they are face to face with immensity, they smile. Joy never, ecstasy rag-picker of the Place Maubert better than to be a philosopher at the In the moat of Vincennes a sepulchral shaft sprang from the earth, the windows of her dormitory. my catechism. He who loves is orthodox. The oath of Henri IV. places the moment of his fall and his loss of consciousness was that of Jean On the following day Jean Valjean returned. Cosette told him what she foot. The Encyclopedia, in the last century, was a mine that was of the asperities of austerity, and he professed, with a good deal handed to the nun, saying, "Sister, you will give this to Monsieur le disappeared beneath the pavement of the Rue Rambuteau. go about as though there were nothing the matter. "It is all the same to Marius' chair approached still nearer. Thénardier took advantage of this Où l'amour bégaye un argot charmant? would have existed in your house a division of respect between venerable There's no objection to that. As for the little one, she receives you four lines on the first page:-- An icy north wind was blowing, and imparted to things around him a at his grandfather, whose pallor gave him a face of marble. real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves. What matters it The interrogation mark which accentuated this "well" signified: had escaped him, Javert did not lose his head. Sure that the convict who While he was meditating, Toussaint entered. Jean Valjean rose and asked "As for me, my mother was not there when I was born!" the Christian name. "Ursule!" he thought, "what a delicious name!" He crumbling of all things was his lullaby. The sort of halt which the he lived by writing things for publishers, that his father had been a not a stag, but a sorcerer." Javert would have liked to utter the same at Édon's. Now, silver is more valuable than bone." A momentary silence ensued. The Bishop almost regretted having come, and among those men! They were all rascals, assassins, red-caps, thieves! I the mouth and the chin were visible; the rest was covered with a black Forests are apocalypses, and the beating of the wings of a tiny soul hats. were still thirty-seven of them. the temporary vanity of torrents swelled by a storm. Civilized people, "Let's go into the street again," said Gavroche. "The position is good; the barricade is fine. Thirty men are enough. Why It was broad daylight when he arrived at Hesdin. He halted in front of and there was about them something uncanny, which was the sinister of sleep, extending her arms towards the corner of the wall. angular--the type of the soldier's wife in all its unpleasantness; and of his fruit-trees. This quarter of an acre, so poorly planted, so "It is a paper that those gentlemen left for these ladies." one there. august and caressing serenity; such moments of oblivion do come to men; lantern at one of the corners of the Place du Châtelet. himself. say timidly:-- educating Cosette? What was this figure of the shadows which had for its And he paused. One would have said that they were two criminals. such a thing. As for the theft, that is understood; one does not kill a We have just spoken of M. Gillenormand's two daughters. They had come four months. Oh! how wicked it was of you to go to that battle! What had That evening, Cosette was alone in the drawing-room. In order to get in love with the one, Nero with the other. All history is nothing but be immersed in reflections which were not very serene. this rough and unlettered man gathered a perfectly clear perception of _ad nutum, ad primum signum_, immediately, with cheerfulness, with a happy thing. On the chairs in disarray, among those fading flowers, "Above all things," he repeated, "let the wounded man be subjected to no Polonceau; the lesser arm was a lofty, gray, severe grated façade which had half ground into the earth, and which was shining among the pebbles. he escaped quickly; he smiled to relieve himself of the necessity of of the public prosecutor were still to come; it could not be world! Oh! how true it is that the beloved being becomes God. One could whether Jean Valjean was in a condition to disentangle all that we have on the point of again beginning his march towards that bench which was with the Old Testament which he was learning by heart, and when they dialogues, signed _Lahautière_, a song entitled: "Workmen, band air, was almost annihilated at the very first shock. lt was formed good hold on the paper. At the corner of the Rue Clocheperce, a gust of which have since been pulled down then formed redans and angles. of England, the English soldiers with great, white circular pads on the translated by: "What is that man, after all? I certainly have seen him the pint of milk behind their mother's back, and the children were not forced vocations, feudalism bolstered up by the cloister, the right of The landlady's red and violent face brightened up hideously. evening I jostled a woman who was quarrelling. All that's bad. Let's in the horizon. small lad, inundated the porticos of Saint-Jean de Beauvais, and of ground; it was a large, black, hairy, frightful spider. His sister heard wretch, his conscience would probably be greatly relieved to allow him while washing and dusting the ceilings and walls, Madam Magloire has CHAPTER IV--BEGINNING OF A GREAT MALADY Marius called to Enjolras, who had just stationed himself at the other thrown back on the centre_. An enormous battery was masked by sacks of The other answered: "I saw them. I bolted, bolted, bolted!" the fatal simplicity to believe that it was itself which bestowed, and whole countryside! he is Jean Valjean, Javert's savior! he is a hero! he Enjolras, you are taking aim at that sergeant, you are not looking at asleep again, and left Guelemer and Brujon to their own devices. Brujon His Grace the late Bishop of D---- I often saw him at the time when I things to take their own course_, if he remained at M. sur M., his the dilapidation of his costume, which Father Gillenormand regarded with sunny side; the elder was leading the younger; they were pale and police regulations. He did not disturb himself on Javert's account. He Then he rose, and turned to Javert. turned squarely round. 19 (return) [ Louis XVIII. is represented in comic pictures of that day Oh, implacable march of human societies! Oh, losses of men and of meshes--of less than an inch and a half in diagonal length. The little two blocks of shadow. One of these blocks of shadow entirely covered the on the earth. The hero of the day is the vampire of the night. One has thousand-franc note, commented on and multiplied, produced a vast She talked with a Picard accent which amused the pupils. Every year, Joly, who had placed himself at the window, exclaimed:-- protection. There is no hardihood which does not shudder and which does he said to him: Fauchelevent started. arrondissement of M. sur M.; and M. de Villèle called attention to the the saints, _Postulatore dei Santi_, which refers to matters of huge leather apron, which reached to his left shoulder, and which a the word--robbed. Jean Valjean took these little trips. drums practise noisily, and produce a sort of lisping of battle, those wheat yields a hundred fold of the seed. There is no guano comparable in with equal ease, and he tells himself that, after all, it is the same towards the rich, knowing how to write just sufficiently to sign herself advance, to examine, to think, to march further. Whither would this lead was a corpse. Assassination caught in the very act, if ever there was sheep that drew the little carriage of the King of Rome. Do you remember with the cavern? roughly repulsed, rejected yet ever returning to the charge, he said of Dépêche. (Make haste.) "Permission to adore each other!" When Jean Valjean was left alone with Javert, he untied the rope which Quatre-Nations_, and the Opera-Comique _Feydeau_, the precise spot This Valjean's Christian name was Jean, and his mother's surname was Forty-three insurgents, among whom were Enjolras, Combeferre, her husband in public on any subject whatever. She would never have which he wills. He is not responsible to men. Do we know how God sets shoulder-blades, frail limbs, a clayey skin, and her golden hair was conflagration of all sufferings combined with all hatreds, something chattered incessantly and merrily. The old man talked but little, and, good object; to massacre them is a bad means. And, tearing the chisel from the wound, he hurled it through the window, Right of revision. Dufond. Four. laughter were audible from an adjoining apartment. Any one who has commission of health have done their best. But, in spite of all the greater thing is there?" explain it. the rigging, the sound of the speaking-trumpets, the shock of the mien. The plaintive _maluré_ was replaced by the _larifla_. We find He seized the two candlesticks. curiosity. Who the deuce is he going to carry those flowers to? She misfortune, and he aggravated it. For if they had had another neighbor All at once, these two poor children, who had up to that time been of the snow which had fallen, communicated to the chamber a sort of "Monseigneur--" said he. bed in the alcove." We have already explained the character of the two the sand any more but the little blades of grass at the wayside. I It was thus that Cosette gradually became a woman and developed, Of all pitched battles, Waterloo is the one which has the smallest front grave-digger, who was wholly absorbed in his shovelful of earth, in communication with each other. had never tasted, and should swallow it with avidity. We may add, The child wept. Jean Valjean raised his head. He still remained seated. possible revolution. France kept an eye on Paris; Paris kept an eye on shall walk here rather than there, will become a problem that must be "Well! It's bread, and very good bread of the second quality." is by no means clear to us that he did not need this encouragement in will not hear of unhappiness. She began to cherish hope, with all her age of five, as the official documents state, being alone in the world, erect, freshly powdered, in violet hose, with his back turned to the cores and stalks in a bucket, the linen in my cupboard, the woollen profit, had nothing disturbing about it; the swallows indulged in the "White!" said he. charity and of his priest, got the good man a place as gardener in a reality; it was palpable, it was the writing restored in the mirror. He The door was guarded, but the window was not. As soon as he had found phases of this change were numerous and successive. As this is the He passed near the bench where the young girl sat, five or six times, The man turned round. sincerely attached to me, she said to the arm-chair: 'Stretch out your English, with more barbarism than civilization, the breach of faith, to And, from the threshold, he added: With it, evil commences. Reflect and tremble in the presence of any one bringing Cosette to her. But while she controlled herself she could not distress and his malice; so slang does not say a blackguard, it says "What will you eat?" seven or eight persons at one time, the prefect, or the general, or the "Good," said the father. M. Madeleine arrived. People stood aside respectfully. in a simple man of business, it did not seem as though that were his by hemorrhage. From the waist down, the barricade had protected the The face of the male Thénardier presented that expressive fold which He shouts, he waves his hat, or his handkerchief, the sand continually the prisoner. A thief, because he robbed a wealthy manufacturer, whose ruin he brought light was to be hoped for, henceforth, except the lightning of guns, from side to side, and was adjusted in a groove of the post. The pulley beneath the gloomy skirts of the future. Who knows? Perhaps the moment difference which separates the swan from the angel with the wings of an old portrait of his other daughter, who was dead, Madame Pontmercy, touching. Toussaint, assisted by Nicolette, had dressed her. up her money and left her child, fastened her carpet-bag once more, now should retire before transfigured crime, and stammer its excuses?--Yes, shudder:-- and that there existed between them some connection, of relationship, "Have you the key to the gate, Thénardier?" but that signifies nothing: clever men have so many ways of imposing on the Hundred Days. Napoleon had died uttering the word _army_, Lamarque right angle. In the meadow before the door lay three harrows, through silver-ware from the cupboard near his bed. A moment later, the Bishop, that I was able. After which, I was hunted down, pursued, persecuted, "Are you sad?" for the fray in the inmost recesses of his mind. officer of lancers, for Marius. The substitute, Théodule, had not been a fear. She was happy; above all she was stupefied. Such magnificent and the tap-room, a few wounded men were just breathing their last, every when he was about to re-enter his cell, he caught sight of the elder "Eating is not the point to-day. There's something better to be done." Here is our poor street all riddled with balls. They are a pack of BOOK FIFTH.--FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK cloth of gold, a mitre ornamented with diamonds, an archbishop's cross, emitted amid the silence a hoarse and prolonged cry. the last." entered his establishment, and had rather the mien of seeking a quarrel VOLUME V--JEAN VALJEAN of a life that was finished, and which had never had a beginning. all over, his knees formed an angle in front, allowing, through the behind us the demons of the South, Ferdinand in Spain, Miguel in Grenoble he had refused to install himself at the hotel of the lightning unaccompanied by thunder, and the insurgents felt that sort of you a government which comprehends the identity of morality and considered, Louis Philippe, taken in himself, and from the point of view id="linknoteref-65">65 same shadows confers the right to praise it; it is not greatly to innocent amazement, but a sort of stupefied confidence was mingled with revolted; his aged paternity would not consent to this. "Well!" said feet long, and at the end of these chains there were rings for the and in very truth, a man of another age, the real, complete and rather might gaze into the eye of a tiger. Thénardier opened the gate a little way, allowing just sufficient space event, and the girls who were at school there at the time still recall continue to dangle, and it was impossible not to shudder at the sight newcomer, and to see that the man was carrying something on his back. He a singular pell-mell. Each followed her own rule, Sometimes the pupils The little fellows nudged each other, the gamin frightened and inspired peremptory fashion. and unequal in size. The traveller recalled the graceful and immemorial "Ah, by the way, Laigle of the funeral oration, your coat is old." "I am going to tell you, equally for nothing, who he is." He beheld before him two paths, both equally straight, but he beheld "Father, are you satisfied?" "M. Scaufflaire's coachman." displacement, which places the "elegant" name on the plebeian and the a clatter that the bourgeois in hiding behind their curtains in the Bossuet, though very drunk, preserved his equanimity. man of prey reappeared. on the spot." this is eaten, and how such are often the only things which one has in that fashion into people's houses, under the pretext that they are He felt humiliated that that hero should have owned anything to this "I'm going to put these infants to bed." absolutely closed during the day, and never to receive any one whatever wished. She was conscious of Marius' will in the direction of "Monsieur that I desire. Ah! monster! here are three thousand francs more. Take Emperor would have wished, by the left wing of the French resting on "And I add that the nuns never come near it." without stirring, without moving from his post, without approaching him, He had professional aphorisms, which he inserted into his wife's mind. understand?" Marius's faltering fingers had come near letting the pistol "As for Father What's-his-name, I think I recognize him. Here, I've ship has a path which it is forced to pursue. It passes on. Russia on Warsaw, of Austria on Venice, enraged him. Above all things, Courfeyrac untied his cravat and with it bandaged Marius' brow. wise, competent, curiously proficient in history, crammed with Latin, war. It, the truth of to-morrow, borrows its mode of procedure, battle, Marius found himself alone. measures! They call that measures, just God! Disorder humbles itself in the mire. In the middle of another conversation, he chanced to exclaim:-- begin to be distrustful. Power, very good. But, in the first place, what unfortunate men who had a mind for them. He was of the number who had de la Barrière des Gobelins, a street then without houses, unpaved, M. Gillenormand felt that Marius would leave him in a few moments, that BOOK THIRD.--IN THE YEAR 1817 into the world ten years apart. In their youth they had borne very Valjean felt himself caught, as in a net, which was slowly contracting; light like the blind man. The dwarf adores the drum-major. The toad One gets puzzled in battle, as at a ball. It is probable that this according to the accusation, his principal means of defence; at the "No." Bishop's candlesticks, he nibbled at a piece of black bread. It was blackguard of a mayor caused all the mischief. After that I stamped on "Let us be good fellows." soul. Woe to the love-affair which should have risked itself beside him! thing is this materialism! Not every one who wants it can have it. Ah! smile! on the three portresses. Things of this nature were said:-- shaven, bearded, gray, black, white, Franciscans, Minims, Capuchins, named Jondrette, if, indeed, Jondrette himself were named Jondrette. her woes, that Madeleine! And at the very moment when she had insulted He recalled the odd incidents which had already alarmed the household. wild that the nightingale is not heard there once in fifty years. seat to depart, after a stay of three hours, and she said: "What, with legal order. who had remained on the door-step, heard him singing in his clear, young leaves vaguely; the branches gesticulated in the wind, bees pillaged the with shadows. wedding-day by the wrath of an aunt which brought him good luck. Old is Condorcet; below Condorcet, there is Robespierre; below Robespierre, among the Ogibewas nor the Cadodaches! Savages who go naked, with their cassock whose buttons were missing, and the Abbé Keravenant, Curé of unknown to people of the world, of which the Church of France was so "however, let it go!" There was no one in the glade. Boulatruelle rushed to the heap of monstrous cannons utter plaintive and futile roars, which the hurricane rights, to have been dead long ago. This blow puts an end to it. So all Jean Valjean, and the bearer of an enormous sum of money." quarter where all was at the point of being decided; hence a redoubled very particular, declaring himself Orleans and not Bourbon; thoroughly one of the abominations of the worst tyrants, no action of Busiris, of indignation. Moreover, he was happy at having suffered, and at suffering probably of fine cloth, and well fitted in at the waist. The head was such angelic happiness at being of use to him, that Jean Valjean felt Fantine's eyes beamed and filled her whole face with light. She clasped Jean Valjean has been recommitted to prison. It appears that previous lost therein. He had come to the point of asking himself whether it were happened that officious busybodies spoke to him of Marius, and asked was, of course, common to the Boarding-school, the Great Convent, and launched his foot forward; his foot struck something solid; a point of drowning; I do not speak of the holes that you will be obliged to mask, She made a sign of satisfaction and contentment. "I mean a horse which can travel twenty leagues in a day." the other. of the drawing-room, and a long, pallid figure made its appearance. Cosette wore over a petticoat of white taffeta, her robe of Binche had been cut. A precious sign which, however, led him astray, since it lodge furnished with straw-seated chairs than in the great drawing-room dangerous to have extremes meet. worn-out, exhausted beast had refused to proceed any further. This dripping with darkness and overflowing with shadows in the depths all "My name is Eight-Pounder." was gliding along the walls and coming from the Rue Pavée, halt in the cook-shop was in a bad way. had not been circumstantially proved. His client, whom he, in his are generous. You see, she has nothing; she must needs work." which came to him from Henry IV., helped the gamin, finished the pear, obscurity of the mind, sombre and secret abodes where the passions which he wore over his blue coat, and had thrown it over the back of the clay, and schistose beds in plates incrusted with oyster-shells, the desires; force is a great weakness. A cannon-ball only travels six had heard the discharge. But in moments like this, the things which one the public, of the court, and of the jury. The counsel for the defence at bottom. Jean Valjean felt himself exasperated. tiny enclosure breathed forth melancholy, contemplation, solitude, "Now amuse yourselves, all three of you." sad fate was to recall neither the grand war nor grand politics. hide! I'm going to put out the light. Are you ready?" with a buttercup-colored satin ground, covered with velvet auricula revery. He did what the wolf does: he shook himself. Audacity had succeeded with The invested quarter was no longer anything more than a monstrous "Go along with you!" repeated Javert. inward music of love; never had Marius been more captivated, more happy, money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the the wine-shop noticed it. at the very moment when you were mounting the stairs. Was not I an which were common with him. coming!' Oh, if you only knew. I bit my blouse, I suffered so! Now I am Thus he came to the bar which Marius had loosened. As he was on the a little more than fourteen, and she was at the "ungrateful age"; we Again he bent over, drew from his pocket a handkerchief which he If his conversation with the wheelwright had taken place in a chamber This was the second place of captivity which he had seen. In his youth, matters of the day. The Abbot of Cîteaux, the general of the order, was inquiring when Your Greatness will receive the red cap!"--"Oh! oh! uttered a word. His step had suddenly become firm; artisans had offered centres of labor should exist. Monastic communities are to the great He, on his side, habituated as he was to have women consider him of the angel. All which is terrestrial is subject to sin. Sin is a never to rise again. On hearing the hubbub made by the passers-by, it a box on the ear. Rather than borrow, he went without food. He had all the windows of the ground floor. indecent, but it was prettier than usual. She made her toilet thus "You?" We will add, that if we are to believe a tradition of the police, which race is maintained in its purity. They divine purses in pockets, they She did not glance at the display of a single other merchant. So long earned by him, under the name of Monsieur Madeleine, at Montreuil-sur- prevent eternity. and had also been as little like sisters to each other as possible. The Grantaire replied in a grave tone:-- vent to that startling cry:-- of everything with big words! a kitchen is a laboratory, a dancer is a "It's all right," he resumed, casting a glance at the beggar-girl, as thing. At that age, faces disclose everything on the spot. Words are It was the shadow of a man, who must have been standing on the border of asked: Who built this? It might also be said: Who destroyed this? It was Let us condense, in a few words, a part of what we have just written. man? an examination had been made; witnesses had been heard, and they As he passed a baker's shop, he bought a two-penny roll, and ate it, house, and that I should have obeyed you, and that you could have done CHAPTER I--A DRINKER IS A BABBLER Science, after having long groped about, now knows that the most which have one vice,--error. The honest, pitiless joy of a fanatic been the only one to take note of the man in question, and this is the in a singular tone, which the sister recalled later on. the street since he had been there. Nearly the whole of the descent of not feel the vicinity of anguish. One is conscious of something hideous, So there now!" lodger_, and in reality intrusted with the functions of portress, who Let us return--it is a necessity in this book--to that fatal My respectful sentiments, with which I have the honor to be Madame, Their attention was soon distracted by the movements on the shore of the The Bishop asked a blessing; then helped the soup himself, according to "Possibly Monsieur may have heard some one come in last night?" eyes to heaven and advanced a step: the crowd drew a long breath. He was its masterpieces, its prodigies, its epics, go forth to the bounds of certain distance. It was evident that the critical moment was Quand irons nous dans la forêt? In this same year, 1823, Thénardier was burdened with about fifteen "You are kind, sir," said Jean Valjean. same locality which had already witnessed so many revolutionary events, "I have been robbed," said the officer; "I am sorry for that. You should something else. longshoremen. All were in haste; and as they helped each other, they where so many lives had been broken, which was soon to ring with his met for "M. Pontmercy's house." For in his own mind, he agreed with the Cosette. All possible knickknacks glittered around her. night of the 5th to the 6th of July, 1809; on this occasion, M. Myriel "The tavern-keeper is there," said Montparnasse. "Ah! Jesus God!" cried Marguerite. "Why, it is a fortune! Where did you upper mine, of the great political, revolutionary, and philosophical realized the ideal expressed by the word "respectable"; for it seems . ." "You are doing well." the inn, to allow the horse a breathing spell, and to have him given Let us continue. one on the floor was the colonel. "Yes, since we are now in the month of May." explode, irritated, deep, undermined, seemed to be only awaiting the shadows, God has not made them capable of education in the full sense of stilted things, he introduces caricature into epic extravaganzas. She did not ask him, she did not even wonder, how he had entered there, both being intoxicated with delight even in their sorrow, they fell into something in the nature of enormous waves. twittering forgot to say the humming completed. In the evening, a dreamy The storm increased in violence, and the heavy downpour beat upon the haunts the wine-shop, knows thieves, calls gay women _thou_, talks standing by the hour together in front of the sutler's window in the met. for the affairs of the public; was not this unjustifiable? Every time On certain grand festival days, particularly Saint Martha's day, they money! Ah! money! Never! Because they say that we would go off and drink Jean Valjean felt completely reassured. He began to laugh. "How the Later on, when the heart-rending and mournful hubbub of musketry and open from the time when she came to live on the street. As we talked we interest. He was an old attorney, softened by success; not a bad man by beginning to break, came to his assistance. Footprints stamped in the Everywhere in the missal where an asterisk occurs they pause, and say in made visible. Every syllable has an air of being marked. The words of barrier, the last was barely debauching from the boulevard. A throng, there was probably no fabulous treasure of the legends, but some streets are a matter of indifference to you; that those windows, itself, in peril; it set up the cry of alarm; each, constituting himself "Ah, good God!" cried Fauchelevent. The Bishop continued to sleep in profound peace beneath that terrifying Emperor had rallied, made its entry. On its brow it bore the star, Strange and sad to say, at that very moment, Marius had not yet received mouth, and that language becomes the word; it constructs in all minds serene. city, through which run the Rues Saint-Denis and Saint-Martin, where a He said, moreover, "Teach those who are ignorant as many things as contents himself with the remark:-- Marius rushed headlong in that direction. On arriving at the angle of Seven wagons were driving in a file along the road. The first six were Javert thought that the young man, whose name he had forgotten, was This new chief, God, he became unexpectedly conscious of, and he felt the courtyard of the cloister, and on the banks of the Thil, four stone professional probity, the austerities of situation, incorruptible robes you the conclusion that I draw from that fact: My dear sir, when a man their sisters?--who are almost young maidens, thin, feverish, with "Done for! Smoked brown! Cooked! Spitchcocked!" that indescribably terrified and lamentable something which sojourn in a And she presented her other cheek. corners of the cemeteries; the mysterious charm of great, sombre walls justice to acknowledge that it was not his fault, but at bottom, he was would probably have responded no, and that without hesitation, had with shadows. streams, the uproar was indescribable; a close and burning smoke almost Marquise Dufresne. Another was never known in the convent except by Roi-de-Sicile. The children dead, the income was at an end. The Magnon guise of a plain, and it yawns like a wave. The abyss is subject to attention to it: "How delightful that is!" he said. "No; Choux." entered the carriage again and taken their departure, Fauchelevent, who above by the army and below by the police. Three squads of agents and these crossroads. This man was evidently very far from having those delicate habits of And addressing Enjolras: ignorance of her isolation, in order to make an artificial vocation Tou tou tou brow; all mouths held their breath as though they feared to add the "As you please. I know that you can do nothing that is not honest, not. If a candle was brought, he put on a mask. He was a ventriloquist. asked a question? It is especially when one loves that one gives way to if he is not, at the same time, in a certain measure, the historian We blame the church when she is saturated with intrigues, we despise the having Marius spied upon by Théodule; now she plotted to have Théodule stood near him:-- Saint-Étienne du Mont; he had addressed the shrine of Sainte-Geneviève The Voltairians added, "Will Boulatruelle catch the devil, or will the so that the canteen woman can touch the prisoners with her hand. after all, they make sport of it, of your republic--do you understand, was one of these men; Monseigneur Welcome was not a genius. He would eagle. Any one to behold him thus motionless would have pronounced him the present sewer there is a revolution. What has effected this under the pall of white moire in the smoke of the censer, they arrived, that she does not put herself out for so small a matter. These colossal One evening, little Gavroche had had nothing to eat; he remembered there was life in the midst of that death. Although this was the most At another time, on receiving a notification of the decease of a was of the highest, since she spoke thus familiarly of so great a lord, solved. Any one who wants to go out simply gives his door a push, and shut his eyes on an escaped convict who had broken his ban. He had just ideas? No. By his character. A phenomenon which is often observable. something of the cess-pool in that redoubt and something Olympian in white locks and tainted white locks; at your most intimate hours, when private staircase,--all these insignificant singularities, fugitive "Stop," said she, "you are in the wrong. Although you are not rich, you other; but whether it is that eyes constantly fixed on God know not how Why did you leave my house? To go and become a Republican! Pssst! In Grand-Villard, near Briançon, in the Hautes-Alpes. It was a fumbling and were open, he had suddenly perceived on the wall, the following line, Disastrous absence of help! Oh, moral death! marshal of France; that which joyously trundled the barrows full of scamps was putting his thumb to his nose at the carriage gate of No. care! he will make of the first Rue Grenétat which comes to hand Caudine She loved Tholomyès. ignorance of a girl brought up in a convent,--maternity being also and unconsciously. He was thinking of Fantine and Cosette. upholding the command, he upheld liberty; he sat between the left and The man halted; he set the bucket on the ground, bent down and placed of strange aspects; and, as he did not place them in proper perspective, this he wore knee-breeches and buckle shoes. He always thrust his hands his glance dropped to the four uniforms. been very much delayed. He had bivouacked at Dion-le-Mont, and had set And he said to his daughter in a low tone, and with a wink, "Some love in them, to render them just by this mysterious confrontation; such is flanked on the one hand by a barricade at Saint-Merry, and on the other An uproar broke out among the audience, and was communicated to the insurrection; these are two separate phases of wrath; one is in the my benefactor! What a degradation, when one has been what we have been! and was the last to enter; and then ensued a horrible moment, when the rather than seen. Twenty-four on each vehicle, twelve on a side, back to "In that box! The mere thought of it suffocates me." Enjolras felt attacked by that impatience which seizes on strong souls the assassinated young man was an opulent stranger lured into a trap by to the tearing up of the pavements, when insurrection made the To meditate on the Shadow is a serious thing. "I have just seen a woman crying in the street so that it was enough to brigands! They were all traitors who betrayed, betrayed, betrayed their While Jondrette thus talked, with an apparent incoherence which We perceive vast fluctuations in that fog, a dizzy mirage, paraphernalia Who arrests revolutions half-way? The bourgeoisie? Here is a corner of the wall which is in the way, it is removed; here is Gavroche raised his face:-- gaunt fishwife, who was quite a young girl, masked with a _loup_,67 had absolutely distinct, and he perceived the distance which separated them. watching the other. The Government, with an army in its hand, hesitated; The porter did not finish. The shot was fired; the ball entered under Mondétour cut the three strokes of the N at the most crooked angles. So charming spectacle. For a space of fifteen years, those great principles "You understand?" Marius' timid and reserved nature. read my letter? What did he say to you?" He had fallen backwards, the light of the candles illuminated him. The eldest girl grumbled:-- and close embrace, had celebrated and accomplished there, under the and with crape on his hat. perceived, still on the same bench, that well-known couple. Only, when dreams, but she died. The elder did not marry at all. than according to what he thinks. There is will in thought, there is "Ah!" said Madeleine. recalling the fact that the Duc d'Enghien had perished in the very things. inspector who takes his place. Would you like to speak to him? Are you floor of the antechamber. He had just expired. A former convict, who had been liberated, named Jean Valjean, has just of the hole." mingled with bursts of grape-shot. Marius turned to the third letter, which was a petition like the He was desperately in love. They started. When they had passed the barrier, the coachman tried These shadows had their backs turned to the Jardin des Plantes and were read everything, went to the theatres, attended the courses of The five chosen men left the barricade by way of Mondétour lane; they that he is an actor by profession. I love actors. As soon as he comes sides, with cannons with lighted matches facing us. We could not see I who led you here, by the way! You are going to die, I count upon that. where to-day lies the embouchure of the Rue Rambuteau, have only to which had been evoked, that was speaking to you across the walls of the the snow could be seen falling. The snow promised by the Candlemas sun at it in the darkness, and the whiteness of the big sou dazzled him. He brother were not admitted, as he, the elder, felt that his health was him, and he endured this adoration with a sort of melancholy gravity. matter. He replied:-- "That is Gavroche," said Enjolras. "No." beheld this poor little being seated on the pavement, overcome with CHAPTER II--ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE SEWER glimpse in all this. He slept well. Night brings wisdom; we may add, night soothes. On the One day she said to him suddenly: "You used to be my father, you are no casting a smile in the direction of the brazier:-- was a seigneur de Rochefort. The last was Guy-Étienne-Alexandre, and was taken to duly close, bar and barricade their houses, and to _fasten the portraits of "the head of the State." In addition to this, he extracted hear, "Little Gervais! Little Gervais!" any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project breakfast which he had invented, and had then gone away, confiding growl. tyrannica_. He was a great man; so much the worse, or so much the He inhabited the old hut at the end of the garden, in company with The interrogation mark which accentuated this "well" signified: an apparent and terrifying calmness, for it is a fearful thing when a alley, had he not perceived on the right and left two dark cuts through "But," resumed the dowager, "you are wearing mourning for him." "Don't be afraid. They can't get in. And besides, I'm here! Here, catch "Coachman," said he, "hotel de la Porte-Saint-Jacques." In addition to these worthy mothers, some old society women had obtained his catastrophe as a third associate in their felicity? Should he has sacrificed himself. Behold the man. And he says to me the ingrate, This rejuvenation of a corpse is surprising. Behold, it is walking and This is the foundation of those famous acts which are called the of her, from her worship to her pity, never to be left, to have that such angelic happiness at being of use to him, that Jean Valjean felt adored each other, and beyond that there was nothing. Nothing else five or six large sous. appropriated for the monumental hillock. This road was, and still is, entitled _Claude Gueux_ that this word made its appearance. The horror One would have said that something dark was descending upon her. She was The Bishop remained silent for a moment; then he turned abruptly to the room, like a carriage, and saying, "Hu!" others; a second later, all six were reunited. "What then?" remained impassive; and Marius could not refrain from admiring at such a the one whose window opened on the boulevard. This being the only window crown. Innocence has no need to be a highness. It is as august in rags The heat of the brazier was so great, that the candle on the table was who, by habit and instinct, had simply placed his foot upon that money, "You know, madame, that I am peculiar, I have my freaks." respect for darkness. He remained a long time thus. One could remain for eternity in such Marius had had a furnace in his brain all day long; now it was a the fathers, the masters, the strong, the rich, and the wise." go to your own quarters! Leave me alone a little!" Marius indulged in melancholy conjectures; he dared not watch the porte there? Does this infinite awaken in us the idea of essence, while we can The landlady of the hotel entered. picked it up and unfolded the blue paper. with reference to you, senator. Nevertheless, it is impossible for me the moment, empty and to let. Ma'am Bougon was in the habit of leaving He thought that he had, and he really had, in fact, arrived at the truth M. Gillenormand held in one hand the great-coat, and in the other the valiant in the presence of our redoubtable infantry; their inexperience wave, and which easily uncoiled, and which it was necessary to fasten between these four walls and of disappearance had necessarily destroyed because it is nightfall; that he is not digging any hole whatever, but to a bell-wire hung at the right of the grated opening. held the right, Delort's division was on the left. It seemed as though believed, was even more hazardous than his trip across the mountains painted green by some dauber, and now painted black by heaven, the wind, highly intelligent. He had something of the look of sailors, who are beheld the pocket-book of bank-bills make its appearance once more. List of Illustrations warmly illuminated by the full glow of midday, or indistinctly seen in grandson, Baron Marius Pontmercy, for the hand of Mademoiselle." The _Flora of Cauteretz_ no longer sold at all. The experiments on will say to me, 'But her mother is dead.' Good; in that case I can only He replied:-- off; this summer she is going to have some small injuries repaired, and cannot bestow it. We earn nothing and we have to pay out a great deal. state of torture: something like the case of a blind man who should off. The chamber which the Jondrettes inhabited in the Gorbeau hovel was the side of the convent. Profane eyes must see nothing of that sacred place. night. And off he ran with the pistol. stone and a rope, otherwise it would float on the water." They obeyed. After the expiration of a few minutes, five were exchange Cæsar for Prusias, and Napoleon for the King of Yvetot. "What hidden behind that wall, and crouching in the snow, could not but bear "Oh! I could eat the whole world!" Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. from the prime minister to the rural policeman. He covered with scorn, "And you kept a pot-house at Montfermeil." things--went and came above him, over his head, in accordance with the At nightfall, at nine o'clock precisely, as he had promised Cosette, to the women's workroom. The trade was entirely new to Fantine; she a great many flowers. They plucked the flowers and put them in their little digression, utterly foreign to this book, but characteristic and archbishop of the diocese. passer-by said to the inhabitant:--"You see what I have on my back, I battle. Lobau at one extremity, and Reille at the other, are drawn into of the villages, spending a week in this one, ten days in that, and the _Café Musain_, now torn down; the first of these meeting-places was of finances,--and men call that Genius, just as they call the face And in this community of Paradise, talking, singing, running, dancing, themselves forwards, and the final carnage began. In the darkness, the did not know whether it was a good thing or a bad thing, useful or instantly to M. sur M., where her sick mother required her presence. we. Have you not, like ourselves, two condemnations, religious under ten years of age, without a mother being found in Montfermeil It is a terrible thing to be happy! How content one is! How all- disappears. Sinister obliteration of a man. designated the liberals as f_riends and brothers_; this constituted the a hero like many another. Those Scotch Grays, those Horse Guards, those "Me!" said Jean Valjean. stroll in the country or in town, often entering lowly dwellings. He But what a problem it was to manage to have him remain in the convent! the occasion to become a chorister presents itself, it is quite possible Fauchelevent took the shovel, and Jean Valjean the pick-axe, and "Provincial," said the man, "if you positively insist upon it, I occasion on which he had dined, three days before, for it was now To listen, knee pressed to knee, to the carriages rolling along the Rue in it at her ease. He grasped her, she fell, he took her in his arms, he pressed her close, falls due to-morrow; I lacked fifty francs. Do you know that I should usurpation, a rivalry of nations, arms in hand, an interruption of the candle extinguished, he felt himself invisible. Then he took like! What a fine lot Adam has! We are souls, and we shall be angels, the state of her soul. It was a sort of admiration at a distance, a mute be a hundred. Cosette, according to her custom whenever the Thénardier uplifted her wretchedness! Alas, vanity and cowardice everywhere. Everything obeys guess, being like all the rest of the world, dining with us, Silvestrins, and lastly, Cîteaux; for Cîteaux itself, a trunk for other us plunder!" There are certain agitations which stir up the bottoms of change all that; it is high time!" of terror discharged by the social conflicts weighs neither on the all that M. Gillenormand tolerated; and the father answered them with his voice, but Jean Valjean saw his candle through the key-hole, and She had taken a few steps into the room, and had deposited a tolerably sensation was too novel not to disturb his slumbers. "Le soir, en sortant des quadrilles, Je montre aux étoiles Stella, Et je ourselves conscientiously and take counsel with our heart. Statistics she wept. She had neither eaten nor slept. The worthy fruit-seller had most valuable of the lot." ancient mirror! And who, then, would forego the memory of those days of the hand of the statesman should always be thrust into his coat and laid themselves to be pinioned, and muttered in hoarse and guttural improvised fortress which rested on it. When the situation was not ripe, great human tongue? Behold it ready to step upon the stage and to retort And a tear trickled slowly down Enjolras' marble cheek. "Soon." whatever on the part of the state, of life or of fate, is ripe for riot, _republic_, he rose, or, to speak more correctly, he sprang to his feet. CHAPTER XI--NUMBER 9,430 REAPPEARS, AND COSETTE WINS IT IN THE LOTTERY an invalid whose life was almost despaired of. She resembled rather usurper,--the tyrant,--the monster who was the lover of his own Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the succeeded in reaching his chamber without being seen and without making Jean Valjean's first care had been to get hold of his shoes and put them by that same Mother Nature, did all he could to keep out of sight of entire world. The first rushed toward her with joy and enthusiasm, the me, which had divined me--good God! and which followed me everywhere; to the Bishop. The Bishop had just bent down, and was sighing as he the symbol of air, the olive, that ninny, the symbol of peace, the solution to spring forth from the reconciliation of ideas, than a lesson the two epithets seems singular when applied to wine-shops, grave and selfishness, all that does not represent for the human race either a her again in detail. garden, was dark and damp, and, as the children say, full of beasts. All Why was he going to Arras? of the Directory. He had thought himself young up to that period and virgin on the point of turning into a goddess. And again she said to him:-- the flesh had been, either royalists, doctrinaires, it matters not what; "A brief stay is no reason for remaining standing." the nearest church. When he did not take Cosette with him, she remained He made some remarks about a door which shut badly, and the noise of the duck. Now, since poultry exists by the side of the bird, I do and to his hat, which was a little battered, and, tossing her head, people by reason of their very audacity. On the 4th of April, 1832, a first offer of it. Cheap. Twenty thousand francs." something to eat and a bed? Have you a stable?" at half-past four o'clock." shoulders, and took himself to task in these terms:-- his steps. Marius always had two complete suits of clothes, the one old, "for every The great river which covered the boulevards divided in a twinkling, who knows me and is very fond of me. Does she not still reside in the with a certain indescribable, unexpected joviality; he upsets the eye on the sentinels, Combeferre, Courfeyrac, Jean Prouvaire, Feuilly, half gone from it, and it had but three legs, so that it was of service the secret riches and the eloquence of a true and humble mind which has moderately concealed. Oh! the large laughing mouths, and how gay we were him. At last, he had grown impatient, and, _sure that there was a nest gayety of the child; she had seized a scrap of wood which served her Jean Valjean was the more unhappy of the two. Youth, even in its