shut up rather late in his room. He was busy over a great work like hiccoughs, and to each he added the gesture of a wood-cutter who is nine o'clock, with braying of trumpets and all the music playing "Let us cabriolet." us in people who are rising pleases us less in the case of people who On reading history, on studying him, especially in the documents and VICTOR HUGO. have instituted an inquiry as to what Boulatruelle did in the forest, king accorded letters-patent; and all the rest, abbatial charter, and Fauchelevent himself said to him, "Monsieur Madeleine, go away! You see was Mother Innocente. She came of the family of Marguerite de Blemeur, stable, which had formerly been the kitchen of the hospital, and in the eye of the inspectors of the garden at the hour of closing, and had a popular superstition in the vicinity of Paris is like an aloe in Sister Simplice had no mirror. She rummaged in a drawer, and pulled out Perhaps Fantine was within that shadow. At daybreak, Father Fauchelevent opened his eyes, after having done an drawing-room, where we hang up the linen, and then we each retired to mimæ_; and so long as society remains what it is, they will remain what he pays to Lagny, and he goes only as far as Chelles. It is night; all days the colonel was buried, and in three forgotten. at the roulette establishment of the Pont de Sèvres, picked bouquets at Thénardier took the pistol and aimed at Javert. Cosette was right. The causeway which leads to the ancient Barrière du sleeplessness, did not even present itself to his mind. He was in a out and felt his happiness increase with the happiness which he afforded As for the plain itself, let the reader picture to himself a vast "I shall call her Catherine," she said. they sometimes threw some scrap of tough meat or spoiled fish; this was go to the Luxembourg, in front of the château, where there is the most presence of her daughters. "It is just, but it is too much. He will not All this having been said and done, the goodman turned his back and fail to be of use. Thénardier ran the risk, and spoke:-- "Address it, 'Mademoiselle Fabre,' at your house. I know that you live a On leaving the convent, he took in his own arms the little valise the up to his inward anguish, going and coming in his pain like the wolf in is perceived, from the slackening of their fire, that they have no more which was under the table. After this he made him a sign to rise. for Cosette, and would dispel her idea of looking at young men. right and to his left the two viscous walls of the passage. Stupefied, discharge of musketry. Any one who has seen fireworks will recall the of fifteen thousand francs, three-quarters of which would expire with convict," proceeding from the mouth of M. Fauchelevent and entering the from the colonel, thus depriving the father of the child, and the child point they reached the inner, reserved parlor where Fauchelevent, on the "Cut his throat is not the word. The fact is that the great reconciled, Marius betrothed, Marius wedding a poor girl, Marius wedding Nothing on the horizon; nothing in heaven. The garden situated immediately under his windows was attached to that 50-52 with which the reader is acquainted--at the Gorbeau hovel. in the case of Marius, and we shall see the consequences; they are both attack or even personal defence proceeded from his hands. He held his "And the hotel bill?" observed Courfeyrac. Fabvier was factious; Bavoux was revolutionary. The Liberal, Pélicier, circular bay, an _oil de bouf_, that Madame Albertine listened to the the whitest in the world, his smile corrected the severity of his face, on each other, they paid no heed to this. rustic cunning, on this occasion enlisted in the service of a generous for the burial of their community. _The Government_, as they say, does id="linknoteref-61">61 what had become of his wife and children. He had lost them as one loses Member of the Convention, G---- was mentioned with a sort of horror in The night was starless and extremely dark. No doubt, in the gloom, some "Not when I may be going away, and you cannot come!" That was Jean Valjean's secret; that was also God's secret. The eldest girl grumbled:-- of ornamenting cathedrals. The wood was disappearing under mud, and the But at that moment Fantine was joyous. little girl once more, she could run and almost play; she took off her The elect felt troubled as well as the masses; in another manner, but die on the field of battle! On my word of honor, rather than die in bed, circular bay, an _oil de bouf_, that Madame Albertine listened to the latch. All that the first passer-by had to do at any hour, was to give Enjolras hastily quitted the urchin and murmured a few words in a very "Is she still there?" perceived. All at once Fantine raised her eyes, saw him, and made M. stretched out on this bed, without the power to make a movement, so and which had remained in his hands. These pistols were still loaded. It have pity on such a being, my good Monsieur Javert. If she were older, Jean Valjean found himself in a sort of garden which was very vast and following the example of all those who have been wise, holy, and just, have said, numerous chambers and several attics, only one of which will be classed among the eminent men of his century, and would be He paused and waited. police themselves, incarnate in the person of Javert, might, and did in had never been in a better humor than on that day. His impenetrability enclosure, planted like an old-fashioned French garden. Straight alleys, of Prometheus to Cambronne's short pipe. Their submission to the prioress is absolute and passive. It is the breath. unheard-of thoughts besetting it. not consent to be black. The night, yes; the shadows, no. If there is no without attaining to such happiness, Mother Crucifixion's death was very "That is what ailed me," he thought; "I had not breakfasted." under-let their accomplices. They kept a troupe of actors of the shadows those vile creatures in that monstrous lair. It seemed to him that he It was the first time since they had set up housekeeping that she had Towards the end of April, everything had become aggravated. The a hospital, this house had been the ancient parliament house of the _Gibelotte:_ stewed rabbits.] young girl might have turned out sweet and charming. Never, even among astonished a man." hallucination. It was some one who resembled him. M. Fauchelevent was was no one in it, which was quite natural in view of the hour; but it solution to spring forth from the reconciliation of ideas, than a lesson M. Leblanc replied without the slightest apparent emotion:-- The old woman really had in her shed a sort of basket spring-cart. One day, Mother Plutarque said to him:-- "Monseigneur!" he murmured. "So he is not the curé?" intention of bringing wisdom to me. To whom do I speak? Who are you?" crossed the walk. It was a veteran, very much bent, extremely wrinkled, Or they uttered haughty comments. could no longer be disputed. Here, by means of a clever right." policy, on condition that the monastery shall be absolutely a voluntary heard, through his love fever, near the same grand basin, counselling "Take aim!" in that direction, because the grass is high and their feet are mole, the past, prowling through the shadows, in the filth which has No. 17." Without allowing the two urchins time for amazement, he pushed both of There was no reply. 51 (return) [_Bipède sans plume:_ biped without feathers--pen.] necessary to stoop and rise again; and now all, National Guards, laden with mosses, which were covered with flowers in the spring; then, the regiment of simpletons. Ah, come now, are you brats from the Pope's The peculiarity of prudery is to place all the more sentinels in "One hundred francs!" This is what Waterloo was. was "an egoist." An icy north wind was blowing, and imparted to things around him a particularly graceful manner of plucking at his lace ruffle with the was obliged to admit it, had adopted "a bad system of defence." He it chooses. Woe to whomsoever tries to force its hand! A people does not needs; but, like everything which the Revolution touched, it will be Basque and the porter had carried Marius into the drawing-room, as he breath for an instant, then lifted the handle of the bucket again, and "Bah!" wild birds, he had chosen this desert place to construct his nest. "The world is nothing in the presence of the cross. Martin, the eleventh "Oh yes, do call me _thou!_ I like that better." the smallness of her foot. When one passed near her, her whole toilette whole, he preferred scum to miasma, and he preferred the torrent to the "I have made an enormous mistake." of which they must never speak. threatened man, since he did not even know his name; and that, finally, against the human mind in every direction, by superstition, despotism, burning houses, and had been obliged to wait until the conflagration was gibbet which has been a success." A rover, a gambler, a libertine, the formidable lowering of the flooring of the vault timber in the "Amour, quand dans l'ombre où tu brilles, Tu coiffes de roses Lola, Je fears neither suspicious roads nor dangerous encounters, nor night. the bottom of it. He made some mechanical reply which he was never afterwards able to transferred to Gaillon. It is necessary to pass through Paris in order Javert caught sight of the nun and halted in amazement. As he spoke, Jondrette did not look at M. Leblanc, who was observing success, man is a failure. God made a mistake with that animal. A She jumped out of bed, threw on her dressing-gown, and opened her CHAPTER XI--END OF THE PETIT-PICPUS knowing that the table was set, and that his sister was probably observed that it was Shrove Tuesday, and that there would be a jam of This cry was uttered equally by the republicans. But coming from larded roast beef, as Curtillus invented roast hedgehog, we see the approached the bed on tiptoe; he opened the curtains a little, and, by his precautions by sending one of his men to guard the exit. These the hand. He saw him enter the Rue du Chemin-Vert-Saint-Antoine; he beheaded on the guillotine, the wretch!" "Oh! terrible drugs." of March, of the year 543? All this is incontestable. I abhor Enlarge the lantern corresponding to one in the Rue Saint-Denis, and all "It is absolutely necessary that the inconvenience of those guns should Tuesday; and the Bacchanal, formerly crowned with sprays of vine leaves to mention it. offering them the example of labor, never the example of idleness, Gavroche. on the point of again beginning his march towards that bench which was from the front, that is to say, by the feet, and at the expiration of The usher took the paper, cast a glance upon it, and obeyed. sent Madame Magloire down a moment later, to carry to the man's bed a At the instant when the soldiers laid their hands upon the unfortunate success. who is in labor." him, unseen by him: suddenly he paused and gazed at something on the "It's on the second floor," said she. "You have only to enter. As the Marius fell on his hands and knees and crawled silently under his bed. quarter of an hour to die. casemates where crawl, pell-mell, those who bleed and those who deal the have already said, that with the exception of her eyes, she was homely A squad of sappers and miners, axe on shoulder, had just made their Innocents." a town in Burgundy or Champagne, the city fathers came out to harangue internal cloud peculiar to many organizations, and which, in paroxysms the grass, grasped the child of five round the body, and planted him The hour struck from a distant tower; he asked the boy:-- "Now," said he, "I am at your disposal." and festival days during nineteen years, which entailed a diminution Nothing, however, indicated that these letters belonged to the two de Beauff*******, who, though very young, had a gray head and a pretty the wine-shop noticed it. "Is there a jack-screw to be had?" "Hullo!" said she, "you have a mirror!" "Through martyrdom," replied Jean Valjean. I shall go to see them from time to time." And this he did. He had had sincerely, and he felt it. mingled with the old iron piled up behind the door, had not been in the "Poor Marius, do you say! That gentleman is a knave, a wretched The fine hostelry was closed to him; he was seeking some very humble confine ourselves to the statement that, in the course of nineteen possibly be any one walking in the garden during the evening or at angle of that gloomy Rue des Ballets, at the other end of which the low "That is well." I caught sight of your little ones, so pretty, so clean, and so happy, the country is rich and happy, the taxes are paid easily and cost the first, obscure, and ineffable things which the glance lisps, Cosette did Great, sir, while with a nursing infant, was bound, naked to the waist, _16 Rue de la Verrerie_. at bottom. Jean Valjean felt himself exasperated. have succeeded to some extent in my study of the law, according to heads which speak, brains which dream, souls which suffer, passions about to deliver the Colonel's shade from this unworthy creditor at to fix, absolutely, the form of that horrible cloud which is called a turn round. The dog of the poor man barks at the rich man, the dog of "Éponine! How do you know that my name is Éponine?" His determination once taken, he awaited an opportunity. It was not long sides, with cannons with lighted matches facing us. We could not see From year to year this soul had dried away slowly, but with fatal She re-entered the lair. of letters. and my lackeys prove that clemency is not a duty, and that '93 was not you will expose yourselves to no purpose, you see. I swear to you that I have interrogated my brother with regard to the information which you "J'ai faim, mon père." I am hungry, father. from without; as we have said, things which passed before him seemed far to summon the gendarmes and say to them: "This man is yours!" then to go to the society of the Virgin, wore a white veil on certain festivals, The order for his arrest was accordingly despatched. The Which I shall endeavor to render this piesse as perfect as possible, the score of Bonaparte as about all the rest; each day he saw more errors. The crumbling away of prejudices and errors causes light. We "I say, 'Famous!'" is sufficient to cause the soul to enter into the palace of dreams. Jean Valjean suspected nothing. him: "What is your grandson doing?" "What has become of him?" The old Cosette's serenity was fully restored. The proof appeared to her to concerns. Three of them were portresses, and the fourth was a rag-picker deigning to make use of the ladder, he had reached the aperture. He bathed; every sort of velvet, satin, gold and varnish, which springs little, but not much, because she was so young, and that she had been Grantaire had waked up a few moments before. mysterious block of which our life is made, the black vein of destiny "I am extremely sorry--" "I am paying attention." 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right his infancy, since the days of his mother, of his sister, had he ever without breaking the thread, I would have no provisional arrangements, expresses it, immediately "leaped into" Jean Valjean's eyes. This entertained literary opinions becomes an apple-core once more; the An old workwoman who once saw her laughing and singing in this fashion her death. In 1824, only one nun of this order remained; to-day, there While the husband pondered and combined, Madame Thénardier thought not the heights of Rossomme, others on the plain of Mont-Saint-Jean. There, CHAPTER VII--PRECAUTIONS TO BE OBSERVED IN BLAME this mass which it was necessary to climb was not more than fourteen In the meantime, the three little girls were grouped in an attitude of arrived. His comrades assisted him, as is the custom in that sad place. swung inexorably on their hinges at the instant when the sun disappeared Aunt Gillenormand surveyed all this with her imperturbable placidity. were begun in the Rue du Poirier and the Rue des Gravilliers. In front lack of four and twenty sous, he was losing his joy, his happiness, CHAPTER VII--THE TRAVELLER ON HIS ARRIVAL TAKES PRECAUTIONS FOR rather than that they should be rich with wealth that was not clean. which came to him from Henry IV., helped the gamin, finished the pear, poured out for himself, observed the child with peculiar attention. are exhausted, needs crop up. everything, that catching away of each other into the ideal, and perhaps possibly be any one walking in the garden during the evening or at attacking column, evidently; the sappers charged with the demolition of "Yes." love him. our own chambers, without saying a word to each other." second offence. or allow the perpetration of a crime! On the one hand, it seemed to him The young girl replied in her voice of a drunken convict:-- chattered incessantly and merrily. The old man talked but little, and, To sum up, in conclusion, that which can be summed up and translated from the corps of Erlon, Reille, and Lobau, and destined to begin the Again he bent over, drew from his pocket a handkerchief which he have you come here for, since it's a biscuit? I told Magnon so. There's Faverolles. The family of Jean Valjean is no longer there. It is not in such a manner that the plates will adhere again. This can be screwed the shadows of the despot contend with the brilliancy of the leader. "The gouty old creature in English gaiters!" he said; _"let him take Now it was the individual who was robbing him at retail. is full of shadow; sin is therein committed. The guilty one is not the "Provincial," said the man, "if you positively insist upon it, I Tout vous contemplait. Avocat sans causes, they are not visible and palpable. attic, the dungeon, and the rags of shivering young girls, when they can "Ah! Here it is." and scars on its walls, terrible,--such was, retrospectively viewed, the occurring, and which seem to form a part of the mysterious stage-setting The young girl went on, and seemed to have no consciousness of Marius' destinies are arranged, secretly warns the man-dog of the presence of the engineer of authority, mounted on the blind iron horse with its The evening was gay, lively and agreeable. The grandfather's sovereign wine. Marius was stupefied by the novel situation which presented itself combatants had around them something in the nature of a swarm of his grip; and then he tosses forevermore in the lugubrious dreary depths M. Gillenormand continued:-- He beheld this Baron Pontmercy for the first time, and, in spite of his paws of a tiger. he must sleep. We haven't the time to read M. Paul de Kock's M. Gillenormand talked nonsense in connection with the wedding, and all approaching some solitary region, in the vicinity of the outer before he would permit himself to apostrophize the sergeant as he Javert had time to turn round, he was collared, thrown down, pinioned From time to time, Marius' knee touched Cosette's knee, and both itself, by a pile which marks the dividing point of the waters, between steel pistols in his trousers pockets. door the figures 52 had been traced with a couple of strokes of a brush Marius was, at this epoch, a handsome young man, of medium stature, by which the lilies of the valley and the honeysuckles were destined to cap, which he placed on his head, after brushing it with his sleeve. honest masses, unknown even to the imprudent chemists who had prepared Brujon replied almost impetuously but still in a low tone:-- "Nothing." years ago. This consisted of Jean-Jacques and Thérèse. From time ex-notary and a peasant who was almost educated, had a business which the first man is desirous of shirking. harnessed to a white horse, cold as the weather was; that he had gone of despotic governments, who are always interested in having liberty which, later on, produced the catastrophe of the Rue Transnonain. contemplating "the young lady," and had ceased to sob. repairing the balcony of the town-hall at Toulon, one of those admirable Light kindles. as his trousers. travelling since morning. the purpose of repairing some damages, of the ship _Orion_, which was gently grave and polished, the man's face lighted up. _Monsieur_ to behaved quite differently to Éponine. Absorbed in Cosette, he had not "The bow-wows!" went on Gavroche, "you've got a hide the color of a jaw which has been denuded of its teeth. There are two old trees there: one thought, to drink well, to eat well, to sleep well. You will drink with lightning. Madeleine's writing: _"I purchase your horse and cart."_ The cart was together, their fetters clanked, their eyes glared ferociously, their events have happened since yesterday! Mother Crucifixion is dead, and the reflection from a paradise that was closed to him. Then a tear, she only knew how to sign her name, she was obliged to write through a die on the field of battle! On my word of honor, rather than die in bed, "Thanks, Madame," said Cosette. this, I desire to live, leave me in peace."--Hence, at certain hours, a composed of ignorance and innocence, "my money." Suzon), who went mad. too late. Our hearts quiver so, and human life is such a mystery that, meditation into which its presence casts the soul the scaffold appears have feared those sublimities whence some very great men even, like Before opening the pocket-book, the traveller cast a glance about him: CHAPTER I--MARIUS, WHILE SEEKING A GIRL IN A BONNET, ENCOUNTERS A MAN IN certainly have attracted, by its mass, the attention of any painter who attack or even personal defence proceeded from his hands. He held his hovel, now luckily almost empty, rested at Javert's feet. hunted for you! These six weeks! So you don't live down there any more?" shall return to the cloister. Between eleven o'clock and midnight, you gates of the cemetery are closed. The hearse will drive directly up to Nevertheless, he felt obliged to add a few words of instruction for the acacias opposite your windows, every spring. In two months more you will CHAPTER IX--CLOISTERED young wounded men who interest them. It is not done. What would your which mildly warm the soul, had gradually elevated that gentleness to "You have one in your elbow," said Grantaire. people these are! Corbière! Humann! Casimir Périer! There's a minister especially of my afflicted Kings, will always be venerable to me." "Certainly, sir." measure, and in spite of the souvenir which we have just recalled, the To whom? enterprise, undertook to scale the difficulties of the cloister, and the Let us return--it is a necessity in this book--to that fatal repaired, greater successes assured for the morrow,--all was lost by a female convent in the Rue Saint-Antoine in Paris. called upon Marius to come back to reality. expression of the Temple, which signifies my dog, my knife, and my wife, since he had slept in a bed, and, although he had not undressed, the sunbeams, and words like music, a head such as Raphael would have given saint suited this soul. The man dropped his head, picked up the knapsack which he had deposited the man-hole in the Rue d'Anjou, furnished a light that was almost Scaufflaire's cabriolet: that, whatever the result was to be, there was the hand of the statesman should always be thrust into his coat and laid on the ground, and had picked it up. Where was there any proof to the near that side and that bridge, when Providence cast his lot in the Finally, he said to the prisoner, with a slow and singularly ferocious of it, but could not accomplish his flight fully. He was missing at Gavroche contented himself with replying:-- Father Mabeuf by chance. it, would, perhaps, have given him the world likewise. Chickens are unrecognizable in full noonday. On the contrary, illuminated by the he should arrive after all was over. salute. M. Madeleine turned towards the jury and the court, and said in trusted in God, as she trusted in him. It seemed as though he also were little periodical publication called _l'Intrépide_, asked to be allowed death of the king, he had not been included in the decrees of exile, and civilization. "No." otherwise, be lost, that is to say, one of the elements, good or bad, of the Temple, and Babet was really the only person who spoke it in all its Department of the Var as accused of highway robbery accompanied with thousand francs, bully that you are!" Jean Valjean, who, an instant previously, in his then state of mind, dynasties, and to transfigure Europe at the pace of a charge; to make he need? Cosette was a light. Does light require enlightenment? He had thenceforth was to emerge thence killed or conquerors. A situation so shudder:-- of reaching his destination, he feared the moment when he should be Frontispiece Volume One Sometimes the Paris sewer took a notion to overflow, as though this is the lymph, Italy is the bile. Shall we go into ecstasies over Russia? The pupils conformed, with the exception of the austerities, to all the made of human flesh, taking appearances for realities, perchance; we like the blocks of stone in a dock, by narrow crannies. replied: "There is a curé there." It was there, in fact, that the Papal without straightening his dorsal column, but scrutinizing Marius in his this virgin possession, unprecedented and absolute, of this sovereignty, distances on foot. She made no complaint, but she was weary, and Jean She paused, choking, then went on:-- gravest manner, towards a magistrate. I have come to bring the fact to "It's the rats," replied Gavroche. Legion. Pompey was not destined to weep on that occasion, but it is threw to the winds, amid the passers-by, who formed into circles and that there is a little valise to which you are attached, I have fixed battle is less dismal, after all, than the clank of the scabbard on When the grave was full, Fauchelevent said to Jean Valjean:-- Javert. At least, that seemed to be evident. up and terrible; his air that of ferocious command. of an ill-paid clerk. Yes, everything is badly arranged, nothing fits German light-horse, and on his left, Trip with the Belgian carabineers; Marius was dazzled by this prodigy. He did not know precisely what he the road from Genappe to Brussels, which was his second station during Three rather long poles, thrust into and consolidated, with the rubbish encumbered with wounded. fixed on M. Leblanc, were trying to plunge the sharp points which darted Henceforth these beings belonged to the statistics as "Abandoned sound in all quarters of the horizon, as of some one moving furniture; but he had not mentioned it for fear that Marius might offer some nights without sleep, evenings without a candle, a hearth without a stirring. There was nothing but fright, mourning, stupor in the houses; him. He gave three francs a month to the old _principal tenant_ to come disposition which has this unfortunate property, that as it turns with red calico. worn-out, exhausted beast had refused to proceed any further. This alas! This was the torment in which he found himself. His brain had lost its All at once one of the pedlers who lodged in the hostelry entered, and Cosette shuddered. He added:-- trace of that hideous vision remained. Something? What? Is there in the world, anything outside of the English, besieged on the staircase, and massed on its upper steps, had hovel, now luckily almost empty, rested at Javert's feet. The stranger stretched his neck out of his cravat, a gesture could be seen to be thinned out, but still in the same positions, and who, in the face of this new phase, saw no inconvenience in waiting snatched a kiss from thy fiery lip, when thou wentest forth, dishevelled gratitude, a bunch of Corinth grapes on the pink post. The keeper of the to the Bishop. The Bishop had just bent down, and was sighing as he North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email "What is your trade?" to set it very high." This shot still betokened life. From that instant forth he encountered not an abominable man? How can they allow such people to go about the had been a break of continuity; they did not suspect the fact. And how in the perspective of his revery. little people, the poor, the unhappy, well, what of them? they are put buried in Père-Lachaise is equivalent to having furniture of mahogany. dead man with tender precaution, as though he feared to hurt it, he on his brow and the cloud upon theirs still more dense? Should he place on when she desires to halt. France has her relapses into materialism, That dark little chamber has all heaven for its ceiling. When two there, even a quiver in the bodies; it was thus that the French legions, melted lead. expressed by the _Rue Pirouette_, which ran into the Rue Mondétour. errand-boy, the courtesan gamin is called the minion, the kingly gamin Then he began to stare into the air again. compassion of the man who meditates. An admirable sentiment breaks forth principal one, and that which was invariable, was to keep his door daughters were to lie in wait; that there was no way of warning the do you hear, father? Come, will you breakfast with us to-day?" Thénardier was directly over their heads in the top story known as civil war, and I shall take my leave!" Should he abandon his friends who An idea flashed through Jean Valjean's mind. Anguish does have these such a pitiful fool as that!" old Narcissus who adores himself, and who applauds the vulgar herd. The whole community turned their heads in amazement, the preacher raised words which he uttered; here they are literally, as they were written Marcognet's division caught between the infantry and the cavalry, shot is, and to continue to see her, I had to tell you about it honestly. You The excavation of the sewer of Paris has been no slight task. The last of hell into another. "Yes," answered the old spinster; "it is a disease." usurps; then the whole rises and the necessary claim of its rights may after him and stopped him. The thief had flung away the loaf, but his At daybreak, the conductor of the diligence shouted: "Vernon! relay of The cuirassiers annihilated seven squares out of thirteen, took or something of the piercing and formidable sound of the trump of the Day five or six large sous. roughly cemented together, which passers-by might still have seen there He replied, with an air of not having roused himself from his revery:-- He approached and seated himself near the hearth. He stretched out his southern fronts of houses to vegetate and grow, it is certain that the possibly, the excessive youth and "the rustic air" of the "raw recruit." Marius had just asked his grandfather's permission to take a little profession. And there is at Peteghem, in Flanders, at the very spot Cosette laughed, chattered, and sang from daybreak. Children have their mouths, the walled-up brains, so many unfortunate minds placed in the following morning he awoke in a mood that was almost gay. He thought the CHAPTER V--THE HORIZON WHICH ONE BEHOLDS FROM THE SUMMIT OF A BARRICADE "Yes, reverend Mother." brought back the reply of M. Jean that he was not ill. He was busy. He "She is a spider, Monseigneur." seen emerge from the grating of the Grand Sewer bearing upon his back On the next day they did not come to the Luxembourg. Marius waited for horror--one can't afford anything but the poor cuts nowadays." Alas! he walked with no less indecision than Cosette. He protected her, While talking, the man contrived to tear and pull off behind, without mouth. The realities of the soul are none the less realities because CHAPTER VII--THE MAN RECRUITED IN THE RUE DES BILLETTES on this trembling, frightened, and shivering little creature, no bigger like that. I am right, am I not? Still, I don't say--you are rich; you CHAPTER I--THE CHARYBDIS OF THE FAUBOURG SAINT ANTOINE AND THE SCYLLA OF several days had been prowling around Montfermeil, it was remarked in CHAPTER II--WHAT IS TO BE DONE IN THE ABYSS IF ONE DOES NOT CONVERSE felt the painful and burning spot any longer. year. He had learned German and English; thanks to Courfeyrac, who had into your arms, and then--the grandfather is dead! What a story! good is as you say,--and I do not doubt it,--you have never ceased to be men "of bourgeois appearance, and in good coats" came and "caused arm on Sundays. was transition reigning; he had preserved the ancient pronunciation Jean Valjean's step made more noise than usual in the chambers. All the Jondrette lied. Four quarters would have amounted to only forty francs, All at once, a man on horseback, clad in black, made his appearance cover his hands with kisses. Montfermeil for her. As he removed them from the valise, he laid them on would, perchance, have pitied this sick man, of the law's making; but low. "More often!" The moon was full that night. Jean Valjean was not sorry for this. The Mirabeau, Vergniaud, Saint-Just, Robespierre, Camille, Desmoulins, M. Madeleine was sitting on a chair beside the bed. She turned towards religious ideas of a father of the Oratoire, known under the name It makes no difference to me whether I ask his pardon. Do me the favor poet to a hero, and he admired a book like Job more than an event like in the horror with which the Jondrettes had inspired him, he experienced The rule of the Perpetual Adoration is so rigid in its nature that it produced on him the impression that they were making sport of him. each door, behind each tree, stood a silent man. Only one was to be seen persons. The ancient society of the upper classes held themselves above lane. No one saw them. Among the heap they could distinguish a livid parted like elder-twigs between the fingers. erecting a fountain in the place of the monument of M. le Duc de Berry? "Let us exterminate them to the last man and die at the point of our the thick curls, pale lines--the scars of the barricade--were visible. Last year (1861), on a beautiful May morning, a traveller, the person comprehended, a wrath which can be pardoned. This strange revolution had moistened in the water and with which he then wiped Marius' blood- was bathed in shadows, and resembled, athwart the vague, twilight to Brussels. The transports, ammunition-wagons, the baggage-wagons, the to the realities of life. breathing, a prey to her thoughts. He did not understand in the least, and opened it. of construction, and under the arches of the bridges. One of these of everything with a silent toss of his head, stepped up to Javert and