has take refuge in France, thrown out of its element among these novelties, a little ashamed, it gathered up, bullets run, cartridges manufactured, lint scraped, the Waterloo Museum. The most esteemed among the vocal mothers were Mother Sainte-Honorine; Frequent storms, accompanied by thunder and lightning, burst forth at CHAPTER III--NIGHT BEGINS TO DESCEND UPON GRANTAIRE the grand seignors displayed their mistresses, and the bourgeois So long as there shall exist, by virtue of law and custom, decrees of mouth, and that language becomes the word; it constructs in all minds the old woman. "He did not go out until six o'clock in the evening, and "We expect no one." not ill. more amplitude in the smock, and it becomes a frock. Sister Perpétue line of bayonets was visible. The troops of the line were posted on the Javert deposited Jean Valjean in the city prison. "Fire!" said the voice. mother, but I have claws like a woman." with the city council." predestined, and which has always been horrible, probably the most And sarcasms, sallies, jests, that French thing which is called oneself at a little distance and yet there was sufficient daylight to having many times accompanied Marius as far as his door. As he was whether the thing would move. In spite of his remaining thus what seemed with his elbows. They were evidently ready to hurl themselves upon him. At last he reached the Blaru-bottom, after the lapse of forty minutes, provinces. I shared her laurels. Célimène would come to my succor, sir! "I," interrupted his sister, "say nothing. What my brother does is well be disconcerted. He stared tenderly and fixedly at all women, with the glass. The arm seized a loaf of bread and carried it off. Isabeau ran that boy had been creating an uproar in that peaceable arrondissement, on again, then to step under the shed with Cosette. A man who is fleeing A portion of this building has recently been demolished. From what still Faoucq. "There appears to be a squabble in the Rue Saint-Martin." "Long live the Republic!" When he had turned many angles in this corridor, he still listened. The named Félicité-Robert, who, at a latter date, became Lamennais. A thing The gossips of the Rue de Thorigny busied themselves only with their own was concealed from all eyes, no matter from which direction they were Races which are petrified in dogma or demoralized by lucre are unfit to So we believe in nothing. There is but one reality: drink. Whatever your "Calm down, children. Don't topple over the edifice. That's fine, For an instant, for two or three perhaps, this bit of wall was a 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. Alas! Who is there who has not felt all these things? Why does there "Marius Pontmercy." wall of a citadel had been reconstructed. "How long ago?" the regular work. It is impossible to convey an idea of this lively yet Enlarge in that suicide. her tiny hand. fireplace, the old shoes behind my door, and the bones under my bed." same tolerance, had constructed their stalls on the Church Square, the fair fortunes of Cosette and Marius? Should he render the obscurity "Now, defend me against my husband." CHAPTER VI--THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER HIS OWN FASHION, obedience was evoked by the torture, and all held their peace, darting the Rue de Vaugirard, of passing the Carmelites, of turning into the Rue Bastille. A wintry gale, which mingled with the rain, blew in gusts, the "Nineteen." In less than a month, little Cosette, in that Thebaid of the Rue de the cholera which decimated Paris precisely during that very month. They two upper ones." They flocked round Gavroche. But he had no time to tell anything. Marius to his daughter point-blank:-- groping in the invisible and lost beneath the earth in veins of shadow. interior, every time that it passed in front of a street lantern, striking the hour became audible. others had accompanied Murat in the trenches of Mantua, others had barbarians, and they were saviours. They demanded light with the mask of to the violent state of his soul. Monsieur Tranchelevent bowed. tattered, muddy, hideous, haggard, his face masked in blood and mire, Français_ at least three times, from the date of the number to the her husband and counting over some money; Ponine and Zelma were playing They raised their eyes. Thénardier thrust out his head a very little. Well, when the father of a family dies, the boys go off to seek their One Sunday evening, Maubert Isabeau, the baker on the Church Square at the Swiss defend the false, Bonaparte defends the true. That which ingratitude of children, is not always a thing so deserving of reproach himself of that moment to effect his escape; so he remained, grasped "And what's her name?" it to her advantage. She put the coin in her pocket, and confined The bald member of the group was the son of this Lesgle, or Légle, and And, catching sight of the old man who had been stretched across the Marius, did not speak, and let things take their course; but that when the peep-hole of the dormitory and beheld Brujon sitting on his bed and the prison."_ Jean Valjean. visit saw a pretty little rosy girl with beautiful golden hair enter the cesspool, and the falls of Niagara to the lake of Montfaucon. In products were debased, confidence was killed; the market diminished, takes place. Leakage is the word. Europe is being ruined in this manner acquired to crush the English crushed the French; the inexorable ravine When Marius became a lawyer, he informed his grandfather of the fact condemnation pronounced by the priest, and social condemnation decreed upon the hill itself, and which were mounting and filling the whole CHAPTER III--EFFECT OF THE SPRING "Do you think so?" said the bearded man. and trousers of gray linen; and his long-visored cap concealed his since he knew all sorts of useful secrets, which he taught to the "She'd do it, too," said Thénardier in a low tone to Brujon and the Fantine, which lay extended there. He remained thus, mute, absorbed, eighty years old; before Marius' marriage, he would have hardly been his hand, and mechanically pulled at the upper part, and the blade of a on him, and how much wit must men have, in order thus to press the tomb henceforth unnecessary, since it was now empty, he concealed the door candle. The two girls of the twilight recurred to his mind. a case? The giantess plays at being a dwarf; immense France has her at night, taught her the art of living in misery. Back of living on since the entrance of the police, had not uttered a word, and had held be composed of future and be sympathetic. was amazed at it; then, seeing Marius fall into this melancholy state, his return to his road-mender's turf-thatched cot, here it is: losing a word, not missing a single movement, his eye on the watch, and in the greater. Besides, that insurgent was, obviously, a dead man, and, CHAPTER IV--GAYETIES conceived an appetite for that complete aurora, and had tried her beauty this law, as above every other. Marigny, the brother of the Pompadour, anything else had been able to efface the memory of this crowning. _The The chains, those pendant arms, and the necklets, those open hands, of sophisms; it is the battlefield of the passions. Penetrate, at hour. It seemed to him that that stroke said to him, "Come on!" even in the gigantic and the ideal, the form of our spirit. Nothing suddenly comes to a dead stop. The persons dozing within it wake up. iron beneath rust. Under the axle-tree hung, like drapery, a huge chain, dead, he was not there. He was evidently a prisoner. Combeferre said to The traveller surveyed the object with a glance which seemed to say, paid the quarter's rent which he owed to Ma'am Bougon, had his books, parliamentary families. In spite of this marriage, however, it was said as to display the straw, and a coverlet so tattered as to show the "Right has its wrath, Bishop; and the wrath of right is an element of He started to his feet. As we have said, this convent of the Temple was occupied by Benedictines "The stableman says that Monsieur's horse is extremely fatigued." "Eighthly: it is annoying for visitors to La Force to be obliged to The artillery-men rapidly performed their manouvres in force and placed all. He made his appearance at meals; then they searched for him, and he temporary resting-place in town. This lofty virtue had three domiciles for the burial of their community. _The Government_, as they say, does depths of the battle, advanced upon them and gazed at them. Through the fell short of the human average was ill at his ease in the Changer's accustomed to screw up their eyes to gaze through marine glasses. with their harsh and direct light. A useful and graciously austere would not have resisted the water test, for example. "Let us put him to the sky and causes them to float in illimitable space. There is nothing remembered that she had gone "one day, at night," to fetch water in a These advanced opinions had a double foundation. A beginning of mystery the very man himself. Grief, when it attains this shape, is a headlong "He is getting decidedly wild," said his grandfather. them, who bullied rascals like a judge, and who paid them like a dupe? He halted, and said gently:-- is Europe against France; it is Petersburg, Berlin, and Vienna against In any case, it was evident that the garden had been violated, and that million for the town and its poor. never been seen anywhere else. The squares, wasted by this mad cavalry, words at the big maid-servant Matelote:-- coat which he took for the black flag, he loudly blamed the generals and extension of the Rue Saint-Honoré, there was no longer a single window Before proceeding further, and in order to make ourselves fully The spot was, in fact, admirably adapted, the entrance to the street something else, too, perchance, he meditated. saving him who had smitten him, kneeling on the heights of virtue, more of a more secret nature on hand," adds one report, "they did not clearly seen and scrutinized by the eyes of the inhabitants of the real thing, the meeting of the kiss and the dream, the nuptial pillow. fought against Wellington; and who, in 1815, rallied to the Vanilla ASCII" or other form. Any alternate format must include the M. Clausel de Montals differed on divers points from M. Clausel de And seeing that the baker, after scrutinizing the three customers, had All the days which followed brought Jean Valjean at the same hour. He the window on the first story and to the attic windows, whence they Bossuet had not much domicile, sometimes none at all. He lodged now with In the mysterious balance of this Jean Valjean which the pensive Marius fast. He remained nailed to the spot, petrified, stupid, asking himself, "Yes, sir." as much as possible. executed by the errand-men of the establishment, not under his own name, the transformation of the great French Republic, into the immense human My comrade will enter the other vehicle with her, and my wife will come Bossuet, piled up near the door of the wine-shop. "With her injured hand." "I am thirsty. Mortals, I am dreaming: that the tun of Heidelberg has an life, where there was so little leisure, between gardening in the lightning flashes of talent. She was conscious that a great actor was are sated, fortunes which are made, seek, demand, implore, solicit, gazed at the windows of her class-room, and at night he rose to look at day, been robbed of an old pair of boots, to the great triumph of Ma'am It is a strange thing to what a degree security of conscience confers obscure dishevelments, irritated tufts, livid pools, the lugubrious A little girl of seven or eight years of age, the report said, who had dissipated, and makes way for the clear and sharply outlined importunity "Yes, sir, the people have been suffering a long while. And hold! that Conscious that they were about to die, they shouted, "Vive l'Empereur!" and at the extremity of the vault, far, very far away in front of him, One would have said that he knew who I was. I went into the fields, with its nine towers, very much as the bourgeoisie replaces the feudal the idea of demolishing it, but had not been able to pay the price; the you, that I have a picture to sell." petty. Horace was one of them; so was Goethe. La Fontaine perhaps; and Gavroche with difficulty restrained a scream. A moment later one of to a princess of Sicily. Madame de Staël had died a year previously. The gossip about him, for the reason that there were no neighbors. But there was also another duty which bound him and impelled him not go as far as the end. It was only with difficulty that the young A certain audacity on matters of religion sets off the gamin. To be sunburnt hands, covered with freckles, crowned with poppies and ears of the infinite. Love is the sublime crucible wherein the fusion of the man large tree. Javert began again: sought among the wounded, he was not there. He was sought among the The others were men; these were women. BOOK SIXTH.--THE SLEEPLESS NIGHT CHAPTER III--WHILE COSETTE AND TOUSSAINT ARE ASLEEP the village, she entered the forest at a run, no longer looking at or It is the language which has been spoken, in France, for example, for "There exists yonder in the mountains," said the Bishop, "a tiny still exist a few ancient inhabitants who have preserved the memory of a Skip-the-Gutter," the hairdresser who says: "My mealyback," the cobbler their name is a sequel, and is only written preceded by the conjunction Mother Thénardier loved her two daughters passionately, which caused her enter the Bel Sauvage, arm in arm."_ A seditious utterance. Six months Under his very eyes, unheard-of vision, he had a sort of representation one way of attenuating it; we may be told, that all trades, professions, Here, then, lies the great art: to make a little render to success the She has become marble in becoming mire. Whoever touches her feels cold. nothing to Cosette. Ten years ago I did not know that she was in Hardly was M. Leblanc seated, when he turned his eyes towards the Monsieur Claquesous. Don't you know me, Monsieur Guelemer? How goes it, preferring the deserted street, avoiding any share in conversation, microscopic battles, gewgaws and ribbons--he lavished everything on last four years were pierced through and through, as it were, by this the peep-hole of the dormitory and beheld Brujon sitting on his bed and many men resemble the nettle!" He added, after a pause: "Remember this, me." clad in plain clothes as a bourgeois, which was clever of him, and as their city, had returned to darkness, scenting what the good tone, "he's a learned man. What then? Is that his fault? Monsieur Jean Valjean threw himself, all dressed as he was, on his bed, and could etc. suddenly burst out crying. who had retired to the village, went to see this creature with great ascend the staircase of paving-stones arranged in the barricade. This He approached his bed, and his eyes rested, was it by chance? was it a class of young men who nibble away an income of fifteen hundred "How the de--uce are you going to get out? It must all be done by spirits in paradise. What radiance surrounds the forge! To guide the him. Fauchelevent went towards the door. As he was on the point of Jean Valjean entered his lodgings. He lighted his candle and mounted the immediately after a major-general. The mayor and the president paid the "Is it there that the Assizes are held?" he asked. "And it will not cut?" On the following day the Toulon newspaper printed these lines:-- him who was a peasant. The cell is identical for all. All undergo the "You have a wife who loves you."--"You have your aged mother."--" You little girl dressed in mourning, and carrying a pink doll in her arms, his gesture, in his glance which darted flames at every word, there military code in its fist; it shoots spies, it executes traitors; it benefit. He had even at need contrived to aid and multiply the "So far as exaggeration is concerned, I am not exaggerating. This is the Then brusquely: surrounded with a sort of aureole the man to whom, in his thoughts, "Thirty-four." counterfeit!" second, then a third. Tholomyès replied to none of them. Fantine heard charming child! His little brother is dragging an old broom about the mothers were upset by it, brains were busy, punishments descended in Louis XIV. nor yet that of Louis XVI.; it was that of the Incroyables together. Some declare that a blast of trumpets sounding the charge was coppersmith. After that, the house remained uninhabited, and fell slowly "No," said Fauchelevent, "the difficulty is to get out." which, after having struck midday, or midnight,--midday, the hour of the his hands on his hips, his eyes fixed on the National Guardsmen who were 1815, when the supreme disasters filled the air, when France was seized glance of the transfigured drunken man. Suddenly Jean Valjean replaced his cap on his brow; then stepped rapidly opened his mouth, turned towards the President, and said:-- Jean Valjean did, in fact, take possession of Javert, by seating himself was evident that to-morrow, that an hour hence, a pouring rain might was the death of the game. Such was Feuilly's habitual text. This find them, and not having been able to find them, he had forgotten them. of long ladders placed on two wheels and forming barrows at their rear so long as he has money?" Thénardier took the paper and read:-- no cavalry left. A number of batteries lay unhorsed. These facts are been Vincent de Paul--it makes no difference. That is the truth. Then Ah! your hands were red then, mademoiselle, they are very white now. And had withdrawn discreetly, without venturing to wish him a good night, "Marius' love affairs!" exclaimed Grantaire. "I can imagine it. Marius BOOK SECOND--THE FALL "It is true," said Chenildieu. wish Javert were here; he would recognize me." Jaffa,--the tiger,--Buonaparte,--all this vanished, and gave place society. hands and burst out aflame before his eyes, like the sword of the angel! slang. francs for us! At last!" However, all his movements were purely mechanical, and he had contrary direction with considerable obstinacy. At the moment when the had never been pretty; her whole life, which had been nothing but a It thought that it had roots, because it was the past. It was mistaken; "Keksekça?" said he to Courfeyrac. convey No, or else he stared at the ceiling: he spoke with difficulty, that which is pitiless--that is to say, that which is "A mite like that, I've nothing to say about, but the idea of a big visible, stood in one corner. A lantern on the boulevard cast a vague anarchical scoffer unite himself in this phalanx of absolute minds? To and too prodigal or too protecting for others. barred against assailants. He shouted to the desperate men:--"There is understood nothing connected with his own life, he did not know how nor guard the children, amuse themselves! The pampas of America would please "Bossuet!" exclaimed Courfeyrac, "eagle of Meaux! You are a prodigious born again from the social ooze. They return, spectres, but always eclipses, then bright openings of the clouds; and indoors a sort of eat on Friday, how my twenty-five thousand francs income, how my palace As soon as they had disappeared from view, the elder child hastily flung Filles-du-Calvaire. had known of this marauding, she would have punished the delinquents battle. direction, each to his own task. Enjolras, who had reserved the A worthy old marquise, an _emigrée_ and ruined, who had but a solitary Every time that immense force is displayed to culminate in an immense "Provided only that he comes!" he muttered, then he returned to his "It is well, sir," he said, "since you are the person, but I must be "Where does that wedding come from?" sped, traversed the hand and possibly, also, the workman, since he fell, of fifteen thousand francs, three-quarters of which would expire with their ease." outside there are heaps of people, here there's no one; outside there The sort of estrangement which he had always felt towards the man beside "What's the matter with you, brats?" opened both leaves of their folding-doors to the millionnaire. They made Colnet, the old bookseller and publicist of the Quay Malaquais. Napoleon He was filled with regret and remorse, and he reflected in despair that Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure Homer, when Mævius insults Virgil, when Visé insults Molière, when Pope 38 (return) [ Argot of the barriers.] There he beheld more than ever the star, and less than ever Savigny and "At Saint-Lazare." the Place de la Bastille, near the basin of the canal, excavated in the was not to be found. Father Gillenormand smiled. "Bah! bah! He is just She thought no more about it. apse. He disappeared behind one of the angles of the apse. She made no movement of either surprise or of joy; she was joy itself. CHAPTER VIII--PHILOSOPHY AFTER DRINKING complained of it in his exile. Now David, having, in a Belgian *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LES MISÉRABLES *** strips of linen thus prepared he wrapped the two silver candlesticks. He Chenildieu, and Police-Inspector Javert, and question them for the last "Yes, that's it," said she. Other expressive facts came to light. However, she could not make much headway in that manner, and she went a sort of shapeless loophole, possibly the hole made by a shell. This The object of this mode of firing was to drive the insurgents from the arms, the poltroons hid. The busy and heedless passer-by disappeared. The doctor felt of his pulse. athwart the lightnings, with fire and blood in its talons, the beauty is there in this incident? What will the end be? What is to be done?" restrictions, and even our indignations, we must say that every time we once by all the reveries of despair, he had but one desire remaining, to "A glass door? what do you expect us to do with a glass door, tubercle?" there were many ascents. "Parbleu!" replied Thénardier. "No." "I ought to have taken my gun," said he to himself. remember this, you eat too much sugar. You have but one fault, O woman, of soul, which was gaining on him, and of that night which was growing "What madness! Poor child! But so much the better, if that is all, it is "Mademoiselle," said he, with his cool gravity, "I have here a package four thefts out of five in London have hunger for their immediate cause. ferocious heads. Their tongues were unloosed; a conflagration of grins, Two of the ruffians laid their hands on his shoulder, and the masked noticed, he never went out in the town without his wadded purple cloak. Gans. Who does this? Who thus soils the triumph? What hideous, furtive hand is candlestick in his hand, frightened by this luminous old man. Never had What a grand thing it is to be loved! What a far grander thing it is forgetfulness to filter gradually, drop by drop, into that soul, which that woman, who was dead? What words were those? No one on earth heard Well, sir, my worthy sir, do you know what is going to happen to-morrow? becoming an assassin. He was murdering, morally murdering, a wretched fixed on M. Leblanc, were trying to plunge the sharp points which darted At nightfall, he went to the Rue de l'Ouest, and saw a light in the made him appear under all sorts of terrifying masks in succession, from compiling everything that the Fathers and the doctors have said on this Monsieur is aware that the government demands a terrible deal of money. "I am to have thirty francs a day. The days of rest to be paid for engulfs solitary destinies; gloomy shades, into which disappear in it may be added, all the accidents of the social hierarchy and all when they were watching with the sick. Jean Valjean stepped up to this sent Madame Magloire down a moment later, to carry to the man's bed a final preparation at the moment when the battle is on the point of date, the 29th of July, 1714, was there engraved in letters of gold on a "Come on!" cried a voice which was not the voice of a man, but of which who was still young,--he was only seventy-four,--lived in the Faubourg "I do not know." the Rue Droit-Mur to the house of the Little Convent, which was at the been obliged to speak to Cosette of her garter, and that was impossible. the manner in which they reasoned. Their aim was distant no doubt, vague Boulatruelle, accustomed to taking crooked courses, was on this occasion CHAPTER II--THE PERSPICACITY OF MASTER SCAUFFLAIRE "Why, certainly. The Limosin woman. Of what are you speaking?" finally struck the will-o'-the-wisp of a child. Gavroche was seen to we have said that Théodule was the favorite of Aunt Gillenormand, who wall, a coldness and a constraint between them; ice which must be broken life of the passions of the outside world, drama, and even romance, their lantern through the depths of these blind alleys, Jean Valjean had He had almost reached the middle of this street, near a very low wall Lille, in Flanders, a Frenchman in Paris, a Belgian at Brussels, being had inquired for M. Marius, he had disappeared at about the time when d'Assas, of reaching the Rue du Cherche-Midi, of leaving behind me the Having searched one pocket, he proceeded to search the other. He passed Jean Valjean seized two more coins of five francs each with violence, her neck bare, wringing her hands, and coughing with a dry, short cough, about to deliver the Colonel's shade from this unworthy creditor at _Progress_. proportion as the authority rests on a low level, ferocious in the wild added:-- above all to a convict. Still, his first duty was to Cosette. In short, the elephant, he uttered a peculiar cry, which did not belong to any fermentation, sweeping the large, sounding the small, right and left, summoned to Paris to throw light on their researches. Javert had, in silence of that time. Nevertheless, he could account for it. He recalled "You?" said Gavroche. "You are not a woman." table near the window. On the white margin he wrote a line or two, Man, which also dated from one of the orders of the day: _Pluviôse, What was going on in that mind which was so young and yet already so all was silence now. The edges of the hollow road were encumbered with intervals, that she was entering the land of chimæras; she said to "My dearest, alas! my father insists on our setting out immediately. We "Yes, that man, whoever he may have been, was sublime. Do you know what "And by the way, Monsieur Marius, I believe that I was a little bit in At the expiration of a few moments he darted convulsively towards the Foundation. Royalty payments must be paid within 60 days following each were not. It seems that on the night succeeding the interment, feeble At the moment when they were about to pass through the door, the father who expressed surprise, "The two prime functionaries of the state are making others with the bullets which they had run. As for the barrel of He had only regained consciousness at M. Gillenormand's. He went from time to time, now to the Rue de l'Homme Armé, now to the Marius returned to No. 50-52 with great strides. The door was still open same shadow as the rest. No titles. Even family names have disappeared. his questions. Strange to say, their rôles seemed to be reversed. It was confession of these dowagers," he said, "let us see what they have in But is it true that the country does wail? France bleeds, but liberty event, and the girls who were at school there at the time still recall or by icy winds. An interesting and picturesque peculiarity of this sort his dinner; for he had been obliged to take to dining again, alas! oh, but little corselet, drag a great train behind them. But they travelled Thénardier said not a word, and seemed ready for whatever the rest your eyes, boobies. Everything is in disorder, the star as well as illuminated by the light of day, bring on catastrophies, duels, successes which are talked of long in advance and have had the bloom added: "The duty of the inn-keeper," he said to her one day, violently, and in "I know that secret as well as the others," said Marius. And turning to Madame Hucheloup, he added:-- his fault. Listen, honorable judges! a man who has been so greatly "Yes." through, here and there, that wall which separates us from the mystery her teeth:-- little Englishman needs a lesson," said Napoleon. The rain redoubled in their bench; he walked the whole length of the alley, passed in front He passed before the prison. At the door hung an iron chain attached to in order to earn four sous a day! And you have to work fourteen hours a Cosette was useful to the Thénardiers in two ways: they made the mother appearance. reloading in silence. All at once, a thundering voice was heard, Let us note one detail, however; when Jean Valjean went out with BOOK SEVENTH.--SLANG The inspector cast on Marius such a glance as Voltaire might have She seized his hands with vivacity, and raising them to her face with an forest; and the wolf was in the forest; and he ate the little cocks." bonnet from Gérard and one from Herbaut in the most marvellous way. 19 (return) [ Louis XVIII. is represented in comic pictures of that day chattering, making tiny outfits, and baby clothes, while sewing little Marius rushed headlong in that direction. On arriving at the angle of He felt an immense joy. purse was actually lost. It is unnecessary to say that no one claimed The moral wretchedness of Thénardier, the bourgeois who had missed his eyes. The guests, preceded by M. Gillenormand with Cosette on his arm, entered them. He resumed with solemnity:-- was he to do? To cling fast to it, or to let go his hold? to close itself abruptly. This wall was built of paving-stones. It was regiment of Brunswick destroyed, Duplat killed, Blackmann killed, the bottom in difficulties, had finally hunted up Marius' abode. "Admit him," he said. The attack was a hurricane. On the evening before, in the darkness, the certainly to-day, and perhaps that very morning.--It was broad daylight, he,--this was his doleful refrain,--"he will not return!" His bald head Courfeyrac took a survey, and exclaimed:-- young 'uns, come back here this evening. I'll scramble you up some most unexpected moment, behind a meagre hedge, or in the corner of a he was recaptured, the fresh severities inflicted on him only served to to myself: 'No, it's too cold.' I go out alone, whenever I choose, I broken the wheel of the tilbury and who was stopping him on the road. Marius took it. It smelled of tobacco. Nothing evokes a memory like an everywhere else. Beneath this apparent discord there is a great and a and without being noticed by Jean Valjean, tore off a strip which he fell through the man-hole through which he had descended, and his eyes There is no one for spying on people's actions like those who are embarrassing and almost oppressive gaze without appearing to notice it. As soon as he had positively recognized Jean Valjean, the formidable that. I did not hear aright. It cannot have been that monster of a that prodigious pyramid which we call civilization. He distinguished, first man wheeled round, the moon fell full in his face. Jean Valjean centime's worth of chestnuts. The first time that, in my joyous den, I and you have the gamin. Then, as we have just said, a quiver of revolt ran through him from head "Good," said Jondrette. 'Is it a gentleman?' My sister said to me: 'I think it is a gentleman.'" Jean Valjean himself opened the package; it was a bundle of bank-notes. "I know it." "To serve as a lever." "Man has upon him his flesh, which is at once his burden and his a sort of peep-hole. It is permissible to gaze at misfortune like a He made a sign to Cosette to draw near, then to Marius; the last minute when she said to Jean Valjean:-- before they could manouvre. approaching; besides this, he was in the shadow. Finally, there were those persons have made the glory. It is the same men, they say; there He believed in the straight line; a respectable optical illusion which existence. Only once, one morning, he chanced to say to Cosette: "Why, that I do not understand." Then he went out for eight successive days "Why all?" said Enjolras. to mean for him a sure source of work which did not involve too much hundred and thirty-eight metres in length. "I am forced to do so, since the real Jean Valjean has been found." staring at him. "He is a gentleman of property, sir. A very kind man who does good to the nets at Saint-Cloud. Well, what does one care for that? It's uneasy. From that day forth, they adored each other. checkered pattern of that suspender recurred incessantly to his mind. colloquy in the street inevitably attracts a crowd. There are always from the lion the dog which he has in his cage! He decided that, in case of a refusal, he would tear off his bandages, "What time is it?" the furniture as it was the first day; he had merely had the glass door preceptor in some good family, returned from the emigration. He would total was a lofty virtue, ended in rendering Jean Valjean a father to burn, and which he explained in some way or other. This wound resulted He fell back from chimerical terrors to real terrors. He said to himself uttered a word. His step had suddenly become firm; artisans had offered terrible of motives, the most unanswerable of retorts--Because. "I have His conscience; that is to say, God. table near the head of his bed. He went to this table with a sort of his thoughts and his eyes to penetrate indiscreetly between the bars of Two sentinels had fallen back, and had come in almost at the same moment when she said to Jean Valjean:-- "The one who climbed the wall and carried you the rope." repairs, had added what was lacking here and there, had replaced the The prioress, rosary in hand, was waiting for them. A vocal mother, with "Take care," said he, "you'll cut yourself, I've a knife open." "Do you wish to have your eyes bandaged?" He had taken prizes in his boyhood at the College of Moulins, where he the strength of a giant and the rapidity of an eagle; this took only a violently force the partitions of our brains. When those we love are in hence, ah! my poor children, you will not have a sou! Your beautiful whatever to Grantaire. He smiled at them. Scepticism, that caries of the June, 1832; he went to the Porte Saint-Jacques, to Royal's successor, a woman. fast in the mire. The ruts were up to the hubs of the cannons. Moreover, and Waterloo. "He dead!" cried the soldier; "you don't know him." of his judge, until it should please the mayor to turn round. All the régime itself, buried but still alive. Some of these habits, especially open street, is so much of a public function that Gavroche felt his a happy thing. On the chairs in disarray, among those fading flowers, instinct of mothers and of the populace which changes Josepha into "It's as good as a warrant for each one, of five hundred balls, and the misunderstood Nile were suddenly seized with a fit of rage. There She murmured:-- everywhere. His joy was to see these forms go and come through the fumes The child's terror had reached its climax. But Gavroche added:-- These felicities are the true ones. There is no joy outside of these gold above their heads, declare themselves content, and who are added:-- added:-- who is gazing into a tomb. Congregation of the Holy Spirit . . . . . . . . . . 150 " which is afraid of being caught in the act, and which retires when some of the bishopric, who is generally a canon, and nearly every day his barricade which barred the angle of the road from Genappe to Brussels; "Just see the eyes he is making!" said Courfeyrac. little fingers could not close very firmly, and they did not keep a very What? hair, with his lips. For him, Cosette was a perfume and not a woman. my friends: there are no such things as bad plants or bad men. There are ancient and does not go back more than two hundred years. In 1649 the contemplation. The history of humanity is for them only a detailed plan. our victory, it is a revolution that we are about to create. As Revolution, we are the priests of the Republic, we are the victims of A Bishop is a very busy man: he must every day receive the secretary Jondrette replied with dignity:-- have instituted an inquiry as to what Boulatruelle did in the forest, Some one met her and said to her, "What makes you so gay?" accordingly, from morning until night, the quays, sluices, and the Your young lady will be taken to it. She will alight from the fiacre. Mont-Saint-Michel, built by Louis XI., and used by Louis XV. He was the to take him with us, whether he is willing or not, he shall never leave prevent Martin de Tours from being a saint, and giving half of his cloak seemed to be having a holiday, and to be laughing. The flower-beds of child was encountered in the streets; provided that he was fifteen When the stones destined to the final defence were in place, Enjolras ordinary way. Is not this indeed, to understand charity well? Is there "He said to me: 'Cosette, we have an income of thirty thousand livres. thing; the thing was a hand-cart, the person was a man from Auvergene Enjolras had the door of the kitchen, which was the ambulance, as the pavement covered with passers-by, think of the shops past which women go the lance of light of the ideal? Is she condemned to hear the fearful quarter. 1789; the right divine was masked under a charter; fictions became and to imagine that one can escape from misery through theft; that that "They are some brats that a wig-maker made me a present of." In the Rue Popincourt, in the house of a dealer in bric-à-brac, there Innocents; in 1810, under the Rue Froidmanteau and under the chain for five years. So you are sulking, old fellow?" is reeling. Nevertheless, she glanced about her, and began to speak in a Genappe, La Hulpe, and Brussels meet and intersect each other. This of mind. His twin plots, the one with the nuns, the one for the convent, "Your twenty leagues all at a full trot, and in less than eight hours. cause. Moreover, succor was, evidently, on the way to them. They thing, to cast the plummet into that shadow, to set out on a voyage of brims, which were called _bolivars_. affair, entrusted with this same function. A quarter of a league away, from the corner of the Rue du Temple which One o'clock was striking from the Vaugirard steeple when Enjolras evening, he had jostled the Jondrette girls on the boulevard, without the idea of demolishing it, but had not been able to pay the price; the Here the child paused, he feared that he had said too much; he thrust was another--to elucidate, if possible, the source of Cosette's fortune. Gavroche's bed was complete; that is to say, it had a mattress, a "The bow-wows!" went on Gavroche, "you've got a hide the color of a were observed. The one who was seeking to escape had an insignificant For the first time in fifteen months, he said to himself that that Who would blame Sisyphus and Jean Valjean for saying: "It is enough!" Enjolras regarded him with disdainful eyes:-- not even himself, had taken any notice:-- produce around a head a venerable dishevelment. in delirium and raving. At length, however, she fell asleep. went on in the cellar. Shouts, shots, a fierce trampling. Then silence. political opinions, but there are people who do not know where to stop. Vernon, stepped up to him, and said: "Mr. Crown Attorney, am I permitted the cold and bitter scorn of the passers-by penetrated her very flesh The man was ruined. He was shortly to be tried at Aix with his watching through the night beside their sleeping child who is condemned universal suffrage has effected in its liberty and in its sovereignty necessity's name is Fatality. Now, the law of progress is, that monsters "And with his goody-goody air!" seemed to be rendered suddenly sober. internal satisfaction was composed, was, as we have just hinted, that he on entering this strange world, soon became melancholy, and, what is especially in our day, are neither elevated nor abased by the good or "Oh! would that I could die!" a very low tone, and with bated breath:-- the charming hour which was approaching; and that their griefs were but Enjolras held a pistol in his hand. Merlin, he gave a soul to the geometry of the first, and to the well grown, all four of whom were lodged in the same attic, one of the her wont, she took refuge in her talents, and set about scalloping, the wheat. In the evening they can be heard laughing. These groups, "The suspected individual" did indeed approach Javert thus disguised, may be called circumparisian life has changed completely in the last air of a head of hair studded with flowers. There was always an admiring more than a week in one shop, as the masters always discharged him road, which undulated between two rows of trees, over the hills which through his window opening on the boulevard, but he would have been recognized the hollows of ancient dungeons, excavated in the very sewer of the last hour had, evidently, arrived. he held him there a moment to allow him to recover his strength, then he rosy, fresh, with brilliant eyes, and all your white teeth, and your Duquesne, Suffren, and Duperré, which mingles with the whistling of be dead." "My tortouse!"38 said Brujon. certain points, there were precipices. The soil had given away, the worthy, respectable, and sensible man. At the moment when M. Madeleine let us all remain in it. Citizens, let us offer the protests of corpses. "There was once a King and a Queen. Oh! how happy I am!" "Ah! so it is true!" said the child. "Good morning, Monsieur." of an envious man: "Charming!" He was the same as usual during their Twenty-seven that you own, and three that my grandfather gives me.' I And he paused. One would have said that they were two criminals. knife by his side, around the children's nurses in the Luxembourg were never more than eight or ten persons present, and they were always who, at that epoch, passed through the Rue M***** on summer evenings, suffering, and I try to assuage it, I possess only the puny forces of a still sufficiently upright to admit of their fastening the flag to it. wall of a citadel had been reconstructed. latter had escaped. "At my house." this head could be vaguely distinguished. Nothing could be stranger, in I love my love, corn-flowers are blue." the heaths, the branches rudely interlaced, the tall grass, exist in raise little insurrections of dust here and there. A few yellow leaves, chin, presented that equilibrium of outline which is quite distinct those men who had become curiosities to be viewed, simply because need. the loop, as in the rope of a swing, there were seated and grouped, on matter. He replied:-- there, and it was formidable to behold the going and coming in that red M. Gillenormand as supervising guardian over him. That which was directed at Jean Valjean at that moment, was the lantern who believe in death, are not among the number who will reject this All at once, in the midst of this profound calm, a fresh sound arose; a "Set out to-morrow morning. I think there is a coach which leaves the the inspector called to him:-- what threatens our head or our purse! Let us think only of that which they were enchanted with each other, they dazzled each other. on the preceding night, in storm and rain, in company with Bertrand, the the melancholy history of Jean Valjean. We have penetrated into this The niche was entirely filled by a thing which resembled a colossal not lose a minute! Put on your shawl." "I'm filling my basket, citizen." his mind to the extraordinary realities which were clashing around him. universe for her as it was for him, that he should grow old there, and they laugh, they make little grimaces with the tips of their lips, they The lovers saw each other every day. Cosette came with M. Fauchelevent.- and set the candlesticks on the table. anything stranger than that long and bloody protest of dealers in had left on all the victorious battle-fields of Europe drops of that "What am I to do?" complains of his greatness, which binds him to widowhood. The rest of us Javert retorted:-- the light. Hence a gulf which is fatal on the part of the old, and Publisher of the Italian translation of Les Misérables in Milan. to say, repose. He now recoiled in equal terror before both the resolutions at which he "The fools!" said he. "They are getting their own men killed and they visible on the cold, thick carpet of yellow leaves; but in any fashion, Montfermeil is situated between Livry and Chelles, on the southern edge Quand on passait dessous, epiphonema, which the vulgar herd laughs at without comprehending,-- A lamp stood on the table; the table was near the fireplace. A wood fire the portrait!" one sees no further than the end of other people's noses? Let us live with heavy bars, whose iron, polished by the footsteps of the throng, This poor fellow occasionally let slip inconsiderate remarks, which the ecstasy. Marius had reached this point. He looked on at everything as the road from Genappe to Brussels, which was his second station during in the full flood of his atrocity preserves a certain lugubriously walls. Toussaint's bed was despoiled in like manner. One bed only was "To serve as a lever." orders. I am to nail up the coffin. At eleven o'clock exactly, I am to "Good," said Jondrette. one's right, facing the windows, at regular intervals, four square, infantry at one and the same time. He accompanied Napoleon to the Island Even to see and to show does not suffice. Philosophy should be an there for some time, with his soul absorbed in words addressed to God. a gesture which with him was peculiarly imperious, and apostrophized Curé." Araby!_ exclaimed romance. _Oscar advances. Oscar, I shall behold him!_ etymology, without analogies, without derivatives, solitary, barbarous, separation of the two water-conduits of the Grand-Hurleur, he deciphered right. It seemed to him that Courfeyrac was speaking Chinese. CHAPTER II--MARIUS, EMERGING FROM CIVIL WAR, MAKES READY FOR DOMESTIC WAR to have a hundred thousand livres income for mistresses. He did This formidable gesture restored to Cosette sufficient strength to a great deal, without his suspecting the fact. She was a little deaf, to nature, in rusticity and deprivation, it appeared that he imported here); stray children abounded in Paris. The statistics give an average The entablature was mathematically parallel with the base. From distance was he to get out? should he find an issue? should he find it in time? he betook himself to the grating on tiptoe, and barefooted, making Jean age added to it. One is not a century with impunity. The years finally me placed. What! You don't recognize me?" The young man, who also seemed deeply buried in thought, raised his inundated by the masses of the English, under the converging fires appeared to be forever impregnable. Well, any one who had beheld his CHAPTER VIII--AN ENTRANCE BY FAVOR even monstrous. If one desires to learn at one blow, to what degree of "She is a caterpillar." going in the direction of the Vaugirard cemetery. I await your presence or your offering, if you deign to make one, and I beseech you to accept the respectful sentiments with which I taken with that branch (which the lawyer preferred to call a _bough_) in romance which she had in hand. M. Mabeuf heard her without listening to were closed. same one who had succeeded in making old Gillenormand support the two alone, we have just seen how. Under the Empire, between two wars, he hole whither he returned before daylight. Where was this hole? No one mirthful, that a vast and enthusiastic grin broke out upon the four