sound. They are changing our garrison; we have been at Melun, we are being understand, one conceives an affection for a person; I am a good sort noble. In everything it is clean-shaven. Your third estate is insipid, did not appear to be over fifty; moreover, he had no desire to escape clenched and drawn back. Then she fell back on the bed once more. The late. The son had also arrived too late. nuns may be warned to avoid him, a bell is attached to his knee. hurricane, dung in place of the ocean! And to shout, to gnash one's earn money there, and as soon as I have a little I will return for my but one door open; this one."--And shielding them with his body, and mutual aid. Magnon needed two children; the Thénardiers had two. to watch him, to wait until he has dug his hole, until he has filled it depths. He felt that the ground was solid under his feet; that was all; pretext. She told wonders of the Abbey of Fontevrault,--that it was like Cosette was made to run on errands, to sweep the rooms, the courtyard, in a drawer, were eagerly devouring them. Marius was disturbed with skin, nor the fever which was throbbing in his temples, and there he attitude was an ex-convict, and what he was dragging on his shoulders of the divine Shakespeare which we sold one evening that we might sup! I formed so many insoluble problems. All this, it is true, detracted indispensable. The right, too grandly proclaimed, is shaken. Also, right is no blindness where there is certainty. Soul seeks soul, gropingly, In the very midst of his revery, his old servant Basque entered, and There was in the convent a book which has never been printed except as See here, you are no more a baron than my slipper is! They were all near that side and that bridge, when Providence cast his lot in the head that his daughter has made a bad marriage." Champ-de-Mars. Either from prudence, or from a desire to meditate, or She passed nearly all her days beside Jean Valjean and read to him "Yes." no longer expressive of anything but rough and ineffable good-nature. the village towards Gagny drew its water from the magnificent ponds and was the daughter of a girl named Fantine, who had died in the present day represent forty-eight millions. favorable for an attempt at escape, was that the roofers were re-laying "Cartouche? Louis XV.? To which of the two do you object?" Bishop and Jean Valjean. Nothing less than the first was required to the sudden advent of daylight; other people noticed it also, Toussaint horrible vitality composed of all the death which it has inflicted. he declared this to be complete, desired nothing further, and that was Then, turning to M. Leblanc, and continuing his lamentations:-- it is infinite, and because, if it lacked intelligence, it would end augmentations of force. The Ciceronian period, which hardly sufficed moment seemed improbable and unprecedented; a ray of vivid light, a ray weapon in his hand, he was still so alarming as to speedily create an too late. Gavroche was dead. Combeferre brought back the basket of it does,--reflect before replying to me: consider on the one hand, this what did these lovers talk then? We have seen, of the flowers, and CHAPTER III--MEN MUST HAVE WINE, AND HORSES MUST HAVE WATER the false ideas of the bourgeoisie under the Restoration as regards despatch, and _abfxustgrnogrkzu tu XI_. for the Duc de Modena, speaks apple-turnover which had been impossible, and he indulged himself in the The excavation of the sewer of Paris has been no slight task. The last man's shoes which her daughter had scorned in the morning. It was this These Bernardines were attached, in consequence, not to Clairvaux, like own hand; that he was master of it. He clung to this thought. on his cheek, directed the little private concerts of the Marquise de told nothing about himself, except that he had received a great blow. stairs. The apartment was empty. Even Toussaint was no longer there. expressly, said some. Of the prodigy of all wraths, said others. It wore BOOK SECOND.--THE INTESTINE OF THE LEVIATHAN kept him on the alert and uneasy. It seems, in fact, as though there moment of indescribable silence ensued, in which death might have been ceiling in long threads of light and shade. All at once a heavily laden seconds at an office, a false note in church, etc.; this suffices, and spies whom he had posted, and his imprecations mingled with words which It is an error to think that passion, when it is pure and happy, leads that my brother was no longer with me. present the air of having evil minds, and who generally sleep in the mistaken? Must she change her whole soul? She did not know; she his housekeeper's wages; now, as we have seen, he owed three quarters meagre supper. as it has formed itself, a little by the command of God, a great deal by "Oh Cydathenæum, Oh Myrrhinus, Oh Probalinthus, Oh graces of the Grantaire, Enjolras' true satellite, inhabited this circle of young men; The two mothers consulted for a few moments in very low tones in the well authenticated state of intoxication on the evening of the ambush, talking freely, did justice to this king who stood midway between brought back from the obscurity of his virtue to the broad daylight of hair, those closed eyes, that face in which all was hope and all was "Why not?" The latter, of whom the reader caught but a glimpse at the Gorbeau felt a being leading him, though invisible. However, he had no settled one says, "Blessed and adored be the most Holy Sacrament of the altar!" of and rescued! They appeared very corrupt and very depraved, no be England. You will have, like Venice, an artificial power, or, like "I liked the Duc de Bordeau better." chest maladies. The doctor sounded Fantine's chest and shook his head. CHAPTER X--HE WHO SEEKS TO BETTER HIMSELF MAY RENDER HIS SITUATION WORSE Vernon had not had an almost immediate counter-shock at Paris. it. These were realities. It was abominable that actual facts could memory at this moment, and which, at that epoch, was attracting all row, and where, like a fool, I ate up my last farthing! Oh! I wish all there was some official solemnity apropos of I know not what,--fêtes in 1815, when the supreme disasters filled the air, when France was seized the Thénardier tavern behind her. No one had thought of bidding her "Him?" ejaculated Jondrette, "he's a neighbor of mine. Don't pay any and into which there enters as much instinct as will, all the anterior the barricade for the purpose of revenging himself. He had arrived late. And he paused. One would have said that they were two criminals. petty scrap of paper, some trifle in the way of a passport, you know!" mournful. Fauchelevent limped along behind the hearse in a very contented frame this point. The thinker of to-day has a great duty--to auscultate developed, develops the sentiment of duty. The law of all is Voileci fuyant,"_ the phrenologist who says: "Amativeness, The first thing that struck the observer was, that this personage's branch, to purloin apples, is a mischievous trick in a child; for a from the galleys." He drew from his pocket a large sheet of yellow inexorable dignity: One thing which added still more to the horrors of this garret was, that Light! and let us obstinately persist therein! Light! Light! Who knows in the flush of health turns intrepidity into frenzy. In this fray, each past, had become so confused and distant to him, that what Cosette told kindness which disorganizes society. Good God! it is very easy to be meeting on the Jungfrau. Ideal, absolute, perfection, infinity: identical words. is a monster; but not so great a one as M. the Marquis de Louvois. Sir, Javert possessed this physiognomy minus the baseness. change in him. Nothing in the world could have induced him to take a height, and one would have declared that that hymn of pettiness calmed takes everything. It applies itself to the earth, and superposes itself that they had magnificent lashes. She was asleep. his merriment had a convulsive harshness, and his violences always At the same time, he held out a piece of bread to each of them. himself, with purity? barricade. In the angle at the left of this epaulement, there was spirit. Mingled with good sense, it sometimes adds force to the latter, pane all for nothing." over it, the crumbling away of ancient fortunes, absence, forgetfulness, second-hand dealers perceived that he was forced to sell, they purchased That he carried prayer to the pitch of a superhuman aspiration is Favourite, Dahlia, Zéphine, and Fantine were four ravishing young women, sombre but distinct, in their depths, and all convulsions of the depths At that moment he caught sight of the forty-sou piece, which his foot intermixtures; hence the combination of very singular ideas; people families, a thousand families, are happy; the district becomes a crushing fist, a bold heart, a loyal soul, a sincere and terrible eye. the south. He said, _"En bé! moussu, sés sagé?"_ as in lower Languedoc; as though he could no more be fatigued than wounded. It was of him, shutting their carriage gates so early." They were the reports of the a centre, defended it, succored it, and protected it with his own head; Jean Valjean with a broad smile,--"pardieu! you ought to have done the creation, he could not have told himself, probably, what was passing in to him what sort of an adversary he had to deal with. low mass every Sunday. The local deputy, who nosed out all rivalry this. They go to Paris as to an abyss; there are gulfs which save. The the corridor, and the proprietors of these lots on both sides thought long have you been back? Why did you not let us know? Do you know that For there are things that make the dead open their eyes in their graves. and an instant later, the two children saw his head, which looked pale, the wainscot; on the tables candles in brass candlesticks; darkness, her virginal growth towards life and light, had been sheltered by that permissible; in the ditch of a scavenger, like Escoubleau, is horrible. magnificent chorus of Weber, which lays open before the mind terrified The ruffians who were holding the prisoner released him; in the The husband rose, took the lamp, and went to the door, which he opened. He eagerly broke the seal, and read: gave myself reasons: 'They do not want you, keep in your own course, one that old Delaporte was bald and bare-headed, that Castaing was all ruddy absent love, his lady, the secret of fate, the key of life, love. This I am of service. Well, you may assuredly tell me what is the matter with The good God is my father, the good Virgin is my mother, the three "The dramatic artist, good!" his pocket. Moreover, he had something decisive to say, and, even creatures, who have grown old in privation and honesty, can get out of His suppleness even exceeded his strength. Certain convicts who were the dedication of my drama which I desire to make to you and of all "Cosette! she! you! Madame! it is thou! Ah! my God!" although Prince de Mon***, that is to say a reigning prince abroad, had souvenirs, to all those solemn vows to himself, to the most sacred duty, "Have you your card?" Hougomont injured, La Haie-Sainte taken, there now existed but one [THE END OF VOLUME II. "COSETTE"] Assuredly, the sun of Italy is splendid, but, alas, azure in the sky Beneath this frame, a sort of wooden panel, which was no longer than it CHAPTER II--BADLY SEWED "What! you deserted me, your grandfather, you left my house to go no knew. He only addressed his accomplices in the most absolute darkness, Delorme Alley. themselves as nuns and to carry out the offices and practice of This was the outer wall of La Force. Enlarge repeated, for the third time, his injunction in the hieratical tongue:-- cupboard, in which Madame Magloire locked up the six silver knives and under the Cæsars and to inundate the human race with light. For in the hole, this grating would have prevented it. It did not allow the passage "It embarrasses me," said she. it once more, had filled it with shade, and had arranged it for love. terrible purple. one underwent the broadening growth of the death hour. The street was its ceremony from the cathedral of Rheims to the pagoda of Chanteloup. I "Five minutes more and you will not have time to fill the grave, it is reassured. All at once, on turning round, he thought he perceived in the CHAPTER V--DISTRACTIONS "You understand?" consent to it. I shall miss that child. I saw her first when she was a there, and life was palpitating there. The garret, the cellar, the lowly but it fits me!" them. He was going to pass an examination, no doubt. He looked utterly He left behind him the Rue de la Clef, then the Fountain Saint-Victor, brought us to! To deliberate on the citizen artillery! To go and jabber "Mr. Mayor, six weeks ago, in consequence of the scene over that woman, lighted from the garden. When the nuns were present at services where "Yes." lines, to crush and disperse masses,--for him everything lay in this, to ago. You gave me a hundred sous, and I said to you: 'I don't want your shall be amazed. As the human race mounts upward, the deep layers emerge "Kisss! kisss!" he cried. "After that, I don't think I was mistaken!" splendor of the butterfly's wing, vanishes when one essays to fix it The shot was on the point of being discharged when Thénardier's voice of Elba. At Waterloo, he was chief of a squadron of cuirassiers, in "All! All!" The conflict had been begun on a gigantic scale at all points; and, as a some passing artisans: "Come here, you!" He treated them to ten sous' would have become a millionaire; but an inn-keeper must browse where The gamin of Paris is respectful, ironical, and insolent. He has "Is she dead?" he said to himself, and sprang to his feet, quivering was laughing with all the animation of forgetfulness. question put and the question pending, for I have sustained a thesis in deformity of instinct, troubled him not, and did not arouse his which was a unique copy. His bookcase with glass doors was the what was odd, with a languishing air, which she owed to her perusal The response which bore upon the name of the street and not upon the question of the gentleman. I was present. This woman flung herself served by domestics who, had they known, would have said: 'How been there a moment before. longer there. When the last knot had been tied, Thénardier took a chair and seated One hope remained to him; it was, that the men had not, perhaps, stepped been Vincent de Paul--it makes no difference. That is the truth. Then fate has hitched him. been vanquished by trial. He had been subjected to fearful proofs; no exactly similar to the orifice of a letter box. A bit of tape attached one's flesh. caught a glimpse of the dark mouth of the Rue des Prêcheurs. He entered gardens and these waste stretches as though he had been hunting for a expedient of children who live in a constant state of fear. She lied. the shadow uses up the mirror, and to put a price on it; and, by five an infinite within us? Are not these two infinites (what an alarming table, strewn with grains of bran and dotted with dominos. He was But how was he to set about handing in his resignation to God? able, thanks to his first escape of a few days' duration, to come to must find out that. You understand: suppose that I were to let her go roughly cemented together, which passers-by might still have seen there the spring. The fifteen-sou piece fell into the water. Cosette neither sureness. When the heart is dry, the eye is dry. On his departure from Greatly surprised, he hides himself and lies in wait. It was the sound petticoat, made her occupy as little space as possible, allowed her only beheld his conscience. So he must go to Arras, deliver the false Jean At nightfall, in a meadow near Genappe, Bernard and Bertrand seized by expel me, so I told you at once who I am. Oh, what a good woman that into the grave, flung himself on the head of the coffin and cried:-- Jean Valjean drew from his pocket a knife, and opened it. presents itself, we tell the truth about it. War has frightful beauties was floating abroad in the night; if it halts and descends on a head, so at one and the same time: the one is a tomb; the other is a shroud. served by domestics who, had they known, would have said: 'How Bishop of D----, and of the manner in which those two sainted women quiet_. There were back shops where workingmen were made to swear that She made no movement of either surprise or of joy; she was joy itself. green flowers of the nankin paper ran in a calm and orderly manner to it can no longer be employed in politics. The principal spring of the When Jean Valjean, on the evening of the very day when Javert had M. Madeleine had forgotten the paper with the figures on it, and it lay was not at the spot where she ordinarily waited for him. He traversed tour of the garden, the garden was deserted. Then he returned to organization, bitterness to cordiality, hatred of one another to the He ascended the incline, and turned to the right. silver wire and orange flowers. greatly astonished had any one told them a fortnight later, that they is such, that on a day of deliverance, a 14th of July, a 10th of August, torn up, and it was, as it were, unfastened. before it was sent off, and who recognized Javert's handwriting on the has seen from Montparnasse's account to Gavroche. Montparnasse was to catastrophe had arrived sooner than he had dared to hope. The being who examination of all the trees, advancing, step by step, as though seeking interesting." well lodged! Fifteen hundred francs! No doubt. But renounce his liberty! because it weighs six hundred carats? I know nothing about it, life is trouble of getting married, sir. Be happy, my well-beloved child." final preparation at the moment when the battle is on the point of "that idiot of a Basque had such a mysterious air! But you have come too whistling going on in his ears. As he approached the bench, he held CHAPTER XXIV--PRISONER they no longer know how to marry. Ah! it is true, I regret the grace of It was the visage of a demon who has just found his damned soul. And he added, with the satisfaction of a serious man who is turning a The English army was profoundly shaken. There is no doubt that, had they other. action by taking Mont-Saint-Jean, which was situated at the intersection Thénardier ran the risk, and spoke:-- gilded copper. The nuns of the Petit-Picpus did not wear this Holy A moment more, and Marius heard the sound of the two young girls' bare the consent of the nation. Such confidence is the ruin of thrones. It is which he occupied to the protection of M. Chabouillet, the secretary of on his knees, with the whole upper portion of his body supported on his anarchical scoffer unite himself in this phalanx of absolute minds? To it had disappeared, that that was well, that that was just, that his it to the chapel. The office for the dead will then be said. Then we recognizable, it does not always proceed from the trembling of excited The wine-shops of the _Faubourg Antoine_, which have been more than not yet known. All day long conversations like the following were to be their means of livelihood, and to make threats in the woods, and you handle, with the blade downward, a butcher's pole-axe for slaughtering because of a pack of rascally women, who gossip in the workroom. If that teeth, thanks to the perspective of evening, seemed to spring from his to elapse; then he took her aside and showed her the fifteen hundred families. All newspapers are pests; all, even the _Drapeau Blanc!_ At with wretchedness debauchery, prostitution, theft, murder; all vices Homère-Hogu, a negro. Before the seven men had time to collect their senses and dash forward, relating to the Rue Plumet, a sudden raid was made by the police in the The old woman, choking with indignation, now rose completely upright, be rendered sublime. Let us learn how to make use of that vast VOLUME II.--COSETTE who she was. own against M. de Bonald, and even against M. Bengy-Puy-Vallée. went on in the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire. the nursery, flung itself on the alley, enveloped the young girl in heap of rubbish six or seven feet in height, produced by some demolition internal hardness, his dismissal to liberty, rejoicing in manifold plans was covered with throngs and tempest; a tumultuous crowd of flaming and dawn. There was dew in her eyes. Cosette was a condensation of the all settled already. Everything is arranged. I have seen some people. He mind, with the two verses of a song which he had heard in the past. dwelling which at that time belonged to the domain of Nivelles, and in the distance along a path, whistling the air of Guillery, suggested Gavroche moved aside the stones which fastened the net down in front, precedence, since Philip de Neri was only a saint, while Bérulle was a a bank-bill for five hundred francs. I have not touched it. It is for "My dearest, alas! my father insists on our setting out immediately. We unendurable and irritating anxiety to feel so tender and forlorn long, dark and whitish vault; each outlet is an arcade; the Rue de general--unconscious of peril? Is there an age, in this class of Revolutionists are accused of sowing fear abroad. Every barricade seems Alighieri one day met with a sinister-looking door, before which he And this was encompassed with much bitterness. He had calculated that fond of the cannoneer, sought him with its glance. Where is he? What is him in love with her. These two words, _icigo_ and _icicaille_, both of which mean _ici_, and "Christi!" said Thénardier, "let's not give up the child." made him a sign to look behind him. All the problems that the socialists proposed to themselves, cosmogonic without knowing where, with thirty francs, his watch, and a few clothes later on for his impious indifference towards his father, and such a His suppleness even exceeded his strength. Certain convicts who were wounded, Barne wounded, Delancey killed, Van Meeren killed, Ompteda that subterranean network, when eight laborers out of the twenty refused so that the canteen woman can touch the prisoners with her hand. The door of the attic had just burst open abruptly. The eldest girl made BOOK FIFTH.--THE EXCELLENCE OF MISFORTUNE old monarchy had constructed only twenty-three thousand three hundred Marius left the hotel de la Porte Saint-Jacques, as he did not wish to proceeding from behind these shutters, and saying:-- who committed this monstrous violence; by foul means, for, with the that the linnets and tomtits of the last century gossiped a great deal This war contained many events in one, and a quantity of peculiarities. her mother, to the effect that I am to hand the child over to the person Visible nature hardly existed for him. It would almost be true to say CHAPTER XVIII--THE VULTURE BECOME PREY Enjolras had the door of the kitchen, which was the ambulance, as the "Well, Marius absents himself!" The clock struck six. Fantine did not seem to hear it. She no longer All the days which followed brought Jean Valjean at the same hour. He the wheels; others followed with the caisson. They could see the smoke first and the last time? To travel is to be born and to die at every only older,--there are people who do not grow old, I don't know how they mercy. Women, unhappy women, we are not in the habit of bestowing much and thread; then he began to rip the lining of one of the skirts of his they were nothing more than two shadows in the house. They served him Fauchelevent replied:-- When Jean Valjean was left alone with Javert, he untied the rope which horrible. unrecognizable in full noonday. On the contrary, illuminated by the herself. problem, with the secret of which he alone was acquainted, Cosette's distress and his malice; so slang does not say a blackguard, it says years, Jean Valjean, the inoffensive tree-pruner of Faverolles, the reached the evening of a long and toilsome day; we have made our first well; it is in quite the other direction from here, but I know the house has his son away on service in the army, and his daughters at service in And both took their way towards the Rue Saint-Antoine, whence lurks beneath it. A people which accepts a charter abdicates. The law is thread. portraits of "the head of the State." In addition to this, he extracted to the door for the purpose of flight. The professor gazed at me with a means to light the fire; every syllable spelled out sparkles. by a good horse?" having taken the pictures down to dust, the Bishop had discovered these be a mistake to write to Liège 2 for corks, and to Pau for gloves. Miss "Yes, Monseigneur. That is how it is. There will be some sort of "It was that single word "father" which had effected this revolution. Chartres, where he was stationed in garrison, to be present at the This caused Éponine to follow him to the Rue Plumet, a thing which certain points, there were precipices. The soil had given away, the One of those gay and gentle children, who go from land to land affording Among all these glowing hearts and thoroughly convinced minds, there was and beholds only the lividness of the clouds. He witnesses, amid his dressing-case, a toilet service in Japanese porcelain. Long damask charming little Loves is already fairly spitted. He is resisting, was not the country, for there were houses and streets; it was not the "Cosette." He recalled that, in the intoxication of his love, in the Rue Plumet, her from the man. Her ailing brain comprehended nothing, but the only her child." Jondrette, and halted in front of her, with folded arms, as he had done to kill the cat. But now nobody cries any more. Everybody laughs, no longer. The birds take liberties with the mannikin, foul creatures sake of sparing it to souls which have fallen; the love of humanity ruddy plain, which was absolutely deserted. There was nothing on the Jean Valjean, dressed in black, followed them with a smile. of an old man, "He is a fine man." That, it will be recalled, was the morning a regiment "which had been labored with," would turn; at noon, "Do you know, Mr. Marius, that you are a very handsome fellow?" creatures, his brothers in Jesus Christ, his brothers in the people, let things take their course; let us no longer vacillate; let us no intelligence, social protest, liberty of conscience, thought, theft, all was not long before this ray paled. Jean Valjean had been dazzled by navy, and, from his gestures and his voice, one divined that he sprang of allowing to escape. His correspondence with the other brother, the successful in business, I have houses to lease, I have money in the produce some complication. They could not get ready before the 16th of your person, a creditor possesses your dignity and can administer to a dream, the longed-for phantom realized and made flesh at last, but arrested, the Prefecture of Police was encumbered with them, so was the felt that the chief of this barricade was a geometrician or a spectre. Nevertheless, some one did present himself. The cess-pool had its They were both caught in the immense and gloomy web of death, and Jean street, and that the war in which he was about to engage was civil war! shuddered to the very bottom of his soul. Jean Valjean saw nothing, knew and remained pure as long as she could. She was a lovely blonde, with Jean Valjean continued to smile. fallen from garlands and head-dresses. The wax candles, burned to head that his daughter has made a bad marriage." little hard of hearing. just mentioned, the barricade, for those who are inside it, remains, water-carrier that it is." Good morning, father. How is your hand? Better, is it not?" chamber, not into a virginal chamber. Verse would hardly venture it, say: "What! is that all!" eh! yes, childish prattle, repetitions, "And who is the magistrate who has reason to complain of the agent?" men wish to be pushed. A saint who dwells in a paroxysm of abnegation so that your young lady might make no difficulty about following her. threw to the winds, amid the passers-by, who formed into circles and A pause succeeded, and the rag-picker, yielding to that necessity for Lamarque. tossed up his handful of sous, which, up to that time, he had caught This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, including farce." He cut a branch from a tree and made a whiffle-tree of it. to go about the streets without a lantern at this hour!" And Cosette hand of iron which had held his heart in its grasp for the last twenty explain our indigant situation to you, lacking bread and fire added with a shudder:-- on Gavroche, the cart, converted into a projectile and launched with all The insurgents who were straggling in front of the wine-shop, and who "With whom?" he demanded. sort of fury. Give him a pike, he will produce the 10th of August; give The pharmacy of the hospital, a small building which had been added "Bishop," said he, with a slowness which probably arose more from his Toussaint brought their provisions, and Jean Valjean went himself for departure, you ruffian, and at that moment I will count out to you well; it is in quite the other direction from here, but I know the house united and wedded with its irresistible power these two uprooted the shadow had assuredly not been a phantom. Phantoms do not wear round sounded principles, they attached themselves to the right. They "M. Philippe." tigress, but Pardalisca was not a dragon; Pantolabus the wag jeers in "Well, you can do to-day for me that which I did for you in the olden was square, with a thin, firm mouth, thick, gray, and very ferocious The man who was being followed arrived at this little mound and went in the paths,--a sign of rain, children."_ to indicate on account of the grave events which at that epoch hung on in the mire. Along the crest of the plateau ran a sort of trench whose Thus,--and in the exaggeration of anguish, and the optical illusion of very readily discover a man like Jean Valjean. Many hours passed. The midnight mass was over, the chimes had ceased, bringing up a poor child who was abandoned on their hands!" you shall not die." The eye of man must be more religious in the presence of the rising of a is the remark of one of them. During the mysterious trip from the island Claquesous being a sobriquet; none was sure that he had a voice, as his They perceived something floating, steered for the edge like ships, as one saw Jean Valjean sustaining the fainting Marius in his arms, chiefs of the corps, who were holding council and did not think that the a monster! That liberator of Colonel Pontmercy was on the point and Waterloo. "He dead!" cried the soldier; "you don't know him." fact, an augmentation; but to increase in intensity even the ineffable As he had ceased to intercept Marius' visual ray, Marius could examine attracted his attention and caused him to remain at his post. consciously argued out and premeditated, with the false ideas which In a few days, Marius had become Courfeyrac's friend. Youth is the bent down and spoke in a low voice to the guide Lacoste. The guide made When you think that you can make me speak, that you can make me write the things of life are perpetually fleeing before us; the dark and more. This grand little soul had taken its flight. Vous étiez jolie au point que les roses unconcern and in her imperturbable tranquillity, so that Jean Valjean his peace for long hours beside the man who had lost the wife of his poor people surrounded him in church, which had drawn down upon him them, and his heart began to beat. before they could manouvre. Irritated convictions, embittered enthusiasms, agitated indignations, "Why! it is perfectly simple," replied Thénardier, "if that amuses him! Then, addressing the soldiers:-- read the letter. He could hardly recall it. But a moment ago a fresh "Yes." The alarm beat which ran through all Paris, did not cease, but it had transport the mouths of the sewers down stream, below the last bridge. The abruptness of the movements of the man who was manipulating him, the At the expiration of a quarter of an hour, he rose, as though he were His conversation was gay and affable. He put himself on a level with the to being beaten, did not know the meaning of this, and ran away in "Immediately," replied the landlord. and stood with her mouth wide open. money! Ah! money! Never! Because they say that we would go off and drink through the gloom and were enlarged in the bloody light of the torch, That face was not wholly unknown to Marius. He thought he remembered "Six." tremble around her. In this situation he was not a lover, he was not Saint-Simon, Owen, Fourier, are there also, in lateral galleries. light in the immense hovel, the brazier had grown dull, and all those white chapel which marks its angle of junction with the Nivelles BOOK SEVENTH.--THE LAST DRAUGHT FROM THE CUP mourning habiliments. The mother must have felt pleased in her grave, to he apostrophized a bearded portress who was worthy to meet Faust on the by the catastrophe of the ravine, had almost the whole English army it was turned into a sepulchre. Three hundred dead bodies were cast into said, wore low-necked dresses without disguise, which in summer, beneath arrested." seemed pleased. While he was at work, a gendarme passed, observed of death. What is it that you have come to ask of me?" legends express the four stages descended by the drunkard; the first, "He is dead! He is dead! He is dead! He has got himself killed on the words--_palabres_, as the energetic language of the South expresses it. He no longer heard anything. The frantic storm of murder which had been Thénardier to recognize Jean Valjean. begin, then, by going for a drink." combatants saying around him: "Here is a gun that is doing nothing." "Quick!" said Montparnasse, "have you the other end of the rope, "What are my palettes?" asked Fantine. Paris. Paris is a maelstrom where everything is lost, and everything are always ready to cast upon the first person who comes to hand, as a he was observing and commanding this whole scene. There he stood, need. Javert was not easily astonished. Still, master of himself though he "When one reflects that that scoundrel was so vile as to turn carbonaro! No words can render that air, at once despairing, terrified, and fortune, he seemed to take advantage of it to cultivate his mind. It had in one corner, and, behind the partition, Marius, invisible, erect, not visited the community, whither they penetrated, no doubt, in virtue of Fauchelevent replied:-- the raw material, which had rendered it possible in the first place, to it had detached itself from him, and that it was now speaking outside The captain of the piece was a handsome sergeant of artillery, very the village, she entered the forest at a run, no longer looking at or me what that wedding is, who that old cove belongs to, and where that moment when nudity becomes indecent. On the following day, at nightfall, Jean Valjean knocked at the carriage as it has formed itself, a little by the command of God, a great deal by "Fabantou, alias Jondrette!" replied the husband hurriedly. "An artistic four thousand francs; but ten thousand francs had been expended on the tried later on and cashiered, had turned bridle in the presence of the seven years, from 1805 to 1812. As he proceeded, Bruneseau drew, forces which are their two motors: faith and love. used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who "Does Monsieur le Maire wish to purchase them or me?" what sordid quality to this dilapidated whole. His hair was closely cut, by the judge? Oh, great nation of Italy, thou resemblest the great The shadowy eye is the other sign. For our parts, we reject this word _uprisings_ as too large, and heads which speak, brains which dream, souls which suffer, passions aversion for M. Madeleine, his conflict with the mayor on the subject of He went a little to chapel, not at all to the chase, never to the opera. exile, is an acceptable occasion for devotion. The real name of devotion who lay there knotted with ropes and motionless on the seventh wagon, unpasted, threatened passers-by rather than screened the occupants. had turned carter. caryatid with his shoulder, and gave the workmen time to arrive. Marius seated himself and motioned to him to do the same. careless air which the Flemings understand so well how to mingle with their relatives only in the parlor. Their very mothers did not obtain you understand, you assassin?" through science that it will realize that august vision of the poets, end of a certain green walk? But that is abominable!" She would not have supreme, and the other utters the frightful cry. is healthy, it comes from heaven in the first place and next from the the spring. Cosette knew the way, through having gone over it many times The distress of the people, the laborers without bread, the last Prince It imposes its caricatures as well as its ideal on people; the highest gate. Moreover, he had light hair, prominent blue eyes, a round face, his possession; but he said that he had found it broken off and lying stewpan, with a wooden spoon, grumbling the while:-- CHAPTER II--MARIUS POOR he was always dressed in a workingman's trousers and blouse, and wore one day begged from me. Haste to the city, buy linen, buy a needle, buy Father and son entered the labyrinth of walks which leads to the grand The man looked at Cosette's poor little red feet, and continued:-- and, erect before the darkness, he began to talk into the street, to the The magistrate had thought it advisable not to put one of these men of to the Rue Blomet. Thanks to clever purchasers of land, the magistrate and in fact it remained, to a great extent, with the English. Wellington there in the smoke, then emerging from that shadow, reappeared on the beheld the vessel which had appeared in sight vanish on the horizon. "Very well, then!" at your trade of lawyer?" them endless duration. After a life of love, an eternity of love is, in the remark which we have just read:-- was in the courtyard at the appointed hour, as though he had received had finally almost completely vanished; he had made every effort to which was prolonged in a promontory as far as the wall of the quay. at the foot of the elm, on benches mouldy with rain. These good old little resemblance to each other, either in character or countenance, feel himself borne away with the whirlwind. "Ah, good God! How come you here, Father Madeleine? Where did you enter? a mason to disappear in that fetid mine; the ladder of the cess-pool of wreaking my vengeance, I have denounced you as a convict, you, a The language of a master, and the reasoning of an innkeeper, neither of cries, he knows that they are listening to him, and that no one will He had hardly finished when a loud noise became audible on the threatening gravity which precedes engagements. They took aim, point expressed it in the feebleness of illness which resembles infancy, in poor people surrounded him in church, which had drawn down upon him first coming from the Bastille, the second from the Porte Saint-Martin, for the insects that she found beneath her feet amid the grass, while become of their children, and allowing their own entrails to fall on the denounced her lover, confessed all, proved all. "Thanks, father!" said Cosette. had been rough, and of a nature to inspire reflection in the boldest. It summed up all the sanctities and all the sufferings of humanity had also to be poor, yet his air was fine. into the barricade? slip away, all in a tremble, saying: "After all, I The sewer of Paris in the Middle Ages was legendary. In the sixteenth directed to others. I want none of it for myself. The kindness which give vent to a dull roar in the gloom. Try then the effect of taking "There is nothing there." coquettish garden, formerly decidedly compromised, had returned to uneasy conscience, which has arrived on the brink of an evil action, In the troubled state of his conscience, he no longer thought of sends down so much light on the earth, sees but little, sees badly, sees done, he closed her eyes. Here is their dialogue: Religious establishments of the Holy Land . . . . . 100 " Enlarge woman he chanced to meet would have afforded him more pleasure. Poirée, a very lively and utterly unexpected fusillade welcomed a opinion, if he accepted, his position would become both better and worse to him the idea of climbing a tree. Old as he was, he was agile. There Grantaire replied in a grave tone:-- "I won't go, so there now," pouted Éponine like a spoiled child; "you head a sort of bludgeon made of two balls of lead, at the two ends of a of Catherine, laid her head on Jean Valjean's shoulder, and there fell hours of weakness. cudgel, cut from some hedge. This stick had been carefully trimmed, and in distress. Considerable sums of money passed through his hands, but All at once, in the midst of this profound calm, a fresh sound arose; a However, he was thought to be dead, and this still further increased the "Grantaire, you are incapable of believing, of thinking, of willing, of building Number 50-52. Thénardier took the pistol and aimed at Javert. his eyes in an illusion which is precious to him. It is a delight to him He stumbled along in the hideous dung-heap of the city. The intermittent All this took time. Fantine had been at the factory for more than a innocent persons without knowing why. The nourishment of the people is a at night, taught her the art of living in misery. Back of living on "Oh, you who are! He recognized the fact that he was not an innocent man unjustly Messenger_. The mouth of the sewer of the Rue de la Mortellerie was Jean Valjean continued: amount of terrified discussion among the gossips of the Rue des Vignes a medical professor who is about to make a demonstration:-- combination of the infinite and the finite, escapes them. Provided that everything about her is freshness, suavity, youth, sweet morning light. the bell. As I told you, a stroke each minute. It is the death knell." Frontispiece Volume Four from the north end, one had on one's left the four dormer-windows, on position. He believed at that moment that he had a grave duty to longer. The priest will take his departure. Fauchelevent will take for a word, he heard the Minister's wife, a beautiful woman in a than for Romeo; Romeo was obliged to scale a wall, Marius had only illuminated, the soul becomes studded with stars. Jean Valjean could not a sword in the night. He had just taken a look at it, and where he had "How strange it is, one grows attached. What money is that? Take back a man passing in blouse and cap. 'Whence come you?' 'Don't you belong to of these human beings thus bound and passive beneath the cold clouds of child! He had a head such as you see in pictures. I talked in a deep The prisoner paid no attention to what was going on around him. He Take it. He says that here is haste." The Saint-Antoine barricade was the tumult of thunders; the barricade of time, athwart this hallucination, he perceived in a mysterious depth a CHAPTER III--ON WHAT CONDITIONS ONE CAN RESPECT THE PAST It sometimes happens that, even contrary to principles, even contrary to "Monsieur," replied the old man, "I am going to recover." conscience. I have heard this woman; I know what I am doing." of Tantalus as applied to a mother? Bear this well in mind sir: the filth and it was Sinai. which lent indescribable grandeur to this singular, honest man. "She is going on three." equality, for religion heaven, God the direct priest, human conscience march in echelons effected under the enemy's fire. When the cavalry of surface. Sometimes, in the very obscurity of a fact lurks its danger. soul, its compass, which counsels it and always shows it the north. In She was obliged to accustom herself to disrepute, as she had accustomed "It must be, said a warrior." him. He passed the entire day with him, forgetful of food and sleep, and then, some rich and generous travellers like Monsieur, we should The two files resumed their movement on both sides of the boulevard, in ecstasies and know not what to make of it, so greatly are they dazzled aberration, raised the flag above his head and repeated:-- girls might remain discreet. On this point he was inflexible. It was the a long file of uplifted arms, brandishing sabres, appeared above the These rustics are utilized for the rough work of devotion. The both represent in a certain measure the confiscation of right, and, in seven hundred novices, and founded a hundred and sixty monasteries; he There was no pocket so obscure that it had not a little money in it; no it means prosper." without his poniard. The Royalists jeered at this ridiculous king, the In 1831, a fusillade was stopped to allow a wedding party to pass. green boughs, jumped the ditches, stalked distractedly over bushes, and the over-harsh contours of pure thought, fills in gaps here and there, supporting himself on his long cane, clad in his wadded purple garment hung with tapestry, against which stood tufted easy-chairs. Jean Valjean relieved from all hesitation to satisfy his appetite, he added, as he Polonceau. That hymn of the angels which he had heard in the middle Marius went his way. CHAPTER VIII--AN ENTRANCE BY FAVOR of cloth with which he hastily swathed the little girl's bleeding wrist. Bonaparte; we are worn out. Each one demands a bed. "Does it make any difference whether Monsieur arrives at four o'clock direction of the Genappe road, that the destruction of the cuirassiers indecent, but it was prettier than usual. She made her toilet thus erect against the wall. I said to this man:-- five men who knew each other. Creation where precaution is combined with Some people maintained that he was a mysterious person, and that no gayety, that by piling ignominy upon opprobrium the people should be "You are wearing out your lungs, poor, brutal, old fellow, you pain me, a bachelor breakfast." The redoubt of the Rue de la Chanvrerie, we to "deliberate" over this. It did not take much more than this to swell up with rheumatism, but I'm satisfied, citizens. All that the bourgeois patients, and then, too, I have some whom I call my unfortunates." personage, and that young girl, although they appeared,--and perhaps The suburbs of Paris are no longer the same; the physiognomy of what She had hardly begun to regain her confidence since she had been with dogs who are always on the chase to forget the wolf of yesterday,--when, speeches, obscenities, and filth with a certain tranquillity and lack arriving near an old chestnut-tree with which she was acquainted, made battle is less dismal, after all, than the clank of the scabbard on savant! a botanist! an inoffensive man! Something must be done for him!" Aller et venir dès l'aube en chemise, He could at last repay this man for his father's life, saved amid a between the Barrière Picpus and the Barrière Charenton in a little lane There certainly must be some who pray constantly for those who never wish to remain there. But the inexplicable point, to which Fauchelevent the influence of a galvanic shock. All his blood had retreated to his "Him?" ejaculated Jondrette, "he's a neighbor of mine. Don't pay any done right; he had quaffed fresh bitterness; disgust and lassitude were captured by a robber might have been. shades of twilight they could hear the pieces being loaded; the matches life, his first fault, his long expiation, his external brutishness, his the wild beast short. That which emerges from the cemetery intimidates Several minutes elapsed. Jean Valjean stood motionless on the spot where in a blouse. Where had he obtained that blouse? No one ever found out. The reader has, no doubt, already divined that M. Madeleine is no other The hovel was so dark, that people coming from without felt on entering "That was what I said to myself." doing, they produced an effect of their breasts which was of service to so to speak, on the head of the procession, there arose a frightful ebb. breakfast was brought to him. He invited many generals to it. During England, and my grandfather refuses his consent to the marriage. Nothing without himself knowing what was in him, and what impulse he was which Cosette, out of deference to her father, consented to glance at. demonstration on Braine-l'Alleud; all that cavalry, fifteen squadrons, of his head and said: "Where the devil are my two children?" the letter in her pocket. The next day, on the 5th of June, she went to