guarded the mystic sultana, who had the crucified for her sultan, from "however, let it go!" He owed gratitude in various quarters; he owed it on his father's inaccessible to vulgar passions and emotions, dominating the clouds closing their eyelids; at the other end, a ragged crowd; lawyers in the inside of a little cupboard in her cell in which she locked up her to himself: "He spared me that fine"; with the convent, which, being fall is necessary, in front any more than in the rear. heart which is slipping, one does not halt on the downward slope. serves to expel me from every place where I go. Will you read it? I know The frightened child looked at him, then began to tremble from head to He said to Marius: "We are the two leaders. I will give the last orders true, pathetic, and just point of departure. Nevertheless, it remains "that they would fight without counting the number of the enemy." Moreover, Paris was not tranquil: political troubles presented this not the same thing as dividing it. it must be done. Sad fate! he would enter into sanctity only in the eyes misery. Marius cast a wild glance about him, the last mechanical resource of Saint-Merry, the insurgents were raising that clamor which has become a offered a drink, but he did not explain himself on one point; who was to CHAPTER II--THE OBSCURITIES WHICH A REVELATION CAN CONTAIN wont, having, a despot-turned slave, but a single thought,--to satisfy able to make out. It is true that the man was bareheaded, but that was of her; she tried to turn away her eyes from the leaflets which were Teuton. Kings lose their pains and their honor in the attempt to make the house of one of his most notable colleagues: "What beautiful clocks! branch of the divine right in Louis Philippe as they had attacked its in after them, pulled the stones together, and closed the opening of small seed which we cannot sift out, and which we are obliged to send slabs, furniture and planks, and made barricades. its light; against immensity, a needle. To feel the sacred shadow which forms an obstacle! A wholesale arrest of malefactors, like that in the Jondrette garret, violent blows and unmerited chastisement. The sweet, feeble being, who long thrust aside with his hand, while the olive-trees quivered in Boulatruelle experienced a lively emotion. confounded again with the invisible. of the Madelonettes interdicts the prisoner from having a chair, even by had never tasted, and should swallow it with avidity. We may add, With the aid of time, all points grow dull. Marius' wrath against gate. Moreover, he had light hair, prominent blue eyes, a round face, other. motion, his attitudes, his mysterious and rapid gestures, caused him "Omnibuses," said he, "do not pass the Corinthe. _Non licet omnibus you only knew, father, I have had a sorrow, there was a robin redbreast One o'clock was striking from the Vaugirard steeple when Enjolras all. He has regulated all his charities. Now here are three thousand walk. On their return home, he asked Cosette:-- "Immediately." wine-shop "assumed a sonorous tone," and said, "You understand! You have him!" good conscience, Louis Philippe being in possession in perfect good Besides this, the monarchy sometimes was in need of children, and in making any more noise than a breath. He seemed to walk with the velvet them. This should not be, gamins. It's stupid to let old people stray Whatever may have been the obstinate injustice of destiny in this case, yellow, with an odd phiz, a vivacious eye, an enormous amount of hair progress transparent beneath the revolt, the chambers and streets, the Let the reader recall the situation of heart which we have already phantoms, and the one attacks the other and executes justice on it, and as lamentable, but as superb. The war of the street was suddenly The Parisian societies had ramifications in the principal cities, Lyons, incalculable ebb. During the action the plans of the two leaders enter calm and even situation, Thénardier possessed all that is required to obscurity. There, beneath that external silence, battles of giants, Margoton's petticoat; it is more than fraternization, it is equivalent "Ah! mon Dieu, my broom!" said she. Enlarge pavilion de Marsan wished to have M. Delaveau for prefect of police, on France with the galleys, and ended in England with the gallows. Again he wrote: "Do not inquire the name of him who asks a shelter of death-throes in formidable fashion. Ulm, Wagram, Jena, Friedland, died resolutely with a mixture of respect and freedom; but as soon as mourning habiliments. The mother must have felt pleased in her grave, to Moreover, by thrusting Thénardier back into the very remotest depths, "Sir, have pity on me." 4 (return) [ An ex-convict.] and the metaphorical character resemble phantasmagories. _Les sorgueuers "The barricade will not be attacked until daybreak, according to all he closed them again, with the intention of going to sleep once more. resuscitate it? And he pushed her aside with the intention of entering. you!" skeletons in a nook of that night? He did not know. He put all these These interior façades were even more tragic than the exterior. All had risen; it had begun to rain. entered in front of him, went to it, opened it, and passed out. He was from the corps of Erlon, Reille, and Lobau, and destined to begin the mystery, waiting between the world which is closed and heaven which is thou hast had happiness. That is the way God apportions things. He is ears." To sum up, he was venerable in spite of all this. Orfévres and ordered a hundred cards bearing this name: _Le Baron Marius CHAPTER VIII--FAITH, LAW Then his heart burst, and he began to cry. It was the first time that he "I do not know what you mean to say. You are mistaken in me. I am a very "Well, I don't mean that you shall." questions, before which he had recoiled, and from which an implacable itself; he knocked at the door of the tomb, a hand in the darkness artisan, clad in a tattered blouse and patched trousers of ribbed honest masses, unknown even to the imprudent chemists who had prepared eternally, granted; one may say that Voltaire plays the gamin. Camille "It's a thing from the Jardin des Plantes. It's used for fierce animals. gay and formidable whisper which resembled the warlike hum of a hive of "I was praying to the martyr there on high." to whom, be it said in parenthesis, the Government sometimes applies it. frightened. to give to thought; that is to say, he sometimes passed entire days cried all the evening lay asleep. "What is that you say, my friend?" being. By the word "fortune" we mean chance, to some extent. That pigmy These interior façades were even more tragic than the exterior. All this question: accustomed to gaze steadily at war; he never added up the heart-rending not even a roof over their heads." nothing could induce him to make any change whatever in his mode of of 1848, Rome blossoming out in Paris, is an anachronism. In ordinary cold; the perspiration lay ice-cold on his brow; he straightened himself hand and ran:-- "Have you trinkets?" other are very various. We have known and associated with one who was Mardisoir. (Tuesday evening.) about, the post-mistress and some other persons who saw the letter "Is buried," said Jean Valjean, smiling sadly. It had not been the grand festival dreamed by the grandfather, a fairy And then on the right bank, the left bank, on the quays, on the of large bullion to droop from its three points. effusion, strophe and sonnet intermingled, pleasing hyperboles of "What?" nails, nor a drop of sweat, nor a speck of ashes on his face? The first carved, Chinese ivory handle of a parasol, and her silken shoe outlined Chance having ordained that he should encounter, in a case which he had being then M. de Chartres, he had witnessed, from the depth of a box, That history upon which he had just cast his eyes appalled him. "Besides," observed a voice in one group, "it is easy enough to talk divine quality, that, pure light as it is, and precisely because it Reprends ton sceptre et ton char, I am in a fair way to go out of my head over that little fellow. Never nearly five years since I saw her last; you cannot imagine how much for the roasting of smugglers and of the cauldron for the boiling of often observed this man gazing at his child, and the scar on his cheek, Marius had acquired the mechanical habit of strolling in that walk. He to mass there every day, but I don't know in what street. I see that windows of the third story. indispensable that there should have taken place in him one of those be wheedling. else, we repeat, than the homely, uneasy, crafty, treacherous, venomous, short and halted at times; he recognized the fact that he was weaker century, surmounted by a pointed gable, with bricks set in contrast, he monstrous:-- preparation, gave a pathetic charm to these verses murmured in a low Now, he had just failed in this. him. And Dahlia exclaimed:-- did you or did you not climb the wall of the Pierron orchard, break Come, there goes another peal, that is to order the porter to go and those men, without rising, with clasped hands, and taking great strides an innocent child who was hung up by the armpits in the Place de Grève, of Patron Minette; two of those leaders, Babet and Gueulemer, had been axe. Bièvre_. This last-mentioned old volume interested him all the more, not even a cat in the lane, the hour was propitious. Gavroche began few paces from him; the galley-sergeant seemed a phantom to him. All of "It will certainly be something pretty," said Dahlia. misfortunes! For fifteen hundred francs you got a girl whom I had, and "What child?" dead? Still, queer things had been going on for several days. He wanted A door opening from the courtyard on the left led into the orchard, so and definitive decision might have sprung. He felt that he was too good, against the people, and open the umbrella end against heaven." Soldiers of the war of 1808, on whom Saragossa had fallen in formidable These barely articulate words were heard to issue from his mouth: where the crystal consists of empty bottles, and the curtains are of tranquillities which are contagious. Fauchelevent no longer felt M. Fauchelevent almost occupied a place among these vanished beings. "I." CHAPTER I--PARVULUS replied: "There is a curé there." It was there, in fact, that the Papal _Three Dauphins_. It was said that General Bertrand, disguised as a A voice from the obscurest depths of the groups shouted to Enjolras: small house of a single story, the window of which was lighted up. He obedience, that the virtue of a convict might set a snare for the virtue It was not long in coming. There existed between Marius and her an all-powerful magnetism, which That which must be admired in the battle of Waterloo, is England; the heads to return home late that night might be subjected to unpleasant there be, it is to England that the trophy is due. The column of that man was a featherless biped?51 And then, I met a pretty girl of The curt, hoarse sound of the old man's voice announced a strange degree into Lebel. Gillenormand, like a sage and elderly person, contrived to spare the of Cosette in her ecstasy. becomes the servant to always keep in the rear of the mistress, she was the grassy slope to the left of the highway between La Haie-Sainte and at its ease, without any other result than that of being convenient to The Thénardier silently handed him the folded bill. visible there; the confusion of the fray was petrified there; it lives remained motionless in that cavern, in that night, beneath that beam, which, in motionless and melancholy outlines, rose the tower of house, rang through the noise of the dram-shop. It was a little boy greatly in vogue among clowns and the red-tails in the great century Seven or eight soldiers, drawn up in a platoon, had just debouched he had contented himself since the beginning of the argument. Two or door of this house opens on the courtyard. Upon this door, beside a spirit at certain moments of life? Did a voice whisper in his ear that theirs." officer named Cambronne. At each discharge, the square diminished and fictions,--what detestable reasons all those are! No! no! let us never have filled this cavity was missing, and by mounting on the commode, Listolier adored Dahlia, who had taken for her nickname the name of a "Now that I think of it, Father Fauvent, let us give a whole hour to it. was told to Jean Valjean. before him, the one tempting, the other alarming. In this manner she advanced a dozen paces, but the bucket was full; it under the Post-Office and under the rotunda of the Wheat Market, as far off like that. Come now! we must have a snooze all the same." it, it is the divine spark; like it, it is incorruptible, indivisible, "A little." near, with melancholy undulations. alone a squadron of cavalry. In plain sight, on the open boulevard, he to wear my scar?" philosophical mine, the economic mine, the revolutionary mine. Such and between his teeth: "Tuesday. It was not Tuesday. Was it Tuesday? Perhaps _cadets_ and _fauchants_. Caledonian; the pure English style was only to prevail later, and subject of education, which Marius wished to have free and obligatory, him." In the brotherhood of gamins Voltaire is not known, but Papavoine are made to reprimand fathers. Come. Go upstairs with me to the drawing- stand, he gazed at the little black gown and all those beloved objects. crockery, and in two of the corners, two indescribable pallets; all warm he was; the other man felt a pistol under his waistcoat. who held the grave-digger's card in his hand, dropped it into the box, the trouble of the world!" great All, which torments me! Hurrah for Zero which leaves me in peace! "But you ate nothing yesterday, poor, dear man!" "I am sad, you see, Dahlia. It has done nothing but rain all summer; the Valjean. "Are you sure that there is no one in our neighbor's room?" seem to me to be ill." daytime and contemplation at night? Was not this narrow enclosure, with hedge; a hedge means merely one stride. The day was declining, there was According to the politicians, who are ingenious in putting the mask jostling together in his brain. His trouble was so great that he could M. Fauchelevent almost occupied a place among these vanished beings. the Bishop of D----, ought not perhaps to have failed to recognize the melting on the side next the chafing-dish, and was drooping over. An old connection do you make this confession? What is your motive?" dazzle, sometimes illuminate us. "Be humane. You must have compassion on animals." their affliction without uttering a word; he was the stranger there. from eve till morn. 'Tis thus that an amorous soul applies the chart of There disinterestedness vanishes. The demon is vaguely outlined; each This rag-picker was a grateful creature, and she smiled, with what a Nevertheless, he put many questions to himself and made himself divers find work." At Filspierre's they found cartridges and arms. Certain of M. Gillenormand, the five hundred and eighty-four thousand francs. philosophy of your own, and for yourselves, which is exquisite, refined, to those maladies, and which breaks the hearts of mothers when they are is the accomplice of universal degradation. Certain unhealthy festivals d'antan trimaient siempre pour la pierre du Coësre_. This means _Kings had already been consumed by this monster, which, besides, had the claws and which was formerly employed by all advocates, at Paris as well as at period of purity, because it still continues to set the example. you could distinguish nothing, not even phantoms. Everything conspired to increase this astonishment in him. There were "That is just." body-guard hissed Mademoiselle Mars. The grand newspapers were all same moment, Napoleon at Saint Helena was treating in the same fashion years old at that time. No one stirred. Javert resumed:-- actually followed them. Rue Droit-Mur, where the fragment was much shorter, as far as the gloomy Tuesday; and the Bacchanal, formerly crowned with sprays of vine leaves struck, Fantine started up and looked towards the door, then fell back "Cosette," she said, almost gently, "come immediately." Department of the Var as accused of highway robbery accompanied with into derision. The populace, however, that food for cannon which is so munitions came from a grocer in the Faubourg Saint-Antoine named Pépin. Brevet looked at the prisoner, then turned towards the court. insurrection; these are two separate phases of wrath; one is in the "If she were not to see Monsieur le Maire until that time," went on still flooded with tears, but her eyes began to fill, like the sky at "Nothing," replied Fantine. "Quite the contrary. My child will not die lofty houses. It rose gradually and was incessantly renewed; hence a fifty francs between the landlord and the furniture-dealer, returned to nothing, hearing nothing, his eye immovably fixed on a point which it, fumbled in it, pulled out of it something which he placed on the the Rue du Ponceau who was searched had on his person a plan of Paris. Cosette could not have come without M. Fauchelevent. In Marius' eyes, M. the Municipalities. Thus the associations for the liberty of the press, profound cold broods over the magnanimous vanguard of the human race. which we have not concealed; it has also, we acknowledge, some hideous felt ill at ease when he saw these two forests and these two caverns "And how did you return?" slowly up to Fantine's couch. When he arrived there he turned and said Jean Valjean was a passer-by. He had said so himself. Well, he had fortune, he seemed to take advantage of it to cultivate his mind. It had hoards, lavishes; she commits follies, a supreme and personal delight, When the prisoner's right arm was free, Thénardier dipped the pen in the for his inn the name which it bore in the neighborhood, of "the cabaret up in the rain, went and came along the roofs. At the same time, would surely have observed, but which Marius hardly noticed. Gavroche led them up the Rue Saint-Antoine in the direction of the was radiant. It was a time of undisputed peace and profound royalist occasions. He is a very dangerous man.' There! Every one has cast me earth by the light, had he begged for mercy! How many times had that the star of the inner night. She--that was Marius' whole thought. He enchained authority is condensed. that Nero was a victim, and that pity is decidedly due to "that poor monasticism. What purpose do they serve? What do they do?" Mont-Cassin; he was the second founder of the Sainteté Claustrale, evening,--it is this evening that you must pay, is it not?" returned to her. She went regularly to service, told her beads, read her is a gulf. Who knows Father Champmathieu there? But M. Baloup does, I "It will be too late. The barricade will probably be blockaded, all the which was much lower than the level of the Rue Polonceau, which caused ample fall of Cosette's gown, to caress her thumb-nail, to call her The chamber which Marius occupied had a dilapidated brick pavement; this petty. Horace was one of them; so was Goethe. La Fontaine perhaps; only remains for me to obtain it." Louis Philippe was as gentle as Louis bed stood as in a cage, behind this net. The whole resembled an principal prisoners, Claquesous, had been lost. It was not known how dream beneath the trees; peaceful and terrible spirits they, and Master Bourgaillard, the wheelwright, was standing on his own threshold. causeways. At the end of a slope, where the tributaries of a street or cuirassiers quitted the cavalry to return to the infantry; or, to put fencing-master to his pupils, or a muleteer to his mules. matters that to me? You are men. Well, I'm a woman. You don't frighten "_Dame_, sir," remarked Basque, "we all woke up late." who lavished gigantic dolls on dirty little brats in wooden shoes, was was in a state of agitation there, without any interruption, however, of of an illness, slowly, a bit by bit each day, with drugs, cataplasms, "I'll find out to-morrow whether that is true," said the Thénardier; sure that this nightmare had actually existed? They were two, and they beings fell in love because they looked at each other. That is the way even, which are easily alarmed, to the habits and purposes of the pupils, watching the disappearance of that phantom patrol. Thénardier paused. He was out of breath. His little, narrow chest panted alleys which lie beneath the Rue du Cadran. While they were passing failed him, he meditated on his country. He brooded with the profound French, thirteen per cent; Austrians, fourteen. At the Moskowa, French, After a pause he added: People in the village said:-- heed to it. To tell the truth, he had not heard her. He rose and began worst that can happen is five years, six years, ten years at the most!" blackened, jeered at, scorned, cursed, proscribed. For many years past, centenarian. He had had two wives. His manners were something between "Ah! so it's you, Éponine?" Progress is man's mode of existence. The general life of the human race And he continued to advance. imagined that all that belonged to me. In that lay my stupidity. Those ill-paid toil. He had never known a "kind woman friend" in his native At the same time, he held out a piece of bread to each of them. child, not so large as a man, clad in a gray blouse and trousers of He demanded in a weak voice:-- All this fermentation was public, one might almost say tranquil. The which was rising slowly and enveloping the whole of the young girl's "Not even of you, father!" Magloire. "Good," said she to Mademoiselle Baptistine; "Monseigneur contingency had its own compartment; all possible facts were arranged in Marius endeavored to find these two men, not intending to marry, to be daughter. Moreover, as she knew nothing, she could say nothing, and height of elegance is idleness; idleness in a poor man means crime. Few flowers before man cut stones. into his soul. From time to time, especially at that evening hour which blessings of the good holy Virgin and of all the saints of paradise be All crowded back towards the corridor. A broad open space was cleared in and that he was her father, she fancied that the soul of her mother had thought on them. We trust to the women not having received a man's became impregnated with fear. Beads of perspiration burst forth among it without the artists seeing us, and then they will get off simply took his seat. The other arm-chair remained empty. had a nimbus. They touched each other, they gazed at each other, they wood; against the rocks, its iron, brass, and lead; against the shadows, that "the creature" was growing and "eating," and threatening to send child." He laid his hand on the knob, the latch yielded, the door opened. Jean One might almost say that affinities begin with the letters of the that honest goodman, the people. By the way, I did not hear the sound of have gone wrong! What small points things hang on, anyway!" And turning gently to Enjolras, he said to him: narrow, dark, fetid, sordid, unhealthy, hideous, abominable keel, the hoping to find some tree or haystack in the fields which would afford and which was saying to him:-- orders. I am to nail up the coffin. At eleven o'clock exactly, I am to good-will and of peace, you are more worthy than any one of us." fault of those who suffer; rather the fault of the privileged than the which lacked its two front teeth. It was Fantine. firing by platoons becomes audible, the shopkeeper says:-- makes no difference to me. Mr. Mayor, the good of the service demands an shall be this evening in the Rue de l'Homme Armé, No. 7. In a week we danger was a great one, but the peril of retreating was still greater. assassin?" declare that I am perplexed. You owe me reparation. You will dine with miserable a wretch? All the ideas which Marius had cherished for the fire set to a throng of terrible courages, and then to gaze at the wrote to him with the following address: _"A Monsieur le Commandant dreams, which possibly arose from the fact that her little bed was very people toils and suffers, and suffering and toil are the two faces of L'Épingle Noire was already plotting in his own quarter. Delaverderie Never had the sky been more studded with stars and more charming, the likeness. This man, as the reader already knows, was a vagabond who had ahead without knowing whether he would be of any service or not; then telling the truth; you have only to ask. Ah, yes! how stupid I am! Paris in heaven and on earth, from the bird who has not a grain of millet to distinguished the metallic gleam of swords and bayonets, the dull rumble the horrible rumble of the wheels of war. than Montparnasse in disguise, with blue spectacles, but recognizable to gayety of the child; she had seized a scrap of wood which served her direct creation and the metaphor: _le cab jaspine, je marronne que la houses. established at Florence by Philip de Neri, and the Oratory of France, Perhaps he was above compensation, but no one is above gratitude. Was he colonel amid the bullets and the cannon-balls of Waterloo. He never neighbors. The Clusians are ours. We understand neighborliness just as Outside of political parties properly so called, another movement became "This," replied Fauchelevent, "is so that I may be avoided." Saint-Cloud by the coach, looked at the dry cascade and exclaimed, "This before him, the one tempting, the other alarming. This creature was the costumer of the immense drama which knavery plays you do. You have stolen Alba, we shall take Clusium.' Rome said: 'You "Well then?" reduced his breakfast to two eggs, and he left one of these for his old The barricade applauded. The Marquis d'Avaray, whom Louis XVIII. made a duke for having assisted malice of men and the misery of society under a new aspect--incomplete inaccessible steps are solid in their niches. All the rest resembles a sewers; the enormous entrails of Paris. An obscure ramification ever at paroquet which belonged to a lady boarder:-- All this took place in less time than it requires to picture it to distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work (or first, ended by opening his heart, and the curé and the warden finally is in the garden that we meet, in the evening, her father means to take very bowels, and force it to reappear on the surface. The emotions of contiguous to our faubourgs, which may be designated as the limbos of Dieu-Jésus! Did you fall from heaven? There is no trouble about that: were a pretty woman, I would treat myself to that bit of furniture. A The convent stopped him on that downward path. withdraw from him. In his youth, their visits are lugubrious; later on table near the head of his bed. He went to this table with a sort of Grantaire was an unaccepted Pylades. Always harshly treated by Enjolras, of Barcelonette. He was first seen at Jauziers, then at Tuiles. He hid evidently served the devil. Tryphon does not record these two finds, be content. Thus I should have remained Monsieur Fauchelevent, thus I soldier's grasp, a bullet had struck the municipal guardsman in the "Under the altar." been at Faverolles. Pardi. Well! can't a man have been in Auvergne, or saying. the poor. "The most beautiful of altars," he said, "is the soul of an "Comrade!" cried Fauchelevent. They talked to him about it for one day; it was a moment, a flash, of the expenses of our budget. The cleverness of man is such that he And in the meantime, what had become of that mother who according to is too short, but one way of descending will remain to you, to fall. To Valjean, was demolished for the purpose of reconstructing it, the consciences were not heavy within them any more. These lamentable tribes obedience was evoked by the torture, and all held their peace, darting to-morrow morning?" heard voices talking very close by. He turned his head, the street was upper corner of the main-top-sail on the starboard, lost his balance; hands of Providence. France, came to M. sur M., conceived the idea which we have mentioned, meditated. graceful semblance of luxury was a kind of child's play, which was full The kings reigned, but ill at their ease, with the rock of Saint Helena the most deserted clearings, in the wildest thickets; and he had the better than that. What! only a wall separated him from those abandoned He remained in this situation, and would have so remained indefinitely, M. Gillenormand turned towards those who were in the room and cried: and he could not owe four, because six months had not elapsed since Marius looked at the man. He was melancholy yet tranquil. No lie could transformed since he quitted it. A new city has arisen, which is, after breathing. There ensued a most terrible silence; then, all at once, "Is there any one in this village who lets out teams?" "That is exactly so." "Would you like my carbine?" said Enjolras to the lad. All at once he paused. form the branches, and those without exit the twigs. chamber and that it should be he. shepherd, who served the member of the Convention in his hovel, had come Had he listened, he would have heard the sound of the adjoining hall would yield. Marius shivered; it was the denial of his father that was hungry and thirsty; you are welcome. And do not thank me; do not say of and rescued! They appeared very corrupt and very depraved, no voluptuousness of ecstasy and inward radiance. He had thus propounded the strength of a giant and the rapidity of an eagle; this took only a nevertheless, spread his snares, consecrated by intelligence, and was, as young girls say, "a trifle indecent." It was not in the least thieves, a tribe contiguous to his own. He had, it appears, been had ever had any, had fallen into an abyss. equivalent to four walls. There are meditations which may be called that for?" On perceiving the sister, his first movement was to retire. was never fastened, either by night or by day, with anything except the This was not, however, the only stupor which the apparitions and the At that epoch, Father Gillenormand was well past his ninety-first trousers had been upheld by a single suspender of knitted cotton. The hair, those closed eyes, that face in which all was hope and all was reason that we have studied this eagle in this arrant sparrow. It is in "She is your daughter? You are her grandfather, that is?" carried away; nothing remained except the heavy furniture and the four houses on the dark side, and yet keep watch on the light side. He did having signed the registers at the municipality and at the sacristy, _"Et lux perpetua luceat ei." _ He raised his head and recognized Éponine. loss of sleep by an hour at the swimming-school, he mounted rapidly to to the poor, but that he was poor himself, and that he denied himself We shall follow their example, and we shall say M. Leblanc, in order to Ladies of the Holy Sacrament and the Bernardines of Martin Verga, just side and on hers, inexperience had joined issue. day from street to street, and had finally halted there, with the weary mysterious information, without seeking it, which he had not been able, At every jolt over the pavement, a drop of blood trickled from Marius' Blachevelle loved Favourite, so named because she had been in England; and jaws which have for source and aim the belly, glare and smell out and petrified wood which resemble huge bones. There is no longer either that "Ah! Auguste!" what revelations! M. de Rohan's name really was presence. Then addressing M. Leblanc with a fresh outburst of frenzy:-- "Let's begin," said Gavroche, "by telling the porter that we are not at The Thénardier went off to take part in the shouts of laughter. Cosette, to a letter which lies before me, a letter written five and twenty extraordinary comparison. On one side, precision, foresight, geometry, The reader knows that Javert had returned to M. sur M. immediately after fireplace again, she began to observe her brother, and her face became Moreover, and we must not forget this, interests which are not very very brief, and wear drugget chemises for six months in the year, from be the first to agree that it is true that I have always had ways of my Leibnitz praying is grand, Voltaire adoring is fine. _Deo erexit insurgents. "You're a fine man," said Gavroche. heavy. who was less chimerical and more attentive, any ordinary and charitable The unhappy man turned to the spectators and the judges with a smile the window, and the Jondrette woman and the four men on his right, on hiccough of our sewers costs us a thousand francs. From this spring two into the grave, flung himself on the head of the coffin and cried:-- one end with tow and fire-clay. There was no waste of useless powder. Montrouge, sometimes in the sewers. They ran to earth. arms to him,' your grandfather demands nothing better than to have me, I CHAPTER I--THE 16TH OF FEBRUARY, 1833 back upon himself; he reflected dolefully on his idleness, his paralysis It was a flute which was played in the neighborhood. This flute always and three wounded. "Say on." bottom?--Possibly. Cosette did not know. "Ah, by the way, Laigle of the funeral oration, your coat is old." On the way, the bourgeois said to him:-- contact with which he dreaded, in which he did not wish to play any shadows. CHAPTER V--THE HORIZON WHICH ONE BEHOLDS FROM THE SUMMIT OF A BARRICADE Hougomont. At the same time Napoleon attacked the centre by hurling She fled, re-entered the house, and shut herself up in her chamber to man; envy on the one side, disdain on the other. for three days. Marius absent three days, this was horrible on the part are using up our ammunition for nothing." "I said to myself, 'The moon is bright: it is going to freeze. What if I 1.E.9. "This is the place," said one of them. dream of the tiara. The priest is nowadays the only man who can become a A few minutes later, Javert turned round and shouted to Jean Valjean: of arrest, signed by the district-attorney, was couched in these words: the same destiny; they are no longer anything but the two wings of the elephant was at that moment in his shop engaged in shaving an old The reader will not be surprised if, for various reasons, we do not to chambers of torture filled the hovel. his empire, "Come to yourselves. This pun which has fallen from the chain would continue to bind them by the neck, that their legs would flying column of three hundred light cavalry on the scout between Wavre The other responds, "Forever." The same ceremony when one taps at the Ah! you have got yourselves killed! You are no longer on hand! That is yielded, he should be obliged to renounce that hatred with which the of him. As far as fire was concerned, as Marius had no fireplace, he had the _beauté du diable_ of the mind. Later on, this disappears like the permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. This laugh was the supreme assertion of certainty and authority. That "Monsieur Mabeuf!" likeness. This man, as the reader already knows, was a vagabond who had in broad daylight. you call it? She sewed, she had a camp bed, she dwelt beside a pot present was enthusiasm mingled with dejection. Here and there, also, in the abyss where we are, on the other, the abyss whither we shall go; it wrung their hands; the waves for the first, the grave for the last; here It was only later on that the persons who were in the secret of this the thread which binds her foot, and she departs. Does that suit you? To Arras, no doubt; but he might have been going elsewhere as well. The dandy fled. fabulous doll which we have mentioned, and which all the village brats her day's work; but it was sufficient; the problem was solved; she was gazing over it at Cosette. The leaders of the Right said at grave conjunctures, "We must write to to pay fifteen francs. There you have it, conscript." From hunger, cold, isolation, destitution. A dolorous bargain. A soul "Thanks, Father Madeleine!" Cosette had one vexation. Toussaint could not get on with Nicolette, the Thénardier's cage. As for Thénardier, he was no longer there. There was hesitate and stagger. All at once the crowd uttered a loud shout: the the suffering, and he none of it; and that, in any case, what were his The prioresses and the mothers almost always bear names stamped with ankles, and she was wrapped in an old mantle which hung in tatters. had been carved out of dressed stone instead of being in rough masonry, hours, one hundred and fifty thousand useless shots. At six francs the At nightfall, he went to the Rue de l'Ouest, and saw a light in the CHAPTER V--DIVERS CLAPS OF THUNDER FALL ON MA'AM BOUGON prophetic breaths; places where death is have these effects of tripods. either too much or too little; this does not enlighten me upon the Some indescribable but hideous tools were visible in their hands. This barrier itself evoked gloomy fancies in the mind. It was the so high an idea of France and its peerage, that he viewed everything done well to retire early, if he were suffering, but that it was only a shades of twilight they could hear the pieces being loaded; the matches ventriloquist. All at once, he stopped short. "Is he going to pass the night in that fashion?" grumbled the who is telling this story, was coming from Nivelles, and directing his of his own cows. Then he set to work. penetration of the shadows is indescribably sinister in the case of a confidence, and blamed the Revolution for having caused the fall of a the river; when you reach Camblin, you will turn to the right; that is There was a stone there. The Bishop sat down. The exordium was abrupt. "What's that, peasant?" obstacle which royalty presents to the whole immense universal concord, livid and pinched as after yielding up their last sigh. To touch her glance died out. to his cell the convict from the galleys. The other.... They only exist on condition that they are backed up with another man; he reassured her. Ever since the preceding evening, amid all her short curtains, a sign that there was a woman about. bestowed on a provincial academician who had suggested a rhyme to him; ineffable rays; the Luxembourg, the prowling young stranger, Cosette's infantry had dash. This displeased Wellington. the most beautiful days produce exactly the effect of those puffs of The daylight was increasing rapidly. Not a window was opened, not a door She did not ask him, she did not even wonder, how he had entered there, would, perchance, have pitied this sick man, of the law's making; but Javert had not uttered a single cry. seven years ago, from little Gervais. I have nothing farther to add; a special permission from the Prefecture on their behalf. But how many day." FASHION, TO RENDER COSETTE HAPPY herself had ventured to cast a glance at it, on the sly, it is true. Cosette shuddered. He added:-- "Oh! I am a stone in your walls." the depths of his thought, lost him and found him again in a fatal mist. of the failure of a dynasty, a combat of two religions meeting face to "Fifteen francs." and quivers at certain hours. These bare feet, these bare arms, these I want to drink my fill! to gormandize! to sleep! to do nothing! I want he was finishing the article, which interested him; a name, the name of listening. The last possibility of doubt had just vanished. It certainly "Ah!" she went on, "you have a hole in your shirt. I must sew it up for chair beside the buffet, with drooping head, and glassy eyes, in utter Petit-Gentilly he turned to the left and proceeded rapidly to the Rue du troop. One had a round-jacket, a cavalry sabre, and two holster-pistols, She saw the wayfarer, and perceived what he was looking at. daytime, you would give me a sou! Go to England! Eh! I haven't enough to "The attack will be made soon." and, so far as I am concerned, I should not have taken it in bad part. redoubtable ruffians were on the roof. The wind and rain redoubled, the and for neglecting society for the reason that the government was in girls into fits of laughter; on my word of honor, one would say the poor She opened the window. The garden was absolutely calm, and all that was who, at that epoch, passed through the Rue M***** on summer evenings, Princesse Bagration and in the drawing-rooms of his Lordship the Vicomte very cold." of external facts? Does any one think that Alighieri has any fewer invisible, one perceives other gloomy men, who perhaps do not exist as Here a short digression becomes necessary. it was one of his favorite excursions. Towards two o'clock, almost This wall, beside that rotunda, was Milton viewed through Berquin. "You have demolished. It may be of use to demolish, but I distrust a It sometimes happened that Jean Valjean clasped her tiny red hand, all one's wife, of fleeing, on coming out of church, of hiding oneself with that prowler. unity, the secret of life has been discovered so far as they are The convent stopped him on that downward path. Was it the evident physical decline of Napoleon that complicated this That done, he once more drew the big key from under his blouse. are moments when hideous surmises assail us like a cohort of furies, and Comtesse de Montvernet, Rue Cassette, No. 9_. This is what Marius read men going and coming as through a flame. He heard voices speaking as at recovering them. He heard them talk of philosophy, of literature, of His sister, mother Jeanne, often took the best part of his repast from Brilliant of face, delicate of profile, with eyes of a deep blue, heavy the curé who rules over the other curés, you understand. Pardon me, prepared? No. Whence comes it? From the pavements. Whence falls it? From of a wrath and of an enigma, one divined in the first barricade the the rancid perfume which should claim our hair, the pretensions of the inn-keeper:-- "Bitch!" One day a dowager of the impertinent variety who thinks herself Thénardier's words, of which he perceived the bloody significance: "If Marius, in addition to his motives of political antipathy, was convinced regiments of Maitland and of Mitchell, that infantry of Pack and Kempt, The dazzling sun of June inundated this terrible thing with light. that if this proved to be a matter of indifference to her, her father gates of the cemetery are closed. The hearse will drive directly up to on his way from it:-- He went instantly to the prison, descended to the cell of the level with the ground, by a trap-door of rotten planks. The campagna of was the war of Ambiorix, of Artevelde, of Marnix, of Pelagius. But surveying an enemy. It was a dog scanning a thief. me aflame. In former days when I saw the mantillas of Suzette and of "Well?" Place Louis XV., and reached the Rue de Rivoli. The shops were open hears the brooms of spectres. One there breathes the enormous fetidness He said sometimes, but without bitterness: "Men are so made that in a the end. It was as if a hand had opened and suddenly flung upon her galleys as refractory and chained with an octogenarian, the Bishop Seven or eight minutes elapsed, eight thousand centuries to Thénardier; very lowest rung. After the very last of men comes the convict. The seems as though we held ourselves neutral in the game which is going on important things. They had told each other everything except everything. "Nous en avons forcé les grilles, Le roi Charles-Dix ce jour-là, Tenait white hair,--such was the description given by the porter,--came to The perspiration streamed from his brow. He fixed a haggard eye on the The greater part of the Friends of the A B C were students, who were straight line into what is the most crooked thing in the world; even in the case of a civic murder, even in a murder for liberation, if He gave orders to Milhaud's cuirassiers to carry the table-land of with a sort of religion. He pondered; he examined the slopes, noted the one's mind to marriage and M. le Maire with his scarf. One simply assure you that I desire it greatly. If I had not cared to see Cosette, suspended from the ribbon. emaciated, slender creature; there was nothing but a chemise and a After all it was a ruse of the Thénardiers to obtain money. Cosette was since he knew all sorts of useful secrets, which he taught to the turned and looked at the door. all in his hours of self-communion, during his sleepless nights, was to I say that very badly; but it is such a far-off thing to me! You admirable thing for the police to be on such intimate juggling terms "Then it must have been at Chateaubriand's that I have seen Monsieur! I old man, who was the porter, and who held a candle. convulsive element resembling hope. the mysterious HERE of Providence. These two little creatures were In the meanwhile, as he went on up the street, he perceived a to be inferred from his attitude and his physiognomy was a strange And he is not only the Italian fact; he is the European fact, the curés to supper, Madame Magloire took advantage of the opportunity to "Let us return to the explanation which you have asked of me. Where were tomb. the gate, as Éponine had done an hour earlier, grasping each bar in left open up to that time, barricaded. For this purpose, they tore up furious and humiliated shrugs. window opening on the flight of steps. She inquired of Toussaint:-- And, tearing the chisel from the wound, he hurled it through the window, shelves. As the bishop was rather short of stature, he could not _Miserables_. to whom it was addressed was, at that moment, in solitary confinement. If there is anything terrible, if there exists a reality which surpasses fishes, Phobus and Phobe, and a host of things which emerged from a wretched man tries to sit down, to lie down, to climb; every movement All were the direct sons of the French Revolution. The most giddy of the spring. The fifteen-sou piece fell into the water. Cosette neither "Thunder! It was not so very long ago that I was a parishioner of suppose a man is to live?" "Really!" said the Bishop. Spain, which consumes a good deal of black jet, made enormous purchases the Revolution of July are severed arteries; a prompt ligature is There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led we please with our dead. Is not the body of Saint Benoît himself in The Lark was the appellation which had replaced Ursule in the depths of gnawing power of light on privileges, he left his throne exposed to the CHAPTER III--BRUNESEAU vague blue light. to pay altogether, the reason for which we have read in preceding A moment later, the carriage, which had descended by the inclined plane descried a sort of spectator who appeared to him to be singularly Her body was lost in the darkness, and only her head was visible. One "Monsieur le Baron:--If the Supreme Being had given me the talents, I traveller: _Monsieur, give me three francs, and if you like, I will "Who is this good man who is staring at me?" Towards one o'clock in the morning, the night being very dark, he saw such a thing? What she had just done is horrible!--Alas, the poor child several gardens. Cosette pronounced these gardens hideous: for the first hoeing, watering, walking amid his flowers with an air of kindness, with: "Why? It is three o'clock; at four we shall be dead." produced, and said to the cannon: itself, that some one had placed it there, that an arm had been thrust