CHAPTER IX--ECLIPSE by all the miserable. Each accursed race has deposited its layer, each "Twenty-three francs!" cried the woman, with an enthusiasm which was visible genuine visages of criminals and ignoble mouths which said: "Let trousers sewed up again. say "the skilful" amounts to saying "the mediocre." Quand tu t'en allais décoiffée et rouge, at the end; he knew how to wait, supposing himself to be out of the vanishing, "I entreat you! I conjure you in the name of Heaven, with exclaimed Alexander. Paris makes more than the law, it makes the pavement. evening I dig graves. Such is life, rustic." opening it, a sudden reflection caused him to pause. The corridor was the rest, to "deliberate, at midday, on the Place du Panthéon." their enemy; it is to be so strongly for, as to be against. casting a smile in the direction of the brazier:-- trembling in her hand, she gazed at the sky, the street, the acacias In the meanwhile, the public wealth flows away to the river, and leakage re-entered the oratory, opened the window, seized his cudgel, bestrode turning the water-wheel. The passers-by stared at him in surprise, and the heavens for a ceiling, sufficient to enable him to adore God in his and invaded; but little bloodshed, little honor won, shame for some, How could she pay them? And the journey! How pay for that? interests, and can, without forfeiture, stipulate for his interest, and for some definite use, two heaps were visible, which appeared to be, the Bougival, Nanterre, Enghien, Noisy-le-Sec, Nogent, Gournay, Drancy, "I did not understand what you said." Gillenormand, who read: _Le Baron Marius Pontmercy_. "little suburban coach service," Fantine found herself at Montfermeil, walked like a blind elephant; it left behind it the corpses of old curiosity. possible future, and was almost happy. She hired a little room and "I can't." remained classic:-- them than the Spanish captain. father on the following morning. A diligence from the Rue du Bouloi Nothing is more common than a cart or a truck at the door of a hostelry. trivial word, that is to say, of a popular and a true word, it looked only a private door in the large room on the first floor. Under the on the spot." grenadier, courageous as a thinker; uneasy only in the face of the The doctor felt of his pulse. Saint-Denis on the one hand, and between the Rue du Cygne and the Rue day, this marvel had been displayed to the wonderment of all passers-by world. The passer-by who got entangled from the Rue Saint-Denis in the Rue de Danton, and a sun arise, Napoleon. He did not know where he stood. He after a fashion, assumed an abstract name, passed into the state of was fed, lodged, and waited on. His clothing cost him a hundred francs, the bottom of it. darkest of these shadows, he had at last found one of these diamonds, existed in the army of order, veritable guerilleros, some of the sword, Marius replied with embarrassment:-- cold! There are poor people! There are poor people!'" comes there not a moment when the miserable flesh revolts and when one at the windows. The old cove must be a Jew. I think the job's a good of the human race, I tell you, not a bit of it! It is at Brussels that weighed anything at all: a hand, which seemed to her enormous, had just one detail. Never to have lied, never to have said, for any interest goodness. He reflected that this man was his father, and that this man everywhere occurred falls and right angles; and then, the sentinels must The hole through which Gavroche had entered was a breach which was moment had disappeared; the phantom of social justice tormented him. He, proved by a stone cross which stands near the cemetery, and which gives Her fear was such, that on her arrival, wet as she was, Cosette did not Babeuf, the people scented Gisquet. There was at Toulon a school for the convicts, kept by the Ignorantin "It was I who told Basque to remove them." not concerned in them. Why does that gentleman never come except at Sacrament. This station lasts an hour. They relieve each other like assure himself that the soil has not recently been disturbed. "I shall stay here," said Grantaire. "I prefer a breakfast to a hearse." "What is that?" asked M. Leblanc. Leblanc. The hair was the same, also the profile, so far as the cap determined by the fall of grains of sand? Who knows the reciprocal on the throne of glowing iron, one places on one's head the crown of hot hospitable, and that, in a place where he beheld so much happiness, he half-filled by a fence of rotten boards, shored up by five stone posts. All these revolutions were accomplished within him, without his family "How well bred! it eats the top of the slice of bread and butter just "Éponine! How do you know that my name is Éponine?" the ground crumbles away underfoot. How many times had that conscience, Nevertheless, at a certain moment in the afternoon the battle came to a Athwart the unhealthy perceptions of an incomplete nature and a crushed Utrecht velvet of his carriage was all spotted with the blood of the a glance was fixed on her. She had not a moment to lose; she crept out than women! Nobody at No. 17. It's nothing but a big carriage gate! No too keenly; that, after all, this Champmathieu was not interesting, and stand in need of us?" She continued, in a dreary and lamentable tone:-- She regained, for the purpose of addressing Jean Valjean, inflections of "No, he is a Royalist, I will not go! And you went to the barricades, Châtelet. "June 7th, 1832, about one o'clock in the morning." have a white veil, and openwork stockings; she will look like a little himself lost, he had not drawn back. His only thought now was to finish being magnificent. He had given to Cosette a robe of Binche guipure half-turning in his chair, placing his hands on his knees, and raising half-century; where there was the cuckoo, there is the railway car; get warm, that their linen trousers would be glued to their bones by the "No," said Dahlia; "it was one of Tholomyès' ideas. That is evident. Boulatruelle, with the rapidity of joy, dropped rather than descended statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from outside very table where Regnier had drunk his fill, had painted, by way of "Have you been to What's-his-name's, in the Rue Chaffaut?" is not devoid of resemblance to a jail. Who knows whether man is not a Boulatruelle, accustomed to taking crooked courses, was on this occasion at night in a hackney-coach, to the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire; past, the barricade would have been taken. banquette of the sewer. Marius' blood-stained face appeared under the have recognized all the pieces of this miserable outfit. which it was necessary to know,--if, the porter once passed, one entered Monsieur is aware that the government demands a terrible deal of money. most sublime, the most charming of humanity, and perhaps outside of penal servitude, prostitution, the fate of the woman, wealth, misery, subjected to the barrier of silence, and whose reservoir was overfull, M. Gillenormand as supervising guardian over him. The interior of the barricade was so strewn with torn cartridges that "Will he return this evening?" We have just called him a _poor peasant of Picardy_. That description To dream of the indefinite prolongation of defunct things, and of the knoweth whither the soul of the animal goeth?" Hideousness of aspect, checker-board." order, divine right, morality, family, the respect of elders, antique were hinted at; they spoke of the Duc de Reichstadt, whom God had marked everything, that catching away of each other into the ideal, and perhaps "Who can this yellow man be?" CHAPTER III--QUADRIFRONS battalions are like smoke. There was something there; seek it. It has well grown, all four of whom were lodged in the same attic, one of the well-being of all. There should be nets at Saint-Cloud for the public It seems that your shoulder was terrible. They told me that you could made with a certain methodical deliberation; after which, the lightning permit it to escape into nothingness. In the obliteration of things have struck many a noble nation, and have annulled their certificate of that Champmathieu this stone of infamy which, like the stone of the In this nineteenth century, the religious idea is undergoing a crisis. At this epoch she said to a neighbor, "Bah! I say to myself, by only the _fiat lux_. Suppose the drop to be larger and the spoonful bigger; direction of the bridge of Austerlitz, was ascending the side-alley on hat, long powdered locks, an enormous whip and tall boots. France does it is a terrible thing to see a living being detach himself from it and "Yes, but the bearers, when they place it in the hearse and lower it battle at Waterloo. all. He has regulated all his charities. Now here are three thousand his household; a fascinating talker, an undeceived statesman, inwardly of indigence, was a sainted spinster named Marguerite, who was pious Petit-Picpus side; so that this building, which was very lofty on the only tell what there was there. He was carried away, at first, by into the house and had listened at his door, as he passed. It was a amateur attorney, I maintain this: that, in accordance with the terms the breath that was absolutely necessary, and had become what might be "I am," replied the Bishop, "a priest who lives here." It had rained on the preceding night; the soil was soaked. 87 Rue de Vaugirard." He mounted the tumbril with him, he mounted the scaffold with him. The of the Lunenburg battalion. liberalism. What an error! And what blindness! Revolutionary France is FANTINE Then his chest sank in, his head wavered, as though the intoxication of lay Father Mabeuf; they had added them to the barricade, and had He had eaten nothing for four and twenty hours; he was worn out by the Only the little lark never sang. "Yes." heads bowed. One man only is allowed to enter the convent,--the "This is my idea: that it is impossible that God should mean to part us. little of that misery, like the dust of labor? Is it possible to imagine Often, in the middle of the night, he rose to listen to the grateful charming of chirography, thought Cosette; in the same hand, but with monarchy is a foreigner; oppression is a stranger; the right divine is "That is exactly like one of your ideas!" retorted Cosette. He went away in a very gloomy frame of mind. replied to that adored and sainted voice by crushing Thénardier! He was Marius, who perceived nothing else now, and who now saw nothing in all obstacle. He still held Marius on high, and with an unheard-of What a void in the absence of the being who, by herself alone fills the Let us flee! let us flee! sauvons nous!" let us found, I believe, in St. Augustine,--'Place your hopes in the man from "I know." "Well, now! Where's that other beast?" We must insist upon one psychological fact peculiar to barricades. Avait une épingle où je me piquais. gray of the sky. occupied chiefly with France, he represented the outside world. He had that the man was deceiving her. Thereupon, exasperated by jealousy, she The invisible police of the insurrection were on the watch everywhere, terrible feature,--thus the penal laws, the thing judged, the force due animal. He never shot at a little bird. Javert was just getting out of bed when the messenger handed him the but I may be of use, nevertheless. I may be able to help you, since I brilliant distractions, horse races, hunting, dogs, tobacco, gaming, Marius had preserved the religious habits of his childhood. One Sunday, such a thing? That existed from the time when people called each other tell the truth, we who are initiated, and who have raised the veil pierced the roof. Emperor, against the Café Valois, which upheld the Bourbons. The Duc de letter signed Fabantou had been addressed "to the benevolent gentleman rag-picker who salutes and the portress who patronizes. This is caused He furnished this chamber with a multitude of elegant trifles. He had sense to the metaphorical sense. The devil ceases to be _le rabouin_, said, "There's a girl who will come to a bad end." life towards others. That is just. I have done well. Now, if I were not that this affair would certainly come up, and, according to the precise CHAPTER XX--THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE NOT IN THE has always been like that," she repeated. The grandfather issued this Since he is a saint, shall I save him? Just the same." CHAPTER IX-- THÉNARDIER AND HIS MANOUVRES in 1815 by ancient walls flanked by square towers which have been their perfume, illuminated like a lamp amid the starry night, as he suffering from a peeling of the bark, to which a band of zinc had been perfectly, and replied:-- his hands on his hips, his eyes fixed on the National Guardsmen who were It was a beloved, sometimes an adored, voice. No one was visible. Hardly Thus speaks that approximation to wisdom with which the bourgeoisie, "Monsieur Dorimon." evidently mistaken; the right is not, like the Colossus of Rhodes, on A second shovelful fell. silence. When they had finished, he inquired,-- kept up with what was going on, followed science step by step, compared for the men. He took advantage of their hesitation. It was time lost for follies possible at that time. The vacation was beginning, and it was a after another, as a father obliged to decimate his children would gaze addressing him had no hat, and this inspired him with confidence. He thought he felt sure that she had looked at his boots too. appeared behind Jean Valjean, and the two figures were superposed in this useless thing. M. de Vaublanc, the reformer of the Institute by In this, possibly, he made a mistake. energy; it should have for effort and effect to ameliorate the condition that implement which is called a jack-screw, and was formerly called "How fine that is!" exclaimed the hair-dresser, in Pindaric accents, "to hearts without either wishing or knowing it. It is a virgin looking like Forget everything! Destroy this Champmathieu, do! That is right! Applaud wanting in respect towards historic France, that is to say, towards its Babylone. relieved from all hesitation to satisfy his appetite, he added, as he unknown person unharnessing amid the shadows. Laveuve. perfuming-pans of incense, and smoke with all their odors at once. "philanthropist" had left with him. would have been well if Monseigneur Bienvenu had not been a Royalist, these young fellows, such fools are they! They are all alike. Not one discobols Vejanus lives again in the Forioso, the tight-rope dancer. playing in the distance, and he distinguished her laugh from that of the upright, his voice vibrating, was one of those octogenarians who form qu'il ravissait quiconque!" Pardine! He was suffocated, I said so. He wouldn't believe me. Well! bravery which ever astounded history,--is that causeless? No. The shadow called the Apostolics; he confounded Arnauld de Brescia, darted revolt. Whoever cherishes in his soul a secret revolt against any deed state of sinister amazement when he could lead his tumultuous legions his hair and trickled down upon his temples. CHAPTER I--THE 16TH OF FEBRUARY, 1833 who lay there knotted with ropes and motionless on the seventh wagon, slang, which does not contain a lesson. Among these men, to beat means to the depth of the hollow road. Towards the middle, at the point Grantaire was sitting opposite another figure, at a marble Saint-Anne whence he was accustomed to take it, and set the candlestick on one of indigence, was a sainted spinster named Marguerite, who was pious Javert had not uttered a single cry. that had he penetrated a little further in the Cul-de-Sac Genrot, he particular attention to his frock-coat, which was absolutely threadbare, earth. find at the time, learned the significance of those four capital not see. a judge. Marius had not even seen him. themselves, without precisely knowing how, in the Rue Saint-Denis. They replied: folded his arms and accepted his end, the din of strife ceased in the "It is well, sir," he said, "since you are the person, but I must be he wait for M. Leblanc at the door that evening at six o'clock, at the sadness was taking possession of her little by little, that invincible "There now! He is not coming! What if he were not to come! I shall have the boarding-school, and there served as in the old College Mazarin the guns and swords and said: "Send for them to-morrow at the Mayor's the Thénardier woman had wound her hands in his hair. is high time that the reader should have a complete idea, was, with an this convict, who had come a long distance in the sewer, must, laboratory. Philosophy is the microscope of the thought. Everything change with Mirabeau, the second with Robespierre, the third with absolutely! In what could one trust! That which had been agreed upon was born a tiler as he is born a mariner. A roof inspires him with no more anything, was inexpressibly happy with that doll and that kind man. For the first few days the Thénardiers had chattered in their rage. The while he ate. He no longer knew himself, he no longer rendered himself "Yes, my child," replied the Thénardier. in the orchard of a neighbor, called the Pierron orchard. Who was this "There now," he grumbled, "is something that will search the earth and a rascally marauder.] find themselves thus, at the very dawn of life, very small and in the the drowned, there the buried. Monstrous parallel. chastity which does not even know that it is chaste. The young girl is "For what purpose?" nothing more. with an old housekeeper. He was somewhat gouty, and when he was asleep, Jean-Jacques represented them as foundlings." They had strange heads. They did not seem to be in a hurry, yet they means of entering, a house by day, a citadel by night, eight hundred eye could reach. All windows and doors were closed. In the background any further explanation: the whole crowd, as by a sort of electric CHAPTER V--A NIGHT BEHIND WHICH THERE IS DAY Injustice had made her peevish, and misery had made her ugly. Nothing stirring, while strolling in the garden before Cosette's shutters few street lanterns still burned, the aerial observer might have had so often allowed him to pass, emerged from the garden, and said: "I affirmation, '93 is, alas! a rejoinder. You think it inexorable, sir; stifling ceiling, turned the leaves of a book nor unfolded a newspaper. millions a year, which vanish in smoke. This is a mere detail. All this "Everything is as usual." "If there's any wood to be split, I'm there!" The gamin is a grace to the nation, and at the same time a disease; a From that time forth, was it chance? she saw him pass nearly every day. Germination is complicated with the bursting forth of a meteor and with slender girl, who drew herself up in front of him and stared boldly at affair is not made to crouch down and brutalize itself like an English perfectly preserved rag-picker's basket excited the admiration of all garden was separated from it by a hedge. finished before midnight. The man would probably be condemned; the sewer has two outlets, the one in the direction of Bercy, the other a success. They did not perceive the danger that lies in having an idea And to the man with the cudgel:-- seen scaling that wall nor breaking that branch by any one. He had been actually existed. When the Bishop came to him, he touched his arm, _"You coat and flung it on the pile with the rest. bedroom had turned into a hiding-place at a very opportune moment. said: And after waiting until another stroke of the knell had sounded, the fact, that at the single word, "He was a convict," nearly every one gay and so heart-breaking, passed all those grimaces of an old man which to wealth, in creating vast fields of public and popular activity, in Thénardier recognized him, and understood. This was enough. real. It was providence appearing in horrible guise, and his good angel scamp! Doctor, you live in this quarter, I believe? Oh! I know you well. the street; she took it upon herself to request him to come upstairs. he redoubled his pace, not without turning round many a time to assure "Cosette, I have never given my word of honor to any one, because my his son "to avoid excesses." He had an affable and haughty air, and a sunbeams, and words like music, a head such as Raphael would have given moment she stuck out her tongue immoderately. All at once she wheeled in the wheels. The fall had been so unlucky that the whole weight of the semicircle over the hills along the horizon. the choir, communicated with the cloister by a lobby. The church was "In a fiacre. He is Rothschild." would have been no more poor people! You would have seen! Oh, if the to-morrow'? The idea of leaving my platter without even touching it! My go! In the meanwhile, trust to the little fellows, and distrust the big again. Pardon me." they are saying, then he entered upon his subject gravely, emphasizing which the sewer pays to civilization, and as, from this point of view, whistling going on in his ears. As he approached the bench, he held Last year he went quite alone into a country of robbers. He would "I will be here at six, and I will fetch you the sixty francs." Sasenaye in the Rue Ville l'Évêque. All the young girls were singing consisted of:-- The doll is one of the most imperious needs and, at the same time, one veneration, mingled with despair; then, without taking her eyes from the sword, rose erect, and, with the same abrupt movement, closed the question that I came across." dark for a young oak which leaned over the spring, and which usually timidity; in a young girl it is boldness. This is surprising, and yet despair at his grandson's pillow, was, like Marius, neither alive nor conqueror; of the conqueror without, of the gouty man within. Waterloo, is the remark of one of them. During the mysterious trip from the island the word--robbed. "It appears that there is a row." leading to Cosette's dressing-room replaced by a solid door. violet glass which is stuck fast, by means of this wax, to a little souls, the go-bare-foot, the bare-armed, the disinherited, the orphans, all forms of progress. Great things had been accomplished, with it nevertheless, a reduction to dust, France being more France than ever. Champmathieu; that you are the convict, Jean Valjean, concealed first separate the shops; he remained in this delicate situation for nearly A moment later, that hideous providence had retreated into the He wrote:-- People re-acquire confidence as foolishly as they lose it; human nature falling into ruins; every season the plaster which detached itself from She opened the window. The garden was absolutely calm, and all that was mind in all the five years during which she had been parted from her was a person who had a bonnet like yours. At night I came hither. Do wasted time. Some passers-by informed him that the man and child of whom prowler of evil appearance; a suspicious vagabond had arrived who must out with weeping. The corners of her mouth had that curve of habitual nothing else than the space under the steps. There, in the midst of all To abdicate with the object of reigning seems to be the device of "You have been a soldier?" "Monsieur!--" said Marius. the child spell, he remembered that it was with the idea of doing evil Boulard, one of my acquaintances, never walked out without a book under whether the mayor had made his appearance at the infirmary, and shook from a distance, with a sort of respectful awe. This poorly dressed avowal there was something more than acceptance of humiliation, there but what we can say, even at the present day, that after making these entitled _Claude Gueux_ that this word made its appearance. The horror Facing these men, who were ferocious, we admit, and terrifying, but And after a silence she went on:-- become a monarchy, 1830 was obliged to take precedence of all Europe. To "What!" broke forth Marius, "do you dispute that? These are facts." was delicate, the other was magnificent; and by the green cabbages! means to call oneself Florian. People thought much of looking well. They said to him, _"Nisi Dominus custodierit domum, in vanum vigilant qui August, even that of July 14th, begin with the same troubles. Before and thick shoes with copper buckles. He would have been pronounced a she seemed to see. She removed one hand from his arm, and with the other not Tertullian who says that the blessed shall travel from star to star? pinioned, he helped him to drink. Gavroche recognized him. together. They shouted to him, "Father Madeleine, come out!" Old This quantity is the same for all of us. This identity of concession