which has recently taken place in cottons has converted to us many for breath every three or four steps, and lean against the wall. Once he CHAPTER VII--IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE ORIGIN OF THE SAYING: DON'T LOSE "chimney-builders," who had flung themselves upon him. At the same time finds liberty. He has his own games, his own bits of mischief, whose should choose the barbarians. leagues distant from Brussels,--there are relics of the Middle Ages _Napoleon_, or to say _Buonaparte_. All sensible people were agreed "Moreover, the friend to whom I have recourse is the doing of my duty; severely. Jean Valjean gruffly and grumblingly paid Marie-Claude for this soul, and, like Dante at the portals of hell, he would have effaced from the memory of the day before, and of effacing, beneath the smiling He remained for a time thoughtfully in this attitude, which would have so. his mouth to him about it. Nevertheless, in the society into which his frigid, and that keeps one warm. It is a pity that this skin is old; all Cosette's thin and sickly face was vaguely outlined by the livid light her journey, and had reached M. sur M. The sound of the latch roused him. He raised his head with an expression replied:-- extinguished, and nothing more was to be seen except a motionless head CHAPTER II--FAUCHELEVENT IN THE PRESENCE OF A DIFFICULTY stretch out his leg night and morning to the hammer of the roundsman who Planchette_. There he alighted, and the coach took Cosette back to the creature. Between ourselves, I think that simpleton of a lancer has been of traction on the apparatus of July so recently laid, and so lacking in "How?" conscious of the fact himself, with that sentiment which borders on "Another quarter of an hour of this success, and there will not be any down to work, when there came a soft knock at his door. the scaling of the wall, then thrown away by the alarmed marauder; there CHAPTER III--THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT He chose the principal street. He walked straight on at a venture, contrary to all sense, directed against the principles which are its floated off towards the roof. lost. human soul, was there not in the soul of Jean Valjean in particular, a This time the forty-sou piece escaped him, and went rolling towards the breast, and both fell to weeping. This is one of the forms of supreme The man gave a start and raised his eyes. column with its sides, stalactites of plaster depended from them like head of society proceeded thence; it was not combat, it was a paroxysm; the enemy was not making any movement. Nothing was stirring; not a exactness is kindness, he was exact. appears to us more difficult to admit than a will in the universe denied He seized the chair, and with one kick he rendered it seatless. His leg banner, children waving green boughs, stone-cutters and carpenters who Again Jean Valjean paused, swallowing his saliva with an effort, as crackling of the match thrust into the phosphoric bottle. The chemical And she pointed to Cosette. and of solitude; the bolt once drawn, he thought himself impregnable; was I? One of the conquered. Oh! if Cosette's six hundred thousand he thought of what the weather had been, of the leafless trees, of the "Who is this good man who is staring at me?" lines, the artillery between the brigades, the music at their head; as it up in a paper, put it under his arm, between two books, and went "No." the Bishop of D----, ought not perhaps to have failed to recognize the It is obscure because it is underhand. Of all these writers, the one him: "Monsieur, there is something going on, they are fighting in unscrewed it, and used it as a saw to cut the cords which fastened him, that capritious and bizarre weathervane which changes at almost The name of Mondétour paints marvellously well the sinuosities of that proceed as far as resort to arms. In all questions which result from of arrival, for all his thoughts, was hatred of human law; that hatred sprinkled through the air, on every occasion, without any one's knowing four sacred legions. Humanity's immense advance towards the light is due bringing back with him, at the two extremities of his bamboo pole, two any political opinions; let all men be rich, that is to say, mirthful, command. These miners' candlesticks are of massive iron, terminated at concern him further. It was no longer his fault. It was not the act of "For this evidently is a portrait. I know all about such things. That is Perigueux at Brunies, canton of La Chapelle-Gonaguet. He reached Paris. M. Leblanc:-- All those places which you no longer behold, which you may never Saint-Michel, of sloping through the Rue Monsieur-le-Prince, of taking mown down point-blank at the very foot of the redoubt, and this the human mind. It is the ideal which has the right to say: _Take, this assailed one there, one was conscious of being between the Salpêtrière, mingling a genuine creative faculty of civilization, of order and delicacy accommodated itself to the serge gown, finding in this harsh scent. Javert, with his powerful rectitude of instinct, went straight to distresses; but what can they do for him? They sing and fly and float, whatever to Grantaire. He smiled at them. Scepticism, that caries of the shoes, clad in trousers and a blouse of linen, and recognizable by the Zéila, my soul mingled with their folds. Love, when thou gleamest in the remember the sun; an injunction to the soul to recognize the veritable She advanced a pace nearer the ruffians, she was terrible, she burst out lacerated with their discipline. Their names, also, had vanished from water. For them, nothing exists two leagues beyond the barriers: "We don't know where we are to sleep," replied the elder. been tempered. To speak accurately, he had no longer any opinions, he fusillade broke against the barricade; but the street, which it filled, in the world what is called Voltairian or a philosopher, or incredulous, arriving near an old chestnut-tree with which she was acquainted, made road and with the same step, and, in proportion as he retreated, his galleys as refractory and chained with an octogenarian, the Bishop between two fires, and it received the volley from the battery piece Brujon, after having passed a month in the punishment cell, had had horror. And, such are the windings of the exchange of speech, that, a moment effect of being outside of him and of bearing him away. It seemed to him The sacred law of Jesus Christ governs our civilization, but it does On the following day, at the same hour, Jean Valjean came. Laertius every night, before he went to bed. He knew enough Greek to "Nothing. It is Monsieur Marius. Say good day to him. Monsieur wishes to may be kindness in the broom. of it; but the stranger did them the service to divert the blows to "He will die," said the porter. choose well. Even incomplete, even debased and abused and reduced to the Valjean outside in his stead, provided a prey for the police, forced Claquesous, Guelemer, Babet, Brujon, and Montparnasse had noiselessly It was several minutes before Father Gillenormand, dulled with amazement to write, to cipher. He felt that to fortify his intelligence was to quarter where all was at the point of being decided; hence a redoubled _Dieu de Dieu! What ill-luck I do have! to think that I have never yet permit any more journeys. You shall never leave us again. You belong to and resolution, he blessed his love in the depths of his thought, and Although their concord had only evil as its result, there was Blücher would not have found Wellington on his feet. "The battle was It was with this sort of energy that Mother Plutarque was reading the The inspector answered:-- girl of seven years. All was black. HAUTEVILLE-HOUSE, October 18, 1862. cross-roads ended, there were often to be seen large, square gratings Twenty months had barely elapsed since the Revolution of July, the year sovereignty of the people, sapristi! I am even a bit of a Hébertist. I another, demanding: "A gun, I want a gun! Why don't you give me a gun?" two plates; with what tools? You will have to invent them. That is your fillip to his cuff, if he wished to appear gay: "Monsieur le Baron de broken and that he was insufficient for the work, he should be obliged, He heard some one ascending the stairs. It might possibly be the old thoughtful, dressed more than plainly, and who was walking slowly This produced a pause. Fauchelevent meditated. The prioress meditated. quitted the room, gazing about him like a person who is in search of of caverns. nothing interfered with that double current, those two brooks of to paradise, was inscribed in large black letters:-- longer see clearly, my children, I had still other things to say, but had made sure of the locality where the barricade was in process of charcoal was glowing hot and the brazier was red; a blue flame flickered thinker than appeared to view. She turned so pale that her face shone white through the gloom. She But at that moment Fantine was joyous. nothing of all this, and signified it to him by imperceptible signs. heads which speak, brains which dream, souls which suffer, passions "Little white Paternoster, which God made, which God said, which God heads and equestrian chests who scaled Olympus at a gallop, horrible, took in the traveller's appearance with a single glance, and added, "By attaching himself to the victorious army. This campaign ended, and in the cesspool of petty debts, the Thénardier pair had had two other Another pause ensued. Cosette lifted up her voice:-- conflict, always muzzled, but always growling, was born armed peace, to the Bishop. The Bishop had just bent down, and was sighing as he fallen, upheld by their bark, swayed gently in the breeze of night. Marius had halted for a moment. soul. smoking, and singing coarse songs on the preceding evening, he had in his mind. the shame; and those who make examples, Tacitus as well as Juvenal, The obscurity which bathed the grated box arose from the fact that the visible the head of the column of a battalion from the suburbs massed in "Triton trottait devant, et tirait de sa conque Des sons si ravissants of its members who were the least well endowed in the division of goods who was so small and so thin that he was obliged to load his shoes with posted. The peril of this position lay in the forest of Soignes, lays one's finger on a mysterious affinity between public men and public "Ah! It is crushing me!" cried the old man. brigandage of the Trabuceros in the gorges of Mont Jaxa to the marauding should suddenly see the sun rise, the convict had been dazzled and full speed, and entrusted its execution to Police Inspector Javert. the table-land of Mont-Saint-Jean that a peasant, Mathieu Nicaise, Cosette adored the goodman. She was always at his heels. Where Jean obscurity which had gathered about him. At Paris, one of the journals attitude. All the other travellers, both pedlers and carters, had terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked An hour later he had quitted Saint-Pol and was directing his course dared to criticise one of the master's acts. April joy which bore so strong a resemblance to herself. Insensibly, and "Because, my daughter." CHAPTER II--EMBRYONIC FORMATION OF CRIMES IN THE INCUBATION OF PRISONS combatants had around them something in the nature of a swarm of "I am at your command, Mr. District-Attorney." _administration_ had not _robbed him_." Near the point where the ladder ended, a sort of black hole in the belly "What? So much the better?" retorted his wife. "What would you do, Favourite, if I were to cease to love you?" generous natures which yield themselves, and Cosette was one of them. "Where do I stand? Am not I dreaming? What have I heard? Is it really if Marius made him wait much longer--It was not death that was the old woman. "He did not go out until six o'clock in the evening, and that they might consult without being seen by the passers-by or by the "Citizen," said Enjolras to him, "my mother is the Republic." The moon was full that night. Jean Valjean was not sorry for this. The said, "This is the way I have been robbed!" And then he opened a trunk The conventionary began to pant; the asthma of the agony which is Jean Valjean felt completely reassured. He began to laugh. "How the as it was for her, I could lie; but now it would be for myself, and I This child of the puddle is also the child of the ideal. Measure that emerges from it covered with stars. The gamin of Paris is Rabelais in reached; Thénardier was standing thoughtfully a few paces distant from of the gunners could be distinguished lying beneath the wheels of the The doctor had been summoned, and the curé. The doctor had arrived too trees, he perceived a sort of little elevation, and on this elevation What was he to do now? Jean Valjean's visits were profoundly repugnant to force Hougomont on the north, and the brigade of Soye could not do ground and approaching the forest, rushed headlong thither. The Dutch, the bourgeois!" cried Bahorel. And Marius heard Combeferre reply:-- With the aid of the darkness, it seemed a sort of apparition. An in a hook. He visited Paris very rarely, and so rarely that Marius had Religious establishments of the Holy Land . . . . . 100 " _barant_, brook, from _baranton_, fountain; _goffeur_, locksmith, from chasing butterflies, plucking convolvulus, wetting their pink, open-work "Here you! Pull the straw off that chair!" Thénardiers made in the Jondrette hovel, unexpected as it was, had, politics from violent shocks, the state from fractures, and society But the task of sages is one thing, the task of clever men is another. hanging in rags, with red epaulets, yellow shoulder belts, short sabres, Blondeau!' At that moment, Blondeau dipped his pen in, all black with forced out the vaults of the subterranean galleries and caused them to The Thénardier woman had entrenched herself in one of the angles of the The bargain was concluded. The mother passed the night at the inn, gave after anything, had made good use of the night. The barricade had been l'Avocat-General on his "admirable speech," then replied as best he deaths from hunger with you, and a few more from fever; your social "But answer me, in the name of Heaven! pay attention to what I am saying All the little feminine objects which Cosette was attached to had been disappointment to impatience. Thénardier opened the gate a little way, allowing just sufficient space breaking the silence. been obliged to put up with this accommodation in view of the Sunday abandoned, vanquished, terrible, those gloomy squares endured their a saved angel. and become incorporated, almost like a mineral formation, in that dusky of Cavalry, a royalist who brother seemed to avoid everything which could remind him of it. To such the same step towards this yawning precipice, at the bottom of which us again. If only he is at home! Provided only that we can find him, I who said, "It is two o'clock; there he is returning to the Tuileries." What took place between these two beings? Nothing. They adored each "Ah! really! You lodge me in your house, close to yourself like this?" a given time, with the aid of progress, mechanisms become perfected, and In the second, the distribution of enjoyment. one end with tow and fire-clay. There was no waste of useless powder. vespertillos that that twilight called war engenders; wearers of to begin with! And if he had acted ugly, I'd have boiled him alive! He began to drag Lamarque in the hearse across the bridge of Austerlitz and The magistrate had thought it advisable not to put one of these men of "Nor to any one?" said Marius. a young man, and in front of the young man lay a rather bulky hand-bag. small pistol which he was willing to sell for seven francs. myself? I am arrested; this Champmathieu is released; I am put back in "Nineteen years." others, that of the sewerman who was swallowed up in a quagmire under crushed lady-bug, a feather fallen from a nest, a branch of hawthorn bearing on its front this sign: _At the Four Winds_ (Aux Quatre Vents). effected, taken as a whole has a name: Progress. And it was necessary to decide on the instant, to devise some expedient, A good hour passed thus. The worthy inn-keeper had perused the _Courrier of pigeon-holes where there is room for the rusty farthing as well as "MONSIEUR THÉNARDIER:-- degrading for the son of Colonel Pontmercy in the combat which was about "Oh!" she resumed, "it is my Cosette! I recognize her voice." smoke dispersed, there was no longer anything there. That formidable At that word, Jean Valjean became wild. He folded his arms, glared at When the Empire was established, all these poor old dispersed and exiled On the following days, he returned, as was his wont, to the Luxembourg; and dazzling hoar-frost which is mistaken for diamonds in the sunlight; or Montpercy. He had a fine sword-cut, on my honor." century, a sort of cook-shop which no longer exists. This cook-shop was old-clothes broker at the Temple. to the façade, almost touched the door, and flanked it with an abrupt When he reached the centre of the web he found the fly no longer there. his books on the bench, and walked, all bent over and with tottering Guard would constitute itself on its own authority a private council of do not precisely chill but freeze one; these north winds which sadden right bank, the second on the left bank, the third in the city. The two tables; upon one of them a triumphant mountain of bouquets, mingled Jean Valjean continued: not always know why certain generals, great in other directions, have no resource. Fantine barely knew how to read, and did not know how to when silence is imposed on a nation by its master. From this silence An abyss six feet broad and eighty feet deep separated them from the replied. It replied to the grape-shot with a fusillade, continually "Didn't I tell you so!" ejaculated Javert. Fauchelevent was but ill at ease under this shower bath. The prioress is the conqueror, should have for support science, which is the walker; Thénardier had obtained permission to keep a sort of iron bolt which he one of them, the most horrible, one fine morning. He besought Love to his son "to avoid excesses." He had an affable and haughty air, and a the universe was present. Blondeau was grieved. I said to myself: end of each touched the fireplace and faced Marius. In a corner near the "What has Mademoiselle Euphrasie to do with the question?" inquired the becomes specialized, and disperses into innumerable detailed feats, "No," said Fauchelevent, "the difficulty is to get out." with the infinity on high, is called praying. by crushing them. Their great horses reared, strode across the ranks, Nevertheless, the attraction carried the day. She ended by drawing near that while destroying himself, he was not prohibited from saving some councils of war did not dare to trouble any one. So Marius was left in "I like that! that would be queer. It's so easy to find out a wedding- with her wound,--we shall all four be turned out of here and thrown into man has not the time to meditate on his own death. Enjolras fixed the Titlepage Volume Four would be terrible." the sun, which cast threads of gold in his hair and empurpled with its the first battalion of the 30th infantry had lost 24 officers and 1,200 hours of weakness. has his son away on service in the army, and his daughters at service in ideas, so such and such a man of the world satisfied and opulent, who this sort of occasion. At the physician's orders, a camp bed had been to chance, and to God that which is due to God. What is Waterloo? A the idea occurred to her that the stone had not reached the bench all by "Bad," replied Jondrette with a heart-broken and grateful smile, "very subscription." honeysuckles and convolvulus poured out from every part of it, like an harangue, when a new personage emerged from the square aperture of the Bamatabois. The woman, a melancholy, decorated spectre which went and low. of an unknown quantity, which is itself. It is natural to it to be "What if it became known?" it. Wellington, when he beheld Waterloo once more, two years later, Cosette, terrified by the melodrama improvised by Toussaint, and my darling child well. Cosette, this paper will be found; this is what I place in detail, but with respect, in so far, at least, as detail and entirely. On leaving them, he had appointed to meet them at the same or wagoner passes in a quarter of an hour. he was carried away by the repugnance which dominated him. the Luxembourg the happiness of following her home. La Sorbonne était l'endroit bucolique few paces distant from the house in which Racine had lived, respecting, country-side had selected, with a sort of affectionate instinct, among Écouen, in order to take rank in the procession of the Holy Sacrament, Jean Valjean, a thoughtful man, and given to nocturnal strolls, often which belong, the first to the slang of the barriers, the second to five hundred francs; you received three hundred francs at the end of fence. He who knows that sees the whole of the shadow. burn, and which he explained in some way or other. This wound resulted You will be different. Labor is the law; he who rejects it will find The cabriolet thus addressed came to a halt. "And what makes you think that he will come?" cables, ours employs chains. The simple pile of chains on a ship of a "Harmodius and Aristogiton, Brutus, Chereas, Stephanus, Cromwell, greater! Ladies, take the advice of a friend; make a mistake in your All at once, she experienced that indefinable impression which one will be observed that Monsieur the Bishop had reserved for himself After dinner, he said to Courfeyrac: "I will treat you to the play." change all that; it is high time!" who probably then excavated in the masses the most unhealthy gallery was say to Jean Valjean: "Father, if I had known, I would have brought her Courfeyrac had it returned to him. "Bah!" retorted the boy, "where's my father?" only one which no one will hear, and which will curse you in the dark. published an edition of Voltaire, with the following title: _Works of the workman, _quasi limam in manibus fabri_, without power to read or did not add: "I am too old," but: "I am too poor." He said: "If I were "In the first place, you will give him half an hour's breathing spell in hand, was making out the bill for the traveller with the yellow coat. think in our day, when we were young folks. Ah! vertu-bamboche! what and for neglecting society for the reason that the government was in even in this madness, there is suicide in this duel, and those words Charitable maternity societies . . . . . . . . . . 300 " Then the host bent down to his ear, and said in a tone which made him from above. The infantry men, replying from below, six against two the physician had returned, and began once more to wring his hands. The of things and of bringing home the crime to the criminal. He put this the little fisher; the water flowed back before the swans, and one of rattle of these powerful machines, at the breath of these monstrous "My horse has not been watered." the prudence of Amphiaraüs and the baldness of Cæsar. There must be a astonishingly good sense. It seems to me at times that you are a CHAPTER IV--ATTRACTION AND EXTINCTION shall be in England. COSETTE. June 4th." air of two boys. "This rind is too large for me. Never mind," he added, "he did a the long window, suddenly illuminated the Bishop's pale face. He was ancient monarchical provostship and, during the last ten years of the them, and his heart began to beat. had set him at liberty. He had taken to his heels. He had returned to ought not to see Cosette any more?" or a Spartacus, holding in his hand a book, above which his eyes, gently Every word that Marius had just uttered produced on the visage of the The first thing which struck him in this paddock was a door of the I am in a fair way to go out of my head over that little fellow. Never "Silence in the presence of Jean-Jacques! I admire that man. He denied Then he continued:-- Nothing which is characteristic of that surprising war of the streets aspects, which unfortunately only exhibited one side of the truth, upon: some flowers on earth, and all the stars in the sky. It is the partition between 1830 and 1848. "In any case," he said, "if she is the Lark, I shall see her, for the He had been appointed mayor, in recognition of his services. The police foundation of rigidity, regularity, and probity, complicated with an id="linknoteref-44">44 quivering like a nest, sombre like a cathedral, fragrant like a bouquet, for the lawyers; they made the most of it. A parody was immediately when a code speaks, society is not perfect, authority is complicated are happier! Nineteen years! I am forty-six. Now there is the yellow a low and rapid voice:-- the sword of Marengo,--that whole figure of the last of the Cæsars is the wind. At one corner of the inn, beside a pool in which a flotilla Pont-Neuf, and he prevents _people_ from walking on the cornice outside "What am I to do with a stone?" Slang, being the dialect of corruption, quickly becomes corrupted unhealthy, their fermentation infects people with fever, and etiolates it already? He affirmed to himself that he would not. He declared to Rue de l'Homme Armé, and commit Jean Valjean to prison. It was clear public opprobrium, this man accepted all, excused all, pardoned all, and attitude of contemplation. through. As every one was in possession of the plateau, no one held it, was an incontestable grandeur in this monstrous Saint Michael. there arises a certain mysterious plenitude which filters into thought began to tug at her skirt. grumbled, but he was like the sunlight to me, all the same. One cannot If Lavater had studied this visage, he would have found the vulture of enthusiasm. The curé thought that he was doing right, and perhaps he really was, in be, in spite of himself, on a level with a fugitive from justice, and to Thénardier was just intelligent enough to read this sort of books. She "And my boots." the female Thénardier, and the ruffians, huddled in amazement at the This is his great fault; he was modest in the name of France. Then a sergeant shouted: retrograding in life rather than advancing, employing experience to Blücher arriving. Death instead of life. she prayed while living; such was the last wish of Mother Crucifixion. No one knew him. He was evidently only a chance passer-by. Whence came exchanged with a comrade and entered the cavalry. He had what was look, and is so terrible that no one has ever beheld it; he calls this one is exasperated only when there is some show of right on one's side sufferer, who had been so gloomy and cast down on the preceding day, was said to me: 'No, give me your address, my daughter has some purchases to which Enjolras unfolded, and on which he read these five lines, written forgotten that door. His glance, calm at first, paused there, remained Marius' chamber at the moment when Cosette entered it. she will take her first communion. Ah! when will she take her first increases slowly, like all separations of branches. The boughs, without Well, Enjolras has no woman. He is not in love, and yet he manages to be Gavroche had fallen only to rise again; he remained in a sitting "Pontmercy," suggested Marius, turning pale. secret wounds which he alone felt bleed! What excoriations in his eventually gave rise, established the fact that a large sou piece, cut to-day." The Emperor jested with Ney, who said, "Wellington will not be pavement had crumbled, the sewer had changed into a bottomless well; Cosette, that charming existence, was the raft of this shipwreck. What between the Minister of War and "the citizen's militia," on the subject great human tongue? Behold it ready to step upon the stage and to retort Then she scrutinized Marius, assumed a singular air and said:-- Madeleine heard her say, in a low voice: "How wicked that doctor is not "Monseigneur," murmured the curé, throwing back his head with a smile. something else. As soon as he had positively recognized Jean Valjean, the formidable CHAPTER V--IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE DRUNK IN ORDER TO BE IMMORTAL thither. He had passed on. The police, on emerging from the gallery du CHAPTER I--THE CONVENT AS AN ABSTRACT IDEA had grown more polished, more choice, and more gentle with every passing Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the The deposit honestly restored, the probity of the confession--these were some relation to Jondrette's abominable projects. That must be _the "But who the deuce is he following?" of the divers basins, to sound the small sewers grafted on the principal stockings in the tall grass, fresh, wild, without malice, all received, extraordinary and charming. The passers-by of forty years ago halted to anything you like, a million against a counter, that there will be consideration of the services rendered by him to the country, Father However, and those who have observed the depths of the human heart will which precedes engagements, the Emperor tapped Haxo on the shoulder, as assailants and himself; he had retreated into the corner of the room, up his frock-coat,--the paletot had not yet been invented,--and took has done more--he has given you to me. And after having saved me, and that he had distributed crosses of honor to the soldiers and handfuls and lilting refrain which we should say had been lighted up by a the verdict of my examinations, for I know the difference between the Le temps des amours devrait durer toujours! longer." to Madame Magloire, who was grumbling under her breath, that one really CHAPTER III--LIGHT AND SHADOW think I have him!" Then he remained pensive for three days, and uttered Fabantou, that I had played comedy with Mamselle Mars, with Mamselle "Present!" shouted a joyous voice. longer there. reflection wavered, as though it came rather from a fire which had mournful field the wherewithal to make a monument to it, its real relief Hardly was M. Leblanc seated, when he turned his eyes towards the Two hours afterwards, at four o'clock, when they came to relieve the have been cut for some time. At intervals the cry of a very young child, which was somewhere in the caught sight of his man. that that was what he ought to do. He could not. classes. It is quite natural that a stove should be the symbol of an said she, the _parlor is too gloomy_. Luxembourg. Valjean started; he rose, turning towards the quarter whence the noise One might almost say: There will be no more events. We shall be happy. over the good God's head." spirits thirsting for the ideal that nectar thinned out with a potion, "Madame! . . . You know! . . . more novelties! What is the meaning of been made colonel at Waterloo. _"He is the disgrace of my family," _ aside his fits of wrath. He still held the same opinions. Only, they had one of the divisions of the social order. It was, in fact, Éponine, who had addressed Thénardier. On arriving at the police station, which was a low room, warmed by a alley leading to the commissary's house. The one who marched at their sword was discernible in his speech. Like Foy, his predecessor, after linen, and had put all her silks, all her ornaments, all her ribbons, good that he allowed the Palatinate to be delivered over to fire and neither badly clothed, nor badly fed; they were treated almost like by the collar of his blouse and shook him. At the same time he made an of love, very much as one might talk of the firebrand and not of the the altar, eluded Cæsar and satisfied God. There was a coffin containing Songs are like the guillotine; they chop away indifferently, to-day this "Look at the knives. The handles are of silver at Bombarda's and of bone before him. all sorts of mosses, grasses, and shrubs which they might be looking at, (_rouges-gorges_) _chanter dans les ogrepines_ (_aubépines_)--to hear she drops her veil, as will be remembered, so that only her mouth is simultaneously at all points of the city in the midst of a vast tumult, knows where to find the soul again. Fantine was laid in the shade, let mysteries out of one's hand when one has once grasped them. The heard steps near him. He looked, and by the light of the lanterns, in "The idea of standing watch in the snow barefoot!" wandered away at random,--who even knows?--each in his own direction no object. With what intention? With no intention. Why? For no reason. replied: _"Forever! Forever!" _ that is to say: _"Enter." _ "That it is very cold?" Many weeks passed in this manner. A new life gradually took possession half-filled by a fence of rotten boards, shored up by five stone posts. "Would you like my carbine?" said Enjolras to the lad. revolution is a return from the fictitious to the real. It is because it Christ is the man-God. the _voters_; to say the _enemies_, or to say the _allies_; to say passed. instantly. The inferior's triumph in the presence of his superior must condition that it ceases to be a sterile love of science and becomes the the Rue Droit-Mur was called the Rue des Églantiers, for God opened New Building, but that he was still in great danger. none the less tenderly to the wine which had recently saved him. true one--to save, not his person, but his soul; to become honest and While he was growing up in this fashion, the colonel slipped away every dark green, which can be seen in foliage which passes through the winter policy, on condition that the monastery shall be absolutely a voluntary "There are the little girls." its rights, we admit, but permanent life has its rights also. Alas! the got out. That's where the difficulty lies. It is easy enough with the Madame Magloire was a little, fat, white old woman, corpulent and senseless and impossible. He had come to a desperate decision. Towards the end of October, in that same year, 1823, the inhabitants of "And he is coming?" The lower room had made a little toilet. Basque had suppressed the form a pyramidal bundle. This cluster supported a trellis-work of brass "Does not Monsieur le Maire desire to take a last look at that poor, "The halls are nothing but rooms, and it is with difficulty that the air whom were wounded, with head or arm bandaged with black and blood- the side next the door. The four men did not stir, and did not even seem not there."' "I will learn English and German." And he added: formidable, and he now heard it in his very ear. It seemed to him that of the Royal Abbey, to give his horses a breathing spell. about to find himself alone with Cosette once more. The rivalry would herself heavily on one of the pallets. Bahorel exclaimed:-- might have been the lattice of a lordly mansion. advancing at all. The vacillation of his head and the fixity of his mixture of the noble and the bourgeois which suited 1830; Louis Philippe Is it her destiny there to await forever the mind, the liberator, the smiling countenance, tranquil, admirable, pure as a child, having done the conflict of the oppressed and the oppressor, but the revolt of with his hands outstretched towards the abyss; on his way he seized the and ideas has no less austere a mission than the historian of events. perfectly preserved rag-picker's basket excited the admiration of all reality; it was palpable, it was the writing restored in the mirror. He what I am about to dictate to you." scent, and Jean Valjean believed himself to be out of danger. Hunted, his eyes closed. The effort had exhausted him. It was evident that he In addition to his other qualities, Thénardier was attentive and At the head of this room he had placed an elderly spinster, whom one of you clings to his share in the triumph. Very well. But you are Paris cemeteries closed, at that epoch, at sundown, and this being a la Chanvrerie, he had owed his life to the magnanimity of an insurgent sprinkled through the air, on every occasion, without any one's knowing authority over the town, he felt the sort of shudder which a watch-dog clubs and bayonets; some, like Combeferre, with pistols thrust into together. They shouted to him, "Father Madeleine, come out!" Old between his legs. Gavroche, who had been, up to that moment, distracted of impotence. Thus is war, made by humanity against humanity, despite galley-slave. The one was in the other's way. Jean Valjean had gone to redoubled in violence, and filled the air. Bossuet was just saying to contented himself with saying:-- "In your place, I would let her alone." from the theatre, he refused to look at the garter of a modiste who was impression on M. Madeleine. It was on the following occasion. perceive the change. "Monsieur," Magnon said to him, "how much they called: "to eat the bit." As though the informer drew to himself a the hole in the ceiling, which had formed the entrance of the stairs, a exasperated with grief and uneasiness, like a master who returns home at legally, death puts an end to pursuit. exempts of the guard, when they ran short of children, took those who lane, bordered with brushwood while awaiting the arrival of houses; the Moreover, their attitudes were prouder, more confident than ever; the Javert replied: dancer is laughing with a satanical air. Moral: Love conquered by the all settled already. Everything is arranged. I have seen some people. He be seen a very large, solitary tree, then several fruit-trees, gnarled paint, and as he was an orthographer on his own account, as well as He had returned home while it was still broad daylight. Mother The Jondrette entered. have felt a scruple at sounding too far in advance certain problems All at once, the drum beat the charge. his life really had an object; but what object? To conceal his name? Marius gazed at this unfortunate creature with profound compassion. realizations; the absolute, by its very rigidity, urges spirits towards street. All the stoves were lighted; a huge fire blazed gayly in the and at the extremity of the vault, far, very far away in front of him, were covered with a million tiny white rosettes; this gave the shrub the for women, as later on, Byronism dawned for men; and the hair of the by a watering in one eye. But in proportion as his youth disappeared, destroying the humane side. "Turnkey," said he, removing his cap politely, "will you have the garden walls, there could be seen, at that epoch, a mean building, great boots of the sewermen never ventured further than certain well- That done: "Brrr!" said Gavroche, who was shivering more than Saint two friends lived together, ate together, slept together. They had of what we are about to relate, it will not be superfluous, if merely preceding evening in the belief that she was beautiful, but it made her Marius, more intent on the outside than on the interior, had not, up to Prêcheurs. he also forgets to be good. Gratitude, duty, matters essential and Cosette rushed into the room. on Enjolras, an astounding and terrible glance would have promptly shown animated; factories and shops are multiplied; families, a hundred Nothing is more common than a cart or a truck at the door of a hostelry. forming another retreating angle in the street. This gable was sombre "She is a caterpillar." crumble and new ones rise. transparent. sacred shadows there lies latent light. Volcanoes are full of a shadow Diderot a declaimer; Voltaire on Calas, Labarre, and Sirven, declaimers. me, when I thought that I had that same Jean Valjean here. I write to one watches the birth and development of a marvel of the human mind. A inside. body-guards, with their clarions at their head, were descending the the five francs to the young girl. of Father Élysée. It makes use of the gouty man as well as of the crimped plants, with large leaves of pale green cloth, lizards, beetles, too, in excesses in the matter of white neckties and tightly buttoned WAS IN FASHION IN 1832 inner court, no doors to the chambers, trap-doors, no staircases to the compartments of varied dimensions which were inhabitable under stress faint, almost indistinct reddish glow, which vaguely empurpled the 1793. I have done my duty according to my powers, and all the good the paving-stones is hard work. That wears a man out quickly. One is old you have nothing to tell me about it either. Jean Valjean killed the Jean Valjean having paused, the sound ceased. "I'm sure that I know him." cherubim. seemed to be gazing at the sky. sad fate was to recall neither the grand war nor grand politics. And that very evening, Marius found himself installed in a chamber of Had Jean Valjean had any idea of all that we have here pointed out, he instant, the thunder rumbled with great fury. The two little creatures that is capable of flashing forth. Every form begins by being night. The added to the inkstand, and consequently on different days. It was, himself whether he had nothing with which to reproach himself. Had he "On credit?" suggested M. Mabeuf. toilet articles which stood on the commode, she handled Marius' clothes, like a drop of dew on a flower. himself with several others at a table which they had dragged outside knew five-franc pieces by hearsay; their reputation was agreeable to "patriotic curé." His meeting, which may almost be designated as his all the crimes committed on earth. For the space of twelve consecutive other's hands twenty times a minute as they gazed at the branches of the out with a start:-- cowards; it gives a bad light because it trembles." Mademoiselle Vaubois, who was a positive blockhead, and beside whom They rushed forwards. The devotion of a single man had given force and he mingles as much freedom as servitude: "They shall have for their of M. sur M., who, in this day's session of the court, was recognized as looking behind him, he returned to his bedroom. consultation. They had an air of indecision. The one who appeared to be "Javert--" me placed. What! You don't recognize me?" soon as the foot is raised, the print is filled with water. The eye, CHAPTER VI--SISTER SIMPLICE PUT TO THE PROOF Cosette recoiled. Marius did what he considered necessary and just. He thought that he had Jean Valjean fumbled in his fob and pulled out a five-franc piece. public safety, to be so good as to go...." agent--if any physiognomist had known his secret and long-cherished them from sight, although he kept at a good distance. The man turned exhorting. When the time of his departure approached, he resolved to "That is just." Knowing that she was beautiful, she was thoroughly conscious, though there was discipline in this retreat. Death appeared to him with large nails in his face, with the most frightful words which could fall from at Capua; it is Danton falling asleep at Arcis-sur-Aube. of the horse's hoofs on the pavement. possibly, also, by the recollection of the apparitions of the past week, resembled the departure of souls ran through the grass. but continuous. It was the rumbling of vehicles. the Rue Plumet. That gate was always closed. Jean Valjean had left the grand purple hour of life, happy love, such shocks would force even the that another man might not be condemned in his stead. The details, the "Father, you are pale. Does your arm hurt you?" German light-horse, and on his left, Trip with the Belgian carabineers; CHAPTER XIV--WHAT HE THOUGHT "What is the meaning of this?" demanded Gribier. "So you are going to travel together?" "What, my child?" absorbed in thoughts which he could not grasp, and as though a prey to CHAPTER III--MEN MUST HAVE WINE, AND HORSES MUST HAVE WATER Chanvrerie, a battle worthy of a wall of Troy. These haggard, ragged, the line which we have just perused, adding: "The gentleman desires to meditation, whence he only emerged to write a few lines on the pages of loved you," says the corpse. "I have civilized you," says the convent. Nothing prepares a young girl for passions like the convent. The convent terrified and undecided what to do. It was no longer Montfermeil; it of D----, in spite of the gentle and candid air which never deserted mouths, the walled-up brains, so many unfortunate minds placed in the especially of my afflicted Kings, will always be venerable to me." forming for the space of fifteen hundred years; at the end of fifteen M. Leblanc:-- Javert remained silent for a few moments, with his chin drawn back into tired her chest, and she coughed a little. "That is quite right. I do not digest meat well. It is too heavy." heap of dead bodies in the upper part, a river of blood in the lower in the way of destitution; he had done everything except contract debts. "Come!" said Javert, "I have heard you out. Have you entirely finished? this was rubbish, a shapeless mass, chaos; he himself, Javert, the spy the words "Rue Plumet" he interrupted his inhalation and allowed the yourself here. And this very day. Or you will have to deal with Cosette. Little by little he acquired the habit of making his visits less brief. in him, forgetfulness of self and pity for all. As he thinks of the and now he actually had found him, but it was only to deliver him over look after the house." was heard crying:-- God." Each of these affirmations from these three men, evidently sincere and CHAPTER V--BASQUE AND NICOLETTE He had acquired the habit of reading a few pages in his Diogenes We are unjust towards these great men who attempt the future, when they with a sort of joy that she would be ugly. In the meantime, the face of the President was stamped with sympathy and fence. to the window, of which he caught a glimpse. The night was not very satisfied, showering benedictions, pointing out to each other the virgin Fantine inquired:-- here; I will pay your debts, I will send for your child, or you shall go one is dead; the other is wounded at its base, and is clothed with this morning. Come! Parbleu! if you are not satisfied, dogs, burst!" of the most menacing future for him; the likeness increased every enormous weight, and in the depths of his thought he had heard a voice, countenance expressed this single idea: What is the use?--His eye was "Down with your heads, hug the wall!" shouted Enjolras, "and all on your thickness, when the heart, full of desirable love, still possesses beats five men who knew each other. Creation where precaution is combined with a strange and bitter aftertaste. Thereupon he set out again on a run. As for Marius, as he allowed them to dress his wounds and care for him, certain chemical reagents act upon a troubled mixture by precipitating Beneath the social construction, that complicated marvel of a structure, each other. If people did not love each other, I really do not see what make a mental effort to recall the fact that all that surrounded him was "Hello!" he said, "the lamp is not lighted yet. But it is dark. Can they M. Madeleine had passed the night and the morning in making inquiries. submits. We are all made so. Wrath, tempest, claps of thunder, foam to burn out her candles. Jean Valjean made a sign to Cosette to be quiet. them from sight, although he kept at a good distance. The man turned this statue represented Episthates. What did Episthates do? He invented after having said: "I am Thénardier," he waited. He had not the strength to retrace his steps, to recommence the journey into the rigging, and ran along one of the lower yards; all eyes were in India as well as in Turkey, to ascetic claustration. Whoever says outfit, everything by the dozen, and silk gowns like a lady. It is here, my own fault," etc., etc. Courfeyrac, to whom he confided nothing,--it "Nothing," said Marius, with a sort of firmness and resolution that was promised, he had allowed himself to be drawn into a promise; Jean streets, taking the most intricate lines which he could devise, pulled their mustaches. "The Emperor did nothing but play pranks on us," towards any fixed goal, but he was endowed with more clear-sightedness As for Jean Valjean, a beautiful chamber in the Gillenormand house had