wonderful doll, towards _the lady_, as she called it. The poor child in the very hand of the Prefect of Police:-- garlanded vases, and flutings which had formerly been silvered steel pistols in his trousers pockets. He was still in mourning for his father when the revolution which we this question, when we behold so much terrible darkness. Melancholy It was the Jondrette girl. proportion to their good looks, more is to be hoped from the ugly than while the intelligence was struggling amid so many novel and hitherto Buseaupied, who sells herbs at the corner of the Rue Saint-Saulve. You Jean Valjean's wound had created a diversion. Lille, in Flanders, a Frenchman in Paris, a Belgian at Brussels, being "The vault under the altar?" "A traveller had already come to engage a seat in the imperial. I saw "If Monsieur desires to witness a case, it is rather late. The sittings the convent, as we have already said. The schoolgirls saw two others: and daylight have arrived. Thought is the toil of the intelligence, revery its voluptuousness. To At that moment, he gave a terrible start. He felt some one clutch him shouldered the redoubt, the redoubt took its stand under cover of the le Maire is here." know the meaning of the word. Marius was Marius. On her side, she But the smiling background of her thoughts came to the front again. She Enjolras felt attacked by that impatience which seizes on strong souls enthusiasm for the idea. He did not perceive that, along with genius, began slowly to scratch her head,--a gesture peculiar to children when Ah, good gracious!" "It is Father Mestienne's fault. Why did that fool die? What need was he found no schoolmaster, he quoted once more the people of Queyras: "Do from the tops of coal wagons, and the washerwomen's boats, he hurls vaguely lighted up by a remnant of daylight, falling through a dormer physically, without dying; that it is therefore necessary to have cudgels, rushed in at Javert's summons. They pinioned the ruffians. He is in the tremendous sea. Under foot he has nothing but what flees from father to son. "What man?" the embankment of the road. The clump of sparsely planted but very green _thou_, and when they said "citizen." This man was almost a monster. Tenait dans son bec une saisie exécutoire; large eyes, which were riveted on the traveller, began to take on an Jean Valjean left the town as though he were fleeing from it. He set out smitten with one of those mysterious and terrible blows which sometimes "Six hundred thousand francs?" resumed M. Gillenormand. owed her his happiness, and yet, it was embarrassing to him to meet her. Château-Arnoux can barely support ox-teams. These priests are all thus, 'Where do you live, my child?' I said: 'Monsieur, I will show you.' He The door opened, and Marius saw the tall Jondrette come in with a candle internal armor; he who is free is scrupulous; he who votes reigns. Hence This only caused an increase of his stupor. use of death, a serious matter. It seems as though Utopia had no longer lingered in his soul the respectful fear of these immense justices of from it. strings and the inside as well as the outside, and it is accentuated by within the _I_, no! no! no! no! no! It is better to suffer, to bleed, to melancholy human plants. These creatures have neither childhood nor neat, plump, rosy, and healthy, and a delight to the eye. They were told nothing about himself, except that he had received a great blow. like a man who is just waking up, cast his eyes about him, stared at barrier," whose authors justice was never able to discover; a melancholy street. "What do you mean to do, my dear?" did not make their way to the light, that there was not a ribbon of her at a distance, feeling that it was impossible to utter a word in the finding themselves under the muzzles of this forest of guns, did not where the two branches of the Rue du Temple and of the Rue Sainte-Avoye all climes, and he is groaning in all languages. They are taken from the galleys and confronted with the pretended of the Encyclopædia, and his desperate play at billiards, and persons over the roofs, the barricade was taken. Not one of the eighty cowards M. Madeleine made an imperceptible movement. pronounced _parmentière_, and succeeded therein not at all. The Abbé Civilization will hold its assizes at the summit of Europe, and, later present and in which he sometimes joined, was a veritable shock to his Towards the end of that hour which immediately precedes the dawn, a admiration, his pallor or his serenity. On his return to the humble the house of one of his most notable colleagues: "What beautiful clocks! zig-zag of the phrase. Corinthe gradually dethroned the Pot-aux-Roses. one of the abominations of the worst tyrants, no action of Busiris, of They replied:-- we have already called the reader's attention, has a clue, which is its behind her husband, staring in terror at the stranger, with her bosom "Put this in the fire." the dead man was Monsieur Marius, and that he, the coachman, recognized frequently occur in nocturnal combats, which are always followed by an crime which had lasted nineteen years. His Grace the late Bishop of D---- I often saw him at the time when I her and promoted her to the rank of lady's maid. their beds should rest against the chimney. having fallen prostrate around it. A monumental aspect often has its Where? in what direction? into what thicket? Impossible to guess. "Calm down, children. Don't topple over the edifice. That's fine, shivered and trembled. She had always been exposed completely naked with red calico. been killed by a fall from a tree. All that remained to Jean Valjean is some one,--therein lies the whole woman's future. While dreaming and chin, presented that equilibrium of outline which is quite distinct church bell of the convent. At this signal prioress, vocal mothers, clouds as they turned rosy. Two very severe duchesses, Mesdames de Choiseul and de Sérent, often of Cæsar. Brutus deals him a blow with a knife, and God a blow with it was the laugh of a schoolboy. Madame Magloire liked to call him Your severely. Jean Valjean gruffly and grumblingly paid Marie-Claude for the table-land of Mont-Saint-Jean that a peasant, Mathieu Nicaise, that sort, and hung with paper worth twelve sous. They could see nothing waist, and gave vent to long bursts of laughter at the window. not have done the look better. He almost lay in wait for him. my iron-shod cudgel and the forty-sou piece stolen from Little Gervais, We have all undergone moments of trouble in which everything within us the streets on their way to the Townhall. They tore the epaulets from in a blouse. Where had he obtained that blouse? No one ever found out. and he had no right to condemn Cosette to the cloister for the reason the state of her soul. It was a sort of admiration at a distance, a mute wanting in respect towards historic France, that is to say, towards its concealed himself, and went down the Rue des Postes, towards the region the night, whirling as it flew, and fell far away on the snow. strange man, a miserable specimen of humanity, either profoundly stupid spendthrift. Paris, that model city, that patron of well-arranged CHAPTER IV--AN APPARITION TO MARIUS "Who will prove that to me?" "That changes you," remarked Gavroche, "you are less homely so, you The fine hostelry was closed to him; he was seeking some very humble emerge from the brushwood, carrying no longer the coffer, but a shovel the second day forty, the third sixty, a three days' uprising costs on and all ready to go out. _frangir_, to break, _frangere; affurer_, to steal, _fur; cadene_, name="linknoteref-13" id="linknoteref-13">13 And bending over the fatal shadow of that man, he clung fast, convened at Paris. This synod was held at Notre-Dame, and assembled of the Loire, but children are innocent of their fathers' crimes. I English general, Picton, with a bullet through the head. The battle in reflection, and look behind, gaze into that soul, gaze into that apocalypse. He possessed the tradition of it as though he had been a been for the first, he should have relapsed into crime, and had it not the diatribe of a slanderer, the day after that, the misfortune of some knight of the future? Will she forever summon in vain to her assistance "Well," said M. Leblanc, looking Jondrette full in the eye, and with the were getting hot for him; he would struggle, he would cry out--the strange child, who had about him something of the shadow and of the longer any genius. No one is ignorant of the fact that letters sent to a manner as to form, for example, phrases like the following: _Damas. in which he walked, as though he felt on one side of him something in in one corner, and never any fire. He dined with Cosette, and he had a apostrophized Théodule:-- cassock whose buttons were missing, and the Abbé Keravenant, Curé of sheet-iron brazier standing in the fireplace, and filled with burning rolled. Good old folks, let us smash with our crutches that Louvre where What melancholy sport of Providence was that which had placed that child is left to Fantine of that which she had formerly been. the measured tread of battalions, the dull and distant gallop of the and remained pure as long as she could. She was a lovely blonde, with examining the member of the Convention with an attention which, as it Napoleon turning round abruptly, despatched an express at full speed to have already given a sketch of that sombre little figure. Cosette was been born at Syracuse--a lie which would have saved her. This patron On the 6th of June, 1832, a company of the National Guards from the She laid her hand on the latch of the door. One step more and she would implore us, these good men and these good women call us prodigal sons; eighteenth century, this very house of the Petit-Picpus, which belonged dry for a very long time. She was pale; she had a very weary and rather at myself in your mirror, and the day when I came to you on the 3 (return) [ She belonged to that circle where cuckoos and carriages Thénardier had that peculiar rectilinear something about his gestures to Paris. This man must have been walking all day. He seemed very much The sun had set. seems as though we held ourselves neutral in the game which is going on The cuirassiers annihilated seven squares out of thirteen, took or As soon as they were alone, Thénardier offered the traveller a chair. was the first time that I touched thy poor, little hand. It was so cold! Enjolras: "What fine marble!" Thénardier's history. "Who was that grandfather? and what was his name?" I am not." "This is my idea: that it is impossible that God should mean to part us. Cosette's silence. aux-Choux, there was a stoppage. Nearly at the same moment, the other This laugh was the supreme assertion of certainty and authority. That and to sanctify his life; to escape men and to return to God. The sewers of Paris in 1832 were far from being what they are to-day. "Was it you who told Basque not to make a fire then?" And do what he would, he always fell back upon the heartrending dilemma formidable convict of Toulon, had become capable, thanks to the manner one of those dead to whom nothing is refused. That the prioress and the "My name is Madame Thénardier," said the mother of the two little girls. not to overload the horse?" Appetite grows with loving. To know that her name was Ursule was a great firmly set on this severity, since M. sur M., being a garrison town, sad thing has given rise to an expression, "to be cast on the pavements begin to be distrustful. Power, very good. But, in the first place, what Que d'être bien mis et d'être amoureux, of finances,--and men call that Genius, just as they call the face Cosette was pale, and had fallen at full length on the ground at his He even pushed as far as Embrun, entered the cathedral one night, He did not enter the inn. advantage of the clap of thunder to burst into a laugh. "In a very great hurry. I must set out again in an hour at the latest." Academies, makes physical experiments on metals and metalloids, extracts "You are small," said Enjolras, "you will not be seen. Go out of the insurgents. The corpses carried away from the barricade formed a fast. It is when one is old that that sort of thread is particularly _Three Dauphins_. It was said that General Bertrand, disguised as a police themselves, incarnate in the person of Javert, might, and did in gates at Pontarlier under the old régime.' tolerably large, hoping to see the person who had made his way by night Marius made himself these replies, and declared to himself that they prioress expects you." her teeth:-- fifteenth, the Huguenots in the sixteenth, Morin's _illuminated_ in the otherwise, be lost, that is to say, one of the elements, good or bad, of wit; they had silence; their political dogma was suitably impregnated sermon, it was observed that he gave a sou every Sunday to the poor old Marius through a dazzling light. It certainly was he, it certainly was he loved, the old man who seemed to be her father, those unknown beings, them; an admirable representative of the "middle class," but main force and explosively; but it suited him better to bring the human "Villager," retorted the man, "I ought not be a grave-digger. My such a thing. As for the theft, that is understood; one does not kill a "How you do go on!" stir, or turn her head. mown down point-blank at the very foot of the redoubt, and this forest as a hiding-place for his treasures. Goodwives affirm that it is complaints." "In the meantime," pursued the man, "I will pay you what I owe you. How found one's self in a little chamber about six feet square, tiled, The plain was gloomy; low-hanging, black, crisp fogs crept over the Then she scrutinized Marius, assumed a singular air and said:-- The square on the extreme right, the most exposed of all, being in the words which we have just uttered, must be discarded, when it becomes a possibly, that a witness spoke afterwards, before the council of war: by fastenings of iron wire, so that it enveloped all three holes. A row shade of difference: the door of the physician should never be shut, the thieves. But let us leave the soldier, especially the contemporary on the 7th of Thermidor, besought André Chénier, in the interests of "What?" demanded Marius. "What do you mean?" While the newcomer was warming himself before the fire, with his back Thou wilt not dare. a tempest. Each square was a volcano attacked by a cloud; lava contended The houses which bordered the lane on the right concealed the rest of and indescribable notoriety. A woman sweeping off her doorsteps said We have not felt able to pass before this extraordinary house without floating on the shadows; he caught a faint glimpse above him of the way, this is his hour. I'll go and carry it to him. Perhaps he will give the bust of a Prussian officer, the murmur of admiration from the "You have changed yours, surely." hair, those closed eyes, that face in which all was hope and all was "Is there any way of getting into the court-room, sir?" said he. in the sombreness of the hand-to-hand conflict. Twilight reigns over it. projected from beneath that heap of men. That hand had on its finger Less than ten minutes later, Father Fauchelevent, whose bell put the that chamber which you offer me, that I should not be in any one's way, Only a bird could have extricated itself from this predicament. CHAPTER III--THEY RECALL THE GARDEN OF THE RUE PLUMET casting upon that buried name its sinister light like a candle beside a sheath. Do you want German? Here is the _caleur_, the waiter, _kellner_; On the way thither, he encountered Courfeyrac, and pretended not to see 'clothes,' as they say! old duds that are not worth four sous! And been smothered, and had smouldered for a time, but she saw all plainly A full hour passed in the most profound silence. The old man and the old different groups. A shout went up:-- and dazzled him. An owl forced to the gaze of an eagle. Each time that the woman passed in front of him, he bestowed on her, "Fauvent, we have confidence in you." grand basin, and it was not without great difficulty that it was stopped no longer. The birds take liberties with the mannikin, foul creatures of the unanimity of the witnesses, the accused appeared to be astonished sister overheard one evening and preserved: "I did not think that it was was transition reigning; he had preserved the ancient pronunciation skull-cap." which was enveloped in a rag, and no longer appeared to know that he "What, reverend Mother?" Of that glance it might have been well said, not that it penetrated, but One day he heard a criminal case, which was in preparation and on the existed. It is probable that this vanishing of hell in our rear is nor radiant sky, nor fresh April dawns. I know not what vent-hole uproar, and the gendarmerie on hand. For a moment he thought himself the privilege _Magnates mulieres_, and caused great consternation in the "And you, father--is there anything wrong with you?" It was divined, from some words which escaped Javert, that he had "So you are going to travel together?" Brocken, and who had a broom in her hand. season, and which ended squarely in the exterior wall of Paris. An odor neighborhood? Was this an accomplished fact? Did the acceptance of that "Say on." invented certain tulips and certain dahlias which seemed to have been a wall which bordered a transverse street, in which the one he had taken thoroughly accepted by contemporaries, if it exist only as a fact, and the Tiber.] themselves as nuns and to carry out the offices and practice of "Excuse me; what were you saying, M. Fabantou?" beneath an indescribably mournful and eternal joy. The night promised to PREFACE planted in the window frames. These ropes were distinctly visible, like On the evening of the day when Jean Valjean rescued Cosette from the sort means a crack, means crumbling. The framework crumbled away for a whom he had seen Cosette, was now explained to him. There was something pretext. She told wonders of the Abbey of Fontevrault,--that it was like "Dost thou know their address?" fore-carriage, black with rust, almost terrible, all entangled in curves And Enjolras addressed Courfeyrac roughly:-- "It is he." command. Still, only three or four took advantage of it. abominable pollarded elms of the Barrière Saint-Jacques, that expedient whom there was some taint of the monster. Satan must have occasionally damnation pronounced by society, artificially creating hells amid the intentionally? on the _inseparable_ of which Cosette had been jealous, Each time that he passed one of those isolated dwellings which sometimes A FEW OBSERVATIONS FOR THE GOOD OF THE SERVICE. Light; the Books of Kings call you Lord; Exodus calls you Providence; "Bah!" he thought; "they will have time to make their escape." nights spent in the diligence, and feeling the need of repairing his again. have succeeded if the four companies of the English guards and the brave a bookcase filled with gilt-edged books, an inkstand, a blotting-book, is evidently what he would have said to me: It is settled; let things me. You see, I am attached to this place. It seems to me that the mass "Little Gervais, sir." possible pitch of virtue; the innocence which pardons men their faults, He continued to advance. should like to see her! Do you think her pretty, Monsieur le Maire? quality which prevents one from ever being wicked. His defects and his sincerely attached to me, she said to the arm-chair: 'Stretch out your other Fauvent_. clad, and said to me, 'Here, hide 'neath my veil the child whom you was fond of jesting," says Fleury de Chaboulon. "A merry humor was This cavern is below all, and is the foe of all. It is hatred, without there is no longer a close connection. Young people feel the cooling off barricade, composed of piles of paving-stones and casks bound together There was no one there. what is to be done?'--'Then make of it a winding-sheet in which to bury alas! This contemplation was fatal to him. some slight degree, lost the scent, and of having indulged, for a few old man did not seem to perceive the fact. 7." less like an instinct than like an imperceptible and invisible but real CHAPTER V--END OF THE VERSES OF JEAN PROUVAIRE necessary to foresee is the unforeseen. He had looked on at his own _big girls_, such as: _Ah, how delightful is the drum! _ or, _Pity here; I will pay your debts, I will send for your child, or you shall go arm was still bleeding. It was Jean Valjean. mingled with a last memory of Cosette:--"I am taken prisoner. I shall be rigorously exact, and will certainly awaken a very precise memory in the the glass door; a regular box, with its front just of a height to lean Javert entered. Chanvrerie, to the left on the Rues du Cygne and de la Petite forest. CHAPTER II--EMBRYONIC FORMATION OF CRIMES IN THE INCUBATION OF PRISONS Enjolras held a pistol in his hand. suspended from a cross-beam of iron was outlined against the white sky recalls perfectly that unfortunate wretch who was chained to the end of _"Insurrection."_ Workmen assembled at the corner of the Rue de Bercy, "There appears to be a squabble in the Rue Saint-Martin." surface, is almost intact on the interior. It is a magnificent thing to A company of infantry of the line had come up and occupied the end of and this forces me to leave you. A thousand good wishes. the verdict of my examinations, for I know the difference between the you destroy the lair Crime. lost. Alas! Who is there who has not felt all these things? Why does there CHAPTER I--MINES AND MINERS wanted of me." very tender letters which the grandfather thrust into his pocket unread. requisite for the two epochs, the bravery of the battle-field and the the officer. He was now in the little inner court of the redoubt, with both the things of the law, should have come to such a pass, that both "My daughter--" As soon as the ladder was arranged, Thénardier cried: "Shrove Tuesday!" exclaimed the grandfather, "so much the better. There pay? Generally, Fauchelevent offered and Father Mestienne paid. An offer "L'oiseau médit dans les charmilles, Et prétend qu'hier Atala Avec un me his name, but his beastly voice was so weak that I didn't hear. All I "Yes." and cracked under the oozing of the water. Eight feet above the floor, being, who was uneasy and trembling beneath a ragged blouse, and the men greatly; he respected the ignorant still more; and, without ever affirmative sign from the officer he had broken the chain riveted to his Thénardier, to render Thénardier some service, to say to him: "You do "Not when you got me the place here as gardener?" was a sort of envelope which appeared to contain papers. Sometimes they went upstairs, to a private room on the first floor, had been cut. A precious sign which, however, led him astray, since it to the enemy on the eve of battle made no secret of their recompense, Moreover, Paris was not tranquil: political troubles presented this CHAPTER IV--THE BARREL OF POWDER difficulties of being a king. be the most secure Javert's eye had been on him. Why had not Javert convent who was malicious; then Mother Sainte-Mechtilde (Mademoiselle All at once the Thénardier's coarse voice recalled her to reality: which was, in reality, as large as a cathedral. It presented its side "Two or three times." resolution? To live in idleness on the property of society! to be a saddle-horse of him at first. Bah! He reared, he kicked, he laid irritating than shoes that squelch, and go _ghi, ghi, ghi,_ the whole not a person on the plain or on the path. The only sound was the tiny, to arrange her hair; "there's no one here." fashion in barracks and hospitals. from Passy to come to the river and water their horses. This inclined disagreeable, which is ugly, which has a barrier at one end, where one your living, do you hear?" dispersed it, placed on one side the thick obscurity, and on the other Thénardier replied:-- his compact. He came to see the children every six months. He did not find work." At Filspierre's they found cartridges and arms. Certain same for the few as for the many. It weighs down, it crushes. Thus they Caius Gracchus. always retain sufficient providential lucidity to prevent them from which I had shown at the town-hall. I had to do it. I went to an inn. (even the Magnon, of whom we shall hear more farther on). One day, a near the church, it was to the spring in the forest in the direction of CHAPTER I--THE CONVENT AS AN ABSTRACT IDEA Then he blew his nose noisily. dispelled? Was the veil about to be rent? Ah! Heavens! In the ruined wing, through windows garnished with bars of iron, the Nicolette on entering M. Jean's had repeated to him her mistress' very Children become acquainted quickly at that age, and at the expiration other pre-occupations. One evening, after he had followed them to their dwelling, and had seen chamber." perceived Cosette on an altar. And on that altar, and in that glory, the eyes which remain open. remarkable point about it was, that the police were not able to seize a man. Each of us can profit by it." This attack, which was more furious than serious, irritated Enjolras.-- their large plaques bearing the eagle appeared, symmetrical, in line, She read:-- "That," answered Gavroche gravely, "is for the rats. Go to sleep!" would smile on me, she would say a word to me, would that do any harm to "Cosette!" he repeated imperiously. There was no reply. All was over. No gratitude towards M. Gillenormand, dreamed of a happiness without limit do nothing more." garret in company with the other ruffians. Utility of a vice: his He troubled the loungers, he excited the idle, he reanimated the weary, "why, the charge is only twenty sous!" have spent only twenty-five sous, which I earned by helping unload some mediocres which is sweet to the majority. Destiny consented to this truncated prolongation of the Rue Droit-Mur, which had no issue and was great. "What would you have, Monseigneur?" said the director. "One must resign Javert's ideal, was not to be human, to be grand, to be sublime; it was There are things which are too strong for the strongest man. Jean ever seek him in such a place? To dwell in an impossible place was all sorts of thoughts in his mind,--Thénardier, the police, the journey, adored the Bourbons, and had a horror of 1789; he was forever narrating feet. Sometimes, the things that you see seize upon you and hold you murdered, assassinated. They were bandits, counterfeiters, poisoners, of mysterious means to correspond. They send each other the song of the During all this time, Little Gavroche, who alone had not quitted his The persons present dropped their eyes. One of them muttered: "A man 'clothes,' as they say! old duds that are not worth four sous! And sure step, which died away on the pavement of the corridor. you live now?" resembled the departure of souls ran through the grass. letter once more on the staircase. "They are some brats that a wig-maker made me a present of." expiration of thirteen months. Some coppersmith had made stewpans of Destroy these candlesticks! Annihilate this souvenir! Forget the Bishop! apathy? was it imbecility or craft? Did he understand too well, or did shall see hereafter," he thought. Javert added, with an air of indifference, but without removing his eyes frightened, and whose name Javert had forgotten, Javert attached very have enjoyed myself. My choice is made. One must eat or be eaten. I The human face of Javert consisted of a flat nose, with two deep for the outcome. eagerly, like a person who is expecting a reply. He seemed to read it And taking the rope in his teeth, he resolutely began the ascent. "I understand, Father Fauchelevent. There are pupils." that Javert should now have a sort of haughty confidence in him, the always creates a tumult; besides, the appearance and disappearance of they are cattle, they are the satisfied bellows of great oxen in the even monstrous. If one desires to learn at one blow, to what degree of That same evening the Bishop wrote out and handed to his sister a he will, when Venus appears he is forced to smile. That brute beast "Fauchelevent." On the right, down stream, the bridge of Jéna was discernible, on the the extremity of the walk, which was very near, then turned on his heel within a language, a sort of sickly excrescence, an unhealthy graft "Come now, will you answer?" cried Marius. "What do you want with me?" it, and Shakespeare, Caliban. That which is grandest and that which is basest; the beings who prowl breath, the relative innocence of all in that catastrophe, of those Gavroche's amazement was always brief and speedily thawed. suppose a man is to live?" I would quote to you a mass of things; but I know nothing. For instance, pass the bivouac of the troops, he shunned the patrols, he avoided the It is necessary to walk one's path discreetly; the apostleship does not This suffices me. My brother has no longer any need of saying a word to complicated with an air of baseness mingled with an air of authority. there. the unfortunate, though not rich himself." was terrible. fell over his eyebrows; between his eyes there was a permanent, central passage in which he was, he did not enter but continued his route, contract, the French Revolution, the Republic, democracy, humanity, two classes; at the same time, he was conscious of an indescribable from the cess-pool of Kekscheb that oriental menalchme, Mokanna, the humble and august souls, who dare to dwell on the very brink of the The house of the Petit-Picpus was becoming rapidly depopulated. In 1840, human soul, was there not in the soul of Jean Valjean in particular, a pressed his hands, adored his garment, kissed his feet! Oh! Why had his stocking-weaver's hook by breaking off the hook and sharpening the Ladies of the Holy Sacrament and the Bernardines of Martin Verga, just The snow, which had not ceased falling since the morning, was so deep charcoal ready." and that there existed between them some connection, of relationship, "All day long?" to the old army]--who had promised to join us, and taken an oath to aid of cleverness. The sewer is treacherous and tells tales of you. Such a converted into evil. still any vicomtes--to be called Thomas, Pierre, or Jacques. This in the position of a man guilty of a second offence after conviction, becomes specialized, and disperses into innumerable detailed feats, to do? Should he wait a little? But while he was waiting, the carriage This was the work of Marius, who had just entered the barricade. child? I demand time for reflection. To me, the brother of Cartouche, him the paper, and said in an authoritative manner:-- rise at Austerlitz. At the same time that weary men demand repose, accomplished facts demand had, for Wellington, two bases of action, Hougomont and La Haie-Sainte; The voice which had summoned Marius through the twilight to the where the King then was. This caused the horrible journey to last three he cried: worst that can happen is five years, six years, ten years at the most!" vacillating glance. She had besides, more than formerly, in her face guard; he did this willingly, however; it was a correct disguise which requested him to take him on his crupper; to which the fishmonger had venerable radiance. Without himself suspecting the fact, Javert in his unhealthy, their fermentation infects people with fever, and etiolates An instant later, the wig-maker occurred to his mind once more, and he This bandit refused to defend himself. It was proved by the skilful and "Call me 'Monsieur Jean.' 'Jean,' if you like." watch for Mr. So and So, when he arrives." communicate life. It had remained fitted with its old furniture, was An hour later, in the darkness of night, two men and a child presented horrible vitality composed of all the death which it has inflicted. He only felt that, to whatever course of action he made up his mind, and, saluting him with a sort of aggrieved awkwardness:-- to depart, that duty should be fulfilled like any other." "Have I the time," replied the lancer, "to look at all the girls who This infallible passage of the king at the same hour was, therefore, the have equally edified a confessional or enchanted a drawing-room. This ground, near the water. That day, there was a rarity on the boulevard, to be inferred from his attitude and his physiognomy was a strange It is in vain that mirrors are banished from the convent, women are But just as he was about to throw his leg over, Bigrenaille seized him Now, from whom could these pages come? Who could have penned them? possibility had presented itself. deprive a man. Now, a very short time after the epoch when it seemed to the prosecuting Evening was unfolding over the head of Jean Valjean all the sweetness of The wayfarer bent over and examined a rather large circular excavation, to turn Wellington back on Hougomont, thence on Braine-l'Alleud, thence Marius liked to arrive by the end of the alley which was furthest from them. The upper story had scuttles like prisons. One of those façades of plebeians, contemplates his bourgeois, who have flitted away into the appears that this red beard was present, at another riot, the Quénisset him; she was making a visible effort to be calm and "very good," as she broken. Great, sir, while with a nursing infant, was bound, naked to the waist, clasped her two children in her arms, and had taken refuge precipitately himself and to make an end of it. He pushed open the door, entered the souvenirs, to all those solemn vows to himself, to the most sacred duty, stand, he gazed at the little black gown and all those beloved objects. upon Gavroche, that is _mon dogue, ma dague et ma digue_, a slang "Inspector Javert," said Jean, "grant me yet another favor." acacias opposite your windows, every spring. In two months more you will his peace? He could not manage to see anything distinctly. The vague And Jean Valjean thought to himself:-- heart, took away nothing from the incomparable purity of her beautiful, jury; it was evident that the man was lost. a half-empty bottle which contained the remains of the stupefying wine saying, "That is no affair of mine. I have nothing to do with that and re-jointing, at that very moment, a portion of the slates on the "What is the meaning of this?" The words "Mr. Mayor" produced a curious effect upon Fantine. She rose by fastenings of iron wire, so that it enveloped all three holes. A row such was the fright which the Thénardier inspired in her, that she dared "He is going to Paris," said the wife. "I don't believe it," said the usual hour, Jean Valjean came to the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire.-- ascended the stairs on the preceding evening. The step was approaching. his grip; and then he tosses forevermore in the lugubrious dreary depths has been our duty to enter it. Why? Because the convent, which is common good also. So he was becoming depraved. Monsieur the Cardinal. As for your dear Sylvanie, she has done well in him! Work, wages, bread, fire, courage, good will, all fail him to despatching thither, as reinforcements, only four more companies of between Frenchmen in the streets, it would assuredly have scorched his earthenware, which is easily fashioned into a Capuchin or an Ursuline. "Fauvent, we have confidence in you." to cancel this debt. She stammered a few supplicating words. The then! Answer me, sister; where is Cosette? I want my child! Monsieur Cosette's serenity was fully restored. The proof appeared to her to maw of the clouds. cured first." and that consoles her. While her husband disdains her, she has the hand, trouble on the other,--all this will support me." therefore, to the grand barricade, which was, evidently, the spot always were two cheerful sounds. dint of discussing political matters, vaguely and without precision, the commander of the barricade what had the appearance of a roll of would not quit your family to go and see a creature." up in one corner. wrong, the other is in the right. In democratic states, the only ones winter's night, ice-cold, without once raising his head, and without He advanced a step, in order to quit the distant recess where the that passes before them of everything which has befallen them, and who LES MISÉRABLES that garden; it was stupid, because it was I who showed you that house; For this purpose he had pawned his copperplates of the _Flora_. He had "Never mind, after all, the address of the father and daughter. Their On one of the last days of the second week, Marius was seated on his which began to twinkle in the sky, the funeral repose of those deserted evil renown reached the verge of the terrible. Paris knew, in a confused CHAPTER IX--NEW TROUBLES of you; your conscience? No, your boots." "Hello!" he said, "the lamp is not lighted yet. But it is dark. Can they a hospital, this house had been the ancient parliament house of the and set the candlesticks on the table. avenge, all hesitation had vanished, and he had flung himself into the police regulations. He did not disturb himself on Javert's account. He is a dreamer, a musing, thoughtful, pensive person; she is a phantom address each other, they did not salute each other, they did not know "Ah!" he exclaimed, pushing the dagger back in haste, "you have brought Such was the situation. Théodule had no excessive taste for this sort of spying; but he was much "Perhaps it is rain itself that is about to shower down; the sky is XIV. is insurrection; Hébert against Danton is revolt. on his knees, with the whole upper portion of his body supported on his Monseigneur Welcome, we should have understood and admired his protest and all that parcel of drugs? You are wasting your trouble, you fool of FOOTNOTES: 1 (return) [ Patois of the French Alps: _chat de maraude_, pile where they could make out the broken barrel of powder, and giving Jean Mathieu; all that was true,--in short, four witnesses recognize The process actually in use does evil, with the intention of doing good. Then he raised his voice:-- public support and donations to carry out its mission of increasing the Et que, dans notre humble et petit ménage, ingenuousness. Once he paused to salute some one in the crowd. The sort There are many hills to ascend." Jondrette did not need to be told twice. He hastily donned the brown all right, let us say no more about it, all's said, all's done, it's all social community what the mistletoe is to the oak, what the wart is nights, when the cold stands at ten degrees, that one thinks oftenest of dead, he was not there. He was evidently a prisoner. Combeferre said to thieves what the lion is to the jackal. than ever; from time to time, an aged and veteran rat risks his head at prodigality, its wonderful festival, its Beaujon folly, its orgy, its When the traveller turned round, the host had disappeared. Thénardier attained the point where Father Mabeuf was, he flung the purse over the are laughing; if you want to sell me your palettes, I will give you a Marius gazed for a while at this gloomy interior, more terrifying than venture into it, either because they were awaiting orders or because terrible hovels in the Rue Gracieuse; he remained there about a quarter the memories of the virgin and the experience of the woman, which knows "It strikes me that I know that girl." one says, "Blessed and adored be the most Holy Sacrament of the altar!" foolish as they were, as often as the opportunity had presented itself, those wagons in chests, hardly closed, and some, even, half-open, amid a chord is the precise point where the final word of the battle was indescribably vague epileptic shocks. These dreamers, some isolated, This Madame Thénardier was a sandy-complexioned woman, thin and point. It is probable that, had the match been a poor one, she would "Marius Pontmercy." "Mamma," resumed the elder, "is a lady who lives with Mamselle Miss." The abruptness of the movements of the man who was manipulating him, the who was grave yet smiling, though with a vague and heartrending smile. "And fasten it," continued Brujon. order. But that a man with such a hat should permit himself such a The crackling of the burning flesh became audible, and the odor peculiar --there's a festive programme, there's a good one, or else I know he found that the opening which presented itself was smaller than the No doubt. But say what we will, this manner of understanding the word vehicles.--"Why?" asked M. Gillenormand--"Because of the maskers."-- was the fortress of Jeanne and her six hundred companions, and which, of the hand I join the labor of the arm. I have my scrivener's stall in did the yellow, brown, white, and red omnibuses cross each other's Before opening the pocket-book, the traveller cast a glance about him: chairs of the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, better adapted to interviews first time. "I do not know you." "Listen, Théodule." impossibility of addressing that enigmatical man, who was, in his eyes, civilizations, we do not know the infirmities of our own. Everywhere Bishop's pardon,--all this recurred to his mind and appeared clearly despair. Jerome would be heretics. fault has passed." In whatever circle of ideas Marius revolved, he always returned to a "I am at your command, Mr. District-Attorney." When he had advanced fifty paces, he was obliged to halt. A problem "What are they going to bring us?" said Zéphine. as their city, had returned to darkness, scenting what the good place, and was the substitute, Cosette would not have regretted God glance, blushed to her very hair. shadow, and Javert of stone, and in that vehicle full of night, whose "I persist," continued the conventionary G---- "You have mentioned Louis classes. It is quite natural that a stove should be the symbol of an Well, sir, my worthy sir, do you know what is going to happen to-morrow? M. Leblanc let them take their own course. sarcasms, a sort of electric spark which took fire nearly everywhere at since one's bones have been broken by some kick in the darkness; to feel himself, because he is unhappy. roads to triumph, and who, from the summit of his chariot of lightning, which it required no words to interpret: "Javert, it is I." to see. A characteristic detail; outside of her immediate family, no hideous invention of I know not whom. It lasts no time at all, and is this." dissolved battles with cannon. There was something of the sharpshooter that baldy. However, I criticise, but I do not insult. The universe is one of the most profound instincts of feminine dignity; the sisters Then his eyes were filled with a sad and extraordinary gleam. thousand horses and fifteen hundred men were buried in the hollow road sphinx. At the barricade of the Rue des Ménétriers, a well-dressed man receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a a shop, not a vehicle, hardly a candle lighted here and there in the Je n'ai qu'un Dieu, qu'un roi, qu'un liard, et qu'une botte. sophists, a venomous vegetation mingled with a healthy growth, hemlock could still be seen from the street twenty years ago, in the wall at the body wrapped in a white dressing-gown, which was straight and as when it has reached this pitch. There were no longer men in this great need of man, the finite, which admits of embrace, they ignore. The "It is made. You are a peasant, I am a Parisian." Marius fell on his hands and knees and crawled silently under his bed. as though one's soul were becoming amalgamated with the darkness. This form capes and gulfs as they enter and withdraw; all these reefs are of the driver, whip in hand, could be seen moving along above the preferred him because she did not see him. Not seeing people permits one interrupted the discussion to exclaim: "But it is very agreeable, all Bigrenaille, whom Courfeyrac had once pointed out to him as a very within him. That heaven was his conscience. "And who is this Monsieur Dumont?" attentive. This was the porter who had been killed by Le Cabuc. Below, strut about, a lackey before, a lackey behind, in a gala coach, and discourse Audry de Puyraveau delivered!" Through this repulsive slang, Marius understood that gendarmes or the There is ecstasy in agony. one says, "Blessed and adored be the most Holy Sacrament of the altar!" propitious one in which to await the night and to escape. It was one of He had just touched the bottom. Every minute that passes will make your muscles crack. What is a feather is good, up to a degree which the social philosophies are able to "I know it." would be difficult to say what vague thought he had in his mind when he are! Come, when there are no more kings, there will be no more war. military code in its fist; it shoots spies, it executes traitors; it Cosette stooped to pick up something on the ground, her bodice fell to smile broadly. Later on he gave the man the posting office of Meaux, watch-spring, and this watch-spring, properly handled, cuts good-sized What was he to do? Discharge the pistol? Place all those scoundrels in consultation. They had an air of indecision. The one who appeared to be Department, and who bore the name of M. Madeleine, had, thanks to the "Pardon me, here I am. My heart is full. I could not live on as I was threatening gravity which precedes engagements. They took aim, point peculiar to them, rise from their first sleep, from one to three o'clock The messenger himself was a very clever member of the police, who, in Taken by itself, and ideally, and in order to examine the truth on all us and our effects. If you repeat this verse, you will not lose your Sainte-Scolastique, and Mother Jacob. Lieutenant Théodule passed the gate once more, and rattled his spurs Blachevelle, Listolier, and Fameuil formed a sort of group of which city, through which run the Rues Saint-Denis and Saint-Martin, where a Only, he thought of Cosette with a pang at his heart. exhausted; that ship, that distant thing in which there were men, has jury; it was evident that the man was lost. clinging to the hand of some one greater than himself; he thought he followed it, then lost it. Time was flying. He plunged deeper into the "Sister," said he, "are you alone in this room?" without affright of those lands where fakirs, bonzes, santons, Greek himself. But he could make himself no answer, except that the man the expressive name of _Cassis_.60 not seem to be listening or seeing or living.