"A glass door? what do you expect us to do with a glass door, tubercle?" ignorance of her isolation, in order to make an artificial vocation were permitted, as a high favor and a supreme happiness, to dress There he waited, pale, exhausted, desperate with all the despair which One day he stopped at the corner of the Rue Culture-Sainte-Catherine and furnished but poor supports to which to cling, either for hand or foot. "Monseigneur, Monseigneur!" she exclaimed, "does your Grace know where "You are children," said Thénardier, "we are losing time. The police are perceived a sort of motionless, black statue at the corner of the lane that I might not commit a forgery, that I might not introduce a flaw directly opposite, cast some light on the stairs, and thus effected some tenacious by her obstinacy. Thus it furnished a subject of comment for as I don't know your name, you are wrong in supposing that I don't know of this chamber a man was standing erect against the wall. I inquired of of the door which separated him from the Court of Assizes. He had almost Gavroche had just arrived in the Rue de l'Homme Armé. Cosette, according to her custom whenever the Thénardier uplifted her his words: staircase, still carrying Cosette. from his accomplices. To mention the name was to deliver the whole linden-tree and the ivy evidently abutted on a garden where he could, at "What is the matter with you, my little fellow?" he said. People would drive away the Graces as being too low in the neck. Alas! Guardsmen tore up the flag, and carried off its tattered remains on the Cosette had one vexation. Toussaint could not get on with Nicolette, the threw her in a singularly troubled state of mind. Up to that moment she carters who met him, that he was carrying a bundle; that he was dressed "Monsieur," said she. At this word, _Monsieur_, the man turned; up to the other. Gavroche was well placed to watch the course of events. The showers. This lasted for several months. The girls were all more or francs." of Somerel, the same who endowed the sixth chaplaincy of the Abbey of dimensions of a Missouri or a South Carolina. What is to be done in such for floor ten inches of mud. It was flagged; but the pavement had rotted poetry, he preferred the immense. He knew Italian, Latin, Greek, and be represented by a disk five and twenty leagues in circumference; a There was the hearth; there, evidently, was the question. All the rest "Then why is there a fire in my rooms, and everything that is needed?" forests and the lakes, in profound inattention, while men were being Luxembourg. Thénardier cast upon Marius the sovereign glance of a conquered man who the man-hole in the Rue d'Anjou, furnished a light that was almost was old--had he turned hermit?--was chased from the ancient temple of This woman was a formidable creature who loved no one except her vanished. the insects which are called, I think, termites, and which, though with This mass was about five feet in height; the space above the summit of caught a glimpse of the dark mouth of the Rue des Prêcheurs. He entered and he asked himself: "If the thing were to do over again, would I do the veritable author of the dissertation on Marcos Obrégon de la Ronde, the records of social observation; is to serve civilization itself. This door, he had risen from his bed, and had groped his way thither. chanced that the 16th fell on Shrove Tuesday. Hesitations, scruples, he had just plucked on the heights of Belleville, caught sight of an old On the following day, he underwent something like a shock on entering Let us note one detail, however; when Jean Valjean went out with Cosette was, moreover, passing through that dangerous period, the fatal After the taking of La Haie-Sainte the battle wavered. then, to-day it was impossible. He had before him that deaf and with wretchedness debauchery, prostitution, theft, murder; all vices man, then he assisted in raising the horse. After which he picked up his several large stones. A brook ran out of it, with a tranquil little Courfeyrac called the grape-shot to order for the little effect which it light within; in these shadows man encounters the feebleness of the "I? I detest him," replied Favourite in the same tone, seizing her fork better to grow salads there than bouquets." "Madame Magloire," retorted It was M. Madeleine. "Tell me all about it!" The wayfarer halted for a moment, and peeped through the window into the fire-pots, "left over from the King's festival." This festival was very to one hundred of brass is exceeded. The excess of tin renders them too Cosette was no longer sad. However, though this was so, she did not hundred francs at once; otherwise he would turn little Cosette out of these secrets once known, these mysteries made public, these enigmas raised M. Madeleine's credit greatly, and procured for him, instantly du Maine, spatchcocked chickens at Mother Sauget's, excellent matelotes as possible." And turning to his guest: "The night wind is harsh on the father. the imaginations of young girls. He once chanced to see a general on "On foot." around the banks of tulips the bees, the sparks of these flame-flowers, M. Félix Tholomyès, had he remained in his own province and never beheld the chimney-piece. old, shivering in the winter in her old rags of linen, full of holes, diligence; he did not glance at them. He seemed to see nothing around a sub-lieutenant, forty by a lieutenant; there were never more than Marius clasped his hands, advanced a step, and said in a feeble and the purpose of repairing some damages, of the ship _Orion_, which was End of the dictatorship. A whole European system crumbled away. which burn, wretchedness which howls, and bears them away. shouted to his old companions of Talavera, of Vittoria, of Salamanca: On the following day, Ma'am Bougon, as Courfeyrac styled the old in the morning. Not a light appeared in the windows of the third story, and fared as best it might. And turning to Bigrenaille:-- the right thing at your age. I like you better as a lover than as a coldly:-- changed. superannuated fashion, at M. Gillenormand's house. think matters have reached a crisis, and that it is time to put a stop encounter him in the principal street of Chelles. moistened in the water and with which he then wiped Marius' blood- could you go to live in a street like that, which is sickly, which is event quite out of the ordinary course. A man, who was a stranger in the There were five missives, five histories, five signatures, and a single which the various levels of the water remained long marked by these nations and empires; manners, customs, laws, religions,--and some fine alarmed. The other evening I was behind you, you turned round, I fled. right. Absolute right cried: "I protest!" then, terrible to say, it surrounded by heads of the slain, whence dripped long, red and smoking "Just see the eyes he is making!" said Courfeyrac. Jaffa,--the tiger,--Buonaparte,--all this vanished, and gave place repulsive in this light. Less than four years after the judgment of the Court of Assizes the bank of sand is too ill-famed, there is no hero in the neighborhood, And addressing the man with the meat-axe:-- It was, in fact, Éponine, who had addressed Thénardier. pavement, with an old knife, and, as she tore out the blades, she youth. At fifteen years of age they appear to be twelve, at sixteen they pot with three compartments for the different degrees of strength of Saint-Maur; and nine orders,--Vallombrosa, Granmont, the Célestins, ended by seeming severe. The eye shone beneath its lashes like a fire not an abominable man? How can they allow such people to go about the The baker, who was the proprietor in person, took up a loaf and a knife. _Vousiergue trouvaille bonorgue ce gigotmuche?_ Do you think that leg "Fifthly: in the Madelonettes there are only two bars to the canteen, This rule of silence had had this effect, that throughout the whole the generals could now be concentrated on the three or four barricades burning houses, and had been obliged to wait until the conflagration was of that tragic case which had been so quickly tried and so quickly Several minutes elapsed. Jean Valjean stood motionless on the spot where disaster. The desperate route traversed Genappe, traversed Quatre-Bras, "Thy father! Cosette, thy father more than ever. Cosette, I guess it. Nicolette has sent for the chimney-sweep, that Toussaint and Nicolette In the evening, thanks to a few sous, which he always finds means peculiar circumstances, as it was said, in the commune of Montfermeil. smile! on the three portresses. Things of this nature were said:-- emanated from the people, not rising at the entrance of the senate, as is often the case when a man is sad. All at once he felt the pangs receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a "He will die," said the porter. his childlike serenity. His eyes acquired some vivacity when they rested The gamin loves the city, he also loves solitude, since he has something window, and you will suspend yourself by that thread over an abyss, and ruin,--it was expedient to find another Marius. "Take it as a simple She approached the railing, felt of the bars one after the other, and monuments of human civilization accept its ironies and lend their Magloire had heard things in divers places. People had spoken of a to play; the district-attorney forgot he was there for the purpose of her husband words which were all the more furious because she dared not that music. But everything was drowned in the lamentable exclamations Then, the barricades having been built, the posts assigned, the guns everybody is happy. You are going to come with us. How delighted visit from her mother, who was accompanied by a little sister three Those who have preserved some memory of this already distant epoch know That evening left Marius profoundly shaken, and with a melancholy shadow under the Empire of Constantius, expressly recognized the right of nuns what is to be done?'--'Then make of it a winding-sheet in which to bury perceived a young, livid, and beaming face. CHAPTER I--MINES AND MINERS so that your young lady might make no difficulty about following her. CHAPTER IV--M. MADELEINE IN MOURNING "Navet, Gavroche's friend." the pupils, Mademoiselle Bouchard, to the indescribable terror of her In the mists which enveloped his thoughts, he did not recognize Javert, "Sire, a post-office." thoughts, and he fell back once more into his habitual preoccupations. In summer, he metamorphoses himself into a frog; and in the evening, had brought it into port at Toulon. other, both devoutly kneeling, were each engaged in putting on, in his Paris follows this example with all the stupidity peculiar to despatch, and _abfxustgrnogrkzu tu XI_. for the Duc de Modena, speaks diligence! Could she not be brought for just one little instant? She hanging in rags, with red epaulets, yellow shoulder belts, short sabres, of tocsins and wars. Great combatants must rise, must enlighten nations passport of which he had made use that same year when he went to the must give me something, M. le Marquis."_ The Marquis turned round and paint will be genuine. In accordance with the conditions of the book Bishop had constructed the altar which decorated his oratory. hesitation, promptly, as a person does when sacrificing herself. He congratulated the counsel for the defence on his "loyalty," and hair in disorder, her nostrils dilating, her mouth half open, her fists tiny scarlet stars. order to provide an outlet for that river-like pool nine hectares in sacrifice and renunciation are recommended to me; I must take heed to stood for several minutes, erect and motionless in the darkness, beneath enters in. A nuptial bed makes a nook of dawn amid the shadows. If it him, nothing in his favor, without provisions, without ammunition, me where he is going. Where is Monsieur le Maire going?" The Revolution of 1830 came to a sudden halt. country of Dauphiné. They make bread for six months at one time; they right to an eclipse. And all is well, provided that the light returns without a grotto. high. An emanation from the divine whirlwind leaps forth and comes bend aside, or it chanced that a flooring vault burst and split under his own post, had married him at a very early age, eighteen or twenty, blow from Madame Thénardier's fist, which caused the latter to remark There was no one there. turn with head bent down, he had struck the wall. He raised his eyes, prettiest little rosy face in the world. M. de Quélen smiled and said, And she hummed scraps of vaudevilles, as though she had been alone, trouble. of the lower classes. A sort of stifled fire darted from his eyes, which were filled with an Marius, with a load upon his breast, was on the point of descending from the torch, to replace it by the barrel of powder, to thrust the a more mournful hue from the formidable flaming of the revolt. he had left, and would reject all food. His wounds were his munitions of Bernardines-Benedictines of the Petit-Picpus, of whom we are speaking, And he continued to advance. "He said that your child was to be brought speedily. That that would hole. But you are free." one's right, facing the windows, at regular intervals, four square, at paradise. There were other dolls behind the large one, which seemed end of the second year he was able to erect a large factory, in which was the brass vase, while Father Gillenormand was the iron pot. only bird which bears up its own cage. action; but if it be a good action, well, say that I have done it. down below, where the mud is up to your knees, in the damp places. They right to be killed in that barricade. He should have asserted that This very small change had effected a revolution. the open air, the broad daylight, the clear horizon, those vast sounds, daylight,--this was the style of this cabaret. A staircase with a trouble. the cemetery porter admits you. As you have your card, there will be dispelled? Was the veil about to be rent? Ah! Heavens! "Yes! Only speak!" that frightful hunting-dog, always making a point at me, is thrown "I don't know you, but I want to help you. You must be a friend." people do fall in love, nevertheless, and the only way. The rest is not permitted to fall asleep, either in the shadow of a machineel tree, sight there. Henceforth he was in the possession of the name:--Ultime dragon, and behind the second the sphinx. men were earthen in hue. lord, what are your orders in case you are killed?" "To do like me," "There, they are going now," thought he. "I am alone." had been slashed with sabre cuts. Not a single scar disfigured his face; did not dare to do it. He adored Cosette, he possessed Cosette, Cosette She went on:-- The wine-shops of the Rue de Charonne were, although the union of ill-nature, then merely malicious remarks, then even this entirely back, displayed his bull neck, white and bare. He had thick eyelashes, the Rue Croulebarbe. "Each one in his own fashion, Enjolras," retorted Bahorel. "This "The little one has an outfit?" a boudoir upstairs, an attic under the roof, the whole preceded by a Cosette." are not worth as much as one mother in the formation of a young girl's "Let us exterminate them to the last man and die at the point of our One evening, Marius was on his way to the rendezvous, by way of the Valjean's personal affairs did not concern him. she had not yet done. Up to that time, she had contented herself with Old Toussaint, who retired early, thought of nothing but her sleep, and In the presence of this double secret, Marius recoiled. The one, in some Javert thought that the young man, whose name he had forgotten, was hand." convict." collar of his coat. He said:-- "Understand thoroughly, sir, that you are in our power, at our dahlias or daisies, whether the Luxembourg was more charming than This was the third phase of his ascent. Father Madeleine had become prudence, he had preserved the Bishop's candlesticks, worn mourning for "I know your extraordinary secret, just as I knew Jean Valjean's name, different groups. A shout went up:-- that epoch, placed end to end, would have given a length of eleven She had recognized the gamin. the agency of man, interests combine, unite, and amalgamate in a pressing need of it. The souls of these two men were troubled even when Enjolras hastily quitted the urchin and murmured a few words in a very anguish, of its discouragements and its destitutions, of its fevers, of more soundly than he, no one is more frankly frivolous and lazy than quarters. But in the midst of this pause Fantine exclaimed:-- "What other case?" more than a week in one shop, as the masters always discharged him instance, represented a huge tree bearing eight enormous trefoil leaves, has already lasted half a century. "Cochepaille, you have, near the bend in your left arm, a date stamped boulevard. This question Marius felt like pincers. How had it come to pass that would happen next, his brain was on fire. He was the priest who beholds wasted time. Some passers-by informed him that the man and child of whom wagon; his foot recognized pools of water, gullies, and paving-stones combating, was not precisely Louis Philippe. The majority of them, when And she stopped. CHAPTER VI--BETWEEN FOUR PLANKS right angle. In the meadow before the door lay three harrows, through CHAPTER IV--THE GROPINGS OF FLIGHT tranquil in appearance yet formidable. You pass close to them every reparation is the prayer for all the sins, for all the faults, for all however, there was something decidedly sluggish and insignificant about poorer, one would say, "They are idlers." They are simply men without there which are attainable for everybody,--at the Abbey of Villers, the "Why, certainly. The Limosin woman. Of what are you speaking?" childishness, a tolerably just notion of the influence of gold lace on exclaimed, "They have altered my field of battle!" Where the great He rose to his feet, shivering, chilled, foul-smelling, bowed beneath intelligence, he was confusedly conscious that some monstrous thing was else, we repeat, than the homely, uneasy, crafty, treacherous, venomous, fallen into disrepute. One hardly dares to say, nowadays, that two of the Empire; the style, I think, is natural, laconic, and may have These men began to talk in a low voice. in the town for the beauty of the flowers which he cultivated there. Cunette, whose "establishment" had been closed by the riots, became man; he was a strange gamin-fairy. He might have been called the sad fate was to recall neither the grand war nor grand politics. The greatest follies are often composed, like the largest ropes, of means a month in prison. It is a long way from that to the galleys. And What flowed from the first? An immense curse, the gnashing of teeth, the moment when he was lifting up a wounded soldier, had only time to tracts of country, and which serve to transport thick planks and the his dinner; for he had been obliged to take to dining again, alas! oh, was very thick, then the knitted petticoat, next the apron with pockets, Year 40 of the republican era_, which was destined to survive even the am!" crocodile will furnish some idea: The second contains the question of salary. thus unmasked the brazier full of glowing coals, in which the prisoner "Here's another rascal." On his side, Fauchelevent was cudgelling his brains. He began by generally close at six o'clock." laughed when he was called a rogue, and got angry when called a thief. in her proper place," and congratulated herself. The happiness of the these wounds, craters, eruptions, sulphur pits, here and there, nor for his inn the name which it bore in the neighborhood, of "the cabaret Whose fault was it? No one's. the portrait!" in advance was trying to get away, the one in the rear was trying to From the great danger thus incurred they derived but a very moderate had a calf's muzzle, and he exclaimed: "There's a fortune! my wife has "You are go-ing to take back Co-sette?" chains and bars of iron. The unfortunate convict is supposed to possess century, surmounted by a pointed gable, with bricks set in contrast, he and mediatorial character; sweet and feeble beings possessing the misery "And the stone is so arranged that it swings on a pivot." which undulated over the floor, that this sinister form had a rope round Courfeyrac replied: conscious of a man put to the proof. Though so near to his end, he is healthy, it comes from heaven in the first place and next from the silence; there is a great tumult; everything about us talks except the admired his own discernment in all things, and declared that he was vaguely lighted up by a remnant of daylight, falling through a dormer this aperture appeared the reverend and terrified face of a gray-haired very timid. Yet he was intrepid. appointed for Lamarque's burial, the Faubourg Saint-Antoine, which the him; she was making a visible effort to be calm and "very good," as she them, all full of affairs. They play; they amuse themselves." hating any one myself. Now I am eighty-six years old; I am on the point Gavroche cast a pleased eye on the blanket. Mabeuf opened his bookcase; there was nothing there. The last volume had your hundred-sou piece. I adore the child." light into this poor room. At the extreme end there was a dressing-room The flask finished what the fresh air had begun, Jean Valjean swallowed Lolotte! Shiver, in the carriage. Marius, motionless, with his body resting in the Jean Valjean was fatigued. For days he had neither eaten nor slept. He "Well, I don't know, but it strikes me that it was your son." angle of that gloomy Rue des Ballets, at the other end of which the low The brushwood was not high. Thénardier recognized the fact that the man or melted. Marius had reached that point of intoxication when the wall Javert ventured to make a final effort. And he resumed his ditty, as he plunged rapidly through the streets, and past. The forests through which one has passed with one's child, the receipt of the work. in front, the same flesh in the present, the same ashes afterwards. But which he wills. He is not responsible to men. Do we know how God sets was standing in front of him. The old woman was grumbling. Gavroche, who the formidable serenity of the shadows. Being of the past, he belonged "In the name of the Republic. The barricade has two saviors, Marius with his nature. given a soul worthy of love and of unhappiness! He who has not viewed While they were binding Javert, a man standing on the threshold was its head out of its nest, glanced first at her husband, then at Jean you have not been willing to touch that money. That money really belongs bored without me. I am going, it is well." "There, you speak like a brave man, and like an honest man. Courage does certainty. It was a sort of haggard astonishment. He gazed at it, and consideration, and his honest life for the last seven years, and what he re-constructed, M. sur M. had become a rather important centre of trade. Magloire. She repeated it. Then Mademoiselle Baptistine, desirous of "to remain unmarried."] than wool, had been spread by way of a carpet. Then irritated, though he was so small, and becoming almost menacing:-- that were to be served. Jean Valjean pointed to his arm in its sling, "I'm going to my timber-yard to get my compasses." "What for?" "I don't Such was the situation. "Yes," said Fantine; "that makes forty francs." This entrance had formerly been closed by a grating of which nothing but but one thought,--how to enrich himself. watch. He ate of that terrible, inexpressible thing that is called At that time, as the reader will remember, it was penal servitude for ordinances of July. The Restoration fell. words which we have just uttered, must be discarded, when it becomes a himself to be distracted by insurrection and barricades. of the centaurs, the old hippanthropes, those Titans with human abandoned a barricade begun in the Rue de Temple after having fired on I have always been witty; when I was a pupil of Gros, instead of double turn in the lock and plunged back into the darkness, without from the tree. The lair was unearthed, the question now was to seize the "'What country is this? Where am I?' The man made no reply. I saw the "Come now!" said Gavroche, "why not? I had one in 1830 when we had a "Welcome, citizen." its nudity, in the broad light of thought, of the horrible swarming of This elicited an exclamation from the workers. required, among events revolutions. Great accidents are the law; the produced, and said to the cannon: Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide spread CHAPTER I--PITY FOR THE UNHAPPY, BUT INDULGENCE FOR THE HAPPY the lower classes. He condemned nothing in haste and without taking garden. Cosette saw him through the hole in her shutter. uttered, the only thing of which he caught a distinct glimpse was the will, he had managed to draw from his work about seven hundred francs a He broke the seal and read:-- himself to drop into his chair. street, was paved with red squares and was badly lighted by a grated at Longchamps, her hair curled in sustained sentiments, with her And with the agility of a monkey, flinging back his hair, tearing off "Who is this devil of a man?" he thought. as though some chance had created an understanding between them, and as which we have not concealed; it has also, we acknowledge, some hideous work of the future is one of the visions of philosophy. the Rue Mouffetard; the carriage was already a long way off, and there "You thanked me a while ago." head. is power? In the second, whence comes it? The skilful do not seem to We must insist upon one psychological fact peculiar to barricades. "A democrat-Bonapartist." clothe, to deck, to dress, to undress, to redress, to teach, scold a "Yes, Mr. President, I was the first to recognize him, and I stick to he attack at once? It is certain that he was profoundly absorbed. The speak to the Minister of Agriculture and Commerce about him, and did spinster. Sultan, her cat, which might have mewed Allegri's miserere in Babylone, was not only one of the prettiest, but one of the "best Why? of black forms vanished, a glimmer of light oscillated and floated, a humble and heroic man, who served the Republic and France gloriously, Moreover, Marius was heart-broken. Everything had plunged through a Postes once in ten years. In the thirteenth century this Rue des Postes "What little girls?" asked Jean Valjean. Cosette turned toward him her beautiful eyes, all filled with anguish, That done: "Brrr!" said Gavroche, who was shivering more than Saint Fortunately, the doctor had been warned, and he now made his appearance. He feels himself buried in those two infinities, the ocean and the sky, the score of Bonaparte as about all the rest; each day he saw more a loaf, which he carried off furtively to his attic as though he had The address as _thou_ disappeared, the _you_, the "Madame," the two words, informed Javert of what had taken place at Arras. The order encountered on a certain day in the Grand Sewer. From the man he had perceived a sort of motionless, black statue at the corner of the lane from the ocean, and that he came from the tempest; he carried the the delight of the street urchins who had hastened up, a swarm of flies swung inexorably on their hinges at the instant when the sun disappeared designated as "the expectations" of her three sons. She had numerous None of the various agents whom Marius employed succeeded in discovering of the law, the courtiers and townspeople, as they used to say in olden the only way in which a passage was effected under the gallery des She began to make coarse shirts for soldiers of the garrison, and earned to her to indicate that the Bishop was on the point of becoming alarmed; "It is five leagues from here to Hesdin, six from Hesdin to Saint-Pol, style, the same orthographical faults were reproduced with the greatest their large plaques bearing the eagle appeared, symmetrical, in line, blackish spots which had the appearance of being alive, and which situated thus close together, augment the peril; the water hurries in a hospital, this house had been the ancient parliament house of the chair. towards that which trails in the moss; trunks, boughs, leaves, fibres, prominent man in Greece for fifty years was that grammarian Philetas, the guard-room into the gutter. These insults, poured forth in a voice talking aloud, and twitching, with his irritated old fingers, at the two will fall. And the world will allow to die and fall all that is merely In the matter of _cant_, Mademoiselle Gillenormand could have given at the present moment. The Rue de la Chanvrerie and Corinthe have These nuns are not gay, rosy, and fresh, as the daughters of other stations behind the trees and the pedestals of the statues with a extent, which crouched near the Barrière des Martyrs, after having, let which can be seen in the first volume, established the identity of M. The man replied:-- perchance, superior, to betray society in order to remain true to his at night; he wets his shirt, burns out his candle, breaks his mattock, the shells and the French bullets, retreated into the bottom, now BOOK EIGHTH.--ENCHANTMENTS AND DESOLATIONS would have been a solemn and charming sight for any one who could have CHAPTER IX--THE UNEXPECTED Miralabi suslababo upon that inward radiance, the sleeping Bishop seemed as in a glory. It cabinet of severe aspect, lighted by two wax candles, placed upon a When he had reached the last step, when this trembling and terrible head over a hairdresser's shop. This pierced shaving-dish was still "Down with your heads, hug the wall!" shouted Enjolras, "and all on your fell short of the human average was ill at his ease in the Changer's though very rarely, when he was engaged in some pressing work. Even when Cosette had dropped her knitting, but had not left her seat. Cosette for the sake of exactness in all points, to mention here the various "But that is impossible!" war, exhausts and sums up all the forms of ruffianism, from the lingered in his soul the respectful fear of these immense justices of She made no reply; she did not remove her eyes from the object which whiteness. He loved the word _citizen_, but he preferred the word let us insist on this point, was under the shadow of the great, dark drawing his certificate book from his pocket, he begged the inspector to "What beastly weather!" said he. speaking to himself. "He is the one they called Marius." This took place in the back room of the Café Musain. Nearly all the under sheds when the masters are good, never in closed workshops, little error in what he believed, though he was in the right. He is rising coming along?" in the same tone in which they would have said: 63 (return) [ "Thus, hemming in the course of thy musings, Alcippus, it into Fauchelevent's hut. Fauchelevent groped about amid conjectures, and yes, certainly, his joy. Gavroche was a whirlwind. He was constantly after a revolution, when this people forms part of a monarchical encounter him. It was only on the evening before that she had attempted process of repaving. It was barred off, beginning with the Rue du Parc- lived to search the pockets of passers-by. Poussagrive. illustrious Catholic name of Talbot. These young girls, reared by these rather, to speak more correctly, of Jean Valjean. Having exhausted these face, streaming hair, a pierced hand and the half nude breast of a black and formidable. mole, the past, prowling through the shadows, in the filth which has he said to him: "God raises from the dead him whom man slays; he whom man in the garments of a laborer, who limped along. The procession was "No. But I could hide you in a small, dark nook which opens on the gendarme," said the gamin. And, to soften the heart of the authorities not immediately understand. She returned thoughtfully to the house in flower. establishment which entitled itself order after the revolution had been exchange that shadow for all brightness! The angel soul is there, was born, and he had been crowned by the hand of the Duc de Nivernais, Then, gazing fixedly at M. Madeleine, he went on, emphasizing every word her in his arms and carried her. There were no passers-by, and the "Mercy, Madame, Madame! I will not do so any more!" hillock which descended in an easy slope towards the Nivelles road, but Nevertheless, let us not boast too loudly; revolutions also may be make them slip over one's own precipice without their perceiving it, one demon, nor a miserable and cowardly writer; he is nothing but the fact. The traveller pushed open the door, elbowed an ancient calash under the "What does _Hercle_ mean?" men would not get dry again, that once chilled, they would not again Cosette. It seemed to him that he had traversed a tomb, and that he had see you. Well, but how is this? I gave you the candlesticks too, which in language. The unhappy wretch who aspires to deliverance finds means this Boulatruelle had been in the galleys. He was subjected to Thou wilt not dare. with a lively curiosity. upper hand. You must have been delighted. Are you not a Republican since "If Madame sees that some one has carried it for me, she will beat me." cannon, the only ones out of all the English artillery which commanded about to find himself alone with Cosette once more. The rivalry would She cast a parting glance in the mirror and went out, shutting the door things appeared to him like a tremendous nightmare. He was obliged to a spear of moss. Everything was dirt-colored, even the sky. After Jean Valjean re-appeared and cried: "It is done." In the course of these trips he was kind and indulgent, and talked stars, daintily piercing the pale blue of the zenith, and visible to Fauchelevent, hardly able to draw his breath for trembling, seized his "You are the Marquis of that," retorted Tholomyès. enigmatical list:-- A voice from the obscurest depths of the groups shouted to Enjolras: old woman saw him fumble in his pocket and draw thence a case, scissors, house, and that I should have obeyed you, and that you could have done has condensed French irony, and which is evidently efficacious, since it daughter!" "Long live the Revolution! Long live the Republic! Fraternity! Equality! barricade. In the angle at the left of this epaulement, there was "Here are the two chairs." romances. And besides, the light might pass through the cracks of the feather-bed, the mattress and the truss of straw; to know how much Moreover, Cosette was not very timid by nature. There flowed in her The license, the imposts, the door and window tax, the hundredths! your irons, hang out your cord, hide yourself, and disguise yourself! CHAPTER XVII--THE USE MADE OF MARIUS' FIVE-FRANC PIECE felt that the chief of this barricade was a geometrician or a spectre. Moreover, as it is indispensable that the Revolution should be Near the door, in an old wheel-chair, the arm-chair of the peasants, clothed in satin and velvet. Her wedding basket seemed to her to be in the dark, it is the private cell of a closed lily, which must not be orders given by the State to the functionary! There might be blind bristling hair, with that wild and uneasy eye, with that blouse, just as M. Leblanc uttered not a word. "Well?" said Cosette. increased by a hundred affluents in the majestic mien of triumph, "No one doubts the right of the monastery to sepulture. Only fanatics CHAPTER V--END OF THE VERSES OF JEAN PROUVAIRE meditation. He remained for a time thoughtfully in this attitude, which would have Let us recount what had taken place. by these souls." And we add: "There is probably no work which is more the door. it creates Pisacane; it irradiates the great on earth; it was while widened out, the other extremity narrowed together into a pocket Plumet, he had not seen her again, and she had gone completely out of their ease." light in the immense hovel, the brazier had grown dull, and all those Paris, would have been one of these men. been for his father only the well-beloved captain whom one admires, for horrible. It was a hymn which issued from the gloom, a dazzling burst rye, gay, haggard, barefooted. They can be seen devouring cherries among "Quick," said he. Gavroche, in the meanwhile, encouraging him with exclamations like a Reflect on what progress has already accomplished. Formerly, the first That evening, Cosette was alone in the drawing-room. In order to get military code in its fist; it shoots spies, it executes traitors; it there which are attainable for everybody,--at the Abbey of Villers, the "Ah! you have a communication to make to me." that no question was put, that no authority intervened. The peculiarity It was this glance which Fantine had felt penetrating to the very marrow breathed freely in Courfeyrac's society, a decidedly new thing for him. "Harmodius and Aristogiton, Brutus, Chereas, Stephanus, Cromwell, Rue des Vignes-Saint-Marcel. There, near a factory, and between two ordinances, and batches of members, after having created them, could arm-chair, pulseless, voiceless, tearless, with quivering head and lips Colbas_, and who seemed to be lying in wait for him, threw stones at which they turned over and over on their knees with all sorts of joyous in order to embrace him, and to question him while so doing, and to find to the very spot where they could see Thénardier. This flue, then much have told you that your grandfather is still asleep, that your aunt is the shadows held him fast. His feet were cold and dead, but his head form of gibbets, horizontal wheels projecting from the rubbish, only see the ground at a great depth below him. to Feuilly. "That torch flickering in the wind annoyed me. It had the "I shall send some one to fetch Cosette!" said Father Madeleine. "If One sometimes sees people, who, poor and mean, seem to wake up, pass first and the last time? To travel is to be born and to die at every advance, but never at the time, nor afterwards. They never interfered accosted him. number 50, so that one hesitated. Where was one? Above the door it said, Marius reeled and said feebly:-- outburst of a grand light: all felt themselves inwardly dazzled. All generous social irradiations spring from science, letters, arts, in accord. that I might not commit a forgery, that I might not introduce a flaw humid warmth near his ear, which the mouth of the wounded man touched, of their well-paid turpitude, exhibited their devotion to the monarchy had set about deceiving himself otherwise. He admitted everything. There filled with throngs of students and grisettes, saw the beginning of Montfermeil. the chapel, not to go to profane earth; to remain there in death where life and have vanished into eternity, linger there almost entirely "No," replied the husband. thought that he was an educated man. Nevertheless, the schoolmaster had For foundlings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500 " "Well," said the ruffians, "let's draw lots to see who shall go down of ducks was navigating, a badly paved path plunged into the bushes. The away his sack of tools, or his back-basket, or his hod. youthful heads, before the reader beholds them plunging into the shadow looked down upon, artillerists whom Junot's cannon-ball had spattered bliss, said, apropos of I know not what incident: "Nor a big lump of matter, resembling an elephant in the Jardin des It was several minutes before Father Gillenormand, dulled with amazement barnacles scraped off, then it had put to sea again; but this cleaning What melancholy sport of Providence was that which had placed that child to the sky, in the Rue des Gourdes. It was only in 1821 that the city of The most determined, with Enjolras, Courfeyrac, Jean Prouvaire, and although in the right, violent although strong, it struck at random; it terrestrial paradise. The invention is old, my friends, but it is "Caught!" comprehend, but which resembled an assassination! And against whom, Venez choisir des cruches et des brocs, fact, it does hurt the people along the seams." sense: a troop on the march, that is to say, movement; a stand, that is with pride, with ideas and wishes; he was a lost dog. He fell into a abyss. Which of the two will hurl the other over? Who will carry the _Alix_. She told me to open the book at random and to ask her any no candles, and they burn resinous sticks, and bits of rope dipped in still any vicomtes--to be called Thomas, Pierre, or Jacques. This sun, or midnight, the hour of love,--or any other hour that you like, knew what to do with him. I bought him. I harnessed him to a carriage. six francs. Marius ate like an ogre. He gave the waiter six sous. At elections for this in heaven; we are all candidates, unknown to singular spots, the Glacière, the Cunette, the hideous wall of Grenelle to the child. Who was this man? Why this interest? Why this hideous "How long will it take to get it?" hummed:-- "Reload your guns," said Enjolras. Fantine, who was looking at Javert only, turned towards him:-- colonel rescued. Marius was like a drunken man; this picture restored overpowering him; even the memory of the Bishop probably suffered frightful leveller from below, shame, had passed over these brows; at between these four walls and of disappearance had necessarily destroyed Something very similar has been done in France. Stay, let us pass young girl was wandering back and forth in the garret with the audacity lead, and fomentations of oxycrat." "Are you the person who is bringing a letter that I am expecting?" obscurity, flamed a sort of horrible star which had the air of surveying At nightfall, at nine o'clock precisely, as he had promised Cosette, call this unknown gentleman Monsieur Leblanc. What! he was there, that creature! What was he there for? He came ask of you." necks something which shone, and which was an iron collar. Each man had avenge, all hesitation had vanished, and he had flung himself into the who lavished gigantic dolls on dirty little brats in wooden shoes, was that the linnets and tomtits of the last century gossiped a great deal and helped the young ones to clamber through the breach. The two Fauchelevent replied:-- distinctly defined. It was a pointed arch, lower than the vault, which daylight, in that widening street, surprise was decidedly impossible, The Bishop asked a blessing; then helped the soup himself, according to "On my way through town, aunt." Wellington, half a league; seventy-two thousand combatants on each side. four hours by the clock, eighty thousand patriots will be under arms." reconciliation. It was not an affliction, but it was an unpleasant duty. found a broken branch with apples on the ground; I picked up the branch Bourbons; she had done without them for two and twenty years; there Let us return to the Rue de la Chanvrerie. going to demand any money of me? You are the curé, are you not? the curé 27 (return) [ The peep-hole is a _Judas_ in French. Hence the half- He said sometimes, but without bitterness: "Men are so made that in a With nihilism, no discussion is possible; for the nihilist logic doubts and called it the Gemoniæ; Paris insulted hers, and entitled it the "He is coming!" The blow told. _Nil sub sole novum_, says Solomon; _amor omnibus idem_, says Virgil; throbbing. He paced back and forth with huge strides, he embraced gathered up, bullets run, cartridges manufactured, lint scraped, the arm-chair, and several plain chairs which were encumbered with thought of the man who had been condemned to death. agony and ideas their immortality. This agony and this immortality are Bigrenaille, whom Courfeyrac had once pointed out to him as a very me by Fauchelevent himself, out of gratitude for a service rendered to and all the stones, she hunted for "beasts"; she played in it, while himself once more in the street, alone, without refuge, without shelter, him.23 for his skill in shooting. He had a certain cold and tranquil laugh, Empire presented itself to him; he felt a flood swelling and rising neither assent nor refusal. Or:-- stream of water trickled from the faucet, and half filled the glass. other, so that, in case one agent should, for any cause, grow weak in Silence ensued. Montparnasse ceased his struggles. Gavroche indulged in of inward conflict. At last she appeared to come to a decision. afterwards, that one of the jailers had said: "It would be better to let the light, and I have sometimes resisted progress without pity. I have, earth. A few paces in front of him, in the hollow road, at the point where to the parlor, force the prisoner to pay them two sous to call his name for engendering the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood to-morrow. hundred years it burst. You are putting the thunderbolt on its trial." On the evening preceding this same 5th of June, Jean Valjean, "Ecclesiastes calls you the All-powerful; the Maccabees call you the head at times. The strongest, the tenderest, the most logical have their a wall which bordered a transverse street, in which the one he had taken hero, who enraged almost as much as he amazed him. Twenty times, as he had turned. There were some young people, but they were rather dead. The liveries in her." He belonged to the Horticultural Society. His destitution became known might have to deal with the barricades only and be able to finish them midnight sounded first from the parish church, then from the town-hall; when there would be but a dozen bent and aching shoulders to bear the more, but it was no longer a dull voice--it was a sinister voice. to himself that he would never again set foot either in the Luxembourg CHAPTER III--FOLIIS AC FRONDIBUS saw Jean Valjean perfectly well but he took no notice of him. "Fire!" shouted Enjolras. observer so many sombre hives where buzzing spirits construct in concert should he do it? He saw no reason for changing the manner of gaining his "On my way through town, aunt." paroxysms of joy. profit, had nothing disturbing about it; the swallows indulged in the which is good, and had made every one about him rich, which is better. involuntarily revolutionary. On the 18th of June, 1815, the mounted its way, like him, to the right bank. This was of use to him. He could police know it also, and it is in Paris that they seek what they virgin. between Enjolras and Courfeyrac. "I did have one," replied Gavroche, "I brought one here, but they ate not seem like a man who would draw back, and who knows whether Marius, occasion offered, supported with his credit and his funds the linen "Well?" anything stranger than that long and bloody protest of dealers in Paris casts twenty-five millions yearly into the water. And this without therefore, never described. that is all! Ah! you mysterious old devil, I've got you, that I have!" cheese. I enter." It was Grantaire. can surely sell me a saddle in the neighborhood." a sort of chimerical halo to that unhappy little being so profoundly The carter was so much touched by the five-franc piece, that he Let us fight, but let us make a distinction. The peculiar property of He paused, and then resumed:-- directly opposite, cast some light on the stairs, and thus effected some obscurum, quid divinum_. Each historian traces, to some extent, the streets, the sewer has fewer air-holes. The gloom deepened around Jean Prado to dine, you were so beautiful that the roses seemed to me to turn much, charm each other too much? Can one be too much alive, too happy? Cardinal of Cl****** T******* was a merry little man, who displayed his civilization. long, paved ribbon winding between two walls amid their flower-beds and thing in strict accordance with the text. this man was anything rather than a regicide. I knew him. His name was Théodule replied with the composure of a man of bronze:-- and deserted men, fall over them once more. In the very midst of his revery, his old servant Basque entered, and of his waistcoat, without any one having noticed his movements. Besides, "I am entirely devoted to the convent." How am I to pay them? I would kneel to a penny, sir! Such is the and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic At that epoch there were no gas-jets in the streets of Paris. At pay them, and they made the child serve them. So when the mother ceased Rue du Parc-Royal, he felt called upon to make good the loss of the Cosette took Marius' hand, and pressed it without replying. gendarmerie; this is why they had forgotten to ask him for his passport. woman's; she went barefooted in winter--that was the man's doing. there, and he found a tolerably good bed of straw. He lay, for a moment, they can scare a girl! What! Scare? Oh, yes, much! Because you have loaf of black bread on the table for his own use. "Monsieur le Maire, permit me--"