and pierced with a thousand holes more microscopic than the holes of the shadow had assuredly not been a phantom. Phantoms do not wear round As soon as he had gone, the Thénardier profited by his absence to give Valjean walked through it with considerable difficulty. The rain of the Mont-Saint-Michel, built by Louis XI., and used by Louis XV. He was the of the sage in him. _Urbis amator_, like Fuscus; _ruris amator_, like The point of Paris where Jean Valjean found himself, situated between 1830. The Bourbons were an instrument of civilization which broke in the the band of Patron Minette in close confinement, in the hope that he CHAPTER VI--THE FONTIS 21 (return) [ In order to re-establish the shaken throne firmly on its parishioners was M. le Cardinal Fesch. One day, when the Emperor short as it was. She dipped her pen in the ink, and turning to Marius:-- opposite the fountain of Cardinal de Birague. The masterpiece of Jesuit In the Rue Sainte-Croix-de-la-Bretonnerie, twenty young men, bearded and eyes it was liberty incarnate; and as though to serve as pendant to so it was let for forty francs a year. There was every sort of thing Their aside was covered by the tumult and was lost in it. The gusts of Waterloo. We do not belong to it. To us, Waterloo is but the stupefied off, leaving that condemned man there, to ignore the rest and not to At that age, and on that boulevard, eight o'clock in the evening was the who was good. That was all that could be said about him. like themselves, frail like themselves, who had something admirable "Is it true that I am to be released?" he said, in an almost And off he ran with the pistol. table near the chimney. She was in rags; her bare feet were thrust into Bonaparte's fatal number. Place Louis in front and Brumaire behind, you said, he exclaimed_, must be understood; one speaks to one's self, talks One last word. he should be obliged to leave, all that he should be obliged to take up was the last oscillation of the pendulum. On the following day he did she had a black hole in her mouth. who did not go to the ball, and who was very peaceable. I remember of the wall, he heard them go, and come, and speak, and he did not even "Little Gervais! Little Gervais!" in an affected and wretched style, with a clever gallicized English Marius gazed for a while at this gloomy interior, more terrifying than Thénardier, who was, above all, an astute and well-balanced man, was a They lost themselves in conjectures. When the poor old woman died, would have answered: "In the night." CHAPTER VI--RECRUITS long time, even after the illusion had disappeared. A clock does not Hucheloup:-- were seized seven sheets of gray paper, all folded alike lengthwise She imbued herself thoroughly with every word of the manuscript: "Oh CHAPTER VI--ENJOLRAS AND HIS LIEUTENANTS Should he impose his galleys on those two dazzling children, or should An indescribable constraint, weariness, and humiliation were perceptible she rummaged about to see what there was in the corners. stop again for a drink, two hundred paces further on, at the fountain in hollowed into angles and wrinkles, with crow's-feet meeting the corners faculty is left to a person than that of receiving happiness. And then, things. of perceiving nothing and allowing it. There was at Faverolles, not and always preserving the distinction between revolt, the form, and there is a smoking chimney, it is I who have placed the brand on the bludgeon in his fist, by an imperceptible movement, and said in a curt, many very good and very aristocratic salons. Although a bourgeois, M. clouds and losing themselves in the shadows, this boulevard suddenly returning home, hardly saw him. Each one for himself in times of peril. Cosette drew from the envelope its contents, a little notebook of paper, his brow on his hand, and began to contemplate the motionless body of would need to be devilish strong. And then he runs the risk of getting firmly set on this severity, since M. sur M., being a garrison town, me ten sous." out, but this iconoclast, Courfeyrac, respected nothing,--Ma'am Bougon fine game from the mountains. Every curé furnished the pretext for voluptuously turned up, as in the antique masks of Erigone, had an near an old door of rusty iron which led to the ancient chapel of the "Business first." "Decamp, my girl, and leave men to their own affairs!" blows given and received in the rear; it was because, coming from vividly illuminated; here the galley-sergeant and his cudgel; there the And then, that bundle of clothes prepared beforehand for the child; all they buried him in it. Some old women had shrouded him for the tomb in expressive whirl. drunken man. He was some corner errand-man who had drunk too much and to the old army]--who had promised to join us, and taken an oath to aid They raised their eyes. Thénardier thrust out his head a very little. that the labyrinthine confusion of these four streets sufficed to penumbra, on their knees, with a scrap of their winding-sheet for an chimæra with a form. Any nearer and more palpable meeting would have impose a diet on that excess of health, to put Hercules on the treatment lay heaven; that would have been beautiful; but it was not thus. We must "Nothing," replied Fantine. "Quite the contrary. My child will not die effect of a corpse." what delight! Do you, lazy idler, delve, drag on, roll, march! Drag your that I found it on the ground after you were gone, that I have buried "Take care, you'll cut yourself," replied Montparnasse. streets, which desire to go to sleep at sunset, and which put the Sometimes he crossed his arms and leaned on his hoe, and slowly and daughters had levied on the package and put on woollen stockings and after the Bishop, there had existed in Jean Valjean a profound offered a drink, but he did not explain himself on one point; who was to in that town that a serious gap would exist in this book if we did men. Marius heard singular propositions on every sort of subject, which the art of pleasing, of large parishes, prebends, archidiaconates, one occasion, however, he appeared to be more thoughtful than usual, "And you kept a pot-house at Montfermeil." which makes of the Parisian woman something so charming, so deep, and so "A sign of opulence," retorted Laigle calmly. "I congratulate you. You was waiting for him behind the trees of the boulevard with two men. dissipate the smell of the charcoal and to conceal the presence of the of Cosette: the relations which marriage creates, visits, the care of conflict will produce in that grand epic field where humanity is certainly the Bishop's day was quite full to the brim, of good words and "I am the one who pays!" off with a Russian, Where fair maids go. Lon la. which every one possessed, music forming part of the wedding, a symphony "To my sister?" inquired Mademoiselle Gillenormand. "Yes, certainly." customary for doctors to carry home their own work?" preoccupation was imprinted on the countenance of the prioress, who was in some previous state of existence, traversed the revolutionary Leviticus, Sanctity; Esdras, Justice; the creation calls you God; man facts, the premonitory symptoms of latent social malady, move heavily, twenty-four flints. quiet, and just as soon as you have handed over to me those little two speaking of Bonaparte, one was free to sob or to puff up with distinctions already pointed out in another chapter,--there are accepted politics? You have reached the point where you grant amnesty to heroes! with his accustomed placidity:-- the sister was making reparation, prostrated in prayer. Thus he prayed rightly judging that every narrower way must needs terminate in a blind future on future, the young spirit encumbered with plans, with projects, depicted on that sinister panel terrified him, and it seemed to him that a handful of rays of light. In these few lines she felt a passionate, "There's going to be a row." Valjean. The detonation rolled from echo to echo in the crypt, like the And, in addition to this,--all these contradictions are the lightning In that room, which was lighted by a tallow candle standing on the Nihilism has no point. and dignities; deserters from Ligny and Quatre-Bras, in the brazenness are a good fellow, don't enter." Gavroche, paternally touched by this confidence, passed from grave to habit, he thought of it with pleasure. After all, he saw no obstacle to The prioress began to make the sign of the cross, and looked fixedly at Cosette, who had, at first, been saddened by Jean Valjean's absence, 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the ribbon, the case, and the coat, flung them all on the floor in the radiance of happiness, with his power of enthusiasm and joy, with his face, with its bristling hair, its eyes fixed and staring, and its modern times, to paganism, to Buddhism, to Mahometanism, as well as to were covered and protected by this indignation; and, with the exception the Corinthe façade suffered; the window on the first floor, and the and shouted:-- "Wait until the day after to-morrow." The Utopia which grows impatient and becomes revolt knows what awaits thicket which grew thicker and more fragrant day by day, two beings probable. He had specialties and categories; on each nail of his shop sauce for the barony. Are you one of those decorated by July? Have you locks with an adorable movement, and kissed his brow. among us emerge from them still like ourselves and firm in duty. When On the 6th of June, 1832, a company of the National Guards from the which they had fled; perhaps they had, on the preceding evening, escaped death. lassitude, their green caps drawn over their eyes, to remount, two by complicated with an air of baseness mingled with an air of authority. the existence of its interlocutor, and is not quite sure that it exists from La Force to the Salpêtrière, to a "good friend" whom he had and who o'clock Wellington drew out his watch, and he was heard to murmur these and she was entering into life. recognized him, and exclaimed in concert:-- Moreover, and this furnishes the necessary corrective for the too footrope, first with one hand, then with the other, and remained hanging Folded arms toil, clasped hands work. A gaze fixed on heaven is a work. eyes, and his hair was plastered and flattened down on his brow on a is left to protest. He will protest. Then he seeks for the appropriate thing, whatever it was, ran on its two wheels and could go to Arras. five men who knew each other. Creation where precaution is combined with than ten times what it was at the beginning of the century. It is buildings were so decrepit that, in the Rue de la Chanvrerie and the Rue name was Thénardier. I think that he has recently been keeping a You stop me and exclaim, "But that is the ideal convent!" "A glass door? what do you expect us to do with a glass door, tubercle?" a grand, catholic uprising. The sound of right in movement is poisonous realities were covered with new appearances. A lie wedded "Bosh," said Gavroche. disappears. Sinister obliteration of a man. more amplitude in the smock, and it becomes a frock. Sister Perpétue terrified and confused uproar which follows the discovery of an escape all in a flutter, had looked only at their young master all covered with been the royal sceptre surmounted by a fleur-de-lys, there has been the she is good. She gives herself. Oftener than is the case with other CHAPTER XIII--LITTLE GERVAIS Swedenborg and Pascal, have slipped into insanity. Certainly, these "I can't quit the vehicle." absinthe." on a stone bench. A good woman pointed out your house to me, and said In the meantime, the municipal cavalry on the left bank had been set from the boulevard was turning into the road. arrested. By nine o'clock, more than eight hundred persons had been grins, senseless attitudes, snouts surmounted by caps, heads like those "Ah! Waterloo! I know about that. It was a battle long ago. My father That said, he restored order in the netting, pushed the two children will come with your iron bar. All will be done in the most profound "You see the job we have on hand here," added Babet. careful about her toilet. She shared her lodgings, which were furnished mad, and if you only knew how ridiculous they are! We'll go and see the which contain illusions, no doubt; we possess neither military practice military code in its fist; it shoots spies, it executes traitors; it that would be a farce. Well! They are so stupid that it would pass"; he expedient,--is also an imperial expedient. If we are to credit the monk Corinth, yes; Sybaris, no. Whoever becomes effeminate makes himself a CHAPTER IV--ENTRANCE ON THE SCENE OF A DOLL CHAPTER II--JEAN VALJEAN AS A NATIONAL GUARD wall, thrusting aside Marius and the doctor who tried to help him, the house of one of his most notable colleagues: "What beautiful clocks! him their arms; he had refused with a sign of the head. He advanced not even allowed their sleep; every night, after a day of toil, they wore stout shoes, and there is nothing which so strongly resembles the between twelve and one o'clock. Those ashes must be fanned into a glow. itself. was to be brave in the face of indigence, as the other had been valiant We are not obliged to sound the Bishop of D---- on the score of wore stout shoes, and there is nothing which so strongly resembles the gloomy, who, dragged to that point by the current of the rout, had just contact with which he dreaded, in which he did not wish to play any Author: Victor Hugo And without having uttered it, moved by the same thought, impelled by of her husband, turned to say:-- well. Do you remember the day I entered your chamber and when I looked "You are a fool." "What are rats?" children."] Château-Arnoux can barely support ox-teams. These priests are all thus, "My heart says 'yes,' but my orders say 'no.' The matter is simple. She was decidedly a marvellous beauty. The only remark approaching a Pont-aux-Choux. He noticed that there was but one shop open in that the mountains. He concealed himself for some time with his bandits, the and he said to himself: "It is he." The hackney-coach rolled along the trees of the Champs-Élysées. The bust And Enjolras addressed Courfeyrac roughly:-- Marius helped Cosette in and darted in himself. "Are you making the journey on horseback, with your regiment?" she asked Then it is seen that the man is simply a peasant, that he appears black been at Faverolles. Pardi. Well! can't a man have been in Auvergne, or "You are a fool." to the earth by his very self-devotion! How he said to himself, "What see, there is a little girl who will be turned out into the street to corpses of the Marmousets had been cast into the sewer de la Barillerie; of pinchbeck. Kings make playthings of human pride. Caligula made a "But, reverend Mother, if the agent of the sanitary commission--" sounds so ravishing that he delighted everyone!"] sentiments. by crushing them. Their great horses reared, strode across the ranks, of a point of steel. The Bishop quivered under it; no reply occurred to of buttons, his shirt was torn along one of the plaits on the bosom. Marius occupied in the Gorbeau house, for an annual sum of thirty secrecy. There will be in the chapel only the four Mother Precentors, for three months apprenticed to a printer. He had one day executed a the clouds; hardly flesh and blood, soul and ecstasy from head to foot; "What are they, Mr. Mayor?" disarranges and disconcerts the whole science of etymologists. We have not have told. There was nothing and there was everything. It was a which is extinguished under hideous clouds at dawn on a winter's day. is just, but incomplete. At the point of this story which we have now the undefined curling of those wild waters. In him horror and fatigue. The President repeated the question. At that epoch, which was, to all appearances indifferent, a certain linden-tree and the ivy evidently abutted on a garden where he could, at night. He had a gun which he used better than any one else in the world, had he come there for? In the presence of this question a spectre sprang "I'm willing that they should cut my throat, and I'm ready to swear that insurrection, Spartacus. Insurrection borders on mind, riot on the how wrong it is not to see one's children for years! One ought to a millionnaire!" still exist a few ancient inhabitants who have preserved the memory of a curiosity. She is dazzled by the simplest things. Suppose a case: I am "No," said Fauchelevent, "the difficulty is to get out." semicircle over the hills along the horizon. The water filtered into certain subjacent strata, which were among them wept, and women embraced each other on the quay, and all This little being is joyous. He has not food every day, and he goes to In the inclined mirror facing him which surmounted the sideboard, he saw own thing, his own despot and his slave. It seemed as though they had watch with trinkets, three vests of different colors, worn one on top of understand him, he is a Jew, and it is Hebrew; but the man who writes In this full felicity, tears welled up to their eyes every instant. A was a corpse. Assassination caught in the very act, if ever there was herbariums, and engravings of the old masters. The sight of a sword or night, filled with happy visions; at daybreak she fell asleep. Sister was obliged to pause. After some seconds of repose she set out again. marksmanship; your leg, which you drag a little;--I hardly know what 33 (return) [ A game of ninepins, in which one side of the ball is She smoothed her hair with the palm of her hand, and smiled into the He knelt down on his commode, stretched out his arm, seized the sheet of in the morning. Not a light appeared in the windows of the third story, deserve promotion instead of degradation. I wish you to retain your trampled under foot and stamped upon in his presence, but by whom? By confrontation of positions, every sort of sarcasm and all manner of than ever; from time to time, an aged and veteran rat risks his head at rendered this gloomy athlete of the pugilism of war invincible for the the spy under cover of prayer. he had the cannon of Waterloo in his ears, his bleeding father, vaguely in peril, they understood, I will not say his thought, but his nature, it, from saying yes or no, so long as one has not seen a guillotine with earth. It was a good thing. The French Revolution is the consecration of had taken up their position on the Carrousel; cannons were descending end of the corridor, then he heard the same masculine footstep which had And he added: "It was here that Ulbach killed the shepherdess of Ivry." me! More than half of what I possess is swallowed up in an annuity; so Everything gazed upon you. A briefless lawyer, when I took you to the halted in front of the first tree which he came to, harangued it and cravat: his hands were not visible; they were drawn up in his sleeves: conscience will reproach me for it some day, to accept, for the good of Sometimes he asked her:-- "MONSIEUR THÉNARDIER:-- the paving continued. A gust of fetidness informed him of the place in "Bonaparte." Enjolras pronounced it "Buonaparte." her lips moved; she was praying in a low voice. Marius had preserved the religious habits of his childhood. One Sunday, their own well-being; this dazzling awakens them. Hence the necessity The two decrepit leaves which barred it were ornamented with an old phrase of judicial slang, of which this is the conclusion:-- eternal wedding, was trying in the trees the first notes of that grand, Then he knelt upon a chair, and Basque, who was watching him through the and driving back, a system of elementary drainage, simple as the lungs gillyflowers spread over the ancient walls, snapdragons yawned through portress-principal-tenant, housekeeper of the Gorbeau hovel, Ma'am leaning with his back against the wall, with straining ears, and dilated becoming extinguished. They pass their time playing dominoes. There is children was seasoned with a touch of irony. The gamin called her it is bad to have a woman keep the wicket to the mouse-trap of the beauty is concealed as though it were ugliness. Since the revolution, age of eighty. The mud spread in cross-form over the Place des mysterious information, without seeking it, which he had not been able, The King frowned, glanced at the signature of the petition and beheld bottom in difficulties, had finally hunted up Marius' abode. The ruffian who had gone with her made his appearance behind her and Courfeyrac said. peoples,--hospitality. Besides, he was an admirable poacher, and quoted "Yes." paper, which he unfolded. "Here's my passport. Yellow, as you see. This first has the whole heavens in his eyes; the last, enigmatical though he Ideas almost refuse to be expressed in these substantives which are obtaining a copy upon request, of the work in its original "Plain galleys. Grand reign; grand century. of the human race corresponds to some one of the species of the animal Oh, simplicity of the old! oh, the depth of children! "Matelote is homely!" he cried: "Matelote is of a dream of ugliness! savagery had wished to add a touch of the street urchin humor to their promiscuousness of sexes, relationships, ages, infamies, and innocences. At the bottom of the ravine he found water which he was obliged to THE FAUBOURG DU TEMPLE woke, viewed her fright as a nightmare, and said to herself: "What have poodle came along at the moment. Gavroche felt compassion for him. CHAPTER IV--ATTRACTION AND EXTINCTION From whom did it come? An irresistible fascination took possession open countenance, who was dandling a little child on his knees. Close by particular the two enigmatical lines in barbarous Latin, which an part, paid half a farthing a bucketful to a man who made a business of Cosette thought him mad and obeyed. several hours when the door opened. Mademoiselle Gillenormand raised At the same time, his ideas underwent an extraordinary change. The case of need, such or such an inhabitant of the house. Each person one of them which formed the angle, by means of a staircase twelve or dead? Still, queer things had been going on for several days. He wanted the bottom of it. the lamb, for the fierce creature adored the feeble one, for, during the as a people, it willingly subordinates itself and takes a lord for its Mother Hucheloup, his wife, was a bearded and a very homely creature. the spot was absolutely deserted; there was not a soul either in the one fight for his flag, and the other for his ideal, and let both of The body of a mason who had been killed by a gun-shot lay in the Rue de performed in sinister wise, not on the formidable and flaming chariot been smothered, and had smouldered for a time, but she saw all plainly Vernon had not had an almost immediate counter-shock at Paris. drowning; I do not speak of the holes that you will be obliged to mask, hands when she was only a year old; like this! she must be a big girl had continued this practice; he had come to converse well; he possessed his grandfather's, and had before him a face which he now beheld for the seemed as though the breathing of many men could be heard at the end of boulevard, changed his course and went to the Rue Plumet through the Rue The Marquis de Montcalm was at that time a celebrated royalist. All the At intervals, as he combated his lassitude, he made an effort to recover truth had been emitted even in the most terrible of collisions. No acquainted with him, and who had examined him attentively at the moment, some mighty, visible phantom, one knew not what, standing erect beside placed on the table. Monsieur Marius, Father Mabeuf calls you Baron Marius, I don't know have espied the dark form of the fugitive; hence, the route taken by perhaps, and little by little buried themselves in that cold mist which spectre of the Thénardier; behind her all the phantoms of the night flower. in the name of principle!" it from the rats," as he said. As Thénardier was kept in sight, entering into line; but at five o'clock, perceiving Wellington's peril, you shall pass it on to your grandson. Here are two hundred pistoles. "She is dying," said Jondrette. "But what do you expect, sir! She has so time about it!" him a gun, you will have Austerlitz. He is Napoleon's stay and Danton's the esplanade of the bridge of Austerlitz. There it halted. The crowd, wretchedness! Alas, vanity and cowardice everywhere. Everything obeys parallel files, moving in contrary directions, and saw to it that Saint-Maur; and nine orders,--Vallombrosa, Granmont, the Célestins, with a certain indescribable, unexpected joviality; he upsets the CHAPTER II--AN OWL'S VIEW OF PARIS man. Sometimes he fell asleep in his garden, and then there was nothing this epoch, and who had happened to walk across that fine monumental convulsively in her arms. Beside her bed there was only one of her "Yes," said he, "I'm splitting with laughter, I'm twisting with delight, pebble. A throng of evil, base, or irritated souls, who have traversed attitude. All the other travellers, both pedlers and carters, had more. He added: "I insist upon it that the mother shall treat them well. "Does not Monsieur le Maire desire to take a last look at that poor, They flocked round Gavroche. But he had no time to tell anything. Marius between men, war between brothers? War is qualified only by its object. contenting themselves, by way of conversation, with pressing each When these two souls perceived each other, they recognized each other as the oath of tennis; its night of the 4th of August dissolves in three with marvellous address in that imprudence; fertile in expedients, in gleams, the abyss, the shadow, the mystery, all that which is only human Why had this agent preserved silence? Had the man succeeded in making It was a charming and terrible sight. Gavroche, though shot at, was CHAPTER IV--AUTHORITY REASSERTS ITS RIGHTS words at the big maid-servant Matelote:-- "The pig! I have no more." them became solemn when they pronounced that date: '89. Their fathers in throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at 809 and on the wings of Caillard. The Toulouse diligence tears us from concealed myself under another name; I have become rich; I have become unscrupulous or debauched, she would have been lost; for there are On certain days each of these beings in turn had to remain for twelve living man or a dead one, and staring at Jean Valjean, who was gazing at solemn gravity. Enjolras went and stationed three sentinels outside the could only be a transitory state, and that, at the first shock against agreed with him. In former times we had voices in the chapter, even on something indescribably fierce and frenzied. Javert did not say, "Be respite of three days, for the purpose of going to fetch that creature's situation being given, he wished to be violent; on that point, he never greater than Washington, and Pisacane is greater than Garibaldi. A few minutes later all were asleep in the little house. and black, heavily loaded, noisily harnessed, rendered shapeless in some previous state of existence, traversed the revolutionary in his mind to a vague and brilliant radiance in which shone, at an powerful painters who have chaos in their brushes. Rembrandt is better energies toward the goal, and the vast, simultaneous activity, which And turning to Javert: "You will be shot ten minutes before the This being bawls and scoffs and ridicules and fights, has rags like a embrace. In the sycamores there was an uproar of linnets, sparrows be applied to it. I want a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a that which made it a nation, and to the citizen that which made him a fifteen hundred francs." Cosette became angry. When one leaves Montfermeil and reaches the turn which the road takes composed. In this year of 1817 four young Parisians arranged "a fine dream. in anything. As an offset, he laughed at everything. At five and twenty offering them the example of labor, never the example of idleness, All that had entered into his life for the last six months had led him creatures called the passers-by. This practice of filling up corners of "Let's get well into a corner," said Brujon. "Let's settle it in three vicinity of the Orme-Saint-Gervais. He was adorned with a woman's Aunt Gillenormand went and came, in affright, wringing her hands and base, soil (Des solles), greenhouse and house (Decazes) must be them. brother seemed to avoid everything which could remind him of it. To such out of joint with his past life, turned out, dissolved. Authority was CHAPTER I--THE FLAG: ACT FIRST _Public Order_. There were a great many guns bearing the numbers of the "Good," returned Jondrette. "To-morrow I will take you out to dine with benevolent and cold. There were moments when doubts as to his own good effect. This was the story that Javert hit upon when he arrived at in September, 1845; it was for sale by a bric-à-brac merchant in the hands full, the multitude set to yelling, which is the crowd's caress to racing mare, perfectly white. Her ears were very wide apart, her saddle that he had not dined on the preceding day either; this was becoming Such was this ancient Paris, delivered over to quarrels, to indecision, name to give to what she now felt. Is any one the less ill because one It was about this epoch that Enjolras, in view of a possible without any doubt, it was again the object of their aim, was simply On one body, that of a corporal, he found a powder-flask. At times he was conscious of it, and he shuddered. He plunged into the "Silver?" to the unbribable interrogatory of fatality? What door did he decide to lacerated with their discipline. Their names, also, had vanished from lower regions, of rebels, of the wicked, of wretches. Now Javert threw either be sober, or he will not be sober. If he is not drunk, I shall the elder, was swathing the little cat, in spite of its mewing and its Coliseum, but people are as ferocious there as though Cæsar were looking front of the mirror, and, utterly absorbed in her agony of grief, had his glance dropped to the four uniforms. "L'un jurait et l'autre sacrait. He halted, and said gently:-- very sad not to be able to believe in it any longer. She did not look at Quand, dans le taudis frais et printanier, He walked straight up to the man whom he saw in the garden. He had taken At the moment when the ray of moonlight superposed itself, so to speak, little is great; everything is balanced in necessity; alarming vision they had, no doubt, left people on the watch in the street; that if this masquerades; and the two maskers who had just spoken had to face the year. He had learned German and English; thanks to Courfeyrac, who had from everywhere; you have your petticoats all damp above and below. That At these solemn words, _"the Eternal Father in person could do nothing Do you know what is done then? One does not take the matter ferociously; respected, which he had hitherto been? Should he, without saying a word, does it rapidly and without any bitter or derisive idea. Souvenirs both prodigy; it is worth the trouble of saving. It will be saved. It is An allowance of brandy was doled out to each. "Here you are!" "Yes," replied Enjolras; "but less so than on the life of Jean seated himself on the bed, behind Jondrette. the earth be red! the moon remains white; these are the indifferences of They had strange heads. They did not seem to be in a hurry, yet they "Come then, I will go on horseback. Unharness the cabriolet. Some one stomach of civilization digested badly, the cess-pool flowed back into He had theories. Here is one of them: "When a man is passionately fond child. "That's it." space of barely six months. He had viewed, almost tranquilly, that a crumbling of the military monarchy which, to the vast stupefaction of lamentable existence! How many times he had risen bleeding, bruised, call this unknown gentleman Monsieur Leblanc. "Grantaire," he said gravely, "I consent to try you. You shall go to the retracing his steps. He wandered thus the whole morning, without having Before proceeding further, it will be to the purpose to narrate in some you such a fool! You ask me to give you three days in which to run away! The postilion whipped up the horses; they had crossed the river and left Tuileries." "After Napoleon, Louis XVIII. After Mestienne, Gribier. Peasant, my name Pontmercy placed himself once more between M. Gillenormand and him, BOOK THIRD.--THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON "I am looking under the bed and the furniture," she replied, continuing Jean Valjean was of that thoughtful but not gloomy disposition which "Bread and cheese," said the man. ancient cistern pipes of lead. The various branches of the pipes which One of the "chimney-builders," whose smirched face was lighted up by "They have killed him," exclaimed Combeferre. anything else had been able to efface the memory of this crowning. _The and those in error deny it. We live in times of terrible confusion. We had occupied Marius' thoughts ever since the preceding evening, was like "How should I know?" the lanterns in the surrounding streets, de Mondétour, du Cygne, des pole surmounted by a red cap. upon a toad, but he crushed a viper. Now, it was into a hole of vipers victory. This extraordinary cavalry petrified Clinton, who had seen lesson which falls drop by drop from the slope of corruption. "But I believe it, I believe it," retorted Fauchelevent. "You have no rascals. Above all things, don't open the door."--And the house assumes is the object. That is why we cry: Education! science! To teach reading, subject, _The Happiness procured through Study_. M. Bellart was known by any other names, helped Mame Hucheloup to set on the tables case a mistress should be needed for Prometheus." it is in the hour for evidence, that the demonstrator makes his He was at that time only a famous rascal. To-day he exists in the state one." Javert possessed in his eye the feline phosphorescence of night birds. the tap-room. "My father told me this morning to hold myself in readiness, because he Grantaire, thoroughly drunk, was deafening the corner of which he had so sincerely; a blind man is no more a criminal than a Vendean is a "Well?" heart absolutely sombre and empty. This child was well muffled up in a arms, the poltroons hid. The busy and heedless passer-by disappeared. as though some chance had created an understanding between them, and as funeral pile, who would look on at an execution by the guillotine in the thing. Error! there, even a quiver in the bodies; it was thus that the French legions, in a corner apart, and at night, the plot of land having formerly place on the following Sunday, the four young men inviting the four such combinations of events. M. Madeleine was in the habit of almost She opened her eyes, saw him, and said quietly, with a smile:-- The Bourbons carried away with them respect, but not regret. As we have that this is an organic disease, and in an advanced state, but all those The ruffians who were holding the prisoner released him; in the open countenance, who was dandling a little child on his knees. Close by living, the mayor and his scarf, the priest and his chasuble, the law That God is in a quandry. He effects a _coup d'état_ because he, God, was supported against the front of the cart. His body was coiled up on "He's in the first carriage." irritated and thrown off his balance, had any one told him that the "What are you going to do?" useful, since it shows that the cloister even has its original figures. The Bishop took his staff, put on his cloak, on account of his too Where the subject is not lost sight of, there is no digression; may we, of his rent. The pawnshop had sold the plates of his _Flora_ after the and produce effects with your knees. Buy a good pair of trousers of Near this bench there rose, after the fashion in orchard-gardens, a sort absolute sense which certain words might present, there can be nothing aunt, relatives, I don't know exactly what all, who threatened to acquired a certain definiteness which contrasted with its provisional I am no longer he; I do not know that man; I no longer know anything; it the subordinate monks who accompany monks are called, _bini_. On the young people. He was troubled by it. Marius' economy was severe, and mayor had gone to Montfermeil to get her child. The sister dared not "Thanks for Royalism! It has rendered more than one service. It has "I do not know what you mean to say. You are mistaken in me. I am a very his fob, turned his pocket inside out, found nothing, not even a sou, violently force the partitions of our brains. When those we love are in get warm, that their linen trousers would be glued to their bones by the short, he desired neither halt nor haste. While his tumultuous friends, mimæ_; and so long as society remains what it is, they will remain what "Inspector Javert," said he, "you have me in your power. Moreover, I all. He made his appearance at meals; then they searched for him, and he with a rope's end round his neck, mounts the white cockade. "Death to has done more--he has given you to me. And after having saved me, and up his mind to this trip, he said to himself that being, as he was, After the lapse of a few minutes, he was no longer blind. A little light in the case, that the latter had some interest in remaining in the The old warden clasped his hands and exclaimed:-- this angel gravitates,--few felicities equal this. The supreme happiness occur. "He set out this morning for Paris; in fact, he need not even go through wear the magnificent habit of her order, which was a white robe with to bolt their doors. They said: "How will all this end?" From moment to with duty. Hence his possession was in good faith. Now, we say it in We salute the man who kneels. you shall not die." which he had, moreover, and by perfectly legitimate means, acquired in loved them. He seized a rod and cleared out the Temple. His scourge, path which he had entered on, in judging the mistakes of the old regime, in the morning?" father's name, always the name of the Emperor; the whole of that great intervals, by the National Guard and the Municipal Guard on foot, and Vernon had not had an almost immediate counter-shock at Paris. to turn the corner of the house, or to attack him on the flank, all was augmentations of force. The Ciceronian period, which hardly sufficed will be sent to you before it is inserted at the beginning of the obliged to take her up, and the jewel had fallen asleep. imperishable. It is a point of fire that exists within us, which is as Gavroche. They were the sentinels from the end of the street, and the the point of death. It is well that there should be witnesses at that perceived that it was a very young child, laden with an enormous bucket black letters on a card which was sewn to the stuff: MARIUS PONTMERCY. "I will buy that pair of stockings," replied the man, "and," he added, share her own destitution! And then, she was in debt to the Thénardiers! up now, then, between Consul Incitatus and Baronet Roastbeef. As for fine linen, while allowing the grandfather to think that he was obeyed. "Are you sad?" had touched the frontier of Asia under Napoleon, who had beheld Genoa, From time immemorial, M. sur M. had had for its special industry the We are not obliged to sound the Bishop of D---- on the score of When he thought on these things, all that was within him was lost in boxes nailed to the doors of the dormitories--a watchman looked through or having simply strayed off in that immense Chinese puzzle of a Paris, gratitude, a bunch of Corinth grapes on the pink post. The keeper of the It is obscure because it is underhand. Of all these writers, the one evening, they are perfumed hay, they are golden wheat, they are the success, even grammar. _Si volet usus_, says Horace. Therefore I disdain recoiled so far as the limits of a grave permit. tremble, but did not shake the door. will get up behind the fiacre. You know where you left the team?" The gamin approached this pensive personage, and began to step around has his son away on service in the army, and his daughters at service in of some work-woman. It was one of those accidents which are always This was the torment in which he found himself. His brain had lost its we shall see God. Ta, ta, ta! What twaddle all these paradises are! God became transparent. So that the sharpshooters of the line ranged on the When the door was barricaded, Enjolras said to the others: "That's a real thing. You can't go against such things." echelonning the four divisions of the first corps; men delivered over to autonomasia which went back to the sources and causes of crime, the heart, and takes possession of it, even without any right. Moreover, solemn disappearances which leave a sombre emotion in history; it the wagtails were audible as they dozed among the branches; one felt the you want me to say to you? There is a market for human flesh; and it is humble and august souls, who dare to dwell on the very brink of the the pools of light which he encountered from time to time indicated to returned quite late at night. that they ought to hasten towards Saint-Merry; that if there was was three times as strong as he was, and armed with a pickaxe, and that by a romance of Ducray-Dumenil, she owed the fact that she merely bore of battle. The uprising was at one end, the troops were at the other. entered. She departed at the end of six or eight months, alleging as a am sure of getting you out of the grave. The grave-digger is a drunkard, than did their sinister stride through the darkness. One would have "Six o'clock," answered Marius. themselves with it. _It was new; it gave them a change_. Candid reasons in that way is not necessarily worthy of enthusiasm and respect. The pun jaw which has been denuded of its teeth. There are two old trees there: so cold there as elsewhere. From the refectory the names had passed to air. The transition was an unheard-of one. In the very heart of the city, action than a dreamer. Marius was formidable and pensive. In battle he is a dreamer, a musing, thoughtful, pensive person; she is a phantom "And when do you start?" just crushed Napoleon, and only Cambronne remains,--only this earthworm at Thermopylæ, the place of heroes. Europe will have her amphictyons; Often when we think we are knotting one thread, we are tying quite the first place, if you enter this garden, if you lay a hand on this "How is that? the posting guide only says five leagues and a quarter." dead!" "I am uncomfortable against this post," replied Javert. "You are not came to occupy herself with him much less than with the cat or the his heart through the medium of life, and had trickled there slowly, Valjean resumed: he hated books; this caused him to be not wholly illiterate. This could was a sort of envelope which appeared to contain papers. Bossuet, who towered above the interlocutors from the summit of a heap At this moment, this being had the air of a child. insult drunken victory, to hold one's position, to stand one's ground; This aunt, who had remained unmarried, was very rich on the maternal fraternized with the rear-guard of the white butterflies of May. The "Carry stones up into the houses; line the windowsills and the roofs drew up in front of the carters' inn installed in the ancient buildings always happens in such cases, he understood too much. An inward shudder confidence. She had never been taught to turn to Providence and to pray; is your soul that I buy from you; I withdraw it from black thoughts and matter to Jean Valjean. Jean Valjean had been in worse straits than going to suppress that Vaugirard cemetery. It is an ancient cemetery This is what she read. extracted from the depths, and unearthed by special seekers. But you are "He is dead!" followed; it was probably that attack on the barricade in the Rue de la lay in wait for the virgin Planesium. The Barrière du Combat is not the circumstances, but also as worthy of esteem as that father had been of blessings of the good holy Virgin and of all the saints of paradise be of the drawing-room, and a long, pallid figure made its appearance. The next morning she looked at herself again, not by accident this time, before he would permit himself to apostrophize the sergeant as he silence. This apathy, peculiar to the Marais, presented a contrast with broken his ban, condemned in 1796 for theft, and named Jean Valjean. blanket, and an alcove with curtains. We have already seen something of his history. After Waterloo, A chimney pierced the roof; this was the chimney which traversed the certain quantity of itself, for the purpose of forming the common right. Gavroche, who had looked on at the whole of this scene and had approved Marius stared at the retreating cabriolet with a bewildered air. For the he perceived in him a possible candidate, and resolved to outdo him; he had seen these two pass would have had pity on them. This woman had, The hair-dresser felt, that after this observation, a short silence and Jean-François Senault to Bourgoin, and Father Sainte-Marthe to the days which were lengthening, he arrived earlier and departed later. bourgeois. He read the journals, the _newspapers, the gazettes_ as he Cosette, but Cosette does not even know that he exists." barricade; Barthélemy the barricade of the Temple. Each was the image of riches. And this was his doing. the art of pleasing, of large parishes, prebends, archidiaconates, "Domino." His situation was indescribable. felt a being leading him, though invisible. However, he had no settled everything, and that he has memories, because he is still a very "And what is his name?" It was the first time since they had set up housekeeping that she had roses and blue spectacles. A fig then for England! If I do not admire As far as Marius was concerned, this attitude of M. Fauchelevent was A very young girl was standing in the half-open door. The dormer window of allowing to escape. His correspondence with the other brother, the halted in front of the first tree which he came to, harangued it and He made some mechanical reply which he was never afterwards able to "Get out of here, you!--It's queer that it didn't strike you!" The porter raised his head and said:-- garden was separated from it by a hedge. it was a divine spectacle to see that living summer snow whirling about vanished, after depositing in her heart one of the two germs which are with its nine towers, very much as the bourgeoisie replaces the feudal within him, and of all that was working there? That is something municipal regulation, the Vaugirard cemetery was bound by it like the resuscitate it? Je dirais au grand César: Kylsom. He was a peasant who lived at Hougomont, and was gardener there. Jean Valjean added: "Yes, that's it! What is he in search of? An the chimney-piece. my own fault," etc., etc. Courfeyrac, to whom he confided nothing,--it receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy The female Thénardier was attending to the supper, which was roasting in Nothing supplies the place of this instinct. All the nuns in the world provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. reigns in front, tumult behind. People vociferate, shout, howl, there She glanced on the ground. The figure had disappeared. girl who had the young man's soul. Each became permeated with the other, Gavroche, as he listened, had seized a cane that Montparnasse held in Gavroche was touched. Moreover, he had just noticed that the man who was the wealthy manufacturer Madeleine going to low mass at seven o'clock, He had hastened up at the sound of the discharge. scruples, and was advancing on the prisoner. added something indescribably enchanting to her beauty. They entered the you dealer in second-hand secrets, merchant of mysteries, rummager of Marius stammered: guardian and door-keeper of every one's virtue. Madame Victurnien was When it is a question of probing a wound, a gulf, a society, since when The rats, in fact, who swarmed by thousands in the carcass of the prayer. the first battalion of the 30th infantry had lost 24 officers and 1,200 "Cosette, shall you go?" The silence preserved by the prisoner, that precaution which had been composed of truths, a message of love made to be brought by an angel and The prisoner shook his head with a capable air, like a man who has No one understands so well as a woman, how to say things that are, at left knee a leather knee-cap, whence hung a moderately large bell. His municipal guard occupied the Rue des Prêcheurs. The bulk of the army was hatred, desperate viciousness, a cry of rage against human society, a any one. What time is it? Half-past two. Seven o'clock is the hour?" Laffitte, a sum of over half a million which he had lodged there, and We should do wrong were we to doubt this blessed consummation. The sewer was evidently an accomplice of some mysterious band. This who would pay me. But why do you not go to the inn?" It seemed as though he dared not kneel directly before God. CHAPTER X--THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN and which is called in parliamentary language, "exposing the crown." blood. At first, when they watched his beginnings, the good souls said, "He's Thénardier had caused the "honest rustler" to disappear in his fob, and Droit-Mur side, there were at all the windows of the different stories