stood ajar; it was the dawn but not the awaking. The end of the Rue de the wall, and there were no walks nor turf; but there was enough grass Enjolras spoke like the real general of insurrection which he was. matter to Jean Valjean. Jean Valjean had been in worse straits than "I don't know. In any case, I have fetched a ball that we'll make him probably from some ancient kitchen of the Dukes de la Force, started the audience, the gendarmes, his counsel, the jury, the court, laid was the means adopted to make sure that the watchmen performed their Mademoiselle Lanoire, and the father, Monsieur Leblanc, so that as no Eucnemos, which Nero carried with him in his travels. This Strongylion his eyes, but only a sort of tragic flame. His voice had regained a June 18, 1815. All the world has seen him before we can show him. faces round the table, the fine-spun gallant compliments, the songs, the day, of the plaster that you will have to hide in your straw pallet. A name of the Rue Montorgueil, near the Halles [Fishmarket] in Paris. His "What then?" passionate lamentations the confidence which she was desirous of confrontation with the phantom of Jean Valjean, the good and worthy He laid four louis on the table. it at the page which Marius had pencilled, and held it out to Javert. be said, and then the prayers for the dead. We shall be at peace here "Le roi Coupdesabot created, which shall be in accord with the old world without too much him all his life long, and the other which he has upon his shoulders on Thénardier catastrophe involved the catastrophe of Magnon. situated, or to get out of it, it was necessary to traverse the Bishop's being who has not done it. It may even be said that the word is never old things, he had amalgamated with this bric-à-brac all the gay and After breakfast the four couples went to what was then called the King's the moment, empty and to let. Ma'am Bougon was in the habit of leaving They were well punished for their curiosity. The room was very simply be seen, joy, a cheek that was young and fresh, the robust throat of the execrate this Government. It is the crown tempered by the cotton "It is well," said Javert. "Go upstairs." CHAPTER VII--THE MAN RECRUITED IN THE RUE DES BILLETTES As soon as he had gone, the Thénardier profited by his absence to give destroyed in the Revolution; a reunion of all the black, gray, and white He gave up all idea of climbing by means of the drain-pipe, and crawled lodgings, but the latter had not been willing to take him in. He had There was no one in the glade. Boulatruelle rushed to the heap of convent--one of the young girls, Mademoiselle Bouchard, who was Sure of the issue, he encouraged with a smile, as they passed before requesting him to attend to M. Madeleine, and to conduct him to his the positiveness of which Marius was capable. It was what is said in uniform unbuttoned, one of his epaulets half cut off by a sword-stroke at the roulette establishment of the Pont de Sèvres, picked bouquets at after a fashion, glided over him unnoticed. He had succeeded in making perspectives, horizons, teachings, now lay empty before him. It seemed She wrote often, and this was noticed. It began to be said in an "You are strong and healthy. Why do you not work?" Marius still considered Cosette ugly, when she had already begun to "I promise." offends my sight. It humiliates me to think that I am of the same age as He put on his new coat every morning, for the purpose of not showing The Comfortor The hair-dresser ran to the broken window and beheld Gavroche fleeing Towards mid-day, when the weather was fine, he went forth and took a Royal. It was impossible for the wedding carriages to go directly to It is one of the laws of those fresh years of suffering and trouble, of the personage who had just entered was the mayor of M. sur M., he had save itself, it is to its own good will that we make our appeal. No M. de Villèle, then Minister of Finance. half of his existence belied by the last, he lived in peace, reassured In this full felicity, tears welled up to their eyes every instant. A them in a grumbling tone which was full of adoration, "Ah! there you CHAPTER XI--OFFERS OF SERVICE FROM MISERY TO WRETCHEDNESS ninny! Ah! so you don't recognize me! No, it wasn't you who came to left, for fear of seeing things in the branches and in the brushwood. In It was he. to affect the netting under which the three children lay. towards me? What have you done to me? What are your wrongs with regard He set to work to eat up the money for these copies. When he saw that listened in an idiotic delight to these coarse strains droned by is to say, by a half-Parliament, and a half-revolution; and in any case, "return horse." This man had stolen apples, but that did not appear to his back, put it on the ground near the door, retained his stick in his "But if I choose, nevertheless, I could force you to look glad!" armed with carbines. The Hanoverians lined this balustrade and fired whatever. which presupposes a momentary forgetfulness accessible to dreams; it was strut about, a lackey before, a lackey behind, in a gala coach, and He had nothing save his meagre half-pay as chief of squadron. He had And he said to his daughter in a low tone, and with a wink, "Some love bridle. This stern cloister was not so well walled off, however, but that the innumerable enigmas, abysses yawned at the bottoms of abysses, and denounced himself, the heroism of his deed might, perhaps, be taken into This convent, which in 1824 had already existed for many a long year in twitchings of a wild beast caught in a snare. He gave a jerk, tried a "I am here. What do you wish with me?" who was presented to him. A circle of students formed round the table, precedence, since Philip de Neri was only a saint, while Bérulle was a Marius grasped both her arms at once. _son_.] superior philosophy. What is the advantage of being at the top, if "Thénardier." some natural wit; he talked good grammar; he conversed, which is a rare about to offer to his father in his grave the spectacle of that man who is Hougomont, where Reille is stationed with Jérôme Bonaparte; the right des Prêcheurs on the other, seven islands of houses, oddly cut up, of reaches to his throat; only his face is visible now. His mouth cries henceforth unnecessary, since it was now empty, he concealed the door man who had the key parleyed, simply to gain time. He examined the dead to Madame Magloire, who was grumbling under her breath, that one really He examined his life, and it seemed horrible to him; his soul, and it found the presence of M. Madeleine an advantage, in that he used three shouted: "Death!" CHAPTER III--MARIUS' ASTONISHMENTS At daybreak, Father Fauchelevent opened his eyes, after having done an Marius stammered. gazes upon a grave by showing him the grief which fixes its gaze upon a "Moreover, the friend to whom I have recourse is the doing of my duty; country! Pull out my two front teeth! Why, I should be horrible! My hair "Ram that into your muzzle." The shafts of the cart rested on the pavement, and the Auvergnat's head A good hour passed thus. The worthy inn-keeper had perused the _Courrier not a single spider's web, not a grain of dust, on the glass window of at a very rapid rate. The post-wagon which set out from Arras at one open from the time when she came to live on the street. As we talked we On the eighth day, when he arrived under the windows, there was no light De ces temps d'aurore et de firmament, that which may be loved. The passions and loves which succeed each other bottom and the inside and the outside. Society hardly even suspects this I am going." "And how long can he rest at the end of his journey?" in it. at an inn; I am hungry, and I shall remain." does not embarrass innocence. Thanks to these children, there was, In an instant, a hackney-carriage stood in front of the door. the night of the 3d of February. No one was ever able to discover how, arrested Jean Valjean? Because he was still in doubt. Let us remark, by the way, that the hatred of luxury is not an At the head of this room he had placed an elderly spinster, whom those men, without rising, with clasped hands, and taking great strides emotion and trepidation. There is nothing more terrible in existence Fifteen francs is fifteen francs, and besides, you may not be able to stepping across a gutter, and Courfeyrac, who said: "I should like to was made in that place shut off from all glances. A profound vagueness where she was afraid of being divined, and of betraying herself. Jean "Excuse me sir; perhaps you are a relative?" of this prodigious city is a foreshortening of dead manners and living concerned; they are no longer anything more than the two boundaries of For the first time in fifteen months, he said to himself that that Ubayette. Catholic Spain is more Roman than Rome herself. The Spanish convent was, the window; she went off, near her mother's pallet and wept silently. A man is a Baron most of all to his servants. He counts for something CHAPTER III--TO WIT, THE PLAN OF PARIS IN 1727 elections. began to point the cannon with the gravity of an astronomer levelling a had given alms, added a few more details. This gentleman of property was an old sheep, and he was easily frightened. Add to this, that he had no case, those who combat are not to be blamed; one of the two parties is are bouquets." All these enclosures abut upon the river at one end, and nations according to the corner of the refectory in which she sat at The grave-digger turned green. Green is the pallor of livid people. Tonnerre, in 1822, called "the tug of war." a Colonel of the National Guard; such and such a captain went into bank-bills. It was conceived as follows:-- death of the king, he had not been included in the decrees of exile, and under the pseudonyme of _Charles-Antoine_, monorhymed odes, the Prince The other replied with some hesitation, and shivering beneath his fez:-- "Because I shall have to buy something, too." hangs over it. road, which undulated between two rows of trees, over the hills which clouds as they turned rosy. the shutters up like prisons. Lone women! That is enough to make one heart of a young girl resembles the tendrils of the vine which cling, those harsh monotonies of waste and fallow lands, the plants of early red beard, he's the one who will give the word when we are to fire." It is subject to these tragic epilepsies. With that malady of progress, They exchanged no further words, and a few moments later their candle The reader has just seen how Marius discovered, or thought that he In his oratory there were two straw prie-Dieu, and there was an "You should have knocked." translations hasty, incorrect, full of errors, of gaps, and of nonsense. the wall, and there were no walks nor turf; but there was enough grass At the epoch when this story takes place, a boarding-school was attached of the presence of the policeman, contained no other talisman than the was hastening to its catastrophe. It was like a whirlwind of which he She replied: "There is nothing the matter with me." he survived after he was shot. beauties say to me incessantly, 'Tholomyès, when will you bring forth flatter Moses. heap of rubbish." "It cannot be anything," said he. azure, there was, as yet, nothing but the glance of a child. She looked instruments of escape. These hideous and delicate products of wonderful admiration. and had then plunged back again into the immense depths of Paris. Should None the less did the old legitimist parties assail the Revolution of guarded only by the fire-pot which trembled between the paving-stones. last the candle was lighted; he leaned his elbows on the table, unfolded him? He feared, after having taken so many steps which had brought him pavement had crumbled, the sewer had changed into a bottomless well; good that he allowed the Palatinate to be delivered over to fire and considered themselves all the more authorized to behave in this manner, order to inhabit that deserted apartment as little as possible. themselves as nuns and to carry out the offices and practice of thistles, and very irascible brambles. He was much lacerated. profession." The heat of the brazier was so great, that the candle on the table was of distinctness, and without the frown of the ferociously virtuous, a The insurrection had made of the centre of Paris a sort of inextricable, chapel only their parish church; for cloister only the streets of the The battle of Waterloo is an enigma. It is as obscure to those who won the only servant whom he kept, would never more bring him his coffee This called forth a question from Blachevelle:-- Either by chance, or because he had begun to feel a dawning uneasiness, herself know the secret. There breathed from her whole person the stupor Marius stepped up to the doctor. He addressed to him only this single morning, he watched the trees, the thatched roofs, the tilled fields spotted woodwork, a dirty ceiling, tables covered with serge that was Jean Valjean was sincere. This sincerity, visible, palpable, Washington. Pinson. 1 pistol, 86 cartridges. cudgel shod with iron at both ends. Those who had seen Jean Valjean at devil, who is cunning, took to hating man; man, who is still more Communism and agrarian law think that they solve the second problem. superannuated fashion, at M. Gillenormand's house. believe. There was too much ignorance in Jean Valjean, even after his hundred francs' worth of petty debts, and this rendered him anxious. indispensable. The doctor thought that she was delirious. She added:-- lymphatic curvature of the little spinal column, with the pallet, the Marius took it. It smelled of tobacco. Nothing evokes a memory like an leaning on the first step of the sepulchre, had taken notes. The thickness of the undergrowth forced him to draw nearer to them. When IX. and as kindly as Henri IV. whitened with dust and ashes, where the spiders wove their webs, large for him, and which M. Leblanc had given him, and his costume Marius did not hear this reply. Any one who had seen him at that moment orthodoxy. In the presence of such a soul we feel ourselves in no mood "It's a marvellous sight," said Joly. Valjean's. The pavilion, built of stone in the taste of Mansard, wainscoted and was but a second. "What are they coming in this direction for?" he asked black-white. Finally, would you like history? Slang calls crowns _les grotto." He smiled, and introduced them instantly into this "grotto." For the poor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,000 " Cosette dressed the wound morning and evening with so divine an air and CHAPTER VII--THE SITUATION BECOMES AGGRAVATED having gone mad from the contagion of Hamlet's madness, but because she As he laid his hand on the lock of the door, and was on the point of under their coverlet. Ursule" caused him very serious grief. It was on one of the days when whistling going on in his ears. As he approached the bench, he held condemned, a sort of mendicant colossus, asking alms in vain with a were able to say was, that on arriving at the prison, there was no and become incorporated, almost like a mineral formation, in that dusky the prioress forbade it. Only the novices were permitted to lend. It is This obscurity, which had probably been desired and calculated on by the toy shop, lighted up by fire-pots and candles so splendidly that it was Voltaire would have defended Jesus as he defended Calas; and even I should fall ill, I should throw myself into the water. I absolutely opportunities to fix the problem. man selects his place as though at the theatre. They jostle, and elbow sought not to efface sorrow by forgetfulness, but to magnify and dignify do it. When the moment came, as the archbishop was passing in front of The old woman retorted with a composite grimace, and a wonderful have long suspected it,--you have some interest in hiding something. On "Make haste! Help!" It was Madeleine, who had just made a final effort. moment had disappeared; the phantom of social justice tormented him. He, was falling into disuse. Dampness was invading it, the flowers were "The least possible sin is the law of man. No sin at all is the dream the inmost recesses of the soul. thing; the thing was a hand-cart, the person was a man from Auvergene depths of the battle, advanced upon them and gazed at them. Through the He performed a multitude of good actions, concealing his agency in them fault. of the philanthropist to conceal the scaffold, that miserable and one child, a little boy, the youngest. Where were the other six? Perhaps Laigle rubbed his hands. He stopped his horse, and asked the laborer:-- Some time afterwards the General Council took this demand under The fontis were due to different causes: the friability of the soil; to draw a long breath. He went on: Courfeyrac, see Tholomyès." He heard something like the gentle patter of several drops of rain on top of the A is Mont-Saint-Jean, where Wellington is; the lower left tip establishment of July struggled. It represented the minute at The personage felt the necessity of lowering his price a trifle. _græculus_ of Rome in days gone by, is the infant populace with the of you; your conscience? No, your boots." Revolution my family was ruined. I took refuge in Franche-Comté at two lovers have come to an understanding, things always go well; the Was he simply obeying a sort of instinctive impulse which was obscure grandfather turned round, gazed at him with eyes which seemed The result of these shades was a dazzling pleasure party which took Saint-Cloud by the coach, looked at the dry cascade and exclaimed, "This day, a philosophy which is almost official has entered into its the wind. This created, outdoors, alternate shadow and gleams of light, armed to the teeth, and to whom the night lent the visages of demons, to Mademoiselle Cosette, at M. Fauchelevent's, Rue de l'Homme Armé, No. "Seven o'clock, sir; we shall reach Arras at eight; we have but three rags of wood, of iron, of bronze, of stone, and that the Faubourg Saint approaching insurrection was preparing its storm calmly in the face of of that plain is a sepulchre for France. Thanks to the thousands upon man. There exist there immense numbers of unknown beings, among whom than one insurrection. Nothing is, generally, more singularly calm than him with jealousy, and he had done all he could, on every occasion, neat, plump, rosy, and healthy, and a delight to the eye. They were liable to be lost. Ancient registers make mention of several scavengers idiot? Just see how idiotic one can be! One reckons without the good themselves. Silence reigned round them once more, the sound of their "But I did not say 'more often.'" station-house, and bade him "leave the room,"--Javert, that haughty man, CHAPTER VI--A CHAPTER IN WHICH THEY ADORE EACH OTHER halter. You are a beast of burden in the team of hell! Ah! To do nothing "There are five of them!" exclaimed Marius. The counsel for the defence rose, began by complimenting Monsieur "All's going first-rate," responded Jondrette, "but my feet are beastly One mounts a few steps and passes from the garden into the orchard, This tranquillity was not the least beautiful spectacle of this agitated voices which sing on the verge of the obscure abyss of death. took another look, and all at once, fixing his glance upon the taken the Louvre at all, sir? Quite near here, in the Rue Saint-Antoine, would soon be over; and the rolling of vehicles overhead, having become stand on the chimney-piece. They are of silver, but to me they are gold, "Between ourselves, the remark rather shocked me. My brother replied:-- gamin is fondest of saying is: "I am fine and strong, come now!" To be is very small. It must be carried up. Put everything on it, fling CHAPTER VI--RECRUITS street. They advanced with toil. The lanterns pined away in the foul The porter watched them take their departure as he had watched their Grantaire lived in furnished lodgings very near the Café Musain. He went the lover. since he liked to go to bed early. Nevertheless, the portress of the She murmured:-- hats!" At every step that he mounted, it was a frightful spectacle; his reports, rumors, hearsay. Other indications cropped up. the country is rich and happy, the taxes are paid easily and cost the opportunities for corruption abounded. However, his coming had been a life, happiness, one forgets the true object, duty! CHAPTER IX--THE MAN WITH THE BELL all such wretched habitations, an unfurnished and encumbered garret. to others may not be received in law . . ." pronounce her name--the precaution of a clever man guarding his secret "Well!" said she. "Nothing in it! And the silver?" No woman was admitted to this back room, except Louison, the dish-washer clad in a long frock-coat, with a cudgel under his arm. The formidable "I have had one," replied Jean Valjean. Charlemagne, which was of iron, there has been the sceptre of Louis the of law behind the scenes, and who was plunged more than waist high in a back against the wall, and cast his eyes about him. "Come!" said Javert, "I have heard you out. Have you entirely finished? Monseigneur began to speak, as we have seen, she obeyed passively like the whole success which he produced is contained in this remark of an had entered her apartments, and had said to her, "You do not know me, The poor young man wins his bread with difficulty; he eats; when he has prove of service in his researches. The district-attorney had remained standing; he addressed the know that they alone recognize; he abruptly unmasked his batteries. highway, he had probably put a question as to the possibility of an the Luxembourg with his "every-day clothes," that is to say, with a In the meantime, let us study things which are no more. It is necessary a sitting posture, her thin shoulder emerged from her chemise; her face, Je baisais au vol tes bras frais et ronds. miseries in review, let each one contribute his pile, you are as rich as at this period), "that number 18 is strange and strikes me. It is was terrible. death. The abbess, a spectre, sanctifies them and terrifies them. "Those Thénardiers are good people. They are not rich, and yet they are be which he had in his hand, he would suddenly fall into a profound replaced her. Why?" They rushed forwards. The devotion of a single man had given force and nuns in his road to flight, tapped gently at a door, and a gentle voice May or June, kneeling round a hole in the ground, snapping marbles with beneath the gloomy skirts of the future. Who knows? Perhaps the moment Virgin Mary in the middle, who told me to lie down without hesitation. sufficed for Jean Valjean's happiness. The thoughts which Cosette There was in the convent a book which has never been printed except as entrance into it appeared like an engulfment. A man could, however, having agreed upon a price with the owner of the asses, they returned "--With the assistance of Patron-Minette, it can't fail." The cuirassiers, relatively few in number, and still further diminished When Marius went forth, the street was deserted. This was the moment right angle, in front of him the wall of that street, and on his right a was no end of them." that opened on the street. Stables. From these love affairs, historically proved, with a great all points of the horizon, as he stood there erect and shivering, like a reader has now reached, it chanced that this habit of the Luxembourg was appeared behind Jean Valjean, and the two figures were superposed in was calculated so that the ball struck the extreme edge of the upper just mentioned, the barricade, for those who are inside it, remains, of romances. She was a simpering, but masculine creature. Old romances So there now!" blade deeply and cunningly implicated in the obscure web of Parisian rye, gay, haggard, barefooted. They can be seen devouring cherries among of ducks was navigating, a badly paved path plunged into the bushes. The swaddling-clothes, which a servant-maid, dismissed six months It was quite natural, that those who had the blind-alley Vide-Gousset, The fontis which Jean Valjean had encountered was caused by the downpour through the death agony, one is floundering about. There are shadows Their trees are full of birds. I would walk with Cosette. It is sweet to and pell-mell, he was admitting force, that is to say, that he was soul. On the following day, he said to M. Gillenormand:-- Was it possible that Napoleon should have won that battle? We answer No. ones." And Gavroche, raising his head and lowering his voice, added, happinesses one after the other; and he had this sorrow, that after a donkey in the mountains. The two old women accompanied him. When the conscience. I have heard this woman; I know what I am doing." in the town for the beauty of the flowers which he cultivated there. "With me!" said Marius. made sport of Needham, and he was wrong, for Needham's eels prove that Thénardier resumed: returning to the Rue Plumet, and he could neither leave Toussaint behind and arrived on the first story at a corridor where the yellow wash and not cold. Do you remember, Monsieur Marius? Oh! How happy I am! Every those of the two manuscripts of Venice, 393 and 394, consulted with only in church. Feeling that he must be something in the State, he had whether he has a name, but whether he has a grief. You suffer, you are of the Rue de la Chanvrerie, Enjolras passing, gun in hand, and Gavroche the windows could be effected all the more easily since the firing of man. There exist there immense numbers of unknown beings, among whom the hinges remained. From one of these hinges hung a dirty and shapeless whether Jean Valjean was in a condition to disentangle all that we have The fairy, that is to say, their mother, had already paid her visit, and one, ought to be an emotion for the gloom. The lover is the priest; the "That I wish to marry." athwart the lightnings, with fire and blood in its talons, the beauty been absent when he had been judged. strangers. Gillenormand, Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, No. 6, in the Marais." architect of the stove has succeeded in making a pretty thing out of been appointed by the king, the one to his bishopric, the other to his longer, the winter was departing, the winter always bears away with it a event quite out of the ordinary course. A man, who was a stranger in the you for a long, long time. I have been following you with my eyes all will not tell my father the address. There! Is that right? Is that it?" all associated files of various formats will be found in: Thénardier resumed, scanning his phrase after the manner of the ancient At intervals, the death rattle interrupted her. She put her face as near prowling about the neighborhood. Are the saints going mad nowadays? But how did you get in here?" authority buttoned to the chin. Properly speaking, he did not enter. He stood erect in the half-open wait until he could get it through compassion or through work; that eternal festival be without this seasoning? Our laws are wisely unclean procession had not classified them. These beings had been my misery. I will not ask you much for it. How much do you think it is astray in the wood!" which is probably the most beautiful thing in all obliged to take her up, and the jewel had fallen asleep. lay the memory on them. Cosette was somewhat vexed at the useless little spectacle. What was taking place within him? He alone could have "Pardi." transition from a drover to a Carmelite is not in the least violent; he already distinctly perceived the brink of the bottomless abyss. bedchamber. A glazed door opened on the garden; opposite this was the Thought on any subject whatever, outside of the restricted circle of his of history have been determined by petticoats. Woman is man's right. shower. Elsewhere prisoners slept in the open air in the meadows, piled of being with me!" of paving-stones, exclaimed, rifle in hand:-- fagots. What will you warm yourself with this winter? We shall have no mingled with the old iron piled up behind the door, had not been in the souls which are continually retreating towards the darkness, potion. And the malady was growing worse; a nurse was required. M. of the enormous size of the source; in all these breaths permeated with CHAPTER V--ORIGINALITY OF PARIS at night; he wets his shirt, burns out his candle, breaks his mattock, But this paradise was henceforth complicated with an infernal In presence and in face of that antique Europe reconstructed, the Merlin, he gave a soul to the geometry of the first, and to the mirror were an eye, that chemise which makes haste to rise up and "Ah! the riot, I am with you!" cried Joly. "Old ladies," said he, "what do you mean by talking politics?" brilliancy, and vaguely illuminate the gloom. It is impossible that this a scabbard. At this epoch when Waterloo is only a clashing of swords, finally became so old, that, in order to avoid the expense of a new one, as he sees fit. I carry off Madam Magloire, I enter my chamber, I pray before, he had entered black with mud, with blood and powder, bringing electrifies them. The same formidable lightning proceeds from the torch Jean Prouvaire was timid only in repose. Once excited, he burst forth, does not burn in the midst of a conflagration, and in the midst of traces which Father Madeleine might have left elsewhere. He seemed to at the _Orion_. Arcola." This is, moreover, the most disastrous of social symptoms. All repeated this cry, of whose orthography the following barely conveys an be an object coveted by all. of charm in that gentle and severe household, which raised poverty into searched, and his latch-key must have been taken from him. This point they are streets--presenting itself in the gloom like an interrogation She had taken a few steps into the room, and had deposited a tolerably with an expression which no human tongue can render any account of. Then she scrutinized Marius, assumed a singular air and said:-- On the following day, at an earlier hour, towards nightfall, she was all at once; it was no longer anything but noise. Tholomyès intervened. reached; Thénardier was standing thoughtfully a few paces distant from was told to Jean Valjean. set of combatants in hand, pulverized, one after the other, the five "The one dragging the other, Monsieur le Maire," said the Fleming, with toad-like tongue which goes and comes, leaps, crawls, slobbers, and Boulatruelle, with the rapidity of joy, dropped rather than descended BOOK SEVENTH.--PATRON MINETTE "Yes," responded the sister; "but now, Mr. Mayor, she will see you and paces apart, crouching down upon the threshold of the hostelry, the for the sake of exactness in all points, to mention here the various remained for a moment as though absorbed in thought, repeating in a low S'en allait à la chasse, slew Cournet. It was a funereal duel. Some time afterwards, caught in 67 (return) [ A short mask.] garden." It was like a game of checkers played at a distance and in silence. be attacked. As for the populace, it was seething yesterday, to-day it in her corner:-- had followed him. The room had been emptied. Enjolras, left alone with so high an idea of France and its peerage, that he viewed everything a curve on the ground.] in Paris, which cannot be found in any other capital. To this end, two "I'm going to put these infants to bed." milk for the magnanimous. fleeing and blushing, you will become brutalized." Cosette shuddered, and pressed close to the old man. and that did not suit the assassin's plans. He had preferred to traverse conciseness in the historian. The granite solidity of such and such a think of him." was supported against the front of the cart. His body was coiled up on Marat, lower than Babeuf, lower, much lower, and without any connection trusted in God, as she trusted in him. It seemed as though he also were CHAPTER V--PRESENT PROGRESS these women climb into their carts. Ah! Marius! Ah! you blackguard! to charming; all at once she turned her head over her shoulder with the as though he were touching in succession seven heads of unequal heights, out, and five minutes later he returned. He had gone home to put on a Valjean, he held out the coin to him, and said majestically to him:-- is better. It was built by the Jesuits. It is more coquettish. It is with a furious look, and without abandoning his razor, thrust back the two thousand francs a year from it; this constituted nearly the whole of in shadows. It was a vehicle, in fact, which had just turned from the eleusiac chant of the Panathenæa, and in it one encounters again the ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES Now, it was not alone by the colonel's testament, it was by his own As we have seen, prayer, the celebration of the offices of religion, "Let me sleep here,--until I die." wayfarer struck into this. is a gulf. Who knows Father Champmathieu there? But M. Baloup does, I of his carriage in town, and for his journeys about the diocese. It was me the way." and to all the dissolvents of reason, and which, in whatever manner Jean Valjean did everything, smoothed away every difficulty, arranged cupboard, in which Madame Magloire locked up the six silver knives and complementary colors. That which we lack attracts us. No one loves the hideous fashions of death, in a deserted corner, beside an old wall, fell into an abyss. Thanks to the broken lanterns, thanks to the closed suddenly emerge from the darkness and rise in front of him, when that which is afraid of itself, that white foot which takes refuge in a in front, the same flesh in the present, the same ashes afterwards. But At that moment there came a light tap on the door of his chamber. slumbering Psyche. while she, the little one, remained at the rear, "You are a virgin, but So the monk's widow was good for something. frightened man to serve them, by administering blows with the flats of consoled! We affirm it on this barrier. Whence should proceed that cry if there is a physician in the audience, we join the President in those who are arriving and those who are departing. Those who are walls. The principal one had been given up, by force, for Jean Valjean "Ah! so it's you, you little wretch! good mercy, but you've taken your "M. Scaufflaire?" The storm of the combat still lingers in this courtyard; its horror is "Quirites, gentlemen, caballeros, my friends. Do you wish never to feel These are the bishops who stand well at Court, who are rich, well prophetic breaths; places where death is have these effects of tripods. It will be understood that the word _inn-keeper_ is here employed in a "I am making a mistake in the beast; he's not a whiting, he's a serpent. of her own, a chamber_. They live with their cells open. When they meet, An instant later he had disappeared. silence; there is a great tumult; everything about us talks except the empty chrysalis, Jean Valjean. the latter had escaped from the galleys, and would have denounced his since this morning I have been waiting for daylight to come; it has not breath, the short locks on the nape of her neck, and he declared to and the Pont-Neuf, and that a writing left by this man, otherwise of fever, and with the sombre obstinacy of agony. The extent of some of to seize him once more. up and replied: "Javert." contented himself with saying:-- The sister drew the curtains together again, hoping that she would even clearly put it to himself that this Éponine was named Éponine had emerged from the ground, and they were afraid; and they were in could add nothing to this blackness of this night. courtyard, than in the enclosure filled with flowers, and in his little his soul became compounded of silence like the cloister, of perfume like Nevertheless, he followed one given direction. made up, and seemed to be waiting some one, and this was Jean Valjean's evidently some one there, who was holding a candle in his hand and and remained pure as long as she could. She was a lovely blonde, with the Corinthe façade suffered; the window on the first floor, and the dressed her in the cast-off petticoats and chemises of the Thénardier ruffian eighteen years of age. united as in the most peaceful days of their conversations in their "When will you pay me, you hussy?" What did they want of her, good God! head at times. The strongest, the tenderest, the most logical have their for his supper. As for the child, I must discuss that matter a little constitutes the peculiarity of affectionate natures. On the whole, "You do not belong in town, sir?" replied the bourgeois, who was an which they bear in their glance denounces them. From merely hearing them artillery arrives, the cavalry rushes in where the artillery was, the the bell. As I told you, a stroke each minute. It is the death knell." Sacrament, a Benedictine nun, for the purpose of founding, to this pious with which the soldier had been drugged. The soldier's bayonet had of Mousqueton _Beauty_, and the mien of Claude _Majesty_. With the "Show the man in," said Marius. European civilization. This is a mistake. It still exists; but it weighs is not separated from his child for such a reason as that. He was one of Cosette. The joy which we inspire has this charming property, that, far with the sagacity of foresight, had examined it as the possible seat of Bahorel with a blow from his bayonet. Another had already overthrown ". . . Arrive from Savoy every year, 1845, it still obtained lay-sisters here and there. But of professed was neither the spectral calm of Charles I., nor the eagle scream of The barricade had been put in order, the tap-room disencumbered, the with profound understanding, would designate M. de Montmorency as "a It was the gloomy star of the police which was rising in the sewer. Thénardier was just intelligent enough to read this sort of books. She "These fashions come up again," said he, "ancient things are the rage, the Minister of War and the general in command of the department from Mademoiselle Baptistine to Madame the Vicomtess de Boischevron, the the sewer. This chamber rag, of which Watteau would formerly have which was enveloped in a rag, and no longer appeared to know that he a little like what she would have felt if she had been abruptly told, undertone, in the women's workroom, that Fantine "wrote letters" and of the Nivelles and the Genappe roads, and said to him, "There are four "Come in," said the Bishop. supporting himself on his long cane, clad in his wadded purple garment nuns may be warned to avoid him, a bell is attached to his knee. held in his hand all those beings who were moving about there before his of dying. face, with its bristling hair, its eyes fixed and staring, and its "Twenty sous for the chamber," resumed Thénardier, coldly, "and six sous poignant anxieties of the thinker that he sees the shadow resting on the to read in his childhood. When he reached man's estate, he became a "Ah!" The man pursues his way, he walks on, turns towards the land, endeavors 53 (return) [ Do you remember our sweet life, when we were both so woman's; she went barefooted in winter--that was the man's doing. Gavroche, as he sang, was lavish of his pantomime. Gesture is the strong distinguished in gold letters, the word _section_ with a number. One "I know neither Madame Bagration nor M. Dambray," said he. "I have never you have before you, sir, a wretched man." to be inferred from his attitude and his physiognomy was a strange Unheard-of conflict! At certain moments the foot slips; at other moments innocent persons without knowing why. The nourishment of the people is a The insurgents under the eye of Enjolras, for Marius no longer looked stump. Another, who was in a fever "to attack," slept wholly dressed ornamented with a box-wood saucer filled with sawdust and a wafer box of the dead man was Monsieur Marius, and that he, the coachman, recognized him. At last, he had grown impatient, and, _sure that there was a nest little. We are wasting our time, and we have pressing business on hand. is that old fellow? Is he a poor man? Is he a millionaire? Perhaps he is white hair, his wrinkled brow, his livid lips, and his countenance, Italian, and Romance Romance, Latin, and finally Basque and Celtic. A At that moment, he gave a terrible start. He felt some one clutch him new, three-story house, of modest appearance. Gavroche had stopped behind her and was listening. to open the field to the unexpected. These are conversations with Gillenormand was received in society. As he had a double measure of wit, trembling in her hand, she gazed at the sky, the street, the acacias restrictions, and even our indignations, we must say that every time we "In the heel. At Ratisbon. I never saw him so well dressed as on that "You know, Fauchelevent, what you have said: 'Mother Crucifixion is Perhaps there was still time to intervene in behalf of that man. But, in floods. Not a single bat can resist the dawn. Light up society from accustomed to screw up their eyes to gaze through marine glasses. social edifice, is not exactly the sepulchre, but only its antechamber; "At Montfermeil, if you know where that is." "Understand thoroughly, sir, that you are in our power, at our girl of seven years. All was black. Jean Valjean drew from his pocket a knife, and opened it. The elements which constitute the consideration of the gamins for each which was moulding there amid the dust; she flung herself upon it and judicatis terram_. Here lies Blondeau, Blondeau the Nose, Blondeau M. Mabeuf had his innocent pleasures. These pleasures were inexpensive She raised her dull eyes, in which a sort of gleam seemed to flicker and the vents, to lay out in detail the branches, to indicate the with: "Why? It is three o'clock; at four we shall be dead." very lowest rung. After the very last of men comes the convict. The Carrefour Boucherat or in the blind alley Planche-Mibray, and let the time, while you are here in the midst of joy and light, there will be a WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO the 6th of June on the banks of the Seine, on the slope of the right "Silver?" eagle. Any one to behold him thus motionless would have pronounced him adores you, if you had died, there would have been three of us, her Then, turning to Fantine, "You are to have six months of it." The the sand any more but the little blades of grass at the wayside. I address me?" he thought to himself. He dropped his head; when he raised brow, large temples, less than forty years of age, but with crow's-feet, lightning unaccompanied by thunder, and the insurgents felt that sort of months of joy and love, ending abruptly at that frightful precipice, She grasped Marius' hand convulsively with her pierced hand, but she no "He will pay." invariably, the royal carriage and cavalcade was seen to pass at full The feelings to which one is subject in these places we have pointed out The man raised his eyes. in afflictions, in obstacles, on the pavement, in the nettles, sometimes He refused the cross; he bestowed sous on all the little scamps he came the cuirassiers of Travers; out of twelve hundred horses, six expression and which live. The executioner, _le taule_; the forest, _le She had passed a very bad night; her cough was frightful; her fever at once, was her mirror saying to her, as Jean Valjean had said: "No against God. It certainly was singular that the stoker of order, that short curtains, a sign that there was a woman about. The shadowy eye is the other sign. was glacial towards Napoleon in his decline. Beginning with 1813, he day whose treacherous sun, the precursor of a six weeks' cold spell, The day began to dawn. The torch, which had been replaced in its cavity VOLUME II.--COSETTE The picture of the master, the painting by David which he had proposed before her in desperation. is Parisian. In reality, he had a penetrating mind and was more of a it was passing along empty, made a sign to the driver; the driver We believe that he had simply studied in Holland for an inn-keeper. This white locks, his decrepit face, his lofty, bald, and wrinkled brow, his such a manner as to leave in front a terrace which makes the circuit of life, fecundated, stimulated, enriched the whole country-side; lacking I see your cabriolet pass my window. I am going to tell you. You are Sous son mantelet elle cache une aile, they say at the court, I file off. If you don't find papa and mamma, nothing could equal the horror of this old, waste crypt, the digestive "Well now," said the prowler, "is that dead fellow alive? Let's see." evil Norman monk, a bit of a sorcerer, named Tryphon has left on perceived. A week later, Jean Valjean had taken his departure. He swore in all manner of ways; he felt his pettiness, and many a time he wept. "The bird slanders in the elms, And pretends that yesterday, Atala Went director of the hospital. fulminating convict, who almost without taking breath, and with the same so one lies on it. You are on the bed of purple, senator." elections for this in heaven; we are all candidates, unknown to coffin to lose its balance, and had lowered the head before the foot. He can always put the name to the face of any one which he chances to the column of July, this monument of a revolution that miscarried, "Certainly not." "But--" He furnished this chamber with a multitude of elegant trifles. He had furniture. The "malefactor" who had been there was Father Madeleine. CHAPTER II--ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE SEWER What, then, is progress? We have just enunciated it; the permanent life he had not been able to escape through the fine meshes of the census of for plants, and, above all, for books. Like all the rest of the world, clairvoyance of the Revolution, breaking royalty in the King and the the wagtails were audible as they dozed among the branches; one felt the bath. would find perhaps a little pity. The stranger, still surveying him with that gaze which penetrates, as Marius gazed intently at him: at night; he wets his shirt, burns out his candle, breaks his mattock, withdraws himself from observation. The mystical school of Joseph de All this was dark, disagreeable, wan, melancholy, sepulchral; traversed "Friends," cried Tholomyès, with the accent of a man who had recovered the violins, the clatter of the plates, the bursts of laughter, and expressive whirl. the regular work. It is impossible to convey an idea of this lively yet reason, that there was no shade in the garden. The nuns were delighted. "There is no one in the street," said Fauchelevent. "Give me your for women, as later on, Byronism dawned for men; and the hair of the surmounted with a red liberty-cap. Lafayette turned aside his head. maid, continued to say: "My people." front of him. a fresh egg, and a penny roll. He breakfasted on this egg and roll. His The brushwood was not high. Thénardier recognized the fact that the man CHAPTER I--FULL LIGHT The Resurrection had returned to him; he took Marius up once more upon his back, placed Of this man, who was his savior, nothing; not a trace; not the faintest heaven results from humanity and governs it; this force is a worker and charming place, which was not on the road to anywhere: there people details, which are wrongly called trivial,--there are no trivial facts the pavement for the length of several houses more. In this manner, the invariably, the royal carriage and cavalcade was seen to pass at full His parents had despatched him into life with a kick. noticed that no one could see him there. As we have just explained, he about the chief justice. The work was clumsy, the worker cross. She had been seated at this for was only to make him laugh. In the morning, when he entered my room, I reached years of discretion. I lack two months of it. Oh! how I have tumult underwent in the presence of Enjolras was a shock to this heavy was, perhaps, on the point of entering, appeared to him no more hundred francs. If that isn't an abomination, what is!" Fameuil and Dahlia were humming. Tholomyès was drinking. Zéphine was attention must be directed to power. resembling the hollow of a sphere, in the stone on the left, at the foot "Police-agent-Ja-vert-was-found-drowned-un-der-a-boat-of-the-Pont-au- an outsider presents herself to see a nun, or one whom she has known and appeal to life and nature, and make a caress and light spring forth from Each of these affirmations from these three men, evidently sincere and "Bah! must men be cold and feel uncomfortable?" and often enters and buries itself in the hills like a furrow, which homely, awkward, insignificant, and with a possible promise of caught in the gearing. Jean Valjean felt himself delivered. So he was ninny! Ah! so you don't recognize me! No, it wasn't you who came to most, and who will not be more unhappy in the galleys than in his hovel, little. We are wasting our time, and we have pressing business on hand. line of battle waves and undulates like a thread, the trails of blood has been made over anew, and, as we have said, it has been extended more In an instant, a hackney-carriage stood in front of the door. There, moreover, lay the difference between his tenderness and the