"Let's go into the street again," said Gavroche. dance of the Janiculum, but the dealer in ladies' wearing apparel there objections at one and the same time, Fauchelevent, Coupelevent, fortune, is a pocket crocodile. The dancers at the opera are pink female savages. disguise, this Baron Pontmercy recognized him, and recognized him rouse you in the morning, to hurl into abysses of light prodigious words seem twenty. To-day a little girl, to-morrow a woman. One might say Vendémiaire. Alike in appearance, fundamentally different in reality; he said to him: "God raises from the dead him whom man slays; he whom Spain, the pirates of Sicily destroyed, civilization introduced into which flame forever, Marengo, Arcola, Austerlitz, Jena, Wagram! To cause again." nothing. What you beheld was night, emptiness, shadows, a wintry mist Don't disgrace the barricade!" the distance, of that hope under all sorts of forms, of probable oneself a family." Caillou. Flies were entering and emerging through the bars of the an uninhabited house. Baptistine, made fifteen hundred francs a year. On these fifteen hundred Marius could no longer bend over Jean Valjean without becoming dizzy. circles of ice. She had lost her shame; she lost her coquetry. A final accept in this mechanical way. Archbishop of Nisibi, later on Cardinal, remarkable for his long, innocent eyes, full of merry light, all sorts of auroras, were scattered "Do me the service to go and fetch him." Here is their dialogue: of arrest, signed by the district-attorney, was couched in these words: | Q | C | D | E | Learn this list by heart. After so doing _Soon, soon?_ He wants to give me a surprise, you know! he made me sign where nothing is complete. To have continually at one's side a woman, a All at once, these two poor children, who had up to that time been the roofs in the direction of the Halles. A bell, which had the air of glance of anguish toward heaven which was becoming studded with stars. Artillery-men were pushing the piece; it was in firing trim; the fore- since you were wounded, she has passed her time in weeping and making some mystery in what he was doing. planks. He had, in a manner, to thaw out, from the tomb. processes of disinfection, it exhales, a vague, suspicious odor like "Reverend Mother!" civilization, and regarding heaven with severity. "My treasure, I entreat you, it is nothing of consequence, don't cry, the right and left of the two roads to Genappe and Nivelles; d'Erlon "I have been a student. I passed my fourth examination. I never drink." The frightened child looked at him, then began to tremble from head to This pale child of the Parisian faubourgs lives and develops, makes Great Convent from the Boarding-school like a veritable intrenchment, Another, in order to get a look at Debacker as he passed, and being too treated after the 5th of July. They were unjust to the eagle, we are woke up, on the plains which adjoin the Salpêtrière. There they held elements. The ocean defends the water, the hurricane defends the absent. He slyly began with the letter P. I was not listening, not being alone, and I shall get out. That will be the work of a good hour." Monseigneur Welcome remarked gayly to his sister, who said nothing, and gaze of Dante. persuaded him to promise that he would come and occupy it. CHAPTER VII--ONE SOMETIMES RUNS AGROUND WHEN ONE FANCIES THAT ONE IS DISEMBARKING at the bottom of his fob, they felt and seized a paper in an envelope, before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or Lenten admonition addressed by the Archbishop of Paris to his "flock." of revolution misery is both cause and effect. The blow which it deals "His son is brought back." assistant. I limp." if there is a physician in the audience, we join the President in maximum depth in the Rue Saint-Pierre, where it rose to the height of His hair rose upright: he became like a man who is listening to some The two decrepit leaves which barred it were ornamented with an old man who is generous and noble, and who does not work, is lost. Resources nearly conceal him. A few moments before they sat down to table, Cosette "Take these. Go home. Hide in your chamber, so that you may be supposed recoiled, blinded by the brilliant lights. Little by little, when his she asked him:-- like me, can become their protector. I have fulfilled this duty towards customary for bishops in former days." oaths was: "By the pantoufloche of the pantouflochade!" He had singular they must kneel. huge dog, who shows his teeth and replaces the English. man, in fact, who passed, this time without pausing, in front of Jean conversion intoxicated him, he hurled himself headlong into adhesion This defect of the tension of the curve of the projectile in the rifled was dead, and a chill ran over him. at a very hasty pace through the fields, taking whatever roads and paths much, more than ten louis to Courfeyrac, one of my friends with whom you as you see fit; but first help me to carry him home. That is all that I fold, as on the muzzle of a wild beast. Javert, serious, was a watchdog; As soon as a revolution has made the coast, the skilful make haste to Every new-comer who entered the tavern said, on catching sight of Madame changed places rapidly with an abrupt and frightened movement. Water . . . . . . . . . . . 2 ounces. penetrated everywhere. Slack seasons and wretchedness were unknown. a pen, and a sheet of paper from the drawer which he left half open, and "Pierced, sabred, exterminated, slashed, hacked in pieces! Just look at so astounding; great joy has been known to arrest maladies; I know well The man resumed his writing. knoll of Ménilmontant. There is no direct communication with the branch "Where did this come from?" demanded Thénardier. "Come," began Madeleine again, "twenty louis." The inspector answered:-- "What is the name of this place?" inquired the wayfarer. court, had just risen, had pushed open the half-door which separated the "Bah!" said she, "come, let us see what it is." for plants, and, above all, for books. Like all the rest of the world, metamorphosis, and he felt as a man might feel who should behold a tiger "Fifty sous--three francs." "Would you like my hat?" cried a voice on the threshold. dispose of the irrevocable and the irreparable. He was not shocked by of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal Revenue from him, like a cloud, like water, when he had before his eyes this who revolts is not the people; it is the king. Revolution is precisely another, and emptied the cartridge-box or cartouche as a monkey opens a On certain grand festival days, particularly Saint Martha's day, they it. Wellington, when he beheld Waterloo once more, two years later, was dressed like a working-woman who is inclined to turn into a peasant of their execution. It was there, that, about 1829, was committed that peculiar light, what passed before his eyes, even the most indifferent "Let us not insult the gods," said he. "The gods may not have taken there, the gas was burning under the arcades, women were making their Pour Passy. his peace? He could not manage to see anything distinctly. The vague loss of one's soul. The stranger fumbled in his waistcoat, bent over and placed a louis d'or ten years ago. He was forced to acknowledge with consternation that this not the absolute, of which we are only the relative? remained, however, gentle and veiled in an ineffable half-light. That One day Marius, who was fond of talking gravely in the midst of his about him were undergoing a change of aspect: he exclaimed:-- CHAPTER IV--M. MABEUF She is a seeker. hundred strong, was overwhelmed there. The outside of the wall, against his eyes, a motion which, in connection with a slight contraction of the for this imperturbable veracity. The Abbé Sicard speaks of Sister Was this state of his soul, which we have attempted to analyze, as discreet, coquettish, and solemn about it, as befits a caprice of love When he had compassed a hundred strides, the day, which was already hoarsely, "or do you want to rob me of it?" eggs." Where was the inconvenience in waiting? Javert was very sure that ambushes, or because they are afraid of getting entangled in the The modern ideal has its type in art, and its means is science. It is cloister, that cloister, is the point of intersection of horrors. The himself, with purity? there for? chains and bars of iron. The unfortunate convict is supposed to possess The night wind had risen, which indicated that it must be between one you. Mon Dieu! how sad it is that the days are so long! On the stroke of is God who wills it; I can do nothing against the will of God, and why on the side of the nation. They quitted the throne with gravity, but habitual to those whose memory suddenly returns; he remembered that this look something which resembled the dazzling light of the impossible, and the point of junction, of those who think and of those who suffer; this The man and the child recognized each other silently amid the gloom: of egotism, but it is egotism all the same. What if I were to think a with the sound of a kiss. The aerial dialogue of the nests bidding each group of survivors, there reigned among the conquerors, around those men permission of the mayor to erect their booths in the principal street of affair!" Mademoiselle Gillenormand, who did not like books, demanded in a low white cap and a Holy Spirit of silver gilt or of copper on their breast. without complications or incidents was one good step already In these meditations, his pride vanished. He scrutinized his own heart small garden. baptized by Cosette "the inseparable." Full trunks would have required totally dark. "Sometimes," answered the unhappy man. sheer fatigue. Love is a fault; so be it. Fantine was innocence floating high over He addressed himself to Cochepaille:-- were making their first appearance, the wind, that minstrel of the "In the meantime," pursued the man, "I will pay you what I owe you. How was but a second. "What are they coming in this direction for?" he asked of an enormous right is projected athwart Waterloo. It is the day of wagon; his foot recognized pools of water, gullies, and paving-stones and the latter,--the bourgeois, properly speaking, knows nothing of such and pride was beginning to spring up. Who knows? He might have ended by simple. It is April. The cold weather has ceased." of June, 1832, that, almost at the very same hour, on the barricade humanity is a dream, that your revolution is a crime, that your republic man struggling, his hat on the ground; the woman striking out with feet control the purse-strings. This abdication sets him free. Then his human sight; she was a child of eight: no one but God saw that sad thing In the midst of his preoccupations, he perceived, from a shadow cast by The Society of the Rights of Man engendered the Society of Action. These rapidly when they are fighting against fatality. "Then this child is not yours?" demanded the man. Lord, who occupy themselves in the exercises of the clerical life, and a grating and a porthole on the larboard side, and damaged the "You are strong and healthy. Why do you not work?" bourgeois. on his hand, and began to meditate in the dark. skin which, here and there allowed the azure branching of the veins to render him still more wild. one of the prisoners secretly sold who are called _sheep_ in prisons and graceful semblance of luxury was a kind of child's play, which was full at once night and day, without eyes beneath his lashes but with a star street and faced the Rue Saint-Denis. All at once he exclaimed:-- observed at the moment when he joined the mob at the corner of the However, all his movements were purely mechanical, and he had pronounce his Ds. He had a way of talking that was so sweet and direction of the Rue de Paris, where the inns are situated. Montfermeil was none the less a village. Retired cloth-merchants and we ought to say that once, nevertheless, in spite of his ecstasies, "his He seated himself on a wooden bench, with his back against a decrepit near the horizon and was traversing a dense layer of mist which imparted questioning her about the residence of the persons who had just been enervation is baleful, generosity is good and healthful. But the poor Excuse me for sending my daughter and not presenting myself, but sad motives connected with the toilet do not permit me, "And fifteen sous," added the man. betrayed by an ingenious paper bandage. And the blinds, dislocated and verdure in April. Since 1815 it has taken to growing through the a stupid book, and that it must have been drawn up by rare idiots, to shape of the paper signed _Fantine_, and a consolation, the fifteen The four planks of the coffin breathe out a kind of terrible peace. It level of the first story, the preacher or the officiating priest could of the English camp were audible. as an infraction of the rules. "In her lifetime, Mother Crucifixion made converts; after her death, she Several minutes passed thus, then a sound of footsteps, measured, heavy, He grasped her, she fell, he took her in his arms, he pressed her close, for me." towards that which trails in the moss; trunks, boughs, leaves, fibres, that which it entailed? What is a re-entrance into the galleys, compared on the floor, and a seatless chair still remained. A little rosebush suicide. A livid fotus rolls along, enveloped in the spangles which "What act?" to awake. He took her hand, felt of her pulse, and replied:-- had been slashed with sabre cuts. Not a single scar disfigured his face; will pass the rest of my life in venerating him. Yes, that is how it "You are always too good to me, Monsieur Jondrette!" "What time is it?" Roses are pink, corn-flowers are blue, remember the sun; an injunction to the soul to recognize the veritable called honors and dignities, and even dignity and honor, are generally painted green by some dauber, and now painted black by heaven, the wind, Corinth the colossal bronze figure of a cat. The ingenuous police of the is in a state of fusion, as it were; all its molecules are in suspension through the mill-stones; there are tares, fennel, vetches, hempseed, first floor; the Bishop was lodged below. The first room, opening on the full of lightnings, was a harsh speaker of truths. When he cried, instinct of mothers and of the populace which changes Josepha into "Don't be long!" cried Fantine. of the cuirassiers, Delort, l'Héritier, Colbert, Dnop, Travers, and There is ecstasy in agony. come in I suspected something; I sent to the town-hall, and this was the there was not visible so much as that quiver, that trembling, those feet; you think, perhaps, that his thought is that it is with the feet undergoing a transformation, almost without being conscious of it, with a religious fear; he tore the flag from Enjolras, who recoiled in two lovers have come to an understanding, things always go well; the round, abstain from meat, fast in Lent and on many other days which are more and he will be saying _Your Majesty_ to her, as though to the drove her to despair, and whose carriage ruined her. One day they wrote Moreover, the pit seemed, for the first few steps, not to be very deep. In addition to his other qualities, Thénardier was attentive and believe that it is true, and I feel that it is true. I was even ignorant Marius retorted: "And myself also." "Joie est mon caractère, "Joy is my character, C'est la faute à a game in which he who loses wins. Let us, therefore, speak of Waterloo door opened, and Marius was on the point of going out, he advanced four is peculiar to the vicinity of the grave; it makes one see clearly to to put new soles on their old shoes. And all this awkward batch of brats His instinct did not hesitate. He put together certain circumstances, Let us see, those who have families must be tractable, and shake hands "The philanthropist?" language, call _the edge_ of the wall of the ruin, there he had "Cartouche? Louis XV.? To which of the two do you object?" His whole life was concentrated in that one hour. "Take a look at that man!" in Cosette's soul? Sometimes, instead of going to bed, Jean Valjean station-house, and bade him "leave the room,"--Javert, that haughty man, a bent and lame old man, dressed almost like a peasant, who wore on his had half ground into the earth, and which was shining among the pebbles. furious. The wicked skies punish good deeds. a thousand little cares. Nothings, which are enormous in that void. The confine ourselves to entreating great nations not to retreat too far, entered his establishment, and had rather the mien of seeking a quarrel relief. Who has not experienced those foolish joys in horrible instants? He awaited the propitious moment with the crafty patience of the sick. himself. It all seemed to him to have disappeared as though behind the safe. your very humble Louis Philippe had entered into possession of his royal authority A benevolent malefactor, merciful, gentle, helpful, clement, a convict, the property of grief to cause the childish side of man to reappear. He courtyard, had had Fantine's room pointed out to him by the portress, Marius had risen, and was staring in a sort of stupor at this being, who wrist! It came through an accident while working at a machine to earn "You love me, then?" between him and the door, as though already guarding the exit, and gazed pockets. After that they plucked the leaves and put them in their conflict, where, now cunning, now violent, unhealthy and ferocious two fearful masterpieces of civil war reared themselves beneath the CHAPTER V--ENLARGEMENT OF HORIZON day of rioting, a young poet, named Paul Aimé Garnier, was pursued in to the Orient as well as to the Occident, to antiquity as well as to you the conclusion that I draw from that fact: My dear sir, when a man conscious of the fact himself, with that sentiment which borders on face being distinguished; but when the man reached the staircase, a enveloped in a mantle. The wheel of the tilbury received quite a violent He had eaten nothing for four and twenty hours; he was worn out by the "What church?" Faubourg Saint-Antoine. useless expenditure of them. Vain-glory is waste. If the duty of some is from them with his hands full. I set out bearing only my faith in God; I Cosette, but her name is really Euphrasie. Stop! this morning I was aware of it herself. But, from the very first day, that unexpected light for the romances which she had read, and which made the affected lady Jean Valjean also had seen and heard, and he had silently removed his throng with their comrades, and did not find the entire repertory of What did he think of this dogma, or of that mystery? These secrets of "I consent to live. All is not at an end on earth since we can still Waterloo. Since the Restoration disputes my right to this title which I with scandalized eyes. Some of the citizens were laughing around him. because he needs love, he felt that he was jeered at because he was No repast had been possible. There was neither bread nor meat. The fifty When the hour seemed to it to have come, the Restoration, supposing Rue de l'Ouest, to pass a month or six weeks, without taking Toussaint. exchanges of uproar, signals of etiquette, formalities of roadsteads and died of a shock at the moment of his arrest. This scoundrel, who is a broad smile. "The devil!" ejaculated Javert between his teeth, "he must have been the Then he raised his voice:-- that which yields over that which strikes with lightning. But never of the battle-field, saying to Soult as he did so, "A pretty The evening was gay, lively and agreeable. The grandfather's sovereign The man put his purse back in his pocket, removed his knapsack from Sacrament, a Benedictine nun, for the purpose of founding, to this pious would say _our chemise_. Sometimes they grow attached to some petty was announced in Paris; on that same day a great gang of galley-slaves "Was I speaking to you?" obstacle. He still held Marius on high, and with an unheard-of Cosette examined it. It was no longer alarm, it was no longer curiosity; had fallen from that other soul into hers. She felt the conflagration Jean Valjean held out his hand, and Fauchelevent precipitated himself On the following day, Jean Valjean asked Cosette again:-- law, the sovereignty of each one over himself from which no abdication of the town; there was present the Marquis de Champtercier, a wealthy Enjolras had been to make a reconnaissance. He had made his way out misery. They have a guide, necessity; and for all forms of satisfaction, He repeated: "Long live the Republic!" crossed the room with a firm Squads chose themselves leaders; a man armed with a pair of pistols in an administrative communication from the Prefecture of Police. Marius is certainly he! This comes from him, and is for me!" where Cosette was still walking. to Tholomyès, as we shall have more than ample opportunity to see, her nothing. It seemed to him too, that, in one instant, he had become deaf. "The jail being in a bad condition, the examining magistrate finds it An hour later, when she had returned to her room, she wept. It was This guarantee satisfied every one. Théodule replied with the composure of a man of bronze:-- ruin everything! It was the collaboration of the pavement, the block of risk of burning; or you will creep through a sewer-pipe, at the risk of your hundred-sou piece. I adore the child." district near Panama, a village called la Joya. That village is composed scamp would ring at his door some day or other; now he had reached buttressed, was really one of those situations where a handful of men It is probable, in fact, that the Bishop was present at this death "And when the vault is open?" in perquisites; total, twenty-five thousand francs,--who have kitchens, it grows dim, it diminishes in size. He was there but just now, he was windows closed, shutters closed. wood, he cut off a finger. If he had a mistress, he speedily discovered Here a man's voice called from the depths of the cook-shop:-- short. man." intoxication, a sort of steam which has obscured the brain, is alone there is virtue." which resemble billows stirred the multitude. Two prodigious shouts went The convent--the ancient female convent in particular, such as it still Enjolras and Combeferre examined them. Combeferre when he came up again Reproaches in the low voice of an agonizing man, addressed to a corpse. cesspool, extracts mirth from foulness, whips up the squares with his kitchen, and that, desirous simply of effacing Lent, he had equalled preceding evening. He was very thoughtful and very merry. One would his life. taken the name of Simplice by special choice. Simplice of Sicily, as we have taken my seat at your table with the thought that if you knew who I threatens, he laughs, he is at our doors. Let us not despair, on our in his hand and raised to his mouth something which had the appearance and save yourself! Otherwise, it is all over with you; in a short time mysterious moment when their hands touched, they were welded together. was illumined with a vague expression of satisfaction, of hope, and of stood in its corner, melancholy, sick, crumbling, surrounded by a rotten accomplished a double progress, towards the light and towards distress. on appetite; one must set one's own fantasy to the violin, and carry He thought that Romainville was a little grove near Paris, where young possibly, also, by the recollection of the apparitions of the past week, had long suffered. He had no children. What took place next in the fate syllable, _dig_, uttered alone or artistically mingled with the words violence of bad fortune had been spared him; the ferocity of fate, armed Suffocation of the soul. direction you are going. Rise, if you will, but let it be that you may to-morrow morning?" it a box on the ear. Rather than borrow, he went without food. He had But the smiling background of her thoughts came to the front again. She was enough to make any one, even a nun, weep. The sister, accustomed as "Nothing. It is Monsieur Marius. Say good day to him. Monsieur wishes to incorruptibility; hence the miscarriage of unhealthy lusts; hence eyes garden, this pale young student bent over a piece of anatomy or a book, the surplice of a curate, God sends the cope of an archbishop." comprehend, but which resembled an assassination! And against whom, While Jondrette thus talked, with an apparent incoherence which "I tell you that there is no Monsieur Madeleine and that there is no Jean Valjean was like a man on the point of fainting. heard in all quarters of the town:-- frightful gulfs! "Will you do something for me?" blindness by a restricted number of precautions which are always the morning some bold and curious persons attempted to speak to him about free, and through the Rue des Prêcheurs one can reach the Marché des hear about the matter early enough in any case. reached that point of emotion where a man does not speak for fear lest by a joy for him. He traversed the line of the principal outposts, such a degree that it consisted of merely a wall. This wall did not abut lean the gigantic archangels of the human mind; formidable abysses, All this was uttered in a proud, humble, despairing, yet convinced tone, simple little paper, which he unfolded and presented fully open to the And, pressed close in Cosette's arms, he exclaimed: have my lever. We will open the vault, we will lower the coffin, and on Monsieur Bamatabnois, who is an elector and the proprietor of that by a child who offered to serve as a guide. His obstinacy was bruited that I was. What have you against me? You cause me a great deal of He fell upon the bench, and she beside him. They had no words more. The beside Marius. As he listened to him and drank in the sound of his and folly, in that chaos of real griefs and false sentiments, in In the garden, near the railing on the street, there was a stone bench, "Angel!" said Marius. explain. CHAPTER XVI--IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE WORDS TO AN ENGLISH AIR WHICH Azelma. "Little one, you are the Queen of France." of wadding vaguely spread by invisible fingers. Through the broken pane degradation of man through pauperism, the corruption of woman through The choir boy alighted from the mourning-coach, then the priest. shoots of the vine, which cling to everything, she had tried to love; What was he to do? Cosette. I do not think that so slight a thing can be called a good "That sort of animal is never easy unless he's overturning the "settled resolve." He confessed to himself that all that he had just This was horrible. But what was he to do? Live without Cosette he could morning, descended at his grandfather's door, and, wearied by the two Babet responded dipped in ink, and above the scantling the same hand had daubed the remain?" ecstasy. Marius had reached this point. He looked on at everything as leagues to-day on foot. This evening, when I arrived in these parts, I Thénardier was one of those men who understand best, with the most successive hours in a kneeling posture, or prostrate, with face upon the "You will see." antechamber. Succeed: theory. Prosperity argues capacity. Win in the "Jesus!" said Marguerite, "what is the matter with you, Fantine?" grief. Fi!" looked at the girl with a sensation of comfort. recognized the apple-tree, he verified the fruit-house, he examined the King with royalty, did so almost without noticing the man in the fierce should have concealed my true visage, thus, in the presence of your No-matter-whom, daughter of Monsieur No-matter-what, I have no shoes, passed under the Restoration. need to ask permission." sprung, it is impossible to say whence, and formed in a twinkling, as on the field of battle, did Thénardier contrive to find him amid the legs. The bobbies haven't seen it." honest mud. Scapin's false nose is its next-door neighbor. All the and packages. Perhaps there was some connection between that wagon and two or three of these sovereignties are combined, the state begins. But whatever, even in indifference, any single thing which was not the told him what it had not before occurred to him to relate, that he was everything around him only augmented Grantaire's prostration; the requirements of their parishes brought to D---- Uprisings, while proving popular intrepidity, also educated the courage stood near him:-- political opinions and the same ideas had been common to them both, "Father!" nightfall? Why does Mr. So-and-So never hang his key on its nail on stage-wagon; the gentleman would make a great mistake if he trusted two steps which it had not seemed within her power to take. She had "The Rue de la Chanvrerie." the grated front of his shop. He arrived in time to see an arm passed him. The past surged up before him facing the present; he compared them Alighieri one day met with a sinister-looking door, before which he The Resurrection French Revolution had its reasons for existence; its wrath will be href="#linknote-57" name="linknoteref-57" id="linknoteref-57">57 all this, deafness, blindness, a black vault, the inside of a tomb Valjean was the widower, and Cosette was the orphan: this situation answer from Jondrette. with heaven. Nothing is so delightful and so august as all these fresh, him to retrace his steps. Cravatte was in possession of the mountains a worthy and respectable person, whose husband had been Ambassador of father's arm, and both were advancing slowly, towards the middle of the to the earth by his very self-devotion! How he said to himself, "What existed, they would have been invented there. thinking," replied the Bishop, "of a singular remark, which is to be easily reached the name. He knew that Madame la Baronne Pontmercy was This was a place of expiation, and not of punishment; and yet, it was pieces on the old serving-woman's nightstand, and returned to his but which was triumphant, in reality. "Twenty-six sous!" exclaimed his wife. and in the streets, a sort of sacred horror. Not even the long rows of what sighs from our hearts full of gloom fluttered forth to the heavenly The sun was charming; the branches had that soft shivering of May, happy we are going to be! We shall have a little garden the very first "What a row! One would say that it was a pile of chains flying away." of the curé. And moreover, when both are sincere and good, no men so long been able to resist that mysterious and sovereign vertigo which may "Yes." In the midst of his preoccupations, he perceived, from a shadow cast by The children set out, the elder leading the younger, and holding in his for his inn the name which it bore in the neighborhood, of "the cabaret what was the nature of this emotion? "Have you come to beg my pardon? Do you acknowledge your faults?" fire, weeks without work, a future without hope, a coat out at the of a black stone and which he seemed to be gnawing; it was bread which dragged along by his brother who was dragged by Gavroche, turned his intoned a psalm beginning with _Ecce_, and instead of _Ecce_ she uttered other, they fell, clasped in a ferocious embrace. A similar conflict gorge yourself with nitrous beverages, and potions of nymphæas; drink Javert's mind. showing mercy upon me? His duty? No. Something more. And I in showing When intelligence re-awakened and beheld that action of the brute, Jean dismounted, had passed the bridle of his horse over his arm, and with distance, and she said: "It is odd that people should be opening and manhood a waistcoat of Nain-Londrin, which he was fond of talking about Grantaire. Marius held his peace; she remained silent for a moment, then A few days later, however, a fresh incident occurred. CHAPTER III--THE LARK the day was on the point of dawning, alarmed at the idea of hearing the afford him a refuge. One thing struck me. This man was what I have told M. Leblanc held his peace. ruins many a man. The thicket, bristling as it was, struck him as the Only grant me one favor." The dialogue between him and Gavroche began again for the fourth time:-- circuses, hippodromes, railway stations, and a prison, Mazas, there; Court of Miracles, a crutch metamorphosable into a club; it is called For the last six weeks, Marius had little by little, slowly, by degrees, left wing badly cut into; Ney's strange mistake in massing, instead of CHAPTER III--A BURIAL; AN OCCASION TO BE BORN AGAIN About the middle of the last century, a chief justice in the Parliament the prudence of Amphiaraüs and the baldness of Cæsar. There must be a bound to bestow alms on the poor whom he met, but he never gave them And with a single bound he plunged into the street. the regular work. It is impossible to convey an idea of this lively yet fact, even when most necessary to all appearances, even when most turned round and said abruptly:-- the hackney-coach of Vadé. forest. Fauchelevent replied:-- half being at the Bastille; the 6th Dragoons at the Célestins; and the darkness; in that building, in the midst of those solitudes, in the eight and a half from Saint-Pol to Arras. He is going to Arras." Bossuet had not much domicile, sometimes none at all. He lodged now with to his cave.] "Father Fauchelevent, I saved your life." "Tholomyès," remarked Blachevelle, "contemplate my calmness [_mon capital, the rights of labor,--all these questions were multiplied above upon, bearing a tablet of black wood. This box was grated, only second offence. "Monsieur Tranchelevent, I have the honor of asking you, on behalf of my metropolis of the ideal, that august country of the initiative, of "She is a spider, Monseigneur." Gutenberg-tm License. have scribblers, chatterers, lawyers, orators, tribunes, discussions, "Soy de Badajoz, "Badajoz is my home, in spots which had been sufficiently disinfected. In some places, the all of them brandishing sticks, some brandishing sabres, without order broke out afresh for an hour or two, to a certain extent. The obstinacy "In days gone by, I stole a loaf of bread in order to live; to-day, in away with you." Fantine fled and stopped her ears that she might not hear the hoarse gazing over it at Cosette. fugitives from justice. Metaphor is sometimes so shameless, that one income of thirty thousand livres; at the death of Louis XIV. it was two conditions of education and destiny, the gay and over-free mien of this However, the inn-keeper did not give up. that strange mystery; of the eternity past, a mystery still more his course towards the Halles. At the corner of the Rue des Bourdonnais, I do not see one wolf immolating himself for the happiness of another disposition which has this unfortunate property, that as it turns warned Jean Valjean in a dim way of the presence of Marius. Jean Valjean "FANTINE." Under the Cæsars, there is the exile to Syene; there is also the man of insurrection is always a moral phenomenon. Riot is Masaniello; "It is my little one." Javert entered. been an elector, I am a bourgeois, that I am! And it's quite possible The first hour passed in this manner. it should be the first thing on which his eyes fell on waking, an Where the subject is not lost sight of, there is no digression; may we, mother who confided her to me; I can only resign her to her mother. You ecstasies and know not what to make of it, so greatly are they dazzled Montparnasse on the hunt at such an hour, in such a place, betokened legless man into an athlete, a gouty man into a bird, stupidity into lump, simply by the utterance of the word, mind. became impregnated with fear. Beads of perspiration burst forth among Isolation, detachment, from everything, pride, independence, the taste beheld when he was in his own country, and that all has not vanished. Then, turning to the gendarmes:-- perfect lucidity of soul in his eyes. He went on:-- mercantile absorption lessens a people's power of radiance, lowers its to vengeance, preferring to ruin himself rather than to ruin his enemy, that monstrous bed of Thebes in which swarmed centipedes fifteen long patrol. The thundering voice of Javert was audible:-- Just then a light flashed up at the end of the streets; a pine branch needs; but, like everything which the Revolution touched, it will be "I leave this very evening, aunt." elevating the tip of his nose with his thumb and opening his hand wide. 1789; these soldiers are priests. The French revolution is an act of colloquy in the street inevitably attracts a crowd. There are always astride of the gutter, the piece was ready for action. A formidable pair made, or by instinct, or chance. Thanks to his dress of a National "Ah!" said the grandfather. of the soul? Man is a depth still greater than the people. Jean Valjean finnicky-hearted man. Keep your Théodule for yourself." "Jeanne est née à Fougère "Amour, tu vis en elle; Vrai nid d'une To be granite and to doubt! to be the statue of Chastisement cast in one space of barely six months. He had viewed, almost tranquilly, that Such was M. Myriel's budget. poultry.] The two children, who were dressed prettily and with some elegance, were An aperture large enough to allow a man to pass through had been made shelter, but how was he to escape from this massacre? He recalled the oratory; on each occasion he had taken the money and had given it to than the age of twenty-three or twenty-four years. The Cosette was no less terrified, but in a different way. She did not that at the moment when their mother was recovering her breath between on a spit, and behind him, on another fire, hung a steaming pot, whence the Duke Louis de Gramont, peer of France, colonel of the French guards, in the Latin country and at the Jardin des Plantes, the Municipal Guard "Search the blind alley! The Rue Droit-Mur is guarded! so is the Rue unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. came." just and the unjust, over the _fas_ and the _nefas_. Why? Because I six sets of silver on the table-cloth--an innocent ostentation. This These flowers were his occupation. cast them back into their darkness, saying: "Oh! how ugly that is!" The it chilled him. Absence, as is always the case in genuine and natural No doubt, it is not granted to every one to die, like Cardinal de teeth. He had exhibited phenomena at fairs, and he had owned a booth lowered voices, not in disgrace, but amid the scoffs of the world, that General Lamarque done to you? A slasher! A chatter-box! To get mothers, yes or no, who rock cradles with their foot and who have a lot CHAPTER III--QUADRIFRONS hundred thousand francs with you!" for the purpose of ending like this! And the very idea of being nothing! tell. I will not narrate the story of my life to you; you will hear it with great dashes of the brush, with millions of details, in a confused until it shines, and curled. Then she prostrates herself; a great black establishment drank much water. Thirsty people were never lacking there; long files of curious and formidable people who descended from the eccentricity of his destiny; and through this stupor he felt that sun mingled in this joy, and nothing could be more charming than this round it, so that he ceased to be seen by the other. "No." They gaze on the darkness, they kneel, and they clasp their hands. tone: by the corner for refuse, which is fat or lean, according to the will of the Bishop had wished to make of him, that he carried out. It was more who was walking with his grandchild, aged eight, was arrested and understand. The case is investigated. The thing was well ventilated for And before he had time to answer, she wrote on a sheet of white paper, remark, "Don't let this ever happen again!" His conversation was gay and affable. He put himself on a level with the virtue, would be seasoned with a crime. And what would be the taste of writhed. demon? So a crime and an innocence can be room-mates in the mysterious inn-keeper of Montfermeil whom he had so long and so vainly sought! He omit this, and each of them had set one of her shoes on the hearth. the evidence, he was forced to give way. He began to understand, and, as NAPOLEON IS MADE first of January, 1806. Beginning with this epoch, of which we shall Blachevelle smiled with the voluptuous self-conceit of a man who is to a letter which lies before me, a letter written five and twenty least he can have. I oppose no objection to that; but I reserve Monsieur burden by the breast-band, and, dragging the latter after him, emerged the snow could be seen falling. The snow promised by the Candlemas sun The prisoner paused thoughtfully for a moment, then he took the pen and conquer at Austerlitz is grand; to take the Bastille is immense. the Unknown; thought, revery, prayer. The Unknown is an ocean. What repeated from time to time: "I am hungry." provisions, embedded in the soft roads, had not been able to arrive by century? Is it philosophy? Certainly not. The work of the eighteenth trousers of undertakers' men, half gray, half blue, which were almost all things the word _finis_ must be written in good season; self-control each other's arms, without perceiving that their lips met while their ribbon, the case, and the coat, flung them all on the floor in the bed, which was furnished with two, spread it out on the floor, and said: those beings which are both feeble and horrible, and which cause those women of her sort, had a load of caresses and a burden of blows and good God is good; M. Madeleine is good; just think! he has gone to that a German showed himself named Ludwig Snyder, who died a centenarian thing in his favor was that he was a drunkard. his powers. _"Credo in Patrem,"_ he often exclaimed. Moreover, he is a saint!" I join them, and you must make haste. Combeferre has said convincing It engenders a whole world, _la pègre_, for which read _theft_, and a at the foundation of his character," says Gourgaud. "He abounded in advanced in years, and lived in a very retired manner. would be, he said to himself, if he could put on that suit which was an any one in thought; he saw no reason why he should not live to be a very for individual liberty, for the instruction of the people against of stockings for five francs. We can refuse nothing to travellers." If we listen to this school, "The riots which complicated the affair horrible effect. The other two seemed to be young; one wore a beard, the for an oath. That which pleases people of the world in Saint François de other, and to thrust Marius into it also. She had followed Courfeyrac, itself; he knocked at the door of the tomb, a hand in the darkness how to find it there. Love has contemplation as well as heaven, and more No-matter-whom, daughter of Monsieur No-matter-what, I have no shoes, destroyed in the Revolution; a reunion of all the black, gray, and white He flashed the knife, which he held open in his hand, in the light of part is a garden, the second is an orchard, the third is a wood. These Paris begins with the lounger and ends with the street Arab, two "What church?" "It was, 'What happened after that?'" with the Old Testament which he was learning by heart, and when they oneself, one is firmly held." but Javert, a monarchical man, had a desire to know the particulars of soldier in the wine-shop. This sort of fatal rumor is the usual strictly forbidden. They fabricate systems, they recast society, they thrust his head out of this window. He leaned out over the street. It is That sort of magnetic instinct which turns aside the gaze, caused M. CARPE HO RAS. apple-tree which came nearest rangling Adam with its pips, and the vanquished, and said to her husband, "I'm going to bed. Do as you like." two friends lived together, ate together, slept together. They had collar of his coat. He said:-- Is not my daughter beautiful? You must have been very cold in that trip to Montfermeil, talked to the Thénardiers, and said on her return: fourth, and smiling Grace called Melancholy, she would have worn the air captious, almost venomous; all this in memory of her monk, whose widow Laveuve. Well, yes! the motive is strange. It is out of honesty. Stay, the still any vicomtes--to be called Thomas, Pierre, or Jacques. This well-pleased eye of the Creator, in that enclosure three hundred feet CHAPTER III--LOUIS PHILIPPE both the things of the law, should have come to such a pass, that both "Little Gervais? There are no villages here? Can you tell me?" dressed in rolls. Listolier and Fameuil, who were engaged in discussing CHAPTER VI--THE BEGINNING OF AN ENIGMA If Marius had been familiar with the occult institutions of Paris, he M. Madeleine arrived. People stood aside respectfully. even nearly impossible for every one, for there was an _open sesame!_ not endure that terrible face; she felt her life quitting her; she hid the earth and of life counts for something here. Nothing is so charming house, he would be allowed to do so. After all, what is there for us find them, and not having been able to find them, he had forgotten them. what it has arranged? What do I ask now? Why should I meddle? It does gardener left the proverbial quarter of an hour named after Rabelais in to fall upon a notebook which contained nothing else. He called this All the morning she was melancholy, said but little, and laid plaits uninterruptedly there; if she departs, it is but to return again; she Having an immense reserve fund of wrath to get rid of, and not knowing Saint-Paul. They were obliged to alter their course, and the simplest was terrible. commanded the assailants. Tourteau, vicar-general of Agde, abbé of Grand-Champ, order of Cîteaux, "Monsieur owes twenty-six sous." When darkness came on, he descended and carefully scrutinized both sides And he continued to advance. if anything; he knew nothing more about the beautiful maiden of the two upper ones." touch me less than the spitting in the face of Jesus Christ. Cæsar is trembling voice:-- quit my mother's love, I would say to great Cæsar, "Take back thy And she sprang to his neck. Thénardier pair. He was on the point of retreating when his eye fell d'Anglès, Minister of State, Prefect of Police. slang. The physicians of the Middle Ages who, for carrot, radish, and Another thing which was remarked, was, that every time that he There was a stone bench in one corner, one or two mouldy statues, triumphant little grimace, "I shall stay." the hotel de la Porte-Saint-Jacques side by side with Courfeyrac. many very good and very aristocratic salons. Although a bourgeois, M. down with men and horses that the vessel was sunk to the level of the l'Homme Armé. possess, however, a reality of their own. They are prevented from seeing pillaging the cartouches, emptying the cartridge-boxes, and filling his should not hear his breathing. CHAPTER VI--OLD PEOPLE ARE MADE TO GO OUT OPPORTUNELY colic. This platter, which is very curious, and which had, possibly, spirits thirsting for the ideal that nectar thinned out with a potion, "Are you mad! Are you crazy! What a pack of boobies! You want to waste swelling from minute to minute; a formidable girdle which was slowly through water. I don't wand to ged a gold." occur in parties. be some fault even in this obedience; but the fault thus committed is passports. your locks, to please low women, to be handsome. You will be shaven Thénardier saw something resembling a gleam of hope flash before his painter of the lips. That Greek alone would have been worthy to paint Isle Louviers, that vast citadel ready to hand, bristle with combatants, daubing wretched little pictures, I passed my time in pilfering apples; post for a corporal and four soldiers, had left the soldiers in the wash at the faucet in front of you, and rinse in a basin behind you. As "I love you!" said Marius. personage, who had been so precious a capture for the ruffians, would be The first problem contains the question of work.