Grantaire added to the eccentric accentuation of words and ideas, it was I." almost without breathing, in that half light, he gazed at him with the very substance of the people that is carried off, here drop by drop, He cast a furtive glance towards the door, as though he feared that it upheld by seraphim. Her soul flew out into the azure depths, with wings little tower had a platform, of which only the beams remain. The iron doctor for the dead to be summoned has already been rung. But you do not thy mouth. Listen! before thee, there was never a creature worthy of the l'Homme Armé. It was not easy to see these two men, except from the quay opposite, and "It was Punchinello who bestowed it on the cat. they will say, 'She must have her child.'" à Voltaire; 'Tis the fault of Voltaire; Et bête à Palaiseau, yet more completely verified? Have you not indigent persons? Glance Babeuf is a speculator to Cartouche; Marat is an aristocrat to Javert stamped his foot. the ancient, narrow streets which adjoin the moats Saint-Victor and the and reflecting in the most profoundly indistinct depths of his spirit, M. occurred to her. There, some one might possibly know her and give her it was not just that Cosette, since she had not taken the vows, should close at hand, and in its most repulsive and most ferocious development, archbishop of the diocese. We shall have no further occasion to speak of M. Félix Tholomyès. Let us to the village was barricaded, but at the first volley of Prussian That one is not listened to is no reason for preserving silence. The Thus he took sad council with his thoughts. Or, to speak more correctly, "A quarter of an hour!" exclaimed Madeleine. balls? Would they effect a breach? That was the question. While the again disturbing you at this moment; you must have thought me intrusive, victorious soldiers, and back of the hundred thousand a million; their the moment of his fall and his loss of consciousness was that of Jean the windows and the roof on the besiegers and exasperating the soldiers sold an old horse in order to obtain bread. At Reichenau, he gave three days in advance of every one else. They rebuild their houses for distributed money to the workmen. At the barricade of the Rue Grenetat, WAS IN FASHION IN 1832 comprehend, but which resembled an assassination! And against whom, than the Rue des Trois-Pavillons; then he did not overstep the Blancs- things are requisite, the size of Paris and its gayety. The city of Everything was there; the apparatus was the same, the hour of the night, "Your grandnephew." felt, from the displeasure created by the gift, that it did not come off? In what manner, in consequence of what prodigy, had any community other crying to him to rescue the prisoner. These two voices continued lodgings, and he seemed to halt, by preference, at the most modest windows; all lights extinguished after ten o'clock. Gardens, convents, diligences in the Rue Bouloy; you are happy; I am going. I have tried to gates at Pontarlier under the old régime.' chicken in his shako, here's the banlieue, co-cocorico.] them back." should be a blackguard! Those who say, 'That blackguard of a Javert!' serenity of the ether, moved amid the darkness by the visible splendor "That is where we are going?" resource. Is it a question of country, he enlists; is it a question of Marius reeled and said feebly:-- to the Orient as well as to the Occident, to antiquity as well as to arrived. His comrades assisted him, as is the custom in that sad place. The unhappy man whose history we are relating had remained near the door "Little Gervais, sir." rule allowed her to do, and hid herself, every time that she desired to "Driver," said he, "Rue de l'Homme Armé, Number 7." rendered the fault enormous was the fact that the chapter had laughed. pay for the drinks." and to demand, in the meantime, the condemnation of that Champmathieu, He, in the meantime, had immediately begun to make his descent to rejoin A large but ugly room, with an alcove and a bed at the end (they had "What if one were to rid you of her?" night. two blocks of shadow. One of these blocks of shadow entirely covered the because it enables people to see them, and the night because it aids "Another quarter of an hour of this success, and there will not be any child, which she carried in her arms. etc.; but in all other respects she was utterly ignorant, which is a will be condemned, who will finish his days in abjectness and horror. stone walls, a stone ceiling, a flagged pavement, a camp bed, a grated after a revolution, when this people forms part of a monarchical Seine forms a sort of square lake, traversed by a rapid. it not been for this tree, she would have fallen. beheld a humming-bird in the midst of toads. CHAPTER XIV--THE LAST SQUARE "Be easy," said Bigrenaille to Thénardier. "He still holds by one leg, But, thank Heaven, still another choice is possible. No perpendicular How was the casing of the barricade going to behave under the cannon- distance, and she said: "It is odd that people should be opening and very far away? Was she to go back? etc., etc. All at once she exclaimed, Among the words mingled with that mournful saliva which accompanies their bench; he walked the whole length of the alley, passed in front me renders it my duty to tell him so. Truth and justice before all hall-marked," an observation full of the type of wit of petty towns. He was writing probably some more letters like those which Marius had CHAPTER VII--NAPOLEON IN A GOOD HUMOR Mésières, two or three times a day, to ask for it. He drew as much as placing money in a bank a great matter truly. Men make mysteries out of CHAPTER I--MINES AND MINERS transport which was carrying troops to Sicily, and which was so loaded A people cannot be forced, through surprise, to walk more quickly than In this horror, let us state, there was some pity, and even a certain A cloud swept across Marius' brow. He seized Éponine by the arm:-- Even to see and to show does not suffice. Philosophy should be an how to find it there. Love has contemplation as well as heaven, and more streets. They passed the bakeshop, but Cosette did not think of the manner of which he was capable, and to win paradise, which he wanting in respect towards historic France, that is to say, towards its Hucheloup and her servants. On these mattresses they had laid the away, the dome of the Invalides close at hand, the Chamber of Deputies very kindly air. Don't disturb yourself, don't rise on your elbow, you All this was dark, disagreeable, wan, melancholy, sepulchral; traversed Toussaint was struck dumb, and could only answer him:-- of lanterns could be seen vanishing into the street in the distance. The He did not know. He was driving at random, straight ahead. Whither? which was very new to him. which, in disorder, grew all the flowers of May. The door was closed. child. He recalled the fact that Jean Valjean had been arrested in Paris medicine? Can one imagine a naturalist refusing to study the viper, the half-turning in his chair, placing his hands on his knees, and raising lugubrious. here: I entered the church, he was in his usual place, I made him a One day during that winter, the sun had shown itself a little in the he vaguely recalled his other nocturnal trip in the vast plain in last. febrile absorption known to, and classified by, science, and which is to nor the loss of the money, nor the sight of the whip, nor even the sad man near at hand, and clear up the mystery. But the idea occurred to him fast; and then, he was well acquainted with the country. same severity in other convents. At the convent of the Rue du Temple, hoarse accent of a vibration. Although not one of them was walking, a giant. the reader picture to himself this bouquet, no longer vertical but laughter at nothing, nonsense, everything that is deepest and most and thick shoes with copper buckles. He would have been pronounced a not a person on the plain or on the path. The only sound was the tiny, on the trumpet to boot. Without reckoning delicious chimes which it hope. The deuce! there is plenty to dispute in the matter, is there not? of the culprit in respect to his fault. Whether there had not been an his cartridges. The man of the Rue des Billettes had just entered was not entirely disused. The charming Madame de Léon, in memory, no The shore, beginning with the rubbish heap, was only about thirty paces clean, and you will wear a red blouse and wooden shoes. You want rings The child gave it a brisk rap, drew in the brioche, frightened away the _Sleep-compellers_, rendered famous. the convent, as we have already said. The schoolgirls saw two others: pole surmounted by a red cap. no longer the rendezvous of Austerlitz. When the first cannon was fired, compartment to compartment, to the buildings of the Charlemagne court, pomp, somewhat augmented through precaution. Two battalions, with draped exactly, and who lived alone with a little girl of eight years, who this departure, had arranged to quit the pavilion of the Rue Plumet only Esquiliæ, and the grave of the poor bought for five years, is certainly demolished since. He passed through a breach and entered the town again. reached the point where he said to himself: "I imagined all that. I am not a day. In order to depict a battle, there is required one of those he gazed all around him and perceived a creature larger than a as the avenue of Sphinxes at Thebes. Not a living being in the cross- advertisements in the newspapers and I will buy, I know well where, a themselves. An insurrection is an enthusiasm. Enthusiasm may wax wroth; more numerous courtesies of the old women and the more plentiful smiles The man raised his eyes. once, both sweet and deep. Sweetness and depth, they are the whole of The door opened again, the man re-appeared; he carried in both hands the He budded them and made them produce excellent fruit. bore it, with bared heads, with solemn slowness, to the large table in Prêcheurs had remained at his post, which indicated that nothing was same man, and I say that Javert had no other assassin than Javert. If I that Cosette had a father. His brain was dazzled and obliterated. Of cannot bestow it. We earn nothing and we have to pay out a great deal. He withdrew, and the door closed behind him as it had opened, for those will perform miracles." respect for darkness. "Everything and nothing. He is a man who, to all appearances, has lost talking; he gave, in order to get rid of the necessity for smiling. The no longer flows; it is coagulated, so to speak; there is something on whither Jean Valjean had arrived was called _le Petit Picpus_. The to arms within a city's limits without taking the object into a He still wore his yellow coat, his black breeches, and his old hat. pressing necessities. We will attend to the rest hereafter." that indescribable and disdainful noise with his lips which signifies:-- Boulevard Bourdon, sweeping all before them. point. It is probable that, had the match been a poor one, she would been treading on moss with bare feet. stone, on every bramble, on every mile-post, along every wall, I have group of survivors, there reigned among the conquerors, around those men already?" combatants had been massacred in that barn. A sergeant of the English As for Zéphine, she had conquered Fameuil by her roguish and caressing trip to Montfermeil. "I promise you that I will eat them," he said, in his benevolent voice. worth nothing. One breaks one's neck in living. Life is a theatre set in kitchen table, and her knitting. in his voice, "this republic is not rich enough in men to indulge in strips of linen thus prepared he wrapped the two silver candlesticks. He by some porter or other, and it was a new coat. But this coat was green. The man replied with an amiable grin of which the caressing smile of a "I understand, Father Fauchelevent. There are pupils." his will and his reason, and from which he sought to draw proof and that it really was that divine creature whom he saw in the midst of Then, turning to Fantine, "You are to have six months of it." The of historians which does not exist in our mind. No one is a good When the Bishop raised his head again, the face of the conventionary had confusion. the fact, that at the single word, "He was a convict," nearly every one in the town. He had presented himself at Jacquin Labarre's to obtain descended in reddish threads from the window to the height of the first name="linknoteref-20" id="linknoteref-20">20 l'Homme Armé. hung with tapestry, against which stood tufted easy-chairs. Jean Valjean coarse construction was visible in its nakedness. Marius examined the this whirlwind of the sepulchre in which they stood, they laughed. appeared to be measuring it with his eye; these seconds, during which The sister had not entered with him. He stood beside the bed, with his This well has not in front of it that large blue slab which forms the CHAPTER IV--ATTRACTION AND EXTINCTION arms and carried her behind a heap of old furniture, which was out of For, since the preceding evening, the two rows of houses in the Rue de and, for bracelets in particular, slides of sheet-iron simply laid country. From the associations of the Friends of the People, which was These words freed the thought of all from the painful cloud of the mayor had gone to Montfermeil; that it was possible, after all, that A sudden light made them blink; Gavroche had just managed to ignite one which were on the point of bursting beneath the weight of gold and Then she questioned him:-- penetrate each other, and so amalgamate with each other, as an old He smiled again with the same smile as before and added: Fagon attributed the redoubtable malignant fever of 1685 to the great time to strike an attitude." Still the white-haired man and the girl the edge of the hollow road. The jackal's four paws suit some actions. gardener's bell attached to the knee of Father Fauchelevent. pockets, the roll which had been forgotten there on the preceding conscious that his police agent's stool was a tribunal. He was entering closed, the displays of the merchants disappear; then come isolated as though he were touching in succession seven heads of unequal heights, The vocal mothers added: "He is a brother of Father Fauvent." de Babylone; night! One goes out. Black as ovens, indeed! And I say, Monseigneur, and the same thing as to understand the Gospel badly. full buckets of what we designate as filth. Thanks to human dung, the use of death, a serious matter. It seems as though Utopia had no longer "Ecclesiastes calls you the All-powerful; the Maccabees call you the looked resolutely at Tholomyès and said:-- garret, who were accustomed to this twilight. was the Thénardier of the will. Marius shuddered at that reproach of "Monsieur," said the woman, "my boy tells me that you wish to hire a but it would be harsh to condemn her also. effort in speaking in this manner: a bank-bill for a thousand francs. It was the second or third only that thither. He had passed on. The police, on emerging from the gallery du from the ocean, and that he came from the tempest; he carried the Certainly, he had nothing against her. Far from it. Only, he felt that himself to be taken to the ball at Sceaux by Courfeyrac, Bossuet, and of Éponine approaching, through the trees of the boulevard. Two days So far he had not uttered a single word, no one seemed to be aware that In 1815, as we think we have already said, he reached his seventy-fifth He added between his teeth:-- and without uttering a word, each being absorbed in his own personal How could he be found there? seized with a shudder. It seemed to him that he had just caught sight, you are the slave of orders, you are a man of scruples and duty, and you roll along, a throng of tumultuous men. These men do not ask each other companions, stepped out of the ranks, and said, "Monseigneur, a day's the pontifical chancellery by using 26 for Rome, _grkztntgzyal_ for themselves, to rise and to go and pray in an ice-cold and gloomy chapel, 'You are ugly! you have no teeth!' I know well that I have no longer man from the country. secret concerning an individual. This individual concerns you. I hold Leblanc to retreat, and, in this posture of a wild beast who is about to was so rich and so kind. Everything had changed for her since she had destiny began to intoxicate her. She did not know what a gold piece was; said, quick to take alarm, was able to reply by a single syllable, this took his seat. The other arm-chair remained empty. inn-keeper, but what is your name? I will pay anything you ask. You are and the first comer took it upon himself to save society. whom you do not inherit.'" Cosette. I do not think that so slight a thing can be called a good man named Marius who lived in the house. He had written to him, without daddy-long-legs, "the devil," a black insect, which menaces by twisting Gavroche was satisfied with himself for having produced this remark. attentively, then tossed his head, and remained thoughtful for a moment. having, as he said, "some quibus," he had come to Montfermeil and set up Athwart the unhealthy perceptions of an incomplete nature and a crushed "The bird slanders in the elms, And pretends that yesterday, Atala Went The man in the buttoned-up coat walked to the extremity of the shore, emerges from it covered with stars. The gamin of Paris is Rabelais in a bit of green cloth sewed on with twine; a tightly packed soldier assailants were grouped about that door. The siege of the wine-shop was He made some remarks about a door which shut badly, and the noise of to Cosette and gave her a place in the school as a charity pupil. scamp! Doctor, you live in this quarter, I believe? Oh! I know you well. eyes cast down, and an expression which was half-way between that of a life, his first fault, his long expiation, his external brutishness, his shoes, the alarming noise which had just burst forth in the prison, the heretics; it is to reproach the idol with its small amount of idolatry; again; England, the aristocracy, will fall, but England, the nation, is patience; that that would even have been better for those poor little stop short at the precise moment when the key is lost. drank, there they ate, there they shouted; they did not pay much, they envy, of those devoted, trembling and trusting creatures, of these a stone post, with an injunction to be silent, and ran to the spot where will perceive truth. Let that vile sand which you trample under foot be Lamarque was a man of renown and of action. He had had in succession, humor seizes upon her, and again abandons her. And therein lies the that he had actually been guilty of theft. be composed of future and be sympathetic. into which it was alarming to penetrate, and in which it was terrible to must marry her, since I should go mad otherwise.' This is the whole we see it beaming in the very depths of heaven. "reasonable people"; favorite locutions of our sad world where egotism bankruptcy arrived. And then there was nothing more for the poor. All That sort of magnetic instinct which turns aside the gaze, caused M. "Gold; here it is." descended from a French family which fled on the revocation of the Edict when the insurrection was not decidedly admitted, when the masses cetera_. But he has not the appearance of understanding; he says, 'I am the galleys had nicknamed him _I-deny-God_ (_Je-nie Dieu_, Chenildieu). The words "Mr. Mayor" produced a curious effect upon Fantine. She rose and they treated her accordingly. As she had no longer any clothes, they and sought to make out the surroundings of the apparition. At the promised so brightly for the future. "What if one were to rid you of her?" chair. him in such a manner that his chest was not oppressed, and so that Babeuf, the people scented Gisquet. for a possible flight, seeking an escape, what an abrupt and sinister bearing in his right fist a bludgeon of which the leaden head was people who ask nothing better than to become spectators. While he was These interior façades were even more tragic than the exterior. All the soldiery, and that everything hung upon this chance. They also might Human meditation has no limits. At his own risk and peril, it analyzes Produced by Judith Boss and David Widger "I don't know," replied Cosette. He was vexed with himself, he was angry with that whirlwind of emotions uttering a word. He was as motionless as a corpse, while his thoughts Then the unhappy young man seated himself on a post, folded his arms, of the fire, and warmed himself, and then fell to thinking of other constantly lowered. He saw only her long chestnut lashes, permeated with in a sort of diffuse lounging, perceived, athwart his somnambulism, a Finally, the rumor one day spread through the town that a sort of young "And who is this Monsieur Dumont?" former punishments. These vehicles kept to the middle of the road. On consent to it!" and the old fossil will consent.' Go, my lad, do as had struck, he snuffed the candle with his fingers. It is in this cellar that nearly all the slang songs had their birth. His whole life was concentrated in that one hour. you see it is horrible, here we are dining in a room with a bed in it, life, or add anything superfluous to his bare necessities. When the old woman came to do the work, at seven o'clock in the morning, He did not understand in the least, and opened it. mouth on one of his fingers, which was folded back. Jean Valjean was loved her as his sister; and, as he had never had either a woman to love man form a part of the marriage now consummated? Was there nothing to be six men, who were marching separately and at some distance from each Marius, saying rapidly, in a curt tone:-- "Cut his throat." The hearse halted. garden. Cosette saw him through the hole in her shutter. in the carriage, opposite the king. He said to his Majesty, "Yonder should suddenly see the sun rise, the convict had been dazzled and minds which do not eat. If there is anything more heart-breaking than in motion. money which he had laid by. No one had been able to give him any news of of inward conflict. At last she appeared to come to a decision. philosophies which are peculiar to our century, which sometimes spring had broken at the same instant, once more! He returned to his hovel in have more good things to eat in your basket." All at once, he caught sight of the two little ragged boys behind the philosophy is called blindness. rains; the incessant flooding of winter; long, drizzling showers. The Bishop sent for him, reproved him gently, and appointed him beadle manner from the dilemma, whenever he heard Latin. The soul, going down stream in this gulf, may become a corpse. Who shall In this conclave of young heads, there was one bald member. sur M., whither the duties of his office had called him more than once, Cleopatra's pun preceded the battle of Actium, and that had it not been "Are you going far in this condition?" said the man. all settled already. Everything is arranged. I have seen some people. He the Swiss defend the false, Bonaparte defends the true. That which Javert addressed the porter in a tone befitting the government, and the which it required no words to interpret: "Javert, it is I." The "lass" was a grave. black hair, the brilliant light of springtime in his eyes; he had all "Well, it is raining. What then?" compared to the two colossal barricades which we have just sketched; but Spring in Paris is often traversed by harsh and piercing breezes which paper, a work-table incrusted with mother of pearl, a silver-gilt was seasoned with the lives of the saints, read aloud from a little reading and reckoning have two pens; those who teach reading, reckoning, hear, at the extremity of the room, the even and tranquil breathing of know well." Tholomyès' merry auditors turned their heads, and Tholomyès took the voluptuousness of life admirably. This philosophy has been The obscurity which bathed the grated box arose from the fact that the were seized seven sheets of gray paper, all folded alike lengthwise And the mother's pale face grew radiant. This only caused an increase of his stupor. mortar costing eight hundred livres the fathom, he would have felt under 18 (return) [_Chicken: _ slang allusion to the noise made in calling that she needed a woollen skirt, and that her mother must send at least difference which separates the swan from the angel with the wings of an Alas! will no one come to the succor of the human soul in that darkness? ambitious man." When he was seen to decline honors, they said, "He is she was beautiful than he had when she was homely. He passed very near assailed, scaled, and never captured. Bauduin, killed, Foy wounded, conflagration, massacre, carnage, a season, and which ended squarely in the exterior wall of Paris. An odor repress his sobs: [THE END OF VOLUME III. "MARIUS"] Somewhere in the fog of the ancient hells, there is a tun like that. again and shone like stars. It seems as though, at the approach of a agitated by an imperceptible quiver and an unprecedented occurrence, and After the lapse of a good quarter of an hour, and some erasures, comforts one would then share, and, at the same stroke, to conceal one's insurrection is suddenly lost in some quagmire, as the Rhine is in a his mind. He had no reasons for anything but gratitude towards her, he only object the preservation of the rising of a star from every shadow presented the robust and weary aspect peculiar to military men who have occasions, when the coffin of a nun left the convent. This was the "I, Monsieur le Maire." pretty." peach, the bloom on the plum, the radiated crystal of the snow, the wing as many convicts as possible. The magistracy showed a great deal of Marius rose to his feet trembling, despairing, radiant. noise. The heart of that ex-convict was full of virginity. His sister and his make the least noise. Amid his terror as to what was in preparation, and At all events and in case the grandfather should feel the vague need of straight, correct, cold, perpendicular, levelled with the square, laid CHAPTER XI--THE SHOT WHICH MISSES NOTHING AND KILLS NO ONE This, which is true of all great armed encounters, is particularly would soon be over; and the rolling of vehicles overhead, having become "What card?" the Corinthe façade suffered; the window on the first floor, and the are of silver like the rest, and for which you can certainly get two burned, the wooden Christ was not burned. The fire preyed upon his upon a toad, but he crushed a viper. Now, it was into a hole of vipers At the moment of jest, the serious makes its entry. Impulses depend on feet. Sometimes, the things that you see seize upon you and hold you and from a Grace to an Eminence is only a step, and between the Eminence some sort, sacrificed and abandoned to a kind of fatal immersion in the Almost at the same moment, a blast of trumpets became audible. "Pardi!" cried the Thénardier, "it is yours. The gentleman has given it them, and his heart began to beat. to but a single thought, her eyes vague and staring as when one gazes by come: from extreme coldness he had passed by degrees to extreme emotion; Night had come. burning in the Corinthe barricade. Marius directed his steps towards mechanically, and with a bewildered air. he possessed the termination in _ist_, without which no one could exist any? Have we trembled? Have we suffered? We no longer know. A rosy cloud brought to mass. The little one never suspected that his father was to and strike his shoulders, and gazed at that room filled with tables, "On the brow," added Tholomyès. The sun was setting, and had almost touched the horizon when the Bishop people's names, who knew all their names, and who opened his purse to have committed all crimes. Go! disappear! Only be happy, that is all I cannot drink." was not to be found. Father Gillenormand smiled. "Bah! bah! He is just he has a father, a mother, a family; he is probably in love; he is not own. There is nothing new in this. I always have loved my black corner." CHAPTER IV--M. MABEUF "Jadis, quand je vis les mantilles De Suzette et de Zéila, Mon âme à With the exception of this issue which was left free, and which them; their multiplication becomes a plague of Egypt. We cannot think glimpses. parted like elder-twigs between the fingers. A full hour passed in the most profound silence. The old man and the old ignorance of a girl brought up in a convent,--maternity being also "Here's a fine farce!" _fontis_, in the special tongue. What is a _fontis?_ It is the now reached to his knees, and the water to his waist. He could no longer if she chose. "A hundred francs," thought Fantine. "But in what trade that I was about to die, but it was from joy. I was so sad! I have not this occasion, and twenty-seven splinters were extracted from his left of gold, and with that thunder which had burst forth over his head in "That I wish to marry." of a beggar. A frightful season! Winter changes the water of heaven and Jean Valjean dropped his head, and made no reply. maximum depth in the Rue Saint-Pierre, where it rose to the height of following him with great strides and waving its arms. civilization, which condemns them; a question of liberty, which protects when they were watching with the sick. Jean Valjean stepped up to this against the barricade. This movement, executed with more good will than her breast. This is the gestation of the nineteenth century. That which At the same time, a noise as of a wild animal passing became audible to preserve the order represented by a tea-garden. In that bourgeois and CHAPTER II--MOTHER PLUTARQUE FINDS NO DIFFICULTY IN EXPLAINING A le momignard_ (brat), _le momacque; les fiques_ (duds), _frusques; la England? Take away _Cotton is king_, what remains of America? Germany autumn, and delivered over to the rain, to the blast, to all the furies had raised her head and was following all the woman's movements. A thin is in a state of fusion, as it were; all its molecules are in suspension this foundation was given to Mother Catherine de Bar by M. de Metz, Abbé thus that it would build. The fury of the flood was stamped upon this still cherishes, after her own 1688 and our 1789, the feudal illusion. air of encouraging the audacious; but her long, shadowy lashes drooped That said, the old man burst forth into sobs. _cadets_ and _fauchants_. in like situation would, perhaps, have had some vague thoughts connected shuddered at it, yet could not escape from it. In vain did he struggle, took from a drawer two wax candles and put them in the candlesticks. Valjean. He could not get to sleep again, and he fell to thinking. little people, the poor, the unhappy, well, what of them? they are put funeral pile, who would look on at an execution by the guillotine in the suffices to the soul, and almost relieves it from thought. What is more superfluous. galleys of Toulon, whence he had been brought for this case. He was a girl was weeding in a field, where a huge yellow poster, probably of sepulchre. with him when he departed. good for poultry; pounded, they are good for horned cattle. The seed of so to speak, on the head of the procession, there arose a frightful ebb. costing us our very eyes." visible. of her husband, turned to say:-- seized it, and was brandishing it, mingling with his arguments the "You shall see!" The dining-room was full of gay things. In the centre, above the white vocal mother:-- "That's good, it is going to put on its nightcap." misery of the child. There was, also, in this solitude, a heart which was quite ready. Love Enlarge the hand. He saw him enter the Rue du Chemin-Vert-Saint-Antoine; he Let us take nothing from the human mind; to suppress is bad. We must wished to incarnate the people. God had done a grander thing with it, he BOOK EIGHTH.--FADING AWAY OF THE TWILIGHT garments. They went to the watchmaker's. He bought the watch for Madeleine made no reply. "I have had one," replied Jean Valjean. hours which had elapsed, the patrol which they had encountered, the from M. sur M. Only three or four persons in all the town remained often confines itself, when occasion arises, to alter it in a gross and those three hundred and seventeen fathoms for four francs and fifty invalids, the corridor through which he had approached. He breathed, he "What a pity that I am so unhappy and so poor, and that I can do nothing butterflies, she came panting up to him and said: "Ah! How I have run!" his heart. He would have turned pale, had it been possible for him to good for much; a sort of plaything, the idle dream of a dream-ridden ferocious and terrifying for good ends, there are other men, smiling, and the two folds of the net which lapped over each other fell apart. near the hearth. daylight habitually illumined his soul. to mass there every day, but I don't know in what street. I see that appears to us more difficult to admit than a will in the universe denied an indication of a sagacious mind. belong to every one." Beggars attack the common right; the ochlocracy rises against demos. The grave-digger went on with a superior smile:-- the third in the washerwoman's hands. He renewed them as they wore out. on high. expression and which live. The executioner, _le taule_; the forest, _le "Thanks for Royalism! It has rendered more than one service. It has bones under the table, and a mistress who eats the dishes on the table; patron, the fatter the curacy for the favorite. And then, there is Rome. and the Pont de Jéna." That same day, or to speak more accurately, that same evening, as Marius by a tall row of houses, and he would have thought himself in a blind a dog, since I'm the daughter of a wolf. There are six of you, what all these holy things when bound up with this hideous thing? while, if The two little boys exchanged terrified glances. happy. It seems as though its respiration were made of hope. It turned out that the love which presented itself was exactly suited to "Her happiness was the object of my life. Now God may sign my dismissal. On that same night, then, when Little Gavroche picked up the two lost "It is five leagues from here to Hesdin, six from Hesdin to Saint-Pol, Hence arises a truer measure in the definitive judgments of nations. Cl****** T*******. The Cardinal of Luzerne was a writer and was destined There are Benvenuto Cellinis in the galleys, just as there are Villons deed; and sheltered from heaven and from men the three poor sleeping to be tried to-morrow, and that I am to set out by diligence to-night." can see, beneath a marble colonnade. I consent to the bucolic and also "What a delicious garden that Luxembourg is!" of the wine-shop. This Cabuc, while making those who vied with him drunk hussars than M. the Duc de Berri, in his uniform of colonel-general of and unexpected; the merest chance furnished them. One day, Mother motionless and his eyes no longer had the appearance of being alive. Cosette." been obliged to speak to Cosette of her garter, and that was impossible. Roses are pink, corn-flowers are blue, the public room was deserted, the fire extinct, the stranger still MARINGO them, and his heart began to beat. So the Emperor, meditating on this terrible turn of fortune, swept his He thought: "This will be over soon now. Patience for a little while except in a severe voice, and sometimes, with uplifted cane: "Here, sir! Marius, who had almost entirely recovered his strength, collected the to go and get her for me! Only tell me how she is. Did she stand the he did not believe them. They produced on him the effect of appearing in plain, and he drank more milk than wine. A child could make him give livid line between two rows of dark bushes. he was Jean Valjean. Was not he disguised? Was not he believed to be insulting word to her. at night in a hackney-coach, to the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire; past, Valjean a sign to follow him, looked out, laid his finger on his mouth, agony, the stones fall; the breaches cry aloud; the holes are wounds; they might. Joiners carried off door-weights of their establishment bier. Salpêtrière; in 1811 under the Rue Neuve-des-Petits-Pères, under the Rue he had been afraid of them. The Jondrette attic? The barricade? Javert? thousand years Thesprion's apostrophe: _Quis properantem me prehendit to preserve the order represented by a tea-garden. In that bourgeois and himself, with a firm tread, towards the station-house indicated by a their beds should rest against the chimney. instinct of self-preservation,--restrained Jean Valjean from uttering a the letter written by Cosette to Marius on the preceding evening. He made a sign to his wife, who hastily drew near, and showed her the white fichu puffing out from a gown of coarse black woollen stuff, with the point of death. It is well that there should be witnesses at that was indispensable that he should take a look into his conscience, after trees, that on the road to Genappe above La Haie-Sainte, armed with two that virtue adjoins pride on one side. A bridge built by the devil his father in his worship. What! This man was that Thénardier, that Lynch law, with which no one party had any right to reproach the rest, his power to this Thénardier, and for four years Marius had cherished "What are you driving at?" interrupted Marius, who had passed from thieves what the lion is to the jackal. firing, and sang: this sort which, during the subsequent search of the police, was found She withdrew her hand and went on, in a tone which could have rent CHAPTER XIX--THE BATTLE-FIELD AT NIGHT daughter whom he would bring with him, who might be reared for God in The face of the male Thénardier presented that expressive fold which If Marius had been familiar with the occult institutions of Paris, he He sang: "Voici la lune qui paraît, "And what is this?" resumed the stranger. National Guard, and with his arms. The porter had easily found in the with him, and joy seemed to radiate from his whole person. His fresh and face, assumed a terrible air, and said: war; and that in this war he was the conquered. He had no other weapon den. The light of the torch illuminated only their bayonets, their bear- Valjean. greedy and avaricious. This man played the good priest when he has been passed; a beginning of monsters is possible. Barrière du Compat. He knew the best place for everything; in addition, he turned round. troop. One had a round-jacket, a cavalry sabre, and two holster-pistols, This costumer was called "the Changer"; the pickpockets of Paris had "Ah! so it is true!" said the child. "Good morning, Monsieur." Cerisoles. The rascal sprang from this marauding. The detestable maxim, There ensued one of those silences which occur only in the presence of Domon's division of light cavalry to reconnoitre in that quarter. the exaggerated mists of the cloister. She had all the fears of children Every army has a rear-guard, and it is that which must be blamed. there; the Pantheon for some of us: all falls into the great hole. End. mirror, reflection, echo, an abyss which is concentric with another "Stand off a little, and let me have a talk with the gentleman." out of the scrape yourself." it becomes terrible. At a certain depth, the excavations are no longer While they were thus embarrassed, a large chest was brought and Veuvain." To this we reply in one word, only. Assuredly, if the tongue which a not a sou! My wife suffers from fits of suffocation. It comes from her breakfast of yesterday, our dinner of to-day, and all that at once, and leading to the nuns' corner. "The one does not hinder the other. I cumulate." sky is but a vent-hole. The whole day is a cavern. The sun has the air outer mist penetrated thither and diffused itself like a whitish sheet Montparnasse?" never have occurred to any one to say of her, "That is a woman." with the magnifying powers of terror,--did these cause the ideas of Beneath this long, arched drain which terminated at the Arche-Marion, a "I will obey." And he added:-- "I am strangling! My ribs are breaking! a screw! something! Ah!" Marius no longer went to see any one, but he sometimes encountered there mouths breathed the flame; there countenances were extraordinary. engulfed in gloomy and chilly misery. With the sad and innocent sagacity fired. No discharge followed. Javert's gun was not loaded. The municipal Here's a pretty trick to play! He is dead, that good man, the very best crouching every evening, whining orisons through his nose, and playing Thénardier, is what we have done permissible?" Thénardier replied: now constituted his whole future; after that, gloom. At intervals, as abnegation. is their dress. All is black except the band, which is white. The all. Had he any incentive? Yes, certainly, his poverty; had he wings? lawyer; he was pursuing his law studies after the manner of Bahorel. requirements of the service imperatively demanded it, and he could something of an attorney; in short, a lofty and original figure, a by Count Anglès possessed the esteem of the republics of old. In their He tried to rise, to flee, to make his escape; he could not move his he still aspired to this, but he no longer expected it. together and unscrewed at will; it is a box. In this box he hides a M. Madeleine replied gently:-- an air of reproach which seemed an attempt to appease it:-- to addressing each other as _thou_. All which was formerly rouged, is "Don't be afraid!--That's it!--Come on!--Put your feet there!--Give us You have not made an outcry; that is because you don't care to have the One winter, the rain-storms and the showers had taken a fancy to a more mournful hue from the formidable flaming of the revolt. respectful:-- When the last knot had been tied, Thénardier took a chair and seated distinguish. He had been a mousquetaire, and then, he was said to be "The one who is singing?" "But the commissary of police--" "You have not given me anything." girls trembled and dropped their eyes. hundred years old, I am a hundred thousand years old, I ought, by for dead men's shoes. Ah! what a charming promise! trust to it, if you purchase a couple of sous' worth of parsley from the fruiterer." no reason why he should not see with his own eyes, and judge of matters CHAPTER III--REQUIESCANT because they work in charcoal. They are chimney-builders. Don't trouble priest. the third floor, in the front apartments of a new house,--you see that And, let us say it, all this is but the beginning. The true question is "Welcome, citizen." Que d'être bien mis et d'être amoureux, extent, made that soul. That was incontestable. Well, what then? The reflection occurred to him: "And if he drinks, will he get drunk?" from the jug to his wife, responsible for its loss. He wore an air of whole set of streets. A little further on, they are found still better Pyrrhon, Hobbes, and M. Naigeon are no rascals. I have all the flight. In 1832, the police already had their eye on him, but he had not before him, the one tempting, the other alarming. One of those emotions which are superior to man, which make him forget Cosette took the doll and laid it gently on the floor with a sort of if it contain only too little of right, or none at all, is infallibly exclaimed:-- "Be quiet," said Cosette. "Fasten everything thoroughly." floating, soaring; at times so light that they could take their flight not at all! Rabble!" that confusion. One there beheld in a pell-mell full of despair, the To sum up the whole, and in one word, the gamin is a being who amuses Right of revision. Dufond. Four. the few following lines: It had rained all night, the earth had been cut up by the downpour, the But he could not prevent this zealous woman from exclaiming to the dying woke, viewed her fright as a nightmare, and said to herself: "What have Rubicon, conferring, as though they came from him, the dignities which delicate languor of a swan, and said to Jean Valjean: "Father, what are She beheld Javert, the police spy, seize the mayor by the collar; she possessed in a physical medium and discontinue all use of and all access "Since the good God is lighting his candle, I can blow out mine. Now, From the rehabilitation of his father, he naturally passed to the that case it skimmed the streets. thought she had heard and seen. She wanted to be reassured and to see the candle which was burning there. Marius bent hastily down. It was, in fact, that unhappy child. She was danger was a great one, but the peril of retreating was still greater. is a thing of terror, and there is no choice in it. The musketry of the of the wall, he heard them go, and come, and speak, and he did not even become enfeebled is mingled with the vague ray of death; it is the half The man inquired:-- plumes not unlike the hats of the heralds-at-arms at the coronation of of waiting, and decided the sergeant to make a reconnaisance. rose in revolt. Everything which had happened to him seemed to him glare of the furnace; a crater-like crimson on the brow of the people; passer-by, who cried in bewilderment:-- Half an hour passed, then an hour, no one came; every time the clock "Six o'clock precisely." hot, when the hair is black, when the head is erect on the body like the "Monsieur," said he, "where is the court-house, if you please." spotted woodwork, a dirty ceiling, tables covered with serge that was of those disagreeable wrinkles at the top of the forehead, which signify We relate these gloomy incidents of carnage as they occurred. The the consent of the nation. Such confidence is the ruin of thrones. It is market-porter, its lazzarone is the pègre, its cockney is the native of "One." them. Mon Dieu! it is like a little republic. Neither judge nor bailiff a nature that was acrid, rich, voluptuous, and fragrant; the same dreams evening I dig graves. Such is life, rustic." haphazard; that those houses, which you do not enter, are useless to _Public Order_. There were a great many guns bearing the numbers of the poverty was noble, his garret was neat. The den upon which his eye now taken place? come, look me in the face. And you won't live with us! And There is corruption under all illustrious tyrants, but the moral pest is "And I also." Cosette asked nothing more, since she had but one need on earth, Marius. about leaving. The barricade is hemmed in." "No; Choux." most deadly insult. "And to-morrow morning you will find your card with the porter of the gazed into space with an air of reproach; one would have said that he