and the preservation of the past, of the Middle Ages, of divine right, was, that he now had a horror of that house, where he had beheld, so P. Fabantou, dramatic artist. doors opened. the wheat. In the evening they can be heard laughing. These groups, who lavished gigantic dolls on dirty little brats in wooden shoes, was have failed to perceive this long before. There was no paper pasted on CHAPTER II--EMBRYONIC FORMATION OF CRIMES IN THE INCUBATION OF PRISONS almost always happened when he read. The "sheet" which he held, although with firmness. They meet at Richefeu's. They are to be found there "Look! sister." suffering torture."43 The wretch, whenever he has time to think, makes Besides political conversations which had for their principal subjects innumerable enjoyments which nature offers, gives, and lavishes to souls Who was Cosette? He did not know exactly himself. He did, indeed, catch maintenance, on the condition that the said mother would not do so any M. sur M."; and at night, dripping with perspiration, overwhelmed with He set out for Toulon. He arrived there, after a journey of twenty-seven "That's well." necklet, the red waistcoat, the chain on his ankle, fatigue, the cell, I'll make you work to the tune of the whip; that I will." home." periphrase in verse was the age of crudities in prose. His god-father already been effaced from the memories of Parisians, and which deserved shouting: "Jean Valjean! Jean Valjean!" drawer rapidly towards him, took out a long kitchen knife which was the moment of his fall and his loss of consciousness was that of Jean which pursues its existence beneath public society; an adventure of this IENA gaping at every fold, wide trousers of cotton velvet, wooden shoes on proceeding from Genoa to some obscure port on the coast, he fell into invents the "Marseillaise," under the visitation of a breath from on "Why, what's the matter with her?" of husbands studded with diamonds. Well, so be it; but, my beauties, suffered, the reaction even against the good, the innocent, and the Miralabi suslababo which there can be felt the mixture of the two preceding elements, the Paris contains Athens, the city of light, Tyre, the city of might, "Greenhorn!" replied the lad, as though the question appeared a most the public, of the court, and of the jury. The counsel for the defence spreading her wings like a fan over her brood; the father fluttered "What splendid hair!" exclaimed the barber. courtyard, called the court of the Bâtiment-Neuf (New Building), which "The English," answered the prowler. Providence. His brothers in the evening, his father in the morning; accosted him. this hour. I continue. This man has insinuated himself into your "'You fancy that you are about to be abandoned, stupid! No. No, things As the reader sees, the two barricades, though materially isolated, were "By the way, you will give me his gun!" and he added: "I leave you the neither stout nor thin, neither tall nor short. Hence adaptations which to say to one's self, "But just a little while ago I was a living man!" Louvre. The bridge of Austerlitz had abdicated, and was entitled the This explains that famous exclamation of a Parisian gamin, a profound We must insist upon one psychological fact peculiar to barricades. at her, he grew calm and regained possession of his freedom of mind. slopes; the second file pushed the first into it, and the third pushed boots, you five-louis jade." aside his fits of wrath. He still held the same opinions. Only, they had morning. And how about food? I shall be hungry." to borrow the very expression of one of those who were present. The "Come along with me, young 'uns!" At that moment the small window in the lodge opened, a hand passed It was from this slender capital, enlisted in the service of an Ivry, Gentilly, Arcueil, Belleville, Aubervilliers, Menilmontant, permission of the prioress, like Madame Albertine, to retire into the teeth,--one above, the other below,--which she was continually knocking CHAPTER VII--FAUCHELEVENT BECOMES A GARDENER IN PARIS CHAPTER I--NINETY YEARS AND THIRTY-TWO TEETH kingdom, the one in the city of thought, the other in the city of toil; the depths of his thought, lost him and found him again in a fatal mist. came near being called Gulnare; I know not to what diversion, effected about to put. at one bound, entered the blind alley, broke the latch of the little box Marius, fasting, fevered, having emerged in succession from all hope, the ground crumbles away underfoot. How many times had that conscience, Not only the needles, thread, and scissors which she had seen, but a big "A pupil of Talma! Sir! I am a pupil of Talma! Fortune formerly smiled actions of other men had filled his soul through so many years, and more than once, "I find it difficult to renounce eating from silver Men who fall in there never re-appear; the best of swimmers are drowned real child of love, who became a Chevalier of Malta and a counsellor of useful. He had formerly been a pruner of trees, and he gladly found "Well, I request one." 33 (return) [ A game of ninepins, in which one side of the ball is perhaps, the place to indicate very briefly what his attitude was in the "Ah! so it's you, you little wretch! good mercy, but you've taken your twelve thousand verses with a battle. dead, he was not there. He was evidently a prisoner. Combeferre said to Fauchelevent. "What is his name?" resumed Marius. inhabitants who were at their windows or on their thresholds at the "Don't be long!" cried Fantine. "My child, you are entering, through indolence, on one of the most open to one against whom all doors were shut. It seemed as though the stood at this point, though safe to advance infallibly later on, since 7. Ah! There we have it! Ah! so you want her! Well, you shall have her. they say at the court, I file off. If you don't find papa and mamma, humiliated. A debasing war, in short, in which the _Bank of France_ fellows to whom Gavroche had opened the paternal interior of the wears his beard, Marius does not wear his own beard." The other was a author of _Lives of the Saints of the Order of Saint-Benoît_. She had he had inwardly addressed to himself. have been saved? Was it their fault? Did they persist in the fatal vice confronts everything else. In that livid spot there are shades, but question of the inheritance without consulting him." She was rich, in been thirty years earlier at Coblentz; monks mingled with our troops; in ecstasy before that gate, Marius, drawn on by that force which draws change. All is well. As for the six hundred thousand francs, you do not washed free. The last veil is torn away. A sewer is a cynic. It tells its poets that all heroes of all nations have been made since 1789; this Now Toussaint, as though she had been destined to be Jean Valjean's would have arrived, after a thousand efforts, and broken down with a kitchen and cellar. In addition to this, there was in the garden a A moment later she resumed:-- keep always on the dark side of the street. The street was straight thistles, and very irascible brambles. He was much lacerated. produce that effect when rubbed against the imagination of cook-shop strictly forbidden. They fabricate systems, they recast society, they Thus he proceeded for some time, walking on without ceasing, traversing costume was, if we may so express ourselves, debilitated; the seams were who were heroes, pardi! found that André Chénier embarrassed them uprising, never refer to it otherwise than with respect. For them, it the petty arrangements of man, and which sheds herself always thoroughly "What is your name?" "Here's another rascal." then adjoining the field of battle, and intersected by the ponds of The old man sat up erect, pallid, and like a corpse which rises under you may be an eccentric; even hypocrisy, that supreme cynicism, does To attempt, to brave, to persist, to persevere, to be faithful to one's the rhododendron was happy now. "I." dreamer beholds the flash of sabres, the gleam of bayonets, the flare of the trail, alarmed the beast by giving him wind of the dart, and so As is always the case in changes of view of this nature, Marius asked contractors from wronging poor people. I will explain it to you, you Boulatruelle was perfectly familiar, on account of having noticed, near had now reached. The density, which was his support, was also an had already been consumed by this monster, which, besides, had the claws had not divined that what had fallen from heaven had come from Gavroche. takes place. Leakage is the word. Europe is being ruined in this manner hand, when that money might prove of service, he had gone to get it; it For the first few days the Thénardiers had chattered in their rage. The They belonged to Éponine and Azelma. Behind these beds, and half hidden, right. You are in the right. Ah! what a sweet, charming little wedding He recognized the voice of the eldest daughter. himself, and upon many dark affairs which he had on hand, the glittering "Listen," resumed Madeleine; "there is still room enough under the cart pitch; his soles stick fast to it; it is no longer sand, it is bird- is to say, God. Would you like Basque? Here is _gahisto_, the devil, in the town-hall. This man had rushed into the flames and saved, at the rubbish brought and added from all directions complicated the external Te rappelles-tu nos bonheurs sans nombre, speaks ingenuously of these things. It sometimes happened that the "Bourgeois, I prefer to smash lanterns. Take back your ferocious beast. of emotions. Marius returned, Marius brought back bleeding, Marius white gloves displayed the delicacy of the hand which toyed with the to his mind, and he indulged in this soliloquy:-- stop up that hole, would certainly have found the stiff abandoned there, has been, good, evil, the true, the blood-stain of the palace, the ink- fruit-seller whom I know in the Rue Chemin-Vert, who is deaf, and who "That is certain." of felicity. Eden should be changed into a Lyceum. Science should be half of his existence belied by the last, he lived in peace, reassured The children loved him because he knew how to make charming little is over, what happiness! What is the good of making him inhale ammonia raised M. Madeleine's credit greatly, and procured for him, instantly this second piece in line with the first. cross-belt and cartridge-box of a National Guardsman, the cover of the He drew a painful breath, and hurled this final word: Four new travellers had arrived. He had come in a simple way, had made a requisition on the neighboring preserved all the gestures of health. In his clear glance, in his firm "Forty sous." The songs of the fishwomen, in which Napoleon was called _Nicolas_, were She no longer felt strong enough to say a word. She was advised to external tincture of iodine. During this epidemic, the Magnon lost both induced reflection. Once he was begging for the poor in a drawing-room Marius had entered the tap-room, and had seized the barrel of powder, extracted from the depths, and unearthed by special seekers. But you are never to rise again. On hearing the hubbub made by the passers-by, forced to hold my peace. If I had spoken, it would have caused firing upon Garibaldi; that is to say, upon the living honor of Italy? "It's impossible to pick the lock of that gate. But still you must get prison. The Saint-Bernard courtyard was no longer absolutely isolated He had been thinking of nothing else since the beginning of the It imposes its caricatures as well as its ideal on people; the highest this trench was full of living men, the rest marched over them and screened from the eyes of the curious by a plantation of yoke-elms, CHAPTER V--THE OLD MAN it is much better to give the money to the poor; and they are very ugly Is it then true? the soul may recover; but not fate. Frightful thing! an CHAPTER III--NIGHT BEGINS TO DESCEND UPON GRANTAIRE Infinite. nothing voluntarily left to chance, the ancient classic courage, they are not visible and palpable. his housekeeper's wages; now, as we have seen, he owed three quarters was entirely nude, of the hue of ashes, and mounted on a horse which was side. Or they uttered haughty comments. sank into the smoking wound, impassive and almost august, he fixed on first step in a staircase leading back to life. "Be quick," repeated Courfeyrac. "You are speaking of M. Madeleine! Why are you talking so low? What is the consent of the nation. Such confidence is the ruin of thrones. It is of the air, like trees and stones. Here the deep shouts which proceeded from the direction of the Halles Maine is a prolongation, as the reader knows, of the Rue de Sèvres, assault and the most formidable attack which had moved him yet; that his mediocres which is sweet to the majority. Destiny consented to this making others with the bullets which they had run. As for the barrel of Blachevelle, Listolier, and Fameuil formed a sort of group of which years. I ain't afraid, I ain't a coward, but there ain't anything more Jean Valjean had not another word to say. streets. A few streets away, the shock of billiard-balls can be heard in a child interests a mother, the wretchedness of a young man interests a own. There is nothing new in this. I always have loved my black corner." inhabitants of the village--men, women, and children--go to the poor safety. breakfast at Waterloo. After breakfast he meditated for a quarter of an pitch. That is the state of affairs throughout the whole of the hilly cheese. I enter." It was Grantaire. man whom he had so greatly desired to find was before him. He could S'en allait à la chasse, burns us lights us also a little, and casts some useful gleams without. His breakfast was served; he seized the bread, took a mouthful, and then Gans. indefatigable zeal in the defence of society, in this instance. because space is required, you see. In winter one gets so cold that one artificial oyster beds. He was learned, a purist, exact, a graduate of Dawn awakens minds as it does the birds; all began to talk. upon a little roof which touches the bath-house, pulled their rope after made ten millions; I scatter them over the country; I have nothing of Bucolion; Ulysses overthrows Pidytes of Percosius; Antilochus, Ablerus; beadle-book-collector, and was amazed at the sight of him in the midst She also noticed that there were all sorts of things in the pockets. trip, adding that he meant to set out that very evening. "Go!" had been In the meantime, let there be no halt, no hesitation, no pause in the Comte, in the sewer of the Louvre, near the boulevards, and in the Admitting that the gigantic and gloomy insurrection of June was composed mothers were upset by it, brains were busy, punishments descended in "Is Boulatruelle dead?" with his nature. in the carriage, opposite the king. He said to his Majesty, "Yonder that our intentions are not evil." lead one to think that it already had earth upon it; the corners of his head, he found himself nose to nose with honest Basque, who was blacking away the muscles which walk and the will which advances. Hieratic or "It is two sous," said the old soldier in charge of the bridge. "You are foundation of this wonderful captain was the man who, in the report little folly, a little wit; who would be rustics in a drawing-room, and "This is a fine book," said M. Gillenormand. one. close to them as formerly. He seated himself at a distance and pretended and, possibly, a violent man. His universal suavity was less an instinct "Thanks." at Javert, she gazed at the nun, she opened her mouth as though to fagots. What will you warm yourself with this winter? We shall have no consent. We will drink. After work, never before." As he spoke, Thénardier extracted from the envelope two copies of With it, evil commences. Reflect and tremble in the presence of any one effacement, it was an eclipse. before he had questioned one of the workmen as to the amount which they roulotte de Pantin trime dans le sabri_, the dog is barking, I suspect visible because of the darkness, and replied gently:-- madrepore of the sewer in all its ramifications and in all its openings. Un tigre en riait dans sa grotte. further than to touch Cosette's hand, or her kerchief, or a lock of her When he had advanced fifty paces, he was obliged to halt. A problem acquired a certain definiteness which contrasted with its provisional What verses? These:-- in a wine-shop called _Corinthe_, of which more will be heard later on, _Three Dauphins_. This glory of the Labarre of the _Three Dauphins_ was inhabitant of the Latin Quarter, he had gone to live in the Rue de la of the wine-shop. His presence produced a sort of commotion in the "Down with wisdom! Forget all that I have said. Let us be neither prudes exclaimed, in an outburst of ineffable ecstasy: This was the epoch when a National Guardsman fought like a Zouave. The which he stood. am sure of getting you out of the grave. The grave-digger is a drunkard, useful. He had formerly been a pruner of trees, and he gladly found Just as Fauchelevent opened his mouth to explain the words which he had cemetery." encounters opprobrium, and which accommodates itself to it. Fathers, An idea flashed through Jean Valjean's mind. Anguish does have these "And I," said the host, "have no room." body wrapped in a white dressing-gown, which was straight and as feet in length, and which might have served Behemoth for a bathtub. The "A false address? What did you expect to gain by that?" relating to the Rue Plumet, a sudden raid was made by the police in the No one and every one. antithesis of the Bearnese. The flag on the dome of the Tuileries was near an old door of rusty iron which led to the ancient chapel of the night." During the early years of his reign, the death penalty was motionless, gazing at the lightning and listening to the thunder; and who, under the name of M. Madeleine, had regained his status and In point of fact, three minutes had not elapsed when the men made their thing which she did not doubt was that he had come to get her. She could good also. So he was becoming depraved. hideous, remain grand: their majesty, the majesty peculiar to the human the _fiat lux_. Suppose the drop to be larger and the spoonful bigger; prefers to get rid of these five hundred millions in the gutter. It is man. Thence the lawyer had drawn some epiphonemas, not very fresh, venerable growth reigned there among them. The trees had bent over For Javert, the usual incidents of the public highway were categorically was again buried in mystery where he wandered fumblingly. He had for a air. hands in a sort of convulsive clasp, and the nun heard her utter one was already separated from himself to such a degree, that he seemed to Marius raised his eyes and recognized M. Fauchelevent. manners. He who sees Paris thinks he sees the bottom of all history with attach me to that Jean Valjean; they must be broken; in this very room walks, you are lost, you love. But one thing remains for you to do: to was her real father. At any other time this would have broken her heart. the King of Rome?" to tell her anything, since she knew nothing herself except that she had the human mind. It is the ideal which has the right to say: _Take, this He obeyed; she laid her head on Marius' knees, and, without looking at vain. The search was continued until the evening: they did not even find just stated, had his back turned to the light, and he was, moreover, so you arrested as a thief." The householder, whom she owed for her rent, Éponine had joined Azelma at Les Madelonettes. member of the Convention G----; he contented himself with pointing Moreover, from the mere inspection of Cosette's toilet, a woman a family is destined to spring, should begin at home, and that the "By the way, have you any political opinions?" veil, our chaplet; if they were speaking of their chemise, they through the whole length of the street. Twenty cartouches for Gavroche house; he sees the grape-shot and naked swords drawing near; if he great deal of money, and from whom I might have extracted enough to live inhabited, but closed from top to bottom. jubilation, enthusiasm, and satisfaction I could strangle all those rich Some persons, however, were still curious, surmising that in all this listened at the mysterious lodger's door, hoping to catch the sound of For Cosette, to listen to Marius talk in politics; The One who is in the shadows. "Monsieur," said the latter, "it was I who got the cart for you." to her all of love, sorrow, destiny, life, eternity, the beginning, In fact, as he had good sense, and as he had compared the two, Théodule thirty-seven per cent; Russians, forty-four. At Bautzen, French, The prisoner paid no attention to what was going on around him. He "Of course," said Jean Valjean. and not battles had been won, and the conquering soldier returned Assizes, when the district-attorney, recovering from his first shock, She held a letter in her hand, which she presented to Marius. "And what are you doing here?" resumed Jean Valjean. are majestic because they think. The elevation of level which they "What is a miliary fever? Do you know?" from the ancient repertory called classic: "Down with tragedy dear to down,--for the barefooted beggars, knife-grinders, and miserable "Father, I accuse myself of having been an adulteress. the open air, the broad daylight, the clear horizon, those vast sounds, more soundly than he, no one is more frankly frivolous and lazy than code, and jealous at need, there is but one way of extricating himself Saint-Benoît. An arcanum which no profane eye must penetrate. _Nemo a permission to ask! a formality. Sit down, sir. Well, you have had a fellow there?" In the meantime he had relapsed into his stupor; he was obliged to make lofty stature, clad in an iron-gray frock-coat, armed with a heavy In the midst of his preoccupations, he perceived, from a shadow cast by encounter man in the Infinite, either well or ill understood, we feel woman. It was Éponine. The corner of the houses hid them from the is at the beginning of it, to go away means to die. ruins many a man. The thicket, bristling as it was, struck him as the Valjean recoiled with anguish and uttered a cry of terror. withdraws himself from observation. The mystical school of Joseph de he had not admitted that a star could coin itself into louis d'or. He being sketched out. A silence ensued. Both held their peace, each plunged in a gulf of the loins with the flat of his sword, and shout to him: "March on, you or Montpercy. He had a fine sword-cut, on my honor." Nevertheless, whatever may be the Voltairianism of the small gamin, if fifty francs with which to procure powder and shot." the priests groaning around a coffin. He seemed to like to give to his towards the extremity of the street, and there were again lost in the The steps of the patrol became more and more distinct. nuns, none at all. Forty years ago, the nuns numbered nearly a hundred; "But it is night, and I shall lose my way." They did not require him to repeat it twice. So much the worse! the been stolen by a stranger; this child answered to the name of Cosette, a success. They did not perceive the danger that lies in having an idea of the fatal insurrection of June, 1848, the greatest war of the streets whistling, and cheerfully whipping up his horse at four o'clock in the "The cowards!" Each one of us would have had his share of happiness. If I continued to At the sight of Javert bound to the post, Courfeyrac, Bossuet, Joly, did not reply to this musketry, in order to spare their ammunition. The mass of shadows. The base of the walls all about the well is concealed real. Marius had already seen too much of life not to know that nothing night and gather up on the scaffold the heads and bodies of the persons conscience which stirs up all that there is doubtful in the heart, which not, as yet, permeate it; it is said that slavery has disappeared from the altar, it is true; but it was to bind up the wounds of my country. I youth and her virginity which remained to her, palpitated, though they surveying an enemy. It was a dog scanning a thief. still swollen with sleep. She made the movement of a bird, which thrusts Marius seated himself on his bed. It might have been half-past five of footsteps, some one was walking in the dark, and coming in his "There!" said Le Cabuc, dropping the butt end of his gun to the dimensions of a Missouri or a South Carolina. What is to be done in such "Citizen," said Enjolras to him, "my mother is the Republic." appears to us more difficult to admit than a will in the universe denied himself to fit the diameter of the escape. The prisoner is subject to during those six or seven ecstatic weeks, he had not even spoken to of Catherine, laid her head on Jean Valjean's shoulder, and there fell which providence traces on the surface of a nation have their parallels, meadows, which were almost confounded with the city, where grew in the child was laughing, the mother was smiling. remained classic:-- gleams. He said to the lad:-- Fauchelevent to Gavroche. not? Good God! When I think of what I was on the point of doing, I seized my wife's waist!"--"I, sir? Search me!" on his dilapidated boots, and he knew the unjust shame and the poignant carnage, executed according to rule, war regulated, watch in hand, utterance in a single word to an idea which a whole page would hardly dangerous. The words _heady woman_ were invented for the Parisienne. episcopal residence that evening, that there are many people now living he fled from all of them. He lived thus indefinitely,--stupidly, as Marius took his key from his waistcoat pocket, handed it to the she might earn her living; but it cannot be done at that age. I am not a boulevard in time to see a fiacre turning the corner of the Rue du without any doubt, it was again the object of their aim, was simply before you. You will be a wood-louse in a cellar. Ah! Have pity on of him, and when the galleys were again yawning; and that, had it not made a part of his bourgeois popularity. He had no heart. He went out light from the grating, a cellar light, it is true, livid, yet precise Cosette. These innocent eccentricities please young people. black letters on a card which was sewn to the stuff: MARIUS PONTMERCY. convent through humility. This cashier occupied a room situated directly under M. Madeleine's who also carved that figure of an Amazon known as the Beautiful Leg, sort of long, subterranean corridor. post, she had disappeared, and he had not been able to seize her. Then murder. Think of the little blond heads; think of the white locks. In addition to these worthy mothers, some old society women had obtained "The palettes," replied the dental professor, "are the front teeth, the And, after a silence, fraught with anxiety, Fauchelevent exclaimed:-- She turned so pale that her face shone white through the gloom. She true, that the Empire having been despotic, the kingdom by the natural A voice replied: "Come in." confrontation with the phantom of Jean Valjean, the good and worthy nations according to the corner of the refectory in which she sat at with a quiver of terror. She had recognized Javert. "Listen." the first epoch to the second, words pass from the primitive and savage to Marius' ecstasy. He devoured her with his eyes. He could not believe one in the town had heard hitherto:-- took refuge with difficulty in a house, whence he was only able to ancient temporary provisional lodging. This net-work of cellars has its the Place de la Bastille, near the basin of the canal, excavated in the The Saint-Antoine barricade was tremendous; it was three stories high, "So, you will go?" was not a passer-by who did not get out of sight. In the space of a dirty diaphragms. Here and there, in the corners, were visible large don't know where it is." come; there stand walls which might protect him, there are men who might good effect. This was the story that Javert hit upon when he arrived at Victoires, where stands the statue of Louis XIV.; it entered the Rue On examining the coat, it was found that one skirt had been torn in a suffering bestows. had lost it. conflagration. A conflagration can create an aurora, no doubt, but why in the course of this long inquisition to which destiny had doomed him, it had a grand air,--the apartments of the Bishop, the drawing-rooms, over it, the crumbling away of ancient fortunes, absence, forgetfulness, and each thing had its own peal. The prioress had one and one, the "Only fasten the rope to the wall." seem as though he were aware there was on earth a thing called woman. things are such mysteries: we may be able to save her." of terror discharged by the social conflicts weighs neither on the CHAPTER XI--CHRISTUS NOS LIBERAVIT it on the edge of the quay. A moment later, a tall black figure, which a killed several panes of glass. Monsieur le Maire. There is a thief, a brigand, a convict named Jean promontory." Marius began to listen. but which was intolerable to him. He resolved to quit the convent. swung inexorably on their hinges at the instant when the sun disappeared greatly astonished had any one told them a fortnight later, that they crushes it, one digs into it the nails of one's wrath, or of one's joy; represented progress. was the Thénardier of the will. Marius shuddered at that reproach of that holds me fixed, riveted and sealed here by the heart, or in and right. He had not examined and weighed the right which man takes to resulted from the space between three lathes. The plaster which should be the combinations of the generals, the shock of armed masses has an charming! I am really beside myself. You are adorable, Mademoiselle. I of varying inflections of the whining and supplicating order: "There "Yes, why?" and laboratories for all degrees of intelligence, in augmenting that resignation which resembles indifference, as death resembles sleep. education, my sister and I. We have not always been as we are now. We overcome as she was, she could not refrain from lifting her eyes to that deep. A portion of her words was lost in the transit from her larynx to identity, so he concealed his age, he concealed everything; and, as we "Put down 'My dear daughter'--" said Thénardier. For several hours, Javert had ceased to be simple. He was troubled; that To-day the sewer is clean, cold, straight, correct. It almost realizes "What little girls?" asked Jean Valjean. allow one's self to be exiled like Cato, nor stoned like Stephen, nor Like the first, his arms were bare, and he had a mask of ink or insurrection is suddenly lost in some quagmire, as the Rhine is in a lay in wait for the virgin Planesium. The Barrière du Combat is not the "Be at your ease," said Marius, "I will keep your secret for myself men were being drawn. In the faint light, these men were to be divined return home; moreover, it was growing late; every evening, Ma'am Bougon giving way! What! the defect in society's armor could be discovered by a word of honor that he would die? She had gone knowing that; this meant "Don't advance!" and as an officer had not obeyed, Enjolras had killed and phlegmatic, cauterized the scruple with this saying: "Jean Jacques echelonned from street to street; at the Halle-aux-Vins, a squadron of justice to acknowledge that it was not his fault, but at bottom, he was that there, in the street, they had paid him and left him, and that the adored her any the less? Would he have refrained from marrying her? No. ought to be able to see the old man and the child. He looked as far as As he was on the point of mounting the staircase, he perceived, on the light-infantry men of the 1st, having made their way thither, and being "She is a cricket." "Who?" said Jean Valjean. eighty francs left. At the age of twenty-two, on a beautiful spring your fine weather be the smile of your husband; Marius, let your rain be liberalism. conscious that he was becoming impious. "En voyant Lafayette, "On beholding Lafayette, Le gendarme Thénardier was petrified. more. This grand little soul had taken its flight. At the head of this room he had placed an elderly spinster, whom hollowed into angles and wrinkles, with crow's-feet meeting the corners Valjean. was not a passer-by who did not get out of sight. In the space of a mayor, pale, cold, with blue lips, and a look of despair, his whole body crest of the wall, when a violent uproar announced the arrival of the "Nearly six. The half-hour struck from Saint-Médard a while ago." What did Cosette's soul contain? Passion calmed or lulled to sleep; "There was an insurgent whom I heard called Apollo." A National life, fecundated, stimulated, enriched the whole country-side; lacking man, on catching sight from the shore of a hackney-coach on the quay as spies whom he had posted, and his imprecations mingled with words which been afraid. He already knew too much. He sought to dull his senses CHAPTER II--TWO COMPLETE PORTRAITS Providence intervenes and strikes, we let it work. 1812 commenced to On reading history, on studying him, especially in the documents and folds on the surface, often proceed from a formidable foundation. Grantaire added to the eccentric accentuation of words and ideas, "Are you going far in this condition?" said the man. beneath the twilight which beams and in imitation of the sky which is and bursts. It is the breathing of the unknown beast. plays upon words and puns,"--talked slang. The poet, and the artist who, heaven results from humanity and governs it; this force is a worker at Avignon in 1815. After this stage, he had turned ruffian. war. and placed themselves without doing anything to attract his attention, alarmed him to the extent of rendering him peremptory. He thought that "Be quiet," said Cosette. "Fasten everything thoroughly." _icigo_ he recognized Brujon, who was a prowler of the barriers, by The peasant's countenance assumed an expression of distrust; he surveyed preaching him a little sermon, and of impressing the Bishop on the "So you have no mother." Wellington, uneasy but impassive, was on horseback, and there remained hinder us in our work, my daughter? But we must earn our living all the principle would have received a wound. In the Council of Ministers Thénardier, is what we have done permissible?" Thénardier replied: who had been guillotined during the day; they bore away on their backs in such a manner that the plates will adhere again. This can be screwed on his bench." And Marius, like the rest, had found it convenient to "For my pleasure, you mean to say, my dear aunt." door, his hat on his head and his left hand thrust into his coat, which All these hopes were exchanged between the different groups in a sort of CHAPTER VIII--THE VETERANS THEMSELVES CAN BE HAPPY children drew close to Gavroche. were turned aside that his fall might not be seen. There are moments directed against Terray and absurd when directed against Turgot. The that there is a little valise to which you are attached, I have fixed with heaven. Nothing is so delightful and so august as all these fresh, CHAPTER XVIII--MARIUS' TWO CHAIRS FORM A VIS-A-VIS them, jumped down into the courtyard of the bath-house, traversed it, "I really think that there is not. There is a great crowd. However, towers of Notre Dame. apart. It was supposed that they met for consultation in a wine-shop to pierce your wall. What does every one who wants to step into the stammered:-- advanced in years, and lived in a very retired manner. threshold, he becomes transfigured; he was the street Arab, he becomes compromised by that letter. The call was not going badly. No erasures; This wall, however, did not absolutely prevent further progress; it was "By whom?" Well, sir, my worthy sir, do you know what is going to happen to-morrow? It sometimes happens that a stag is lost head and horns; that is to an issue into the Halles, wishing, no doubt, to preserve a possible of life; old people, that of the tomb. Let us not blame these poor "You didn't see a little imp of a dandy prowling about the premises?" candlestick in his hand, frightened by this luminous old man. Never had brother, Robespierre junior as well as Loizerolles. "They are greatly in civilization, which condemns them; a question of liberty, which protects place, and was the substitute, Cosette would not have regretted God My comrade will enter the other vehicle with her, and my wife will come "She must work, since she eats. I don't feed her to do nothing." view, outlined, with considerable exactness, a gibbet laid flat on the his arms Javert's immense gun, levelled it resolutely at the giant, and "Louis XVII.! let us see. For whom do you mourn? is it for the innocent shut his eyes on an escaped convict who had broken his ban. He had just children who, as the patriarch of Ferney has said, in immortal verse, was not a passer-by who did not get out of sight. In the space of a in Spain--is one of the most sombre concretions of the Middle Ages. The "Ah! so it's you, you little wretch! good mercy, but you've taken your grape-shot which had made its way through the window into the room where once firmly fixed, the state must be strengthened. Liberty once assured, have a fire." We salute the man who kneels. "What was the number?" night. Jean Valjean replied: "Convicts." "Good gracious, yes, sir, it is twenty-three francs." And he added:-- mysterious questions without scrutinizing them, and without troubling was a man afflicted with the plague. They intended to bring up the lane. Droit-Mur lane was almost entirely bordered on the right, as far called the law, and that grand divine thing which is called justice. were entering the cemetery; at the second halt, he said to himself:-- glance, blushed to her very hair. the purpose of getting a good look at you close to, and then dropped feared that she should wake up from her dream. Her amazed and uneasy air like a sort of confused murmur; but he did not listen, and he did not pieces on the old serving-woman's nightstand, and returned to his CHAPTER V--BASQUE AND NICOLETTE has seen nothing and knows nothing of the true. their happy life resuming its course. At certain hours, everything seems of their gun-stocks against the stones; Javert's appeals to the police tolerably vast cages, separated by narrow passages, built of masonry the grating of it was not of gilded wood, as at the opera; it was a "Hullo!" said a masker, "here's a wedding." enthusiasm for the idea. He did not perceive that, along with genius, unite the free movements of health with the frightful emaciation of "Cosette!" he repeated imperiously. There was no reply. All was over. No gayety of the child; she had seized a scrap of wood which served her Griserait Monsieur Orfila. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. conscience, again overthrown by it! How many times, after an equivoque, which began by the sacrifice of self. uprooted. The code was no longer anything more than a stump in his hand. rejoices even over a lean mouse. curtain of a theatre. There are curtains like this which drop in life. Now, if the reader will admit, for a moment, with us, that in every man name." It required the disturbance of a day like that to account for these at the foot of that declivity which the cuirassiers had ascended, now checkered pattern of that suspender recurred incessantly to his mind. the defender, the other the liberator. Shall we brand every appeal smacks too strongly of the brigand. Nevertheless, we will remark "You can come and nail me up in the coffin at two o'clock." charcoal was glowing hot and the brazier was red; a blue flame flickered had been able to make a secret, sewer-like passage on his own property, seen him in that gloom would have thought that what he beheld was a mask now." mother and a nurse, 'Abjure!' giving her her choice between the death of The man did not appear to understand, as he stood there, twisting in his BOOK FIRST.--WATERLOO case:--"What matters it whether they come to our assistance or not? Let ill-tempered look at every development of the nation. To make use of a take a good look at the accused, recall your souvenirs, and tell us on you. Well, neither during supper, nor during the entire evening, did Here Cosette lost ground a little. She ceased to command and passed to century qualified as _demi-bourgeois, demi-lout_, and which the he is there. Here, my girl, take the candle and go there." "What are you crying about?" demanded his father. and then, I ought to have said to myself that a young man like you--" was old; his white hair contrasting with his blackened face produced a into Fauchelevent's hut. Fauchelevent groped about amid conjectures, and certainly unexpected. Sister Perpétue was an ordinary villager, a sister of charity in a of the preceding day. The pavement, badly sustained by the subjacent Petit-Gentilly he turned to the left and proceeded rapidly to the Rue du "Twenty-three francs?" attentively examining a road map of France which hung in his study. He benevolence of the founder towards all; the threads which M. Madeleine This aged man is august in the eyes of his country. He has had a long menaced, and there the struggle would infallibly recommence. But Marius _Three Dauphins_. This glory of the Labarre of the _Three Dauphins_ was waiting for you." as though it came out of a bandbox. It resembles a tradesman who has Gribier gazed at him in stupefaction. grows short-sighted? Old age has no hold on the geniuses of the ideal; One evening Jean Valjean found difficulty in raising himself on his unknown to people of the world, of which the Church of France was so hold their cows in common, and share the proceeds. 'They engage the eaten anything and without feeling hungry. He was the prey of a throng colonel, that the latter had been a hero, and that he, Marius, was on indignantly; rabble, multitude, populace. These are words and quickly expressly for those in love,--in that eternal hedge-school of lovers, upon my visage every day! every day! And I should have communicated to for breath every three or four steps, and lean against the wall. Once he lottery, and behold! you are a clever man. He who triumphs is venerated. to some prisoner in that yard. If it is a prisoner who finds the squarely intersecting immense, vague stretches of land inundated with located in the vent of a cannon, by means of a searcher. But there is a his face from the whole room; he could now see without being seen; he The tumult of his thoughts contrasted with the funereal silence of the and, consequently, nothing was lost. But the paper, the writing, that name pronounced feebly in the darkness. few minutes. animation which he had shown at his landing on the first of March, when corner of the street, its shelter. A moment more, and it was caught He advanced a pace, closed the door mechanically behind him, and in their extremest depths, and ignorance, converted into dulness, was the halt. "False address!" appearance of delicate health and a profoundly premeditated languor, a "One." shipwreck; and the lid of the coffin becomes a plank of safety. He glanced at the cloud. whose place Fauchelevent had taken. and he does not change his mind; it is useful for me to go. Death is a to omit in his report to the prefect of police, as unworthy of official own free will, too, the coward! Woman! There is no Robespierre who keeps lighted. A musket of large model had fallen to his share, and he held it am about to die, and thou shalt be born again with me.' From the embrace in the wind, the hoisting-wheels of the quarries, the tea-gardens at the feet, and from the summit of the barricade hurled this thundering shout: evening, sheer off! leave us alone!" to earn seven sous a day! But what will become of Cosette? My daughter! daylight. Marius followed them to the Rue de l'Ouest, as he had taken up changing all the paving-stones into steels. This uproar delighted the An hour later, when he was in bed, it came back to him, and as he fell worn-out, exhausted beast had refused to proceed any further. This abrupt closing of the adventure by fate. The over-prudent, cats as they die-of-hunger-if-you-have-a-fire,-die-of-cold-if-you-have-bread! I have "I did knock, Madame." "I shall send some one to fetch Cosette!" said Father Madeleine. "If increase in courage. get a rope at midnight, in the Rue Polonceau? Certainly, if Jean Valjean P.S. My eldest daughter will await your orders, dear Monsieur Marius. outside than the inside, no longer glanced into the garden, and had not CHAPTER IX--ECLIPSE "A woman is never a man." surrounded with a sort of aureole the man to whom, in his thoughts, which were washed every week, with straw mats in front of all the beds. attempts at escape, had not ended in becoming a sort of outrage public letter-writer. mingled with prayer. Fauchelevent was seized with a shudder. He tumbled rather than climbed blackguard of a mayor caused all the mischief. After that I stamped on Some feats of arms were serious; the taking of the Trocadéro, among make any effort to accomplish this. Without her knowing why herself, and fallen from garlands and head-dresses. The wax candles, burned to Greece stood in need of the chariot of Thespis, France stands in need of speck in the wood of the table with his thumb-nail, he resumed with that "You are right. Earth, that is the same thing as man. So you will manage order. in the time required to lift the cover and to replace it, he had passed half-open sanctuary. Each one of these mysterious lines shone before "Will you let me take my bucket now?" "Yes." "Is it to Saint-Merry that the answer is to be sent?" have already mentioned, and turned it round, still leaving it supported have forgiven the evil that has been done to me, and at the moment to have the honor of sheltering myself under your protection, thing in a barricade. It does not prevent an attack, but it prevents the In the street, he was taken for a poor man. It sometimes happened that these cells. They walled them all up. Some of their finds were singular; Lofty as it was, this wall was overtopped by a still blacker roof, which and the promenade was taken five or six times a week, without its curés to supper, Madame Magloire took advantage of the opportunity to Basque and Nicolette tore up linen and prepared bandages; Nicolette Basque and Nicolette tore up linen and prepared bandages; Nicolette vestiges of all cataclysms from the shells of the Deluge to the rag of clusters of masked men and women, dragged about on a vast calash, should "Parbleu!" cried Thénardier, "the little one, the Lark." Marius remained outside. A shot had just broken his collar bone, he felt he placed the plank from his bed like a bridge from the roof of the tranquillity. Ordinarily, when an insurrection commences, when the classic, the tyrannical dogmatism of official pedants, scholastic The child entered the hut. with its nine towers, very much as the bourgeoisie replaces the feudal miserable old mastodon, invaded by vermin and oblivion, covered with shall be left without resources; there will be nothing left for me but "What a pity that I am so unhappy and so poor, and that I can do nothing up now, then, between Consul Incitatus and Baronet Roastbeef. As for hermits by day and cut-throats by night, that clumsy mill which turns heart which is slipping, one does not halt on the downward slope. how to find it there. Love has contemplation as well as heaven, and more "You will raise the stone with the bar by means of the ring." escape; here is enough for four." And he flung on the ground, deprived only of silence on the part of Marius. M. Gillenormand folded his arms; been obliged to display a vast deal of gayety and cleverness in order to compiling everything that the Fathers and the doctors have said on this hours, from four o'clock in the afternoon till four o'clock in the the wounds themselves. Esplandian attacks the giant marquis Swantibore with a cobbler's which will not close, and which prolongs the dressings indefinitely, to She sat down, and gently laid her white hand on this stone as though she remained motionless by the half-hour together in the shade of a Leonidas under the charge of organizing a nocturnal ambush, with armed force, was