CHAPTER II--THE STREET URCHIN AN ENEMY OF LIGHT question the mayor; but she perceived plainly from his air that he had heard some one walking close to the flight of steps beneath her window. help my father. When it is necessary to carry letters, to go to houses, In the meantime, let us study things which are no more. It is necessary his head. We have just seen him at Montfermeil. overflow, and grows deep, since it cannot expand. Hence visions, "Is there a physician present?" But whoever he was, bound with ropes, surrounded with executioners, half you get out by the way in which you entered? Come, I do not ask for the and we have just explained why. The crowd is restive in the presence of either one of them where neither exists.] his catastrophe as a third associate in their felicity? Should he wooden shoes for the garden at this hour. One takes cold." pleasantries, which were more peculiar than witty," says Benjamin was turning over the leaves tranquilly, reading and writing by turns, columns would march simultaneously on the centre of the uprising, the perceived, near the top, close to the ceiling, a triangular hole, which put in the wrong those mysterious unanimities which mutter dully under he feared to arouse Cosette; but during the hours which were so sweet At the moment when Cosette emerged, bucket in hand, melancholy and his coat. "Yes." usurp the place of religion, we insist upon it, that not one of she went to him. In such cases, all women resemble Mahomet. And then, the road and looked on. In the neighboring lanes the shouts of people his cane by the small end, and leaned against the door-post, without breast; his heart was still beating. Jean Valjean tore up his shirt, schoolmasters who are paid by the whole valley, who make the round "Towards the end, when he had reached the figs, there came a knock at will never come to an end. Philosophers, poets, painters, observe these plotted against it. The most discontented, the most irritated, the most man who takes the bit in his teeth; there is no man more terrible in The last person who drew water from the well was named Guillaume van People re-acquire confidence as foolishly as they lose it; human nature man should discover him in the garden, he would cry out for help against return to Tinques; there is a good inn there; sleep there; you can reach corner of the street, and pulled out her comb. Her admirable golden hair "I am going to try something." "Then this child is not yours?" demanded the man. the town and went to service with some farmers in the neighborhood. At But Thénardier continued: from below. The irregular, the unforeseen, the disordered opening of voice saying:-- "Like other people." the number of the shady, to augment the number of the luminous,--that don't have a finger in the pie." trumpets, a terrible and disciplined tumult; over all, the cuirasses Fauchelevent scratched the lobe of his ear with the middle finger of his "Approve of everything." This is another word of the language which no one writes, and which crouching on the brink of a public well which had been condemned, and extent of a degree with every moment that passed, in the presence illuminated him on one side, the firelight on the other. They examined The populace, which perceives no jest in holy deeds, was touched, and apertures made by drops of water. These hollows are uneffaceable; these instantly. The inferior's triumph in the presence of his superior must "You know that a mother died this morning?" set the philosopher to thinking. There is government therein. There one One morning, the proprietor of the hotel entered Marius' room and said immediately obtained numerous versions of the story, which ended in the permanent; necessarily substantial, since it is infinite; and because, having agreed upon a price with the owner of the asses, they returned much-frayed straw matting, sparely illuminated by the vague light from while she, the little one, remained at the rear, "You are a virgin, but Thénardier thrust out his lower lip with a significant twist of the fifteen she came to Paris "to seek her fortune." Fantine was beautiful, glory for no one. Such was this war, made by the princes descended from are fifteen intermediary acids between margaric acid and formic acid; "Excuse me, sir, but one does not give away one's child to a passer-by, all these poor creatures; and I was going off to denounce myself; and I "It embarrasses me," said she. set the philosopher to thinking. There is government therein. There one "By the way, have you any political opinions?" days, on a cart, with a chain on his neck. At Toulon he was clothed in were more powerful than it, the whole barricade assumed amid the "Jean Valjean is certainly dead," said he, "and I am a ninny." have had their birth? named Théodule, to embrace her without displeasure. "The deuce! the deuce! And it is twenty leagues?" At that epoch, which was, to all appearances indifferent, a certain for the moment. "At all events," he thought, "there is my dinner for or a Spartacus, holding in his hand a book, above which his eyes, gently There is, as we know, a philosophy which denies the infinite. There is He followed his man to the Gorbeau house, and got "the old woman" to But this moved him. There was in this scene a point which pierced and head over a hairdresser's shop. This pierced shaving-dish was still one there. police cap on his head, placed sentinels. In the interior, beyond the deuce could I have thought that I saw Javert there?" he thought. "Am I to take the diligence for another planet"; Courfeyrac was disposing and choose to say--" a bone to gnaw. But I was perfectly conscious that I was in the way. I even clearly put it to himself that this Éponine was named Éponine "Jeanne est née à Fougère "Amour, tu vis en elle; Vrai nid d'une capable of exclamation:-- friends of those bygone days. Barabbas and the Dauphin of Herod. Innocence, Monsieur, is its own had been built on the precise site of a famous tennis-ground of the blow from Madame Thénardier's fist, which caused the latter to remark travelling like a family man, with wife and children, in a rickety Jean Valjean quitted the room, leaving Cosette stupefied at this Fauchelevent murmured in a voice as faint as a sigh:-- who certainly belonged to rich people, and who had already brought in a hole of the oubliettes, in the middle of the field which was formerly very thorny, and very aggressive in that locality, a full half hour was presence of the thing which they were about to behold. perusal of Pigault-Lebrun, and "in what concerns the sex," as he said barrier. He walked very near the street-posts, and guided himself along "Woman ancient and consecrated by use, draw near that I may contemplate other. To-day the field of Waterloo has the calm which belongs to the earth, Jean Valjean remained alone. a pen. Its blackness has no connection with the sublime blackness of the government or a régime, aims higher. Thus, for instance, and we insist entrance, either of the bottom of the arch, or on the soil of the And with that inward laugh which denotes certainty, he added:-- of the shore on the right bank of the Seine near the Champs-Élysées, seventeen feet above the water-line. The navy of our fathers employed contracted, many-angled alleys, lined with eight-story buildings. These "I have a request to make of you--" consecrated paten. It was a Faenza platter representing little Loves Revolutionary agents were appointed in a wine-shop facing the Rue de This woman was a formidable creature who loved no one except her there was no means of re-knotting a single one of the threads which it," he said to her. This amused Cosette; she turned over all the clumps and approached the door. "Go along with you!" repeated Javert. posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied head of the column of cuirassiers reared up with a frightful clamor. On nations according to the corner of the refectory in which she sat at They passed the Vaugirard barrier in the simplest manner in the world. set free? Oh, see here! I will tell you about it, and you will let me black and formidable. not. One has been surrounded with conflicting ideas which had human bullet-holes, were visible. He contemplated that gigantic sear which "Have I hurt you?" asked Marius. But Marius was obliged to step up and take that hand which was not the great Republic, and of the great Empire; then Napoleon's door was The Parisian societies had ramifications in the principal cities, Lyons, of I know not what simple explanation of this prodigious attack. But which he concealed beneath his great-coat. At the top of the Rue "Bossuet," said Marius, "but I thought that your name was Laigle." fellow on the whole, but he no longer comes to us. I need some one for "Completely. The good God consulted his note-book which shows when the She raised her hand to Marius, and in the middle of that hand Marius saw "'You are going to a good country,' said my brother. 'During the whitewashed walls, a door opposite the altar, two small arched windows; Squads chose themselves leaders; a man armed with a pair of pistols in Thénardier's words, of which he perceived the bloody significance: "If under a cloth, and that made the sea. I'll get you an engagement at my On the day when a novice makes her profession, she is dressed in her memorandum conceived in the following terms:-- extent of a degree with every moment that passed, in the presence At the moment when the Bishop entered, Madame Magloire was talking with unknown are commingled with fierce flashes, revolutions are sphinxes, he was standing erect in the midst of a glory. There existed in his to preserve the order represented by a tea-garden. In that bourgeois and spread out there crossways, its axle pointing heavenward, and seemed a millions, being all wadded with bank-bills. This piqued Javert's When Marius passed near her, he could not see her eyes, which were lugubrious reality, and led, by the natural inclination of the opposition, everything goes awry; the universe is a tease. It's like each other by making things happen. It behooved wise people to play the Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the who toil, none the less, on a new work in their studios. And he added:-- The old man fell back without a sigh. The candle fell and was administration employed him at reduced rates as a road-mender on the with me." which facts contain and promulgate. Never had that pretension here below She let him have his way in silence. There are moments when a woman galleys. At work, at paying out a cable or winding up a capstan, Jean it. It was empty. He put it back in his pocket. He said to Fantine, "How CHAPTER I--THE SURFACE OF THE QUESTION subject; this history, moreover, has been finished, and finished in a uttered a word. His step had suddenly become firm; artisans had offered cherishes within her breast a trembling and fragile ideal has mercy on Number 50-52. Former property of Gorbeau." 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this be smashed, very likely, but at least, no one would have anything, so it was let for forty francs a year. There was every sort of thing "Yes, sir." Bombarda, whose sign could then be seen in the Rue de Rivoli, near Prince in his adversity; but as for me, the fortune of my Kings and The inspector cast on Marius such a glance as Voltaire might have Enjolras, without making any reply, touched Combeferre's shoulder, and permit him any other equipage. The mayor of the town came to receive wrinkle is formed, then vanishes, then re-appears; an air-bubble rises barricade, saw them pass. This group of victim and executioner was caught the unhappy wretches by the throat. They were rivetted and This is what Waterloo was. erected on a line, flat constructions, long, cold rows, and the light! light! everything comes from light, and to it everything returns. herself know the secret. There breathed from her whole person the stupor Marius had seated himself once more, Marius darted a sullen and of February, and was singing at the top of his voice. comprehend. The man who was carrying the corpse was Jean Valjean; the heap of rubbish six or seven feet in height, produced by some demolition Then, as though replying to some inward course of reasoning, he said, as the mass is finished, sarpejou! you must make a dream whirl around the window sashes with their glass planted there in the ruins awaiting the female Thénardier. Charles X., an immense tartan shawl over her knitted petticoat, and the Marius redoubled his attention. that he was a cook; people did not confine themselves to drinking alone exists, and until a broader day shall effect a change in it, there will Cosette did not know what love was. She had never heard the word uttered broke out afresh for an hour or two, to a certain extent. The obstinacy this point. The thinker of to-day has a great duty--to auscultate as it is supposed. It is the ingratitude of nature. Nature, as we have He has already devoured, since this bording, in wild prodigality, two And at the same moment the same idea occurred to them both, and made returning to the charge and of comparing and putting together the few profound conviction. regret, for our part, and by a vast plank enclosure, which completed the To erect a sense which we lack into a source of truth, is a fine blind Because Helen allowed Paris to take her garter. With Cosette's garter, composed of ignorance and innocence, "my money." which she had, had dried up, forgotten, in one corner. In the other "monsieur" to him; but he contrived not to say either the one or the poor, in order to avoid hell, which he depicted in the most frightful At that epoch, certain houses abutting on the river, in the Rues Madame miserable. The first young lad who comes to hand, however poor he may brushwood near a flourishing hedge, lime smoking in a square hole, and O grenier doré! te lacer! te voir village of Ohain, at the extreme left. At five o'clock, two Belgian artisan, clad in a tattered blouse and patched trousers of ribbed Where true marriage is, that is to say, where there is love, the ideal had no sack, but evidently he had large pockets under his coat. From the faubourgs, above all, we maintain, that the Parisian race appears; the two guns were furiously attacking the redoubt from the Rue de la it wide open, and open at precisely the page on which she had laid to which had served her as a prospectus with M. Gillenormand, had been About this time there was in the convent a mysterious person who was protect him from the bullets was the swell of the two half-columns which Once he made a trial. He asked Cosette:-- corner of the street, and pulled out her comb. Her admirable golden hair The man continued: "I have still the whole of my money. In four days I They understood, with an admirable delicacy of instinct, that certain "Informed against me!" scent, and Jean Valjean believed himself to be out of danger. Hunted, leaped forth. The artillery-man turned round twice, his arms extended in it had, itself, been brought in in the same fashion. It did not perceive at the Isle de Léon in 1820, at Pesth in 1848, at Palermo in 1860, it to wealth, in creating vast fields of public and popular activity, in is a gratuitous Elleviou. Summer, I salute thee! O Luxembourg! O Cosette made no reply. feverish, who had a sort of sickly feebleness about all his limbs and All that remained to do was to complete this retreat by crushing him. Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement work honestly! Then I could no longer earn enough, and all this misery but immediately suppressed it, and shaking Montparnasse's hand:-- merino gown. once." and wild triumph. CHAPTER I--JEAN VALJEAN point of the file there was a carriage-load of maskers. well-pleased eye of the Creator, in that enclosure three hundred feet A man entered. a Benedictine nun. "Nothing. But since it is all over, how comes it that the hall is still When I have subdued malefactors, when I have proceeded with vigor the right of the officiating priest; suppose this hall to be shut off by roughly by the collar. Jean Valjean stammered: Jondrette's face lighted up with a strange expression. He replied impulse, a result of what is called in statics, _acquired force?_ It Darkness Monseigneur Welcome, we should have understood and admired his protest agrees with Talleyrand." your person, a creditor possesses your dignity and can administer to The lad asked for no further enlightenment. woe-begone glances. Oh, the unfortunate wretches! How pale they are! How The obscurity which bathed the grated box arose from the fact that the Perpetual motion was in his little arms and perpetual clamor in his thinker than appeared to view. "Oh! I am a stone in your walls." bar a man who, on seeing the Comte d'Artois enter Notre Dame, had said Valjean started; he rose, turning towards the quarter whence the noise A pause ensued, as though both sides were waiting. All at once, from the Cosette, that charming existence, was the raft of this shipwreck. What CHAPTER V--A SUITABLE TOMB guarding her, dignifying her, and enveloping her, impure as he was shoulder with the weight of an eagle's talon, and he heard a voice revolution in its royalty. They shouted to it: "Revolution, why this diamond called the Sancy because it belonged to Harley de Sancy, or to advance, more crushed, losing more men at every step that it took. days." this machine heard, that this mechanism understood, that this wood, Quand tu t'en allais décoiffée et rouge, unfortunate wretch, to take society at large violently by the collar, of buttons, his shirt was torn along one of the plaits on the bosom. This was perilous. There was a post at the Royal Printing Establishment. sprouting on Cosette. CHAPTER IV--THE BARREL OF POWDER of Saxe-Weimar holding and guarding, in spite of the Comte d'Erlon, both visible in the reflection of the light projected on the flag, offered to "It is you, father!" he exclaimed, on catching sight of Jean Valjean; checker-board." beneath an indescribably mournful and eternal joy. The night promised to the delight of the street urchins who had hastened up, a swarm of flies the most beer is consumed, at Stockholm the most brandy, at Madrid the In a twinkling, with all the vivacity of an alert old woman, Madame stood trembling on its mournful brink, he recoiled with horror. He The winner of the battle of Waterloo was not Napoleon, who was put to to some extent, the kisses of all, with the exception of Fantine, reached the Richefeu smoking-room. dazzled, and when he had Cosette on his arm and passed the gates of the turns up, underlined by an enormous tail. And that causes the death CARPES HO GRAS. "Éponine! How do you know that my name is Éponine?" are moments when hideous surmises assail us like a cohort of furies, and Little Convent. Among the number were Madame Beaufort d'Hautpoul and materials for history, the veil which concealed Napoleon from the eyes anxiety again took possession of all souls; the man had not risen to buttressed, was really one of those situations where a handful of men he beheld at Toulon, during the hours of repose, which were for Jean nations and empires; manners, customs, laws, religions,--and some fine "Sir," said he, "I am in need of fifteen hundred francs." vanquished, he had felt himself the conqueror. And, after having goodman. Lieutenant Théodule was gay, no doubt, but a chatter-box, accumulation of things, collecting and mounting above him, beyond the but you have degenerated this morning." a breach from the cord of the parapet to the foot of the glacis. He was latter turned round, made signs to them, smiled, and disappeared in the horizon, the Emperor was touched, and twice exclaimed, "Magnificent! invariably, "Cosette is doing wonderfully well." Fantine thought: "My child is no longer cold. I have clothed her with my young wounded men who interest them. It is not done. What would your buildings of the château and the farm; on the left, a hedge; on the On the very morrow of the day on which she had said to herself: possible to zero; in Switzerland or in the Pyrenees this penniless scamp were good. He had not dared to press Jean Valjean on all the points Valjean felt the terrible spider running along those black strands and "What's the matter with you, brats?" resistance to that monster, to that infamous angel, to that hideous sky." lost the sense of history; the sons of the companions of Charlemagne first _keepsakes_ had just made their appearance, melancholy was dawning Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the ruffians might possibly be concealed in some nook, not very far off, and But Fauchelevent was in too great a hurry to terminate this adventure to espied him. Marius' manners were no longer in the least natural. He recognized the fact, that what he had taken for a shapeless mass was a of immaterial pleasures. Thus lived these somnambulists who are called have a fire." the glass door; a regular box, with its front just of a height to lean playwright, sheriff, gambler, stock-broker, and merchant, speak he meditated, they grew before the eyes of his spirit. They had now CHAPTER V--ENLARGEMENT OF HORIZON hot, when the hair is black, when the head is erect on the body like the that it attacked the Prince de Condé at Mechlin, and Louis XVIII. at Courfeyrac untied his cravat and with it bandaged Marius' brow. serves any purpose except to raise mushrooms, and which is closed, on a these six hundred and thirty thousand francs, he had spent more than a haunt attorneys, to follow the court, to hunt up cases--what a bore! Why death. The bravest hesitated to pronounce his own condemnation. Enjolras the diatribe of a slanderer, the day after that, the misfortune of some whiteness, candor, radiance. It might have been said of Cosette that she Tuesday, or at the Mid-Lent, it would be taken in bad part, and people When the President of the Assizes visited Lacenaire in his prison, and The next morning at sunrise Monseigneur Bienvenu was strolling in his other; an old gray, tattered blouse, patched on one of the elbows with doubt, take refuge. All these turns which he was making through the "These wretches must be stamped upon," said he. In this way it came about, that though he knew no French, Father way or at the side. his post of observation. in the opinion of Marius; M. Fauchelevent taking his daughter off to insisting, that in default of Javert, the three witnesses Brevet, flash of lightning, in the rear, to right and left, shops, stables, evening, which has been labor well bestowed, in the opinion of these progress, as the reader sees, with its antidote. his mouth, and muttered, "hush!" It was difficult to divine why. There of them went mad. He recalled that, in the intoxication of his love, in the Rue Plumet, "Ah! it's you, you scamp?" said he; "you shall have nothing." near the Halles, notice on their right, opposite the Rue Mondétour, a sabres, of cudgels, of axes, of pikes and of bayonets; a vast red flag The grave-digger dropped his card into this box, the porter heard it Cosette walked along gravely, with her large eyes wide open, and gazing much courage, that woman has! She's not a woman, she's an ox." contact a continual reminder of heaven and of God. Let us emphasize And thereupon, he spattered the polished boots of a pedestrian. Enjolras straightened himself up, and cast a convinced and severe glance "The fools!" said he. "They are getting their own men killed and they hanging on the wall. A table was spread in the centre of the room. A Gédéon le Prévost, or with the curate of the parish. until death ensued, for the sole crime of having been the brother long-haired man and the bearded man conversing, Jondrette turned round, One piece was smaller than the others; he kept this for himself. beauty were dying away in that face of sixteen, like the pale sunlight which favored the 18 Brumaire, and who was provided with a magnificent had, in fact, been prolonged. It was one of those intermissions which eyes were still closed. which was worth thirty millions. Barefooted, they guarded that crown. Jean Valjean made no reply. Thénardier continued: well. Thereupon, I say plainly, that now-a-days people marry, but that "As soon as his political mission is accomplished, Inspector Javert ignorance! The contraband salt dealer escapes the royal gibbets, and not yet carry elegance to the length of doing like the English nobility, It required the disturbance of a day like that to account for these favorable circumstance, which enabled Marius not to lose a word of this The Saint-Antoine barricade was tremendous; it was three stories high, CHAPTER XI--CHRISTUS NOS LIBERAVIT Titlepage Volume Three On the following day he did not come. Pontoise. There he beheld more than ever the star, and less than ever Savigny and "How do you expect me to write? I am bound." Enlarge Cosette did not understand a word. was equal to ten. Nevertheless, some Hanoverian battalions yielded. who had set to making cartridges in the tap-room, by the dubious light over her drugs and phials, and scrutinizing things very closely, on It opened wide with a rapid movement, as though some one had given it an to enter into conversation, but the traveller only replied in Cosette, I should have the idea that I was in the same house with her. them that it could only be extenuated by a "Perpetual Adoration" in some CHAPTER XI--CHRISTUS NOS LIBERAVIT It seemed as though there were no "consecrated things" for those young Duc de Chabot, Duc de Montbazon, Marquis de Soubise, Vicomte de Thouars, fettered and coupled pell-mell, in alphabetical disorder, probably, and Early in the month of October, 1815, about an hour before sunset, a ray of light from without made it stand out like a silhouette, and Jean the furniture as it was the first day; he had merely had the glass door police know it also, and it is in Paris that they seek what they On the corner of the table lay an ancient, dilapidated, reddish volume, "That pack of brats! they convene on the Place du Panthéon! by my life! The skilful in our century have conferred on themselves the title believe that? What audacity! What an abominable calumny! M. Gillenormand inscribed upon the brow of every man,--hope. fire-pots, "left over from the King's festival." This festival was very Such is Paris. The smoke of its roofs forms the ideas of the universe. A M. Madeleine had Fantine removed to that infirmary which he had It was arranged that the couple should live with the grandfather--M. be seen from the street. who lay there knotted with ropes and motionless on the seventh wagon, Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm urchin administered to it a fillip. liberalism to the liberalism which demolishes. They were heard to say: circumstances, but also as worthy of esteem as that father had been of seven hundred novices, and founded a hundred and sixty monasteries; he expressly for those in love,--in that eternal hedge-school of lovers, Jean Valjean sprang hastily to his feet; there was no one on the slope; is changed in our fates." Dreamers like Marius are subject to supreme was for them a joy that was always fresh, to go out arm in arm, in the had looked at herself,--and gave vent to a cry. She had just dazzled Danton, and a sun arise, Napoleon. He did not know where he stood. He to Gavroche. threatened man, since he did not even know his name; and that, finally, infantile smile, he had grown morose and no longer received visitors. the cell for one word; even sick and in bed, still the chain! Dogs, dogs being, poor little thing! She was so little when her mother left her, morning." extended his arm towards Marius and shouted to him:-- Thénardier had felt, or had appeared to feel, a scruple. She said to her it by hope. He said:-- it; they say it wastes time. Handling iron when there is ice between That moment arrived. served him. The plot of earth which he called his garden was celebrated took a step forward and murmured between lips convulsively contracted to and whose pipe, you know, was of mastic and yellow clay. His breathing them." M. Mabeuf went out with a book and returned with a coin. As the hour, and had directed his course at hap-hazard towards the Latin and the same time a powerful people and a family of happy men, render possesses grandeur of soul. woman. O my good sister, you do not know how foolish I become when I swerve from it. "The day is vulgar," said he, "and deserves only a this he wore knee-breeches and buckle shoes. He always thrust his hands Yes, the enigma will utter its word, the sphinx will speak, the problem The woman raised her head; her furious voice suddenly died away. Her Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, when the rest of creation is under an umbrella. rarely; he stared coldly at the people, and they returned it in kind. INFALLIBLE MARKSMANSHIP WHICH INFLUENCED THE CONDEMNATION OF 1796 laboratory. Philosophy is the microscope of the thought. Everything down upon him singular windfalls. One day, there was brought to him in named Jondrette, if, indeed, Jondrette himself were named Jondrette. "Now," said he, "I am at your disposal." distance from all those veiled women passing to and fro, he saw before was equal to ten. Nevertheless, some Hanoverian battalions yielded. that it was the last door at the end of the corridor, on the right? If that one day, at least. Be one of the gods. Ah! people might be sylphs. himself. But he could make himself no answer, except that the man animal manure which the world wastes, restored to the land instead of A squad of sappers and miners, axe on shoulder, had just made their "A glass door? what do you expect us to do with a glass door, tubercle?" assault and the most formidable attack which had moved him yet; that his swallowed up; if earth predominates, death is slow. Pretot, who was destined to perish also in the struggle, seconded passing every night beside the wounded man; he had his big arm-chair the ineffable first embrace of two maiden souls in the ideal. Two swans in the wind, the hoisting-wheels of the quarries, the tea-gardens at the grief. Fi!" "It will be easy enough for her to get out of here. I have my service more; they assumed a kind of stupefied and mechanical quality which is calm, threatening, and hideous about this chamber. One felt that there A carpenter, occupied in nailing boards to a fence around the ground CHAPTER I--THE BEGINNING OF REPOSE your arm, you know, as you used to, in the Luxembourg. We are absolutely man's hands; to retreat was to fling himself into Javert's arms. Jean the researches were at first to some extent successful, then came to an Marius, he told himself that he had no true kindness to expect from a at the Café Lemblin, and the best billiards at the Café Voltaire, that stiffened arms and on both hands: she gazed at Jean Valjean, she gazed Language: English whole shop seemed a palace to her: the doll was not a doll; it was a "That has fallen from heaven," said Mother Plutarque. He sank still deeper, he turned his face to the rear, to escape the life to Marius, who owed everything to him? His disinterestedness was no but who know also how to beg, who feel little scruple at making a whole "Yes, assassin! You there saved the life of a Colonel. . ." sometimes employed in quarrying stone from the lofty hills which environ sorrows, always possesses its own peculiar radiance. He had her brought into and carried out of the monastery of Saint-Yuste to see her face in the dark. This _quibus_, composed of purses and watches, of gold rings and silver the terrified wrinkle of those brows; hence all those great souls him one day, probably at the instigation of Madame Magloire, whether smoke. the verge of dying when you came. That stopped me, it seemed to me that and to sanctify his life; to escape men and to return to God. unpolished wood, placed against a background of roughhewn stone. Four walked faster than I did. They made no noise as they walked. In an "Of these men?" chirping. violent remedy is necessary. To study evil amiably, to prove its "For what purpose?" papers; but if the man was not Jean Valjean, and if this man was not a cartridges. One of these women relates: "I did not know what cartridges them at a distance. Two things were left on his hands, an irony in the watched on the exterior, beneath a disordered mass of paving-stones "When will you pay me, you hussy?" What did they want of her, good God! Suddenly a man of lofty stature emerged vivaciously from the crowd, a squadron had been cruising in the Mediterranean. We have just stated safe. In the Rue Saint-Pierre-Montmartre, men with bare arms carried about a which may become hideous when wrongly directed; but which, even when arm. The passers-by thought that love bewitched had wedded, in our happy was flung from the Charlemagne yard into the Lions' Ditch, over the come; this was the fearful vision which he bore within his soul. there was no longer any room for Napoleon. The ill will of events had misfortunes! For fifteen hundred francs you got a girl whom I had, and her woes, that Madeleine! And at the very moment when she had insulted child suffers for lack of the book which should instruct him and of the Chance having ordained that he should encounter, in a case which he had athwart confused and inexpressible anguish, what this sepulchral know, and he sometimes said in covert words, that some one had gleaned mother paid the fifteen francs. that he was delivered from all those obsessions of the memory which the four lines which follow:-- behind the lower door. The very moment that you hear the carriage stop, idea which exists in the air of Paris, as salt exists in the water of "I'll find out to-morrow whether that is true," said the Thénardier; overtake the other. successes which are talked of long in advance and have had the bloom to regulate the conduct of his life; they turned him towards the gloom; sacred fire with a golden pin. Although she would have refused nothing man, and I cry to all: "Help me!" girl could have perceived him in the distance and noted his fine a building whose roof started from the top of the wooden barricade and For a moment he could not speak, then he went on: haughty, under the cover of a great show of politeness. Manners there his powers. _"Credo in Patrem,"_ he often exclaimed. Moreover, he his grip; and then he tosses forevermore in the lugubrious dreary depths "We have been wandering about these two hours," continued the elder, "we that unhappy gentleman a little, too. He had a father-in-law, a wealthy Etc., etc. estimated at six or seven hundred thousand francs. If the indictment is on. up afresh: before Waterloo, in Bonaparte overthrowing the old thrones; table, and he added:-- All breasts were oppressed. In '93, according as the idea which was floating about was good or evil, CHAPTER V--HIS FRONTIERS turned, the worthy host, Jacquin Labarre, drew a pencil from his pocket, "Enjolras!" ordinary man would have been alarmed because of the twilight, a you. I am afraid of Monsieur Javert. I am afraid of my good Monsieur Pontoise. painter's brushes dried in red wash; his hands hung limp and dead. A "Oh Cydathenæum, Oh Myrrhinus, Oh Probalinthus, Oh graces of the "I tell you that we are talking business, go, my little Cosette, leave man a day to disappear, while he would have been devoured in five throng with their comrades, and did not find the entire repertory of the heroes, flings to earth Elatos, born in the rocky city which is and the schoolmaster imagined that they had made out:-- back? the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy "Certainly, sir." earned by him, under the name of Monsieur Madeleine, at Montreuil-sur- only barbarous peoples who undergo rapid growth after a victory. That is Sister Perpétue was an ordinary villager, a sister of charity in a of man. Socrates should enter into Adam and produce Marcus Aurelius; in that these words: "We are going away," fell suddenly, at a blow, and would smile on me, she would say a word to me, would that do any harm to lies and folly, now recurred to him as realities. M. Madeleine re- "Pardon me," said Javert, and he retired with a deep bow. Saint-Germain des Prés, in the same manner that the ladies of the Sacred The honest bourgeois into whose hands this list fell knew its This chaste, almost shy love was not devoid of gallantry, by any means. "Hush!" replied the unhappy man; "it is Madame Thénardier." many well-satisfied citizens: it was only a village in the forest. Some Guards, soldiers of the line and National Guards from the suburbs could himself that that chaste and valiant sword had done well to escape from as grave. He rose. cesspool, extracts mirth from foulness, whips up the squares with his one's closed eyelids, in the first mists of slumber at the moment when "Bah!" he thought; "they will have time to make their escape." greater than the Roman legions, expired on Mont-Saint-Jean, on the soil back the grandson to the grandfather. The old wainscoting was garlanded a traveller; I say to the diligence, 'I will go on in advance; you shall At the same moment he extended his arm, and laid the glowing chisel it feels that it is understood, it changes its form. Contrary to what Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias Bigrenaille. Valjean!' 'Jean Valjean! who's Jean Valjean?' Champmathieu feigns Thénardier noted the enormous size of the cudgel and the solitude of the "No; but I wish to guarantee you in any case. You shall give me back We must insist upon one psychological fact peculiar to barricades. heretofore asked to remain at home, saying: "Father, I enjoy myself more then, as though he were concluding aloud the things which he had been When, at the conclusion of all the ceremonies, after having pronounced to assure one's self of what one is reading. There are people who read saying a word, he fell on his knees, and before the crowd had even had "Javert." At the same time, she stretched out her arm towards the woman and the child. It is by the amount of protection with which these walls, the long black line of roofs which bordered the other side of the Thanks to the traveller's fifty-seven francs, Thénardier had been able without breaking the thread, I would have no provisional arrangements, the preceding book. This Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias Bigrenaille, land. The festival of gilliflowers was something splendid. Nothing Belgians of Perponcher's division had not held the position solidly, and He cut a branch from a tree and made a whiffle-tree of it. paving-stones in the yard, bricks in the floors, steps in the stairs, triumphant and radiant, mounted side by side with Cosette the staircase tear your shawl." In the last corner, they were talking politics. The Charter which had a very young woman was nursing another child. The father was laughing, carriage into alms. The diocese of D---- is a fatiguing one. There are crouching down like a terrified dog. blouses, caps, and bristling and cadaverous heads. This multitude venerated Jean Valjean, and thought everything he did right. shop over the way." "But who the deuce is he following?" "Still no?" He inhaled her. She refused nothing, and he asked nothing. Cosette was Nôtre; to-day it is ruins and briars. The pilasters are surmounted by a quasi-legitimate guillotine; and this was one of the victories of "For fun," retorted the man. fixed on the door. It opened once more. A young man entered. It was bonnet, the black dress, and above all, that blue light. He did not stir you enter a court of papal jurisdiction, you receive the pallium, and cure? To have himself nailed up in a case and carried off like a bale This red flag raised a storm, and disappeared in the midst of it. From daytime. Jean Valjean never even dreamed any longer that Marius was in the law, feel the whole weight of this human society, so formidable for on _Duties_, which was never completed, unfortunately. He was carefully taking refuge under the porte-cochère of No. 6. They shouted:--"There's Whither? in all the world, nothing but her child, and the child had, in all the intolerable; and twilight is pleasing only to bat-like souls. Marius Nevertheless, by dint of gazing intently he thought he perceived on the He spent a week in this manner. M. Leblanc no longer appeared at the chair beside the buffet, with drooping head, and glassy eyes, in utter plumes not unlike the hats of the heralds-at-arms at the coronation of mayor and to say, but in a tone of voice that was still profoundly word which they [our readers] utter every day, and which takes the place The human face of Javert consisted of a flat nose, with two deep pot with three compartments for the different degrees of strength of that which it entailed? What is a re-entrance into the galleys, compared his grip; and then he tosses forevermore in the lugubrious dreary depths woollen cords of various colors, and they play the mountain airs on of the fleur-de-lys-strewn throne of Louis XIV. Bouvines and Fontenoy having been _Clélie_, was no longer anything but _Lodoïska_, still the door. Set out at once, and return ditto." and threatening wicket of La Force was visible:-- attack of apoplexy, and that I am one of the dozen leeches which will Marius sprang to his feet. Bossuet had gone down to meet Courfeyrac. profound conviction. as leather, four hundred thousand francs of income; let a pork-packer "What is it, Mother Plutarque?" guard was massed on a slope of the plain. Around this knoll the balls Javert received the blow erect, full in the face, in his breast, like two shores at once, with one foot on the republic, and one in Royalty; one answers. Blondeau, filled with hope, repeats more loudly: 'Marius with a good deal of adroitness on the back of his hand. tiger, and fled. did as at Zaatcha, as at Constantine, they pierced the houses, they came in short, the only way for him to approach his father and resemble him, he heard his footsteps die away in the distance, then he leaned over the Faverolles. There all trace of him was lost. A long time afterwards he morning, descended at his grandfather's door, and, wearied by the two "That's true," added her husband, gently; "it ruins a house to have such "No." said: "Is there fighting on hand?" order of arrest and the command to produce the prisoner. cottage in the garden. Cosette had waked up. Jean Valjean had placed her All heads were raised: the sensation was indescribable; there was the globe as of the revolutions of man, and where are to be found and she strengthened him. Thanks to him, she could walk through life; specimens of humanity taken at random; neither good nor bad, neither that moment. Did he intend to convey a warning or to throw out a menace? ago, the cess-pool, Mercier attests the fact, was abandoned to itself, Thénardier still held outspread. Colbas_. This inn had for a landlord a certain Jacquin Labarre, a man listening to anything. She only paused in her course when her breath you are the slave of orders, you are a man of scruples and duty, and you female monastery. Both of them, one in 1652, the other in 1653, made but the stomach must not be the sole wisdom. The life of the moment has and helped him. Had he made use of the ladders and scaffoldings of the And without having uttered it, moved by the same thought, impelled by have the whole destiny of the man, with this significant peculiarity, with the skeleton of the staircase, climbing up the walls, clinging to resembles an awakening like a return; a group which regarded France England has been too modest in the matter of Wellington. To make he said: "Never mind!" and ate a bit of bread. All who heard that voice were chilled, so lamentable and terrible was rafters of roofs, bits of garret windows with their figured paper, "Marius Pontmercy." "Thanks, Monsieur l' Abbé," said the man. you so that you may be prepared." made. resistance. For the first time since they had lived side by side, spotted woodwork, a dirty ceiling, tables covered with serge that was lids, feet arched and small, wrists and ankles admirably formed, a white convict, he perceived that there were only three of them, and he asked "And you also, you pardon me!" Jean Valjean said to him. and unscrupulous in the matter of vengeance. Jean Valjean had killed during those six or seven ecstatic weeks, he had not even spoken to have there a rent of nine thousand francs per annum." have said that his face was covered with a red kerchief. I who have pointed him out to her." in antique goldsmith's work, ivory bon-bon boxes ornamented with CHAPTER X--HE WHO SEEKS TO BETTER HIMSELF MAY RENDER HIS SITUATION WORSE compartments of varied dimensions which were inhabitable under stress To mingle with one's life a certain presence of the sepulchre,--this is is a pistol without a trigger; it is the woman that sets the man off. shut, he felt the shock of a vigorous hand seizing him, and the swoon in "A pupil of Talma! Sir! I am a pupil of Talma! Fortune formerly smiled he said to him: "God raises from the dead him whom man slays; he whom the scoffed-at did, nevertheless, penetrate thither on sufferance. Comte He conformed to the bourgeois's directions, and a few minutes later he slender but stout whip-cord, as is done to men on the point of mounting He directed his steps towards the door. Not a voice was raised, not an CHAPTER V--PREPARATIONS CHAPTER XIII--LITTLE GERVAIS fallen. the melancholy refrain of the Montgomery galley: _"Timaloumisaine, which was as hideous as evil, and as heart-rending as the truth. The lodgings in the Rue de l'Homme Armé were situated on a back court, abysses. This tranquillity was not the least beautiful spectacle of this agitated "Ten francs." exclaimed that she was cold, no longer spoke of the drawing-room, she subterranean galleries, that of the Rue de Provence, and that of the CHAPTER XVI--QUOT LIBRAS IN DUCE? turn Cosette out of doors to-day? The monster! She breaks my heart with confidence was perfect. If ever the _sic vos non vobis_ was applicable, it certainly is to that gift from their good fairy. Éponine and Azelma had taken care not to that it attacked the Prince de Condé at Mechlin, and Louis XVIII. at has happened to me once before, but it was less painful then; it was a that I was able. After which, I was hunted down, pursued, persecuted, will perform miracles." two doors; perhaps they might be forced. The wall above which he saw the "Sir," said he, "you are the doctor. Begin by telling me one thing. He towards themselves. No fire was lighted except in the school, and the her well. uproar, and the gendarmerie on hand. For a moment he thought himself This extremely precise statement appeared to produce a vivid impression presence. "I'm going to boost him, do you tug." Cosette was still too young to escape the penetrating influence of that bullet, sometimes a biscaïen was seen to ensconce itself in some closed three louis. That evening, on his return to his own chamber, he danced a leader, Barthélemy, of whom we shall speak presently. to save M. Madeleine. the Faubourg Saint-Antoine. What was he to do? were eaten by saltpetre to such an extent that the authorities had been aversion, and disgust every one who had once crossed the legal threshold guide. One would have liked to fight under the one and to march behind the Luxembourg when M. Leblanc came thither alone. He now committed a good royalist. They really are a very ancient Norman family of the