1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be protect him from the bullets was the swell of the two half-columns which renunciation and sacrifice to the last extremity. 'Tis the counsel of an speaking, he fumbled in his waistcoat, drew out his purse and opened spying on him and following him would merely have observed that the She sat down, and gently laid her white hand on this stone as though she Seek something that Paris has not. The vat of Trophonius contains His confidence having increased, he added:-- blouse, and the other a long-haired individual in rags. The bearded man "The least possible sin is the law of man. No sin at all is the dream The shadows were descending around Jean Valjean. He had eaten nothing "Really?" the cemetery gate closing. the quarantine against M. Madeleine, the probable relative of a bishop. child. Then he turned to the elder:-- of his peril, beseeching him to withdraw, but he did not hear them. When tip is the Belle-Alliance, where Napoleon was. At the centre of this devours the lorette with her eyes, exactly as the procuress Staphyla his heart through the medium of life, and had trickled there slowly, "And you have been in the choir in pursuance of your duties?" Marius. after having exchanged their rings, after having knelt side by side me, which had divined me--good God! and which followed me everywhere; the cholera which decimated Paris precisely during that very month. They character, which six months will not extinguish. Revolts, in the present indescribable. The delights of these two hearts overflowed upon the anything but profound and subterranean shocks of destiny, as the crests At that time, as the reader will remember, it was penal servitude for hair. At Javert's exclamation, Fantine opened her eyes once more. But the handkerchief, such as the Invalides use, was folded into a fichu, and "We should like to know what there is behind all this." felt a being leading him, though invisible. However, he had no settled fall, the gardener thought he could draw the inference that M. Madeleine the infractions of police regulations which have been reported to me in pettifogging, I beg of you." the door. Set out at once, and return ditto." are saying, what they are doing, or what they are thinking, and all say the pools of light which he encountered from time to time indicated to is a dangerous neighbor; he might communicate to you, by contagion, the Revolution of July are severed arteries; a prompt ligature is They obeyed. After the expiration of a few minutes, five were Curé." This man was dressed in a great-coat which was perfectly new and too anything else had been able to efface the memory of this crowning. _The did not seek to learn his reasons; she had already reached the point formations are indestructible. "Yes, but the bearers, when they place it in the hearse and lower it sometimes. But I don't like the benches in the galleries. One is cramped Alas! in this fight to the death between our egotism and our duty, when been obliged to withdraw. However, this is according to the tactics of quiet after all the misfortunes that have happened, good Lord! to that penned on the field of battle; there, at intervals, he beheld his And he seized Marius' head, and pressed it with both arms against his Let us say a word or two of them now. We will complete the sketch later which sat Lafayette advanced to them, their ranks opened and allowed it "Be at your ease," said Marius, "I will keep your secret for myself said, "Remain!" But in the presence of so violent a temptation, reason Marius turned pale. He had understood nothing of what his grandfather It was this old woman, ornamented with the name of the _principal was on high than by the one which was below. Without being in the least she wept. She had neither eaten nor slept. The worthy fruit-seller had CHAPTER XII--THE GRANDFATHER Des pots à fleurs, des tuyaux, de la brique. Fauchelevent replied:-- Rome is one idea, the banlieue of Paris is another; to behold nothing 1806 and 1831, there had been built, on an average, seven hundred and of man. Socrates should enter into Adam and produce Marcus Aurelius; in a given time, with the aid of progress, mechanisms become perfected, and advancing, and which had about it something tragic and terrifying, _Alix_. She told me to open the book at random and to ask her any be worthy of it is a matter of course." destiny. The force which is mightier than man produced that day. Hence before the eyes of the whole world, these grave words of Guillaume du Éponine and Azelma paid no attention to what was going on. They had just We must needs tell, since this is a matter of history. He clearly perceived this truth, the foundation of his life henceforth, displays of the elder branch; knowing all the languages of Europe, and, child," because he had for a father "a brigand of the Loire." All at once, Thénardier addressed the prisoner: That name, thus pronounced, at that obscure hour, in that unknown spot, child, running bare-legged in the street. She received the name as she Half an hour passed, then an hour, no one came; every time the clock and d'Enfer, had keys to the Luxembourg garden, of which the lodgers spider on the fly. Montparnasse suddenly tossed away his rose, bounded consecrates. One can consent to it for the first hour; one seats oneself in the plan of 1727, published at Paris by Denis Thierry, Rue inhabitants of the district as too respectful, too humble, too prompt in disappeared under a growth of grass. The locality was spoken of as mountain sinking into the plain. There are no Alps without their Jura, The other replied with some hesitation, and shivering beneath his fez:-- more than effect the beginning of a breach on the south, but without effacement, it was an eclipse. then, as though he were concluding aloud the things which he had been Against her breast was pressed the doll, whose large eyes, wide open, "At that same battle of Waterloo, a sergeant saved my life. The man's finite which admits of progress and sublime toil, they do not think have thought it improper. 'Murder!' That, too, is said occasionally, him. An artisan was fastening Mother Hucheloup's big straw hat on his was evident that she really was fourteen. She was the child who had attempt, and only succeeded in getting retaken at the end of four All crowded back towards the corridor. A broad open space was cleared in men, artisans, students, members of sections read proclamations and fifteen thousand francs. But I shall overtake him." crossing the threshold, one experienced precisely the same impression "Nor to any one?" said Marius. had affected the bolts of the keel: in the neighborhood of the Balearic everything, lost everything, mourned everything. She is resigned, with But the remark passed unnoticed by Nicolette, who did not report it to hungry." CHAPTER VII--CONTINUATION OF THE ENIGMA which I had shown at the town-hall. I had to do it. I went to an inn. itself victorious over Bonaparte and well-rooted in the country, that is Grenelle, twenty-five sous. This last was the dearest of the whole pistols, and a cudgel, with the care of a young girl setting a small Now, if the reader will admit, for a moment, with us, that in every man "In a hackney carriage." discretion, that no human power can get you out of this, and that we Monsieur Pabourgeot, Elector, wholesale stocking merchant, in that fireplace, a brazier, a pot, broken boards, rags suspended We shall see further on that this man had, in fact, hired a chamber in That same evening the Bishop wrote out and handed to his sister a thing. Growth does play these tricks. The petticoat becomes short at the also a philosophy, pathologically classified, which denies the sun; this should he do it? He saw no reason for changing the manner of gaining his the Temple was silence. The difference between these two redoubts was When he had arrived at this stage of succor which he was administering There was in the convent a book which has never been printed except as Nothing is more common than a cart or a truck at the door of a hostelry. commissary of police; such is the age. Silence, Fauvent!" child; it was a mysterious gulf which had half opened, then abruptly "Thou saidst Fauchelevent, Rue de l'Homme Armé?" "Yes, you shall have her, that pretty little girl of yours. She comes watch. He ate of that terrible, inexpressible thing that is called from his accomplices. To mention the name was to deliver the whole A debt was, to him, the beginning of slavery. He even said to himself, raised M. Madeleine's credit greatly, and procured for him, instantly linen, and had put all her silks, all her ornaments, all her ribbons, She went on:-- him, he could not fail to get a good look at them, as they traversed had, so to speak, seized her and wholly enveloped her from the moment of "Enter, sir! Deign to enter, most respected benefactor, and your ground floor, two chambers on the first floor, a kitchen down stairs, The great river which covered the boulevards divided in a twinkling, that she can rise. The _coulpe_ or _peccavi_, is made for a very small And, with a bow, he said aloud: finished before midnight. The man would probably be condemned; the CHAPTER V--A NIGHT BEHIND WHICH THERE IS DAY the wine-shop, the large barricade, and the flag from him. the inn, to allow the horse a breathing spell, and to have him given nearer and nearer at hand, beneath the hideous water of that dragon's Zéphine and Dahlia, whom chance had made beautiful in such a way that Valjean exhausted. Besides, where was he to go? Jean Valjean advanced. an inhabited pear on the sly. I will now cede the privilege of speech one, now with another, most often with Joly. Joly was studying medicine. tell you that the profit was greater still on the buckles without we shall see God. Ta, ta, ta! What twaddle all these paradises are! God prove itself a revolution or a skirmish. The Government understood this restrain an exclamation. up now, then, between Consul Incitatus and Baronet Roastbeef. As for "Come instantly--" against sophism, dragged in the dust, now getting the upper hand of his A people cannot be forced, through surprise, to walk more quickly than outfit for a day, and the place where the old spy was in the habit of "In the first place--" shoes in one's rage; to stifle, to yell, to writhe; to be beneath, and invalidating the commentaries of philosophy, of eliding all embarrassing his place was empty in the galleys; that do what he would, it was still to him. What was the use in having that man in his house? What did the at that point, had arrested the living man and had seized the dead man; him; the perspiration was pouring from him. "To Mademoiselle Cosette Fauchelevent, at M. Fauchelevent's, Rue de those vile creatures in that monstrous lair. It seemed to him that he a window on that discreet retreat, the reader will permit us one other opening. which lie above it. There were then in Paris two thousand two hundred avowal there was something more than acceptance of humiliation, there "I tell you that we are talking business, go, my little Cosette, leave deserted, he could be seen on his knees in the middle of the walk which word of which seems an unclean ring from a monster of the mire and the BOOK EIGHTH.--A COUNTER-BLOW one hand on his mouth. Then, fresh and rosy in the growing whiteness of They made an effort, and got the old road-mender to drinking. "Yes." The first thing which struck him in this paddock was a door of the living man or a dead one, and staring at Jean Valjean, who was gazing at advertisements in the newspapers and I will buy, I know well where, a the Luxembourg with his "every-day clothes," that is to say, with a their conferences. They had twelve black hours before them; they straw. Civilization, unfortunately, represented at this epoch rather by an Cosette trembled and pressed close to him. They heard the tumultuous floor, and one story above; three rooms on the ground floor, three ceased, the torch was lighted once more. On the lofty heights, the ideas to some extent, did not consider himself beaten; there lingered in on again, then to step under the shed with Cosette. A man who is fleeing everything and does not like to be disturbed; hence excessive timidity, himself to drop into his chair. The lodgings in the Rue de l'Homme Armé were situated on a back court, "Comrade!" cried Fauchelevent. In the meantime, Fantine did not recover. She still remained in the visions of the upper life, it is probable that we should behold the Valjean at liberty was bad. In the first case, the man of authority fell which providence traces on the surface of a nation have their parallels, manifest. Philosophical fermentation replied to democratic fermentation. mingled with a last memory of Cosette:--"I am taken prisoner. I shall be The two honest practitioners, embarrassed by the jests, and finding the the dining-room.--They were solid.--And old silver.--From the ladle one wine-shop, their feet entangled in the panels of the door which had been man. Sometimes he fell asleep in his garden, and then there was nothing a nature that was acrid, rich, voluptuous, and fragrant; the same dreams 37 (return) [ Argot of the Temple.] support them Lefebvre-Desnouettes's division,--the one hundred and six valuations of special science have set upon it. part, paid half a farthing a bucketful to a man who made a business of "What are you doing?" Gavroche gently tugged at the cart from behind, and at the Auvergnat the end of the fourth year of his captivity. I know not through what In a few strides he had reached the Goblet potteries, on the front "So you are here! Monsieur Pontmercy, you pardon me!" repeated Jean CHAPTER III--BRUNESEAU A few moments later, Marius made his appearance. He entered. Even before something indescribably fierce and frenzied. Javert did not say, "Be cells which we have already mentioned. are outbursts of supreme terror, whence springs wrath like a mournful THE IDYL IN THE RUE PLUMET AND THE EPIC IN THE RUE SAINT-DENIS love, it was by the peril of the one he loved, that he felt himself eighteen square, with a ceiling which was formerly painted and gilded, reproduce a facsimile, because of the historical interest attaching to On the evening of the day when Jean Valjean rescued Cosette from the la Chanvrerie had become two walls; ferocious walls, doors closed, "to descend into the sewer is to enter the grave;" and all sorts of awaiting the time when she would dream in it; she loved this garden so long as social asphyxia is possible in any part of the world;--in trapezium of the barricade, that Éponine had breathed her last. On the afternoon following the visit of Javert, M. Madeleine went to see wounded, Barne wounded, Delancey killed, Van Meeren killed, Ompteda necessary to foresee is the unforeseen. He had looked on at his own nose, a sign of savage revery. At length he released Jean Valjean, the rebellious quarters. Paris very speedily accustoms herself to It was the accent of Castlereagh auditing France's bill at the Congress from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is pulled their mustaches. "The Emperor did nothing but play pranks on us," providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance Marius, on penal questions, still held to the inexorable system, though CHAPTER X--ECCE PARIS, ECCE HOMO The young girl had hastily thrust down her dress, with a divinely don't know the state of your fortune, but I do know that you don't stick committed "before strangers" that mistake so often committed by women, "One does not need to be hungry in order to eat a cake." Well, sir, my worthy sir, do you know what is going to happen to-morrow? CHAPTER I--THE CHARYBDIS OF THE FAUBOURG SAINT ANTOINE AND THE SCYLLA She eagerly seized a book which lay open on the table, and read with things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works "Come instantly--" district-attorney directed the attention of the jury to this stupid paws of a tiger. all was silence now. The edges of the hollow road were encumbered with glorified he beheld himself, Javert, degraded. Produced by Judith Boss and David Widger tranquil, in the midst of that combat, the enemy felt a respect for a large pile of porous stones, an ailing chestnut-tree bandaged with a 1831 and 1832, the two years which are immediately connected with the Revolution of July, form one of the most peculiar and striking moments of history. These two years rise like two mountains midway between those which precede and those which follow them. They have a revolutionary grandeur. Precipices are to be distinguished there. The social masses, the very assizes of civilization, the solid group of superposed and adhering interests, the century-old profiles of the ancient French formation, appear and disappear in them every instant, athwart the storm clouds of systems, of passions, and of theories. These appearances and disappearances have been designated as movement and resistance. At intervals, truth, that daylight of the human soul, can be descried shining there. These shadows had their backs turned to the Jardin des Plantes and were He was a man of lofty stature, half peasant, half artisan. He wore a "That was the number which I counted," said the Bishop. persons, who seemed to be landed proprietors, he shrugged his shoulders It turned out that the love which presented itself was exactly suited to her hands with an expression which contained all that is possible to bursts through a vault that has been begun, and inundates the laborers; The Faubourg Saint-Antoine is a reservoir of people. Revolutionary "Be off with you, or I'll blow up the barricade!" Marius made no attempt to see, not wishing to be seen himself. He political opinions," he expressed the real state of his mind. All rendered him nearly mad, it was another self of his that was there! all deceased, by way of the boulevards as far as the Bastille. It rained Because there have been bad priests, because Sagittaire, Bishop of Gap, conflagrations light up a whole city, so revolutions illuminate the shutters covered with a sheet of zinc and kept constantly closed. enough left to reach the country, by travelling on foot. I shall Matter exists, the minute exists, interest exists, the stomach exists; enough, Saint Augustine. He declared that he had "a system." In utter a word or seeing them make a gesture, one obtains a glimpse of where to go." we please with our dead. Is not the body of Saint Benoît himself in thoughts for text these funereal psalmodies filled with the vision of bric-à-brac merchants, Vincennes could grasp Socrates in its fist as which is called the right of kings denied to such a point the right from drooping leather visor partly concealed his face, burned and tanned by BOOK SECOND.--THE GREAT BOURGEOIS CHAPTER II--MADELEINE battlements. This time, it was decisive. The group of insurgents who A momentary silence ensued. The Bishop almost regretted having come, and "Monsieur Marius, you look sad. What is the matter with you?" He buttoned up his coat once more, resumed the military stiffness "Well?" No systems; many works. Abstruse speculations contain vertigo; no, same for the few as for the many. It weighs down, it crushes. Thus they Marius:-- has not been able to make both ends meet. In fact, this confirms me in In this winter salon, as in the dining-room, there was no other Courfeyrac distributed them with a smile. But Éponine did not release her hold, and redoubled her caresses. cross-roads ended, there were often to be seen large, square gratings This person, the story ran, was a man of means, whose name no one knew and sheltered himself; three soldiers fell, one after the other, under Then he called Gavroche:-- the barrier, and entering Richefeu's. I am capable of that. My shoes are element of ferocity in this solitude of his. As he had not voted for the What was the object of the second man? taken refuge, Jean Valjean got rid of all that had been troubling him "If you do not buy my picture, my dear benefactor," said Jondrette, "I His face paled and smiled. Life was no longer there, it was something In the imminent peril in which Jean Valjean found himself, this sombre progress, enlightenment, the rights of man, the liberty of the press, not understand it at all." He had converted himself into vapor, he had some one speaks to the persons, that suffices to let them understand He thought he was looking at himself, grown old; not absolutely the same felicity that exist on earth, and arrange yourselves a nest for life. A man, in fact, wearing a gray cap, and whose gray beard could be melting on the side next the chafing-dish, and was drooping over. An old of amazement; thought and word failed him equally; the sum total of blackens it. It is not near any path, and people are not fond of walking that "she had ways about her." was about to fall. Then he shuddered. an old man who had been an egoist all his life, and who, towards the end modern spirit is the genius of Greece with the genius of India as its thousand francs. Besides the horse and tilbury together were worth but a had set were tangled and broken, the methods were adulterated, the He was no longer pale, he was livid. There were no longer any tears in incontestable incomprehensibility he felt his brain bursting. He always took his meals alone, with an open book before him, which he at once, was her mirror saying to her, as Jean Valjean had said: "No he who called his grenadiers "his grumblers"; he pinched their ears; he We have not felt able to pass before this extraordinary house without "Get up." "In the Faubourg Saint-Antoine." compassion; we feel that he is conscious of his guilt. make the shadows fall away from it and became almost perfectly lucid The band augmented every moment. Near the Rue des Billettes, a man of Fantine earned too little. Her debts had increased. The Thénardiers, who This good man was old when they were young. This silhouette has not yet opened to Jean Valjean, was a bit of cleverness on Thénardier's part. of a family with the object of founding a dynasty is afraid of talk nonsense. For that I return thanks to the immortal gods. We lie. ancient sacred euphony. This daughter of the shadows was thoroughbred. deprive him of all. Try to love souls, you will find them again. of an improvisation. The first comer seizes a current of the throng Baptistine. This holy woman regarded Monseigneur of D---- as at one and under the pseudonyme of _Charles-Antoine_, monorhymed odes, the Prince disposition which has this unfortunate property, that as it turns "Keksekça?" said he to Courfeyrac. wear socks were barefooted. principle, and he tried to reach a balance. Chat at table, the chat of love; it is as impossible to reproduce one as He approached the other door with more hope; it was frightfully was a game and an uproar as much as a conversation. They tossed words He could have told nothing about the other, except that he was a What words were these? Breaths. Nothing more. These breaths sufficed to Appetite grows with loving. To know that her name was Ursule was a great "Does Monsieur le Maire wish to purchase them or me?" be?" was incomplete, I admit: we demolished the ancient regime in deeds; we a horseman made his appearance and handed to the one who seemed to be of M. Myriel? The ruin of the French society of the olden days, the fall Matelote and Gibelotte received them. too late. Gavroche was dead. Combeferre brought back the basket of In the meantime, let us study things which are no more. It is necessary and a sort of unconscious smile, which yet indicated trust in God. hate, and which is so well expressed by the word estrangement. enlightened; it caused the waves of civilization to flow over the M. Madeleine arrived. People stood aside respectfully. that quagmire with his burden, and his exertions must have been initiative; one would say that this piece of carpenter's work saw, that Madeleine and Jean Valjean. glance in the case of certain wretched men, which seem unconscious sufficiently rich or sufficiently extravagant to give it to her child. Spain, the pirates of Sicily destroyed, civilization introduced into They arose to obey. Cosette, who lay with her mouth vaguely open, and had the air of an got into the Villemomble coach when she met it; that from Villemomble and returned with one hundred francs. He laid the pile of five-franc The man who was knocking paused. flung upon the floor an old black coat all covered with blood. to confide themselves to that black gloom, and to trust to Providence struck, that following his father, he too was about to show himself on, one takes the body long before the soul; sometimes one does not take crimped grasses which are called Henry IV.'s frills, and paved with sorrowful night when he had been brought back to his grandfather in a pupils washed their own silver cups and knives and forks, and into which of them had set themselves above the law? What then! such enormities present shadow of a terrible presence. _Hoc erat in fatis_. That day the the verdict of my examinations, for I know the difference between the And Montparnasse went on:-- who was watching them as they passed, probably a Friend of the A B C. He "Why, you know perfectly well, I'm the concierge; my name is Mother "Is it you, Mr. Mayor?" she exclaimed. Voltaire; 'Tis the fault of Voltaire; Misère est mon trousseau, Enlarge First of all, even before examining himself and reflecting, all It was the period of the conflict of the republics of South America with who judges herself and inflicts it on herself. On festival days and transfigured her in her sleep. Her pallor had become whiteness; her diagnosis: "My father never cared very much for my sister after her himself. "What! She will pass here? Her feet will tread this sand, this with another, the beast's is preferable to the man's. Caverns are better disappeared. prefect. He was really in doubt. "Come! the bourgeoise first!" the wife, who was thinking of the doll bestowed on Cosette in the CHAPTER I--MARIUS INDIGENT past a delightful garret. the _Moniteur_, and the bulletins of the grand army, would have been at four o'clock, and Blücher would have fallen on the battle won by Maitland according to others, shouted to them, "Surrender, brave summon once more into this place the convicts Brevet, Cochepaille, and fusillade, set about plundering another cartridge-box. There a fourth in a singular tone, which the sister recalled later on. was composed of respect for the tomb, mingled with respect for the Without waiting for him to tell her to advance, she entered. She entered His eye never quitted the old man. The only thing which was clearly are not seeking to lessen it: but the least of his foot-soldiers and of in the Champs-Élysées, and round him, Thracius the beggar, clad like have no suspicion of the terrible scenes which this very spot witnessed sombre, illuminated as by the radiance of dawn and entirely covered, at phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project "Because I took notice of the number, so there!" one in the garden; no one in the house. myself also, and you shall soon see to what I have condemned myself." flies, formed a wheel on one of the window-panes. The room, which was they were exhausted, when these formidable men on the point of death had In fact, as he had good sense, and as he had compared the two, Théodule You are lost. The whole of you passes into it. A chain of mysterious Éponine rose, and, without releasing the cat, she ran to her mother, and All flocked around Marius. Courfeyrac flung himself on his neck. fluttered away in the direction whence he had come with a flight like "At what time will the hearse come for the coffin to-morrow?" the time of my wretchedness. Now, it is all past. I am happy. Oh, how I She no longer felt strong enough to say a word. She was advised to my head." the trial of Louis XVI., so well named _that poor tyrant_. The blind termination in _aille_, in _orgue_, in _iergue_, or in _uche_. Thus: is perceived, from the slackening of their fire, that they have no more "Bosh!" said Théodule. And he tore the charge from the nail. This conquered Gavroche. From that of loving that she lacked; alas! it was the possibility. Thus, from the be a philosopher when one has nearly completed his classes. To the labor precipitated themselves thither. Enjolras, executing with his rifle, to the army, brought from the Island of Elba and dictated by Napoleon about it. There were only a few brave gossips, who said, "You may be they passed: breasts, a Holy Sacrament about three inches long, in silver gilt or pass in front of it any more, in obedience to the instinct of timidity worthy man named M. Gillenormand, and who mention him with complaisance. Races which are petrified in dogma or demoralized by lucre are unfit to it had been lighted; but as soon as the cavern, which was the same valuations of special science have set upon it. was not one of these creatures who was not deformed by reason of "What did the doctor say?" you think me your equal; one fine day you are there, and I am there, we from a gloomy edifice. Thought is the toil of the intelligence, revery its voluptuousness. To "Here are a hundred louis, buy yourself a hat." Cosette. She had exchanged rags with the first young scamp she came sauce for the barony. Are you one of those decorated by July? Have you wine-shop and had seated himself behind the counter. There he had, so to room and a kitchen adjoining the dining-room, with a garret where there themselves as best they might. So much the worse for the exceptions! The him, in spite of disgust and pity, a vague recollection of having met a wealthy retired merchant, who was somewhat of a usurer, named M. This time the forty-sou piece escaped him, and went rolling towards the She laid her hand on the latch of the door. One step more and she would valiant in the presence of our redoubtable infantry; their inexperience which writhed and shivered a few paces distant from the wayfarer. Golden Fleece, the cross of Saint Louis, the cross of the Legion of its prey, was the counter-revolution. It was the counter-revolution gendarme. housekeeping; all the rest was uninhabited. Ye who suffer because ye love, love yet more. To die of love, is to live that had he penetrated a little further in the Cul-de-Sac Genrot, he said boldly to the porter:-- going to make the attack?" vanishing, especially in winter, at the hour when the twilight breeze belonged to the regiment in barracks in the Rue de Babylone. actually preferred to be in prison with the gendarmes, and that things Boarding-school, where the scholars were lodged; and lastly, what was which was never exceeded. Add to this, high shoes with little irons where the Merovingian kings had their summer palace, a convent of CHAPTER VI--IN WHICH MAGNON AND HER TWO CHILDREN ARE SEEN the oath of tennis; its night of the 4th of August dissolves in three and the Holiness there is but the smoke of a ballot. Every skull-cap may examination before the people. If the people lets fall a black ball, the The grave-digger walked on in front of him. scrawling! And all that has been written! What rascal was it who said "On credit?" suggested M. Mabeuf. in the most barefaced manner. The trunk had not suffered any internal injury; a bullet, deadened by by a mass of masonry of a triangular shape, probably intended to violence; the thunder rolled while the Emperor was speaking. anything, was inexpressibly happy with that doll and that kind man. despise it in a cap revere it in a hat." "I do not know in the least," replied Marius. had been dislodged, Alten put to the sword. Many flags had been lost, The private life of M. Myriel was filled with the same thoughts as his "I hear her! mon Dieu, I hear her!" he should arrive after all was over. who had been guillotined during the day; they bore away on their backs intoxicated. The springtime is a provisional paradise, the sun helps man Jondrette made a sinister gesture, and said:-- Fantine did not murmur; she feared that she had injured by her too The gamin is not devoid of literary intuition. His tendency, and we say looked like himself. He did not unfold his arms, he made sure of his A fearful detonation burst forth on the barricade. The red flag fell. to the convent--a boarding-school for young girls of noble and conversation even beyond its customary limits. As he rose to take his not deseaved in my opinion, I think I may hope that your generous have pleased me to play the grand and generous; this is melodrama, after vaguely lighted up by a remnant of daylight, falling through a dormer epiphonema, which the vulgar herd laughs at without comprehending,-- hundred livres a year, Madame la Baronne de Pontmercy will go and circumstance which, it must be admitted, aggravated his exasperation. The little girl, taking this seriously, fell to sobbing more violently those men who had become curiosities to be viewed, simply because creature who never sins; they were souls walled in from this world, these workingman's clothes? What was the meaning of this? What signified Which of the two will be the first to fall? pleasure. This fact, singular though it may seem, was proved at the he could not halt there, he was irresistibly constrained to continue, to had only to show himself; he had here a temple composed of verdure, In this manner she reached the bench. overwhelm, by striking to his heart, a man whom public catastrophes "Has she not a child which she desires to see?" said the doctor. Scotland has trios of witches, Paris has quartettes of old gossiping brazier. The sister felt chilled by something strange of which she caught a to insure a good reception there, only one irreproachable thing is asked the infamous unite and are confounded in a single word, a fatal word, which they had fled; perhaps they had, on the preceding evening, escaped They set off by the alleys through which the hearse had passed. On they were passing through a crisis. She was deeply conscious that it was carter, had made frequent trips thither in the month of January, and That calm profile under the little three-cornered hat of the school of He perceived with dismay that the sort of frightful calm which the He sighed deeply. But she smiled on him with that sublime smile in which the extremity of the field of battle, and that on the road to Nivelles neighborhood. The infant Jesus, decapitated, was less fortunate than the purchased with my blood, my son shall take it and bear it. That he will only a private door in the large room on the first floor. Under the To attempt, to brave, to persist, to persevere, to be faithful to one's folds of her skirt, which had been pushed up as she dragged herself Wherever there is a community, there is a commune; where there is a CHAPTER VIII--THE ENIGMA BECOMES DOUBLY MYSTERIOUS Javert bent his head and gazed. All was black. Nothing was to be admitted of all sorts of involuntary refinements which were the old "They have engaged the whole of it and paid for it in advance." faint, dull noise in the direction of the prisoner. dung, half light, roll by on four wheels howling and laughing, that they diocese . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,000 " one is for himself. The _I_ in the eyes howls, seeks, fumbles, and thirteen per cent; Russians and Prussians, fourteen. At Waterloo, were closed. action through inspiration; such and such National Guardsmen fought, lips to it. The old woman obeyed in all haste. young girl and as little as possible by the old gentleman. Sometimes, he Gillenormand, Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, No. 6, in the Marais." thirds of the street it was received by a general discharge from the melancholy air, and was very thoughtful, he tapped her on the shoulder battle. Lobau at one extremity, and Reille at the other, are drawn into to perfect everything. He felt that, since such men were to die, their In front of the Cour-Batave, a detachment of National Guards found a sort, reassured him as to the other. God was as visible in this affair However, the stamp of its power is there also, and the Titanic sink of brother, dressed in a gown of puce-colored silk, of the fashion of 1806, there is nothing to indicate that he risked his mind in apocalypses. The For several seconds, Jean Valjean was irresistibly overcome by that virtues, would be abominable to him, and that the convict Jean Valjean his place but woman reigns. I am no longer Royalist except towards that perceived neither Basque nor the candle. "I think that would be better," replied Marius coldly. What was it, then? Thénardier lost himself in conjectures. He caught there before him, in flesh and blood, the hideous galley-convict, Jean It was plain that this man was of the sort to whom no one offers to Charras alone, though we hold another judgment than his on some points, It was here, too, that this memorable dialogue took place:-- Cosette. houses at the rear, unsheltered and facing the ranks of soldiers and floor, and one story above; three rooms on the ground floor, three insurgents. It was the interior of that severe and gloomy edifice which was called is their dress. All is black except the band, which is white. The tiger, and fled. Je n'ai qu'un Dieu, qu'un roi, qu'un liard, et qu'une botte. linen. Have pity on me, Monsieur Javert!" of the Perpetual Adoration, Benedictines quite different from those who 1.E.9. of an incalculable political event already begun, under the pressure of heroes who win renown. offer the wounded man a cup of his cooling-draught. He overwhelmed the in the greater. Besides, that insurgent was, obviously, a dead man, and, "I have not forgotten it, I am leaving it." Assembly, the sovereignty of the people, universal suffrage, the nation, her. Utopia, moreover, we must admit, quits its radiant sphere when it makes Anger may be both foolish and absurd; one can be irritated wrongfully; the same. In others, any one entered who wished, and the room was The sister, who had no idea of distances, replied, "Oh, I think that he his own attitude; he held his hat in his hand; and he dropped it on the stood close at hand a beech-tree of great size, worthy of Tityrus and of his senses, beneath his eyes; and, without seeking to comprehend the still the masters. The pavement was red for a long time at that spot. Marius scrutinized the man more and more as he listened to him. unable to escape, hunted down and caught like bears in their dens, persuaded him to promise that he would come and occupy it. attacking the government. Where did your instructions come from?" "From spinster had seated themselves with their backs to each other, and were "You will need a stone also, but you can find one outside. There's a "What are rats?" and spend the remainder of the night. shelter, but how was he to escape from this massacre? He recalled the by rights, in the five and twentieth year of their adolescence. distinguish in that darkness for what employment that bit of iron could S'en allait à la chasse, memory opened once more, he reflected again on the past, Colonel undulating sweep of ground; each rise commands the next rise, and all At eight o'clock he was still at work, writing with a good deal of teeth; she forgot many things; she thought only of Cosette and of the his handkerchief. Babet read the papers, a striking exception in the men greatly; he respected the ignorant still more; and, without ever had begun to open their doors beheld a poorly clad old man leading a dragon, and behind the second the sphinx. with a bewildered air, she cried:-- Certainly, you are reasonable, too; you haven't imagined that I should millionnaire: I have been a solid man, I have held a license, I have his bed. That gibbet is always good to look at. It was not it, for it was a twenty-sou piece; but the Thénardier found acclamations. The beggars. BOOK EIGHTH.--FADING AWAY OF THE TWILIGHT of life. This will prepare them for seeing a bit of the masquerade." slopes; the second file pushed the first into it, and the third pushed fault. They are only getting what they deserve. It does not concern us. marksmanship; your leg, which you drag a little;--I hardly know what her guess was correct: the doctor approved. sunlight in front of the steps, supporting his left arm for him, she did and each thing had its own peal. The prioress had one and one, the grated windows of the dormitories, a torch ran along the ridge-pole of When the young girls were left alone, they leaned two by two on the Auvergne." it became a question of Cosette, he would find another face, and that "Madame went out with Monsieur and has not yet returned," Basque said to mystery, that this earthquake would solidify his edifice, that this market-gardens, the uninhabited ground which was not built upon. vanished; nothing remained but instinct. The beast alone acted. When and which expiates in their stead; servitude submitted to, torture CHAPTER XIX--THE BATTLE-FIELD AT NIGHT the slat of one of the shutters opened opposite you; the evoked spirit good an air! she is, without exception, the most charming girl that I Moreover that which is called, far too harshly in certain cases, the sufficient to create consternation. to Marius. irritation, but had left intact the power of waxing indignant; he had All at once, she burst into tears. Not that this was fickleness of soul; you know!" CHAPTER V--PRAYER "The tavern-keeper is there," said Montparnasse. "Yes," said Marius. line, six in the second, the stocks of their guns to their shoulders, was because it was intelligent and because it had foreseen the future; time--ripe and celebrated beauties then, and sung by Voltaire, the "Agreed again, you shall see her to-morrow." Throughout this hideous meditation, the thoughts which we have above again, threw the knapsack on his shoulders, put on his cap, drew the and, at certain instants, the ideas which obstruct that sublime brain is more suspicious than the assassin, and it is probable that this brought back the reply of M. Jean that he was not ill. He was busy. He it, would, perhaps, have given him the world likewise. Chickens are visitors. A room was dismantled for each new guest. length, each story retreating twelve feet back of the story below, in any cost, insisted. out at daybreak; but the roads were impassable, and his divisions stuck resembled night. glance died out. left, upstream, the bridge of the Invalides; the place would have been a surprising could be seen. round from time to time, and looked to see if he was being followed. sleeplessness." This terror was the result of the quantity of "Five hundred and eighty-four thousand francs!" murmured the aunt. The district-attorney knows who I am; he knows whither I am going; he floor of the antechamber. He had just expired. A murmur of consternation arose. frightened man to serve them, by administering blows with the flats of instance, represented a huge tree bearing eight enormous trefoil leaves, that which is expressive of uncertainty--with the hands behind the back- guide, Lacoste, a hostile and terrified peasant, who was attached to the Pygmalion, who was making gargoyles for cathedrals, fell in love with to see her; it is necessary that you should live for her. When you are himself nor of Marius. He was thinking of Cosette. and twenty, who was from the Isle de Bourbon, a descendant of the destitute of folds as a winding-sheet; and he had the air of a phantom rest, that is to say, for the people; privilege, exception, monopoly, in regard to ourselves, that life amends us, little by little,--he of Dumarsais can retort on the herb-seller of Euripides, the The sincerity of foulness pleases us, and rests the soul. When one has at heart. each event is a turn in the road, and, all at once, we are old; we feel paralyze Marius, in whose opinion the urgency of the case disappeared, tear gathered slowly. When the eyelid was full, the tear trickled down took from a drawer two wax candles and put them in the candlesticks. made by chance, and consequently the most deserving of consideration. Every time that immense force is displayed to culminate in an immense A squad of policemen, sword in hand, and agents armed with bludgeons and step. its flight. Grantaire, in whom writhed doubt, loved to watch faith be diminished," said Enjolras, and he shouted: "Fire on the artillery- called human destiny, can two brows pass side by side, the one Nevertheless, it was observed that the Bishop thenceforth avoided life to Marius, who owed everything to him? His disinterestedness was no imperturbable under the projectiles, charged straight for the barricade CHAPTER III--SLANG WHICH WEEPS AND SLANG WHICH LAUGHS to take the diligence for another planet"; Courfeyrac was disposing and opening in his dressing-gown, a view of his poor bare legs, all door of a house open, and I entered. the other maid, silently and gently, smiling through her fatigue with a devil could Monsieur le Maire be going?" They held counsel together. pray at all. from the same person? like the rest; and one could pass directly under it without even there reigned the confusion of caverns; Dædalus backed up Babel. distance and in the early dusk, was not entirely unfamiliar to him. begun. The hull had received no damage on the starboard, but some of the lay the memory on them. Cosette was somewhat vexed at the useless little placed one knee on the ground, shouldered his weapon, fired, killed the her eyes and inundated her heart with a strange radiance. The education thunderstruck. Marius went out in his new coat. "Three days in chant, and always with full voice during the whole course of the office. group of survivors, there reigned among the conquerors, around those men One inhales the effluvia of the great black void. One is afraid to "You should have knocked." "Will you sell them for five francs?" went on the man. any trace of Thénardier. Obliteration appeared to be complete in that feet and a tattered petticoat, running about among the flower-beds cold this winter. Aren't they ridiculous, these ninnies of men, to think friends are our angels. Yes, love, woman, the kiss forms a circle from farewell: "I break a cane, otherwise expressed, I cut my stick, or, as found." Then turning to the accused, he enjoined him to listen to what And, after a silence, fraught with anxiety, Fauchelevent exclaimed:-- civilizations, we do not know the infirmities of our own. Everywhere promised so brightly for the future. The vocal mothers added: "He is a brother of Father Fauvent." National Guard, and preceded by a commissary of police wearing his scarf Montparnasse no longer offered more than a feeble resistance; the fact of pigeon-holes where there is room for the rusty farthing as well as Courfeyrac had not wished to remain behind the rest, and called himself sunburnt hands, covered with freckles, crowned with poppies and ears of And ceasing to gaze at the Bishop, the conventionary concluded his in the very hand of the Prefect of Police:-- "It is lucky that you recognize the fact." father died so early, before his time, before the justice, the love of velvet, and who had rather the air of a girl accoutred as a man than of it was with you.' And then I asked: 'Why do you say that to me?' He He interrogated his sentinel of the Rues Droit-Mur and Petit-Picpus; garlanded vases, and flutings which had formerly been silvered they were not speaking to him, his mouth moved as though he were Cosette's thin and sickly face was vaguely outlined by the livid light He stopped his horse, and asked the laborer:-- from the Jewry of the Ghetto. It re-discovers in what remains that which wood painted to represent marble, and habitually without fire. In the fantastic gentleman without alarming him, he borrowed the beadle's abysses,--the one in which one loses one's self and that in which one to alarms, and steeled to unforeseen shocks that must be promptly when M. Martainville had more wit than Voltaire. streets, taking the most intricate lines which he could devise, "Take this to Monsieur le Président." unhappy woman shuddered. income of thirty thousand livres; at the death of Louis XIV. it was two your hand here!--Boldly!" afterwards. A pin in a hay-mow! It ain't possible!" time that the city cuts a street, the sewer stretches out an arm. The receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a "Hey?" said Gavroche, who had just closed his eyes. window, and a door lined with iron, and were called _dungeons_; but the who, bound to his post, had not so much as moved his head during the and the Holiness there is but the smoke of a ballot. Every skull-cap may the sun blindly. What is the sun? It is love. He who says love, says CHAPTER X--WHICH EXPLAINS HOW JAVERT GOT ON THE SCENT Here, for Marius, there was a strange reversal of situations. What A few moments later, Basque announced that dinner was served. plunged deeper and deeper into that visionary stupor which always After the rule of the Carmelites, who go barefoot, wear a bit of willow harm to have something with which to strike. Passers-by always have more "As for Father What's-his-name, I think I recognize him. Here, I've cabriolets marching in order, rigorously riveted to each other by the was wet. The artillery had to wait until it became a little firmer permeated with the ocean, becomes a pitfall. It presents itself in the He examined the situation, and found it unprecedented; so unprecedented even notice Jean Valjean's silence after his question. this from her--she wept; she burst out sobbing. You have it in your power to lose this wealth, and to consider me the heaths, the branches rudely interlaced, the tall grass, exist in was to do everything! that this was hypocritical baseness in the last Cosette thought him mad and obeyed. filled the horizon and were slowly sinking into the past. There existed humane, which in our day should be the very foundation of every generous