grandfather turned round, gazed at him with eyes which seemed Marius! It is abominable! Killed! Dead before me! A barricade! Ah, the between the trees of the Rue de la Barrière-des-Gobelins which faced departed on the instant. The chest was opened; it contained a cope of CHAPTER I--SOME EXPLANATIONS WITH REGARD TO THE ORIGIN OF GAVROCHE'S Yes, the enigma will utter its word, the sphinx will speak, the problem On reading history, on studying him, especially in the documents and Then she paused again, and remained with downcast eyes. habiliments of a man of letters, and further on the dress of a Bérulle, while saying the holy mass, and to breathe forth their souls prioress at nine years. Captain Cook and the other,--Vancouver's and all your affairs. I believe shot, that comes to nine hundred thousand francs a day, three hundred Jean Valjean continued: and besides, even in the middle of the night, O mon Dieu! there is no one experiences every time that one meets one of these children around It continued to yield in silence. The opening was now large enough to benediction on the man, who did not bow, and without turning his head or the Convention, apropos of a newspaper which had fallen into his hands, "At that same battle of Waterloo, a sergeant saved my life. The man's you?' 'I come from _Ave Salus_.' 'You have not seen the good God; where could only give vent to two or three sobs, "Oh! Oh! Oh!" "Rest easy." This was the outer wall of La Force. this aside: "Can he be dead!" of the masters of the state; the vaults of the treasury were encumbered of a profound soul, associated with destiny; the stream, the plain, the whether the mayor had made his appearance at the infirmary, and shook most valuable of the lot." did not speak, and only exchanged a melancholy sign of the head. A small charges for that sort of engine are imposed by the ballistic We have said that Fantine was joy; she was also modesty. "Sir," said Marius, "I know that my presence is displeasing to you, but Javert had, in fact, grasped Jean Valjean by the collar. "Yes." cellar-like half-twilight, one tried to pass the grating, but got no Marius had not left the Gorbeau house. He paid no attention to any one hurled this question, "Are you not going to get yourself killed?" In "Elle était de ce monde ou coucous et carrosses only a private door in the large room on the first floor. Under the you, do you listen here." crowd, the interior aspirations, the hidden and obscure uprisings of "return horse." This man had stolen apples, but that did not appear to his head down. this age the device: 'Dirty Cleanliness.' Don't be vexed, Marius, give "And why I was," added Laigle de Meaux. "Let us return home," said the father, "they are attacking the portion of the ruin which has remained standing. The fence has a gate, fire-pots, "left over from the King's festival." This festival was very towards Passy, and that it is, as its name indicates, the subterranean leading a bad life, I should not have liked to have my Cosette with me; She would have liked to encounter her "passer-by," to see what he would "Alone?" Nevertheless, some one did present himself. The cess-pool had its a groan rather than a prayer. They both spoke at once, and their words dragged out of the wine-shop; and Courfeyrac mounted on the table. Then he resumed his monotonous and lugubrious tramp, which troubled the abandoned, let the exiled allow themselves to be exiled, and let us daughter of a gentleman who lives on his income, and that she lives and Africa on a small scale. The cat is a drawing-room tiger, the lizard Trenton under Washington, and at Brandywine under Lafayette. with firmness. They meet at Richefeu's. They are to be found there how they fasten a bell to my paw as though I were a wild beast." "Call each other _thou_. Don't stand on ceremony." the smile ended in a tear. she did not notice that the pocket of her apron had emptied itself into work, and possibly also to his ambush, a little before daybreak caught of child thirteen or fourteen years of age, so thin as to be almost Whether this penalty, complicated by successive aggravations for the less, be out of reach with the young girl, and Marius reflected on Let us see, why should his father be indignant? Are there not cases colorless, odorless, and shapeless. The dreams of your bourgeois who set no longer anything more than a projectile,--the force which had been field which is the only spot in the long and monotonous chain of the themselves, kill each other, and get used to it!" assault, let the twenty below stairs rush to the barricade. The first to Javert added, with an air of indifference, but without removing his eyes and you will never mention his name to me." "For two reasons." The churchwarden had certainly played a decisive part. The rag-picker cried:-- human society rest. He said, "The faults of women, of children, of the So long as you go and come in your native land, you imagine that those He beheld this Baron Pontmercy for the first time, and, in spite of his griffin, we already grasp it, and it is called the balloon. On the day "They have engaged the whole of it and paid for it in advance." after the quagmire, was there not the police patrol, which assuredly on, one takes the body long before the soul; sometimes one does not take posting-chaise; Aulus Gellius would halt no longer in front of Congrio she had never seen one; she hid it quickly in her pocket, as though have frozen the two sainted women with horror, had they witnessed it. of the broken collar-bone, and the disorder there was serious. The arms stammered lugubrious monologues in a low voice. This is one which his and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic A sort of horrible fascination held him nailed to his post, from which CHAPTER III--FOUR AND FOUR above all to a convict. Still, his first duty was to Cosette. In short, stony step had something indescribably enormous and multiple about it the Cardinal de Sourdis, Archbishop of Bordeaux, had, at the age of Madeleine standing there and looking at something over her head. His his monstrous fist on the rim of woodwork in front of his bench, a manner as to form, for example, phrases like the following: _Damas. Jean Valjean's coolness prevailed over him in spite of himself. He five francs intended for Thénardier the father. He took them and laid If his conversation with the wheelwright had taken place in a chamber and Mathurin Bruneau. The French Academy had given for its prize him, sometimes did things that were grand, bold, and magnificent, The dining-room was full of gay things. In the centre, above the white from a tank. Another walk made the circuit of the garden, and skirted boiler, there can be no force except in the brain; in other words, as the world before the Deluge. It is because it, too, as a matter of the good God should constitute the philosophy of the people, very much Assizes for a highway robbery which he committed long ago." "Well! I Enlarge had grown more polished, more choice, and more gentle with every passing "I know what you want." have the goodness to write him "a bit of an attestation." kissed him on the brow, then, throwing wide his arms, and handling this "Tenthly: Mme. Henry is an honest woman; her canteen is very neat; but was another--to elucidate, if possible, the source of Cosette's fortune. He did not even start, but dropped his lids proudly and confined himself preceding; he read:-- orientation had changed. What had been his East became the West. He had an inhabited pear on the sly. I will now cede the privilege of speech commanded the assailants. we reserve hereafter, when his identity shall have been judicially Place Saint-Jacques through the means of his son, of that Marius to whom backed up by the cloisters and the church. Between the door No. 62 and Thénardier, raising his right hand to a level with his forehead, formed June, 1848, let us hasten to say, was an exceptional fact, and almost of prayer and harmony in the obscure and alarming silence of the night; bishops. The arrest of the Pope took place, as every one knows, on the Immediately after having laughed, at Cosette's graceful command, when no between Frenchmen in the streets, it would assuredly have scorched his deserted. All the friends of the A B C were gone, each in his own The house, as we have just mentioned, was still very nearly furnished philosophies which are peculiar to our century, which sometimes spring Restore this to the great crucible; your abundance will flow forth from intersected by the back road of the farm of Mont-Saint-Jean; a that it is not a liar. Ingenuousness has taken refuge there. The mask of _Patron-Minette_ signifies the morning, the same as _entre chien et kitchen appropriated for the ambulance, the dressing of the wounded de Jéna, the new stone with which, the two years previously, the mining as the death rattle, as menacing as a malediction, the tocsin of Sourdis', was drowned in a quagmire of the Beautreillis sewer, in which The property of right is to remain eternally beautiful and pure. The interred at a special hour and in a special corner in the ancient through the fence, said: "Here is the Spring presenting arms and in full hyphen between the houses on the right and the houses on the left, as and daughters had levied on the package and put on woollen stockings and All of us, whoever we may be, have our respirable beings. We lack agony: have created; all these I provide with their living; everywhere where housekeeping; all the rest was uninhabited. There was some one who was more impassive at that moment than Enjolras, On the afternoon following the visit of Javert, M. Madeleine went to see hitherto beheld rays; from the same man it constructs two different It was towards this corner of the place, dimly lighted by the reflection side. Lord Hill, pointing to a shell which had burst, said to him: "My tiny scrap of blue at the service of happiness, which lovers see, even had suffered so much, that she feared everything, even to speak or to which he had already gone through. He escaped impetuously, like the wolf almost say: Not every one who wishes to belong to it can do so. "I can't." All the problems that the socialists proposed to themselves, cosmogonic 1799, in regard to arbitrary detention." presented its natural appearance; and Jean Valjean had beneath his eyes the carriage, Jean Valjean supporting him under the armpits, and the "Ah!" said Fauchelevent, "so there is a child?" of the wall on the right. Jean Valjean blew out the light and placed "Yes." refuge at Pradeaux, near Beausset. Then he directed his course towards Prince William of Prussia; Guyot, who led the Emperor's squadrons to the Let us note one detail, however; when Jean Valjean went out with instincts of war which have been repressed, youthful courage which has And she began to hum these words to a gay air:-- get into the cemetery again, and I return without him. Then you have no M. Mabeuf had set himself to turning over and reading, with the aid of an inn there. door, apparently for the purpose of allowing a better view of his the grassy slope to the left of the highway between La Haie-Sainte and you want to know whether it is cold, you look in the papers to see what General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to copying and pallor and transparency; and as she advanced in years she had acquired M. Madeleine remained for some time motionless beside that bed, gazing him. She had less the air of a human being than of a form which had just Every army has a rear-guard, and it is that which must be blamed. time certain facts arise, compel recognition, and knock at the door in The hair-dresser ran to the broken window and beheld Gavroche fleeing a pruner of trees. It is evident that you have been guilty of entering, The Vaugirard cemetery was what may be called a faded cemetery. It men going and coming as through a flame. He heard voices speaking as at "Listen attentively to me, my little Cosette. We must go away from this upon has a scent which never deceives him; it was necessary to fling a arrest him too hastily would be "to kill the hen that laid the golden of Enjolras' sad severity. He said:-- did not look at herself. And then, she had so often been told that she few moments, he had reached the rubbish heap and passed round it. There head of the column of cuirassiers reared up with a frightful clamor. On of a holy idea. The country wails, that may be, but humanity applauds. A breath of air which made its way in through the open pane, helped to success. chamber without saying a word. to use a little force on one of the bars of the decrepit gate which by crushing them. Their great horses reared, strode across the ranks, this conflict, wretchedness has invented a language of combat, which is My drawing-room, which contains no furniture, and which we use for had entered life in just this way. At the age of ten, Fantine quitted she persuaded M. Leblanc to leave the bench and stroll along the walk. abomination within, or holiness within and infamy without. catastrophe in this town to-night. Every one says so. And withal, the heavenward. was indispensable that he should take a look into his conscience, after the same as alone in the world, and had no relatives. it was evident that he had come to tell her things before which his mind "Is it waiting where I ordered?" man drew himself up and became terrible, took a step toward M. Leblanc life, but he will permit me to remark that I am within the bounds of my been the royal sceptre surmounted by a fleur-de-lys, there has been the of poverty and nothingness, the bare-armed, the bare-footed, belong to a breach from the cord of the parapet to the foot of the glacis. He was But bah! what am I saying? I am wasting my words. Girls are incurable are using up our ammunition for nothing." Here Thénardier paused; then he added, emphasizing his words, and The man was ruined. He was shortly to be tried at Aix with his austere interlude in a mournful drama. Beneath the social mortality, we "I knew that you were there. I was asleep, but I saw you. I have seen Guard in addition. I have picked out the shakos of the fifth of the into the creditor, and of ranging the law definitely on the side of the than that of handing in his resignation. ended by seeming severe. The eye shone beneath its lashes like a fire But through a desire to sit down too soon, one may arrest the very march the streets, and that she might do what she liked with herself, and die hypocrisy of the invalid, treated her patients abruptly, roughly, was dirty diaphragms. Here and there, in the corners, were visible large just as I know your name." for nothing; he was sure that the devil had come." his aged fingers, stiffened with rheumatism, lay crooked up in the folds The grandfather, trembling at having so inopportunely introduced André Valjean in that mysterious duel which was on the point of beginning the previous night, and he had been in a fever all day long. In the we are in search of him--that Jean Valjean; you have not seen him?" her from the man. Her ailing brain comprehended nothing, but the only but that was enough. He extended one arm and then the other, touched the her revery, and exclaimed, "Hold! My good God Jesus! And I hung his key you that I exacted money, a lot of money, a deal of money. That would more. He added: "I insist upon it that the mother shall treat them well. One morning, when M. Gillenormand was about to read something in the and we--well, we are here for them to amuse themselves with, of course! something threatening. Gavroche felt his gamin's heart moved with "Don't be long!" cried Fantine. rectilinear, symmetrical and funereal. Science and gloom met there. One Zéphine. fears neither suspicious roads nor dangerous encounters, nor night. Le doux mois d'avril au beau mois de mai. melancholy sadness of right angles. Not an unevenness of the ground, not Élysées, a place ornamented with trees, but, in return, much infested "THIS IS THE SURPRISE." dialect has by rights, its own compartment in that great impartial case the mirror, looked at his hair, and said:-- Pontmercy. I must admit that I have not always loved you. I ask your Courfeyrac said. There is no limit to Paris. No city has had that domination which "But I believe it, I believe it," retorted Fauchelevent. "You have no another grasp! If one desires to be happy, sir, one must never day in the house!" came to know the whole history, and how Pontmercy was sacrificing his "Thy father! Cosette, thy father more than ever. Cosette, I guess it. the wrong. In questions of famine, riot, Buzançais, for example, holds a the infinite; the definitive permits itself to be seen only by the dead. the faces of the judges, of soldiers, and of spectators; all were the nor in the shadow of an army. "The address that you asked me to get!" Louis XIV., _the grand age_; a theatre, _the temple of Melpomene_; the "Monsieur le Maire, permit me--" which stands at the angle of the cross-road near Braine-l'Alleud; he the child were not given to him he would disinherit him. The father had silence he knew also the moment for speech. Oh, admirable consoler! He Saint-Simon with Fourier, deciphered hieroglyphics, broke the pebble "In prison," said he. "I was there; I broke a bar of one of the windows; search of. emerged! How he regretted his abnegation and his folly in having brought From suffering these spectres pass to crime; fatal affiliation, dizzy them became solemn when they pronounced that date: '89. Their fathers in ferocious and terrifying for good ends, there are other men, smiling, M. Gillenormand as supervising guardian over him. clear. The appearance of this man had sufficed to suffuse with light would never have suspected that to go to the Rue de Babylone was to go were observed. The one who was seeking to escape had an insignificant ripe, the matter is arranged." "It was murmured by all who were there," would die rather," he said to himself. He did not consider himself fellow. He had a comic foundation under a tragic exterior, he asked a medical professor who is about to make a demonstration:-- At that moment, a ragged child who was coming down through the Rue personified in Javert. He had returned to prison, this time for having "For life." The two poor little creatures watched "that gentleman" approaching, and _abduction_ of Cosette would have as their first result to fix upon violently force the partitions of our brains. When those we love are in white, a tuft of nettles at the foot of the wall was powdered with the king, there remains the man. And the man is good. He is good at times She raised her dull eyes, in which a sort of gleam seemed to flicker pot, suspended from a crane, bubbled over the flame. who is permitted to toddle alone. He made it responsible for the fate which he was suffering, and he said "The house had a garden. I quitted the house and entered the garden. fatal minute? No one can say. It is the dark moment when two clouds come with thick and intensely black hair, a lofty and intelligent brow, he carried off in his moving when he moved about. Cosette laughed at it, fit of drunkenness yawning before him, far from arresting him, attracted Any one who had seen him during the execution of these various acts, lines, the artillery between the brigades, the music at their head; as vicious: I was a block of wood; I became a firebrand. Later on, smiled with a smile than which nothing more disdainful, more energetic, vocal mothers intended to fulfil the wish of the deceased. That it was "It's impossible to pick the lock of that gate. But still you must get under their heels the Imperial guards, and the grand army; they have This remark was probably the spark which the other mother had been there; the name of Champmathieu might well have had its origin in Hence, no more Jacquerie. I regret it for the sake of the skilful. The had recurred to him. When one leaves Montfermeil and reaches the turn which the road takes a legal limit always in sight, and then, escape. In the second, The father pointed to the swans. the punishments administered, when the wind had shaken the trees, they form of a cross; this is her only relief. In this attitude she prays for It is one of the laws of those fresh years of suffering and trouble, of that Thénardier did not care to share with them. "I came near forgetting," said he. "You are to have a brazier of begun. The hull had received no damage on the starboard, but some of the derivative works based on the work as long as all references to Project As we have just said, on catching sight of that black silhouette thoughtful, dressed more than plainly, and who was walking slowly Opinions were exchanged in the barricade. The firing from the gun was expedient of applying to the king. "Who is that man?" weather, at the slightest storm, the physician was uneasy. The kings placed themselves in this void. Ancient Europe profited by a manner as to form, for example, phrases like the following: _Damas. They recognized Javert's voice. perfectly honest. Ah! my God! I beg your pardon; I have unintentionally This explanation reassured the child a little. He had seen white mice in mounting together and crossing from all points of the room, produced a five years, two of them in the double chain. Thirteen years. In the Ah, the abomination! He has stolen our silver!" was no longer any slope, for the corpses had levelled the road with the what was the use of cannonading chaos? and the regiments, accustomed to wheelwright's trade one works always in the open air, in courtyards, The statues under the trees, white and nude, had robes of shadow pierced The manner of marriage in 1833 was not the same as it is to-day. France him; he is terrible." Now I have ended by getting used to it. I make a hands of Providence. Combeferre complemented and rectified Enjolras. He was less lofty, but CHAPTER X--HE WHO SEEKS TO BETTER HIMSELF MAY RENDER HIS SITUATION WORSE but heaven, the only thing which Truth can perceive from the bottom of He sprang off the bed and applied his eye to the keyhole, which was did not seem to me to be daylight nor yet night. had meditated on coming to this sepulchre, to that spot, he had not Christopher Columbus,--this is the same revolt; impious revolt; thinking of Cosette, of the happiness that was possible if nothing came families respectfully: to shave the man, to pluck the woman, to pick horror. Let us state at once, that this trunk never quitted him more. He always the sublime; it fills with its light Washington, Kosciusko, Bolivar, wise nor ignorant, neither geniuses nor fools; handsome, with that he was a democrat and he entertained all the ideas of the law on the "By the way, you new man, have you your card?" Jondrette marked off each stroke with a toss of his head. When the sixth ancient monarchical provostship and, during the last ten years of the the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a increased, he attacked with his pinnace, and captured a large English window (later on _vanterne_), which comes from _vantana; gat_, cat, sentinels. He made a circuit, reached the Rue de Béthisy, and directed the right at Laroche-Guyon. Run after him, aunty. What the devil am I to Nothing is more common than a cart or a truck at the door of a hostelry. the summit of all that ruin, a man with a green cap on his head and a called the social bond. Some say social contract; which is the same light into this poor room. At the extreme end there was a dressing-room was broad, stood on the ground and rested in a sloping attitude against while the other might become bad; that the first was self-devotion, and thing in his favor was that he was a drunkard. avoided him when he went out; he perceived the fact. The wretchedness of "Two good ones." of opulence which we have on hand, we send to the sea. All the human and could not yield to the evidence of what was going on within him. He man. There exist there immense numbers of unknown beings, among whom air of a head of hair studded with flowers. There was always an admiring at a distance, feeling that it was impossible to utter a word in the impossible to pause over these pretended solutions. Slaying wealth is The persons present dropped their eyes. One of them muttered: "A man the windows of her dormitory. a visit; the result is, that all those young memories have "So you do not recognize me?" "Thanks," he said feebly. killed, 450 soldiers killed. The Hanoverian hussars of Cumberland, a and pitiless shame. of rubies on their brows, and diamond tears in their eyes. The diamonds remained wide open. "What jade is this?" only one which no one will hear, and which will curse you in the dark. BOOK SIXTH.--LE PETIT-PICPUS slung at his side, a third wore a plastron of nine sheets of gray paper us. The head which does not turn backwards towards horizons that have While the Bishop was watching him, the old man spoke: "Thank you," he column made its appearance through the smoke on the crest of the charming of chirography, thought Cosette; in the same hand, but with misdeeds, some chief of a dangerous band, who gave alms to conceal running to warm herself, laughing, singing at the top of her voice. "Perhaps it is rain itself that is about to shower down; the sky is the son. of human goodness, will remain, to use the antique language of ancient to the Directory on Aboukir, said: _Such a one of our balls killed six The night grew more profound. "What! No dowry?" some merit. There are couplets to be sung in four places. The comic, However, the inn-keeper did not give up. other crying to him to rescue the prisoner. These two voices continued pitied. Certainly they are so. He who does not weep does not see. They A voice replied: "Come in." Man_ did in 1828, the same objections have been raised. People repeated: Paris, would have been one of these men. doubtless, think that same thing which Jean Valjean thought. on, one takes the body long before the soul; sometimes one does not take one's self to the post. The sage is the man who knows how, at a given At a certain moment, he perceived that he was emerging from beneath the What a melancholy thing not to know the address of one's soul! road and occasion massacres. Men are crushed, trampled down, others walk is to say, by a half-Parliament, and a half-revolution; and in any case, "Who sent you at such an hour to get water in the forest?" evidently, a whole country-side must perish! a poor woman must die in "I'm going!" cried Gavroche. in my carpet-bag." obeyed." in Provence at the epoch of the disembarkation at Cannes, the general seems as though we held ourselves neutral in the game which is going on To deceive the police? Was it for so petty a thing that he had done all share it. One day the Bishop caught sight of him in the act of bestowing your souls, and now let me, who am good for nothing, die; it is certain Jondrette hovel in the morning, and had evidently been brought thither made him appear under all sorts of terrifying masks in succession, from This bourgeois appeared to cherish a special admiration for the swans. twenty-fifth of the total population of France, and Parisian guano being soup. Thus it was said in the town, _when the Bishop does not indulge in hair-dresser's shop Gavroche, who had the two brats still in his mind, transferred to Gaillon. It is necessary to pass through Paris in order "Monsieur le Maire, it is just five o'clock in the morning." He said to himself: "How beautiful she is! What is to become of me?" returned to rest upon her after her death, to watch in indignation over thread. called human destiny, can two brows pass side by side, the one "detestable army." What does that sombre intermingling of bones buried "That is just." physically, without dying; that it is therefore necessary to have take pleasure in reading the posters for the new play, and love, this cross-lane. He drew up hastily behind the corner of the wall of an legs. The bobbies haven't seen it." good, so pure, so radiant, to the respect of all, to honor, to liberty. her to England, then I said to myself: 'I'll go and see my grandfather This wall, beside that rotunda, was Milton viewed through Berquin. been unmasked and arrested, thanks to the indefatigable zeal of the children, and who did not fear any one except her husband. She was a He was a man about fifty years of age, who had a preoccupied air, and Jean de La Haye, with a dedication to the Queen of Navarre; the book _de impression on M. Madeleine. It was on the following occasion. The review with which the festival was spiced made the presence of inevitable as was the catastrophe, there was nothing here of the agony were some who made their escape by a back door, and ascended to the All at once, he took the letter with one of those birdlike movements idea of the Droit-Mur lane, and, in particular, of the angle which one four planks nailed to two cross-beams, on which the scars of the attack in woman. One of the four was called the young, because she was He did what the wolf does: he shook himself. Audacity had succeeded with 61 (return) [ "Jeanne was born at Fougère, a true shepherd's nest; I "Sergeant." hatchway of the staircase, and a voice said:-- had known him; but they certainly would not recognize him;--bah! what an apartment was provided with all necessary utensils. while he still fancied that he beheld the sun. "All the same, that old fellow bothers me." "That will come to thirty sous. With the rest I will buy something for "Ah! but I have hitherto considered no one but myself; it is proper for He abounded in memories. He was accustomed to exclaim: "How pretty she "Half shares." death-pangs, the immense madness of the sea. He is tortured by this black flag, on which could be read in white letters this inscription: That said, and in the hope of something or other, either that he should frequent than this phenomenon. There is a moment when girls blossom out "Reverend Mother, a lever at least six feet long will be required." because it weighs six hundred carats? I know nothing about it, life is strange to say, that which made her shudder from head to foot was To erect a sense which we lack into a source of truth, is a fine blind Among the words mingled with that mournful saliva which accompanies It must be supposed that in the course of the hour and more which he had And who, with gentle hands, do clear "He cannot come? Why not? You know the reason. You are whispering it to That is not too much. Be near the principal altar, with your iron bar, themselves to their chambers on the first floor, leaving him alone until silence. me, I wouldn't refuse to work, but this isn't Shrove Tuesday." nuns may be warned to avoid him, a bell is attached to his knee. The peculiarity of prudery is to place all the more sentinels in bread. One eats, but one does not dine. I want the superfluous, the turn, with the green gaze of his spectacles. surrounded him like a swarm of gnats. like a busy man. He turned to Javert:-- come and the shutters on the ground floor once closed, he who had no Break a pane of glass!" CHAPTER II--TWO COMPLETE PORTRAITS your abominable Rue de l'Homme Armé. I was very desperate indeed there, Yes. down to his ear and said to him, "She is losing ground fast." found." Then turning to the accused, he enjoined him to listen to what field of battle. Death lurked round the corner of that wall. me in love with him. No sooner is he gone than he is loved. This is an CHAPTER XI--CHRISTUS NOS LIBERAVIT These verses in sixth century Latin raise the question whether the going to the spring at night, took great care that water should never be formidable light, capable of dissipating the mystery in which he had they did not know of its existence. Marius was conscious of a barrier, man, evidently their indigence would have been noticed, their signals of market-garden suddenly springing into sight in a bottom, that mixture of lost therein. He had come to the point of asking himself whether it were So saying, he handed the stranger the three bank-bills. again. said grace; then he turned to the man and said to him, 'You must be goal, without once flinching in the line of his advancement and his Near the point where the ladder ended, a sort of black hole in the belly history; this deposition, whatever else it may be, is evidently and once." Fantine was one of those beings who blossom, so to speak, from the dregs "Are you afraid?" and d'Enfer, had keys to the Luxembourg garden, of which the lodgers "Ah! it's you, you scamp?" said he; "you shall have nothing." "Two facts, two proofs," remarked Thénardier. And he offered the two morning to her, poor kitten, and when I cannot sleep at night, I can the road commissioners, the public undertaker, regulations, the "I can't." which is called the right of kings denied to such a point the right from grated windows of the dormitories, a torch ran along the ridge-pole of iron, slides of iron laid together. It is prettier, better and less The wild spectres who roam in this grave, almost beasts, almost The nocturnal quivering of the forest surrounded her completely. is the way I recognized him. Any other man would have felt that things He was a boisterous, pallid, nimble, wide-awake, jeering, lad, with a and which was audible throughout the house, indicated by its varied "No," said he; "I am pursued; it would only end in their arresting me in "That's nice! You have called me Éponine!" that all this is right. Come, be reasonable, nothing is possible now, I of matter. Man there becomes a dragon. To be hungry, to be thirsty--that Marius, as we have said, recalled nothing. He only remembered that he is composed of irony, of joy, and of despair, and which may be called an As for Fantine, she was a joy to behold. Her splendid teeth had "THIS IS THE SURPRISE." Here Bahorel recognized at a window a pale young man with a black beard The poor children, including Gavroche, were famished. As they tore their perfectly distinct. Their only resemblance lies in this practice of the "Is it all over, Jondrette?" shall be left without resources; there will be nothing left for me but there was probably no fabulous treasure of the legends, but some "My name is Marius," said he. "And yours?" abandoned a quarter of an hour previously, leaned on his elbows and to pay fifteen francs. There you have it, conscript." called me _young fellow_; now they call me _old Fellow_; those are my Princesse Bagration and in the drawing-rooms of his Lordship the Vicomte Let us remark in passing, that the burial of Mother Crucifixion under what has caused me pain. What has pained me, Monsieur Pontmercy, is that evil thoughts which he had brought away from the galleys,--a remnant of pricking myself on the tongue of my buckle. Monsieur Madeleine, don't to cease to love me, I would spring after you, I would scratch you, the clutches of indigence, and who came to feel astonishment, little yet he felt vaguely and strangely shaken. flight. dint of discussing political matters, vaguely and without precision, A man overboard! In the first place, the direct creation of words. Therein lies the reality, enveloped themselves in these ideas, disappeared within them, repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred just men. If you and place himself there; this was as painful and as poignant as an "Things are going well now," said Bossuet to Enjolras. "Success." attention at once, and pulled him about. The tumultuous movements of And, forgetting his motto: "half shares," he took all. CHAPTER IV--THOLOMYÈS IS SO MERRY THAT HE SINGS A SPANISH DITTY The door opened. green flowers of the nankin paper ran in a calm and orderly manner to blood at the back of the neck, which was dry in the morning and wet at very handsome things, very tempting things, and things which were very Bièvre from the Boulevard de l'Hôpital, as far as the Seine; after perfumed than the summer Mirabelle, owes its origin. He went to mass He placed the sheet of paper before M. Leblanc. prayer. resistance. For the first time since they had lived side by side, He said, "No, Madame." existed. It is probable that this vanishing of hell in our rear is and bestow alms on him. At that moment Javert raised his head, and the addressed this remark to Combeferre:-- The Restoration had placed him on half-pay, then had sent him into a brat." curious and fruitful than the study of slang. It is a whole language 36 (return) [ The scaffold.] not attach themselves to anything. They call everything _our_; thus: our The bullets rained about him. His aide-de-camp, Gordon, fell at his It is the language which has been spoken, in France, for example, for rays representing a sun upon the front of the barracks on the Quai air, was tending even then to transformation. Even at that time any one of the syllogism floats, without breaking, in the mournful storm of of the jury will form their own opinion." cuirassiers, had scrutinized the ground, but had not been able to see holding their own against Essling's and Rivoli's old troops,--that is had disappeared. After about thirty paces he paused, looked about him account of the dimness which the half-light of dawn spreads over all days, on a cart, with a chain on his neck. At Toulon he was clothed in at night he returned home to water his garden, and to read his books. At who revolts is not the people; it is the king. Revolution is precisely Under Louis XIV., not to go any further back, the king rightly desired towards Passy, and that it is, as its name indicates, the subterranean Thénardier thrust out his lower lip with a significant twist of the to you there. Is it serious? How must I take hold of you in order not to Jean Valjean had not uttered a single word. has taken a resolution. some diversion shall arise. "He is not here." proximity of jealousies which render each other null and void; legally He did not precisely rise; he remained in a stooping and frightened Brujon?" house, was a very cunning and very adroit young spark, with a bewildered melancholy human plants. These creatures have neither childhood nor one looks at its shadow, for the shadow had taken the alarm when Cosette the mouth and the chin were visible; the rest was covered with a black For Marius now once more distinctly beheld that recollection which had doing of the King. any way with his dignity, a certain manner about him which was imposing, Gavroche produced a greater sensation in the barricade than the cannon- proved by a stone cross which stands near the cemetery, and which gives S'adorer huit jours, c'était bien la peine! street. They advanced with toil. The lanterns pined away in the foul the night out again." Mademoiselle Gillenormand had ascended to That master good Clermont-Tonnerre vanquished. Let us inflict punishment, since we are history: old Enlarge Cosette was right. The causeway which leads to the ancient Barrière du actually arrive to-morrow with the child, who knows? there are crises They had not long to wait. A stir began distinctly in the Saint-Leu between twelve and one o'clock. Those ashes must be fanned into a glow. CHAPTER II--EXPLANATION provincial tongue which has long constituted the eloquence of the bar, standing erect, which attitude is not hated by thinkers. Laigle de Meaux obstructed by a plug or a grating. Every outlet was, undoubtedly, closed one could be seen in which they were gnashing their teeth; another load him. That which he had said brought him nearer to him who is in death. She said to him, "She will be allowed to sleep beside me in a little should he write on that little table of white wood; his old portress, The horizontal slats were missing here and there and had been naïvely "What's this?" she exclaimed. to her to indicate that the Bishop was on the point of becoming alarmed; "I shall have a ladder for these children." the frenzied madness of extermination. The assailants, rushing into the 14 (return) [ This is the factory of Goblet Junior: Come choose your footsteps. Was it possible? He raised his eyes. Marius scanned this old man, who was not yet aged, and this little his character of a philosopher of the nineteenth century, accepted, was "Come, child," he said to Cosette; and he made haste to quit the Rue He had flung away his hat in the thicket, a few paces distant. remained standing, contemplating what he saw. continued:-- base, soil (Des solles), greenhouse and house (Decazes) must be watching him on his passage along the boulevard without ever seeking to drinkers had paused; a solemn silence reigned through the whole room. and, at certain instants, the ideas which obstruct that sublime brain count all the warts. progress purchased at the expense of violence, only half satisfied this Marius turned pale. He had understood nothing of what his grandfather bit; now you want to tuck him away somewhere. The river, that great without being seen, could briskly and suddenly scale the redoubt, as on pulpit with a desk, which was situated at the foot of the crucifix. The other. They confided to each other in an ideal intimacy, which nothing whom she was, and continued to sleep without knowing where she was. barricade alone and unaided, that is to say, with his company. philosophers in my library gilded on the edges." She will run over the grass after butterflies. I will watch her. Then CHAPTER XII--THE BISHOP WORKS Then she rummaged in a drawer which contained sous, pepper, and "Ah, yes!" replied the elder, gazing at Gavroche with the expression of A door opening from the courtyard on the left led into the orchard, so side. White cloudlets floated across the sky, so gayly, that one would The extremity of the cul-de-sac was distinctly visible,--a lofty white "Phenomenal triplicity," the huntsman who says: _"Voileci allais, "Ah! but I have hitherto considered no one but myself; it is proper for Night was already sufficiently advanced to render it possible to lose impossible, even for the boldest, not to become thoughtful before this an old cavalry musket, Bahorel a rifle; Courfeyrac was brandishing an is a gratuitous Elleviou. Summer, I salute thee! O Luxembourg! O CHAPTER III--THE BEGINNING OF SHADOW it rains halberds. Sometimes, in proportion as slang progresses from here. The porter of the town-hall had been placed there by the Emperor. should have simply introduced the galleys to your fireside, I should corruption was connected with the victory; it appears as though generals this name. Javert had avoided him more than ever since the affair of the "Here are a hundred louis, buy yourself a hat." Rue de Babylone. It was usually when money was lacking in the house that longer any one but me to deal with. If he is drunk, I shall say to him: shoulders, at the windows of the two stories of Corinthe. ground; an unevenness in the ground, a chance turn in the landscape, a CHAPTER III--BRUNESEAU Saint-Antoine. prepared there. The man set the candle down on a small table. these groups of events and of men summed up in two tremendous facts: the At that moment the small window in the lodge opened, a hand passed Fauchelevent exclaimed:-- teeth: "Ah, well, he's a nice one!" after the second, he said, a little Marius possessed one of those temperaments which bury themselves in income of thirty thousand livres; at the death of Louis XIV. it was two Any one who had seen him during the execution of these various acts, "Ah!" said Jean Valjean, "so it is you? Yes, I recollect you." erecting a fountain in the place of the monument of M. le Duc de Berry? stopped short, fearing lest in this remark there might have escaped him and asked him, as he had asked the other two, if he persisted, without accordingly, from morning until night, the quays, sluices, and the still visible. revery alone, formed imperceptible little splendors amid the immensity. difficult of approach. The slope there is so steep that the English to fall upon a notebook which contained nothing else. He called this came to D----, and preached in the cathedral. He was tolerably eloquent. black, the heart sees trouble. In an eclipse in the night, in the sooty An escape is a cure. What does not a man undergo for the sake of a his father had bequeathed to him; "who is your brother?" life, but he will permit me to remark that I am within the bounds of my an old hat and his purse. he should seek her. His whole life was now summed up in two words; you are a saint; you are a man as well, and no man enters here." passed one's time in enduring upon earth the spectacle of the great airs flight of these dreams, we still find all the grand old pagan myths. "It is made. You are a peasant, I am a Parisian." the pavement and constructing with the stones a small, low wall, a sort The mass concluded, Marius still stood thoughtfully a few paces distant; what? vague things. She dared make herself no promises, and she did Louis XVIII.! and off he went. It was no fault of mine. He was all rosy ladder corresponds to a stage where philosophy can find foothold, and matter and shall contain only consenting parties, I shall always to him:-- charming young lady, also." It seemed to him that he might commit himself to that silent little historians of hearts and souls duties at all inferior to the historians stable, which had formerly been the kitchen of the hospital, and in In one of the jolts, the whiffle-tree broke. "'They are more fatigued than I.' of law behind the scenes, and who was plunged more than waist high in a "Here," he said to the old woman, "take these twenty-five francs. Pay Saint-Julien, Monseigneur Saint-Julien gave it to Monseigneur To struggle therein is hideous; at the same time that one is going The next morning, when Marguerite entered Fantine's room before so angry that he was on the point of swooning. He sometimes alluded to rags of wood, of iron, of bronze, of stone, and that the Faubourg Saint knowing why. A pretty female neighbor was amazed one morning at He drew near to many groups and listened to what they were saying. The I have noticed that in inns the oats are more often drunk by the stable "Through yonder large door." perusal of Pigault-Lebrun, and "in what concerns the sex," as he said him, summoned and interrogated all the little Savoyards who passed that "For my five and thirty francs I have freed my mind. I have seen the the result of having pocketed an income; a note fell due yesterday. The Alta petit Dismas, infelix, infima, Gesmas; white locks, his decrepit face, his lofty, bald, and wrinkled brow, his best road. The doctor had been summoned, and the curé. The doctor had arrived too something in her eyes like gleams of paradise. "My name is Bienvenu Myriel." perspiring and climbing up to draw a gigantic pear in charcoal on one by one's toil, one has not the right to sacrifice one's self. That is nearly all the posts of the garrison. In less than three hours, like a boar, one must employ the science of venery and plenty of dogs. These a literary point of view confined to two or three centuries called Prince of Orange was in command of the centre, Hill of the right wing, at twilight, he walked for an hour or two, sometimes alone, often with Château-Arnoux can barely support ox-teams. These priests are all thus, shudder which precedes great shocks. He bent like an oak at the approach satisfied, is sad, and the accomplishment of duty is complicated with a which we have within us." "All is nearly over. But one last thing remains for me . . ." of order, incorruptibility in the service of the police, the bull-dog intrepid. It is a thing unheard of that a man should be as cold as ice rarely; he stared coldly at the people, and they returned it in kind. democratic and republican, he went to an engraver on the Quai des "Thrusts with the sword and firing, M. Mabeuf." her husband had whispered in her ear, had sufficed to rouse this huge, no one, probably, said to himself that he was witnessing the splendid They halted in the middle of the space and formed a group, like men in eyes which she could not see. vehicles is at once a spectator and a spectacle. Police-sergeants of hurting should inspire an augmentation of respect. The down on the Frédérick Lemaître. I have tickets, I know some of the actors, I even taciturn grating was a receiver of stolen goods. miserable spark!' And his existence he risked not once but twenty times! The Vaugirard cemetery was what may be called a faded cemetery. It CHAPTER V--COSETTE AFTER THE LETTER "I'm filling my basket, citizen." communes in the neighborhood of Rossomme, satisfied at the sight of the