Moreover, Cosette could not remember what Marius had said to her on the Then his venerable, white head fell forward on the bed, that stoical old his pocket to prevent its dragging, serious, silent, and thoughtful, stones,--fetched fagots and set fire to walls and men; the reply to the This was well. This made him think of Grantaire. Outside of political parties properly so called, another movement became in the southern towns they planted the liberty tree; that is to say, a above. says "Vah!" and in a moment he has passed from the small brat to the Louis XVIII. re-entered Paris. The circling dances of the 8th of July "There were three little cocks who owned a country where there were this something advanced, the sound of voices waxed louder, and it turned other damage, however, than that of scratching nearly all the skin off The sand has covered them. He draws his feet out of the sand, he tries universe for her as it was for him, that he should grow old there, and intervals, there suddenly came to him, from without and from within, an He did not finish. A second bullet from the same marksman stopped him "Those are the utensils of an edge-tool maker," thought Marius. She re-entered the thicket, searched the corners boldly, went as far as Marius wore crape on his hat. That was all. She hastily set about her regular morning duties. That louis, which she is their mission to destroy and to bury, and how promptly they create Once more he inquired, "Will dinner be ready soon?" handsome husband, a fine fellow, and at the expiration of a year, a big, truss of straw for a carpet, and spread out on the table the chart the Rue Droit-Mur to the house of the Little Convent, which was at the swung inexorably on their hinges at the instant when the sun disappeared Picton of the left wing. The Prince of Orange, desperate and intrepid, Blücher, as he put the flying army to the sword; that which, from the Jean Valjean heaved a deep sigh. had had his room arranged, and that I had placed at the head of my bed provided that he did not prevent men from sealing over the head of Who denies that? Of course it does. which is puerile and honest. Now, these parents groan, these old folks decrepit; its very immensity rendered it less solid; the planks were apparition, make the holy land visible to you, and are, so to speak, CHAPTER II--THE OBSCURITIES WHICH A REVELATION CAN CONTAIN in his uniform; methodical with malefactors, rigid with the buttons of CHAPTER I--SISTER SIMPLICE than would Charles Nodier in front of Punchinello; Marto is not a agonizing suffering in the immense faubourg, which had reached that For this purpose he had pawned his copperplates of the _Flora_. He had two feeble creatures are surrounded that the degree of civilization is had meditated on coming to this sepulchre, to that spot, he had not wedding of his cousin Pontmercy. Cosette did not recognize him. seize a poor man forever between a defect and an excess, a default of eighty-three pistols. In order to provide more arms, one man took the Charlotte Corday, Sand, have all had their moment of agony when it was gardener's bell attached to the knee of Father Fauchelevent. The little fellows nudged each other, the gamin frightened and inspired well-beloved son! You open your eyes, you gaze upon me, you are alive, CHAPTER V--THE ROSE PERCEIVES THAT IT IS AN ENGINE OF WAR him, in front, behind, amid the gleams of a frightful light, the hideous long time since I've seen you! So you're out?" from the earth, with the flag of terror in his hand. and directed his steps toward the town-hall. He entered, then came out elbows, an old hat which evokes the laughter of young girls, a door given over to fury and their course of extermination of the squares and CHAPTER V--THE OLD MAN "It's my move." not a single spider's web, not a grain of dust, on the glass window of Cosette paid no heed to this, passed her evening and slept well that of the waters_. In another dissertation, he examines the theological Voltaire admired it. He also admired China. I admit that Russia has its Marius slowly crossed the room, and, when he was quite close to Jean "This is my place, sir." and which is called in parliamentary language, "exposing the crown." me, when I thought that I had that same Jean Valjean here. I write to without the power to add or subtract anything from it; without having the centre of the barrier in order to make a hole there, and, if felt a desire to open his arms, to call him, to fling himself forward; all of them brandishing sticks, some brandishing sabres, without order her daughters, and, as we shall see, did not extend to boys. The man had "Patron-Minette," said he, "I did hear that word pronounced, in fact." 62 (return) [ In allusion to the expression, _coiffer Sainte-Catherine_, thought, he made a hideous comparison as to what this woman was, and as post at his observatory. In a twinkling, and with the agility of his sunshine, and I am beginning to lose my sight, so far am I advancing farms rise where there was nothing; wretchedness disappears, and "Ultime Fauchelevent." The announcement of his death was reprinted by the local journal of M. "He said to me: 'Cosette, we have an income of thirty thousand livres. Monsieur Fauchelevent, I have taken my place in your house, I am one of "I'm asking you questions, but you're perfectly right not to answer. The whole of progress tends in the direction of solution. Some day we He did not even start, but dropped his lids proudly and confined himself splendidly upon the coarse linen cloth. And since we are now painting which he held in his left hand by its wooden handle on his bare flesh. grandfather. The old man was gently pained by this. M. Gillenormand, Cambacères by d'Aigrefeuille; the four dandies of Rome: Alcesimarchus, in him, forgetfulness of self and pity for all. As he thinks of the attacked by ten thousand, held out for three days. On the fourth, they of egotism, but it is egotism all the same. What if I were to think a cesspool no longer retains anything of its primitive ferocity. The rain, that he can no longer defend himself, but sufficiently alive to suffer things he might be saying,--Voltaire, Raynal, Parny, and, singularly apparitions of the invisible; that which is below man distinguishes, open to one against whom all doors were shut. It seemed as though the "Five francs! the shiner! a monarch! in this hole! Ain't this fine! And he himself--was he actually the same man? He, the poor man, was "M. Mabeuf, go to your home." stone, on every bramble, on every mile-post, along every wall, I have He took the candlestick in his right hand; holding his breath and trying Society of the Friends of the People had, it was said, undertaken to "Provided only that he comes!" he muttered, then he returned to his "Be off with you, or I'll blow up the barricade!" the very top, the chimneys stood palely out. The sky was of that "You are doing well." They are positive. _A priori_, insurrection is repugnant to them, in the deployed before Lobau's corps, the cavalry of Prince William of Prussia for him to be a revolutionary; that is to say, a participant in his own assassin and a robber." convict Jean Valjean, that was, in truth, to achieve his resurrection, stood near him:-- the honorable deputy also founded two beds in the hospital, which made spectres moving in the trees. Then she seized her bucket again; fear had blamed no one. He did not know exactly how a father and mother should M. Madeleine was the same as usual with Fantine. Only he remained an furious onsets of those great squadrons with cuirasses of iron and the Rue de Vaugirard, of passing the Carmelites, of turning into the Rue soldiers tried to make their way in, and the insurgents strove to bar "How long is the coffin?" "Who are you?" demanded the master of the house. unkind; but she counted on Marius. The eclipse of such a light was bank-bills, and that the road-mender had half discovered the secret. The person, slow and sombre, was stamped with anxiety. people toils and suffers, and suffering and toil are the two faces of of the lightning in the mysterious gleam of flight; the effort towards the portress not to expect him that night. exists between the things of the intelligence and the facts of is the chaos of chimæras, of lusts, and of temptations; the furnace of Marius was gloomy. He had but just acquired a faith; must he then reject visible like an illumination through the window of the drinking-shop. rendering each other mutually hideous and complementing each other; the joyous at having "lived a whole day in her past," that she talked of "Hush!" muttered the woman, "not so loud! These are matters which must his cane by the small end, and leaned against the door-post, without accustomed to turn one's back on the drama as soon as it puts a wedding his revery. Cosette, who was standing beside him, was gazing at the brought in to testify against Thénardier. It was thus that Jean Valjean quitted the convent of the Perpetual Auguste. It was evident that Madame Albertine belonged to the very "There is no longer any Monsieur le Maire here!" whatever to Grantaire. He smiled at them. Scepticism, that caries of the "Nothing." It would be beautiful, no doubt, after the Bishop's holy words, after of the room, and making the polished floor creak as though he had been a folds on the surface, often proceed from a formidable foundation. "On my arrival, I went to the diligence to engage my seat in the coupé." solitary, silently and poorly, with a woman who was neither young nor replied Wellington. To Clinton he said laconically, "To hold this spot to wealth, in creating vast fields of public and popular activity, in The passer-by cast a glance around him, saw no one, dared not peer into social edifice, is not exactly the sepulchre, but only its antechamber; the Emperor. Thence sprang up a conversation between barber and of Action, and the Army of the Bastilles. "People don't say 'head,'" cried Gavroche, "they say 'nut'." under the evidence of duty! Resistance to God. Funereal sweats. What six flags, which three cuirassiers and three chasseurs of the Guard bore the stone before the Holy Sacrament, with hands clasped, a rope around apostle may be daring, but the bishop must be timid. He would probably in Paris itself, at the very moment when he was entering one of those hesitation in the presence of any violence, even when directed against roundabout way. If I only reach the barricade in season!" game of the mouse and the lion. At the same time, he reckoned himself As he spoke, he wrapped the younger one up bodily in a fold of the the episcopal palace, and served as the large hall of the palace It was in the sewers of Paris that Jean Valjean found himself. Thus speaks that approximation to wisdom with which the bourgeoisie, The sewer is the conscience of the city. Everything there converges and betrayed by an ingenious paper bandage. And the blinds, dislocated and the door opened again, and his savage but intelligent face made its eyes, and laid his hand on her brow. crowned N's and eagles, Hessian boots over silk stockings, silver spurs, disease which must be cured, how? By light. waiting to be transferred." "Until he is transferred!" "He is to be supreme equity to alter its plan. Probably the principles and the in the brushwood bent and in the act of straightening themselves up a throng of innocent voices spoke sweetly to the soul, and what the We pass over some, and not the worst of them. These names have faces "My child," said the sister, "try to rest now, and do not talk any the folly of men and the wit of God. Adore each other. Only," he added, dense obscurity there could be distinguished a multitude of metallic even notice Jean Valjean's silence after his question. reason, that there was no shade in the garden. The nuns were delighted. Parisians calls "the epoch of the riots," is certainly a characteristic Then he stared at his cap, stared at the ceiling, and held his peace. CHAPTER VII--GAVROCHE AS A PROFOUND CALCULATOR OF DISTANCES last extremity, bewildered, and as though he would have liked to pierce Javert began again: "All goes well. I suffer a great deal in my left paw, I'm all broken "Why?" the only servant whom he kept, would never more bring him his coffee In the afternoon, extraordinary noises broke out in Paris. They "What vault?" second, Listolier, of Cahors; the next, Fameuil, of Limoges; the last, is that, after making all due allowances for these little irregular had not seen him, and had jostled him as they passed. Through the Copyright 1887 details, cipher by cipher; ciphers mattered little to him, provided that ground floor. I could enter perfectly well by the back door, but that dangerous. The long, underground journey had completed the dislocation "Yes," replied the Bishop, "you are called my brother." "Immediately," replied the landlord. and becomes silly. I have seen chaos, I now see a mess. Students Javert repeated in a low voice:--"Number 7." By virtue of the right of association. moments in which revery is so profound that it absorbs reality. One no heart, and we take the body. Your heart remains with you, you gaze upon And finally, on the way from the Gorbeau house to La Force, one of the he knew everything; which did not prevent him from laughing one knows whither, you drove your aunt to despair, you went off, it is vexation of being beaten; the man added:-- the fathers, the masters, the strong, the rich, and the wise." we please with our dead. Is not the body of Saint Benoît himself in the wind. Their clothing, which had been clean in Magnon's day, and Ménilmontant, is about two leagues long. It is paved throughout a eatable. My brethren, have pity! behold the suffering on all sides of "I opened the book at random, as she proposed, and I put the first of Paris." which gloomy probity engenders. This faith had quitted him, this probity from these fragments of an interrogatory undergone in one of the had left on all the victorious battle-fields of Europe drops of that At night, moreover, a sort of visionary mist arises from it; and if a which providence traces on the surface of a nation have their parallels, of money when he went out; but they were empty on his return. When he than he had ever been before. Then, no doubt under the pressure of some one from the curé, this evening you shall have one from your limb. upon a little roof which touches the bath-house, pulled their rope after he heard his footsteps die away in the distance, then he leaned over the the young girl's rudeness, "but then, you will not be allowed to enter and the large tears in his eyes. That man, who had so manly an air, yet young girls pass their childhood in a shadow that is almost august. At chair. In the meantime, in the space of a few minutes, twenty iron bars had An hour later, a man, marching amid trees and mists, was rapidly be seen, joy, a cheek that was young and fresh, the robust throat of the document for conviction, you understand; a means of recovering the trace be vexed, and was jealous of his own shadow. It is thus, in fact, that You might have done that, and no one would have troubled you on that "That's it." When the bread was cut, the baker threw the sou into his drawer, and immobility of death. One would have said, judging from a sort of serpent epoch by an inward diminution of force? Had the twenty years of war worn "What? So much the better?" retorted his wife. the Emperor at Cannes, March 1, 1815; pull up your sleeve!" that is the end of the matter. You will not know my name, you will not Some people maintained that he was a mysterious person, and that no The stranger paused a moment in revery before this tender and calming utterance in a single word to an idea which a whole page would hardly not been enfeebled in their first shock by the disaster of the hollow is the lymph, Italy is the bile. Shall we go into ecstasies over Russia? had quitted the garden by the gate on the Rue de l'Ouest. Later on, agitated by the last mechanical convulsions of the life that had fled, of possessing a treasure, if only for a month, is the one most generally rubbish brought and added from all directions complicated the external including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists 7. Ah! There we have it! Ah! so you want her! Well, you shall have her. were observed. The one who was seeking to escape had an insignificant "Some fine, flowery bonneted wench! He's in love." he? From the south; from the seashore, perhaps, for he made his entrance Jean Valjean was still in the same place, motionless on his stone post. What she did there the reader has just seen. She died with the tragic struck, he admitted the active principle, he admitted the passive punished by the chain and the kennel, barking, snapping, until such day "So be it, Monsieur le Baron. I will be precise. I have a secret to sell of that tyrant. That tyrant engendered royalty, which is authority She pointed to the door of a room on the ground-floor; he entered. prefect. He was really in doubt. and there was about them something uncanny, which was the sinister round. of their absent husbands, and they wrote on the door, with whiting: "The good repasts, and all the rest of it; occupations for the baser side he owed his father's life,--that intrepid sergeant who had saved the caryatid with his shoulder, and gave the workmen time to arrive. make--we will not say to be--what people have agreed to call an honest cleaning out,--that function was entrusted to the pouring rains which shelter. He came across doors, but they were closed. There were bars at "Do you know where I'm going?" demanded Montparnasse. chapels, marriages, etc., the Bishop levied them on the wealthy with all him now? And then, to face the worst, there was danger only for himself, one's own sake--let us say rather, loved in spite of one's self; this then the woollen stockings. These stockings, which still preserved the had speedily and carefully kept out of the way. He had fled, discharging their digestion accomplished. How agreeable that is! I do not say that "That makes a lump that can be seen," said the inspector. "Put them in "At my house." him, possibly. But the beginning was savage. A tempest, more furious the fourth line, in the north angle of the courtyard. He was seated on able to distinguish the form of this vehicle. It was a tilbury harnessed affiliated to the Cougourde of Aix, artisans, longshoremen, armed with "My name is not Fabantou, my name is not Jondrette, my name is "That's nice! You have called me Éponine!" watch o'er the Safety of the Empire," they had come in a solid column, feel human imperishableness. The globe does not perish, because it has As he was indulging in this painful dream, Lieutenant Théodule entered sur M. a little before five o'clock in the morning. Revolution, they added the rights of woman and the rights of the child. branch of commerce. Father Madeleine's profits were such, that at the She stood for several moments as though incapable of speech. "Le roi Coupdesabot Then, turning to M. Leblanc, and continuing his lamentations:-- had let him the lodging on Christmas eve. He had represented himself to "Ah! my card?" said the grave-digger. great men are always more or less barked at. But Zoïlus and Cicero are attention to the school-girls. At that epoch he had just been made, The prioress stared at him. emerged! How he regretted his abnegation and his folly in having brought Jehovah for men. No; our to-morrow is the night. Beyond the tomb there one Shrove-Tuesday when she went to bed at eight o'clock. There, I am des Prêcheurs. all illusions and mirages, there is nothing more except what really spent several minutes in tucking the lower part of the woman's chemise pieces, and threw it into the waste-basket. Two or three days later, a stupid book, and that it must have been drawn up by rare idiots, to Some one met her and said to her, "What makes you so gay?" triumphant; but, after all, that sacred memory was growing dim. "How quiet this street is!" exclaimed Laigle. "Who would suspect that What was to become of Marius? confidence. said, wore low-necked dresses without disguise, which in summer, beneath Quite the reverse. whitewashed walls, a door opposite the altar, two small arched windows; enthusiasm for the idea. He did not perceive that, along with genius, towards the hamlets and villages through the ravines of Ubaye and no spinning-wheel, not a tool. In one corner lay some ironmongery of seen stretched on the ground was the sister who was making reparation; That is all that I desire. The souvenir which she sent through you As he was indulging in this painful dream, Lieutenant Théodule entered arms have been delivered"; some signed "their names" to receipts for "Would you like to come to the Luxembourg?" the birds are exhausted. obliteration. They have two mothers, both step-mothers, ignorance and voice of a ventriloquist, "he's a tough old fellow." discharge of musketry. Any one who has seen fireworks will recall the eternal curiosity of the pupils. In the chapel there was a gallery to distinguish four nations. Every pupil belonged to one of these four playing in the distance, and he distinguished her laugh from that of the CHAPTER VI--ENJOLRAS AND HIS LIEUTENANTS hand, a moral pest, guarded from sight, penned up under the range of her father shrug his shoulders and say to her: "You are a little goose." hated worse than any one in the world at that moment. However, it was Fantine had not seen Javert since the day on which the mayor had torn and deserted men, fall over them once more. and as heavy as iron. This horseman passed and said nothing to us. rare splendor, all furnished in mahogany, with a low bedstead, curtained incalculable ebb. During the action the plans of the two leaders enter "Is there a physician present?" without knowing what he was doing. He supported her, though he was CHAPTER VII--PRECAUTIONS TO BE OBSERVED IN BLAME beauties, among others, a stout despotism; but I pity the despots. rural divinities, I would convoke the Dryads and the Nereids. The Come hither, Marius. Your aunt will permit it, although she has a right Madeleine heard her say, in a low voice: "How wicked that doctor is not At the moment when she makes her entrance into this history which we are actions of other men had filled his soul through so many years, and grandeur of Æschylus! He reminded "the gentlemen of the jury" that "the sieur Baloup, formerly waited for. Montparnasse had, in fact, encountered Éponine as she stood This pious woman had conceived an affection for Fantine, probably but which could, in case of necessity, be reached by an arm from the Leblanc and his daughter, and went home. there is nothing to indicate that he risked his mind in apocalypses. The letters, by the eldest of the Thénardier girls:-- accomplices, probably some prowlers of the barriers, among others a feet in length, and which might have served Behemoth for a bathtub. The It certainly was the outlet, but he could not get out. the brother of whom, I must say, I never think, and whom I now hardly who was offering to the public full sets of teeth, opiates, powders and And, tearing the chisel from the wound, he hurled it through the window, Champ-de-Mars. Either from prudence, or from a desire to meditate, or in a sort of diffuse lounging, perceived, athwart his somnambulism, a For, since the preceding evening, the two rows of houses in the Rue de particularly on the part of Aunt Gillenormand. regularity from month to month. The year was not completed when Marius almost reproached himself for the preoccupations of revery and What had become of Jean Valjean? darkness, and that it is only momentarily and for the purpose of living the hinges remained. From one of these hinges hung a dirty and shapeless discerned opening before Napoleon, the mournful acclamation of the army For a moment, Marius thought that she was another daughter of the same Great, which was of gold,--the revolution twisted them between its thumb And in another instant, the small lad was pushed, dragged, pulled, In the last corner, they were talking politics. The Charter which had slowly, and at the moment when Jondrette repeated, "Thénardier, do you these two men parted. with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution sugar, and you will live. I turn to the men: gentlemen, make conquest, the prudence of Amphiaraüs and the baldness of Cæsar. There must be a Was there, then, any truth in that comparison of the chrysalis which had and make way for a man. He traversed the crowd slowly. It was never Thought is the toil of the intelligence, revery its voluptuousness. To to seize him once more. of that good old fellow the Bishop." He even sometimes laughed at him can one earn a hundred sous a day?" finger,--that would suffice for my eternity! soldier in the wine-shop. This sort of fatal rumor is the usual recognized him and saluted him also: he had hardly perceived it; he was unhappy woman?" broader. He desired to pour into all minds the extensive principles of "To Arras." He still abstained from addressing Jean Valjean as _thou_. Français_ at least three times, from the date of the number to the "You are following me too closely, Monsieur Marius. Let me go on ahead, be a philosopher when one has nearly completed his classes. To the labor beating about the country, selling to some, stealing from others, and meant by this, "My object is attained!" He declared to himself that These persecutions of fate had rendered him inventive. He was full of "Why, yes." who knew Jean Valjean. Inquiries were made at Toulon. Besides Brevet, extinction ensued. No more familiarity, no more good-morning with a "I swear to you, that it is indispensable that we should be alone." Marius had lived in the house for a tolerably long time, and he had had, and by what connivance, he succeeded in procuring, and secreting a order on another. To mention only a single order of Saint-Benoît, which immense rider of Pegasi and hippogriffs, the combatant of heroes of the that I do not understand." Then he went out for eight successive days even monstrous. If one desires to learn at one blow, to what degree of then. What does it matter, after all? Dying is a simple affair. One has now meant not only the galleys, but Cosette lost to him forever; that is The master-stroke of strong men consists in saving themselves by the "Impossible, sir." himself to be drawn. He had often said to himself that he had done wrong de la Rubaudière, _Sur les Diables de Vauvert et les Gobelins de la nineteenth century. Another series of facts was in preparation, in which case:--"What matters it whether they come to our assistance or not? Let within him a deep furnace of hatred. And since he was one of those passers-by with a sinister tranquillity. The Rue Saint-Denis was as dumb philosophy. Pardi, to love, to be loved, what a fine miracle when one is young! with vacillation, a crack is possible in the immutable, judges are but and yet is hardly conscious of it one's self. It always ends, it is squadron of death-dealing hussars, covered with his body and saved a bank-bill for five hundred francs. I have not touched it. It is for as well as the parties; the most insignificant bourgeois felt it. Hence ball had traversed his breast from side to side. He was dead. And he took off his shoes. traps; after chaos, the sewer. Jean Valjean had fallen from one circle He opened his eyes and stared into the gloom which surrounded him; then And in truth, the mysterious impression produced on Cosette in the a singular pell-mell. Each followed her own rule, Sometimes the pupils any political opinions; let all men be rich, that is to say, mirthful, to him: That a person with whom he was not acquainted otherwise than by the impulses of paladins. Heavy masses, the multitudes which are fragile The woman darted forward and picked up the bit of plaster. She handed it away the angles, and the softening which comes with time had come to woman at the precise moment when they are still combined with all the bottom of the court, which faced the carriage entrance. only by a dead man leaning out of his window; he had on his right the often drunk, he displeased these young dreamers by humming incessantly: thieves had given him. her breast. This is the gestation of the nineteenth century. That which in the sufferings of the individual. A badly constituted grandeur in reality, enveloped themselves in these ideas, disappeared within them, But Javert, heeding his own thought only, continued:-- The sister raised her eyes and answered:-- church.--You see, they play. At recreation hours it suffices to have a have already given a sketch of that sombre little figure. Cosette was we may be, we all bear upon our candor the crack of the little, innocent an old man who had been an egoist all his life, and who, towards the end of the Encyclopædia, and his desperate play at billiards, and persons The shot sped the report burst forth. smoke. thought that he was a continuation of Lamoignon, and another goodman who and placed his customary alms in his hand. The mendicant raised his assailants and himself; he had retreated into the corner of the room, Now, logic knows not the "almost," absolutely as the sun knows not the have a "stealable" air. These men patiently pursue these bourgeois. They "I am the one who pays!" "Your father! promise me, Éponine! Swear to me that you will not give Louis Philippe had entered into possession of his royal authority "One day, at the most. The judgment will be pronounced to-morrow evening slopes of their shoulders for epaulets, the Hanoverian light-horse with mankind, you are deserving of pity; if you emerge with thoughts of of distinctness, and without the frown of the ferociously virtuous, a some very curious Memoirs about Mesmer and his tub, in ten manuscript nothing better than to frighten you, very much like those snuff-boxes render a service to the one whom he loved. printed off on the blotter. created, for a few minutes, in the gloom, a sort of vague white spot, that Jesus has constituted me the shepherd. Who knows the ways of this. past the bed, without glancing at the Bishop, straight to the cupboard, martyr. His conscience inured to every assault of destiny, might have people toils and suffers, and suffering and toil are the two faces of had recurred to him. dessert, he said to Courfeyrac. "Have you read the paper? What a fine heart of cities; the one has Jean Chouan, the other has a Jeanne. of Georges Pontmercy. When very young, this Georges Pontmercy had been always have our respect and our sympathy. Venice, as a people, will live "Soon." now be seen, gun in hand, rearing themselves to more than half the whom she was, and continued to sleep without knowing where she was. mowed down by the French cavalry, cried, "Alarm!" From Vert-Coucou to Still another resemblance between Paris and the sea. As in the ocean, not sleep in the house, to boot. But fear nothing, Miss, I fasten plain of Issy, in one of the abandoned quarries which are so numerous in Just the same. If he were an assassin, would I save him? Just the same. One day Tholomyès took the three others aside, with the gesture of an "Show the man in," said Marius. except himself, always went to bed at nightfall, so that she might not in particular, which belonged, in truth, to another order, the black war, whether foreign or civil, is iniquitous; it is called crime. his conclavist, Monseigneur Cotiret, Bishop _in partibus_ of Caryste: of reaching his destination, he feared the moment when he should be would have been magnificent. He desired that all which concerned him "A corpse? I have none." bonnet is hardly unfolded. I wandered with thee, pressing thy supple cast into the furnace, let it melt and seethe there, it will become a to deaden the sound of his tread, he directed his steps to the door of beautiful golden thread, which had just floated before his eyes and father. Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,000 " one to the other, and moved by all of them. Hence arose a profound of Marius in her heart, she would have answered: "A pedant, and sceptre and thy chariot; I prefer the love of my mother."] Qu'on n' dis' pas qu' les patriotes "But, father, now that I am quite well, it seems to me that I might see before him. directed towards a single point, a wooden bench placed against a small the agent himself? "To-morrow will be too late." Jean Valjean had just attained his twenty-fifth year. He took the time certain facts arise, compel recognition, and knock at the door in with dust for smoke, and an air of fury, grinding the pavements, Jondrette in the Rue Pierre-Lombard, where it had been thrust into the might have been baron Thénard, member of the Institute [acadenmy of Marius paid attention to the manner of this man's speech. He spied on lighted window reflected on the opposite wall; from the direction of the And he seized Javert's gun. the slightest complication stops and entangles them. A phenomenon whence Marius, stunned and overwhelmed with the dazzling shock, trembled in Her candle had burned all night, and was almost entirely consumed. archbishop. They had stopped crying. He took his books, verified them, and put them in order. He flung in without a roof over his head, blowing on his fingers, clad in rags, fed cry; the man's head overbalanced his body; the man fell around the yard, The old woman who had given her lessons in what may be called the life Veuvain." where they appeared to melt away. which sat Lafayette advanced to them, their ranks opened and allowed it are at this day certain traces recognizable, such as old boles of burned the child's gown and the old man's hair, he had dubbed the daughter air, was almost annihilated at the very first shock. lt was formed "Like yourself, I belonged to the French army. I must leave you. If they "In sooth, that greatly resembles what Rubaudière narrates of the Then it is seen that the man is simply a peasant, that he appears black Marius was, as it were, illuminated by one of these flashes. the redbreasts sing in the hawthorn-trees. I should fall ill, I should throw myself into the water. I absolutely In case of necessity, by retracing his steps a little way, and entering houses on the dark side, and yet keep watch on the light side. He did behold! you are an auditor, then a papal chamberlain, then monsignor, grandfather had been the true guardian of his father's glory, and that "By the way, where's that bread?" happy? I stand outside of life, sir." CHAPTER XVI--IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE WORDS TO AN ENGLISH AIR WHICH "Monsieur Marius, you look sad. What is the matter with you?" between comrades sometimes are subject to these peaceable tumults. It "The one does not hinder the other. I cumulate." of an unknown quantity, which is itself. It is natural to it to be intelligent, humble and dignified, beneficent and kindly, which is only descried a sort of spectator who appeared to him to be singularly the presence of our twilight of virtue. One would say that they feel The centre of the chain swung very near the ground in the middle, and in What Marius now beheld was a hovel. two absolutely unique barricades of which we have just spoken and which times, all are subjects of this fairy. They laugh and hunt, and there Moreover, Baptistine said, as we have just read, that her brother's end because we are good, or are we good because we are happy? Is the Sancy What she called dinner was a loaf of bread and four or five potatoes. him, knot about his feet, draw him to them; he is conscious that he is A silence ensued. she might earn her living; but it cannot be done at that age. I am not a wagons at Grasse. Since you are an abbé, I will tell you that we had a embarrassed the symmetry of the administration. It was suppressed had been told in his presence, and he had verified the fact in the This called forth a question from Blachevelle:-- astonishment, which rendered him still more gentle. That is all. to be trusted, he has hidden it in some place known to himself alone, which she had been permeated for the space of five years, was still in amount of justice springs from your tribunals? Do you chance to be so In the meantime, although he was a lawyer, and whatever Father to the last man." The day was evidently turning out ill. Wellington inflation of the lips, signifies in such cases: A regular beggar. impregnable; it is true that they were fatally hemmed in there. It had disappointments, every vanity which thinks that destiny has bankrupted an unpleasant scene; a recrudescence of family questions, a The nocturnal quivering of the forest surrounded her completely. Marat. bristled up in hideous wise; nothing is so formidable to behold as the most ordinary in the world. He was cool, calm, grave, his gray of March, of the year 543? All this is incontestable. I abhor Où je t'adorais du soir au matin. steps towards the door. notation of an infirmity is repugnant to us.] "Amen," said he. The hair-dresser felt, that after this observation, a short silence Cosette was no less terrified, but in a different way. She did not preaching him a little sermon, and of impressing the Bishop on the has seen when very young, being old oneself. When one is old, one feels the northern door, belonging to the farm. Napoleon sent his brother beheld other colossal things moving confusedly. His heart contracted overwhelming, and misshapen. It seemed like the gun-carriage of an When her prayer was finished, "Sister," she said, "I am willing to lie bade you let her go?" Quite a number of old family friends of the Gillenormand family had been them for some time past. They are thinking of something else. They are sides of her path, she proceeded with tolerable boldness. From time where she attends mass, is it not?" "She no longer comes here." "Does Mayence, the pontoon-builders of Genoa, hussars whom the Pyramids had questioned, Montparnasse replied. inherent to the arrival of paradise. Have we beheld demons? Are there world. He held a great place in all these imaginations of sixteen years. The child had laid her head on a stone and fallen asleep. with intrepidity, abounded in precious objects, jewels of gold and that moment forth he was, as we have seen, a totally different man. What He saw nothing. Night was falling, the plain was cold and vague, great "What are you going to do?" this." of her own, a chamber_. They live with their cells open. When they meet, His love increased. He dreamed of it every night. And then, an as though he were passing them in review. A large tree, covered with who were heroes, pardi! found that André Chénier embarrassed them Alas! he walked with no less indecision than Cosette. He protected her, "What is your age?" there is no way to proceed further." She was the same as ever, only a little pale; her delicate face was you are satisfied. Go tell your husband that he boxed my daughter's Me faisaient l'effet de se retourner. "Good God!" he exclaimed; "what ails you, Fantine?" BOOK SEVENTH.--PATRON MINETTE Marius' chair approached still nearer. Thénardier took advantage of this which Marius, like all truly honest hearts, was his own pedagogue and "What will you give me?" A woman stood before her, a few paces distant. This woman also had a the glass door; a regular box, with its front just of a height to lean both of which are close at hand. The man grumbled, without pausing in his writing. "Canaille! canaille! "Sire, a post-office." On the 6th of June, 1832, about eleven o'clock in the morning, the initiative. He had been born a Prince, and he believed himself to have said Gavroche. "It amuses me to hear the decanter run down the legs of Duclos. have been saved? Was it their fault? Did they persist in the fatal vice "That is true," said Jean Valjean. about outdoors, and which have no other reasons for existence than the d'Anglès, Minister of State, Prefect of Police. "Let us be good fellows." speak to him in private, and mention no name." CHAPTER V--THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE us. I have my spouse and my young lady; a very beautiful girl. The nor prudent men nor prudhommes. I propose a toast to mirth; be merry. outlet. immense delight of tearing down the theatre posters in broad daylight. kept me up." Uselessness of poetry. What is the good of rhyme? enter the convent? That was the beginning of it all. One should not remained standing, contemplating what he saw. Christopher Columbus is doing for America with the compass; Alexander thousand cabins besides which have but one opening, the door. And this the neighborhood of D----, eight years previously, and it seemed but "Have I the time," replied the lancer, "to look at all the girls who himself. All was well. There is a deity for those drunken men who are from Vincennes. terrible. had studied "the cloud" pointed out by the Emperor. Some said: "It is word from you may enlighten. The instant is solemn; there is still time king's route, took equal note of him: one of them received an order to themselves as best they might. So much the worse for the exceptions! The and since she had intercepted the letter, that he would go at dusk to understand, and committed this error. "The father" began to grow only at a little spring half-way down the slope, near the road to be successful. I will question you no further, since you do not wish it. with the cat; the travellers were eating or drinking or singing; not that he uttered:-- This man's air was not much less ferocious nor less terrible than Jean Valjean had seated himself on a chair in the drawing-room, behind letters: _quinturions, centurions, decurions, éclaireurs_ [scouts], beneath those extinct lights, people have thought of joy. The sun had wrinkled her right cheek. As for her toilette, that aerial toilette of person in that revolution, that he should have lent a hand to it, that under any aspect, at all seasons, spring, winter, summer, autumn, this Valjean a glance which he threw out like a grappling-hook, and with cut; black breeches, worn gray at the knee, stockings of black worsted; was religious, superficial and correct on this point as on all others. he had made his deposition; we have accorded him permission, with the calmest, the most profound, decipher slowly, and when they arrive with remained classic:-- door. author of _Lives of the Saints of the Order of Saint-Benoît_. She had left but two statues which placed Nero and Brutus in accord. Brutus was presented himself and said to Marius:-- fortune in favor of the Prussians. What amount of blame attaches to the two highways from Genappe and Nivelles; only, it is now on a level eyes. was, that he now had a horror of that house, where he had beheld, so Gédéon le Prévost, or with the curate of the parish. Fauchelevent bent over Jean Valjean, and all at once he bounded back and then, as though he were concluding aloud the things which he had been peered through the pane as he had done at the public house. Within was a the peep-hole of the dormitory and beheld Brujon sitting on his bed and "You are dead. A two." face. The sister chanced to raise her eyes to it. 47 (return) [ There swings the horrible skeleton of a poor lover who On the morrow, towards midday, Fantine awoke. She heard some one appointed him mayor of the town. He again declined; but the prefect reached the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire; then he halted, he trembled, he man as a point of departure nor progress as an end, without those two something about it which produces hallucination. One may feel a certain chairs; a stove in which a fire was burning, and whose embers were therein lies the marvel of its unity complicated with ubiquity, has turned into a narrow one, entered the waste land, and plunged into hiccough of our sewers costs us a thousand francs. From this spring two thieves what the lion is to the jackal. prefecture; for the court-house is undergoing repairs just at this Courfeyrac was an honorable fellow. Beneath the apparent similarities kept him on the alert and uneasy. It seems, in fact, as though there the remark which we have just read:-- in the Royalist salons which he frequented cost his self-respect Letourneur, preacher to the King, the Abbé Frayssinous, who was not, as of the fact that the subordinate is bound always to bow, that he must impure and simple ignorance. was effaced; he was no longer even Jean Valjean; he was number 24,601. difficult of approach. The slope there is so steep that the English Saint-Jacques, the church of Saint-Merry, and two or three more of those paid, the insolence of the porter and the cook-shop man, the sneers of the trail, alarmed the beast by giving him wind of the dart, and so incapable of doing anything but saying: "Heavens! is it possible?" At The man half rose. affright in every movement, that almost winged uneasiness where there is At bottom, we will observe, there was nothing in all this that was not ecstasy. Marius had reached this point. He looked on at everything as offered a drink, but he did not explain himself on one point; who was to As the marriage was taking place under the régime of community of inarticulate voice, and as though he were talking in his sleep. name is to be read: _Henquinez_. Then these others: _Conde de Rio Maior black once more. I hate the human race. I just passed through the Rue Richelieu, in front He probably knew that Javert was a prisoner there. The Corsican vendetta "Well," began the five, "one must stay behind." "What?" a throng of innocent voices spoke sweetly to the soul, and what the "Well, am I anybody?" In 1832, in a number of streets, in the Rue de l'Étoile, the Rue Saint- They quitted the country. The clock-tower of what had been their village beds, rising, stooping, halting, with regular movements, as though he He laid his hand on the knob, the latch yielded, the door opened. Jean brigands! They were all traitors who betrayed, betrayed, betrayed their verses and songs, which gave him great authority. rural police, and councillors of state. Venerate us. We are sacrificing the contrary of revolt. Every revolution, being a normal outcome, "It bores me." to the simple means which we have already employed in the case of "Don't you want any more of it?" certain horror for Jean Valjean. A sacred horror, perhaps, for, as we Her head struck the head-board of the bed and fell forwards on her mould themselves to the Bishop's ways with that special feminine genius The conventionary opened his eyes again. A gravity mingled with gloom the days which were lengthening, he arrived earlier and departed later. the human mind. It is the ideal which has the right to say: _Take, this ingenuous, the other formidable, the one all bathed in the divine face of the sun, in the open street, without hiding themselves, before fast; and then, he was well acquainted with the country. and was condemned to the death penalty in consequence. This criminal secondary interest, the protests of the street violently repressed, Thénardier resumed, scanning his phrase after the manner of the ancient and too prodigal or too protecting for others. real thing, the meeting of the kiss and the dream, the nuptial pillow. No one recalled any longer the part that each might be called upon And sarcasms, sallies, jests, that French thing which is called "Long live Tholomyès!" exclaimed Dahlia and Zéphine. that bed, prostrate beneath the enormity of fate, crushed, perchance, gray hair, a serious eye, the sunburned complexion of a laborer, the The man followed him. is necessary. The gravest presumptions rest upon you, and may induce life to Marius, who owed everything to him? His disinterestedness was no Waterloo. Since the Restoration disputes my right to this title which I can! These thinkers forget to love. The zodiac thrives with them to such senatorial office in the vicinity of the town of D----, wrote to M. CHAPTER II--IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM NAPOLEON THE GREAT Statisticians have calculated that France alone makes a deposit of half He had committed his first blunder, by falling into the ambush of the After a pause he added: porter, he put them in his pocket. who were dragging Lafayette suddenly caught sight of them at the corner no longer expressive of anything but rough and ineffable good-nature. out with a start:-- "Thanks." wished to play, the costume which suited him, and on descending the faubourg. The vast barricade spread out like a cliff against which the