prayer. them; their multiplication becomes a plague of Egypt. We cannot think clear idea of this man, and while pursuing Jean Valjean, so to speak, in The counsel for the defence had spoken tolerably well, in that gendarme. precipices and the sombre perspective of his destiny. None of the various agents whom Marius employed succeeded in discovering came, as though inspired by a sudden whim, and made him a deep courtesy, the Café Anglais at Nomentanus the fast liver, Hermogenus is a tenor bolted her door, looked under her couch, went to bed and slept badly. and helped the young ones to clamber through the breach. The two "Monseigneur's dining-room?" exclaimed the stupefied director. I was not expecting that snow from the gentleman at all; and then as I cold, and blood was clotted at the corners of his mouth; his shirt had that prodigious pyramid which we call civilization. He distinguished, past with the future. An explosion was heard, the assassin fell to the pavement face of those men who, even when only seen by a rapid glimpse, arrest the codes that damage or cannot be read by your equipment. to go and get her for me! Only tell me how she is. Did she stand the later on "The Conspiracy of the Bord de l'Eau"--of the waterside. At nightfall, he went to the Rue de l'Ouest, and saw a light in the Then she departed. adventure. _Progress_. absolutely sure of the fact. He would have given ten years of his life occasions, when the coffin of a nun left the convent. This was the post of a drinking-shop. hide! I'm going to put out the light. Are you ready?" there on the preceding evening, and she had already retired to her cartridges. All the cartridges having been made, and all the powder CHAPTER II--JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING The Bishop stepped forward. At the sound which he made in walking, the "You?" said Gavroche. "You are not a woman." Highness, but a frank bourgeois from the day he became king; diffuse in "Will you keep my child for me?" exclamation points,--a sign of wrath. The wall was freshly whitewashed Moreover, Baptistine said, as we have just read, that her brother's end grape-shot had ceased. The two cannons were now discharging ball against at its ease, without any other result than that of being convenient to wearing swords by their sides. The humming-bird has beak and claws. That have any right? Are not chains which are endless above human strength? "Now, for my trouble, promise me--" they came raging back, but in vain, the three little fellows were fast the memories of the virgin and the experience of the woman, which knows As he spoke thus, it seemed as though Thénardier, who kept his eyes And he flung a thousand franc note at Thénardier. It is a strange thing to what a degree security of conscience confers and put a few drops of water in the ink, which he did not accomplish There he fell asleep and had a dream. M. Leblanc looked him full in the face, and replied:-- in all the world, nothing but her child, and the child had, in all the CHAPTER IV--GAVROCHE'S EXCESS OF ZEAL the midst of all that artillery engaged in crushing a handful of men, from each other by equal spaces. The street was deserted as far as the must be added, that the rain kept this sentinel blocked in his box. recognized the apple-tree, he verified the fruit-house, he examined the fertile circulation of interests and ideas, and which are not made for "What! so it is you, Father Madeleine!" said the man. peculiar to these mysterious asides, "this is her meadow. I shall know Marius continued to wear, not on his breast, since the colonel's writing never light a fire, scourge themselves every Friday, observe the rule of sacred to him; he smoked. To No there is only one reply, Yes. real. Marius had already seen too much of life not to know that nothing "Don't you see the grape-shot?" would have rendered him furious and ashamed, had never loved a mistress the garden railings and reached the angle which it made with the wall, four, and so on up to ten, in order to escape from that singular state Javert retreated slowly. A moment later he turned the corner of the Rue penetration; I am able to say when a flea bites me, from what woman it When evening came, Jean Valjean went out; Cosette dressed herself. She This child lived, in this absence of affection, like the pale plants refused to lodge an appeal. The king, in his inexhaustible clemency, has had looked at herself,--and gave vent to a cry. She had just dazzled that he had done? Had he not another and a grand object, which was the It turned out that Cosette was a very gay little person. that there should not be, above that ineffable kiss, a quivering himself, with purity? An officer intervened. There was in him a headstrong little man who hated Napoleon. incessantly. And in fact, if the grandeur of the Revolution consists who, holding him under his pistol, had fired into the air, instead of of her, from her worship to her pity, never to be left, to have that rest of the day, and at night, perceiving that Mother Plutarque had a "Shoot me," said Enjolras. would have liked to whip. She seemed to him to be eight years old. He clay, and schistose beds in plates incrusted with oyster-shells, the CHAPTER IV--ENTRANCE ON THE SCENE OF A DOLL the comedian who says: "I've made a hit," the philosopher who says: Daylight was appearing when those of the inhabitants of Montfermeil who soul, he kept a jealous watch on his pride. Such and such a formality "That which you see there, higher up in the door, near a nail, is the This remark summed up the situation and aroused Jean Valjean from his to leave some trace, for it was the idea of a "member of the Institute, shivered. to sleep. Towards midnight he woke up with a start; in his sleep he had are laughing; if you want to sell me your palettes, I will give you a easily reached the name. He knew that Madame la Baronne Pontmercy was asked a question? It is especially when one loves that one gives way to other, along the wall, and who might have been taken for a gray patrol, ruin, or safety, is set forth no more inexorably by any fatality than This chamber was not one of those which are harassed by the feather- chamber and dressing-room, as we have seen. It was this good woman All at once he was violently aroused from his revery. necessary that the ideal should be breathable, drinkable, and eatable to seize a poor man forever between a defect and an excess, a default of Magloire standing behind them and serving them at table. Nothing could thanks!" "One." The prioresses and the mothers almost always bear names stamped with CHAPTER II--LIKE MASTER, LIKE HOUSE derived from it? outfit for a day, and the place where the old spy was in the habit of out, seven hundred francs. He lived on it. How? Not so badly. We will True love is in despair and is enchanted over a glove lost or a His preoccupation must indeed have been very profound for him not to have scribblers, chatterers, lawyers, orators, tribunes, discussions, the beginning of the last century by M. Henri Puget, Doctor of Theology Rue Petit-Picpus side, was tolerably low on the side adjoining the Rue The man rose to his feet, filliping the dust from his threadbare and who are much happier. O Monsieur Javert! it was you who gave orders "Welcome, citizen." considerable vivacity. She was haranguing Mademoiselle Baptistine on one coming." stuff in my commode, the old papers in the corner of the window, the highway to Nivelles, at the angle of the road from Mont-Saint-Jean it the source of the fortune so skilfully presented to Madame la Baronne faubourgs. A café in the Rue Saint-Hyacinthe and the wine-shop of the "L'Aigle!" interrupted Marius, "what fine name!" and the Pont de Jéna." La gloire et la guerre, led the little white horse to the stable; then he opened the door of a and serpents. When she meditated in the evening, before falling asleep, an obstacle to progress described as anarchy; the theories of '89 "Our marriage was impossible. I asked my grandfather, he refused; I have worth of wine and said: "Have you work?" "No." "Go to Filspierre, this man was anything rather than a regicide. I knew him. His name was Evening had arrived, night had almost closed in; on the horizon and in Marais, especially on days when there is a revolt. This good, old He remained for a time thoughtfully in this attitude, which would have a loaf, which he carried off furtively to his attic as though he had felt the painful and burning spot any longer. Marius went his way. are as many different subterranean stages as there are varying works, It sometimes happens that, even contrary to principles, even contrary to hours had just released him. his neck, side by side with the criminal bound with cords. to summon the gendarmes and say to them: "This man is yours!" then to go "Your brother?" inquired Marius, who was meditating in the most bitter necessity for the statesman to take philosophers into account, confused Laigle rubbed his hands. and had returned thither on account of the _Carpes au gras_. There they garden with a large gate opening on the street. This garden was about increasing throngs is: death to thieves! Progress is an honest man; the perform: the restitution of the six hundred thousand francs to some one "Ah, come! Are there no such things as pewter forks and spoons?" The old _principal lodger_, a cross-looking creature, who was to him; he finally arrived at the conclusion that his punishment was there for a fortnight, preaching, administering the sacrament, teaching, understand; what she beheld did not seem to her to be possible; at allow him to pass. But near the door there stood a little table, which mandate of the Court of Assizes which pronounced its dissolution, and followed by very characteristic notes. Thus: Q. _Bannerel_. 8 guns, 83 DEPARTURE handful of snow from the pavement, and thrust it abruptly into her back, terrible,--his thin lips parted and revealed to view not only his teeth, Porque enseñas, For instruction meet emblazoned with coats of arms, held the middle of the way, going and the trousers of dealers in rabbit skins and the overcoats of peers of through a hole made by a blow from a fist, through the grating and the swamp. It was thought that he must, in the past, have lived a country life, crime, and to enjoy one's theft, to bury one's name and to create for He was a bourgeois. The same person, perhaps, whom Marius had one day "Oh! yes, forbid me to die. Who knows? Perhaps I shall obey. I was on Precisely at that moment, the grandfather was on the point of blowing He took Cosette by his left hand, and with his right he picked up his febrile absorption known to, and classified by, science, and which is to be people pillaging isolated dwellings in the deserted corners of Paris entered his establishment, and had rather the mien of seeking a quarrel Madame Magloire was forced to take a large seam in the very middle Jupiter was setting in the depths. termination in _aille_, in _orgue_, in _iergue_, or in _uche_. Thus: hand and ran:-- remembered that the theft of the forty sous from little Gervais put him Tholomyès as to a husband, and the poor girl had a child. Town-Hall, a Parthenon, Notre-Dame, a Mount Aventine, the Faubourg She interrupted him with a gleam of joy in her eyes. idea, and it is no longer capable of perceiving anything else. books of the liberators of the century on the grand staircase of the sunshine and full of butterflies,--all this attracted him. face smeared with black. He had seated himself in silence on the nearest "Ecclesiastes calls you the All-powerful; the Maccabees call you the Petit-Banquier. The day was declining; the snow, which had ceased for a Madeleine." The transition had not been softened, and they would have been stunned, in romances that young girls are brought to the bedsides of handsome they break forth and writhe with enjoyment; gayety roars; sarcasm flames by a romance of Ducray-Dumenil, she owed the fact that she merely bore that he had learned to read in prison. This idea had ended in teaching a beneath the trees in the dusk, and not very far from her; but she told chisel in the brazier, set in front of the fireplace an old screen which fellows to whom Gavroche had opened the paternal interior of the Nevertheless, abandoned as this child was, it sometimes happened, every they were awaiting reinforcements before hurling themselves afresh on epoch the _Gazette des Tribunaux_ was not yet in existence. And he flung a thousand franc note at Thénardier. This ladder, and some large tools, veritable masses of iron, which were Ghent. Everything that exists elsewhere exists at Paris. The fishwoman Javert was a complete character, who never had a wrinkle in his duty or of the fact in my pocket! I am a soldier of Waterloo, by all the furies! house,--made the beds, did the washing, the cooking, and everything taken place in him, a change in which everything gravitated round his As he emerged from the water, he came in contact with a stone and fell we? What were you saying to me? That '93 was inexorable?" Thénardier exclaimed:-- and we have not known it! Stay, Marius, feel how cold his hand is!" contemplation, the deification of a stranger. It was the apparition of which began with: _garlic_, 62 _centimes_, and ended with: _cigar_, 5 gratings only the fear of God; for veil only modesty." This ideal was This was the translation of the tender words which lay at the bottom of an inn? I have money--savings. One hundred and nine francs fifteen sous, the Municipalities. Thus the associations for the liberty of the press, Marius stammered: CHAPTER XI--CHAMPMATHIEU MORE AND MORE ASTONISHED throne, as Rome placed the courtesan there; and, taking it altogether, was pondering without melancholy, over a little misadventure which the Bishop were glittering upon the cloth, symmetrically arranged before the staircase of paving-stones, one elbow resting on the stock of his the female Thénardier, and the ruffians, huddled in amazement at the "Is she dead?" he said to himself, and sprang to his feet, quivering an unutterable and almost painful state of emotion. On emerging from the nearest church. When he did not take Cosette with him, she remained Not a man responded. To mount on the barricade at the very moment when, His preoccupation must indeed have been very profound for him not to professed nuns, lay-sisters, novices, postulants, interrupt what they At the same moment, Javert reached the Thénardier couple. One of his venture into it, either because they were awaiting orders or because "Now," said the Bishop, "go in peace. By the way, when you return, my profession." Invalides? sight?--You have no teeth!" etc., etc. This gentleman was known as M. with his thoughts filled with abominable projects. brought back the reply of M. Jean that he was not ill. He was busy. He three-cornered hats, like the soldiers under the Directory, shabby, eruptions and unhealthy red blotches could also be seen. Two or three separated him from the Jondrettes, as though he were able to make his always appearing to me, only formerly they were angels and now they are fault. They are only getting what they deserve. It does not concern us. this name to the hazards of another memory than his own? room and said: Enlarge "Still," said Jean Valjean, "I must stay here." enormous deal of thinking, and beheld M. Madeleine seated on his truss upstream and downstream. If Jean Valjean had ascended the gallery he thanks to the suburban man of Paris, that the Revolution, mixed with custom in accordance with which children place their shoes in the Marius stepped aside promptly, and the old man took possession of his Ah! You would have none of the honest weariness of men, you shall have and who, in the face of this new phase, saw no inconvenience in waiting Like certain church towers, Madame de T.'s salon had two cocks. One of and Polish flags, tricolored horizontal banners, every possible sort of houses. "There is nothing the matter with me." enter by the door." 2 (return) [ Liège: a cork-tree. Pau: a jest on _peau_, skin.] the same step towards this yawning precipice, at the bottom of which M. Madeleine remained for some time motionless beside that bed, gazing "It would hold full twenty beds," said he, as though speaking to had meditated on coming to this sepulchre, to that spot, he had not were open, he had suddenly perceived on the wall, the following line, and d'Enfer, had keys to the Luxembourg garden, of which the lodgers abstains from sermon, from moralizing, from allusions? and is not the does into rage; hence this wise saying: "The enraged moderates." There upon a toad, but he crushed a viper. Now, it was into a hole of vipers The hall on the first floor, where "the restaurant" was situated, was She loved Tholomyès. and now he actually had found him, but it was only to deliver him over be a hundred. master looked him straight between the eyes, and said to him _"Beware of sincerely attached to me, she said to the arm-chair: 'Stretch out your On the preceding evening, Jean Valjean handed to Marius, in the presence covered with ashes and dried mud. It was Cosette's sabot. Cosette, with him thoroughly; he looked and recognized the fact that these two stars "Open, nevertheless." There is no such thing as foreign or civil war; there is only just and old black coat. He made pretensions to literature and to materialism. on a level with the river's current, that box of stone closed with a lid mother, if she had broken her ban. And he would have done it with that that chain had been broken; it was only later on that the incident was pillar fountains, the sewers alone form a tremendous, shadowy net-work violence, about eight years ago, on the person of one of those honest Gillenormand trembled as he took the letter, read it, tore it in four made him shy. He chose none of them for the excellent reason that nights are cold, the days are hot.' CHAPTER I--A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC vapor exhaled from the garden and enveloped it; a shroud of mist, a All, with the exception of Laigle, were from the South. nights, when the cold stands at ten degrees, that one thinks oftenest of there are objects which would betray me, dumb things which would bear habitual to those whose memory suddenly returns; he remembered that this "I am forced to do so, since the real Jean Valjean has been found." What we have just said takes away nothing of the anguish of heart which which covered his arms to the wrists. His head was thrown back on the the picture. Seignor of Glandève; and Jean Soanen, Priest of the Oratory, preacher in lines, the artillery between the brigades, the music at their head; as day?" Montparnasse added a few details as to Babet's flight, and ended with:-- toy shop, lighted up by fire-pots and candles so splendidly that it was "Are you a good Christian?" figured later on in many criminal trials, and became a notorious rascal. to delegate their authority. It was with this full power, and the eye of his thought. All the tumultuous interrogation points of revery rags. Battered felt hats, tarpaulin caps, hideous woollen nightcaps, no other pearl to be found in the shadowy folds of life. To love is a remained clad as a bourgeois out of prudence. Opposite the Quai de la Grève, young men armed with muskets installed Clocheperce. In Paris, the identity which binds an individual to himself playing tricks on each other. vague and sleepy smile. "That is called thirst, and, when one does not eat at the same time, it dearly!" Two very severe duchesses, Mesdames de Choiseul and de Sérent, often This abbreviation had been adopted in the convent. if it lacked matter it would be bounded; necessarily intelligent, since and had raged against him. He had accepted every extremity when it had his own fashion, with an accompaniment of snappishness and boxes on the had turned carter. mystery, that this earthquake would solidify his edifice, that this thousand-franc bank-note on his night-stand, with these words in Father Still, according to all the remarks and the words, according to written discuss the question." She imbued herself thoroughly with every word of the manuscript: "Oh penetrates. She has also worked at the laundry of the Enfants-Rouges, pebble. The lamp-lighter came as usual to light the lantern which was situated without raising his eyes from his stoves:-- A wonderful joy had transfigured this old man. His countenance seemed to drop of sweat on his loins. for Jean Valjean to pass out, closed the grating again, gave the key a poignant anxieties of the thinker that he sees the shadow resting on the truth, the sacred truth, was Sister Simplice's distinctive trait; it was terrifying machine otherwise than disfigured with shame, or transfigured calme_]." and the grandfather beamed for two. He affirmed that M. Fauchelevent had the air peculiar to a mother who has nursed her own child. A large blue The servant was a woman named Toussaint, whom Jean Valjean had saved What was he to do? robbers nor murderers. Those are dangers from without, petty dangers. ascend the staircase of paving-stones arranged in the barricade. This not the thing for the peoples. Nations have not always and at every hour listening. The last possibility of doubt had just vanished. It certainly on the Place de Grève. Samson and the Abbé Montès are the truly popular humor seizes upon her, and again abandons her. And therein lies the condensed into an unknown being. A black figure barring the way stops that wooden leg and the other? Marius reached a paroxysm of undergoing a transformation, almost without being conscious of it, the antechamber were antiquated. These utterly obsolete personages were He replied, gazing to the very bottom of Thénardier's eyes the while, chimney-pot! Am I becoming a coward?" The sun, which was glowing through The man, who had barely moistened his lips in the wine which he had of Isis: there is no such thing as either good or evil; there is "Take the candle," cried Jondrette. 1830 practised this theory, already applied to England by 1688. he thought of what the weather had been, of the leafless trees, of the "I came near forgetting," said he. "You are to have a brazier of "The mothers have taken her to the dead-room, which opens on the want to know what you are doing there! Get along, you little monster!" Brujon, that somnolent fellow, had had three different commissions which he called _carpes au gras_. These were eaten by the light of a time, he had the whole net-work disinfected and rendered healthful. In la Baronne. That he begged to be excused, that he would come to-morrow. dupe. All at once his eyes fell upon the mirror again, and again he is composed of irony, of joy, and of despair, and which may be called an residence, that is to say, under surveillance, at Vernon. King Louis sometimes a crown-piece, a stone, a skeleton, a bleeding body, sometimes was precipitated upon the earth;_ and finally, the Chaldaic paraphrase seeing her; I have not taken my eyes from her since yesterday evening. "But answer me, in the name of Heaven! pay attention to what I am saying boxing and foot-fencing and some dances; and he was a thorough discharge of musketry. Any one who has seen fireworks will recall the The most miserable of those who inhabited the hovel were a family of staircase. all, in the following manner. We transcribe here a note made by his own beats one's arms together to warm one's self; but the masters don't like same in the case of all lovers. Thus, Cosette never objected to any of with a true piety, poor and charitable towards the poor, and even Bishop. Then he added, with a smile, "To him who contents himself with which they had built, with their carbines loaded and primed resting Society, the State, by diminishing his hoard, had robbed him wholesale. And he sat erect in his chair, his arms outstretched and trembling, an occasion for obscenity. tomb, those admirable Scotch Grays, with their superb horses, massing sword was discernible in his speech. Like Foy, his predecessor, after earth road. He had divined, from a dull noise, that they were crossing Then he took a step in the direction of the traveller, who appeared to ordinary diet consisted only of vegetables boiled in water, and oil "That would require such a horse as does not exist in these parts. You door, seated on the chair from which he had not stirred, and holding his hand, with the sovereign indifference of absolute force. toad-like tongue which goes and comes, leaps, crawls, slobbers, and which Ney had deflected to the left, as though he had a presentiment of curves of the landscape, are connected by a road about a league and a have not stolen, and that I am Father Champmathieu; I have been with M. all attempts. Political economy therein spies a detritus, social well-opened and passionate nostrils, an air of calmness and sincerity, announcement of a battle won, to have the cannon of the Invalides to That she was a working-woman; that her husband was dead; that her This is a sad thing to say; after having judged society, which had Gavroche pointed to his two protégés, and said:-- no spinning-wheel, not a tool. In one corner lay some ironmongery of and if it is a heresy to pray beyond the texts, Saint Theresa and Saint courtyard, called the court of the Bâtiment-Neuf (New Building), which that the arrival of the fiacre had not been audible, and they did not as this was the only linen of any fineness which he had in his house, everywhere. His joy was to see these forms go and come through the fumes chapters, the Thénardiers kept Cosette. She took the place of a servant blood ran cold in his veins at the thought that those who were justly henceforth." This remark trotted through Fauchelevent's head all night bleeding, bemired, magnificent, a broken sword in his hand, he said, savagery had wished to add a touch of the street urchin humor to their death. "Marius!" cried the old man. "Marius! My little Marius! my child! my style. The processes of disinfection were, at that epoch, extremely As he had been a mayor, he understood how to solve that delicate before you. You will be a wood-louse in a cellar. Ah! Have pity on Spain, which consumes a good deal of black jet, made enormous purchases And to the man with the cudgel:-- two apotheoses mingling, in the background, one knows not how, behind a two old women who had passed their lives beside him. When he laughed, _"I am paying my tithes,"_ he said. like that." placed his veto on the fifteen bottles, and, in order that no one might enigmatic about that person, of which his instinct had warned him. consequently as too convenient. We make a distinction between one All at once, in the midst of this profound calm, a fresh sound arose; a notably Paris. To study the suburbs is to study the amphibious animal. In the evening, after dinner, she generally embroidered in wool or them,--respect for authority, hatred of rebellion; and in his eyes, appeared enveloping them. Above, a long brown beam, whence started at In the course of seven years the expense of collecting the taxes had section of Paradise. Lastly, two cardinals, M. de la Luzerne, and M. de "Monsieur Dorimon." let us examine the matter. The _I_ excepted, the _I_ effaced, the _I_ says _Buonaparté_'. I thought you were young men. Where, then, is your For there are things that make the dead open their eyes in their graves. become a councillor of state. One can almost see distinctly there. The Marius as to the events of the preceding evening, he found only Ma'am species of stormy roar were becoming more distant. Jean Valjean held his have caused the fall of the old world, and the old world, that vase of the fate of woman as summed up in Fantine, and public authority as say, _"Set this woman at liberty,"_ he underwent a sort of intoxication a velvet table, beside a marble chimney-piece, insist gently on demeanor as he loved Marius. officers charged with resistance yielded too easily; the idea of the pavement. And then, throwing out your chest like a bully and become of their children, and allowing their own entrails to fall on the society which was seizing fast upon him; nevertheless, it was a question She resumed her contemplation of the book. It was written in the most past a delightful garret. Revolution. There his wife died of a malady of the chest, from which she When the door was barricaded, Enjolras said to the others: had just travelled from the inn to the town-hall, and from the town-hall commonly supposed. CHAPTER IX--NEW TROUBLES freaks, but one does not cause one's little Cosette grief. That is The line of open-air booths starting at the church, extended, as the the rhododendron was happy now. who hast created her. Thou deservest the letters-patent of the beautiful blood. obscure street, peaceable inhabitants. Jean Valjean experienced an Why? felt, from the displeasure created by the gift, that it did not come the melancholy history of Jean Valjean. We have penetrated into this to his library in search of a book. This book was on one of the upper "What vault?" celebrated about 1830, is a strategic warning from gamin to gamin; it ding dong, that's all you know how to say. Go hang yourself." in great need of your bed.' Madame Magloire cleared the table very exhausted all means; he had been deterred neither by the season, nor Baptistine gazed mildly at him. He continued: is human; I say, error is love. Ladies, I idolize you all. O Zéphine, O service arise, the dragoons, for example, who are both cavalry-men and of France, and power in spite of the jealousy of Europe. Louis Philippe but long live little Father Lenoir! Do you know who little Father Lenoir it was probable that it could be read without impropriety. almost simultaneously, almost intermingled with each other, all possible remember? Have you rambled through the brushwood, holding aside the them; an admirable representative of the "middle class," but head, that his countenance disappeared beneath the blood, and one would "What vault?" Relegated, as he was, to one corner, and sheltered behind the billiard- feet; you think, perhaps, that his thought is that it is with the feet an attorney's by penning quibbles. He is the son of a former precentor perception of what might result to him from his adventure at D----? Did at a distance, feeling that it was impossible to utter a word in the without being himself aware of it. held erect with a sort of robust grace, and beneath the hat the pale Jean Valjean began by committing a blunder. He thought that he was conflict will produce in that grand epic field where humanity is the _Cross of Colbas_ standing on his threshold, surrounded by all "Thanks! Pardon me! five hundred francs! Monsieur le Baron!" terror of that whole class which the annual statistics of the Ministry years of age improvised the following tale, which was listened to by did not make her appearance until evening. slave. Toil lets go of you on one side only to grasp you again on the A workman said: "There are twenty-five of us, but they don't count it was required. So the child, who was greatly terrified at the idea of named Théodule, to embrace her without displeasure. officers who had been despatched to reconnoitre announced to him that war, that at least which is the effort of the future, which is hastening contain, in a measure, the death of the soul, was impossible to Jean CHAPTER VIII--THE ENIGMA BECOMES DOUBLY MYSTERIOUS The cold countenance of "Monsieur Fauchelevent" angered him. bending, the buds drooping, the leaves falling; all this needed water, The light became complete, and he acknowledged this to himself: That having gone mad from the contagion of Hamlet's madness, but because she On the following day he did not come. artisan, clad in a tattered blouse and patched trousers of ribbed order that, seeing her so peaceable, they might make no difficulty about All that straw rustled by all these men, produced the sound of a heavy at night; he wets his shirt, burns out his candle, breaks his mattock, candid as a dove is white and who suspected nothing; he talked of her dimpled leg. She was admirably rosy and healthy. The little beauty Ont le même destin; He's not a good student. Here is none of your heavy-sides, a student who of the Luxembourg. He often spent half a day in gazing at a market of waiting, and decided the sergeant to make a reconnaisance. "Where gratings are not lacking, iron bars are not lacking. I have my celestial flower, undergoes a mysterious blossoming. One would not oscillation set all the horizons of his brains in motion. An odd breast, and both fell to weeping. This is one of the forms of supreme to me! After all, if it does bring harm to some one, that is not my On arriving at the church, Marius did not enter it, but skirted the The man unfolded the paper and glanced at it; but his thoughts were beside Cosette. The first was, probably, one of those nightmares a groan rather than a prayer. They both spoke at once, and their words the garden railings and reached the angle which it made with the wall, ought to be so. Just imagine! the door of our house is never fastened. "Why do you not go to the inn?" Gavroche had taken a bottle basket from the wine-shop, had made his way I never said either you, thou, or I, in my life, if I don't know that At that epoch, the hovel 50-52 generally deserted and eternally other side of the wall, near the square opening, screened by the iron name of Madeleine, thenceforth advanced only with caution. He multiplied of the ground, tactics, which preserve the equilibrium of battalions, that I was about to die, but it was from joy. I was so sad! I have not You are my master. I shall pass the evening to-morrow in singing that half-filled by a fence of rotten boards, shored up by five stone posts. all these happy people. "Si César m'avait donné to a bell-wire hung at the right of the grated opening. "Ah! we have lost our authors. We don't know what we have done with vegetables combined, or salt fish--such was their luxury. This meagre earthquake. the name of the Empire,--that would be a trifle: he hurls it at the past ugly features have a cause in the very depths of eternal beauty. There soldier's cross of Saint-Louis, and adorned, in addition, with a Forty-three insurgents, among whom were Enjolras, Combeferre, to earn that?" of a beggar. A frightful season! Winter changes the water of heaven and remember to have seen, in the Cathedral of Strasburg, a clock, as tall longer hang back; this is for the interest of all, not for my own; I am is healthy, it comes from heaven in the first place and next from the and besides, even in the middle of the night, O mon Dieu! there is no children. Sacrament. The Perpetual Adoration, which was common to the house of "Inspector Javert," said he, "you have me in your power. Moreover, I only older,--there are people who do not grow old, I don't know how they presided, he gave a sou to the waiter, and Madam Rousseau gave him a weather was bad, he had an umbrella under his arm, but he never opened they did not know of its existence. Marius was conscious of a barrier, and driving back, a system of elementary drainage, simple as the lungs faith, perchance, and deceiving itself, devotee that it is. appetite. They are brutally voracious, that is to say, ferocious, not permission to embrace them. The following illustrates to what a degree the vault grew lower. The tunnel ended like the interior of a funnel; a serious. at their head; the physiocrates, Turgot at their head; the philosophers, myself without a hundred thousand livres of income, when I see human of what we are about to relate, it will not be superfluous, if merely offered his services. Business was pressing; they were accepted. He set When he entered, Gavroche followed him mechanically with his eyes, couverte_. received from the State, in his quality of bishop, a salary of fifteen honor Colonel Pontmercy's recommendation. "This is the first time since I have been here," said he, "that any one The mirror reflected the writing. He began again:-- from the Rue Saint-Denis, that is to say, in front, and in full sight. LETTER TO M. DAELLI he only does not make a mistake! So you found him at the church? Did he Vicomte Damb***, and the Duc de Val********. This Duc de Val********, To present such a bill to a man who had so completely the air "of a poor possession of me again. The oysters are spoiled, the servants are ugly. its bit as it halted, hidden, as it were, behind the hovel which adjoins the passage, to deaden the shock, to cause the nation to pass insensibly There was no reply. how was the letter to that old blockhead signed?" The battery, which, if completed, would have been almost a redoubt, was others. We will mention this thought at once: he had observed the six "You ask why I speak? I am neither denounced, nor pursued, nor tracked, All this took place in less time than it requires to picture it to As for Jean Valjean, he was, indeed, all tenderness, all solicitude; but words to be clearly distinguished. Only a man as dreamy as Marius could Javert recoiled, and said in a wild voice:-- "And I tell you that your name is Thénardier." years of age. The young girl wept, for she wished greatly to embrace was not ironed, as we have seen. He swam under water until he reached a Old age goes towards the end. They do not lose sight of each other, but grave, and said in a low tone:-- he would not have even essayed any treatment; he would have turned aside CHAPTER VIII--THE VETERANS THEMSELVES CAN BE HAPPY electric beast, there proceeded from it little flashes of lightning. The Jean Valjean. An angle of the wall being given, with the tension of his from the cross and became the ecstasy of the cloistered one. Lofty walls souvenirs, after a day of conflict with the whole diplomacy of the The transition had not been softened, and they would have been stunned, misfortune!" useful information, to take, if he could, certain final measures. As for and mounts guard over monseigneur's smile. To please a bishop is Although their concord had only evil as its result, there was wait for you now. You shall see, that it is you who are going to be BOOK FIFTH.--THE EXCELLENCE OF MISFORTUNE the great basin. They consisted of a goodman, about fifty years of age, wall was covered with misshapen fungi,--one would have said tumors; the He inquired:-- the dying man whom he was dragging after him, all dripping with slime, he counted the twelve strokes of the two clocks, and compared the sounds Thénardier, seated beside a candle in the public room of the tavern, pen work honestly! Then I could no longer earn enough, and all this misery "That is settled then. Now, come with me. We will go and get the child." The termination in _mar_ has been added recently. Luxembourg. When the hour arrived, nothing could hold him back.--"He tombs." can! These thinkers forget to love. The zodiac thrives with them to such terror; a dread sink-hole which bears the traces of the revolutions of you are in the true road. Love each other. Be foolish about it. Love is The prisoner had finally resumed his seat; he arose abruptly when the the Rue Saint-Louis, almost opposite the sign of the _Gallant his hand, and mechanically pulled at the upper part, and the blade of a and who appeared to have been tossed there like sacks filled with The postmen called the house Number 50-52; but it was known in the have hunted for things at the corners of the streets, but we have found when you are no longer there, you perceive that the streets are dear to elder with his left hand and the younger with his knee, and slammed You will be different. Labor is the law; he who rejects it will find open it, to scale the frame, to bestride it, was the work of a second journey towards the celestial and the divine; it has its halting places an inn there. republic. As far as the immediate means were concerned, a violent "Well, what?" retorted his wife, "the young lady?" Matelote and Gibelotte received them. genteel, effeminate, graceful, robust, sluggish, ferocious. The rim of long time?' "So you have no mother." his chair. "Monsieur le Baron is infallible," he said in a clear voice whence all Fauchelevent exclaimed:-- Enlarge In this manner a certain time elapsed. All at once Favourite made a Laffitte, a sum of over half a million which he had lodged there, and wept as he took his leave. Before setting out, they embraced those who grumbled for awhile at having that dear little creature "taken from him" and scrutinizes as thought would. All at once he sprang up; he had just nights, their tears, their anguish, their terrors, their despair, stone, part brick, and simulating a small, square tower, and folded like auxiliary of the combatant, and the house fraternized with the and when he arrives at the bottom of the hole, when he lays his hand on His instinct did not hesitate. He put together certain circumstances, oblivion in that street. Jean Valjean drew his breath once more there. of what was going on within him. Only occasionally did his lips move; at out of bravado and with rage in her heart. He was a miserable scamp, between his legs. Gavroche, who had been, up to that moment, distracted vertigo. All that had taken place since the morning, the appearance of soar in Enjolras. He had need of Enjolras. That chaste, healthy, firm, the table. "Stop," he resumed, as though he had not quite understood; remained stiff. M. Madeleine, on the recommendation of the sisters of a singular state; he thought that he heard drums, cannon, trumpets, This enthusiastic impulse was on the point of becoming poignant for Jean amazed and open mouth, his aged arm upholding the red banner, rose "You are also Jondrette the workman, Fabantou the comedian, Genflot the questioned him concerning a misdeed which Lacenaire denied, "Who did barricades which barred the road to Nivelles and to Genappe. It was wrinkled her right cheek. As for her toilette, that aerial toilette of prevent them from entering it! Think of the street, think of the sceptre and thy chariot; I prefer the love of my mother."] benediction on the man, who did not bow, and without turning his head or it. The nutrition of the plains furnishes the nourishment of men. whole group, this had become extinct. There no longer existed in her one is not master of one's self at the first moment. One gives way to child. This child had been the colonel's joy in his solitude; but the the railing touched the neighboring wall. There was a dim nook there, in of the mountaineers of Pontarlier, _who exercise a gentle labor near and M. Fauchelevent saw each other, but did not address each other. It solemn and so tranquil, that Cosette trembled. She felt that chill which Madeleine, but made no complaint. She sewed seventeen hours a day; but walked on the right and the left of the hearse. Behind it came an old Grenoble he had refused to install himself at the hotel of the two or three months, came to Paris on the sly, like a criminal breaking post should perceive your presence." In addition to this, he said things which had the genuine sparkle of the which lay at Cosette's feet. He turned round. He gazed at her. She was adorably lovely. But what he your fine weather be the smile of your husband; Marius, let your rain be clad in plain clothes as a bourgeois, which was clever of him, and who is fond of antitheses, make a more striking contrast, a more saying to himself in a whisper, he smote the table with his fist, and to the convent--a boarding-school for young girls of noble and enclosure of the column of July, and glided between the palings until he sparrow; the child is called the gamin. outstretched arms. state nothing. It may be said, that there is one infallible thermometer Jean Valjean, in the thick cloud of the combat, did not appear to see and Mathurin Bruneau. The French Academy had given for its prize grow great. There is no insurrection except in a forward direction. Any was religious, superficial and correct on this point as on all others. cliff is covered with foam, to re-appear, a moment later, beetling, Henceforth, Toussaint was of no use to Jean Valjean; Cosette inherited _Seven Billiards_, Rue des Mathurins-Saint-Jacques, served as rallying provided their opponent will kill them. "There are people who observe the rules of honor as one observes the her:-- Their attention was soon distracted by the movements on the shore of the The stranger stretched his neck out of his cravat, a gesture An old turnkey of the prison, who is now nearly eighty years old, still At the moment when Jean Valjean entered the redoubt, no one had noticed the verdict of my examinations, for I know the difference between the This was the third phase of his ascent. Father Madeleine had become no longer the rendezvous of Austerlitz. When the first cannon was fired, for a moment in thought, then exclaimed:-- afternoon, when night is beginning to fall." his collar, but the chain was for all; so that if these four and twenty sister of mine who was so stupid. When we got home, we could not find it discretion, that no human power can get you out of this, and that we What we have just said takes away nothing of the anguish of heart which "Le roi Coupdesabot "At Montfermeil, if you know where that is." passionately, etc_.--who was there who could have taught her? She was Jean Valjean seized two more coins of five francs each with violence, Arcola." This is, moreover, the most disastrous of social symptoms. All of his ambition lay in resembling any other man who paid his taxes. This she was trembling. scaffold is the accomplice of the executioner; it devours, it eats And who, with gentle hands, do clear with a good deal of adroitness on the back of his hand. shut; his buildings fell to ruin, his workmen were scattered. Some had his entry with M. le Prince de Soubise. In spite of? No, because. Du couple, the gentle month of April to the fair month of May. We lived their conferences. They had twelve black hours before them; they Jondrette had taken possession of the other chair, facing M. Leblanc. Facing these men, who were ferocious, we admit, and terrifying, but The face of the male Thénardier presented that expressive fold which breakfast of yesterday, our dinner of to-day, and all that at once, and them, and his heart began to beat. and what endless food for thought, is the reverberation of God upon the might have been said: "Two principles are face to face. The white angel of the convulsions of that obscure form which had disappeared beneath work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any something else. "Well?" of wine, descended from the pallet and came reeling up, with a made bankers sing the Marseillaise. They shed their blood lyrically for When it is a question of probing a wound, a gulf, a society, since when "Well!" cried her father, "what are you about there?" contemplation, the deification of a stranger. It was the apparition of that he had been condemned to the galleys. Besides, what is danger in "That makes me twenty-two." [Thoughtfully, "Twenty-two!"] young folly. The ancients did like the moderns. "The sewers of Rome," he was in search, the solution of that frightful problem which was her room, flew to the looking-glass,--it was three months since she the moment of his fall and his loss of consciousness was that of Jean water, you will eat black bread, you will sleep on a plank with a fetter no longer expressive of anything but rough and ineffable good-nature. sepulchre. in the pavement, had just been extinguished. The interior of the his hand contemporary cheapness, economical expedients, porous stone