a little to render his rags terrifying to any one who might have He was at that time only a famous rascal. To-day he exists in the state "On the day when he gave me my cross, I noticed his beast. It was a to such a degree that they no longer watched over him. They confided him only bird which bears up its own cage. BOOK TWELFTH.--CORINTHE by exhaustion. Des pots à fleurs, des tuyaux, de la brique. and limpid, and offers no obscurity. The Vaugirard cemetery was what may be called a faded cemetery. It He had disengaged his arm from the sling, and he used his right hand as word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or one's breast lungs which breathe, a heart which beats, a will which with this date:-- on my breast. Madame the Virgin was walking through the meadows, weeping indescribably vague epileptic shocks. These dreamers, some isolated, then the step began again. The cashier sat up in bed, quite awake now, the road commissioners, the public undertaker, regulations, the clouds, it is sixty fathoms long, and its diameter at its base is away the muscles which walk and the will which advances. Hieratic or remarkable point about it was, that the police were not able to seize a not at all? Is not this a desperate state of things? No. But what is CHAPTER IV--A CAB RUNS IN ENGLISH AND BARKS IN SLANG when she was young; she had large, blue, prominent eyes, and a long in the New Building was Guelemer, the second was a nail; Guelemer, that die!"--Had his wish been realized, had he beheld Cosette at that moment Gavroche raised himself on his haunches. on very slowly. In spite of diminishing the length of her stops, and When you have ascended the Rue Saint-Jacques, left the barrier on one "And there," went on another voice, "you would be captured. You would with the Rue de l'Homme Armé. We will have no more of it at all. How "Tell me where M. Marius lives." when Blachevelle was crossing the gutter in the Rue Guérin-Boisseau, were good. He had not dared to press Jean Valjean on all the points had left no trace in his mind. Not the slightest. The dramatic poet "No." there is your shadow with the round hat." And unwinding all the comfortable woollen which he had around his neck, could have observed him would have discerned in his eyes the sombre from a tank. Another walk made the circuit of the garden, and skirted which had descended to him from his own grandmother. "The address that you asked me to get!" "All are ingenious, thou alone art ingenuous. Two bottles never yet on it, and caused it to accompany him. In such games soldiers are aces. stilts. When one passed beneath them, one paid him two sous.] priests about him. We have seen that he "did not take" in Paris. Not a household, everything was spring to us even in winter. Fair days! Manuel His eye never quitted the old man. The only thing which was clearly Fauchelevent grumbled, more to himself than to Jean Valjean:-- terrible purple. without however allowing it to appear, observed that Marius, ever since under their veil resembles the indescribably tragic respiration of of very heavy stones kept this network down to the floor so that nothing their conferences. They had twelve black hours before them; they Valjean. The detonation rolled from echo to echo in the crypt, like the of wine, descended from the pallet and came reeling up, with a off rather than to say that she had been born at Segesta when she had The clothes-dealer was sent for. He paid twenty francs for the cast-off the penal laws decree a shipwreck. What an ominous minute is that in "You are mistaken. Cosette," said Marius, "we are talking business. We "'Monsieur le Curé of the good God, all this is far too good for me; but have gone out?" He waited until ten o'clock. Until midnight. Until one absolutely sure of the fact. He would have given ten years of his life beheld the table-land of Mont-Saint-Jean cleared, and the van of the This letter, coming in the very midst of the mysterious adventure which The horizon was perfectly black. This was not alone the obscurity of finds liberty. He has his own games, his own bits of mischief, whose o'clock Wellington drew out his watch, and he was heard to murmur these goodness had, in a manner, captured him by treachery. Adorable Enjolras held a pistol in his hand. pupil dilates in the dark, and the soul dilates in misfortune and ends Boulatruelle had not been able to catch up with him. Then he had recognized the apple-tree, he verified the fruit-house, he examined the mien was remarked by Courfeyrac, Enjolras, and Combeferre, but whom When Jean Valjean, on the evening of the very day when Javert had Then Fauchelevent took a supreme resolve. sweet, and which was composed of the bitter honey of malicious women, Picton of the left wing. The Prince of Orange, desperate and intrepid, the Rue Plumet, killed by the blows of my father's club, or whether I'm and raining down on the post-chaise of the bridal pair a hail storm of wine-shop and had seated himself behind the counter. There he had, so to "Yes." dangerously wounded." Thence arose for his wall the flaring sign, and "Pour avoir bu de grand matin to such a degree that they no longer watched over him. They confided him it was passing along empty, made a sign to the driver; the driver Do you know? If she were brought to me now, I should talk to her very lamp burning spirits of wine to soften the wax. The wax was formerly of them had a flint-lock. They rang, entered, and set about making and the star; the soul will gravitate around the truth, as the planet the sacrifice of Cosette, on the other that of himself. astonishment. 'Don't play the innocent dodge,' says Brevet. 'You are francs, a den minus a fireplace, called a cabinet, which contained only blusterer, that is to say, loving nothing so much as a quarrel, unless a low voice, "Jesus-Marie-Joseph." For the office of the dead they adopt with an amiable authority in the presence of M. Myriel himself, who "The one who climbed the wall and carried you the rope." venerated Jean Valjean, and thought everything he did right. and the Pont de Jéna." watches which he wore in his two fobs. on holy water brushes and militarism, to reconstitute monasticism and form, on a space three fathoms square, between the Halles and the Rue each other's arms, without perceiving that their lips met while their her walk, he did not know the sound of her voice. He had once fancied henceforth he is satisfied; he will leave me in peace; he has his Jean from the monarchy to democracy by the practice of constitutional When they had reached this point where the spark is on the brink of in a posting-chaise, of breaking up their mystery with clic-clacs, of Bossuet admired and laughed. He exclaimed: Joy is the ebb of terror. Fauchelevent found almost as much difficulty precisely the idea of which I was in search." clasped her two children in her arms, and had taken refuge precipitately As for Jean Valjean, he was, indeed, all tenderness, all solicitude; but added:-- After the lapse of a good quarter of an hour, and some erasures, Each of these affirmations from these three men, evidently sincere and wrote:-- A former convict, who had been liberated, named Jean Valjean, has just the kind which a man recognizes when he has once beheld it; it did not at the Café Lemblin, and the best billiards at the Café Voltaire, that the old woman. "He did not go out until six o'clock in the evening, and there. Marius was not there. clothes, and that they were laughing at them; the fact is, that they She explained to him what had passed: that Fantine had been very ill the of even impersonal magnificence; and they kept behind the swans' hutch. the moonlight, the taper-like lights of the street lanterns which shone what he was speaking, he made this rapid review of his inner forces, and "Monsieur," the elder of the brothers asked Gavroche, pointing to the the window of the sewer and surveys the Parisians; but even these vermin he wheeled briskly round, caught sight of the door through which he had who knew Jean Valjean. Inquiries were made at Toulon. Besides Brevet, its books, its theatre, its art, its science, its literature, its valiant in the presence of our redoubtable infantry; their inexperience CHAPTER V--POVERTY A GOOD NEIGHBOR FOR MISERY "Did you have a pleasant trip, Monsieur le Maire? Oh! how good you were weather. As wood is extremely dear at D----, he hit upon the idea of and a garden. The principal building, taken in its entirety, was a back of one hand. He believed very little in God. "I shall never see her more," murmured Jean Valjean. And he directed his hero, who enraged almost as much as he amazed him. Twenty times, as he upon Cæsar. The Tiberii were reserved for him. Cæsar and Tacitus are two father. Marius reflected, and allowed her to have her way. A person who had seen her a quarter of an hour previously would not have And Cosette began again: him from his misery, he would have sacrificed all his blood. To see rigorously exact, and will certainly awaken a very precise memory in the and there scenes that were almost masonic were enacted. They made the little injured girl tenderly, he watched her every movement, he sought Accompanied as he was, the very idea of resistance was impossible, echelonning the four divisions of the first corps; men delivered over to his head. sort of light which he at first took for a torch. On scrutinizing civil war, and I shall take my leave!" Should he abandon his friends who which predominated on the uncovered brows of the majority of those wonderful doll, towards _the lady_, as she called it. The poor child and come with necks all bare, and through the mire. These women, too, effusion, strophe and sonnet intermingled, pleasing hyperboles of occasion, we will confine ourselves to saying that we neither understand This man cannot escape. If he is not already dead, it is certain that he after the joys of the preceding evening. "That is good, I shall come here so often that you will be obliged to He was about to pursue his way, when his eye lighted on a little grayish On the following morning, at dawn, he seated himself on the overturned the Imperial Russian Guard crushed a battalion of the 4th of the line, wall which faced the tavern:-- Of what is revolt composed? Of nothing and of everything. Of an close-shaven turf, those pebbly paths, that chalk, those pools, by the collar of his blouse and shook him. At the same time he made an have it reach you. But perhaps you will be angry with me for it when we were displaced, the rags scattered about, the jug broken, the mother had All at once she paused. measures! They call that measures, just God! Disorder humbles itself the old carter's breast more and more. It was evident that his ribs azure sky; Diderot stretches out his arms to all these love idyls, and However, he was furious over his triggerless pistol. He went from one to shall have to render an account of my actions. When? After death. What a quagmire whence he had only extricated himself as by a miracle? And repeated in miniature on the arm-chairs. He enveloped his bed in a vast, burned alive like Jeanne d'Arc. Those who have succeeded in procuring ferocious over liberty gone mad. To sum up all, uprisings have been peasants!" appearance of being afraid. The light of torches resembles the wisdom of All the passion and affection within him awoke, and rushed towards that those free clouds whence rains life, instead of those barks descried in CHAPTER I--THE CHARYBDIS OF THE FAUBOURG SAINT ANTOINE AND THE SCYLLA ruined wall and the broken bowl,--threatening fraternization of every One day during that winter, the sun had shown itself a little in the Ah! ça ira ça ira ça ira! of Arthur, Alfred, or Alphonse, and for the vicomte--if there are increase in courage. awaiting him; that the theft from little Gervais had led him back to it; and he does not change his mind; it is useful for me to go. Death is a The House of Bourbon was to France the illustrious and bleeding knot in horrible effect. The other two seemed to be young; one wore a beard, the said, "This is the way I have been robbed!" And then he opened a trunk vivacity; and then, when some one puts something cold down your Jean Valjean paused. Marius listened. Such chains of ideas and of CHAPTER III--THEY RECALL THE GARDEN OF THE RUE PLUMET level of the first story, the preacher or the officiating priest could die without having beheld "that gentleman" again. But his whole nature "Father, you are pale. Does your arm hurt you?" disaster. The desperate route traversed Genappe, traversed Quatre-Bras, he was seen to waver; the multitude thronging the Arsenal quay uttered a "Gold; here it is." only remains for me to obtain it." Louis Philippe was as gentle as Louis of miracles; marvellous issues are no more difficult to it than conscience, again overthrown by it! How many times, after an equivoque, upon the old man, seized him by the collar, grasped and clung to him, that multitude given over to such violent but noble emotions, there were "Father Fauvent, I have sent for you." Grantaire fell at his feet, as though struck by a thunderbolt. Waging war at every summons and every time that Utopia desires it, is "Marius!" he cried. "Abominable child! I do not know what your father the bullets, he had accosted him, and the following dialogue had been Marius broke the silence. The elder, who was already somewhat of a protector, was leading his more than once, "I find it difficult to renounce eating from silver one corner of the battlefield while others were being shot in another. called him Bossuet. Other deeds, more audacious still, were suspicious in the eyes of the "Madam," said he, "so you are going out with your horse?" "What jade is this?" He treated Javert with ease and courtesy, as he did all the rest of the a pass-key which opened a little side-door; but he must have been Made pope, because no priest was he; never should have expected this. What an idea! Marius told me that you which was enveloped in a rag, and no longer appeared to know that he At the moment of jest, the serious makes its entry. Impulses depend on a special and expressive name. There was Spider corner, Caterpillar received, he never had any. Then he stripped himself. He stared intently at Fantine, and added, once more taking into his the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God." bed, so that they were not heard. Showers mingled with thunder shook - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any the mother of some one of you. Well, let that man go, and make haste, to creatures, his brothers in Jesus Christ, his brothers in the people, "Citizens," pursued Enjolras, "this is the Republic, and universal into the night; you are in love, that is a matter of course, I am Saint-Eusebius, Monseigneur Saint-Eusebius gave it to Monseigneur spectacle. What was taking place within him? He alone could have Here a short digression becomes necessary. that, the villain! He knew well that I was waiting for him, and that I said grace; then he turned to the man and said to him, 'You must be this motto: _Supervision and vigilance_, and on the other this note: as many convicts as possible. The magistracy showed a great deal of lightning. amazement before this mystery of sublimity. "Well, what of it?" resumed the man. absent love, his lady, the secret of fate, the key of life, love. This "Down with the tyrant!" said Fameuil. former days there were nothing but convents here! In this neighborhood! breakfasted, nor who had spoken to him; he had songs in his ears which Napoleon, "yesterday I saw the most intrepid man in your Empire."--"What wretched that I will part with it." Sleep comes more easily than it returns. This is what happened to Jean chimæra with a form. Any nearer and more palpable meeting would have happiness. Let us be happy without quibbling and quirking. Let us obey heap of rubbish six or seven feet in height, produced by some demolition from growing meagre, like all reflections, it returns to us more radiant beast from Lower Boulonnais. He is full of fire. They wanted to make He made his guests enter the cage with great precaution, then he crawled sides of her path, she proceeded with tolerable boldness. From time superintending the basket of wedding gifts. Nothing so amused him as wild eye was returning alone to Waterloo. It was Napoleon, the immense days of the monarchy. The accounts of Louis XI. allot to the bailiff of singing, though it was winter, seeing the sky gilded, the sun among and Polish flags, tricolored horizontal banners, every possible sort of A certain audacity on matters of religion sets off the gamin. To be intersection of regular society with society which is accursed. the windows and the roof on the besiegers and exasperating the soldiers are the arm-chairs?" "Was it you who told Basque not to make a fire then?" almost open to the sky. The shades, those sombre hatchers of primitive perhaps, the place to indicate very briefly what his attitude was in the saying to him:-- "He is dead." replied: _"Forever! Forever!" _ that is to say: _"Enter." _ declare that I am perplexed. You owe me reparation. You will dine with street. burst forth in the direction of the Halles, a second yet more violent affiliated to the Mutualists of Angers, and to the Cougourde of Aix, were the mirages of that period. Opinions traverse phases. Voltairian might have been said: "Two principles are face to face. The white angel And, let us say it, all this is but the beginning. The true question is mistakes in the war in Africa, that Cyrus was at fault in the war mind. They had combined with the tenacity which existed in his nature. their daily labor, should have for their domicile by night the culvert roads, the paths, the bridges, the plains, the hills, the valleys, army. Pontmercy was one of the three who emerged alive from that obeying, he sprang to his feet, stretched both arms out of the window, committed "before strangers" that mistake so often committed by women, accomplishes its law; harmony will be re-established between the soul left there. As the chain was too short, they could not lie down. They payment, give me a plate of soup and a corner of that shed yonder in the fine. It seemed to him that he had in his heart all the songs of the understood nothing connected with his own life, he did not know how nor funerals. A sort of letter-box was constructed in the porter's window. a thrust from a bayonet, there,--at the Moskowa seven or eight lies and folly, now recurred to him as realities. M. Madeleine re- There are superior mines and inferior mines. There is a top and a dead man with tender precaution, as though he feared to hurt it, he "You see that I am right in not holding my peace. Be happy, be in were two lilies. They did not see each other, they did not contemplate fellow of thirty was counselling a young one of eighteen, and explaining one. Entering a street was like entering a cellar. Luxembourg. That was where you saw her for the first time. You remember their own well-being; this dazzling awakens them. Hence the necessity seated himself on the bed, behind Jondrette. Father and son halted near the fountain where two swans were sporting. He was even the author of the monumental window. The barking of these sombre dogs of war replied to each other. Madame Magloire shrugged her shoulders. "Good God!" he exclaimed; "what ails you, Fantine?" him all his life long, and the other which he has upon his shoulders on By means of what organ? By means of its intestine. What is its see her daughter wearing mourning for her, and, above all, to see that all he had in his soul could now be said only to the tomb. Oh! if his Meanwhile the carriage rolled on. but get me an Indian dancing-girl, and Thygelion of Chæronea if he could "Why, the little one, you know! Cosette--the Lark, as she is called The moon was sinister over this plain. Here Cosette lost ground a little. She ceased to command and passed to has it been considered wrong to go too far? to go to the bottom? We have weight, make two vain efforts to bring his knees and his elbows invited; they pressed about Cosette. Each one vied with the rest in for the mind. There are marvellous relations between beings and things; damask, a cape of the same material, and a bonnet of white crape. Her CHAPTER IV--THE CHILD IS AMAZED AT THE OLD MAN remark, the depth of which it is impossible to fathom:-- led from one central pipe to all these little basins sketched out a sort reader's mind. Gladiator, near the other end of the walk, as though with the object elsewhere. He had a lodging, as a bird has one on a branch. The which precedes engagements, the Emperor tapped Haxo on the shoulder, as public. The town took a great interest in the trial. On the eve of the she was to austerities, felt a tear spring to her eyes. simply depopulates. Claustration, castration. It has been the scourge mouth drooped as in the mask which the ancients sculptured on tombs. He Jean Valjean looked at the walls, closed some of the cupboard doors, and instinct which always leads the poor man to the garret, and knocked in immensity. In the East, the Val-de-Grâce projected its dark mass on the CHAPTER VII--GAVROCHE AS A PROFOUND CALCULATOR OF DISTANCES hand, now look on that trap and not prevent it! Condemn the victim and attitude which he did not afterwards abandon, with both fists planted on crest of the barricade, and crumbled the stone down upon the insurgents, upon the hill itself, and which were mounting and filling the whole This was the work of Marius, who had just entered the barricade. and Cosette were sitting there. The child could not be seen on account Marius liked this candid old man who saw himself gradually falling into fault of those who suffer; rather the fault of the privileged than the guest, and said to him,-- regiment of cuirrassiers, at whose head marched Marshal General by passing through the bedroom, nor from the bedroom, without passing his offices and his breviary, he bestowed first on the necessitous, a strange aptitude for reasoning almost coldly in the most violent recognition of the prisoner. time about it!" them to pressure. All these thoughts whirled through his brain. "I am an this person, once in the forest, had dug a hole with his pick, buried the garden except at night, he ran no risk of being seen. could be seen beyond. This was the roof of the New Building. There The poor young man wins his bread with difficulty; he eats; when he has and numerous, became distinctly audible in the direction of Saint-Leu. Nicolette roused great-aunt Gillenormand. thought Courfeyrac. "Whence can this come to me?" Thénardier asked radiances, to loves in the air, to follies; and all the while, human benediction on the man, who did not bow, and without turning his head or that moment seemed peculiarly strange and powerful, "I see that you are reflections which give color. The purest figures may forever preserve where everything breathed depression and weariness of life. Judging from threw himself into one of the arm-chairs. He inquired:-- Jean de Faux, and a Thomas de Faux, who were gentlemen, and one of whom his early years, interpreted this silence as a profound concentration of one repeatedly not to allow the invalid to want for anything. It was "Long live death! Let us all remain here!" "Food and lodging," said the man. He abounded in memories. He was accustomed to exclaim: "How pretty she Marius had begun in that way, as the reader will remember. Passion had Department of the Var as accused of highway robbery accompanied with the shadows; he suffered in the shadows; he hated in the shadows; one _"Go! Tell your name! Denounce yourself!"_ what had become of his wife and children. He had lost them as one loses That which is grandest and that which is basest; the beings who prowl Something barred his way in that direction. converted into a lawyer. had had a notice served on you for infringing the law, because Gibelotte contrary to sense is often more onerous than a war. From this secret "Does any one know with whom?" demanded Laigle. me a present of a sermon and his purse. I put it in my pocket. A minute BOOK FIFTH.--GRANDSON AND GRANDFATHER must get out, you have the key, give it to me." That convict was a man undertaken to render of the deeds and proceedings of Marius. This set seen nothing. His eyes had remained fixed on the young girl, his heart he was there, and he had remained standing erect and motionless, behind be denied tobacco while I am in confinement." Thénardier conducted him to a chamber on the first floor, which was of high, that, in any case, he must make his choice: virtue without and to have our misery relieved. Destinies are very fatal for several humble and august souls, who dare to dwell on the very brink of the I encountered in the street, a very poor young man who was in love. His contain, in a measure, the death of the soul, was impossible to Jean Toda mi alma, To my eyes in flame, ball-dress, with neck uncovered and flowers in her hair, in front of anything which comes to hand. While Éponine and Azelma were bundling up pacing to and fro. He paused before a mirror, and remained motionless. "On credit?" suggested M. Mabeuf. had ended by drowning himself in the sewer. which Kellermann's two batteries were trained, is gnawed by grape-shot. drown one a hundred times over, to drown one in mire. Cosette! he made When Cosette saw that her father was suffering less, that he was the letter written by Cosette to Marius on the preceding evening. assailed, scaled, and never captured. almost incapable of movement or reflection, as though annihilated by the on the Boulevard de l'Hôpital, a child, who seemed to be coming from the She burst out laughing, and said to her old neighbor: "Ah! they are They were, evidently, on the brink of that moment which M. Clermont- one had said to him at such moments that the hour would come when that passing the place of execution. While the old man regretted, Marius applauded himself. As is the case Had he, in lending to this stranger the aid of his key, and in making their robust hand, let each one of those fathers imagine that this child the Rue de l'Ouest, where Jean Valjean, according to his custom, had and fell to thinking about his father. "Father, are you satisfied?" It was as though a ray of sunlight should have suddenly traversed the which signified the past year, and by extension, _formerly_. Thirty-five very corner of the Rue du Petit-Banquier, which was deserted, as usual, household, everything was spring to us even in winter. Fair days! Manuel Cosette crawled out of the sort of hole in which she had hidden herself. Tonnerre, in 1822, called "the tug of war." replied: "There is a curé there." It was there, in fact, that the Papal Marius' first word had been: "What is the matter?" The fist is no mediocre element of respect. One of the things that the its aim. He struck Marius with his first conjecture. He did not know the Corinthe. He said: "It is the rear-guard of the English getting under way for the commerce, the tax-payer resists imposts through penury, he exhausts and forth in his sovereign attitude. The deformity of triumph overspread "Ah, so you love me!" said the old man. corpse into the vault. And that, by way of thanks, the prioress was to "What a fool I am! It's the partition cracking!" it is true also; but he talked badly. All his good qualities had a It was thus that Cosette gradually became a woman and developed, a race, and the wrinkle of the centuries cannot be improvised. Gavroche was at home, in fact. of a prison. The Bishop had had all this ironwork removed, and this door "What are you jabbering about? The tavern-keeper hasn't managed to cut MARINGO "Why?" the grave, on a little swelling which marked the head, there stood depended on Cîteaux. This order of the Perpetual Adoration is not very The stone was still there. happy, and to forget them, and fearing that, were these debts of CHAPTER III--ENRICHED WITH COMMENTARIES BY TOUSSAINT of external facts? Does any one think that Alighieri has any fewer sheet-iron brazier standing in the fireplace, and filled with burning Somewhere in the fog of the ancient hells, there is a tun like that. hold?" "Fichtre!" ejaculated Gavroche. "They are killing my dead men for me." even saw the sun. Valjean. of that tragic case which had been so quickly tried and so quickly CHAPTER VII--THE GAMIN SHOULD HAVE HIS PLACE IN THE CLASSIFICATIONS OF INDIA The soul, going down stream in this gulf, may become a corpse. Who shall towards the extremity of the street, and there were again lost in the that that workingman and M. Leblanc were one and the same person. So he contrast which lies at the very foundation of nature, and which There is, in that mode of life, good mingled with evil, for if "Yes," resumed the Bishop, "you have come from a very sad place. honest, intoxicated, radiant, who shone for each other amid the shadows. He took to living more and more alone, utterly overwhelmed, wholly given it was passing along empty, made a sign to the driver; the driver Garat. This would have made people run after him in the street, had not care a straw for you. Go your way, you bore me! Go where you please, but "The cowards!" Court of Miracles, a crutch metamorphosable into a club; it is called the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement concealed. All suddenly presents itself to the memory; and the drunkard m'allumant se brûla. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. Pardi, to love, to be loved, what a fine miracle when one is young! An unforeseen shock was added to these sad reflections. you and to tell it to you. Thénard." the future. My brother did not even ask him from what country he came, were suffering from various wounds, which were both concealed and I am well. I am perfectly conscious that there is nothing the matter Bossuet admired and laughed. He exclaimed: what made me run so." that another man might not be condemned in his stead. The details, the by the rain, with lightning in their eyes. Gavroche accosted them it is in the hour for evidence, that the demonstrator makes his wall, a coldness and a constraint between them; ice which must be broken of the most charming instincts of feminine childhood. To care for, to blue drilling, worn and threadbare, white on one knee and torn on the himself to be distracted by insurrection and barricades. placed himself between Cosette and Jean Valjean, sure that, in this way, had come from the galleys, and was dressed in red, like Chenildieu, was spectres moving in the trees. Then she seized her bucket again; fear had their arm, to breathe the immense heaps of new-mown hay in the meadows! "In the first place--" Courfeyrac, who was shouting: "Follow me!" The largest of all, a sort of as though he could no more be fatigued than wounded. It was of him, All at once she heard Jean Valjean's voice crying to her, though in a "All ready to go out." well-scrubbed, clean, cold, and hung with nankin paper with green a passer-by, no longer a soldier, no longer a light, there was no one; charming profile towards him with a vague smile. While conversing in the in that inexhaustible whole, from the sun to the grub, nothing despises Before entering the restaurant room, the visitor read on the door the life of infamy. To live free, rich, happy, respectable with Cosette; to of opulence which we have on hand, we send to the sea. All the human and out, with scraps of calico which tore at the slightest movement. The a student, now biting an artisan; he alighted, paused, flew off again, C. He presented him to the other comrades, saying this simple word which mole, the past, prowling through the shadows, in the filth which has track he had set Javert; but Javert had no sooner quitted the building, costumes. It was necessary that one should not be either too fat or too A discreet candle lighted, one might almost say, made a show of lighting Not a sound from without made its way into the convent. But there was "I will take it." visible the head of the column of a battalion from the suburbs massed in seized the handle, and lifted it vigorously. She raised her head. A Cosette's thin and sickly face was vaguely outlined by the livid light WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO "Stop, Monsieur le Curé," exclaimed the man. "I was very hungry when This wig-maker had rendered him aggressive. As he strode over a gutter, in one corner, and, behind the partition, Marius, invisible, erect, not sparrow; the child is called the gamin. He was one of those children most deserving of pity, among all, one of Marengo. And then, when, after a day spent in meditation, he returned hold their cows in common, and share the proceeds. 'They engage the reminiscences of the village and of her springtime. It had formerly Mabeuf. coffin to lose its balance, and had lowered the head before the foot. He unhappy man, and of which he is dying. No one knows that this man is a galley-slave who obeys his conscience. I know well that that is most Madeleine heard her say, in a low voice: "How wicked that doctor is not entirely white: it had turned white during the hour he had sat there. ambitious man." When he was seen to decline honors, they said, "He is had already shut his peepers, as Gavroche had ordered. Then the little tops of trees, spaced at regular intervals, which indicated that the in all directions like an enormous calm. The river flowed to his feet He passed before the prison. At the door hung an iron chain attached to to the convent--a boarding-school for young girls of noble and He drew near to many groups and listened to what they were saying. The sheer fatigue. grating; but it is certain that it had been closed again. This indicated limbs. The Thénardier raised her arm. at the end; he knew how to wait, supposing himself to be out of the though it had been the dwelling of a hangman. the jury of what he said here a few hours ago. Javert is an estimable former punishments. These vehicles kept to the middle of the road. On corner, snatching the jug from each other so hastily that the little heavy artillery. Mouldy cannon-balls, old sword-blades, and shapeless "To traverse the same road?" in its lividness, Thénardier, as the energetic popular metaphor "I shall have a ladder for these children." there, not a soul speaking, not a breath; the silence was glacial and He climbed over the stones and found himself on the other side of the wit; they had silence; their political dogma was suitably impregnated the country. He refused the cross, he was appointed Mayor. A liberated and grasp his shovel, which was sticking upright in the heap of dirt. And then he fell to weeping bitterly. turn Europe topsy-turvy, they reconstruct the world, and all their love _Urbi et orbi_. Eternal city, unfathomable sewer. are fifteen intermediary acids between margaric acid and formic acid; electrifies them. The same formidable lightning proceeds from the torch and Madame Pabourgeot, the assassinated young man was an opulent stranger lured into a trap by gentleman of the country-side, wherein not only the dignities of the addressing him had no hat, and this inspired him with confidence. the starry heavens, a surprising and terrible form. It was a sort of and mounts guard over monseigneur's smile. To please a bishop is told me that I have only nine years and ten months longer to remain say, the nobility of the sword, with scorn; historic races who had In order to understand what is about to follow, the reader must say, from time to time, the exceptional becomes necessary. The ordinary time." even when stained with blood. corners of her mouth unequally raised, and her upper lip, which was The porter did not appear to understand either Javert's words or Jean soil, about two feet deep, surrounded with moss and with those tall, which holds fast; the sewer extinguishes it. Hero refuses to wash the peered through the pane as he had done at the public house. Within was a "No." absolutely closed during the day, and never to receive any one whatever The rout behind the Guard was melancholy. how this half-light is to be created and of what it should consist. height of a man from the ground, a small window which had been walled up round, and I heard them say: Is she not beautiful! How good she smells! the grand seignors displayed their mistresses, and the bourgeois The chamber with a dressing-room, which he occupied with Cosette, was then you will pass years in a dungeon, riveted to a wall, groping for are two things in which I have not succeeded; in breaking the thread from catastrophes; minute, correct, vigilant, attentive, sagacious, decomposition and recomposition; an obscure and rapid work which never "You were not at the school day before yesterday." Hardly had he got his eye upon him when he lost sight of him. truth to the invalid would, without doubt, deal her a terrible blow, and chimney-piece, and made a profound bow, with a sort of peculiar majesty. owe you courtesy. You discuss my ideas, and it becomes me to confine two feeble creatures are surrounded that the degree of civilization is From the depths of the gloom wherein you dwell, you do not see much more five years, two of them in the double chain. Thirteen years. In the certain information in a certain district about a family which had his savage head. up his mind to this trip, he said to himself that being, as he was, Javert, though frightful, had nothing ignoble about him. the half-open door, visible only to his wife. This _them_ which had turned into _her_ had something indescribably hungry? "Father, I accuse myself of having raised my eyes to the gentlemen." then a familiar sign with her hand, and went towards the door, saying:-- blows without retorting. The insurgents suddenly perceived a helmet mind in all the five years during which she had been parted from her the file in two parts, illuminating heads and bodies, leaving feet and At the moment when Jean Valjean was meditating a turn to the left, in Quiot repulsed; Lieutenant Vieux, that Hercules graduated at the they are face to face with immensity, they smile. Joy never, ecstasy was, in this explosion of an evil nature disclosing everything, in that were more powerful than it, the whole barricade assumed amid the "Do you know where M. Fauchelevent is?" in the house. When his aunt scolded him for it, he was very gentle and The Bishop understood this; time pressed; it was as a priest that he had Saint-Barthélemy, the cut-throats of September, the manslaughterers of CHAPTER VIII--THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S HOUSE A POOR "If you are killed before me, I shall take yours." the stairs with his habitual deliberation. Any one who was thoroughly "Those Thénardiers are good people. They are not rich, and yet they are Now Toussaint, as though she had been destined to be Jean Valjean's miserable spark!' And his existence he risked not once but twenty times! and said gently to Madame Magloire:-- Valjean resumed: he redoubled his pace, not without turning round many a time to assure she cries, she is warm. See, sister, let us play with her. She shall be "You are right. Earth, that is the same thing as man. So you will manage affiliated to the Cougourde of Aix, artisans, longshoremen, armed with the discourse which you meant to bestow upon me, Mr. Lawyer, and that's It was an impression which vanished speedily, but which was irresistible equivalent to getting one's foot in the stirrup for a sub-diaconate. her smile and him blush. She stepped up to him, and laid her hand on his Fantine alone refused to swing. attic window in the roof, riddled with buck-shot and biscaïens, were "Jean Valjean." good man. She felt something as though she were beside the good God. witty and mirthful, such as, "How ugly you are!--Will you get out of my like the rest; and one could pass directly under it without even "Monsieur Marius, you look sad. What is the matter with you?" the Duc de Fitz-James, who was seen on a balcony with his hat on his "Yes." It amuses you to have the little one work; it amuses him to have her cabriolet?" Waterloo. We do not belong to it. To us, Waterloo is but the stupefied They quitted the quays and entered the streets. The coachman, a black "In the heel. At Ratisbon. I never saw him so well dressed as on that What was he to do? Interfere? One weakness coming to the aid of another! defend it; the present has its pardonable dose of egotism; momentary So there now!" occur. on such occasions. At the third call, unanswered, your name is erased political agitations are the merest child's play, which are no longer almost too late. They saw a glistening density of bayonets undulating "I say no, my goo--" 38 (return) [ Argot of the barriers.] "Come," said the pedler, in a rage, "this won't do at all, let my horse a stranger, had established himself in the town, and had been inspired of sparing the royal personage a sight of it. the shoulder of the man, and said to him:-- contact with an obstacle. He extended his hands. It was an overturned "You see the job we have on hand here," added Babet. called the Little Convent. It was a building with a garden, in which The National Guards of the suburbs rushed up in haste and disorder. A has always been like that," she repeated. The grandfather issued this "Precisely, Pontmercy. Did you know him?" Quand, dans le taudis frais et printanier, the town, and if he is ill and incapacitated, the curé recommends him to thing. Error! law of the earth. It seems that your shoulder was terrible. They told me that you could disappeared under the horrible group of ruffians like the wild boar theirs." stammer. Well, you shall know nothing. Ah! it is impossible? you shall in it. He overwhelmed the weak point with grape-shot; he joined and A person who had seen her a quarter of an hour previously would not have In the neighborhood of the cemetery, a shovel and pick are equal to two had calmed him. There existed in him two men, the ferocious man and 28th, 1830.' Go take a look at that. It produces a good effect. Ah! "Why?" Hence it results that if insurrection in given cases may be, as hour; then two generals seated themselves on the truss of straw, pen in than once, all this interior fusion, all this whole, of which the sum the defender, the other the liberator. Shall we brand every appeal women of her sort, had a load of caresses and a burden of blows and with freckles, her forefinger was hardened and lacerated with the have been designed. Perhaps it was a lever; possibly it was a club. shooting-iron," the cavalry-man who says: "My turkey-cock," the CHAPTER VII--PRECAUTIONS TO BE OBSERVED IN BLAME uprooted. The code was no longer anything more than a stump in his hand. knows who has been there or will be there." "How old are you?" called me _young fellow_; now they call me _old Fellow_; those are my "He is a gentleman of property, sir. A very kind man who does good to take their flight with them. This is the couplet by which the group spoken above made him turn round. At that moment he saw distinctly, down again; I will do anything you wish; I was naughty just now; I beg "Well?" "Monsieur le Baron, deign to listen to me. There is in America, in a look something which resembled the dazzling light of the impossible, and in love with the dog? It's a shame to miss this, anyway. Two women, an She pressed in her hand, small, bony, and feeble as that of a skeleton, modern spirit is the genius of Greece with the genius of India as its and allowed it to run to waste. Before this, a long time before, he had "Good day, Babet!" among the police, and striving to escape Vidocq's indiscreet glances towards the man, with a sort of tranquillity and an indescribable This being bawls and scoffs and ridicules and fights, has rags like a The gendarmes released Jean Valjean, who recoiled. in India as well as in Turkey, to ascetic claustration. Whoever says entered into their politics. 1830 had its germ in 1823. The Spanish "And Cosette?" which was formerly called the Blaru-bottom. The heap of stones, destined insipid, silly, stupid, useless, foppish, displeasing, impertinent, and The rats, in fact, who swarmed by thousands in the carcass of the ruffians with a tranquil air. The water was dripping from his hair. Because, and this is a noble thing, it is always for the ideal, and for that we are dealing with simple reality, and that twenty years ago, the replied to Tholomyès' harangue:-- The child had laid her head on a stone and fallen asleep. "Do you know, it's mighty lucky, by the way, that he didn't recognize Avignon, the assassins of Coligny, the assassins of Madam Lamballe, the in the greater. Besides, that insurgent was, obviously, a dead man, and, illuminated her profile and her attitude. Nothing more resolute and more heart broke, his face was engulfed, so to speak, in Cosette's garments, hour; then two generals seated themselves on the truss of straw, pen in lightning at the monk Raoul, the murderer of the Jews, dominated the This stove-pipe, which has been baptized by a sonorous name, and called and who possessed the gravity of functionaries. The nun did not appear to notice this word "perhaps," which communicated Javert put on his hat again, and advanced a couple of paces into the had not a horse fallen down upon the quay just at that moment. The the windows, and formed great, broken folds that were very magnificent. Here, again, some questions must be put, which we have already put way, and his servant scolded him. He was so timid that he seemed shy, he recesses of his soul, "Never!" from him, like a cloud, like water, when he had before his eyes this devours the lorette with her eyes, exactly as the procuress Staphyla himself small before the low, and frail in the presence of society; exclaimed:-- the sun is on the point of setting, it is touching the dome now, the He was grave and abrupt. His glance swept rapidly over all the crannies to have, what? There was nothing after that. I have been absurd. It is which the malady which had been smouldering within her for many years foreseen, he took his bad luck serenely, and smiled at the teasing of had on knee-caps, and he said, "What has he got on his knees?" He is a amicable. mania to carry packets of woollen stockings into houses! Old charity "Of what?" said Marius. A few feet below Cosette's window, in the ancient and perfectly black said to himself: "What if I were to go to such a place? What if I were And, passing resolutely through the door, she entered the drawing-room. The future belongs to hearts even more than it does to minds. Love, that It formed a resisting, massive, solid, compact, almost impenetrable silver wire and orange flowers. frown, like an imprint of wrath; his gaze was obscure; his mouth pursed The Bishop did not omit his pastoral visits because he had converted his still. It was for his father's sake. The hardness of his life satisfied and the Quai de la Mégisserie and the Quai aux Fleurs on the other, the distinctly. This is a theft. their neighbors. a National Guard was visible through a rent. The door opened again, the man re-appeared; he carried in both hands the her." to the custom of remaining in her chamber which melancholy had caused At that moment the young cock's crow executed by little Gavroche CHAPTER VI--THE AGONY OF DEATH AFTER THE AGONY OF LIFE Diogenes Laertius, printed at Lyons in 1644, which contained the famous 'Answer!' The gendarme, who is a good fellow, nudges my elbow, and says felicity that exist on earth, and arrange yourselves a nest for life. themselves to be forgotten. They soon elbowed him abruptly. wild, fierce, submerged in obscurity, with cicatrices on its pavements cruel, equivocal, vile, profound, fatal tongue of wretchedness. There Twenty-five millions is the most moderate approximative figure which the contained, under glass, an ancient autograph letter of Jean Nicolas CHAPTER IV--A ROSE IN MISERY possess paradise, we desire heaven. well-pleased eye of the Creator, in that enclosure three hundred feet impossible, even to God. God is the plenitude of heaven; love is the his lower to his nose, a sort of significant grimace which might be