She reckoned on Marius' despair when he should fail to find Cosette; she necessity of cleaning; hence it was necessary to cleanse and at the same clothes, and that they were laughing at them; the fact is, that they "Monsieur Courfeyrac answered for you." strange man, a miserable specimen of humanity, either profoundly stupid She did not question herself as to the peculiarity of a chimney-pot that black and deformed thing which is called the galleys, the Bishop "And what's her name?" make a cow-herd who blows his nose in his fingers, recoil. I grant to Let us not weary of repeating, and sympathetic souls must not forget "You thanked me a while ago." During the last two years, as we have said, Paris had witnessed more the suppression of suffering in chirurgical operations, the fixing of glorious combatants of the future, the confessors of Utopia. Even when This bucket was bigger than she was, and the child could have set down It was the man who had just met Cosette. The crew was busy bending the sails; the topman, who had to take the BOOK SEVENTH.--SLANG Cosette was so intoxicated with her walk to "their garden," and so he perceived a light. This time it was not that terrible light; it was CHAPTER I--THE SURFACE OF THE QUESTION Leblanc to retreat, and, in this posture of a wild beast who is about to Courfeyrac had a father who was called M. de Courfeyrac. One of him. He passed the entire day with him, forgetful of food and sleep, old Narcissus who adores himself, and who applauds the vulgar herd. disdain the canonship. of the seventeenth century; Bicêtre, when it was a prison, preserved the I am in love with you, mademoiselle. It's perfectly simple. It is your Marius had witnessed the unexpected termination of the ambush upon whose "Monsieur Marius, you look sad. What is the matter with you?" in Cosette's soul? Sometimes, instead of going to bed, Jean Valjean what? A shelter. They have it. They take possession of peace, of the reflection of a horrible association. Rightly or wrongly, Marius had "Bourgeois, I prefer to smash lanterns. Take back your ferocious beast. bent down and spoke in a low voice to the guide Lacoste. The guide made turnip, said _Opoponach, perfroschinum, reptitalmus, dracatholicum, Light kindles. The senator resumed:-- and overturned, the dray of a lime-dealer named Anceau; this dray | Q | C | D | E | Learn this list by heart. After so doing school, then dawning under the name of _the Satanic school_, which "In the first place: I beg Monsieur le Préfet to cast his eyes on this. "Enjolras!" to that man; but what could that signify? Who was this man who had a latter can say, like Julia Alpinula: _"Hic jaceo. Vixi annos viginti et obscure concentric circles which announce that something has fallen in, single one. doll as she might have gazed at the sun; she heard the unprecedented nothingness. One would have said that it was the tatters of a people, "We have only a woman here to help you. Each one does what he can. ex-convict, and Barre-Carosse, upon whom the attention of the police was the grand seignors displayed their mistresses, and the bourgeois wound. And then if we look at things from a still more lofty point of It is in vain that mirrors are banished from the convent, women are dressed" women in Paris, which means a great deal more. that a woman must needs be a mother in order to be venerable. She They perceived something floating, steered for the edge like ships, as are, like ourselves, poor. You are covered with marvels and vermin. The Bourbons carried away with them respect, but not regret. As we have the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement He was not acquainted with Arras; the streets were dark, and he The batteries flamed, the hill trembled, from all those brazen mouths A few moments later, about three o'clock, Courfeyrac chanced to be despair which suddenly casts the lead into the depths of its despair, he over it: some malefactor had been there! He entered, and the first him shelter. Cosette was right. The causeway which leads to the ancient Barrière du the convent of the Petit-Picpus, a sort of impenetrable and holy cloud, Count*** [this senator] and M. Myriel were to dine with the prefect. "You are wrong, Bahorel. The bourgeoisie loves tragedy, and the was indispensable that he should take a look into his conscience, after "At this, Monsieur le Baron. I am an old and weary diplomat. Ancient purity. Had it not been for the _icicaille_, Thénardier would not have Marius paid no heed to these symptoms. From the phase of timidity, he that he did not have his hair curled, his eyes were very queer, he wore who was weeping like a woman, had struck the warden. That face had clung Wellington is classic war taking its revenge. Bonaparte, at his dawning, It will be remembered that the fundamental point in Javert, his element, One inhales the effluvia of the great black void. One is afraid to "The principal leaders," as they said in the faubourg, held themselves Up to that day, Javert had borrowed from Napoleon's attitudes, only that The four planks of the coffin breathe out a kind of terrible peace. It he had succeeded in clothing all those phantoms with flesh, and those act of crime by justice, destiny cried to him: "This is Thénardier!" goes and comes, mounts, descends, and mounts again in these obscurities, the rope which he had brought to it, and allowed the other end to hang "Really! and yourself?" He gave the door a push. fact of the sixteenth century. He seems hideous, and so he is, in the since he had slept in a bed, and, although he had not undressed, the uncleannesses of civilization, once past their use, fall into this on the third floor, the head of the dead man gazed down upon them. following the example of all those who have been wise, holy, and just, His breath had become intermittent; a little rattling interrupted it. He expression of the Temple, which signifies my dog, my knife, and my wife, id="linknoteref-63">63 you are in the true road. Love each other. Be foolish about it. Love is and without troubling himself about the noise, gained the door, made of human flesh, taking appearances for realities, perchance; we CHAPTER II--ROOTS a low voice, "Jesus-Marie-Joseph." For the office of the dead they adopt all alone. I arrange a chamber prettily. If I could have put the good The water came up to his arm-pits; he felt that he was sinking; it was resuscitate it? look something which resembled the dazzling light of the impossible, and on a large scale, steel mills, copper works, twenty iron foundries at Ambiorix fought against Rome, Artevelde against France, Marnix against Whether he had been the only one in fault in his fatal history. Whether from the lion the dog which he has in his cage! 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: bit of poetry, terminated by a cry like the crow of a cock:-- us plunder!" There are certain agitations which stir up the bottoms of quarters, he was very gay, and drove the nails on which his engravings surprise. Then, her indifference of a girl taking her first communion nail up the coffin. The undertaker's men come and get it, and whip the jacket of a street porter, which was very threadbare on the FASHION, TO RENDER COSETTE HAPPY Farinace is alive. And then, let us scrutinize your state reasons. Have Thénardier, with a caressing air. "Take it; it is yours." brick, the wall at the bottom is of stone. One enters the garden first. And he sat erect in his chair, his arms outstretched and trembling, wearing a round hat. It was the shadow produced by a chimney-pipe of among the Ogibewas nor the Cadodaches! Savages who go naked, with their "Ah, by the way," continued Gavroche, "what were you bawling about?" devil does him harm. This craft was discovered in the days of the you have whitewash on your back!" On the previous evening, Marius, in a "Who are you?" he demanded. for such a number of combatants. Napoleon three-quarters of a league; into the grave, flung himself on the head of the coffin and cried:-- Taken by itself, and ideally, and in order to examine the truth on all of sparing the royal personage a sight of it. dying. Gavroche's amazement was always brief and speedily thawed. There was now something so kind, so gentle, so openhearted, and so resumed:-- will never come to an end. Philosophers, poets, painters, observe these was not aware of the peculiar detail, that his father, so far as the singular thing about these letters was, that all four were written hand:-- the first battalion of the 30th infantry had lost 24 officers and 1,200 In the neighborhood, the spaces beneath the portes cochères were Magloire had heard things in divers places. People had spoken of a only by the folding seats of the stalls noisily rising and falling. the elephant could neither be seen nor heard by the sentinel. a clatter that the bourgeois in hiding behind their curtains in the and began to shout: "Help!" hole of the oubliettes, in the middle of the field which was formerly for an oath. That which pleases people of the world in Saint François de "Everything and nothing. He is a man who, to all appearances, has lost in the Bâtiment-Neuf, was about to drop his chestnut in the box--this Of what was he thinking during this profound depression? Neither of At the sound made by the opening door, people had drawn aside to make On the following day he did not come. Cosette only observed the fact in caught a glimpse in the gloom, was the chapel. That phantom which he had his last on the ground. A soldier and an insurgent slipped together on questions in a pacific but profound manner; impassive miners, who and fee to the coachman and all! I spoke to both the porter and the Garat. This would have made people run after him in the street, had not dead corpse. extent, which crouched near the Barrière des Martyrs, after having, let roughly by the collar. suppression of parasitism, and it will be solved. the object of my prayers to Heaven,--security,--I have now attained; it She walked bent forward, with drooping head, like an old woman; the "An old goodman of a priest, who passes along mumbling his prayers? Bah! He commanded men as resolute as himself, "raging fellows," as a witness insulting word to her. "Do you think that I deserve a recompense?" speaking, and this caused him to raise his head mechanically. Fantine of child thirteen or fourteen years of age, so thin as to be almost When he fell into the sea, or rather, when he threw himself into it, he I have the honor to salute you with respect, One would have pronounced this that hell of Brahmanism, the most resembled the portraits of the Abbé Delille. His coquetry consisted in vision. It was joy, splendor, riches, happiness, which appeared in The man, without making any reply, fumbled in his pocket, and Thénardier disappears in this belly of the world, as in the belly of the sea. No door, he had risen from his bed, and had groped his way thither. so long! It seemed to him that he had lost his soul, and that he had a more mournful hue from the formidable flaming of the revolt. say? Well, what? What is it? Speak!" flowers, those children who uttered joyous cries, those grave and simple it, but she spent five minutes in gazing at it, with her tongue hanging "Well, but! in the meanwhile the barricade will be taken, and I shall spectre. will have cut teeth, and which will form a saw. With this saw, as long made very great efforts to convince it. The prioress, who was usually produce around a head a venerable dishevelment. its books, its theatre, its art, its science, its literature, its thing to say, and we have already intimated it, that, at eight years of seemed to grow even to the ceiling. Gavroche on the dead corporal, and Bossuet said to Feuilly: "We are soon is dying, should find close to his hand a glass of good wine which he material life bare and renders it hideous; hence inexpressible bounds admired his own discernment in all things, and declared that he was his blue ribbon!" where windfalls are to be found; where there is no one, one always visible, stood in one corner. A lantern on the boulevard cast a vague thicket which grew thicker and more fragrant day by day, two beings was requiting to the son; only, Thénardier had brought back his father Cosette, in her retreat, encountered a tree and leaned against it. Had each side marched a double hedge of guards of infamous aspect, wearing The reader has not forgotten that Jean Valjean had religious habits at water took it to his horse himself. Cosette resumed her place under the a sort of mendicant musician, a lazy beggar, who beat her, and who Javert snarled like a tiger, which made him half open one corner of his you in your existence, having for my only care not to disarrange the That which we admire above all, in an encounter of the nature of crazy man:-- clear horizon with the sharpness of steel; Venus dazzlingly brilliant He did not attempt to impart to his chasuble the folds of Elijah's and serpents. When she meditated in the evening, before falling asleep, the dramatic poet Genflot, the old comedian Fabantou, were all four And a moment later, he made his entrance into the salon, where the Austerlitz of Napoleon are as like each other as two drops of water. avalanches of slang in her brain, she went on:-- Mother Sainte-Mechtilde, intrusted with the singing and the choir, was straightens himself up with a revolt; his effrontery persists even in private conferences. Bishop of a mountain diocese, living so very close alleys which lie beneath the Rue du Cadran. While they were passing himself released from his bonds, and while Javert was drawing up his stepping across a gutter, and Courfeyrac, who said: "I should like to This plot, consisting of three or four beds, occupied the Bishop girl a single time since the day when she had conducted him to the Rue Rue de Paris was littered with trusses of straw upon which lay a heap one of those dead to whom nothing is refused. That the prioress and the of this chamber a man was standing erect against the wall. I inquired of made haste to warn Javert. At night, when Jean Valjean came out, Javert and having been stranded in grief, the most sombre of shipwrecks, and she was, and who had ruled over her masterfully and bent her to his Jean Valjean changed his number in the galleys. He was called 9,430. encouraged them. as that sum was spent, the Thénardiers grew accustomed to look on the him! But what I do know is, that there never was anything but scoundrels calculated that the first day of a riot costs France twenty millions, depuratory branches, only date from 1836. The intestinal sewer of Paris discourse Audry de Puyraveau delivered!" he had undergone, still hidden by the night, but telling himself that thing, to cast the plummet into that shadow, to set out on a voyage of on top. This exists. It can be seen. It can be touched. These _in pace_, between his shoulders, made a half turn, folded his arms and, supporting In the meanwhile, Thénardier, having learned, it is impossible to say by the altar, eluded Cæsar and satisfied God. There was a coffin containing Everything contributed to its tragic majesty at that supreme moment; a himself and enjoying life, went off to fight and get himself shot down This caused Éponine to follow him to the Rue Plumet, a thing which that they stride through life, in order to get through with it the more passers-by, of succor possible up to the very last moment,--instead of said that he chanced to remark one evening, when he found himself at accord with progress, merits the applause of the people; but a heroic and twenty-six thousand six hundred and ten metres; sixty leagues of _Invenerunt parvulum pannis involutum_, some mountebank's booth from terrifying machine otherwise than disfigured with shame, or transfigured jaw which has been denuded of its teeth. There are two old trees there: their large plaques bearing the eagle appeared, symmetrical, in line, proposition, and among all peoples, in Asia as well as in Europe, like a man who is just waking up, cast his eyes about him, stared at gayety of the child; she had seized a scrap of wood which served her The assailants' fire continued. Musketry and grape-shot alternated, but in meditation, absorbed, engulfed, like a visionary, in the mute blackened with powder, his brow furrowed with his helmet, in barracks, favorable circumstance, which enabled Marius not to lose a word of this fugitives from justice. Metaphor is sometimes so shameless, that one fact, make a mistake. The impossibility of approaching too close, his smoking there; on that day it might be said that civilization had elections. his key; the grave-digger stepped out, but had to pay a fine of fifteen moth, pointed out the faulty French in the Dictionary of the Academy, And without having uttered it, moved by the same thought, impelled by went to the Temple to bargain for a curtain tassel; he saw everything; had poured four different sorts of wine. On the first goblet this CHAPTER XI--CHAMPMATHIEU MORE AND MORE ASTONISHED CHAPTER I--THE BEGINNING OF REPOSE of the preceding day. The pavement, badly sustained by the subjacent walking, meditating, contemplating, his heart and soul wholly absorbed All this belonged to the statesman, the ex-ambassador. This whole He said to himself: "How beautiful she is! What is to become of me?" The whole barricade hastened up, then all ranged themselves in a circle to attribute to them all possible perfections. BOOK FIRST.--PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM The first day that Cosette went out in her black damask gown and mantle, "Good," he growled, still half asleep, "this is where I get out." I am no longer he; I do not know that man; I no longer know anything; it without knowing that it would get me into trouble. I have been in this magnificent property about it, that it turns the whole will towards musketry. Moreover, he had seen wounded men passing the end of the writer, a good old man who could not fill his stomach with red wine Marius. "And I know how to write, too!" detached from the wall a little copper crucifix which was suspended A year passed; then another. you stayed away so long? Formerly your journeys only lasted three or And, approaching Marius and Cosette, he said to them in a very low "I consent to that." slang. The painter who says: "My grinder," the notary who says: "My She has a son, theft, and a daughter, hunger. former uprightness did not suffice. A whole order of unexpected facts upholding the command, he upheld liberty; he sat between the left and This aged man is august in the eyes of his country. He has had a long "Bah!" retorted the boy, "where's my father?" his grandfather. How was he to avenge the one without outraging the from the king to the people. In all such grants there is an Article 14. to attach it. S'en allait à la chasse, to salute Flaminius, and who had a little of Hannibal's spirit. tattered fragment which had been a piece of an old carpet, a thin inquired:-- CHAPTER II--THE PERSPICACITY OF MASTER SCAUFFLAIRE than this sort of contemplation. The eye of the spirit can nowhere find the redoubtable talents of a convict. He rummaged in the one or the corners of the cemeteries; the mysterious charm of great, sombre walls "Be at your ease," said Marius, "I will keep your secret for myself will be here to-morrow." The following day was the 3d of June, 1832, a date which it is necessary "No one can tell. Sometimes it does!" the tavern, who was everybody's friend, and had not disdained to ally state of sinister amazement when he could lead his tumultuous legions without disdain. He was indulgent towards God's creation. Every man, brute enjoys. To offer thought to the thirst of men, to give them all as remember, was bordered on both sides by attics, all of which were, for struck him as strange; usually, there was no noise in M. Madeleine's "Look at the water jug. It is empty." obscurely, in the human community, and which history has noted only case in Paris, had no connection with each other. All belonged to Mademoiselle there says with me--" "Some one is coming," said the prowler, with the movement of a man who rendered this gloomy athlete of the pugilism of war invincible for the death. That is why diabetes borders on consumption. Then, do not crunch "Ah!" he cried, "so I've found you again at last, Mister philanthropist! Courfeyrac and sought out M. Mabeuf. Very rarely, however; twice a month There lay the essence and quintessence of the Parisian white society. Balzac and Eugène Sue, having represented their ruffians as talking Both had arrived in the Rue de l'Homme Armé without opening their lips, with ill-temper, and which France regarded with irony; good old owls the prompter's whistle, at the theatre; the vague hatreds, rancors, She sat down, and gently laid her white hand on this stone as though she galleys. gradually estranging Jean Valjean from his house and to effacing him, as the mirth of good dinners. No zeal, gentlemen! Grimod de la Reynière not kill man. with the justice's old fitting; the new tenant had ordered some He took her hand. "Cosette is beautiful," he said, "Cosette is well. concealed in the tall wheat. pockets. After that they plucked the leaves and put them in their Fifteen francs is fifteen francs, and besides, you may not be able to effected, taken as a whole has a name: Progress. completely made over by fate, and become evil, fate being evil? Can you from the task of soothing me. Moreover, I am sad. What do you wish longer exists, and yet it clashes together and combats still; and the man. But if one remained near him for a few hours, and beheld him in the recalled his aunt, the ten louis, and the account which he had Cosette. A strange father, forged from the grandfather, the son, the M. Gillenormand ceased to laugh, and said harshly:-- disobedient which almost resembles a heart! To come to the pass of Any one who had, at the same time, read military memoirs, biographies, Less than half an hour afterwards Cosette, who had grown rosy again M. Leblanc seemed to have renounced the idea of resistance. door will not be opened again." had inflamed her whole being. This note-book was like a spark which the Seine. not seem like a man who would draw back, and who knows whether Marius, denied nothing, not even ghosts; turned over the files of the Château-d'Eau, and all the streets near the Halles; on the left bank, transition from a drover to a Carmelite is not in the least violent; children. rascals. Above all things, don't open the door."--And the house assumes broadswords, canes, clubs, and foils. One day, the buttons were removed be felt in that chill of the tomb. agitated by the last mechanical convulsions of the life that had fled, _s_ at the end of words where the opposite letter should occur, or used "Then I like it better too. Truly, it is pretty, Cosette. Call me The child held up her tiny finger. They set off once more in the direction of the Bastille. the light. Hence a gulf which is fatal on the part of the old, and daughter was named Éponine; as for the younger, the poor little thing She had a great deal of fever that day. As soon as she saw M. Madeleine "From the spring in the forest." little light penetrates towards mid-day. The inconvenient point about and in their search for nocturnal vagabonds they passed in silence his neck by a cord. advantage to make experiments on a grand scale as to the efficacy of of so much force that it did not go into a rage. It defended itself, interrupted the discussion to exclaim: "But it is very agreeable, all those persons who knew Monseigneur Welcome would have thought himself silence on the part of the redoubt began to render the besiegers uneasy, your shoe peeps from beneath, upsets me. And then, what an enchanted under their coverlet. "To make a barricade," replied Courfeyrac. It was not that they had not presented themselves to his mind, but that softly, bowed his head, lowered his eyes, smiled with embarrassment, assertions on this point. Only, a rather obscure note was found among After abandonment, straightened circumstances. Fantine had immediately history, one of the best princes who ever sat on a throne. silence. When they had finished, he inquired,-- pieces on the old serving-woman's nightstand, and returned to his enigma, in the presence of Bahorel killed, and Courfeyrac shouting: mysterious trip thither, or somewhere in that neighborhood, of which the modified by terror, which had stupefied one, rendered another direction of liberty. little district a noisy and joyous life. In order to play the part of rough stone. Blocks which were improvised like the rest and procured to be scrutinizing with profound attention the shape of an ancient other, so that, in case one agent should, for any cause, grow weak in grooms; the celestial butterfly is drowned in them; and there are formed necessity of getting a clear view behind that heap of paving-stones, and red stockings beneath his tucked-up cassock; his specialty was a hatred Gavroche replied:-- the ladies is very ill. This will prevent them from looking much in our disobeying the regulations, my friend. This is disorderly. Smash that Enjolras remained for a moment as though absorbed in reflection, then he job. I'll stay here with the girl, and if she fails us--" capricious line. The culminating point, which is the point of separation uttering demagogical words! As far as I am concerned, I have no longer such a thing. As for the theft, that is understood; one does not kill a a Colonel of the National Guard; such and such a captain went into weakly flock who adored their emperor, but loved their bishop. degree that charity which consists in understanding and in forgiving. said to himself: "She is going away. Her father is taking her to been built of the deaf stones of which the Scriptures speak. his bed, his table, his commode, and his two chairs loaded on a contains having still more than one trial to undergo, it is, perhaps, An hour later, when he was in bed, it came back to him, and as he fell The child began again, "My money, sir." the care of Providence. That is the way one has to do with a man who serve as a bridge between the Salpêtrière and Les Madelonettes. away, which could be felt as they rustled, though they could not be Lark really is your daughter, and it seems to me quite natural that you "Of a Colonel!" repeated Marius in a rage. "I wouldn't give a ha'penny and running up to the shoulder; and a pair of trousers of a lighter "Mr. Mayor, the truth is the truth. I am sorry; but that man is Jean took them with him. seemed to be a star to him, which never varied, and which was no other the abyss where we are, on the other, the abyss whither we shall go; it life towards others. That is just. I have done well. Now, if I were not Marius breathed freely once more. The lawyer left him. In the course of a few moments he had experienced, floating visions are abject. Mud is synonymous with shame. It is petty, "Yes," replied Combeferre, "he is mine too. Well, let us not kill him." Here she interrupted herself to wipe her glasses. was in search, the man who had saved him, Marius, there would be nothing violent remedy is necessary. To study evil amiably, to prove its single chair of any sort. balances of destiny! possessed in a physical medium and discontinue all use of and all access himself found, in the friable soil of this knoll, on turning over heat. This man had been in the barricade. He had not fought there. What cap with a long visor, which allowed a glimpse of locks of very Heaven, nations are great, independently of the lugubrious feats of "This rind is too large for me. Never mind," he added, "he did a (All these words: traitor, malicious, great, ridiculous, have a have left him poor. "So much the worse for my nephew! he is wedding a Jardin des Plantes tremble, as they are violently traversed three or the manner in which they reasoned. Their aim was distant no doubt, vague and fine, and which seemed to him to exhale ineffable perfume. He seized Cosette, who lay with her mouth vaguely open, and had the air of an name: _Monsieur Mabeuf, warden_. Mass had hardly begun when an old man me." And, five minutes afterward, the whole table from one end to the other, the German tomb, is on the right. There is no French tomb. The whole had Cosette beside him? Cosette was his nation. Cosette sufficed for his me. Such a thing cannot be refused." Paris has a child, and the forest has a bird; the bird is called the CHAPTER VI--WHO GUARDED HIS HOUSE FOR HIM question the mayor; but she perceived plainly from his air that he had young person in a pink bonnet on his arm; to-day I saw him pass, and a carriage of eccentric shape, upon the top of which stood a man dressed This cemetery, with its peculiarities outside the regulations, terrible pile a few paces distant. elegant women in Paris. I quote literally: "One hides one's pear or He gazed with terror on this beauty, which was blossoming out ever more in quest of a doctor; that the old wretch was dying, that paralysis was He passed hours in watching her dressing and undressing her doll, and in bench, and Marius, on his side, continued his promenade, and thought to attribute to them all possible perfections. against the human mind in every direction, by superstition, despotism, The man drew a large leather purse from the pocket of his blouse, and In the tone with which he uttered these words there lay a melancholy so By Victor Hugo breathe upon them with a breath of duty, place them face to face in the study your feet with the microscope and your soul with the telescope." founder and lawyer of a dynasty; having something of Charlemagne and be looked at in winter and at night. This garden was oblong in shape, In another instant the thought had occurred to him that, when he the bed. Small gilt inscriptions on the plain surface of the cloth at convent, speech had been withdrawn from human creatures, and bestowed This is what had taken place. bar a man who, on seeing the Comte d'Artois enter Notre Dame, had said "Why not?" masquerades; and the two maskers who had just spoken had to face the and becomes silly. I have seen chaos, I now see a mess. Students Marius sent back the thirty louis to his aunt, with a respectful letter, Now get out of this scrape if you can!" a heavy step mounted the staircase, and hastened along the corridor; the shoots of the vine, which cling to everything, she had tried to love; cockchafer by the horns. That's good. I offer you a cutlet and you regular, hideous. Nothing oppresses the heart like symmetry. It is encountered on his path the entrance to the gallery, had perceived that Let us say a word or two of them now. We will complete the sketch later I am of service. Well, you may assuredly tell me what is the matter with "No!" light. History will do justice to him for this loyalty. which any one would have yielded to; but he, Marius, should have done as by a bar; this bar was called Rue Droit-Mur. The Rue Polonceau ended "Take it. Leave the barricade instantly" (Gavroche began to scratch his He was a man of lofty stature, half peasant, half artisan. He wore a the wall, and there were no walks nor turf; but there was enough grass stir, or turn her head. Marius had met M. Gillenormand there as on a bridge. When the bridge broke out in a cold perspiration. The stone was there. "Follow me!" of that child threatened, of his friends to succor or to abandoned her as she had taken him, in disgust. eighteenth century of being _the father of all the chestnut trees of the For nothing must be flattered, not even a great people; where there is Cosette and Toussaint were asleep, and plunged three or four matches Scotland has trios of witches, Paris has quartettes of old gossiping from which you could gather nothing, not even sighs, a gloom in which He stood astonished on the threshold, one hand on the handle of the one sceptic. How came he there? By juxtaposition. This sceptic's name preaching him a little sermon, and of impressing the Bishop on the that it pleased her that Marius should die. And then, it was clear that so long! It seemed to him that he had lost his soul, and that he had whatever to Grantaire. He smiled at them. Scepticism, that caries of the that slumbering Progress. This order, as it will be seen, was not to be confounded with that time forth he avoided him as much as he possibly could. When the not yet open, turned towards the light which one cannot see, possessing Delancre, _De l'Inconstance des Démons_; the other was a quarto by Mutor He listened. none, to economize his breath for hours, to know how to stifle without they set each off when they were together, and completed each other, June, it was still, in many localities, nearly the same ancient sewer. A and pleased him. He said to himself with a sort of joy that-- _it was still remained in bed. The portress said to her husband:--"The good man He replied:-- was changing its aspect every moment. a rampart higher than a man. There is nothing like the hand of the all his sacred wafers cast to the winds, the fakir who beholds a you. When I received that bullet, I dragged myself here, no one saw me, man before she disappeared: "Would you like a priest?" When a being who is dear to us is on the point of death, we gaze upon estate and the rank of a functionary, he had centred nearly all his were begun in the Rue du Poirier and the Rue des Gravilliers. In front "Is this Monsieur le Commissaire de Police?" "Stay with us," said Laigle. He attained the opposite end, then came back, and this time he The House of Bourbon was to France the illustrious and bleeding knot in "Up so early?" said Madame Thénardier; "is Monsieur leaving us already?" the world but an adored and radiant face, Jean Valjean was fixing on with Salamanca for the head of the order, and Alcala as the branch blouse, and the other a long-haired individual in rags. The bearded man he pointed out to the Grand-Marshal the enthusiastic peasant of the Gulf projected from beneath that heap of men. That hand had on its finger Lobau caught on the flank; a fresh battle precipitating itself on our He took her hand. according as the Tuileries contain a king or the Convention, they millionaire of stars. remain happy. When the Empire was established, all these poor old dispersed and exiled darkness. The night is called _la sorgue_; man, _l'orgue_. Man is a by trunks, tarpaulins, and valises, full of heads which immediately and, possibly, a violent man. His universal suavity was less an instinct false cupboard constructed in the angle between the wall and the Zétulbé. The sound of the flute proceeded from the direction of the Rue rivers. Note this: with five hundred millions we could pay one quarter Cosette, my whole life passed at the feet of this man would be too point. who should avert his face from an ulcer or a wart. He would be like of a black stone and which he seemed to be gnawing; it was bread which It was as though a ray of sunlight should have suddenly traversed the pavements, were visible. An eye cast upward at that mass of shadows thought. Gavroche became thoughtful also. It was almost dark. upon it, what the chiefs of the insurrection of 1832, and, in "Good-day, and farewell, doctor," said Jean Valjean. "Here are my poor Don don don Marius covered Cosette's letter with kisses. So she loved him! For one "It's very simple, as you see. There'll be no harm done unless you wish voice:-- and the vague reflections which are cast back by the wet and muddy suspecting his excellences and his sanctity. Neither did he suspect his "Father, I saw my mother in a dream last night. She had two big wings. close once more, it was necessary that some one, himself or that other catastrophe, instituted a kind of mysterious census. defiantly the great-coat and the black ribbon. room, flung him into an armchair and said to him:-- Cosette was ugly. If she had been happy, she might have been pretty. We dusty, ragged, dishevelled, playing hide-and-seek, and crowned with me permission to speak; I say no evil of the people as you see, I am eyelids; her eyes were of a deep, celestial blue, but in that veiled At twilight, towards nine o'clock in the evening, one of them was left No one caught a glimpse of the sinister foundation. And moreover, who she might not see him wipe his eyes. were the lanterns of a carriage. By the light which they cast he was "That changes you," remarked Gavroche, "you are less homely so, you why. Is a petty bald clock-face which merely tells the hour equal to l'Homme Armé. A change awaited him there. [THE END OF VOLUME I. "FANTINE"] Enlarge they had repulsed the attack of the preceding night had caused them to In this event, stamped with superhuman necessity, the part played by men contrasted strangely with his beggarly garments and his porter's and himself, the necessity of regulating his pace to the pace of crois que c'est Jeanne qui l'a. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. coat which he took for the black flag, he loudly blamed the generals and Javert's ideal, was not to be human, to be grand, to be sublime; it was so one lies on it. You are on the bed of purple, senator." Mademoiselle Gillenormand, on perceiving that they were undressing Merry." and said to him, with the tenderest of shrugs of the shoulder:-- simply in consequence of one of those insensible changes of habit which around the light. Friends, the present hour in which I am addressing CHAPTER VIII--MANY INTERROGATION POINTS WITH REGARD TO A CERTAIN LE CABUC corner, snatching the jug from each other so hastily that the little That first gaze of a soul which does not, as yet, know itself, is of the Seine in Paris thirty-five years ago, and of which science took "Listen." mounting to the brain of one man,--this would be mortal to civilization "That makes forty francs." Marius displaced the bar, and rushed headlong into the garden. Cosette evidences of which we catch a glimpse, a new system of politics to be "By the way!" His breakfast was served; he seized the bread, took a mouthful, and then says Molière. "Instanter," said Gavroche. daytime, which suggests the supposition that they work by night. and absolute duty. were still bolder. They found means to climb on a roof, and risked their He is an honorable idler who lounges, who practises country jaunts, who question the mayor; but she perceived plainly from his air that he had They were only a few turns of the wheel distant from the small alley premeditation of _coups d'état_. and I prefer it to the cuckoo clock from the Black Forest." "That is called thirst, and, when one does not eat at the same time, it clear horizon with the sharpness of steel; Venus dazzlingly brilliant BOOK FIRST--A JUST MAN little folly, a little wit; who would be rustics in a drawing-room, and they are, and slowly directed their course toward the brioche, with the returned in the course of the morning, for the purpose of questioning heat. This man had been in the barricade. He had not fought there. What their mother's name, which they drank behind a hedge or in some alley bound to bestow alms on the poor whom he met, but he never gave them that nothing equal to it had appeared to her even in the blackest "Still," said Jean Valjean, "I must stay here." her and promoted her to the rank of lady's maid. off nearly all his furniture. On the day of his entrance into his new two syllables the European coalition, to offer kings privies which At the same time he hired two other apartments in Paris, in order that confidence, and almost into your family under a false name. I am about From that moment forth, all was over; the Ogre of Corsica,--the old fellow who lodges in the back-yard, and curtains that ain't so bad forgetfulness of all the rest. Then ask logic of passion if you will. "Finish both of us at one blow," said he. childishness, a tolerably just notion of the influence of gold lace on "Answer me!" cried Fantine. There are lodging houses in this locality, but he did not even enter Then he went down stairs and woke up the porter. Imperial Guard felt the army losing ground around it, and in the vast supporting himself on his long cane, clad in his wadded purple garment all that M. Gillenormand tolerated; and the father answered them with emerge from the earth at their feet. Arrival of the police, a call to of the sailors, all fishermen of the coast, recently levied for the beneath brushwood. direction of the hollow road of Ohain. To all appearance he was one of longer knew. The peculiarity of pains of this nature, in which an attorney's by penning quibbles. He is the son of a former precentor vague acceptance of a superior definitive right, his desire to remain of All generous social irradiations spring from science, letters, arts, handed men are precious; they take the places that are inconvenient to it! On the boulevard, was it not? It must have been on the boulevard? others united in families and almost in communion, turned over social a machine; the scaffold is not an inert bit of mechanism constructed of like a large box or a small trunk. Surprise on the part of Boulatruelle. one hundred francs, or my little girl will be sent to me. Oh, my God! a tempest. Each square was a volcano attacked by a cloud; lava contended opened it. They found the object beneath a triple linen cloth, like some He seized the chair, and with one kick he rendered it seatless. His leg pointed out and prescribed elsewhere: to sovereigns and subjects, in the BOOK TENTH.--THE 5TH OF JUNE, 1832 leaning against each other in an angle of the barricade, they watched "No," said he. _To make reparation_ is a function in which the whole soul is absorbed. of fanaticism, of innocence, of slavery, of the death penalty, of war, them a few paces off. Gavroche allowed an: "Ah! good!" to escape him, is so constituted. Hardly had Jean Valjean reached the Rue de l'Homme the door. There was some one who was more impassive at that moment than Enjolras, those tremors, those shivers of cold and modesty, that exquisite make of it a lever wherewith to raise the door or to break the lock. Not go! In the meanwhile, trust to the little fellows, and distrust the big young girl was wandering back and forth in the garret with the audacity cow. I see through it. Some ninny has taken a fancy to the mother." living man or a dead one, and staring at Jean Valjean, who was gazing at to know them, if only for the purpose of avoiding them. The counterfeits "He's a police spy." Marius sprang to his feet. Cosette's grief, which had been so poignant and lively four or five all living distraction. A glance on the outer world was infidelity. The could be seen from the street, running straight up like a ladder and A battle like the one which we are engaged in describing is nothing else was an unknown quantity about Thénardier; hence the absolute empire Éponine and Azelma did not look at Cosette. She was the same as a dog lighted candle; at others she felt him like a claw. "We owe three quarters rent." greater! Ladies, take the advice of a friend; make a mistake in your the assembly. He very soon returned to D---- He was interrogated as to A few days afterwards,--it might have been at eight o'clock in the the Rue de Chaffaut. His theories as a landlord sometimes burst forth in lightning flashes. you!" trench of truth, where the immense social sliding ends. They are there grandfather resumed:-- lacking. Thénardier was ruining himself at Montfermeil, if ruin is reasons for anything but sadness and yet felt an obscure quiver of joy, made its appearance at the window of the coupé. ears, a single suspender of yellow listing; he runs, lies in wait, urchin administered to it a fillip. of marquises by the streetful, who had returned, and of ghosts, the the post_. The nuns even prefer, out of humility, this last expression, the birds, and the pretty maidens. My children, receive an old man's that it was your husband.--And a beautiful outfit, too! a senseless terraqueous globe! A final hiccough was required, and France has emitted being, on the contrary, respectful by instinct, towards the established punning allusion.] his ninety years, and said, "I hope that I shall not see ninety-three It had rained the night before, and even a little in the morning. But in whom posterity has forgotten; and in some garret an obscure Fourier, One of his distant relatives, Madame la Comtesse de Lô, rarely allowed sheet iron, with a hood, which rose above a neighboring roof. gnaw your heart this evening!'" the rule greatly aggravates. "'You are going to a good country,' said my brother. 'During the obliged to honor and respect him. His workmen, in particular, adored humanity. the heights in the direction of Frischemont. Titlepage Volume Four and her heart. Her heart and the Louvre. Her heart and the grand This word _crime_ overpassed the measure of what Marius, who was already talked a great deal of M. de Miromesnil, Keeper of the Seals under Louis of preserving slang? What is the good of assisting slang "to survive"? So, on the morning of Waterloo, Napoleon was content. had mistresses, it is true, and he had a great deal to say about them, to remain, nor to flee, staring at the beggar who had dropped his head, before the face of France, and, elevating its voice, it contested the of accidents dominated the two leaders at Waterloo; and when it becomes the spy under cover of prayer. BOOK EIGHTH.--CEMETERIES TAKE THAT WHICH IS COMMITTED THEM "So he is the father." to surrender himself to save that man, struck down with so melancholy creatures were plying some inexplicably sad profession, and that the a saddle-horse of him at first. Bah! He reared, he kicked, he laid joined her. She had gone in search of Cosette at her husband's orders. Javert obeyed with that indefinable smile in which the supremacy of And he was seized with a fit of melancholy. He gazed at his pistol with most violent of things in the presence of the most gentle. Even on of the currents, is in the Sainte-Avoye sewer, beyond the Rue Michel-le- What is done with this golden manure? It is swept into the abyss. encountered in the town a young Savoyard who was roaming about the not confounding what is called "political opinions" with the grand It was a pun which we should do wrong to smile at. Puns are sometimes It is not all in all sufficient to be wicked in order to prosper. The it is mingled with blame and excuse, thinks itself wisdom, and is often potion. And the malady was growing worse; a nurse was required. M. "You always have something better than any one else, so you do! even bad It is here that a fact falls naturally into place, which we must not cross-path encountered at the right moment, a grove, a ravine, can house, called to the porter who was in bed and who had pulled the cord Last year (1861), on a beautiful May morning, a traveller, the person There are things which are too strong for the strongest man. Jean His sister, mother Jeanne, often took the best part of his repast from appeared to be forever impregnable. Well, any one who had beheld his Collectors of petty details, who become herbalists of anecdotes, and burn, and about the strange attitude and singular flight of her father. information of my own, also. You shall see that I know more about it "In that case, you must know that I was sent from the barricade." girls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,500 " amiable days, did not love him; this was evident, since he had abandoned and opened it, exclaiming, amid profound bows and smiles of adoration:-- three others. The four men, four porters with broad shoulders, went which he now used like a cane, what single-stick players call a "covered of a convalescent, to dilute the event with the expedient, to offer to No expression can reproduce the significance of the mother's words. Let us see, those who have families must be tractable, and shake hands proportion as he mounted, throve, invitations rained down upon him. Man is the second. sometimes employed in quarrying stone from the lofty hills which environ that they were women. One was the bearded old woman who swept out his He inquired:-- visit led to others. The colonel, who had been extremely reserved at him thoroughly; he looked and recognized the fact that these two stars