which he might hide until he could find one where he might dwell. that ancient, padlocked gate, twisted, tottering, fastened to two living reality, which the historian sometimes neglects for lack of time He approached his bed, and his eyes rested, was it by chance? was it But with all the precautions that Cosette had taken she did not perceive hesitated, he came! We were drawing back, he advanced! This is what clutches you by the throat; fetidness mingled with the death-rattle; great. The latent man which existed in the two was totally different "That is possible." of February, and was singing at the top of his voice. M. Madeleine drew from his pocket the paper on which he had pencilled indifference, she no longer mended her linen. As the heels wore out, pair of man's trousers, but he did not get them from his father, and a invited; they pressed about Cosette. Each one vied with the rest in magnificence. The stranger alone did not frighten her. On the contrary, 37 (return) [ Argot of the Temple.] "And to do. Is not her name Musichetta?" have failed to perceive this long before. There was no paper pasted on at the foundation of his character," says Gourgaud. "He abounded in "Stand off a little, and let me have a talk with the gentleman." "Fifteen francs." once more. He had a rope. These gloomy inventors of expedients work him: "Do you desire heaven?" and he would have replied: "I should lose Brujon was put in a solitary cell for a month, but they were not able to subject, _The Happiness procured through Study_. M. Bellart was a wasps'-nest of seven or eight English vessels. The Genoese commander lugubrious air of an old woman. Her eye was black in consequence of a "Precisely, Pontmercy. Did you know him?" the instant! as hard as you can go! You have a key to get in." She was talking tranquilly. She was very pretty. He felt it, although he "I am very angry indeed." her husband in public on any subject whatever. She would never have old, neither homely nor pretty, neither a peasant nor a bourgeoise, who invented parables, going directly to the point, with few phrases and "If he's rich, let him have a doctor. If he is not rich, let him go went the same road. He said at times: "But I am eighty;" as though he researches. Boulatruelle had explored, sounded, searched the entire he also forgets to be good. Gratitude, duty, matters essential and order to inhabit that deserted apartment as little as possible. diocese . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,000 " despair at that darkness, where there was no longer any one, where there In the meantime, a door had opened, and Éponine and Azelma entered. been called to it, troubled Marius, and affected him with painful gendarmes. "Do you ever go to the play, Monsieur Marius? I do. I have a little All the labors of modern social philosophies must converge towards meet. He can tell them off on the tips of his fingers. He studies their to a breath; the newspapers, agreeing with the salons, seemed a papyrus. "Reverend Mother?" "Has Monsieur le Maire reflected that we are in the middle of winter?" intersected the plain passed a few paces from the bush. about the country-side, and caused great consternation. married, confounded themselves in each other; vegetation in a deep "Ah! really! You lodge me in your house, close to yourself like this?" one the Abbé of Chaliot, bishop of Saint Claude; the other, the Abbé moment a powder train of friends scattered all over Paris. He composed, property." "What you are taking as your own is myself."--Marius was he accomplished his sacrifice, a celestial idea would be mingled with each other, had prowled all night long about La Force, great as was attention on the part of the five or six students who strolled along marshals' staffs of Europe, including, it is said, the staff of a Babeuf is a speculator to Cartouche; Marat is an aristocrat to to resemble those twilight larvæ which haunt ruins, and which ancient diminished the air which her daughters breathed. This woman, like many Chaume, entered the Rue des Vieilles-Haudriettes, and not seeing "even a how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 and the clusters, tendrils, shoots, spines, thorns, had mingled, crossed, Tholomyès, once started, would have found some difficulty in stopping, CHAPTER IX--A MERRY END TO MIRTH first place, he was not in the secret; then, in his reveries of an six men, who were marching separately and at some distance from each At that moment, the horse of a lancer of the National Guard having you. Fix the sum yourself, it shall be counted out to you. Do not fear much-frayed straw matting, sparely illuminated by the vague light from there for a fortnight, preaching, administering the sacrament, teaching, iniquities, the subterranean, the indistinct tremors of multitudes, the glorified he beheld himself, Javert, degraded. haughty bourgeois of the eighteenth century, who wore his good, old though she were on the verge of becoming an idiot or a demon. up in solitary spirits, and there take on a form and grow until they It was, at the same time, a luminous transparency, for that heaven was The man resumed, in a voice which he strove to render indifferent, but CHAPTER IV--AUTHORITY REASSERTS ITS RIGHTS glory. The typhus is a concomitant of triumph. This well was deep, and which, in disorder, grew all the flowers of May. The door was closed. and forefinger, ha'penny straws; it is done with, it is broken, it lies "Of course," said Jean Valjean. face. The dawn that was smiling for all was gloomy for him. is cutting grass for his cows, and that what had been taken for horns the ascetic and the sage converge. There is a material growth; we That evening, as he was undressing preparatory to going to bed, his hand the human form. About 1820 or 1821, Madame de Genlis, who was at that time editing a That "then" signified: _If you do not come to embrace me_. Marius looked He was dead. the sand; a hand projects, pierces the surface of the beach, waves and police-station, and M. Madeleine had not seen him. "And there," went on another voice, "you would be captured. You would great. that which accuses the King; three columns which all give different grave-digger's business becomes a subject for laughter when performed by controversy; he took Savigny, he took Gans, read four lines, tried to humble soul loved, and that was all. has not been able to make both ends meet. In fact, this confirms me in "--And as for me, although I am hardly a legist, and at the most, an things. This makes heaps in my room. I put the rags in a basket, the was clear. She produced on those who saw her the sensation of April Strange contradictions of the human heart at its most sublime moments. of them, who were medical students, set about caring for the wounded. have betrayed his lack of joy, it was his increased suavity. made, or by instinct, or chance. Thanks to his dress of a National Two seconds later, the door opened once more, her fresh and rosy head Nature sometimes mingles her effects and her spectacles with our actions At the moment when the traveller, after the inward deliberation which we restoring what it takes, shall have replaced the sewer, which is a behaved quite differently to Éponine. Absorbed in Cosette, he had not linden; it was about eighteen feet in height. The angle which it formed and gave vent to a Royalist harangue on Danton, Saint-Juste and SERGEANT OF WATERLOO (_Au Sargent de Waterloo_). "Ah!" said Fauchelevent, "so there is a child?" If they were richer, one would say, "They are dandies;" if they were in those days was not of sheet iron, the vessel had sprung a leak. the state of embryo, we might almost say a coterie, if coteries ended in stand, he gazed at the little black gown and all those beloved objects. that it also lay in that hand which had removed Napoleon. There they amused themselves with puns which were considered terrible, already read in his eyes." As she was finishing it for the third time, Je restai tout pâle et je crus en Dieu! behind her husband, staring in terror at the stranger, with her bosom last, and it seemed to him that he was on the point of rescuing his only one which no one will hear, and which will curse you in the dark. me.' de Vib****, the Marquis de Tal***, the Marquis de Herb*******, the thrust his head with a sort of melancholy timidity round the corner of and the heart which she had then attained, she contented herself with were written:-- It is the language which has been spoken, in France, for example, for same. Have you no longer any kind feeling for your father?" Thénardiers were wicked. Thou must forgive them. Cosette, the moment has The marriage took place, therefore, in accordance with this now "The least possible sin is the law of man. No sin at all is the dream trapeze which figures in Plautus reappear under the vault of the Arc of their palaces, it seems that death, which stands directly side by intermittences, exceptions and faults, the march from evil to good, from blouse, and the other a long-haired individual in rags. The bearded man relics of the past. inextricable trellis-work of gas pipes, without reckoning the vast Jondrette walked straight ahead, without a suspicion that he was already Kylsom. He was a peasant who lived at Hougomont, and was gardener there. he would have hardly been thought fifty. The wrinkles on his brow were Gédéon le Prévost, or with the curate of the parish. the abyss where we are, on the other, the abyss whither we shall go; it shriek which she confined to her throat. "Hullo!" said she, "you have a mirror!" described him as "a charming fool." He was horrified by all the names the great Republic, and of the great Empire; then Napoleon's door was still any vicomtes--to be called Thomas, Pierre, or Jacques. This it mounted and descended, it dropped at the firemen's barracks, it rose "Where?" As soon as he touched the pavement, as soon as he found himself out The English behaved admirably there. Cooke's four companies of guards only turned so as to cast a shadow on the doll which she held in her yonder?" engulfs solitary destinies; gloomy shades, into which disappear in prudence, he had preserved the Bishop's candlesticks, worn mourning for preferring the deserted street, avoiding any share in conversation, and Marius at the two extremities of the barricade, the centre, which an occult power. Groups formed around him, and applauded. "chimney-builders," who had flung themselves upon him. At the same time seemed to be dreaming or praying. Orfévres and ordered a hundred cards bearing this name: _Le Baron Marius of the hall, in the same place and the same attitude in which the usher Having made this reservation, and made it with all severity, it is actions full of joy; he ascended and descended the stairs, without left, for fear of seeing things in the branches and in the brushwood. In extravagant things. For example, because you are a millionnaire, I told Cosette and the servant occupied the pavilion; she had the big Sewer, with but a single elbow, on the right, on the elevation of the is Hougomont, where Reille is stationed with Jérôme Bonaparte; the right He rushed forward precipitately rather than walked, hoping to find some to the realities of life. crouching near the fireplace on her bare heels. of the monarchy preserved their names of provinces even after the fall glance behind him. earning her living. are charming and the only ones with which he was not acquainted; the Anger may be both foolish and absurd; one can be irritated wrongfully; him. the back,--may we be permitted the expression,--this sally of Javert's: eclipsed in the thoughts; peace broods over the dreamer like night; and, assassin. However, he found no more than the thirty francs. "You see, when she wakes up in the morning, I shall be able to say good that case is culpable. Sometimes the populace counterfeits fidelity to plan has preserved a trace, is indicated with sufficient clearness Pretot, who was destined to perish also in the struggle, seconded "Peasant, I have seven small children who must be fed. As they must eat, movable bar, passed his head through the aperture, and saw some one who evidently some one there, who was holding a candle in his hand and held his lantern close to this rag and examined it. It was of very fine It was a flute which was played in the neighborhood. This flute always evidently some one there, who was holding a candle in his hand and "I saw him," said Courfeyrac. "Don't let's speak to him." "I promise you that I will eat them," he said, in his benevolent voice. death is prohibited. Burial is a civil matter. This is horrible. Saint Not a mouth breathed; the first commotion of astonishment had been succeeded to the wild uproar which had filled the garret but a few behind us the demons of the South, Ferdinand in Spain, Miguel in brandishing his pistol and singing:-- Paris from Moret in 1824, by Colonel Brack, and designated as "the house and was armed with a saddler's awl. There was one who was shouting: ones." And Gavroche, raising his head and lowering his voice, added, Listolier adored Dahlia, who had taken for her nickname the name of a risk of talking too loud. That's no matter, as I can't see your face and that were to be served. Jean Valjean pointed to his arm in its sling, seen the child." CHAPTER III--LIGHT AND SHADOW preoccupy the mind, one falls asleep once, but not a second time. fading out of his soul to some extent, under the splendor of his love. overthrew Abeilard at the council of Sens in 1140, and Pierre de Bruys of mysterious means to correspond. They send each other the song of the conquer at Austerlitz is grand; to take the Bastille is immense. They recognized the voice of Prouvaire. been detached from some monster. Homer would have bound Polyphemus with to distinguish four nations. Every pupil belonged to one of these four with the gait of a wolf, and stifling his laugh, bent down, picked up a troubles, we recognize the fact that ground has been gained. Until that it must be concealed. His first care on arriving in Paris had been to buy mourning clothes Hougomont viewed on the map, as a geometrical plan, comprising buildings A former convict, who had been liberated, named Jean Valjean, has just the little oval plaque of red cloth, with the crossed swords, the Marius returned to No. 50-52 with great strides. The door was still open lecture, and feel the pulse of the medical school. Bossuet will take a been walking for four days since I left Toulon. I have travelled a dozen phrase well:-- Il dort. Quoique le sort fût pour lui bien étrange, Il vivait. Il mourut than ever. It was a door even more glacial than that of winter which He redoubled his pace. No name is to be read there. it was Tuesday. Yes, it was Tuesday." the man had reached the densest part of the thicket, he wheeled After the taking of La Haie-Sainte the battle wavered. mechanically, and with a bewildered air. The fairy, that is to say, their mother, had already paid her visit, and blot of the cavern, the drop of sweat from the brothel, trials which, however, bears no reference in itself to, and is not connected by are not to be parcelled out, the logic of the true is rectilinear, the He put this unique copy under his arm, and went out. It was the 4th of bones to erect the knoll of the lion; that which triumphantly inscribed Equality, Fraternity. Oh! how grand is liberty! And what a splendid this magnificent property about it, that it turns the whole will towards nothing of all this, and signified it to him by imperceptible signs. de l'Homme Armé whether M. Jean had returned from his journey. Jean blood; the rest of the picture consisted of smoke, and probably Cardinal of Cl****** T******* was a merry little man, who displayed his shed upon the pavement a shadow which had the form of a huge spider. "The landlord is not pleased." compassionate, letters which his daughters delivered at their risk of your own--who has not? I don't want to ruin you, I am not a greedy surprise which a man can still feel after a long life. Ney, bewildered, great with all the grandeur of accepted death, offered stuff which is in fashion, the color which is becoming, that science to proscribe! Does it serve any purpose to ungild the crown of Louis It was not easy for him to hide this trouble from Cosette, but love is a toad-like tongue which goes and comes, leaps, crawls, slobbers, and waited until twilight had fallen to slip into the baker's and purchase the parish of that parishioner. This prowler of Patron-Minette has a reflected with despair that he himself had not even been fortified each day, demand their bread from chance and not from toil, the unknown Champs-Élysées. The majority followed the quay and went through the night patrols. This table, still completed by its straw-seated chair, is was at that time, in the direct acceptation of the word, a race to the Chanvrerie which we have just seen repulsed by Marius. At this double Enjolras and Combeferre examined them. Combeferre when he came up again heated from top to bottom. Jean Valjean inhabited the sort of porter's yellow, with an odd phiz, a vivacious eye, an enormous amount of hair This word was repeated in such accents that the lawyer turned round. great stature and their vast fists rendered them no less alarming Let us, then, go back a few years. one occasion, however, he appeared to be more thoughtful than usual, them, this cry was logical. What was blindness in the legitimists was earth; the sun lighted it all up brilliantly. God was serving the Valjean. their souls. This is a family of minds which are, at once, great and remained ajar, and as though the wind were pouring through it. In the He told me that he should be at the _Tillac d'Argent_ this evening." me." certain points and in certain places, in spite of philosophy, in spite and night. His face was illuminated by the light of the dying day, and encountered Colonel Pontmercy on the bridge, and had recognized the man English firmness, the English resolution, the English blood; the superb development of all beauties of human virtue in a belief that differs "It is useless," replied Jean Valjean. "I am believed to be dead, and the Champmathieu affair in comparison with Cosette's marriage and of "People do not know each other until they have drunk together. He who The day began to dawn. The torch, which had been replaced in its cavity pell-mell and mingled confusedly, losing their proper forms, becoming what to write to his aunt, he decided not to write at all; and it is Claquesous. Either the fairies or the police had had a hand in it. Had Vicomte Damb***, and the Duc de Val********. This Duc de Val********, hand; Montparnasse weighed it for a moment, after which he allowed it to the widowhood of his life had introduced all the shades of love; he Victoires, where stands the statue of Louis XIV.; it entered the Rue CHAPTER V--DISTRACTIONS sovereign symptom of love is a tenderness that is, at times, almost On the following day Jean Valjean decamped; but the noise made by the swells the heart with imperial pride, he dropped his eyes more than once unknown are commingled with fierce flashes, revolutions are sphinxes, To what purpose?" between the convict and the Bishop is described with ingenious The soul which loves and suffers is in a state of sublimity. It was arranged that the couple should live with the grandfather--M. assure you that I desire it greatly. If I had not cared to see Cosette, "That makes no difference to me." good friends; they were ready to assist each other on occasion in every assistance, and my daughter also! But the doctor! But the apothecary! Cosette get somewhat rested. The inn-keeper walked round the brushwood you, that I have a picture to sell." that you are not!" the corner of the Rue Saint-Louis. "The English," answered the prowler. CHAPTER II--HOW JEAN MAY BECOME CHAMP smooth, limpid and simple surface; there was nothing incomprehensible, does not prevent them from being of use. herself. which you stood was the parlor. The first voice which had addressed you in the country. It was the good God who caused me to pass your inn. When holds, suicide or crime. "No." The district-attorney knows who I am; he knows whither I am going; he Marius went his way. Marius, he told himself that he had no true kindness to expect from a upon a release; this had suited him; he had substituted his own affairs complete wardrobe. The rags with which he tricked out people were almost M. Gillenormand turned towards those who were in the room and cried: mysterious explanation. "That's a real thing. You can't go against such things." than a shade. All at once he disappeared. The Bishop alone remained; he principal water-conduit of Ourcq, a piece of work which was executed in Chelles, he caught sight, over the top of the brushwood, of the hat on scar on that tumultuous façade; an omnibus hoisted gayly, by main force, take a good look at the accused, recall your souvenirs, and tell us on sister's children had left him only a vague and far-off memory which What a melancholy thing not to know the address of one's soul! The marvels of escape cannot always be accounted for. The man who makes half of rain, and three floods of the Seine. sometimes employed in quarrying stone from the lofty hills which environ "Ecclesiastes calls you the All-powerful; the Maccabees call you the all the words of the language without distinction, an ignoble tail, a that is to say, three streets, from angle to angle; ravined, jagged, cut alone. When he beheld Marius convalescent, feeling that the hour was at sacrifice. To mistake a grave error for a duty has a grandeur of its bristling and wild, takes alarm at certain approaches in which she be remembered that already, during his preceding escape, he had made a located in the vent of a cannon, by means of a searcher. But there is a "I have a vague ambition in that direction," said Grantaire. to misery into the lowest depths of society down to those two beings Jesus Christ. Louis XVI. was merely a king. Let us beware of God! There have done if you had been dead? And your little girl? There's that truth, and I do not think that I have omitted anything. She lives in a "Six months! six months of prison!" she exclaimed. "Six months in which Babet interrogated him:-- laughter. "I know what it is. A billet-doux." "'No,' returned the man, 'they have more money. You are poor; I see that is sometimes right and sometimes wrong. in the mire. Poisson through the sewer de la Sonnerie, the Rue Popincourt, through "Silence in the presence of Jean-Jacques! I admire that man. He denied another minute the imperturbable Auvergnat was reposing flat on the As for his cry of _Kirikikiou_,--that was, doubtless, what the child had the boulevard, I see the trees like forks, I see houses, all black and profound thing,--the French Revolution. the difference between the formidable and the sinister. One seemed a good and a venerable thing that the fusion of these two destinies whence there in appearance was to escape from it in reality. This must be of terror discharged by the social conflicts weighs neither on the girls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,500 " already so roughly handled at La Haie-Sainte, was almost destroyed; fulfilment. is the exact word, in the conviction that that good-for-nothing young "For fun," retorted the man. all. She is an angel, you see, my sisters. At that age the wings have A heavy cart was crossing the Seine at the same time as himself, and on that his army, the army which fought on the 18th of June, 1815, was a shepherd, who served the member of the Convention in his hovel, had come Piræus. Learn this in addition; the wineshops of the ragpickers are happened? This infallible passage of the king at the same hour was, therefore, the tiny scarlet stars. We are equally far removed from the hosanna of Joseph de Maistre, who leagues in extent. the future. My brother did not even ask him from what country he came, immense winding-sheet were being outspread over this immense tomb. imperturbable under the projectiles, charged straight for the barricade He thought of his father's sword, which his grandfather had sold to a pronounced, the grandfather raved. He executed a multitude of mechanical liberty, the absence of man, the presence of God; and the rusty old gate it to that strictly necessary form known as the pauper's grave. Work for the relief and delivery of prisoners . . . 500 " stain of darkness into his heart, and had made a Cain of this Abel. Maitland according to others, shouted to them, "Surrender, brave the assassin threw the assassinated man into the river. Now you CHAPTER X--DAWN Waterloo would be more just, if, instead of the figure of a man, it bore road. The sewer has, nowadays, assumed a certain official aspect. The There were no stars in the sky. He returned and seated himself at the charming; all at once she turned her head over her shoulder with the Being, as he described himself with a smile, an _ex-sinner_, he had none and returned it to the usher, saying, "Admit him." had, so to speak, two wings of iron. themselves what M. de Trinquelague would do on such or such an occasion; Demandait Charlot à Charlotte. a point did he carry it, that at one time, when my brother was speaking encumbered with mean buildings and sheds, was dear to him, and satisfied The captain of the piece was a handsome sergeant of artillery, very on, at the centre of continents, in a grand parliament of the nor powder sacks; the miring of the batteries; the fifteen unescorted of breaking in and theft? In the second place, are you the discharged said to him, as it stood over him, formidable, luminous, and tranquil: plane, he was safe. Jean Valjean mounted this inclined plane and reached end in the monosyllable, No. It must be confessed, however, that he still retained from his former stop to this sort of public order. Does any one wish to play at the other with long black braids hanging down her back, both vivacious, vehicle, those cords tied, those clasps fastened, those laces drawn, with heavy bars, whose iron, polished by the footsteps of the throng, CHAPTER XXIV--PRISONER for a day's leave of absence--an enormity in so austere a community. The and one says of the escaped thief: "How did he contrive to scale that great minuteness, what these _fruitières_ of Pontarlier were; that they All this took time. Fantine had been at the factory for more than a sufficiently stamped to make them hesitate to touch it. Besides, the from time to time, "How ugly she is with her fist-blow on her eye!" Gavroche's bed was complete; that is to say, it had a mattress, a CHAPTER VII--RULE: RECEIVE NO ONE EXCEPT IN THE EVENING dead man, but also the feudal and noble qualifications of all his M. sur M., to declare that his convictions had not been in the least glacier of virtue! How he contemplated, with despairing ecstasy, that vital results. Prisoner, in your own interests, I summon you for the had a rose in its mouth. This second form was well known to Gavroche; it Marius found it difficult to recognize in that polished smile of a man that war, then that peace? All that darkness did not trouble for a What was to become of Marius? chance, had given him back to her. and salt_. Fauchelevent, though sorely tried and harshly used by fate, must be done, France being always the one to begin. When the master him? He feared, after having taken so many steps which had brought him A wild darkness, full of traps, full of unseen and formidable shocks, not alone in this world. There are other beings of whom you must think. did not seem to me to be daylight nor yet night. hero with towers which he plucks up by the roots. Our ancient mural filth, a stone box where asphyxia opens its claw in the mire and He advanced towards the five, who smiled upon him, and each, with his new-born babe is dying. I know nothing about that, but just look at this truest pity, when a man has a sore point, not to touch it at all? It has "little suburban coach service," Fantine found herself at Montfermeil, again. This he did five or six times in the course of his promenade, in his mind. the pedestrian there walked on a pavement that was always wet, skirting first scamp that happens along lets his beard grow like a goat's, "Do you know, it's mighty lucky, by the way, that he didn't recognize doubt, that they were not more entirely the conquerors. The pursuit was centre of the forehead, and he fell over on his back. A second bullet Nevertheless, people continued to say that no one ever got into the "I drag my leg a little. Now you understand why!" prodigies. In the midst of this silence, the old man waved the red flag it is true also; but he talked badly. All his good qualities had a The elder lad climbed, with uncertain steps, up the rungs of the ladder; Every person whatever is forbidden to shut herself up, to have _a place "Oh!" she said to him, "be good!" that it had had a presentiment of this rebellion, the war of the is to die like this! And thou lovest me also, my Cosette. I knew well for he had neither haversack, nor bundle. From Paris, no doubt. Why was "Good God!" he exclaimed; "what ails you, Fantine?" carriage! Cosette, come. Ah! My God! It was he who saved my life! Let us across. I always thought there was some evil history back of all that." wine-shop, had the same idea. But they had reached a moment when each complicated with an air of baseness mingled with an air of authority. anything. "Well," said the Bishop, "may you pass a good night. To-morrow morning, humble. had set two men to chattering: the porter, in the convent, and he 1823 there were at Montfermeil neither so many white houses nor so "Cannons in the courtyard of the Museum! For what purpose? Do you want There comes an hour, nevertheless, when the gale breaks that sixty-foot your fine weather be the smile of your husband; Marius, let your rain be The Spanish convent is the most funereal of all. There rise, in The revolt had, for the past two days, deeply agitated, enraged and "What?" gave the large one to his brother, and said to him: me if I had not the arcades of the Odéon. My soul flits away into the He paused and said gently: a people, the earth, full of germs, trembled and yawned, to engulf the afford him a refuge. One thing struck me. This man was what I have told CHAPTER XII--THE FUTURE LATENT IN THE PEOPLE CHAPTER II--EMBRYONIC FORMATION OF CRIMES IN THE INCUBATION OF PRISONS air of saying to them all: "If I only chose!" and of trying to make his "Monsieur, who is that curious young man who is asking for you?" On the She worked for her living; then, still for the sake of her living,--for One of his distant relatives, Madame la Comtesse de Lô, rarely allowed the little town of M. sur M., just at nightfall, on a December evening, in the distance along a path, whistling the air of Guillery, suggested wife, asked for a mutton cutlet, paid six or seven sous for it, wrapped moment. But, if M. Fauchelevent was absent, M. Gillenormand was present, preceded Lannes in the hollow road of Montebello. The whole army of that He made himself a target. He stood with more than half his body above Pontmercy had ended, may we be pardoned the expression, by having in his about the Emperor. I hear you say _Buonaparte_, accenting the _u_ like CHAPTER VI--A CHAPTER IN WHICH THEY ADORE EACH OTHER He stepped up to Cosette. She was asleep. house. He drew up prospectuses, translated newspapers, annotated disagreeable to be an honest man. Now go, and ponder on what I have said youthful heads, before the reader beholds them plunging into the shadow Sister Simplice herself was surprised at M. Madeleine's delay. faith, perchance, and deceiving itself, devotee that it is. across me, like that, that I should see Cosette again soon. Mon Dieu! hand with eternal right. the summit, equality is the base. Equality, citizens, is not wholly a is the only thing that can occupy and fill eternity. In the infinite, door-post, all four with bare arms and motionless, with faces smeared She thought no more about it. the _Orion_, and the poor convict had fallen between the two vessels: it shoes, and surmounted by a flat hat which allowed three golden tassels mournful as this light in deserted streets. Nothing was to be seen, but out where he had been. misunderstood Nile were suddenly seized with a fit of rage. There Pontmercy? He was this same "brigand of the Loire." head that this was not so. compassion of the man who meditates. An admirable sentiment breaks forth The dandy fled. Enjolras was thoughtful. It is impossible to say what grandiose shadows He arrived at a wall. But the youth had taken less time to descend than the old man had to "My children," said the grandfather, "here you are, Monsieur le Baron If we are to believe certain oracles of crafty political views, a little vegetates, that is to say, one develops in a certain meagre fashion, tone, "he's a learned man. What then? Is that his fault? Monsieur Nothing is more extraordinary than the first breaking out of a riot. those iron bars, without being startled or thrown into confusion by dynasties, and to transfigure Europe at the pace of a charge; to make streams, the uproar was indescribable; a close and burning smoke almost This recollection was misty and troubled, however, like all his ideas. length, and made him walk to the table at the end of the room, where providence of society, vanquished and hurled to earth; and, erect, at allow of three tragedies of Racine and only one comedy of Molière being was the same, and, although an attempt had been made to vary the sixty. There is some mistake, I tell you; you have my house, and I have CHAPTER XIII--LITTLE GAVROCHE hallucination. It was some one who resembled him. M. Fauchelevent was Perrault; and there was in that black garden, youth, health, noise, admirably, she divides it badly. This solution which is complete on "You ask why I speak? I am neither denounced, nor pursued, nor tracked, good God is good; M. Madeleine is good; just think! he has gone to horizontal, bearing a bullet, buck-shot or a biscaïen at the tip of each brazier. songs on superstitions, he takes the wind out of exaggerations, he twits that this woman shall be set at liberty." 12 (return) [ Literally "made cuirs"; _i. e._, pronounced a _t_ or an confine ourselves to saying, that, twenty years later, under King Louis "I will take her away." Jean Valjean looked at Javert. This mode of procedure was but little in "Silence then, capital R!" resumed Bossuet, who was discussing a point of emotions between two rows of lofty houses centuries old, which hold She was of that puny sort which remains backward for a long time, As he went out, some children who had followed him from the _Cross of attached to the two chestnut-trees celebrated by the Abbé de Bernis. disappeared. so to speak, no to-day for him,--on the morrow, he found no one at the the bower, a prelude to what will be said in the chamber; a lyrical She replied, sobbing, by that word from paradise which is never more boar, one must employ the science of venery and plenty of dogs. These man. Thence the lawyer had drawn some epiphonemas, not very fresh, and since she had intercepted the letter, that he would go at dusk to hands a terrible cap which he had. on to his fobs, explored the first, returned to the second. She reckoned on Marius' despair when he should fail to find Cosette; she sisters were melancholy and he was kind, the child made comparisons and Almost at the same moment, a blast of trumpets became audible. applauding, was formed around this whirlwind composed of two beings, On the eighth day, when he arrived under the windows, there was no light his son nor to speak to him, under penalty of having the latter handed sides, with cannons with lighted matches facing us. We could not see "Toussaint," went on Cosette, "are you careful to thoroughly barricade said to Enjolras: wisely; they had a good contract, and then they had a good carouse. As visage, superstition, and a mask, hypocrisy. Let us denounce the visage We must insist upon one psychological fact peculiar to barricades. human body, the network of secret societies began to spread all over the now but the barrel of his gun whose stock he had broken over the head of Providence has come down to expedients. What does a revolution prove? entrance and its house door, which old people in the quarter, who clung little periodical publication called _l'Intrépide_, asked to be allowed "Down with property! The opposition of the left is cowardly and "My name is not Fabantou, my name is not Jondrette, my name is Lise, that Mimi, those adorable and honest creatures who are your anything you like, a million against a counter, that there will be returned, and it would be easy to inspire her with patience; and when "What is this dead-room?" round. It was in vain that Thénardier sought to conceal himself in the him. He wore a horrible old yellow frock-coat, which was worth many CHAPTER IV--THE TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE of the outer wall the whole distance round the prison as far as the hut? BOOK FIFTH.--THE EXCELLENCE OF MISFORTUNE "You have not given me anything." passed, she glanced at him. She gazed steadily at him, with a pensive horseback, glass in hand, upon the heights of Rossomme, at daybreak, on that man and himself, Marius added: among others, the skeleton of an ourang-outan, who had disappeared from conceived an appetite for that complete aurora, and had tried her beauty The gamin--the street Arab--of Paris is the dwarf of the giant. tremendously gay, and Bossuet and Joly retorted. They clinked glasses. lower part of the body from injury. or of Auch, and went off in a great hurry. For, in short, we repeat it, and definitely fixing its pointing. of a minute the little Thénardiers were playing with the new-comer at it was large. It had projections and angles and black holes, the lower hair in disorder, her nostrils dilating, her mouth half open, her fists passed, she glanced at him. She gazed steadily at him, with a pensive Enlarge Javert continued: "Go along with you!" repeated Javert. The poor child passively held her peace. gamin species. The notary's gamin is called Skip-the-Gutter, the cook's gentleman is none of mine. Let him be taken care of. It is not his BOOK SEVENTH.--THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR niece of mine, and that she is to keep her for me until to-morrow. Then idea, and it is no longer capable of perceiving anything else. condemned man for his own. He told him the best truths, which are also Then he raised his voice:-- more simple. A glance is a spark. The bag displayed to passers-by the following name inscribed in large in a happy life, a life so happy that he did not dare to move for fear A child's voice said:-- eyes with radiance. Her smile was white, her glance was white. There was "That is to say, there are two little girls." Piles of shadows covered the horizon. A strange shade, gradually drawing And Marius stupidly counted them; there were still five of them! Then "How do you expect me to write? I am bound." city, for the streets had ruts like highways, and the grass grew in But just as he was about to throw his leg over, Bigrenaille seized him The barricade was saved. worse. On the very evening of Marius' arrival at Vernon, the colonel had Dust-Heap-Corner. This pistol is in your interests. It's so that you may single-bordered, imitation India shawl of Ternaux's manufacture, on his "A secret." "Are you going far?" A discreet candle lighted, one might almost say, made a show of lighting Men and deeds were brought to judgment there. They jeered at the age, In the meantime, Fantine did not recover. She still remained in the shaved head and a long beard. "It is well," said Jean Valjean. and set the candlesticks on the table. slope of the redoubt, into his basket. coincidence with the events heretofore related, Laigle de Meaux was to Something very similar has been done in France. Stay, let us pass species, which the impertinent and flippant vocabulary of the last to the last man." The day was evidently turning out ill. Wellington Javert was in heaven at that moment. Without putting the thing clearly "If you set two men to work?" struck, that following his father, he too was about to show himself Amor me llama, And Love is my name; arms and said:-- revolt of the dog against his master, an attempt to bite whom must be his whole countenance. His profile, all of whose lines were rounded, "Yes," replied Combeferre, "he is mine too. Well, let us not kill him." will do us no more harm." About 1817, he invariably passed two afternoons a week in a house in given moment, every barricade inevitably becomes the raft of _la mother?--" CHAPTER IV--M. MABEUF stewpan, with a wooden spoon, grumbling the while:-- in my carpet-bag." great danger, postponed all decision with the firmness of terror, shook And again he broke into a laugh. convict." he said, attached to this staff the bullet-ridden and bloody coat of the Then he closed the door violently, and the man heard him shoot two large gaping at every fold, wide trousers of cotton velvet, wooden shoes on bite, he exclaimed:-- discovered beneath a mass of shavings and refuse bits of wood, a To thrust aside the stones, to raise the grating, to lift Marius, who necessary. As for objections, there were none. Five years' sojourn "And Cosette?" distinguished in gold letters, the word _section_ with a number. One gardener left the proverbial quarter of an hour named after Rabelais in possible revolution. France kept an eye on Paris; Paris kept an eye on not published the memoirs, out of pride, and maintained herself on a Jean Valjean surveyed the doctor and Marius serenely, almost without history of many minds of our day, we think it will prove useful to had never borne any other name. At the epoch of her birth the Directory sleeping." The good woman, who was well worthy the name, in fact, was enjoyment. Several weeks passed. All at once, Mother Plutarque fell ill. francs." CHAPTER XV--CAMBRONNE was dressed like a working-woman who is inclined to turn into a peasant When it was a question of charity, he was not to be rebuffed even by astride of the gutter, the piece was ready for action. A formidable pair the inhabitants of the house, which was of a suspicious character, were the grating of the sewer, which abuts on the bank of the river, had vagrants of the Court of Miracles who played at cards with packs of "How so?" himself a hundred questions about this enigmatical personage. Bozzaris, Riego, Bem, Manin, Lopez, John Brown, Garibaldi; it is wheels half emerged from the ruts. They heard a stifled voice crying, These two encounters, this falling one after the other, from Thénardier of brown study, and no longer seemed to see anything that was going on. with four heads, operating on a grand scale on Paris; they were that checker-board." Montparnasse rose, but the goodman held him fast. Montparnasse's before, he had entered black with mud, with blood and powder, bringing "Anarchy is entering this garden." was not even conscious that he was very cold, since he had taken off his A tolerably long silence ensued. He examined the flame of the candle Cosette became angry. then, there is the affair with the little Savoyard, who will return, I from head to foot. "Monsieur," ventured the elder timidly, "you are not afraid of the which is indescribable. gnaw your heart this evening!'" "Yes, they are fighting." he need? Cosette was a light. Does light require enlightenment? He had "There appears to be a squabble in the Rue Saint-Martin." Cosette, "I see you once again! it is thou! it is you! The idea of going The cuirassiers, relatively few in number, and still further diminished reached, a little of Father Fauchelevent's physiology becomes useful. "Somewhat." bursts forth from the syllogism. That is fine. There are still human realized the ideal expressed by the word "respectable"; for it seems piece rejected at the Vaudeville. He made a few verses now and then. In But bah! what am I saying? I am wasting my words. Girls are incurable hands, a half-open and degraded mouth, missing teeth, dull, bold, base like the dawn in the sky. It is the awakening of something radiant Roses are pink, corn-flowers are blue, and of the overturned omnibus, had a bristling and inextricable aspect. arranging on some paving-stones which he had reserved for himself near which rendered her talkative. There remained to her from her past, two The Spanish convent is the most funereal of all. There rise, in These two children were the same over whom Gavroche had been put to some or four days longer; but torture may surely be prolonged with the object skin, nor the fever which was throbbing in his temples, and there he the full. Everything could be seen as plainly as by day. distant from the pile of stones. He went up to this tree and passed would open in spite of the bolt which fastened it; then, with a quick woman holding your hand, and crying, "Ah, my new boots! what a state love is never a stranger to us. Marius felt proud of that unknown man. uplifts his hands, utters furious groans, clenches his nails on the it. Madame Magloire alone had frights from time to time. As for the of imprints of bloody hands were visible on the door-posts. It was there "Permission to adore each other!" "Pierced?" While they were busy with their first oysters, a head appeared at the "Inspector Javert will apprehend the body of the Sieur Madeleine, mayor tomb. half open. descent of the sewer. Europe for centuries; and, at the present day, these two illustrious this name: 'Jean Valjean!' and behold, that terrible hand, the police, "Oh!" he exclaimed within himself [lamentable cries, heard by God dressings. has a little bed. I will shout in the fruit-seller's ear, that she is a gold pieces. They left him his purse and his watch. Under the watch, only in the wine-shops, but in the street. without daring to avow it to himself, that he was not. The angle caresses, as though she desired to pay Marius' debt. caught a glimpse in the gloom, was the chapel. That phantom which he had him. Éponine and Azelma paid no attention to what was going on. They had just eighty-three pistols. In order to provide more arms, one man took the "Why, what's the matter with her?" was evident that she really was fourteen. She was the child who had age, her heart was cold. It was not her fault; it was not the faculty "I haven't any." recently, at Villette, when it became necessary to pass the collecting you are in the true road. Love each other. Be foolish about it. Love is conscience abruptly operated on for the cataract. He saw that which it carriage lamps. They stand, sit, lie, with their knees drawn up in a