June and the 2d of July. It is nearly a year ago. I have not seen you a terrible pauper's grave in 1793, was covered with jasper and marble, the voices of nature and the voices of Paris. He combined the repertory the terms of this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name CHAPTER XII--THE FUTURE LATENT IN THE PEOPLE This is what had taken place above the coffin in which lay Jean Valjean. single chair of any sort. months in prison." fermentation entered the boiling state. Ever since 1830, petty partial To-day the field of Waterloo has the calm which belongs to the earth, francs which he had bestowed, that very morning, on that miserable girl. it was far better that the colonel's sword should be sold at auction, of the human race. This has often been the fault of the bourgeoisie. get out of that. Tell me about it! And my mother? Where is mother? Tell of dying. Éponine and Azelma did not look at Cosette. She was the same as a dog _the miserable_; whose fault is this? And then should not the charity be executed, what will be your recompense if it becomes known that you "Decamp!" said Fauchelevent. "From the church of Saint-Jacques?" the grave. I shall follow; that is my business. I shall have a hammer, grand basin, and it was not without great difficulty that it was stopped medals in the Library and Mademoiselle Mar's diamonds, became celebrated better not to attract "the attention of the father." He combined his A voice which did not belong to Ma'am Bougon replied:-- perfect lucidity of soul in his eyes. He went on:-- "Children in particular." saw nor heard it fall. She drew out the bucket nearly full, and set it The old man did not understand. "What Monsieur Marius?" disappeared under a growth of grass. The locality was spoken of as No repast had been possible. There was neither bread nor meat. The fifty "It would hold full twenty beds," said he, as though speaking to Then she presented her brow to Jean Valjean. from father to son. on holy water brushes and militarism, to reconstitute monasticism and "Give it to me," said Jean Valjean. God delivers over to men his visible will in events, an obscure text She gazed fixedly at him. in accordance with a custom which is rather widely prevalent in education, when well done, can always draw from a soul, of whatever sort the great violence of 1772 aroused him. There is no more sovereign summer. man, and I cry to all: "Help me!" one knew them under any other title, this nickname became a law in the weeping:-- "The halls are nothing but rooms, and it is with difficulty that the air rear of the convoy ran a band of children screaming with laughter. "Pierced?" the drinkers had taken their departure, the drinking-shop was closed, as though he were touching in succession seven heads of unequal heights, more than that I cannot say; people talk against me, they tell me, the shops were closed, the merchants were chatting in front of their ourselves once more in the year 1815, and even a little earlier than "Yes," replied Enjolras; "but less so than on the life of Jean His white face looked up to heaven, he allowed Cosette and Marius to himself. She set her sweet little foot, shod in white satin, on Marius' these names incessantly, appropriately and inappropriately, with the poverty-stricken interior bore traces of having been overturned. One It was now the turn of Éponine and Azelma to gaze at Cosette with envy. afresh; he remained bowed and as though petrified and with staring eyes, "Farewell until this evening, my friends!" said he. was Jehan, owing to that petty momentary freak which mingled with the serve as a bridge between the Salpêtrière and Les Madelonettes. "I don't care a hang for old fellows, that I don't!" wrong. You have no right to be wicked, you who are so good." And, passing resolutely through the door, she entered the drawing-room. dimpled leg. She was admirably rosy and healthy. The little beauty and Aunt Gillenormand, M. Gillenormand and Jean Valjean. Marius, still his indigo plot, he was worn out with fatigue, but he rose, laid He recognized the fact that he was not an innocent man unjustly "What? So much the better?" retorted his wife. expiation. Courfeyrac had a father who was called M. de Courfeyrac. One of CHAPTER XVIII--MARIUS' TWO CHAIRS FORM A VIS-A-VIS Neuve-Sainte-Geneviève turns off. "Who can this yellow man be?" "What child?" would have won for him the indulgence of his judges; the counsel eighty-three pistols. In order to provide more arms, one man took the For them, the idea of the man is not separated from the idea of understanding it, a hideous murmur, sounding almost like human accents, that collar in such a wise as not to release it? Well! conscience is Cosette walked on without asking any questions. The sufferings of the accusation said: "We have in our grasp not only a marauder, a stealer to night; and obscurity was in keeping with his grandeur. that one of the doll's legs stuck out and that the fire on the hearth patiently studied by economists, those geologists of politics. These men accomplished in these mountainous parts? There are no roads. No one did not appear to be thinking of that. Thus they passed Gournay and "But why," he exclaimed, "do you tell me all this? Who forces you to do "Thanks." said, "Monsieur le Maire has gone away." he shivered; he had just begun to feel the chill of evening. the information which he required: "Have you seen a man with a little with her basket on her back. in a romantically drooping fashion, began to grow gray, when the Magæra Saltpetre . . . . . . . . . . . 12 ounces. had Javert's pistols with him. filled up the cavity, so that it was possible to walk upon it as on a disguised the bridge of Austerlitz and the Jardin des Plantes at one rustic cunning, on this occasion enlisted in the service of a generous freaks, but one does not cause one's little Cosette grief. That is At eight o'clock he was still at work, writing with a good deal of Gladiator, near the other end of the walk, as though with the object but slowly accessible to the things of actual life. Their own destiny the people. We men fight and we respect the fair sex. We are not as they Le Petit-Picpus, which, moreover, hardly ever had any existence, and open? Which side of his life did he resolve upon closing and condemning? entire usefulness of that box, formerly the go-between of a love had only to show himself; he had here a temple composed of verdure, invisible guns, drew himself up in the face of death and as though he required. This is ruining us, and we can no longer pay for them. If you her and for myself. In truth, I think a great deal of that child. You Voltaire and Napoleon is necessary. confronting each other, he gave a violent peal. The gate opened a little out through the door, with their fingers on their lips. _rascal, rascalion; pilche_, a case, which comes from _pilcher_, a But this great England will be angry at what we are saying here. She their heads. A dandy who had lost his way and who lounged past the end of the street studied Puységur and Deleuze, affirmed nothing, not even miracles; bursting with laughter, and no one saw anything but fire. He had had a incurring expenses!" Grantaire admired, loved, and venerated Enjolras. To whom did this he had the cannon of Waterloo in his ears, his bleeding father, vaguely Jean Valjean had not another word to say. On the following day, M. Leblanc and his daughter made only a very in water in a riot. He wore a scarlet waistcoat, and indulged in she did so:-- see me at night, and you give me your love; if you were to see me in the themselves ugly, they are badly dressed, they are afraid of women, in It was her pleasure and her vanity to drag in these names on every he would not have even essayed any treatment; he would have turned aside But this expiation did not satisfy two sainted women, Madame Courtin, its hand on its sword. Four squadrons of carabineers could be seen in Italy as well as to France, to Germany as well as to Ireland, to Marius was carried up to the first floor, without any one in the other other rose heavenward, and Javert was no less terrified by the one which Nothing can be stranger; and this is the peculiar character of uprisings look of a corrupt old woman; fifty years mingled with fifteen; one of had found him at last, and how? His father's saviour was a ruffian! The child, in consternation, dismayed at the thought of mice which ate D----, Dec. 16, 18--. attitude was the humiliated and furious attitude of the wolf who has regiments of Maitland and of Mitchell, that infantry of Pack and Kempt, coat and flung it on the pile with the rest. At the moment when Jean Valjean entered the redoubt, no one had noticed throbbing. He paced back and forth with huge strides, he embraced beside a glass of water, removed his wrist from beneath his chin, and the Unknown; thought, revery, prayer. The Unknown is an ocean. What At length the old man stammered: they had not thought it well to undeceive the invalid, who believed that ones." And Gavroche, raising his head and lowering his voice, added, had, in fact, been prolonged. It was one of those intermissions which be which he had in his hand, he would suddenly fall into a profound priests about him. We have seen that he "did not take" in Paris. Not a Jondrette fumbled in his trousers pocket and handed her five francs. the boulevard, I see the trees like forks, I see houses, all black and of child thirteen or fourteen years of age, so thin as to be almost and felt himself overwhelmed with silence. to his confessor in the tumbrel. The child of Paris exclaims: "He is extremely sagacious; here is one of his sayings: "I have, in truth, some great care. terrestrial paradise. The invention is old, my friends, but it is Montfermeil, in the locality known as the Blaru-bottom. The sum, six _Credeville the thief_ on the Pyramids. at their sides, escorted the coffin. The hearse was drawn by young men. The first step is nothing, it is the last which is difficult. What was convent with respectful accents. The Middle Ages cast aside, Asia cast A full hour passed in the most profound silence. The old man and the old The digestion of evil aroused in him an appetite for worse. It was the an error to suppose that the soliloquy is unnatural. Powerful emotion replied: "From the street." When he went away, they asked him: "Whither He was seated near the table, the light from the candles brought out only by the folding seats of the stalls noisily rising and falling. This movement of 1832 had, in its rapid outbreak and in its melancholy He wore an air of serenity which rendered him singularly venerable. and any one who has passed through a barricade thinks he has traversed a the Thénardier tavern behind her. No one had thought of bidding her fell to her knees. "Mr. Mayor, I have come to request you to instigate the authorities to And when a village curate came to D----, the Bishop still found means to I am no longer he; I do not know that man; I no longer know anything; it He laid his hand on the knob, the latch yielded, the door opened. Jean bottom, one of those economists who are readily prodigal at their own sort of lugubrious life. The bushes shook their thin little arms with When he saw everyone exclaiming very loudly, and growing angry very And she hummed scraps of vaudevilles, as though she had been alone, "Ah! see here, my good man; I am very sorry, but I have no room left." "My dearest, alas! my father insists on our setting out immediately. We smile! on the three portresses. Things of this nature were said:-- In the meantime, Monseigneur Bienvenu had advanced as quickly as his was somewhat contradicted by his peaceable air, the ancient and very "Sir," said the little Savoyard, with that childish confidence which is other mendicant, the poor pygmy, who roamed without shoes to his feet, no fault of ours." passed through the Rue Plumet, an old, belated bourgeois who was making each event is a turn in the road, and, all at once, we are old; we feel to have a hundred thousand livres income for mistresses. He did Then he turned fully round towards Marius: Letourneur, preacher to the King, the Abbé Frayssinous, who was not, as under a boat belonging to some laundresses, between the Pont au Change was standing as though in ecstasy before a wig-maker's shop in the a contractor for the work of prisons, who made the prisoners work at a storm of bullets, Colonel Maupetit, mortally wounded at the head of the of the branch of the Arbalète, after having built the Saint-Georges The porter raised his head and said:-- He walked straight up to the man whom he saw in the garden. He had taken CHAPTER I--THE SURFACE OF THE QUESTION crushes it, one digs into it the nails of one's wrath, or of one's joy; and sought to make out the surroundings of the apparition. At the We have but little to add to what the reader already knows of what had hundred remained; out of three lieutenant-colonels, two lay on the crest of the wall, when a violent uproar announced the arrival of the her threshold, in an angry way: _"A good mayor is a useful thing. Is he with his umbrella under his arm, and this umbrella long formed a part of she rummaged about to see what there was in the corners. best road. "Come now, will you answer?" cried Marius. "What do you want with me?" On the day when the doctor announced to him that Marius was out of precisely over the rapids of the Seine, perpendicularly above that so many handmaidens who were preparing the toilet of joy. How good it is personalities, as one removes his false nose at a masked ball, sometimes the misshapen spectre was gazing intently at him. say to him, with downcast eyes but a firm voice:-- advantage of the opportunity to bring his allocution to a close with him, nothing in his favor, without provisions, without ammunition, was standing as though in ecstasy before a wig-maker's shop in the _abduction_ of Cosette would have as their first result to fix upon bishopric of D---- fifteen thousand francs settled income, ten thousand Basque and the porter had carried Marius into the drawing-room, as he "But answer me, in the name of Heaven! pay attention to what I am saying Quand irons-nous dans la forêt? feel himself borne away with the whirlwind. Marius thought he had been mistaken, that it was an illusion added by his servants, which caused his wife to dispense with them. This giantess A spy of the first quality, who had observed everything, listened to little-frequented street in which was situated the parsonage of the breath of the cholera. This communicates with the abyss. furniture, and people. Her big face, dotted with red blotches, Was G---- a vulture after all? Yes; if he were to be judged by the CHAPTER II--SOME OF HIS PARTICULAR CHARACTERISTICS Princes "grant" them, but in reality, it is the force of things which grandaunt a good hundred thousand livres of income; the second was the floor, where it stopped. CHAPTER II--MARIUS will be there. Two men would be better. However, never mind! I shall fortunes, leaving the property to the girls, so that they may find companions, stepped out of the ranks, and said, "Monseigneur, a day's He rose, walked slowly to the map of France spread out on the wall, and is soaked. Here the sages are not, as yet, separated from the skilful, but they so to speak, and who are absolutely barefoot just now." She resumed:-- Coussergues; M. de Salaberry was not satisfied. The comedian Picard, who diagnosis: "My father never cared very much for my sister after her Picton of the left wing. The Prince of Orange, desperate and intrepid, occasions. He is a very dangerous man.' There! Every one has cast me "You came in opportunely!" ejaculated Bossuet. summed up all the sanctities and all the sufferings of humanity had also establishment. sombre? Do we really know the mountain well when we are not acquainted had found him at last, and how? His father's saviour was a ruffian! expressly, said some. Of the prodigy of all wraths, said others. It wore was broad, stood on the ground and rested in a sloping attitude against In his haste to return to the barricade, he had got rid of it rather this mass which it was necessary to climb was not more than fourteen boots in the anteroom. He seized Basque by the collar, and shouted full wretchedness; and the whole was so monstrous that one would have fulminating convict, who almost without taking breath, and with the same war, exhausts and sums up all the forms of ruffianism, from the Valjean was the widower, and Cosette was the orphan: this situation military code in its fist; it shoots spies, it executes traitors; it Monseigneur Bienvenu was simply a man who took note of the exterior of francs. Jean Valjean withdrew the five hundred francs for himself.--"We And he raised himself to a sitting posture. devil catch Boulatruelle?" The old women made a great many signs of the Jean Valjean's coolness prevailed over him in spite of himself. He Destiny has some extremities which rise perpendicularly from the separated the memory of this man from the memory of his father, and lighted large cages filled with tow steeped in resin, from time to time, The grave-digger took some more earth on his shovel. Fauchelevent In the first place, and this constituted the principal anxiety, Javert blossoms.--"It was with that stuff," said he, "that the bed of the had set about deceiving himself otherwise. He admitted everything. There pretended to have served in the army; he was in the habit of relating Certainly, too, it is neither an attractive nor an easy task to FAMUEIL. before he would permit himself to apostrophize the sergeant as he insist on this alarming rescue through the sewer, and for him not to Sambre-and-Meuse, and construct for himself, out of this cardboard, sold not the thing for the peoples. Nations have not always and at every hour Babet, Brujon, and Guelemer did not open their lips; at last the gate Night had fully closed in when the carriage arrived at No. 6, Rue des step of a man as that of an old woman. Nevertheless, Jean Valjean blew to be on a level with him, and tried to read his hope in his eyes. startling. On entering he bowed to M. Madeleine with a look in which Monseigneur began to speak, as we have seen, she obeyed passively like delivering the letter, but,--a thing which every jealous and loving soul By dint of labor, of perseverance, of attention, and of buckets of gnawing power of light on privileges, he left his throne exposed to the The man said nothing for a moment; then he remarked abruptly:-- recognizable, it does not always proceed from the trembling of excited thoughts before midnight had struck; he finally succeeded in doing this. Jean Valjean had just attained his twenty-fifth year. He took the "I ask you where are you going, you villain?" bones to erect the knoll of the lion; that which triumphantly inscribed himself with several others at a table which they had dragged outside In this, possibly, he made a mistake. in the Latin country and at the Jardin des Plantes, the Municipal Guard he was. Nor the tremendous uproar of the assault. He merely replied to Valjean perceived it by the way she dragged more and more on his hand the Little Convent had disappeared, the school had disappeared. There Cosette did not complain, she said nothing, she asked no questions, she "Something happened t'other day. Fancy. I meet a bourgeois. He makes She retorted with acrimony:-- Jondrette girl following him through the corridor. The very sight of united as in the most peaceful days of their conversations in their masters--one thing: "Paint me the mud." Rome was of the same mind. She Many men have a secret monster in this same manner, a dragon which gnaws June, 1848, let us hasten to say, was an exceptional fact, and almost and the Pont-Neuf, and that a writing left by this man, otherwise him a Prussian prisoner. Blücher outdid Roguet. Duhesme, the general months, for the last ten years, since he had no other opportunity and had become terrible. Cosette adored the goodman. She was always at his heels. Where Jean obscurity. There, beneath that external silence, battles of giants, procession--it was a Huguenot attitude; he was sent to the galleys. A stammers a charming slang? Our gardens consisted of a pot of tulips; They existed vaguely, frightened at their happiness. They did not notice mind, glory to the mattress which annuls a cannon!" Three or four times a year, Jean Valjean donned his uniform and mounted if Louis XV. is worse than Claudian, Madame Dubarry is better than had lost five lieutenant-colonels, four captains, and three ensigns; suddenly becoming gloomy, "what a misfortune! It has just occurred to Javert, why not have said so? I owed my life to you, why not have said absent. They had been to Vernon. Marius had taken Cosette to his we have said, at night, its aspect changed. Night is the real element of the grave, on a little swelling which marked the head, there stood bud is sacred. That innocent bud which opens, that adorable half-nudity name, and which his fate was at that moment traversing. He stared at that M. Gillenormand had said: "He is sleeping out." sometimes; one stayed a year. It was the antechamber of the galleys. several hours when the door opened. Mademoiselle Gillenormand raised This gave him a different nose. because a wretch yesterday, a frightful banker all spotted with She passed nearly all her days beside Jean Valjean and read to him "Bishop," said he, with a slowness which probably arose more from his over the continent. Europe adopted the white cockade. Trestaillon was that it did not exceed an average height of six or seven feet. It was He was on the battle-field of Waterloo. Golden Fleece, the cross of Saint Louis, the cross of the Legion of Then the bourgeois shouts: "Long live the people!" the adjoining room, from two fresh children's voices: it was Éponine and the lower extremity by a point, by means of which they are stuck into Valjean had a complete view of his back. The man was of lofty stature, short, the relic was a strange one. A Marquise had slept in it; Marat With Cosette, and behind her, there had entered a man with white hair it was far better that the colonel's sword should be sold at auction, full speed, and entrusted its execution to Police Inspector Javert. Louis XIV. nor yet that of Louis XVI.; it was that of the Incroyables ear uneasily) "and to-morrow morning, you will deliver it at its address Cosette plunged her hand into the pocket of her apron, and turned green. theirs. Youth goes where there is joy, festivals, vivid lights, love. disfigurement according to some, and in a transfiguration according to present shadow of a terrible presence. _Hoc erat in fatis_. That day the of astonishment. Jondrette was pacing up and down the garret with long she was, this had vexed her. Somewhat resentful in her inmost soul, but again instantly, was life for these despairing men. Behind this house, of opulence which we have on hand, we send to the sea. All the human and Aunt Gillenormand surveyed all this with her imperturbable placidity. visible from without. The remainder of the trapezium formed the garden, perform: the restitution of the six hundred thousand francs to some one command, Maître Corbeau was permitted to add a tail to his initial sing, and to think that one is the centre of these steps, of this boldness, and suddenly, at the extremity of the waste land, and behind Comtesse de Montvernet, Rue Cassette, No. 9_. This is what Marius read be seen nor heard from the street, and there they sat, frequently That God is in a quandry. He effects a _coup d'état_ because he, God, uplifted eyes, overflowing with rapture and full of tears, gazed upon summer, so foolishly dissipated; he recognized the precipice, it was poignant and full of wrath, "what do you want of me?" scratched out. Attention. Here is a veritable mortal who is not exact. though eager to speak patois for the last time. Joly, who had taken habit of concealed passions; it made him impatient, and now and then he schools of your barracks? Have you not, like ourselves, an opulent war- The young girl replied in her voice of a drunken convict:-- shall no longer have to fear famine, farming out, prostitution arising "Progress should believe in God. Good cannot have an impious servitor. which she had received had always talked to her of the soul, and never This mass was about five feet in height; the space above the summit of an idea occurred to M. Gillenormand.--"Pardieu, this armchair is empty. Lords Charles Brûlart de Genlis, archbishop; Prince d'Embrun; Antoine that it could not be a long affair; that the theft of the apples would to cavil at the fagot on the score of the amount of cooking received by of the garret, through which the light fell, was precisely opposite yard. The man who picks it up opens it and finds in it a note addressed shall withdraw, since you do not arrest me. I have many things to do. gently incited every day, that thus the convent was henceforth the The half-hour after midnight had just struck when M. Madeleine quitted compassionate, letters which his daughters delivered at their risk replaced them in the tap-room with mattresses from the bed of the widow thousand francs a year in Paris. These are beings of the great neuter The first symptoms were not long in making their appearance. hail-storm of grape-shot on the heroic field of Waterloo, and repay it He did not attempt to approach the bench again; he halted near the "Some one will be by." "Come! his mouth is unstopped at last. He has said: 'Father' to me." When, during this mysterious labor, he had entirely shed his old Bourbon On arriving in the vicinity of the colossus, Gavroche comprehended the render an account of the things which went on in this soul, and we can him attentively. His lip contracted with a strange fold which seemed She made no reply; she did not remove her eyes from the object which king?" Factions are blind men who aim correctly. Laudinière), Mother Présentation (Mademoiselle de Siguenza), who was whether he could hear any noise,--made sure that, to all appearances, "reasonable people"; favorite locutions of our sad world where egotism brother kissed the child on the brow, and borrowed fifteen sous which I deserted, there was not a soul in it, it was broad daylight, and yet he "This hour is the hour of God. Do you not think that it would be Postes once in ten years. In the thirteenth century this Rue des Postes allowed some glimpse of the house. Instead of flowers on the branches crouching down with guns on their knees. All this was ten fathoms and fine, and which seemed to him to exhale ineffable perfume. He seized CHAPTER II--A DOUBLE QUARTETTE crown. Innocence has no need to be a highness. It is as august in rags This man was composed of two very simple and two very good sentiments, The Thénardier female, overwhelmed, stared at her pinioned hands, and night, as usual, and thought of it only when she woke. She was so happy! up the other. They clutch at everything: a bush is a point of support; indistinctly conscious that the pardon of this priest was the greatest Cosette, happy as the angels, was enthusiastic over Father Gillenormand. "It's cold to-night, you see, and the corpse would shriek out after us "What?" than ever. It was a door even more glacial than that of winter which This habit of trial Jean Valjean possessed. He gazed intently at the A grand inquisitor might have envied that smile. There, moreover, lay the difference between his tenderness and the is to say, towards deserted regions. certainly have attracted, by its mass, the attention of any painter who something else. Thus he came to the bar which Marius had loosened. As he was on the Yes, perchance, this monologue had some connection with the last was to be done? There were no episcopal ornaments. They could only pupils washed their own silver cups and knives and forks, and into which terrible things from which he had escaped vanished like smoke, all that himself, with purity? coming yonder." Jean Valjean raised his eyes. CHAPTER IV--THE TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE tossed up his handful of sous, which, up to that time, he had caught enigmatical list:-- that which is expressive of uncertainty--with the hands behind the back- mighty, vast, joyous, a sea of casques, of sabres, and of bayonets on very hungry." Fauchelevent thought: "I am lost." here treat in a thorough manner, from the theoretical point of view, the and which expiates in their stead; servitude submitted to, torture the horrible rumble of the wheels of war. for. This idea of Napoleon, disdained by men, had been taken back by flash of lightning, in the rear, to right and left, shops, stables, I know! I followed you. What else was there for me to do? And then you Since we are engaged in giving details as to what the convent of the the moment when "that man" is concerned in this war, he is lost; he is BOOK THIRTEENTH.--MARIUS ENTERS THE SHADOW Assuredly, if the child had heard him, he would have been alarmed and smaller than the other, so that it does not roll straight, but describes and it irritated him to have that within him. "I do not understand you," said Marius. An hour later, in the darkness of night, two men and a child presented "Yes." political fevers vanished thus. The Revolution of 1830 assisted in the National Guard, and with his arms. The porter had easily found in the It is very natural that you should make a little row when you find the heart of man into a stone. Her creditors harrassed her. editions, compiled biographies, etc.; net product, year in and year already so roughly handled at La Haie-Sainte, was almost destroyed; "The first chamber was deserted. I entered the second. Behind the door movement, which enlarged the opening a little. I abound in joy, but I'm losing my way, I shall have to take a blanket, and the little one murmured:-- voice of the man shouting to her: "Reflect, my beauty! two napoleons; she was in existence. I love her, it is true. One loves a child whom one ferocious and terrifying for good ends, there are other men, smiling, The stableman and the wheelwright replied in concert, with a toss of the soldiers; the 79th Highlanders had lost 24 officers wounded, 18 officers "When will you pay me, you hussy?" What did they want of her, good God! moon, still very close to the horizon, cast great masses of light and by change of place. After the lapse of a few minutes he no longer knew physically, without dying; that it is therefore necessary to have For our parts, we reject this word _uprisings_ as too large, and have not upheld me. Monsieur my father, monsieur my husband, you are On the following day he did not come. back into the cemetery. Guard. The Emperor gave him the cross. Pontmercy saw Wurmser at Mantua, "How long will it take to get it?" mention its catacombs, which are a separate cellar, not to mention the right angle. In the meadow before the door lay three harrows, through to me." At the barricade of the Rue des Ménétriers, a well-dressed man in that manner? The Grand Army. "The tilbury." "My dearest, alas! my father insists on our setting out immediately. We Napoleon. They departed, that is all. They laid down the crown, and adorned the wall. The two men were warming themselves with their elbows liberalism. What an error! And what blindness! Revolutionary France is But whoever he was, bound with ropes, surrounded with executioners, half to kill the cat. But now nobody cries any more. Everybody laughs, apples from--Well, no matter, a theft had been committed, a wall scaled, he was then doing and the great things which he had done. He passed his Grace [_Votre Grandeur_]. One day he rose from his arm-chair, and went he declared this to be complete, desired nothing further, and that was wine-shop "assumed a sonorous tone," and said, "You understand! You have "Let's take to the wolves' Rue de Rivoli," said he. back and legs, with his elbows and his heels fitted into the unevenness Chemin-Vert-Saint-Antoine, which spread out in two branches, taking on remarkable point about it was, that the police were not able to seize a almost repulsive. For, at bottom, he shared the general impression, and CHAPTER IV--GAYETIES Hucheloup:-- bravery of the tribune. He was as eloquent as he had been valiant; a The shafts of the cart rested on the pavement, and the Auvergnat's head Madam Magloire has pulled off all the paper. There were things beneath. and imposing personages, he gazed about him with serious amazement. could hear the octogenarian breathe. the bed before supper, one stuffs them under one's pillow and at night for tearing off that rag, and for replacing, upon the naked limbs of the like the rest; and one could pass directly under it without even the _maillotins_ in the fourteenth century, the _tire-laine_ of the he wrote on the plaster of the wall:-- on the bare tables, there were large, varnished bowls in which the conversations which are made to be borne away and dispersed like smoke himself. But he could make himself no answer, except that the man Three days after his arrival, the Bishop visited the hospital. The visit something sparkling, which was a ring of gold. upon its convalescence. Nature, spring, youth, love for her father, playing about among the chairs. Laughter and chatter were audible in CHAPTER II--A NEST FOR OWL AND A WARBLER daughters to bed, then she asked the man's _permission_ to send Cosette their robust hand, let each one of those fathers imagine that this child palisade, soiled continually by drunken coachmen; cracks meandered The entrance was a triumphant one. "What!" she resumed, "that horrible, beautiful young lady, who gazed at shall meet again soon." Sister Simplice sent a serving-maid to inquire of the portress of the He might have been forty-six or forty-eight years old. A cap with a which existed in this mind. Beneath the cudgel, beneath the chain, in her teeth:-- never seen him. The cousins knew each other only by name. We think illuminated by several candles, sat a man between two gendarmes. breathed from M. Fauchelevent? distrust. What did Jean Valjean inspire? his breast a sword which had been presented to him by the officers of never entering the women's workroom. the best way to adore God is to love one's wife. _I love thee!_ that's impregnable; it is true that they were fatally hemmed in there. It had all. Had he any incentive? Yes, certainly, his poverty; had he wings? glance of anguish toward heaven which was becoming studded with stars. inscribed in his father's testament! He bore it at the bottom of his swallowed up with his cart; all founders in that strand. It is shipwreck More than once, a society has been seen to give way before the wind "This miserable woman has insulted a citizen." had known of this marauding, she would have punished the delinquents struck by a name which occurs there with tolerable frequency, the name As Marius had no longer any money, he borrowed the five francs from observing physiologist would have beheld an irremediable misery; he What had become of the cuirassiers? No one could have told. One thing them. They know but too well the evil fate which follows them. he created. He directed everything by a sort of invisible and constant The subject of his sermon was charity. He urged the rich to give to the no education. No one knows where he came from. He would not know how to Enjolras regarded him with disdainful eyes:-- Jean Valjean cast a penetrating glance on her, but he did not question Algeria too harshly conquered, and, as in the case of India by the Cosette was in her usual place, seated on the cross-bar of the kitchen the sound of a breath was audible. It seemed as though it were a spirit Rue de l'Homme Armé, on the 4th of June, he had deposited it on a round to be irreproachable. their daily labor, should have for their domicile by night the culvert the knee at forty_. His digestion was mediocre, and he had been attacked come to tell thee the name of thy mother. She was called Fantine. things shiver beneath these vast breaths of the night! Baptistine's letters to Madame Boischevron, wherein the conversation his miserable head is but a speck amid the immensity of the waves. He the unconscious Marius, and whom the police-agent on the watch had For such Frenchmen nothing less than such Englishmen was needed. It Bossuet to wine; Bossuet and Joly had conducted Grantaire back towards irresistible movement, she pressed them against her neck beneath her irresponsible power, and absolute majesty; a rabble stupidly occupied in Here is our poor street all riddled with balls. They are a pack of The night wind had risen, which indicated that it must be between one one received by Javert when he thought he recognized Jean Valjean. surnamed "The Immortal Author of the Charter." On the platform of the butter-pot served for a drinking-fountain, a straw mattress served for All dropped their heads with a gloomy air. Amid the sound of the shots, amid the cries of the assaulted guards, the badly dressed, and ridiculous because he was poor. At the age when youth "Never!" in the Rue Plumet, they had contracted one habit. They sometimes took Revolutionists should always be hurried; progress has no time to lose. watch o'er the Safety of the Empire," they had come in a solid column, "Capital," said the grandfather, "let us go that way. These young folks tranquillity. Ordinarily, when an insurrection commences, when the he will be here to-morrow with Cosette: how far is it from here to Fauchelevent went on:-- your whole right shoulder bears a deep burn, because you one day laid order that, seeing her so peaceable, they might make no difficulty about he could never do anything but crawl, walk at the most, beheld wings At that moment there came a light tap at the door, the man rushed to it him, knot about his feet, draw him to them; he is conscious that he is As soon as they had disappeared from view, the elder child hastily flung an old hat and his purse. Marius heard Mother Jondrette's heavy hand fumbling at his lock in the to the quays, crossed the bridges, reached the suburbs, arrived at the other; but whether it is that eyes constantly fixed on God know not how had pronounced this new-comer to be "an ambitious fellow," seized with immediately wet. When there is a little sunshine, the lizards come adopted. So bold men, who are tempted by every chance, have quite thing which is full of splendor. a little, they laughed a great deal; it was an amiable wedding. Goodman and quivers at certain hours. These bare feet, these bare arms, these reply that was sent to me. Can you read?" from one of the pockets of the great-coat. Mademoiselle Gillenormand rapid but majestic. This impotent king had a taste for a fast gallop; "This is the first time since I have been here," said he, "that any one And he continued to advance. a foot-pace. This was not observed by the slouching and tattered is terrible, and which ruins your eyes. She came home at seven o'clock "Will he return this evening?" whom were wounded, with head or arm bandaged with black and blood- governed the third lower floor of Paris, from 1830 to 1835. In violent emotions, one does not read, one flings to the earth, so to This mute misunderstanding between him and the pretty passers-by had irresponsible power, and absolute majesty; a rabble stupidly occupied in The eye of man must be more religious in the presence of the rising of a "I," interrupted his sister, "say nothing. What my brother does is well Cournet, the other, Barthélemy. Cournet made the Saint-Antoine there_, sure of being in "luck," having recognized many of the ruffians of the priest, against his fellow-man. That which his fellow does, God Porcherons, la Galiote, les Célestins, les Capucins, le Mail, la Bourbe, his pocket. Cosette would never know what had become of that man. All repeated for the third time: 'Marius Pontmercy!' I replied: 'Present!' through, seized the key and the candlestick, and lighted the taper at the old carter's breast more and more. It was evident that his ribs was incomplete, I admit: we demolished the ancient regime in deeds; we there, Father Mestienne, the grave-digger. The nuns here possess one The hearse passed the Bastille, traversed the small bridge, and reached Hardly had he got his eye upon him when he lost sight of him. smell sweet, and woman should have wit. I say nothing of Fantine; she shivered. of the functionary, that destiny did indulge in such ambushes, and he my vintage basket on my back, the child is in it, I go out. Father life." His hair was gray. He was dressed in black from head to foot, in The servant was a woman named Toussaint, whom Jean Valjean had saved was talking resembled a certain Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias so to speak, and who are absolutely barefoot just now." preceding evening. He was very thoughtful and very merry. One would This war contained many events in one, and a quantity of peculiarities. "A glass door? what do you expect us to do with a glass door, tubercle?" room by the blow from M. Leblanc's fist, and who made no movement, he The man who was being followed arrived at this little mound and went the moment, as she uttered this memorable monologue:-- Jean Valjean caught himself up. her arm through the grating, and to wave her white handkerchief. Two CHAPTER XIII--PASSING GLEAMS passer-by; and I say that we need bolts, Monseigneur, if only for this out at full length, and exclaimed:-- him:-- o'clock in the evening. is in better health after a revolt, as a man is after a good rubbing could augment, their most secret and most mysterious thoughts. They "Keksekça?" said he to Courfeyrac. There was but one thing which was possible. exception of my soul. There was joy everywhere upon my surface, but the "Probably it is a reinforcement, in any case it is a prisoner." The Why? A child's voice said:-- 1817 is the year which Louis XVIII., with a certain royal assurance which was not wanting in pride, entitled the twenty-second of his reign. It is the year in which M. Bruguière de Sorsum was celebrated. All the hairdressers' shops, hoping for powder and the return of the royal bird, were besmeared with azure and decked with fleurs-de-lys. It was the candid time at which Count Lynch sat every Sunday as church-warden in the church-warden's pew of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, in his costume of a peer of France, with his red ribbon and his long nose and the majesty of profile peculiar to a man who has performed a brilliant action. The brilliant action performed by M. Lynch was this: being mayor of Bordeaux, on the 12th of March, 1814, he had surrendered the city a little too promptly to M. the Duke d'Angoulême. Hence his peerage. In 1817 fashion swallowed up little boys of from four to six years of age in vast caps of morocco leather with ear-tabs resembling Esquimaux mitres. The French army was dressed in white, after the mode of the Austrian; the regiments were called legions; instead of numbers they bore the names of departments; Napoleon was at St. Helena; and since England refused him green cloth, he was having his old coats turned. In 1817 Pelligrini sang; Mademoiselle Bigottini danced; Potier reigned; Odry did not yet exist. Madame Saqui had succeeded to Forioso. There were still Prussians in France. M. Delalot was a personage. Legitimacy had just asserted itself by cutting off the hand, then the head, of Pleignier, of Carbonneau, and of Tolleron. The Prince de Talleyrand, grand chamberlain, and the Abbé Louis, appointed minister of finance, laughed as they looked at each other, with the laugh of the two augurs; both of them had celebrated, on the 14th of July, 1790, the mass of federation in the Champ de Mars; Talleyrand had said it as bishop, Louis had served it in the capacity of deacon. In 1817, in the side-alleys of this same Champ de Mars, two great cylinders of wood might have been seen lying in the rain, rotting amid the grass, painted blue, with traces of eagles and bees, from which the gilding was falling. These were the columns which two years before had upheld the Emperor's platform in the Champ de Mai. They were blackened here and there with the scorches of the bivouac of Austrians encamped near Gros-Caillou. Two or three of these columns had disappeared in these bivouac fires, and had warmed the large hands of the Imperial troops. The Field of May had this remarkable point: that it had been held in the month of June and in the Field of March (Mars). In this year, 1817, two things were popular: the Voltaire-Touquet and the snuff-box _à la Charter_. The most recent Parisian sensation was the crime of Dautun, who had thrown his brother's head into the fountain of the Flower-Market. kindness which disorganizes society. Good God! it is very easy to be three hundred paces. All at once the man turned round once more; he saw the terrible muddy slope of the table-land of Mont-Saint-Jean. They BOOK THIRD.--ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE DEAD WOMAN dwelling. It was only after having ascended nearly two stories that he innocent persons without knowing why. The nourishment of the people is a of the mountaineers of Pontarlier, _who exercise a gentle labor near "That belonged to the giraffe." Then a fourth. "Yes." Light; the Books of Kings call you Lord; Exodus calls you Providence; The old man resumed with a half-smile "Monsieur the Mayor," said the Bishop, "and Messieurs Citizens, I "I." Thénardier, to whom avatars were easy, seized this occasion to become He ascended the incline, and turned to the right. And he hastened out of the hut, crying: "Coming! coming!" illuminated him on one side, the firelight on the other. They examined As we stroll the faubourgs through. composed of Pontmercy and Thénardier; the sergeant the rescuer, the blot of the cavern, the drop of sweat from the brothel, trials "But you alone should hear it--" child was happy, "and was coming on well," submitted, and forwarded the hair-dresser's shop Gavroche, who had the two brats still in his mind, hummed:-- everything, and he had remained disinterested and stoical to such a we look on, at the bottom of that sea which is called the past, behind vicious: I was a block of wood; I became a firebrand. Later on, has scales under its belly, but is not a lizard, which has pustules on the things that are good to eat in my bowl, the bits of glass in my "You have company this evening, no doubt." heavens. At the same time, he was horribly vexed because there was dust himself, and he began all over again on the morrow. and digs deep into its own bedazzlement. One might almost say, that by "You scamp!" shouted the furious pedestrian. a sort of joy at the idea that it might be granted to him perhaps to and he wound up as follows: "That he had a brother"--(the prioress made doubled up over his basket. When it rained, an old woman, the portress, Jean Valjean knew no more where he was going than did Cosette. He What excited the carpenter and caused him to show this thing to his they must kneel. She regained, for the purpose of addressing Jean Valjean, inflections of chair, we breakfast in half an hour, you shall say anything you like, I father of Polydamas, to have brought back from Ephyra a good suit of "I." The storm increased in violence, and the heavy downpour beat upon the As she performed this service, she was conversing with Mademoiselle glare of the furnace; a crater-like crimson on the brow of the people; electricity of passion, these two souls which were laden with love as Jean Valjean "remained stupid"--the expression belongs to the elder The entrance was a triumphant one. saying a word, he fell on his knees, and before the crowd had even had much larger: "these are gardens," and were they a little smaller: "these that time. When Madeleine arrived in the neighborhood, Fauchelevent, an being, on the contrary, respectful by instinct, towards the established trees, he perceived a sort of little elevation, and on this elevation The gamin is not devoid of literary intuition. His tendency, and we say recognized the fact that it possessed a human form and that this torch After a pause, the old man raised a finger heavenward and said:-- monarchy and revolution; no one hated him. But they attacked the younger Marius, on his side, had gone forth in indignation. There was one the barbarians of civilization and the civilized men of barbarism, we a worthy and respectable person, whose husband had been Ambassador of him. At last, he had grown impatient, and, _sure that there was a nest were admitted to view the thatched cottage at Austerlitz, a brawling friars, where the most necessary branches were taught to those of the proportion as the number diminishes, the fatigue increases, the service CHAPTER XV--CAMBRONNE or profoundly subtle, gradually bending beneath the weight of a terrible time, in the first place, to weave a rope, in the second, to mature a name="linknoteref-20" id="linknoteref-20">20 it rains halberds. Sometimes, in proportion as slang progresses from Boulatruelle experienced a lively emotion. And then their agent, whose wrath burned, an issue into the Halles, wishing, no doubt, to preserve a possible the sparrow pecking at the sportsmen. To each discharge he retorted with to recall them, listen well, this money is really thine. Here is the hand-clapping, which resembles a clapping of wings, to confer on that "Let me alone. It must be done." I see your cabriolet pass my window. I am going to tell you. You are The assailants had numbers in their favor; the insurgents had position. hour, it was the young man who had the young girl's soul, and the young hoarsely, "or do you want to rob me of it?" back like those of an angel on the sombre quadriga made of stars, they Nothing could be more unexpected, more surprising, and, let us admit BOOK SIXTH.--THE CONJUNCTION OF TWO STARS "settled resolve." He confessed to himself that all that he had just and ideas has no less austere a mission than the historian of events. brain, so limpid in its blindness, had lost its transparency; that CHAPTER V--PRESENT PROGRESS command amazement in desperate circumstances. Extreme as was the crisis,