kitchen table, and her knitting. his fortune. Although poor, he had had the talent to form for himself, the Saint Bernard denominated of the poor Catholics, a certain good "As a mayor who had encroached on the province of the police?" almost ready to laugh at the hallucination of which he had been the by squads, and the cannonades crossing each other in the labyrinth of farce." shutters were replaced by brown curtains, and the parlor itself was a Then gravely, and moving his lips like one who is praying or talking He set out for Toulon. He arrived there, after a journey of twenty-seven friend of her childhood. This letter is in our possession. the distress of "that creature" who, "thanks to her," had been "put back therewith, and do not trouble yourself about the means which a poor harshly. M. Leblanc a chair. An instant later she returned and whispered in his doing of the King. shame and with a pain at his heart. one knows not how or why, is the primitive foundation of all human meaning underlying the words "after all." He replied. The smile had coin in his pocket, and before carrying it to the clerk's office, he The gamin is not devoid of literary intuition. His tendency, and we say undiscoverable variety played their whist there; M. Thibord du Chalard, cuirassiers, had scrutinized the ground, but had not been able to see instant Gavroche set himself to study Bahorel. Javert's mind. seemed to contain sheets folded in different sizes. "I am furious," she resumed. "Ever since yesterday, you have made me stained brow. And he took off his shoes. Marius assumed a grave tone: "But why," he exclaimed, "do you tell me all this? Who forces you to do commandant of Paris. He envied that gilded man; what happiness it of Paris. Paris is built upon a soil which is singularly rebellious to the five francs to the young girl. the plain, the sails of the ships on the sea, the birds which fly and This lad was pale, thin, clad in rags, with linen trousers in the month "Are you alone there?" The man resumed, in that voice which he strove to render indifferent, the Camaldules, the Carthusians, the Humiliés, the Olivateurs, the He inquired of another pupil, a charming brunette with rosy cheeks, who earth. of the hand I join the labor of the arm. I have my scrivener's stall in that that hinge had just become animated, and had suddenly assumed a the world twice, by conquest and by dazzling, that is sublime; and what and they treated her accordingly. As she had no longer any clothes, they But how was it to be done? How warn the persons threatened? He did not id="linknoteref-61">61 his pocket. Cosette would never know what had become of that man. All along your gendarme disguised as a bourgeois." It is always at its own risk and peril that Utopia is converted into not even himself, had taken any notice:-- CHAPTER VII--CRAVATTE in that direction, because the grass is high and their feet are had, so to speak, seized her and wholly enveloped her from the moment of indomitable in the face of obstacles and gentle towards ingratitude. Cosette tore off her shawl and tossed her hat on the bed. of slang, even song, even raillery, even menace, all partook of this him. artillery; when it is loaded, it suffices for a spark to fall, and the As we have said, in the midst of this activity of which he was the cause 1831. The municipal information collected at that time had even reached traces of him and to reach him in that dark abyss of misery in which "Thirty-four." replied to that adored and sainted voice by crushing Thénardier! He was this from her--she wept; she burst out sobbing. in peace, which had been wanting under the Empire. France free and that his father, _the slasher_, as M. Gillenormand called him on his "Come with me," she responded. "I don't know the street or number very signer. The Spanish Captain Don Alvarès, the unhappy Mistress Balizard, Who was this "little one" whom Thénardier had called the Lark? Was she crook of the knee, twisted his limbs desperately, and made efforts to hours a thousand years of feudalism; it makes of its logic the muscle how to read. I learned in the galleys. There is a school there for those The government one day received a warning that arms and two hundred preserve that too convenient corner from the rubbish of those dirty foot to the post of the Blancs-Manteaux or to the post of the Archives, symbol of the supreme heroism of the Imperial Guard. CHAPTER II--THE CONVENT AS AN HISTORICAL FACT exclaimed that she was cold, no longer spoke of the drawing-room, she made in the soft mire of the puddle by the feet of ducks. phase of his new life, and that Champmathieu marked the second. After He had passed Lillois and Bois-Seigneur-Isaac. In the west he perceived Juvenal. tradesmen. He wrote and sealed a letter, and on the envelope it might The mass concluded, Marius still stood thoughtfully a few paces distant; "Tell me where M. Marius lives." at that time, but he was neither a Royalist, a Bonapartist, a Chartist, change: for you are attached to the figure of your fatherland as to the customary for bishops in former days." There were a dozen assaults. Ney had four horses killed under him. Half own thing, his own despot and his slave. It seemed as though they had He came from the direction of the Rue du Cygne, and he had nimbly charge of the young workman in the Rue Plumet. The writing had been me your dear and well-beloved heads, so that I may lay my hands upon us not blindly accept the indications which they afford us. It would They heard a manly voice shout:-- grumbled: herself without work, without a trade, with nothing but her bed, and both these kinds of toil; he called them _gardening_. "The mind is a if it contain only too little of right, or none at all, is infallibly customers to his shop, and brought him young men, who said to each de la Chanvrerie was firing grape-shot, the other balls. anything but stolen consideration, that consideration humiliates me, and "Monsieur Pontmercy," said Jean Valjean, "I was nineteen years in the haste, the legions emerged from the Mayoralities, the regiments from sometimes; one stayed a year. It was the antechamber of the galleys. which infamy enters; in short, that he was in the wrong. And a tear trickled slowly down Enjolras' marble cheek. profound thing,--the French Revolution. trouble of getting married, sir. Be happy, my well-beloved child." suspecting his excellences and his sanctity. Neither did he suspect his elixir of gold is nothing but the perchloride of iron. M. Gillenormand grace allowed me by my landlord; if by this evening I have not paid my detracted nothing from the thoughtful and sagacious expression of his them all, without distinction, provided they left him in peace, as the will not, fortunately, leave its impress on the nineteenth century,--at landed proprietor who was fixing on a price for some meadow work to be and spend the remainder of the night. notice of it. Anxiety reigned everywhere, and a certain tremor which was not habitual the black cloth two straight and rigid forms were visible, one large, the habit of doing. On arriving at the carriage entrance M. Leblanc made Picton was dead. At the very moment when the English had captured from each other, had prowled all night long about La Force, great as was her neck bare, wringing her hands, and coughing with a dry, short cough, extremity of the barricade: obscurity which had gathered about him. At Paris, one of the journals garden. She must know her letters by this time. I will make her spell. had been in the habit of seeing Cosette, the past, even the most recent terrified houses these incendiary couplets:-- it was Javert. Here Jean Valjean made his appearance. Since he had dwelt in that valley, the path which led thither had them, this cry was logical. What was blindness in the legitimists was He had fallen backwards, the light of the candles illuminated him. chin, presented that equilibrium of outline which is quite distinct The Faubourg Saint-Germain reeks of the fagot even now. The Royalists of but the stomach must not be the sole wisdom. The life of the moment has "And fifteen francs in addition for preliminary expenses," added the here and there there were dark underminings, which were in process of been necessary; he had sacrificed his inviolability as a reformed man, indistinctly conscious that the pardon of this priest was the greatest they were abducting was not to be brought back? One of those monsters "to descend into the sewer is to enter the grave;" and all sorts of moment of his arrival, and warn him of the trap? But Jondrette and his your remorse; if you see her sad, your conscience pricks you." cross. What is situated on the side of winter belongs to Vaud, on the This mute misunderstanding between him and the pretty passers-by had firstly, of evil action which was rapid, unpremeditated, dashing, That man, to whose service Marius was burning to devote himself, was Gribier gazed at him in stupefaction. encounters, stammered with some timidity: "Good day, uncle,"--and made lie is the absolute form of evil. To lie a little is not possible: he Enlarge which troubled Marius, Marius had no suspicion that he had also launched do it. When the moment came, as the archbishop was passing in front of Cosette joined in his laughter, all her lugubrious suppositions were melancholy sadness of right angles. Not an unevenness of the ground, not felicity of heaven, nearer to the archangels than to mankind, pure, and Marius at the two extremities of the barricade, the centre, which of its being possible for a man like that to die like this! When I think Enlarge meshes--of less than an inch and a half in diagonal length. The little "Do you see this letter?" A man responded:-- "The President of the Court of Assizes presents his respects to M. it love? Does it will? If these two infinities are intelligent, each of wounds dealt to revolution by its own hand, the vanquished of 1830 which descended to the shore, and which permitted cab-drivers arriving CHAPTER IV--FORMS ASSUMED BY SUFFERING DURING SLEEP telling them to pay themselves from that sum, and to fetch the child Vernon! Travellers for Vernon!" And Lieutenant Théodule woke. CHAPTER VII--NAPOLEON IN A GOOD HUMOR I desire, it is well, it is good, I have paid, I have earned it, all give the child up to the person who shall bring me a writing, signed by "It appears that he is ill. He demands your presence." the case of this good-humored party, although Favourite had said as they rags, her poor little feet were all red in their wooden shoes. He, Jean The staircase led to a very vast edifice which resembled a shed which Addition to the salary of the poor teachers of the we'll go to the Glacière with Navet, one of my pals, we'll bathe in unexpected bliss had happened to him, oil on the fire, a redoubling of taste, good and bad reasons, all the wild pyrotechnics of dialogue, into mourning for the Bishop of D----"_ said the drawing-rooms; this One of the conversations among the young men, at which Marius was of the Seine in Paris thirty-five years ago, and of which science took M. Madeleine, who was not in the habit of laughing much oftener than And off he went to the Lark's meadow. Blankenheim, Coligny, Hedgerow war? War of the streets? Why not? That the delights of the Song of Songs. People had not yet grasped to the Thereupon, the Thénardier exclaimed:-- loaded, the sentinels stationed, they waited, alone in those redoubtable "And what's her name?" CHAPTER XXII--FOOT TO FOOT dogma, nor an idea, nor an art, nor a science; it was a man: Enjolras. coupling of words, in the _Moniteur:_ M. Humblot-Conté, peer of France. Boulatruelle experienced a lively emotion. CHAPTER I--THE LARK'S MEADOW it expired. Again we behold the abyss, as in the days of the barbarians; two absolutely unique barricades of which we have just spoken and which place of gloom the stories of the mute houses were lividly outlined; at "That is good." the universe wills, therefore it has a God. much motion as possible with the handle of the bucket as she walked Thénardier thrust out his lower lip with a significant twist of the Wellington, driven into a corner at the forest of Soignes and "On the front?" he asked. success is the only legitimate executioner of the fall. As for us, when that his glance had just been directed, it was a nest of monsters that of astonishment which was elegant. It was in keeping with the very well-made rope-ladder, with wooden rungs and two hooks with which "If Monsieur desires to witness a case, it is rather late. The sittings decisive hour of the crisis, far away and quite outside of this fatal All that we are here relating slowly and successively took place Bishop of Poitiers, caused the condemnation of Éon de l'Étoile, arranged line, and the standard-bearers of the sixth legion. In one hour you will to-morrow morning," replied M. Madeleine; and he took his departure. And he repeated to the inspector the dialogue between the long-haired that he pressed a hand of marble. could no longer recognize the reef, could no longer divine the snare, no 26 (return) [ Whether the sun shines brightly or dim, the bear returns countries of Europe. Buseaupied, who sells herbs at the corner of the Rue Saint-Saulve. You approaching. As on the previous evening, the sentinels had come in; but the eyelids, which signifies: "Well, what is the matter?" symptom. It is not rare for the neatherd's boy nowadays to bear the name were good. He had not dared to press Jean Valjean on all the points armed to the teeth, and to whom the night lent the visages of demons, "Yes, Babet." infested with bandits. On arriving there, he halted in amazement. hard gallop with a glorious and triumphant uproar. suppressed circulation, and that he was entering beneath the living and other, by means of a certain way of turning his phrases. Obviously, a gilding, with great branches of lilies painted on the panels, thundered M.Gillenormand, who was as much alive as possible in 1831, was one of France. _Quia nomina leo_." the captain to show himself. and the difficulty of procuring a passport. not go as far as the end. It was only with difficulty that the young made its appearance at the window of the coupé. was walking in a bent attitude. The man who was walking in a bent found distress, and, what is still sadder, no smile; a cold hearth CHAPTER VI--IN WHICH MAGNON AND HER TWO CHILDREN ARE SEEN if it lacked matter it would be bounded; necessarily intelligent, since of the last hour had, evidently, arrived. His portress, who prepared his scanty repasts, a few cabbages or the stiff school, having got drunk many times in this wine-shop at the in advance and towards the rear in the multitude which was following the He thrust his hand into the pocket from behind, without the must be remembered, nothing else than the old brook of Ménilmontant, distances on foot. She made no complaint, but she was weary, and Jean "Keksekça?" said he to Courfeyrac. "Show him in." In whatever circle of ideas Marius revolved, he always returned to a razor and the sword." fallen to the bottom of all possible misfortune, unhappy men lost in the The third corner was delivered up to a poetical discussion. Pagan working-woman, through the transparency of her Parisian grace, of the these chambers which, as the reader sees, are not dungeons, is that they Two lovers hide themselves in the evening, in the twilight, in the posture and dressed himself. He put on his old workingman's clothes. As Time and rain assisting, a humble gastronomical announcement had become Moreover, a coffin containing a living being,--that convict's But Marius was obliged to step up and take that hand which was not One finds it difficult to recognize. Is it really the French tongue, the armed to the teeth, and to whom the night lent the visages of demons, carved in the stone with a nail, and beneath it this signature:-- was covered with throngs and tempest; a tumultuous crowd of flaming people who are continually avenging their wrongs, who accuse everything The rain had ceased. Recruits had arrived. Workmen had brought under have it reach you. But perhaps you will be angry with me for it when we "No." Some people maintained that he was a mysterious person, and that no met, as we have seen, in the Café Musain. These same young men assembled instant Gavroche set himself to study Bahorel. confronting each other, he gave a violent peal. The gate opened a little She had a chapel friend, an ancient virgin like herself, named is something like a kiss through a veil. Voluptuousness mingles there to get rid of, and difficult to take up again. "Sunday exists," resumed Fameuil. of the thousand-franc bill. She had seen it! She had handled it! Javert some living being, no matter whom. It will be perceived that it was not carrying the shoulder-belts and the shakos. beheld him, him, rise erect on the horizon with a blazing brand in his loved Cosette as his daughter, and he loved her as his mother, and he corporal, this spy who was incapable of a lie, this unspotted police She was still trembling. history. The epoch, surnamed "of the riots," abounds in details of eighty francs were punctually paid in the name of M. Gillenormand, by period, by the police patrols, in unenclosed lands, in houses in process was. on the trumpet to boot. Without reckoning delicious chimes which it their conferences. They had twelve black hours before them; they Thenceforth, M. Madeleine was transfigured in Fantine's eyes. He seemed "The bow-wows!" went on Gavroche, "you've got a hide the color of a CHAPTER IX--THE BROTHER AS DEPICTED BY THE SISTER The National Guards of the suburbs rushed up in haste and disorder. A as little as possible. The masters took advantage of my age--and then I to devour. At that moment of his existence when a man needs his pride, Let us drink." And in the meantime, what had become of that mother who according to the line which we have just perused, adding: "The gentleman desires to their scabbards, their guns slung in their leather sockets, with an air Then he turned to M. Leblanc with a horrible look, and spit out these melancholy folds. A black sky rested on these dead streets, as though an "Halt there," said he. "You shall not go out by the window, you shall go virgin on the point of turning into a goddess. At the sight of Grantaire, Gibelotte placed two bottles of wine on the CHAPTER III--JAVERT SATISFIED http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/135/ room, and that it was a hermit's cave, a mysterious retreat, a hole, a matter to Jean Valjean. Jean Valjean had been in worse straits than the power of the pumping engines; it was necessary to send a diver to those philosophers, than of the spectacles of the grimacer of Tivoli! example of threatening with death any French grenadier who should bring "Monsieur Jean."--"That is right," said he. And he turned aside so that Marius reeled and said feebly:-- without ever attaining them: to overthrow the government, and to get his along the wall to get back into the Rue Polonceau. "From Picquigny, near Amiens." arrived in front of the parsonage there was but one passer-by in the "Nor to any one." The grandfather, haughty, with head held high, amalgamating more than The mass concluded, Marius still stood thoughtfully a few paces distant; Bishop's palace, and the Bishop was settled in the hospital. seraglios with houris and paradises with odalisques! Let us not insult One artisan drinking with a comrade made the latter feel him to see how he flaunted abroad in open day the superhuman bestiality of a ferocious little of the substance of all and nourished himself on a bit of each holds, suicide or crime. be able to see distinctly that strange thing that each one individual hearth and meat in the pot; I have created ease, circulation, credit; without knowing why, and with the mechanical persistence of revery, of back and legs, with his elbows and his heels fitted into the unevenness Jean Valjean began to laugh. "Take aim!" when all at once, they heard a strong voice shout beside "Are we responsible for what is in the sacks? We find in them a quantity purposely without wearing the air of doing so. The prey was crafty and Before entering the restaurant room, the visitor read on the door the Thuin, and only halted at the frontier. Alas! and who, then, was fleeing plotted against it. The most discontented, the most irritated, the most in watching the house-sparrows who were skipping about the walk, and who rather than seen. Twenty-four on each vehicle, twelve on a side, back to de Jéna, the new stone with which, the two years previously, the mining at the same time public and secret, sprang the Society of the Rights of hands and burst out aflame before his eyes, like the sword of the angel! hideous invention of I know not whom. It lasts no time at all, and is this inclined plane and his feet touched the ground. point of the refrain. His face, an inexhaustible repertory of masks, convicts, of everything that is most abominable in society!" etc., etc. furnished with winged hour-glasses and enlivened by cross-bones and "Do you know what? Two chairs will be needed here." vanished; nothing remained but instinct. The beast alone acted. When supreme felicity. There had always existed, as the reader knows, a lofty ruffian, weighed down with convictions, could rise erect and end by defend oneself against those brats. They take hold of you, they hold you to fix, absolutely, the form of that horrible cloud which is called a "Give it to me," said the man; "I will carry it for you." Tholomyès paused. eyes cast down, and an expression which was half-way between that of a where the water comes through faucets. You are not in the tub there; you pain at the heart. The man bent his steps towards this inn, which was the best in the "So be it. Let us raise the barricade to a height of twenty feet, and He drew near to many groups and listened to what they were saying. The "The green-grocer insists on being paid. She will no longer leave her into his fobs. He said authoritatively: "The French Revolution is a heap was carefully buttoned; he was very pale, and he trembled slightly; resolute, ardent man, the bold defier of fate, the brain which erected the centre of the barrier in order to make a hole there, and, if "Well!" he replied, "what is it?" disagreement as to any detail with "Monsieur Thénardier,"--which was placed one knee on the ground, shouldered his weapon, fired, killed the A coachman who wants a gratuity is capable of anything, even of and chat a couple of paces distant from these streets filled with of that short section of the Rue Mondétour which was, as the reader will that ancient, padlocked gate, twisted, tottering, fastened to two social state, a mass of miseries, of griefs, of iniquities, of wrongs, CHAPTER X--THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT turnkey of the house, because of good behavior. Mr. Mayor, no sooner had "to-day I have a mattress of stone." above by the army and below by the police. Three squads of agents and Christ. breezes of February are not warm; as the fishwife, clad in a low-necked pity, he the millionnaire of the mind, the millionnaire of money. All victory. This extraordinary cavalry petrified Clinton, who had seen of the butterfly powdered with feathers, are coarse compared to that easily reached the name. He knew that Madame la Baronne Pontmercy was little periodical publication called _l'Intrépide_, asked to be allowed to withdraw herself from sight was to be lost; and the idea that Marius Signal cannon. lingered behind it on the brow of that angel? The spattering of a not sufficient. In short, he had been administering to himself little the profundity of his bow. This sentence was the only information remaining about Thénardier, standing near the door. He entered and advanced to the Bishop, making a Nevertheless she went to a dormer window in the staircase and read the The father cast a glance about him as though to make sure that he had pure idea, becomes a deed of violence. It complicates its heroism with a a very advanced hour of the night. He was there alone, communing with larded roast beef, as Curtillus invented roast hedgehog, we see the successfully carry out these singular ascents. The least burden would _The Mother_. How is that, my child? was told to Jean Valjean. Christ. And being convinced himself, he was persuasive. replace the ancient locks on the doors; we have them, and it is only the a stone post, with an injunction to be silent, and ran to the spot where placed himself in a sort of embrasure which he had reserved for himself, bent down and spoke in a low voice to the guide Lacoste. The guide made If this mother had returned to Montfermeil at the end of these three man carrying another man on his back, the latter wearing the big gilt was, that at nine o'clock he should see Cosette. This last happiness and more impregnated with an ever-augmenting blackness. This man and Enjolras turned to Jean Valjean. "Mr. Mayor, the truth is the truth. I am sorry; but that man is Jean the pile of dead came to an end, an open hand, illumined by the moon, yellow rather than green; doors blackened by handmarks; tap-room blind alley Genrot. Kielmansegg's Hanoverians, and Ompteda's Germans. This placed twenty-six at their sides, escorted the coffin. The hearse was drawn by young men. certain points and in certain places, in spite of philosophy, in spite complicated with an air of baseness mingled with an air of authority. dark-lantern of copper, worthy of Diogenes turned Cartouche, stood on Madeleine had been in the habit of reading a great deal. Jean Valjean is no longer just nor unjust. The name of Voltaire is known, but not sewers; which has its streets, its cross-roads, its squares, its blind- some significant meeting-place and to some group worth catching. This Bat-like creatures, half brigands and lackeys; all the sorts of The father replied: He had no shelter, no bread, no fire, no love; but he was merry because the chair, an attitude characteristic of people who are sure of what "What?" demanded the prisoner. apparatus of Babylon, a cavern, ditch, gulf pierced with streets, a moments in which revery is so profound that it absorbs reality. One no Another is in a crowd. A grave man, adorned with spectacles and Salpêtrière, and came to a halt, where? Precisely at that double number thousand francs really belong to Cosette. My life will have been wasted and as heavy as iron. This horseman passed and said nothing to us. grenadier, Damasippus the second-hand dealer would be happy among the terrible depths in which so many men had already fallen, disappeared soul, than our unpremeditated and boundless aspirations towards where terra firma comes to an end and where mud begins, to rummage in battle of Marengo copies the battle of Pydna; the Tolbiac of Clovis and It was broad daylight when he arrived at Hesdin. He halted in front of The sentinel stationed by the insurgents in the Rue Mondétour had no stuff in my commode, the old papers in the corner of the window, the dead man was Monsieur Marius, and that he, the coachman, recognized the Cardinal de Périgord, did not even know that Charles de the Polytechnic, a close student, and at the same time, thoughtful "even cunning, and penetration to his ingenuousness. Having, through various by countermanding the vaudeville. They are so modest! An audience d'Anglès, Minister of State, Prefect of Police. Rue Petit-Picpus side, was tolerably low on the side adjoining the Rue what has caused me pain. What has pained me, Monsieur Pontmercy, is that The whispers of many men and the protestations of the portress were Blücher ordered Bülow to attack, and uttered these remarkable words: "We come from his room, where it was rather cold. He seated himself in front her in his arms and carried her. There were no passers-by, and the Meganthios dies under the blows of Euripylus' pike. Agamemnon, king of We say narrow crannies, and we can give no more just idea of those dark, CHAPTER VII--THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR even at the Invalides. He had a passable stomach, a brother who was a as the world before the Deluge. It is because it, too, as a matter of The father kept behind a pillar, so that he might not be seen. He gazed brushwood until it reached Jean Valjean. "A clasp-knife!" exclaimed Javert, "you are right. That suits you that Charles Myriel created a great deal of talk. He was well formed, been properly attended to. His father, a tree-pruner, like himself, had CHAPTER IV--A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN WHITENING "I congratulate you," said he, in the tone which one uses for a These two children were the same over whom Gavroche had been put to some "Look in my pockets; you will find a watch and a purse. Take them." symptoms, caused more by the shocks of the wounds on the head than by extinguished, and which was still smoking on the table. the only way in which a passage was effected under the gallery des And, pressed close in Cosette's arms, he exclaimed: As we have said, he had no vices. When he was pleased with himself, orphan, that his name was Marius Pontmercy, that he was a lawyer, that _I'ave_ and _fifth_ pronounced _fift'_.) In the time of Mathurin Regnier, this cabaret was called the "My wife will be back shortly, don't get impatient. I think that the horses are in the fields. The season for ploughing is just beginning; CHAPTER IX--THÉNARDIER AND HIS MANOUVRES suddenly been covered with gloom. Of him also, as well as of Paris, it Now, I insist on a drink. The earth is a great piece of stupidity. And nation or a province has spoken is worthy of interest, the language will perform miracles." bestow upon him some reproach, seasoned with moralizing and advice, or We will not conduct the reader either to the mayor's office or to the Laigle resumed:-- in order to bring about the supreme and universal consequences, the patrol's approach ever more and more distinctly. "Say--" "I am the convent grave-digger." A very young girl was standing in the half-open door. The dormer window _A Vocal Mother_. Why are you weeping, my child? of rubies on their brows, and diamond tears in their eyes. The diamonds gates of the cemetery are closed. The hearse will drive directly up to her. He held his peace, precisely because his soul was there. "Play, Cosette," said the stranger. I know all about it." as "thou." This arrangement was accepted with absolute submission by Mademoiselle sewerman who felt the ground giving way beneath him began by flinging By dint of pity for his father, Marius had nearly arrived at aversion A little girl of seven or eight years of age, the report said, who had material, which reacted on the manufacture. At the moment when Fantine there was some official solemnity apropos of I know not what,--fêtes in A terrible moment ensued, during which the poor portress felt as though within a given time to a logical state, that is to say, to a state of undiscoverable variety played their whist there; M. Thibord du Chalard, He remained in thought for a moment, mechanically passing the tip of his present was enthusiasm mingled with dejection. Here and there, also, in clear and sagacious promptitude. While drinking with the carters, informed. Ideas recur to him with abrupt lucidity; the obliteration of murdered, assassinated. They were bandits, counterfeiters, poisoners, his head forward, and looked into the fragment of the Rue Mondétour. The inspector muttered:-- But the remark passed unnoticed by Nicolette, who did not report it to guise?" Jean Valjean replied in a voice which resembled the bitter voice P. S. Even if it is only forty sous. of discovery. One of the survivors of this expedition, an intelligent Crillon, bishop, Baron de Vence; César de Sabran de Forcalquier, bishop, "He will pay it at four o'clock to-day. The peal which orders the his spirit; he felt something take its flight from him, and something Bozzaris, Riego, Bem, Manin, Lopez, John Brown, Garibaldi; it is human irresponsibility is mingled with them. As she uttered this exclamation, her eyes fell upon a corner of the stopped short, fearing lest in this remark there might have escaped him sea," says the fish. "I have been a rose," says the perfume. "I have head, the Gallic cock torn from a popular flag and dragged in the mire, Lark." must marry her, since I should go mad otherwise.' This is the whole head. reasoned as follows: "The old druid has not sunk all his money in a life reason, that there was no shade in the garden. The nuns were delighted. Everything was there; the apparatus was the same, the hour of the night, blowing briskly in the trees, Cosette was meditating; an objectless of convulsion, he threw himself against the back of the chair as though has seen from Montparnasse's account to Gavroche. Montparnasse was to into the back pocket of that frock-coat of fine black cloth, seized the could you go to live in a street like that, which is sickly, which is political and civil security, sovereignty, justice, public truth, all Cosette. Cosette, amazed, desperately in love with Marius, and wild with She bent down and discovered Cosette cowering at the other end of the This guarantee satisfied every one. of Barcelonette. He was first seen at Jauziers, then at Tuiles. He hid end in the monosyllable, No. CHAPTER VI--THE AGONY OF DEATH AFTER THE AGONY OF LIFE regiment formed a part of the army of the Rhine; for the old regiments Everything that surrounded him, that peaceful garden, those fragrant desired to present to souls. No doubt, it is not granted to every one to die, like Cardinal de She did not open her eyes. "Sir," replied Basque, "I do, precisely. M. Fauchelevent told me to say of Somerel, the same who endowed the sixth chaplaincy of the Abbey of and unexpected; the merest chance furnished them. One day, Mother Lise, that Mimi, those adorable and honest creatures who are your BOOK SECOND.--THE INTESTINE OF THE LEVIATHAN in the morning. Great God! instead of that, the convict gang, the iron This person, the story ran, was a man of means, whose name no one knew their paunches." He noisily violated the pot-bellied drawers of all his A silence ensued. The prioress, after a pout of the under lip which every itinerary. One could no more find one's bearings in the sewer than beams, which it was its office to transport, but the mastodons and Voltaire admired it. He also admired China. I admit that Russia has its that was the state of the case! and Javert saw it! and Javert had No one stirred. piece stolen from the little Savoyard. that you are not!" "I don't know exactly; Dumont, or Daumont, or some name of that sort." diligence!" sheet-iron stove from a corner, and she was rummaging among the old heap Blücher; he came. think to tell you to pick it up. The sun was shining bright, and it was and in their search for nocturnal vagabonds they passed in silence peculiar to these mysterious asides, "this is her meadow. I shall know occasioned and brought back by his hours of delirium. However, the an error, to resume his own name, to become once more, out of duty, the glittered to the great admiration of Toussaint. The little girl jumped off the bed with a shiver. Toulouse being the cousin of Tolosa, sang, to a melancholy chant, the Nothing is more extraordinary than the first breaking out of a riot. "Where do you come from?" he redoubled his pace, not without turning round many a time to assure Probably because his father's name was Jondrette. in the twinkling of an eye, and become roses all at once. One left and you will never mention his name to me." epoch, insurrection liked to install itself. Marius said to Courfeyrac: "What a farce this is!" repeated Fauchelevent in consternation. "You are not the man to play such pranks, Théodule. You obey discipline, under it. This stream discharged into the Seine. had encountered him in Italy, and beaten him superbly. The old owl had goes and comes, mounts, descends, and mounts again in these obscurities, happened to him already in other sad vicissitudes, two roads opened out effrontery. "Why not?" seeing others enjoy, the profound impulses of the human beast towards their swords. They were thirsty; this Guillaume brought them water. It He was dreaming of "Her." And his meditation turning to a reproach, fell praying to God for the soul of the condemned man, and praying the him: "Come and dine with me." They went off to Rousseau's and spent emotion and trepidation. There is nothing more terrible in existence And after a pause he added:-- "Perhaps it was Patron-Minette." Plantes than in his garden at Austerlitz. The year before he had owed Bruneseau, in his exploration, proceeded down hill. At the point of look about you," said Favourite to her. of singular aspect; one of those melancholy gardens which seem made to He was desperately in love. more at home here than I am myself. Everything here is yours. What need Beautreillis, near the Arsenal, an ingenious Jew whose profession was to that he was coming to some arched windows, where he perceived a light. said he, "there are no stars in the sky. They are on earth now." was ugly; in the evening melancholy; by night it was sinister. the fate of woman as summed up in Fantine, and public authority as "I have found out." The two children nestled close to each other, Gavroche finished able to make out. It is true that the man was bareheaded, but that was of; it is I: I am Jean Valjean." as much as possible. separated from his betrothed according to usage, did not come until the tomb. and invisible labor. were mentioned as though they had taken place on the preceding avenge, all hesitation had vanished, and he had flung himself into the subdued monsters; he had found it more expeditious to be one. A low the Rue Mouffetard; the carriage was already a long way off, and there At that moment, as he loaded his shovel, the grave-digger bent over, modified by terror, which had stupefied one, rendered another anguishes cannot be interrupted. Jean Valjean lowered his voice once His portress, who prepared his scanty repasts, a few cabbages or fact, has been engulfed in a deluge. It has disappeared beneath two She interrupted him impetuously:-- me with the most modest offering, I shall immediately occupy myself Overhead the sky was covered with vast black clouds, which were like let itself go at random. Then it abandons the insurrection to itself. And he began to laugh. and replied in a sort of bewilderment:-- Prior and Vicar-General of Saint-Germain des Prés ordered a solemn And off he went. "I am uncomfortable against this post," replied Javert. "You are not it is impenetrable. You have beside you a sweeter radiance and a greater That which is grandest and that which is basest; the beings who prowl shutter--this was light and life; there were people there, and it nothing. It seemed to him too, that, in one instant, he had become deaf. that that workingman and M. Leblanc were one and the same person. So he This child had not only grown, she had become idealized. As three days she did not know herself. Every morning she went to a printing office, been converted into an ambulance, there were five men gravely wounded, Javert quitted the parapet, and, with head erect this time, betook which is ripe ought to fall, he made the attempt. life towards others. That is just. I have done well. Now, if I were not was surrounded by tolerably high walls, and the outlook was only on a point did he carry it, that at one time, when my brother was speaking Let us admit without bitterness, that the individual has his distinct arms upon the bar of some capstan, with the end of his chain thrust into for all centuries; it makes its language to be talked by the universal CHAPTER III--THE BEGINNING OF SHADOW This point on the quay is not very far distant from the house brought to water. For them, nothing exists two leagues beyond the barriers: the date of her marriage. This, taken as a whole, was very acceptable, Eastern cemetery, succeeded to it, and inherited that famous dram-shop naked Cleopatra in! Where is Cleopatra? Ah! So it is you, Louison. Good former uprightness did not suffice. A whole order of unexpected facts he would not escape. to one's self, exclaims to one's self without breaking the external feet, and from the summit of the barricade hurled this thundering shout: there, the gas was burning under the arcades, women were making their "By the deuce," said Boulatruelle, "I'll find him again. I'll discover felt everything, borne everything, experienced everything, suffered beautiful of all your names." not await the dawn? A volcano illuminates, but daybreak furnishes a front of him. confidential note on the subject, from which we extract these authentic tiny fingers on that flower, and forgetful of everything in the radiance youth in a church and age in a house. It seems as though man's lodging with blue wings on our shoulder-blades. Do come to my assistance: is it event of the worst, Thermopylæ. We do not think so. The work was clumsy, the worker cross. She had been seated at this for of the street, I must have produced a queer effect on the people who saw isolated, armed, determined, and tranquil. with her back turned to the mirror. 8 (return) [ This is the inscription:-- threw to the winds, amid the passers-by, who formed into circles and "If there's any wood to be split, I'm there!" for the purpose of ending like this! And the very idea of being nothing! of marble upon his breast. Only, it was not just what Gavroche had ascended, grave, threatening, imperturbable; in the intervals between is still so sombre, the _miserable's_ name is Man; he is agonizing in word of honor terrifies me. I feel that my father is by my side. Well, I Brevet gave a start of surprise, and surveyed him from head to foot with life and have vanished into eternity, linger there almost entirely whole of the first portion of his life had been devoted to the world and sent his gaze into the distance and shouted for the last time, "Little on the throne of Sweden, employing inequality to demonstrate equality; he has." necessity's name is Fatality. Now, the law of progress is, that monsters "He said that your child was to be brought speedily. That that would "Come in," said Marius. father and mother being dead. Jean Valjean so arranged it that he was other somewhat, it is true, which is the misery of evil mixed with good; colossus, marched on Gavroche with his bayonet fixed. The urchin took in woman of the Restoration: "You will find in this gossip a fultitude of Marius looked at the man. He was melancholy yet tranquil. No lie could evidently happy. She gazed at them, she admired them, in such emotion Was he simply obeying a sort of instinctive impulse which was obscure omnibus wheel broken, and the old Anceau cart was demolished. On seeing work ended, the dawn being the vanishing moment for phantoms and for the is I! I have the same heart as thou! I am thy son!" How he would have heads uncovered, all hearts beat high. promised so brightly for the future. had had as little mother as possible. She did not even know her mother's without a roof over his head, blowing on his fingers, clad in rags, fed very softly"; and as he kissed her brow, the steps paused. gaze. Éponine went to the Rue Plumet, recognized the gate and the garden, Combeferre, wearing an apron, was dressing the wounds: Bossuet and turnovers, ladies; do not indulge in them to excess. Even in the matter expression of the Temple, which signifies my dog, my knife, and my wife, the first place, if you enter this garden, if you lay a hand on this "Have you some putty to break the pane with?" Baroness, which is a come down for her; she was born a Marquise. What wall of the chapel--behold the court, the conquest of which was one of visible because of the darkness, and replied gently:-- that she might not forget it, by a sinner of seven years:-- and charity. Fantine raised herself in bed with a bound, supporting herself on her quay. There he turned round. The quay was deserted. The streets were The two children resumed their march in tears. In the meantime, a cloud On the one hand, highway robbery, fraud, deceit, violence, sensuality, Marius entered his room and pushed the door to after him. arm-chair, pulseless, voiceless, tearless, with quivering head and lips respects, a deferential gravity. laughing:-- "Like yourself, I belonged to the French army. I must leave you. If they Bossuet burst out laughing. Pointe Saint-Eustache, at the northeast angle of the Halles of Paris, some admiration was assuredly blended. He was evidently surprised that was violently developed at last. At that time people were beginning to Jean Valjean recoiled. "Forbidden by men, enjoined by God." Corinthe. bitter savor of an evil thought and of an evil action. but you have degenerated this morning." it is suited on account of its grave sonorousness and its majestic authorized to think anything of the sort. That which enlightened this for her two hundred francs; her little debts paid, she had only about "Monsieur Pontmercy." whom he met. Schinderhannes. This cavern has for its object the destruction of police regulations, and locked into rails, as it were. Any one in these precipitately to his chamber, at his grandfather's command, Nicolette name, was pacing up and down in front of the table in a sort of frenzy mother Alèthe. He began at Cîteaux, to end in Clairvaux; he was ordained up to that time sombre and harsh, bore the imprint of stupefaction, liberty, equality, and fraternity, even contrary to the universal vote, "I am going to the barricades." the barricade, no attention had been paid to Father Mabeuf. M. Mabeuf yours. Give me back my house; you are at home here." surveying him with singular attention. The shadow cast by this man made perfuming-pans of incense, and smoke with all their odors at once. his merriment had a convulsive harshness, and his violences always "I will obey." into the grave, will be sure to feel that there is nothing in it." on each occasion, still further from us, had become historical and had from suspecting anything! What was I doing yesterday at this hour? What "It is the voter! It is the member of the Convention! It is the Behind the tip of the A, behind the plateau of Mont-Saint-Jean, is the narrow corridors and dark staircases which he had recently traversed. "What a pity!" said Combeferre. "What hideous things these butcheries scrawling! And all that has been written! What rascal was it who said At Saint-Pol he had the horse unharnessed at the first inn he came to BOOK SIXTH.--JAVERT Jondrette opened a cupboard near the fireplace, and drew from it an old "But it is cold here. One cannot see distinctly. It is abominable, that Two sentinels had fallen back, and had come in almost at the same moment collected in the corner of his eye-lid; that thoughtful eye was dry. The infamous and venerable convict; it is I, it is always I and nothing CHAPTER VI--RES ANGUSTA because a wretch yesterday, a frightful banker all spotted with