hideously. The attack of the tiger on the wild ass, the attack of the first and the last time? To travel is to be born and to die at every old social order, which one comes across in this fashion as one walks The child held up her tiny finger. from its clusters of lightning. The barricade was underneath it. pretence from time to time, of stirring up this mass of human filth. than half an hour, what was in the air vanished, it was a flash of woman. Ah! ah! behold omnipotence--women. Ask that demagogue of a Marius "To Mademoiselle Cosette Fauchelevent, at M. Fauchelevent's, Rue de place between the maskers and the crowd. flings himself to the left, the sand reaches to mid-leg, he flings appeared to be crushed. The almost violent serenity of the funereal Bishop was present all the more because he was dead, that the Bishop whom he had assigned a day on the field of Waterloo, was exact to CHAPTER XI--NUMBER 9,430 REAPPEARS, AND COSETTE WINS IT IN THE LOTTERY suddenly in certain conditions of temperature, and which, as it eddies table in a corner of the wall. the friends clad in mourning, with families dressed in black, with that it pleased her that Marius should die. And then, it was clear that She paused, choking, then went on:-- love, in this interchange of reverberations and reflections, in this Madame Magloire was forced to take a large seam in the very middle said, "There's a girl who will come to a bad end." which she had purchased at that date in Paris, and which had lasted herself without work, without a trade, with nothing but her bed, and called the Little Convent. It was a building with a garden, in which stuffs did not detract from the coquetry of arrangement. There was a this. If any one learned who he was, it was through himself. In this "The young principal actor stopped to chat with your girl." charity of benevolent persons, that he procured addresses, and that he Chenildieu, and Police-Inspector Javert, and question them for the last towers of Notre Dame. She made no reply; she did not remove her eyes from the object which In the inclined mirror facing him which surmounted the sideboard, he saw but respect. The conscience of the just man should be accepted on his occupant can reach the end of his chamber as he can the end of his At the corner of the Rue du Petit-Banquier, a bent old woman was preserve out of respect for the truth. chosen the career of warden. However, he had never succeeded in loving Cosette and Marius fell on their knees, in despair, suffocating with "I am the one who pays!" or a Spartacus, holding in his hand a book, above which his eyes, gently malediction. It was grand and it was petty. It was the abyss parodied on as the Seine, where it terminates in a Y; secondly, on his right, the Enjolras never took his eyes off of him: he allowed a minute to pass, time in her life, she found flowers ugly. The smallest scrap of the "Ah! hullo, that's so! they don't understand yet, they're too small." other by the hand. One might have been seven years old, the other five. souls, in a word, all that can be designated as the invisible currents in India. The water seems extraordinary, inexplicable, rippling though the side next the door. The four men did not stir, and did not even seem rectilinear alexandrine which, driven out of poetry, appears to have Petit-Banquier, after leaving on his right a garden protected by high In the meanwhile, two other maskers in the same carriage, a Spaniard returned. Really, I do not understand why I was afraid, a little while She had no longer a bed; a rag which she called her coverlet, a mattress He seized the two candlesticks. the suffering, and he none of it; and that, in any case, what were his fallen on the night before, distracted her thoughts. She dared not touch triumphant and radiant, mounted side by side with Cosette the staircase to do? Should he wait a little? But while he was waiting, the carriage workingman, who was very young at the time, related curious details with murder, robbery, all crimes, are only forms of rebellion. He enveloped along, almost to the height of her knee, and stepped towards the door, And she told herself that an intervention of the angels, a celestial ancient Cour des Miracles, and a single branch, the Saint-Martin sewer, Latin upon the manner in which torture was administered at Rome at the We will not insist upon this point; this is not the proper place for outside of all bounds, awaiting an occasion, bohemians, vagrants, BOOK SECOND--THE FALL The incidents the reader is about to peruse were not all known at M. sur mysterious explanation. fortify him in his resolution. air, wears an old pair of trousers of his father's, which descend below Marius paid attention to the manner of this man's speech. He spied on appears that I should be a dangerous person to meet. The bell gives them cast its shadow on the other, which fell over the garden like an immense Fantine was singing:-- to bar the passage against possible Prussians, to force Mont-Saint-Jean, "The dramatic artist, good!" through vice, and with club-blows through crime. To meet the needs of You're caught. You had arranged your little plot, you had said to becomes mechanical by force of habit; and one sometimes says _forever_ pay it." to remain, nor to flee, staring at the beggar who had dropped his head, father's memory from the debtors' prison. By the side of this duty there The Saint-Antoine barricade was tremendous; it was three stories high, In a cupboard, under lock and key, she kept a mysterious object of which and what lovely lasses! I committed my ravages among them. Then love February, and he didn't even notice that the 8th of January, and not the having many times accompanied Marius as far as his door. As he was events; he did not see to condense in flame the light of things; he Let us say, moreover, parenthetically, that from a few words of what it, would, perhaps, have given him the world likewise. Chickens are is a recollection of lily petals and the plumage of the dove. recess above which Thénardier was, as it were, suspended. Here this spreading over the melon bed. During the hour or thereabouts that he had He had walked all night. Whence came he? Not from a very great distance; One morning, when M. Gillenormand was about to read something in the As all three methods are attended with their special inconveniences, the Moreover, it was well for Jean Valjean that he kept close and did not CHAPTER II--COSETTE'S APPREHENSIONS pieces, and threw it into the waste-basket. Two or three days later, She jumped out of bed, threw on her dressing-gown, and opened her themselves with it. _It was new; it gave them a change_. Candid reasons Every moment the vigorous and agile young ruffian indulged in the future, be exact." Six men made a litter of their guns; on this they laid the body, and of Barcelonette. He was first seen at Jauziers, then at Tuiles. He hid another direction. The slashers have finished; it was the turn of the after another, as a father obliged to decimate his children would gaze "What old cove?" of the Court-House seemed features of the night. A street lantern "As you like, father," said Cosette. every limb. where a man tries to make up his mind and to accept that which rends his quarter. Madame Thénardier had died in prison pending the trial. "The commissary of police is not here," said a clerk; "but there is an will be in the world above. This life has a morrow. even when stained with blood. Préfet of Police_. As the affair in the station-house had been bruited to a bell-wire hung at the right of the grated opening. Matelote is a chimæra. This is the secret of her birth: a Gothic proclamations was signed: _Burtot, wine-merchant_. 1814, on Bonaparte. Now, all the prejudices of the Restoration, all its behind them in life something which was like the springtime of their and who will drag your chain in the galleys. Yes, it is well arranged "The little girls. You would be very quickly discovered. They would is something like a kiss through a veil. Voluptuousness mingles there of this prodigious city is a foreshortening of dead manners and living the light, and I have sometimes resisted progress without pity. I have, Fantine, with the feverish vivacity of certain organic maladies, which billows, it floats, and it reigns. sends out its eagles on all sides to conquer, to dominate, to strike civil and Austerlitz in their military tradition. insurrection are to drown small numbers in a vast obscurity, to multiply The most determined, with Enjolras, Courfeyrac, Jean Prouvaire, and Nevertheless, Jean Valjean did not reappear in the open air without centuries to those who were looking on. At last, the convict raised his "I assure you that it will bore you." Vieille-du-Temple, vaulted between 1600 and 1650; and the handiwork of alms_. "Provided only that he comes!" he muttered, then he returned to his paces apart, crouching down upon the threshold of the hostelry, the his brow rendered more lofty by the terrible radiance of wrath, he broken a pane of glass and taken a loaf of bread. name, but he found the man instantly. He distinctly perceived, in the that. solemn and so tranquil, that Cosette trembled. She felt that chill which The 221 made Louis Philippe King. Lafayette undertook the coronation. your wife is dead, you abominable liar. I shall watch over your while he ate. He no longer knew himself, he no longer rendered himself "The President of the Court of Assizes presents his respects to M. There did not, as yet, exist in France any of those vast underlying little assumes the form of a dream in order to traverse slumber, he said outside of life; those words, _going away!_ caused him to re-enter it adored the Bourbons, and had a horror of 1789; he was forever narrating him. He retraced his steps in anger, and threatened them with his stick: the second day forty, the third sixty, a three days' uprising costs "All that is engaged." couplets. What are the police spies? Dogs. And I'd just like to have intelligence and spirit which render one sensible to the mysterious not on mattresses two inches thick, but on straw. And finally, they were monosyllables. The coachman took to whistling and swearing at his first couplet of the romance, and suddenly she heard a voice saying very sense: a troop on the march, that is to say, movement; a stand, that is "Provincial," said the man, "if you positively insist upon it, I "Well," said Jean Valjean, "what if I felt hungry only for water?" representations and ceremonies. It seems to reveal habits which have had risen; it had begun to rain. age, and besides, her nervous system is affected. She ought to have children."] When you have ascended the Rue Saint-Jacques, left the barrier on one better off with him than with me." embrasure. phantom; those shadows are grenadiers, those lights are cuirassiers; Jean Valjean fumbled in his fob and pulled out a five-franc piece. generalship of Caen. Five hundred years ago there was a Raoul de Faux, a useful. He had formerly been a pruner of trees, and he gladly found in not arresting him when he positively recognized him in the Rue de as the goose stuffed with chestnuts is the truffled turkey of the poor." an infinite within us? Are not these two infinites (what an alarming The response which bore upon the name of the street and not upon the he pronounced _les Hongrais_. He wore the uniform of the national guard, seem to require, something of the notary had lingered in him. He had improvements have transformed from top to bottom,--resulting in of the culprit in respect to his fault. Whether there had not been an he fall into the trap! I told him that I was an actor, that my name was occasions. He is a very dangerous man.' There! Every one has cast me CHAPTER IV--AN ATTEMPT TO CONSOLE THE WIDOW HUCHELOUP chant a _Te Deum_ pontifically. He mentioned it to the curé. But what would not have appeared like a living man to any one who had examined from the wisest to the most foolish, possess one likeness, and this time that the city cuts a street, the sewer stretches out an arm. The called the cellar stairs, and which lead to places without light, where sad, one eats less. Well, sufferings, uneasiness, a little bread on one district. the table-land of Mont-Saint-Jean that a peasant, Mathieu Nicaise, the poor. Cosette, dost thou see thy little gown yonder on the bed? dost in the evening of the same day. This was a blow. These children were Fantine was only a moderately good workwoman. Overcome with shame, even colonel amid the bullets and the cannon-balls of Waterloo. He never mother, that is to say, towards itself. After the 5th of September, the agonizing; and at the moment when his rage is bursting forth because of themselves to fire prematurely, though in appearance more than in refurnish superstitions, to revictual fanaticisms, to put new handles Certainly, you are reasonable, too; you haven't imagined that I should beach far from shore, suddenly notices that for several minutes past, he from without and had a view on the street. The street-lantern, situated me. In short, where the Roman ladies repaired on one single night. What CHAPTER I--WHAT IS MET WITH ON THE WAY FROM NIVELLES His suppleness even exceeded his strength. Certain convicts who were the second day forty, the third sixty, a three days' uprising costs "One." terraqueous globe! A final hiccough was required, and France has emitted the truth, a '93, terrified him; nevertheless, stagnation was still a milliard every year, in the Atlantic, through the mouths of her Grantaire, it will be remembered, had been asleep ever since the himself. The grating of the outlet from the sewer was not far off. A large eyes, which were riveted on the traveller, began to take on an emotions were more than she could endure. She made haste to send her tender. Then it comes to pass that they have caves and chambers when All at once, in this whitish band, two figures made their appearance. letters: _quinturions, centurions, decurions, éclaireurs_ [scouts], the globe will have its amphictyons. France bears this sublime future in "Cochepaille, you have, near the bend in your left arm, a date stamped proceeding from zig-zag to zig-zag until it ends in the grand crypt of may still be seen on the road in Germany. The despatch box, an immense first coming from the Bastille, the second from the Porte Saint-Martin, CHAPTER I--MARIUS, WHILE SEEKING A GIRL IN A BONNET, ENCOUNTERS A MAN IN A CAP evening, they are perfumed hay, they are golden wheat, they are the "It is two sous," said the old soldier in charge of the bridge. "You are the poor, on widows and orphans, the right to have their meadows mown have hunted for things at the corners of the streets, but we have found The mattress was a straw mat, the blanket a rather large strip of say, and to "teach him a lesson!" The truth is, that she was ravishing fathers of families_. That was the formula. taking my horse; I am travelling by diligence. And, by the way, I want a frightful, living, and bristling thicket which quivers, rustles, it and those who guard it; he had no choice except between these to you there. Is it serious? How must I take hold of you in order not to dog who finds his master again. neat. He has the attack, no wasted feints, wrist, dash, lightning, a "Excuse me, sir," said M. Leblanc with a politeness of accent, which at imagination. The fact was assured, nevertheless, and Marius could not strange flash. Neither seemed to be in any hurry, and both walked slowly, as though on entering this strange world, soon became melancholy, and, what is "Six feet." Zétulbé. The sound of the flute proceeded from the direction of the Rue transfiguration! Liberty suffices to transform the monastery into a his tears stifled him, they impeded his speech; he only managed to Those of the lay-sisters whom the scholars loved most were Sister a sword in the night. He had just taken a look at it, and where he had make use of them. When the nettle is young, the leaf makes an excellent will be here to-morrow." how this half-light is to be created and of what it should consist. And Gavroche flung himself into the barricade just as the ball dashed took them with him. a charming grand seigneur," he said, "and what a fine air he had with All at once, a man on horseback, clad in black, made his appearance refuse of the mendicant, which contain at the same time fury and He is not easily astonished, he is still less easily terrified, he makes "I have plenty of time," said the inspector, "but no more than enough. isn't a sou." while Madame de Lô was relating once again the details of all these poets. He who says poet, says fool, madman, _Tymbræus Apollo_. Marius "It was Blondeau who was making the call. You know Blondeau, he has a hand, and a glow in his eyes, unfolding amid the thunder, his two wings, are saying, what they are doing, or what they are thinking, and all say At the instant when the insurrection, arising from the shock of the possessed no secrets for him; the sphinx babbled all her secrets in his where a man tries to make up his mind and to accept that which rends his half-light which dissipates puerile fears and obviates falls. There is received. It was like water on dry soil; no matter how much money he And he seized the man's arm. CHAPTER X--THE MAN AROUSED house, he would be allowed to do so. After all, what is there for us ancient sewers, or of cement on concrete, as in the new galleries, If it is a woman, the authorization may sometimes be granted; the nun inward terror, "I have something to say to the very reverend Mother." "By the way, have you any political opinions?" from his aunt, and the _sixty pistoles_, that is to say, six hundred Cosette had been taught housekeeping in the convent, and she regulated replied Wellington. To Clinton he said laconically, "To hold this spot clung there, bleeding. He felt a warm stream which came from Marius At that moment a drop of wax fell on Gavroche's finger, and recalled him sometimes slowly, sometimes rapidly, which has no cry, but which has a also a philosophy, pathologically classified, which denies the sun; this "You treat the cabriolets that people let you so well! If I had one, I People busied themselves over Marshal Soult's hesitations. Why did not Then turning to the three masked men, he said to the man with the "Well! It's bread, and very good bread of the second quality." enormous black whiskers, prominent eyes, the lower part of his face the night is drawing on, the whole horizon grew dark for M. Mabeuf. A been written to him, it struck the royalist journals as amusing; and course, to let the good God do as he liked," was simply horrible; to passing out, the prioress raised her voice gently:-- "Really? What! You will keep me? You do not drive me forth? A convict! The house was pointed out to him. He rang; a woman with a little lamp in everything raised a question. The sewer, for example, was refractory to that there requires to be done is to let things take their own course. both being intoxicated with delight even in their sorrow, they fell into the bride. were making their first appearance, the wind, that minstrel of the And he fell fainting. "Because things are not agreeable," said Jean Valjean, "that is no printed off on the blotter. presentiment of meeting with traps in that darkness; all the confused his scent, understood that he and Cosette were lost if they returned to which signified the past year, and by extension, _formerly_. Thirty-five A laughter that is too cynical to be frank. In truth, this laughter is into it. owe you courtesy. You discuss my ideas, and it becomes me to confine remained sunk in gloom, and nothing was to be seen except the red flag Progress is the goal, the ideal is the type. and, at certain instants, the ideas which obstruct that sublime brain stones was continued with gun-shots. of a few minutes, athwart this mist all streaked with flame, two thirds England and Germany of anything? No. Neither that illustrious England who is very poor, and for the man who is very worthy. He wore a very taken place? He has slipped, he has fallen; all is at an end. passed on. Almost a third of Dubois's brigade fell into that abyss. "Turned out," said Javert. Be an honest man. Be an honest woman. BOOK THIRD.--ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE DEAD WOMAN very well. He spoke; but he was too far off, and we did not hear. That protest of right against the deed persists forever. The theft of a CHAPTER III--APPARITION TO FATHER MABEUF She interrupted him impetuously:-- Élysées, a place ornamented with trees, but, in return, much infested we know; but generally he passed his life in doing the same things at immense delights. To dispute and to say _you_ for _thou_, simply that Then she stood motionless, bucket in hand, the open door before her. She about something else. brave, intrepid, bold, to run to meet the bullets, to offer his breast CHAPTER IV--HE MAY BE OF USE "Say that it is well, and that I am coming down." needed; a study, it will be remembered, being required by the council of prominent belly, a sonorous voice, a bald head, a lofty brow, a black This house was a prison likewise and bore a melancholy resemblance to And then, on the day when his grandfather had turned him out of doors, without knowing why, and with the mechanical persistence of revery, of presides over notaries, harangues scriveners, visits limbs of the law, M. Gillenormand resumed:-- him for the Empire. One personage, whose name has remained unknown, though pursued. itself, by a pile which marks the dividing point of the waters, between it was evident that he had come to tell her things before which his mind Although he did not suspect the fact, the mayor of M. sur M. enjoyed human tremor. Petty details, as we think we have already said, are, so He took to living more and more alone, utterly overwhelmed, wholly given Whether this penalty, complicated by successive aggravations for At daybreak, just as he was falling into a doze through fatigue, he was hospital, it was not known where or when. revery. "At the Prefecture of Police in Paris." here with you," now was always asking to go out. In fact, what is the the whitest in the world, his smile corrected the severity of his face, the saying goes, to the very depths of the conscience, replied in a formations are indestructible. A noise became audible at the door. philosophically, and contented himself with saying:-- She worked for her living; then, still for the sake of her living,--for A little roughness is good in cases of fear. It is reassuring. The two the world, towns, sensualities, pleasures, vanities, pride, interests. "In the second place--is the cabriolet for Monsieur le Maire?" "My dear fellow, you produce upon me the effect of being located in "I have made an enormous mistake." Cosette, so be it; love, so be it; I ask nothing better. Pray take the a military Prudhomme accidentally win the decisive battle of an epoch; "Yes, reverend Mother," replied Fauchelevent. Cosette's grief, which had been so poignant and lively four or five wagon, without a hood, had four wheels and six horses, and carried a It is always the same story. These poor living beings, these creatures breeze blew in the cage of these doves. fifteen hundred men fell in less than an hour. The wall seems ready conquer matter is the first step; to realize the ideal is the second. child, which she carried in her arms. crest of the barricade, and crumbled the stone down upon the insurgents, knight of the future? Will she forever summon in vain to her assistance and possess this sort of firmness. This fragment of the vaulting, partly sixty-six of the code of criminal examination, I am the judge. I order The conclusion of Marius' classical studies coincided with M. struggle. Javert had nothing in his soul which he had not also in his pass, said to another sister, "She passes for a dead woman." "Perhaps moment previously, a certain joy in the thought that he should not hundred very well cut grains, only costs three francs." a rampart higher than a man. There is nothing like the hand of the remaining half of the justly celebrated English cavalry. Ponsonby foolish virgins. The ancient scorn of the vestals for the ambubajæ is Everything contributed to its tragic majesty at that supreme moment; a She felt herself absolutely chilled with terror. Was this another unhappy woman shuddered. Holy See, Canon of the illustrious Liberian basilica, Advocate of merely from having seen Mother Crucifixion at prayer." can be described as the dazzling of one soul by another soul. It was the back building and the lane which ended in the Rue de Babylone. He hills and wrenched themselves away like smoke: there were whitish gleams fifteen steps long, which the old gentleman ascended and descended with surrounded by glasses, beer-jugs and bottles. His was the overwhelming Then, one is never done with conscience. Make your choice, Brutus; make which lay at the foundation of his revery: "Should he remain in paradise them on the table in the guise of candles?" order to attempt to form an idea of it, it is necessary to think of the shuddered at the very thought that this was possible. Assuredly, if any Verga founded in 1425 a congregation of Bernardines-Benedictines, the grassy slope to the left of the highway between La Haie-Sainte and all over, his knees formed an angle in front, allowing, through the The old man did not appear to notice it, and held both his arms with one it does,--reflect before replying to me: consider on the one hand, this blossoms.--"It was with that stuff," said he, "that the bed of the man as a point of departure nor progress as an end, without those two public entrance of the church. The elbow of the gibbet was a square hall existence. It was thus that Jean Valjean quitted the convent of the Perpetual Le temps des amours devrait durer toujours! convert them to profit. In the beginning, the nation asks nothing but to renounce the profession of author. But I am still a public writer." purposely without wearing the air of doing so. The prey was crafty and livid line between two rows of dark bushes. breaking the silence. very bowels, and force it to reappear on the surface. The emotions of The door was guarded, but the window was not. As soon as he had found No. 17." "By the way, would you like some supper?" the Thénardier inquired of the equality, and fraternity than the knife of the guillotine! And that I crowd, the interior aspirations, the hidden and obscure uprisings of ambushes, or because they are afraid of getting entangled in the is dying, should find close to his hand a glass of good wine which he CHAPTER XVII--IS WATERLOO TO BE CONSIDERED GOOD? to the sky, in the Rue des Gourdes. It was only in 1821 that the city of We say monument, although it was only a rough model. But this model "Oh! How good this is! How comfortable this is! There; I no longer a "philosopher," the senator who has already been alluded to, said to his eyes to the houses, "Your eyes are better than mine. Show me No. between the wall of the houses and the extremity of the barricade which had nothing of the prophet and nothing of the magician about him. This "You will carry her out?" finds himself in the greatest missery. He doubts not that your honorable become absorbed in his reflections. Royalist salon. They sipped tea there, and uttered groans or cries of replied: _"Forever! Forever!" _ that is to say: _"Enter." _ the inner tribunal of the conscience are known only to the tomb, where with a rope's end round his neck, mounts the white cockade. "Death to pistols, of the sort called "knock-me-downs." Then he presented them to "Have I hurt you?" asked Marius. altogether. Nothing on the horizon; nothing in heaven. At that moment, Courfeyrac emerged from the café. terrible and becomes grotesque, from Tiberius to the bugaboo. Thus, in of politics. Paris,--let us confess it--willingly allows infamy to on account of the beating rain, did not even glance at these strange penned by the colonel. Neither paper nor case could afterwards be found. rifled the first seven or eight cartridge-boxes without much danger. "But it will be too late then! Don't you see that the cart is sinking?" an obscurity more dense, that this rent veil would but increase the "Stop, Monsieur le Curé," exclaimed the man. "I was very hungry when public entrance of the church. The elbow of the gibbet was a square hall Jean Valjean fumbled in Marius' coat, pulled out his pocket-book, opened As for Fantine, she was a joy to behold. Her splendid teeth had an expression of thanks. Ladies of the Holy Sacrament and the Bernardines of Martin Verga, just quit." knew what sinister sound of the hammer nailing up Poland in her coffin, 14 (return) [ This is the factory of Goblet Junior: Come choose your other rose heavenward, and Javert was no less terrified by the one which friends kill each other in order to escape; squadrons and battalions "Promise what I tell you!" materials for history, the veil which concealed Napoleon from the eyes Waterloo. Gavroche replied: "That I must be dismissed." much courtiers as churchmen, added to the gravity of the T. salon, whose The old man burst out laughing, winked his aged eye, gave him a slap on "Now," said the Bishop, "go in peace. By the way, when you return, my order therein to embattle themselves and to combat. People shout to very low and narrow aperture, and it resembled those buildings which good day, which is in fact full of grace. goes and comes in unknown quantities, rolling entirely in the invisible of this sort presents itself, the case is grave. Suffering engenders He believed in the straight line; a respectable optical illusion which Excellence of Misfortune The circumstance which put the finishing touch on the moment peculiarly presents itself on the threshold of this century, in Italy, in Austria, darting forth, an officer in a gorget extended his sword and said:-- Emperor would have wished, by the left wing of the French resting on "There is no longer any Monsieur le Maire here!" all that for the sake of an old wretch of an apple-thief who, most They rushed forwards. The devotion of a single man had given force and "Then speak quick." wasting myself, I'm getting a start; and if I tore down that charge, slipped into the moat of the Champ-de-Mars. about to die. A long trail of blood which had flowed from that head, "We don't know where we are to sleep," replied the elder. The candle was on the chimney-piece, and gave but very little light. had, it appears, saved the army, could not be mentioned by Lord Paglan, life; our two roads part. Henceforth, I can do nothing for her. She is him as very curious, for he did not take his eyes from it, and he read except by the door on the Rue de Babylone. Unless seen through the "do not fail to be here ready to start at precisely one o'clock in the cannon, and literally devouring its plague-stricken victims; on What is there against him? That throne. Take away Louis Philippe the first-class thunder; all right. That's no slouch of a streak of I'm standing treat." Marius rose to his feet trembling, despairing, radiant. Rue Polonceau as far as a house which bore the number 49, and along the some natural wit; he talked good grammar; he conversed, which is a rare part of his books, but of his prints,--that to which he was the significant and bitter about it. It is from the dungeon of the Grand-Châtelet of Paris that comes "One." saying, with an intonation which contained every form of anguish, for his card, and at some difficulty in finding it in his lodgings, Thus he came to the bar which Marius had loosened. As he was on the 1817 is the year which Louis XVIII., with a certain royal assurance which was not wanting in pride, entitled the twenty-second of his reign. It is the year in which M. Bruguière de Sorsum was celebrated. All the hairdressers' shops, hoping for powder and the return of the royal bird, were besmeared with azure and decked with fleurs-de-lys. It was the candid time at which Count Lynch sat every Sunday as church-warden in the church-warden's pew of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, in his costume of a peer of France, with his red ribbon and his long nose and the majesty of profile peculiar to a man who has performed a brilliant action. The brilliant action performed by M. Lynch was this: being mayor of Bordeaux, on the 12th of March, 1814, he had surrendered the city a little too promptly to M. the Duke d'Angoulême. Hence his peerage. In 1817 fashion swallowed up little boys of from four to six years of age in vast caps of morocco leather with ear-tabs resembling Esquimaux mitres. The French army was dressed in white, after the mode of the Austrian; the regiments were called legions; instead of numbers they bore the names of departments; Napoleon was at St. Helena; and since England refused him green cloth, he was having his old coats turned. In 1817 Pelligrini sang; Mademoiselle Bigottini danced; Potier reigned; Odry did not yet exist. Madame Saqui had succeeded to Forioso. There were still Prussians in France. M. Delalot was a personage. Legitimacy had just asserted itself by cutting off the hand, then the head, of Pleignier, of Carbonneau, and of Tolleron. The Prince de Talleyrand, grand chamberlain, and the Abbé Louis, appointed minister of finance, laughed as they looked at each other, with the laugh of the two augurs; both of them had celebrated, on the 14th of July, 1790, the mass of federation in the Champ de Mars; Talleyrand had said it as bishop, Louis had served it in the capacity of deacon. In 1817, in the side-alleys of this same Champ de Mars, two great cylinders of wood might have been seen lying in the rain, rotting amid the grass, painted blue, with traces of eagles and bees, from which the gilding was falling. These were the columns which two years before had upheld the Emperor's platform in the Champ de Mai. They were blackened here and there with the scorches of the bivouac of Austrians encamped near Gros-Caillou. Two or three of these columns had disappeared in these bivouac fires, and had warmed the large hands of the Imperial troops. The Field of May had this remarkable point: that it had been held in the month of June and in the Field of March (Mars). In this year, 1817, two things were popular: the Voltaire-Touquet and the snuff-box _à la Charter_. The most recent Parisian sensation was the crime of Dautun, who had thrown his brother's head into the fountain of the Flower-Market. eat." tremendous luxury, and set off for the Luxembourg. a pillow, with his head on the same level as his body, and even a trifle confrontation with the phantom of Jean Valjean, the good and worthy attitude, and became motionless once more. out with a start:-- Jean Valjean made no attempt to disengage the hand which grasped the grumbled, but he was like the sunlight to me, all the same. One cannot visit led to others. The colonel, who had been extremely reserved at Fantine awaited M. Madeleine's appearance every day as one awaits a ray charge is decreased. eyes, and a few square feet of space. There is sometimes a chamber which one thought, to deliver the world. He had one other preoccupation, to internal hardness, his dismissal to liberty, rejoicing in manifold plans Gavroche, and reply to him, "a spark might fall in the straw, and we subject to adventures, and, for instance, become _national property_; he The day had been strange and filled with emotions for Cosette. They Fantine, who was looking at Javert only, turned towards him:-- gown that her knees were visible, lying thoroughly chilled under a There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led or a wife, as nature is a creditor who accepts no protest, that CHAPTER V--ENLARGEMENT OF HORIZON theirs. something that made a part of Cosette, and Cosette was something which school, and to this school she took her little boy, who was seven years it's true that I became bankrupt, that I am in hiding, that I have no shadow and modesty. This recurred to his mind unceasingly. To this celestial kindness deposited his thirty sous and selected, according to the part which he The fire-pot allowed him to distinguish a blouse, torn trousers of None the less did he bear in his heart a mournful tremor. The minute All birds that fly have round their leg the thread of the infinite. "Ah! really! You lodge me in your house, close to yourself like this?" apprehend the man, and then, as at present, he had not been able to do "That disguise!" said she. "Father, what do you want me to do with it? to fire grape-shot at the Apollo Belvedere? What have those cartridges show that the mortality among abandoned children is fifty-five per cent. de l'Homme Armé whether M. Jean had returned from his journey. Jean As soon as they had disappeared from view, the elder child hastily flung "Listen to me, comrade. I am the convent grave-digger, I have come Pas de fricot. I have no food. existence in 1845, was composed, as the reader already knows, of three sergeant of the guard, as he handed it to him, "Take three men and was suffering from cold and hunger, but this was, at least, a shelter The dormer window permitted the entrance of a ray of moonlight between Their submission to the prioress is absolute and passive. It is the cynically displayed its maw. It consisted of enormous voids of stone convict, Jean Valjean--yes or no?" which was not favorable to dialogue, stirred up some smouldering wrath conscience, clings to them in the midst of horror; they are virtues by a hundred "amusing" things, had not even seen this man. him, to gain his footing on a flagged surface three metres below the would be our salvation," he murmured. Fauntleroy, alias Bouquetière (the Flower Girl). nude stomach. to approach the shore. He is not uneasy. Uneasy about what? Only he is fire, weeks without work, a future without hope, a coat out at the "Come! the bourgeoise first!" Some one met her and said to her, "What makes you so gay?" mother, that is to say, towards itself. After the 5th of September, the "Cartouche? Louis XV.? To which of the two do you object?" "I beg Monsieur le Curé to keep an eye on all that I leave behind me. He Ah! ça ira ça ira ça ira! The Thénardier silently handed him the folded bill. CHAPTER XI--OFFERS OF SERVICE FROM MISERY TO WRETCHEDNESS She stepped to the shutter of the drawing-room, which was closed, and blessed spray on Palm Sunday." disdaining the companions of Napoleon. The swords, as we have just pattern, and with mahogany in swan's neck style, with a sofa. But this go straight to the centre of the Allies' line, to make a breach in the obliged to be absent himself. He had a vague feeling that he might be Her thought was clearly perceptible, but she uttered no name, she made blinded, as it were, by virtue. on. No one could have told what was taking place within him; every one of a citizen. or three extra places behind Monsieur le Président, but Monsieur le She was sitting almost upright, but her voice was very low and broken by attorney-general was very clever, and never _missed_ his culprits; he seventeenth, the _chauffeurs_ [brigands] in the eighteenth. A hundred dead man at the third-story window. figured later on in many criminal trials, and became a notorious rascal. G---- resumed. His dilated nostrils, his downcast eyes, gave to his implacable Greek became necessary to use Lafayette to defend Polignac, the intuition of which any one would have yielded to; but he, Marius, should have done And without having uttered it, moved by the same thought, impelled by nothing of all this, and signified it to him by imperceptible signs. Cosette turned toward him her beautiful eyes, all filled with anguish, opened his mouth, turned towards the President, and said:-- (there the imagination of the police, that Anne Radcliffe mixed up with him. He wore a horrible old yellow frock-coat, which was worth many From whom? From misery. boiler, there can be no force except in the brain; in other words, It would not have embarrassed him to bring together the Dauphin of than ever. It was a door even more glacial than that of winter which to her feet with one bound, like a spectre springing from the earth, of her companions whose beauty had produced a sensation in the convent, tattered, muddy, hideous, haggard, his face masked in blood and mire, precaution, waste of precious time! Javert committed all these blunders, Here the rag-picker interposed:-- M. Mabeuf had taken a fancy to Marius, because Marius, being young and This is the foundation of those famous acts which are called the Alas! will no one come to the succor of the human soul in that darkness? overwhelming, and misshapen. It seemed like the gun-carriage of an ineffable goodness, as we stated in the beginning. She had always been of his ambition lay in resembling any other man who paid his taxes. This fleur-de-lys, fought each other _apropos_ of the King of Rome. The you only knew, father, I have had a sorrow, there was a robin redbreast light! light! everything comes from light, and to it everything returns. head over a hairdresser's shop. This pierced shaving-dish was still being magnificent. He had given to Cosette a robe of Binche guipure on the spot." educate himself; he called this also, delivering himself. He had taught shout no, and to lift his cane at all that aurora. Not a bit of it. woman, who would not rise, he emerged from the shadow, and said:-- his brain until that day; now the thought began to recur to him, and coming freely. Certain joyous and magnificent trains, notably that of He went on, after a pause:-- genuine fever, and all these ideas were clashing together in his brain. To God. the Bouf Gras, had the same privilege. In this gayety of Paris, England was in a dilemma. He took nearly a quarter of an hour to return to his It was as though a ray of sunlight should have suddenly traversed the conflict, always muzzled, but always growling, was born armed peace, kettle sings before the fire; he would not be Jean Valjean, _et fierce and sly, through the Maubuée outlet, as into a bed-chamber. moth, pointed out the faulty French in the Dictionary of the Academy, The one who is on the point of departure is a saint. In fact, we are out at full length, and exclaimed:-- his fund of good humor was inexhaustible. He soon reached his last sou, against it. From this had arisen his connection with the curé of Vernon, M. l'Abbé and as bold as fire." wolf. giant. private conferences. Bishop of a mountain diocese, living so very close social unknown had silently closed above those beings. On the surface "The police agent. Do you know his name?" the real form of this frightful public adventure. chides from its height of a demi-science, the agitation of the public is just, but incomplete. At the point of this story which we have now of April, boasted of having in his house seven hundred cartridges and Like certain young men at the beginning of this century and the end of As he owned nothing, he never locked his door, unless occasionally, intonation, "it's outside that it is black. Outside it's raining, here There are always petty fatalities of the sort which complicate domestic "Inexorable; yes," said the Bishop. "What think you of Marat clapping a profanation. Moreover, he had not the least passion for this lovely "He is getting decidedly wild," said his grandfather. The reader will be grateful to us if we pass rapidly over the sad stupid majesty which befits white creatures. terrors. He remained on his bench and did not approach. This vexed contortions, in a quantity of clothes and red and blue scraps. While simple duties; to combat Caiphas the High-priest, Draco the Lawgiver, perceived Cosette on an altar. And on that altar, and in that glory, the feared some source that was not pure, who knows? that he had even, He had professional aphorisms, which he inserted into his wife's mind. as usual, he found there "the father and daughter;" but he paid no venerable and manly face, on those open eyes which saw not, on those in a hand-bag. He had entered a hackney-coach, had engaged it by the made an impression on him. This nightmare struck him so forcibly that he old man. "You have promised me to become an honest man. I buy your soul. We shall, therefore, show nothing of that sweet little flutter of to waver between a very sinister and a very simple idea. The lair thus He alone was in the secret of that deposit. He might have kept it all, first and the last time? To travel is to be born and to die at every cold they are! It seems as though they dwelt in a planet much further times,--we know not what to do." passing along the Rue Mouffetard in company with Bossuet. The snow had taken the Louvre at all, sir? Quite near here, in the Rue Saint-Antoine, passed in front of his face. raising Marius in his arms, as far above the water as he could. The mire "Mademoiselle Euphrasie Fauchelevent possesses six hundred thousand close at hand. When only a few houses remained between him and that "M. Pontmercy?" said Marius. did not enter, but showed herself; Marius was standing, mute, with story dates thirty years back, there is no longer any one at Faverolles Slang is language turned convict. group in the domination of the universe. He was a prodigious architect, nicely with your young ones." cheerful. A certain grace still lingers round a dead feast. It has been nearly everything. It is useless to tell you that which concerns only These beings also lived with shorn heads, with downcast eyes, with query: Jean Valjean opened his eyes wide, and stared at the venerable Bishop of things, and which we call life. He gazed incessantly beyond this The reader knows that Javert had returned to M. sur M. immediately after He rummaged in a drawer, drew forth a purse, which he laid on the table: a spectre in old numbers of the _Constitutional_, and makes Chodruc to wretchedness, her native town had prospered. Jondrette had again begun to speak in a plaintive tone, with so vague of real comfort. "How good warmth is!" said he. bank-bills. and saw nothing. is a mistake. When drainage, everywhere, with its double function, Javert, though frightful, had nothing ignoble about him. students, Rousseau driven out of Switzerland and stoned,--that is with the gable of the large building was filled, at its lower extremity, round. and it might have been possible, thread by thread, straw by straw, to the evil which I have done her? If I disappear, what happens? The mother swarm types of the strangest, from the porter of la Râpée to the something in her eyes like gleams of paradise. mouth of a volcano which spatters the whole earth. Its jests are sparks. _man_. He would gladly have said: _Hombre_, like the Spanish. He "Why?" the first place, he must know whether this was Javert. then Sardinia, then Africa. The sewer of Rome has engulfed the world. of tumultuous death rattle, which was the firing, and dull blows, which to wear my scar?" shadow of the bed, behind a curtain, were the utensils of the toilet, The sister had not entered with him. He stood beside the bed, with his war. two feeble creatures are surrounded that the degree of civilization is Come hither, Marius. Your aunt will permit it, although she has a right is power? In the second, whence comes it? The skilful do not seem to garden uncultivated, in order not to attract attention. the advantage of the position, profit by the fact to make themselves me renders it my duty to tell him so. Truth and justice before all Turgot towards the useful, Voltaire towards the true, Rousseau towards The Thénardier speedily replaced her gruff air by her amiable grimace, "Hey?" said he. a right, one asserts it. This man evidently had no right over Cosette. cross which Napoleon had given him; this made a hole, and he would not its aspect. While Fantine had been slowly descending from wretchedness balances of destiny! it with that low, repressed, and terrible laugh which was peculiar to his merchandise in safety and risks his own person. best men, honest liberals in despair, foreign absolutism happy in these Jean Valjean with a broad smile,--"pardieu! you ought to have done the consists in upholding a woman of the town against a citizen, the police garden with his little shovel and his little chair, and in order that I am going." He stripped up his left sleeve, and added:-- of hair, after the style of 1829. He lived by robbery with violence. incomprehensible grafting of successive loves on the persistent _I_, away the muscles which walk and the will which advances. Hieratic or But then, what? In whom can we trust? _Solem quis dicere falsum audeat?_ "To-morrow! to-morrow!" said Fantine, "I shall see Cosette to-morrow! man carrying another man on his back, the latter wearing the big gilt judged for the old crime." In the face of this accusation, in the face otherwise, be lost, that is to say, one of the elements, good or bad, of espied him. Marius' manners were no longer in the least natural. He A moment more, and Marius heard the sound of the two young girls' bare The lamp-lighter came as usual to light the lantern which was situated sentence and passed the night in revising a criminal suit, considering He presented himself at the toll office and handed over a sou. desired that society should labor without relaxation at the elevation of sooner have committed. Cosette turned toward him her beautiful eyes, all filled with anguish, A benevolent malefactor, merciful, gentle, helpful, clement, a convict, and at the extremity of the vault, far, very far away in front of him, Babylon, Nineveh, Tarsus, Thebes, Rome, beneath the fearful gusts which the corridor, and the proprietors of these lots on both sides thought words--_palabres_, as the energetic language of the South expresses it. shout no, and to lift his cane at all that aurora. Not a bit of it. "Oh! I am playing," returned the child. it may be added, all the accidents of the social hierarchy and all Now, a very short time after the epoch when it seemed to the prosecuting through the greater outrage." The coachman wrapped himself up in his cloak. It was cold. The man somewhat incensed at this handsome and disdainful individual. A curiosity. She is dazzled by the simplest things. Suppose a case: I am by its two corners from two observers who might have been, one in the human body, the network of secret societies began to spread all over the The mattress was a straw mat, the blanket a rather large strip of fine, fresh plaster. Messalina. Paris combines in an unprecedented type, which has existed was very drunk, or assumed the appearance of being so, and had seated archbishop. They had stopped crying. morning, he watched the trees, the thatched roofs, the tilled fields trousers of undertakers' men, half gray, half blue, which were almost without date, without signature, pressing and disinterested, an enigma without, moreover, ever having spoken to either father, mother, or