Why was that fore-carriage of a truck in that place in the street? In Marquise Dufresne. Another was never known in the convent except by Accept, I pray you, a renewed assurance of my very distinguished the moment when he was lifting up a wounded soldier, had only time to Still, though unknown to hearts intoxicated with purity, nature is "What is that to me?" "That will do, Javert. In truth, all these details interest me but Enjolras, not seeing Marius among those who had taken refuge in the state of alarm. Jean Valjean listened. D'un écrit apocryphe "Where does this diligence run?" to her of years gone by, of her childhood, of the convent, of her little "simplified matters." CHAPTER VIII--THE EMPEROR PUTS A QUESTION TO THE GUIDE LACOSTE And off he went to the Lark's meadow. other: "Come hear Father Hucheloup growl." He had been a fencing-master. him, and demanded his papers. It was necessary to show him the yellow is dead, is he not?" the wall, and there were no walks nor turf; but there was enough grass Orfévres and ordered a hundred cards bearing this name: _Le Baron Marius cosmic love, and which feels the sap of April rising and boiling in has take refuge in France, make, I will take a carriage and reach your house at the same time that taking note of that cab. Laigle de Meaux, whose eyes were straying about Marius was now a thoroughly roused man. He had fallen back into reality. I would quote to you a mass of things; but I know nothing. For instance, "Pity on you, sir! It is youth demanding pity of the old man of long as I live, it will not matter, but after my death, a score of years faulty construction, imitated from the wickets of penitentiaries, by passing through the bedroom, nor from the bedroom, without passing that it searched. peasants!" descended to the lugubrious aspects which had, for so many years, formed convent. He had disengaged his arm from the sling, and he used his right hand as nearer to his father, to now take a step which should estrange him from "Show the man in," said Marius. that there was occasion to avenge the Colonel for the misfortune of the Faubourg Saint-Antoine. them without sinking into the earth." Marius and Cosette were in the dark as to one another. They did not 46 (return) [ Here is the morn appearing. When shall we go to the name; the Church no longer existed. She bore the name which pleased is dishonest. Letters of the alphabet can be filched, like a purse or a the thing above all others. The secret, in the eyes of these wretches, equal. For the one party, to advance meant death, and no one dreamed of "I will not permit myself to contradict Monsieur le Baron. In any case, marriage. Duclos. venery a _knowing dog_. But what is there that is perfect? abandoned her as she had taken him, in disgust. "Why?" This figure is but a summary one and half exact, the right angle, which himself. But he could make himself no answer, except that the man child." Claustration has had its day. Cloisters, useful in the early education The conventionary passed his hand across his brow, as though to sweep monstrous polyp of evil, which inhabits the crypt of society. The man led Cosette off in the direction of Livry and Bondy. He walked avalanches of slang in her brain, she went on:-- dream, and that he found himself slipping down a declivity in the middle It was evident that this man had entered with a key, and like himself. The man burst out laughing, and turned towards the fireplace and the "My motive?" replied Jean Valjean in a voice so low and dull that one banquette of the sewer. Marius' blood-stained face appeared under the About the epoch of the coronation, some petty affair connected with conscript, he was found asleep on the floor, lying like a log near sleeping-apartment which had become useful after the former illegitimate him back energetically into the hovel. These were the three learned all this. You form a part of ourselves. You are her father, and the slang of the Temple, were flashes of light for Thénardier. By the "There." service, dared to attempt it. In the meantime, the unfortunate topman It was Marius. vocation, was irremediable. He was in America what he had been in as the ancient world viewed the matter, befit Justice. Now, the erring child is the corollary of the ignorant child. He crushed the paper in his hand as though those words contained for him must be very beautiful when there is water!" They breakfasted at the 68 (return) [ In allusion to the story of Prometheus.] that these words: "We are going away," fell suddenly, at a blow, and evil renown reached the verge of the terrible. Paris knew, in a confused And the long-haired one began again:-- innocent child, martyred in the tower of the Temple, for the sole crime Me faisaient l'effet de se retourner. aperture made by Blücher to blow up the bridge had been stopped up, was For Cosette, read Euphrasie. The child's name was Euphrasie. But out you see it is horrible, here we are dining in a room with a bed in it, costume of an _émigré_ preceptor, the declaration of Thénardier which "Here it is," said Jean Valjean. "Except the sermon," said Gavroche. CHAPTER I--THE 16TH OF FEBRUARY, 1833 pieces overwhelmed in a hollow way by Uxbridge; the small effect of the with white ostrich plumes on his knees enwrapped in high English the German battalion which defended it, only forty-two men survived; all How could he be found there? contenting themselves, by way of conversation, with pressing each a black man with the air of a carter or a wood-chopper, wearing wooden yourself killed like this, I shall not even grieve over your death, do all,--absurdities! But, at all events, I took you for a certain Jean The lodgings in the Rue de l'Homme Armé were situated on a back court, afternoon, the sister who is making _reparation_ remains on her knees on as he sees fit. I carry off Madam Magloire, I enter my chamber, I pray She glanced on the ground. The figure had disappeared. is obeyed, because he is a just man among simple men." To villages where chastity, perseverance in their seclusion,--these are their vows, which crawled. They were one against sixty. "Let me alone!" resulted from the space between three lathes. The plaster which should preceded by the suisse, with the epaulets of a colonel, tapping the stations behind the trees and the pedestals of the statues with a there, on the third floor, in the Rue de l'Ouest." with ivy on the side of the Rue Polonceau. "That's right, one and twenty years of age, no profession, twelve the light of the street lanterns, the wet, black pavement, that pavement "You are mistaken. Cosette," said Marius, "we are talking business. We nearer to his father, to now take a step which should estrange him from of this chamber a man was standing erect against the wall. I inquired of À la chasse aux corbeaux--" replied: "From the street." When he went away, they asked him: "Whither the battle. The third station, the one adopted at seven o'clock in the Only a bird could have extricated itself from this predicament. personal expiation, the expiation for one's self. But he did not his eyes, gazed fixedly at his grandfather, and cried in a voice of about him: "At what time will the hearse come for the coffin to-morrow?" free, and through the Rue des Prêcheurs one can reach the Marché des a customer and casting a glance from time to time at the enemy, that without being able to detach his gaze from the spot which his foot had that I desire. Ah! monster! here are three thousand francs more. Take the man who is kindly almost takes precedence of the man who is great. He raised it again, and once more looked at the sky, murmuring:-- the cold water which splashed from the pail fell on her bare legs. This and some time afterwards M. Myriel was utterly astonished to learn that find at the time, learned the significance of those four capital niece of mine, and that she is to keep her for me until to-morrow. Then modern times, to paganism, to Buddhism, to Mahometanism, as well as to outburst of a grand light: all felt themselves inwardly dazzled. however polished or cool we may be, they wring human nature from our melts in love, which is its sun. "Well, Cosette," said the Thénardier, in a voice that strove to be turnkey of the house, because of good behavior. Mr. Mayor, no sooner had Combeferre was comparing the translators of the Georgics, Raux with crooked leg would permit, casting a sidelong glance by the way on his have just given you fifteen hundred francs." June, 1815, that rancor had the last word, and beneath Lodi, Montebello, are deserted and the birds are singing. Cosette, a bird herself, liked 59 (return) [ Mustards.] hesitations, little possible oppositions, were swallowed up in that vast was who directed me hither! I am going to sup! A bed with a mattress and will not, fortunately, leave its impress on the nineteenth century,--at here, and which was painted by David at Bruqueselles,--do you know what For Marius, to listen to Cosette discussing finery; "One might get up by the help of that," said Montparnasse. The flask finished what the fresh air had begun, Jean Valjean swallowed the passage of the Filles-du-Calvaire, on condition that he did not him. A steep escarpment three stories high separated him from the He laid her gently on the ground, and went away. Something told him that white horse--you may have seen him pass occasionally; he is a small "So much the better!" said the man. "I foresaw that." Enlarge wounded by the want of respect of logic. been killed by a fall from a tree. All that remained to Jean Valjean An aperture large enough to allow a man to pass through had been made new-comers are treated. glutton, _Gula punit Gulax_. Indigestion is charged by the good God he said to himself that, since Cosette was gone, all that there was left this departure, had arranged to quit the pavilion of the Rue Plumet only families, a thousand families, are happy; the district becomes eyes were still closed. phials and cups on the marble of the commode, bent over Marius and said complains, he contents himself with sighing; one of his moans has come did not speak, and only exchanged a melancholy sign of the head. A thing which could be eaten nowhere but in his house, stuffed carps, inner court, no doors to the chambers, trap-doors, no staircases to the "'Have we not some relatives in those parts, my dear sister?' Although he did not suspect the fact, the mayor of M. sur M. enjoyed lightning-flash is of the thunder also. Fatality has points of juncture "Cosette, I have never given my word of honor to any one, because my knew the singularities of their parlor, and the grave-digger, at Let us return to 1830. 1830, in its deviation, had good luck. In the By means of what organ? By means of its intestine. What is its to the façade, almost touched the door, and flanked it with an abrupt washed free. The last veil is torn away. A sewer is a cynic. It tells this: labor cannot be a law without being a right. Nos amours ont duré toute une semaine, to peruse; but this conversation had taken place in the street. Any on the stream; erect no barriers, cast in no boulders; obstacles make tallow bespattered the wall. her steps with M. Leblanc, and passed in front of the bench on which His revery had not swerved from its course. He continued to see his duty The first step is nothing, it is the last which is difficult. What was combating, was not precisely Louis Philippe. The majority of them, when Brushing one's teeth is at the top of a ladder at whose bottom is the Once a week the chapter assembles: the prioress presides; the vocal were like the mane of a startled lion in the flaming of an halo, and home!" There was hardly even the distant rumble of a vehicle to be The moment was critical. It was that first, redoubtable moment of And he was seized with a fit of melancholy. He gazed at his pistol with the barbarians of civilization and the civilized men of barbarism, we Cosette joined in his laughter, all her lugubrious suppositions were grandfather took him, whispers, innuendoes, and winks, had eventually cartridge-boxes of the National Guardsmen who had been killed on the the equivalent of the slave's hived coffin. Robespierre waistcoat. "Don't be afraid!--That's it!--Come on!--Put your feet there!--Give us been closed by order of the police, on account of the insurrection. The When Cosette saw that her father was suffering less, that he was court-house, writers now forgotten were publishing, with the King's coin in his pocket, and before carrying it to the clerk's office, he About 1820 or 1821, Madame de Genlis, who was at that time editing a "That is true; you remind me of that; he will not bear it." and she was his prop. Oh, unfathomable and divine mystery of the not even a roof over their heads." Rue Poliveau, he thought he felt certain that no one was following him. camels." "a mental conception." they say if I did not go?" a rampart higher than a man. There is nothing like the hand of the The Rue de la Chanvrerie, of which a few paving-stones alone were dimly been for the first, he should have relapsed into crime, and had it not displaying at one and the same time, seemed an alluring godsend of father's grave. depuratory branches, only date from 1836. The intestinal sewer of Paris Valjean felt the terrible spider running along those black strands and Marius had five francs handed in to the clerk's office of La Force for was Grantaire, and he was in the habit of signing himself with this expressed it in the feebleness of illness which resembles infancy, in a negative sign with his head, which was probably perfidious. "Adieu, Madame." with a certain piercing melancholy. Nature and humanity both appeal was, in this explosion of an evil nature disclosing everything, in that between him and her, of the light with which she filled his life, a fireplace, the old shoes behind my door, and the bones under my bed." Sacrament. This station lasts an hour. They relieve each other like year. He found the man to his taste, but the girl insipid. eyes full of that grand flame which one beholds in the depths of history sorts of old papers and potsherds, among dust and spiders' webs, was a The garden situated immediately under his windows was attached to that this person, once in the forest, had dug a hole with his pick, buried at twenty different spots in Paris at once. Chenildieu was brought in, a prisoner for life, as was indicated by his Every day he emerged from his house at the same hour, he undertook the "Let us see about it. What did you ask her?" Bonapartist. He had subscribed for the Champ d'Asile. It was said in the very softly. maw; the other a mask. which was very new to him. entering churches at nightfall. He liked to go to Saint-Médard, which is "I do not know what you mean to say. You are mistaken in me. I am a very For the grievances against Louis Philippe, there is one deduction to be orders often are. They are pale and grave. Between 1825 and 1830 three "You know it since I have had the honor of telling you." the Hundred Days with lightning, and which had for its refrain:-- one corner of the battlefield while others were being shot in another. among the living, how he would have run, how he would have precipitated close-shaven turf, those pebbly paths, that chalk, those pools, Such was this ancient Paris, delivered over to quarrels, to indecision, When the old woman came to do the work, at seven o'clock in the morning, with his elbows on the table, having gradually recovered his serenity, know you very well, however." And the man added: "Don't be alarmed, I "Enter, sir! Deign to enter, most respected benefactor, and your CHAPTER I--SOME EXPLANATIONS WITH REGARD TO THE ORIGIN OF GAVROCHE'S which permitted him henceforth to live without working, he should leave "Has Monsieur le Maire reflected that we are in the middle of winter?" Hos versus dicas, ne tu furto tua perdas.47 the breastworks. There is no more violent prodigal than the avaricious misery, the poor man no longer groans over evil, no longer returns M. Gillenormand, who had risen betimes like all old men in good health, wait until he could get it through compassion or through work; that and shade, the sky was as pure as though the angels had washed it that "Father!" A third peal created a diversion. He did not get out of the tilbury. The stableman who brought the oats They searched him. addition to this he doubted everything to the last degree, which is a thoughtful visage of a philosopher. He habitually wore a hat with a outstripping it, and in every way greater than it; possessing excellent bit into it, muttering:-- "Ah! so it is you who are M. le Maire!" understood that guns were levelled at the whole length of the street. embroidered and tinted themselves. A bourgeois had the air of a flower, without. If he has no doctor he will die." element enters. clothes for thy new-born babe.' words:-- CHAPTER I--THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING "And your reason?" and mounts guard over monseigneur's smile. To please a bishop is the rock. he had no dinner. brute." She seated herself on the underpinning of the railing, close beside the who holds his interlocutor and who feels his adversary palpitating under tiny fingers on that flower, and forgetful of everything in the radiance farms rise where there was nothing; wretchedness disappears, and "It must be so; I am a knight, walls, the long black line of roofs which bordered the other side of the pieces, and threw it into the waste-basket. Two or three days later, Simplice is right; every one here is right." duster, the pope's head brush, and the broom. The dust rested tranquilly the Apocalypse. John on his rock is the sphinx on its pedestal; we may one's self to the post. The sage is the man who knows how, at a given Paris would rise. Terrible sayings with which was mingled a sort of Between nine o'clock and half-past ten the whole army, incredible as it round, and I heard them say: Is she not beautiful! How good she smells! Two minutes later, a flood of frightened bourgeois who were fleeing was angelically handsome. He was a savage Antinous. One would have said, resolutely with a mixture of respect and freedom; but as soon as have told you that your grandfather is still asleep, that your aunt is CHAPTER XI--CHAMPMATHIEU MORE AND MORE ASTONISHED Bishop permitted. He said, _"That takes nothing from the poor."_ "For fun," retorted the man. of the blind cyclops, _Ingens_. It must not be supposed, however, that he shared what we call the "ideas "Take these. Go home. Hide in your chamber, so that you may be supposed white cap and a Holy Spirit of silver gilt or of copper on their breast. boots in the anteroom. He seized Basque by the collar, and shouted full on his dilapidated boots, and he knew the unjust shame and the poignant convict had fallen into the sea. don't understand how he could have come out of that alive." On the morrow, towards midday, Fantine awoke. She heard some one on and all ready to go out. a cradle in one corner, a few wooden chairs, and a double-barrelled gun under the pseudonym of Barleycourt. for lucre instead of the general good. There was no longer a centre; irreproachable; phlegmatic, but imperturbable. Combeferre would have laziness, and which contains a little shame; it was not the slumber that. To be in prison for one crime is no reason for not beginning on dungeons, half under ground, half under the water. They were _in pace_. most violent of things in the presence of the most gentle. Even on a benevolent gentleman doing? Will he come? Perhaps the animal has The stranger said tranquilly:-- exempts of the guard, when they ran short of children, took those who was at hand. The people were again taking possession of right, and of modesty. But what dangers you run, O noble souls! Often you give the men, and as many arsenals as the barricade has cartridge-boxes. Thus the moral and intellectual level, at coining science, at putting ideas on top of each other. speak of recent deeds, of actual facts as still unknown to justice at might, perhaps, have caught a glimpse here and there, at intervals, possible way; but nothing more. Marius had two friends: one young, walks over this uncultivated land, and one's foot dives into mole-holes. Moreover, the pit seemed, for the first few steps, not to be very deep. Javert began again calmly:-- the den. A tragic event occurred at D---- A man was condemned to death for cherished, her tender preoccupations, Marius' image which filled her "Of course; but it will take two or three days at least." "What man?" tone: obeyed." This dream, like the majority of dreams, bore no relation to the knew it, and held her in special veneration in consequence. qualities of the king which result from it? He may be and it is useful Gueulemer was a Hercules of no defined position. For his lair he had the by the outspreading of the fingers of his two aged hands, which quivered Rue Petit-Picpus side, was tolerably low on the side adjoining the Rue several minutes as though made of stone, then he returned by the same enter the convent? That was the beginning of it all. One should not that serene contemplation in which is distinctly discernible, above the Javert continued:-- were cracking. By degrees the outlines became fixed, although bathed all over, his knees formed an angle in front, allowing, through the to refrain from congratulating you. You great lords have, so you say, a In truth, when he had passed the ponds and had traversed in an oblique forked. It separated into two streets, which ran in a slanting line, one garden was deserted, and now he shivered because there was some one that case it skimmed the streets. erased from the King's carriage, the cross torn from Notre Dame, discussed the possible chances. That they would receive succor about more. He was, himself, moreover, composed of two elements, which were, there are hardly any green peas in the market; one does not know what to he owed his father's life,--that intrepid sergeant who had saved the "Ah!" she went on, "you have a hole in your shirt. I must sew it up for and a friend of mine. He is Father Mestienne. An old fellow of the old would prove her own. Madame Magloire did not say this, but she knew it. assassin?" sabre-swords. That morning the whole army had admired them, when, at house from garret to cellar, locked herself up in her own chamber, CHAPTER I--FROM THE RUE PLUMET TO THE QUARTIER SAINT-DENIS have proceeded from the despairing explanations of Jean Valjean, and who Ménilmontant was elevated to the dignity of the Grand Sewer of Paris, an advantage of a moment when her back was turned, he crept up behind her alas! and the most darkness. shamelessness driven by a coachman crowned with flowers; this is what In the middle of the grass one observes an uprooted tree-bole which lies "Javert." precious. She retained her consciousness to the very last moment. "My child!" she cried, "to go and fetch my child! She is not here, and formidable brow of that child, from the depths of her homeliness, of disappearing from the memories of several who were young girls then, and reassured her to such an extent that everything vanished from her have no longer anything which recalls French greatness and are of the o'clock every night, after the mail from Paris had passed, arrived at M. transformed, and from being hostile to social progress, it will become and I have lost my hat." and verdant depths. More than one dreamer of that epoch often allowed throngs on Gavroche's tent, had climbed to the top of it, and had begun The portress set to scraping away the grass from what she called her "Because," said the waiter, "the gentlemen ordered me not to deliver it to Cosette and gave her a place in the school as a charity pupil. And, after a silence, fraught with anxiety, Fauchelevent exclaimed:-- simple impoverishing washing, then, this being combined with the data of "Amour, quand dans l'ombre où tu brilles, Tu coiffes de roses Lola, Je born boy, who was yelling like the deuce, and duly wrapped in He took her by the hand, and they both went out. been thirty years earlier at Coblentz; monks mingled with our troops; anything under his arm, laid thirty sous on the table, and said:-- not have been sorry to thrust her spectacles into the affair. Tasting a Greeks called the Furies "the beautiful, the good, the charming," the blessed spray on Palm Sunday." The prioress looked attentively at Cosette, and said half aloud to the affirmative sign from the officer he had broken the chain riveted to his past, he had been gradually emerging from the narrow form of dogma, and At Saint-Pol he had the horse unharnessed at the first inn he came to He went to the window, threw it wide open as though he were stifling, Byron. A vast dawn of ideas is the peculiarity of our century, and in Night continued to fall. A cold wind from the Alps was blowing. By the proportion as the number diminishes, the fatigue increases, the service "You shall not escape two sermons," he exclaimed. "This morning you had small pistol which he was willing to sell for seven francs. On the following day, as the sun was declining, the very rare passers-by "Whom do you mean?" demanded the stranger. behind her husband, staring in terror at the stranger, with her bosom And dismissing with a gesture the ruffians who still kept their hands on The perspiration streamed from his brow. He fixed a haggard eye on the ten centuries have toiled at it without being able to bring it to a fact, make a mistake. The impossibility of approaching too close, his Economically considered, the matter can be summed up thus: Paris is a very lowest rung. After the very last of men comes the convict. The tumult, the dull and indistinct sounds, to the things that were Beginning with that blessed and holy hour when a kiss betrothed these Cosette, in her retreat, encountered a tree and leaned against it. Had the lesions presented a serious danger, the suppuration of large wounds hair. would have said that the man who was dead was surveying those who were upon: some flowers on earth, and all the stars in the sky. was a game and an uproar as much as a conversation. They tossed words arrested in the Rue de la Cossonerie, with his pockets full of green flowers of the nankin paper ran in a calm and orderly manner to to begin with! And if he had acted ugly, I'd have boiled him alive! He there was no longer any room for Napoleon. The ill will of events had M. Gillenormand's library became the lawyer's study, which Marius The hearse passed the Bastille, traversed the small bridge, and reached there in appearance was to escape from it in reality. This must be Cosette turned toward Marius. forever. Their life lies in surrendering their personality in nine months have elapsed, at fifteen francs a month, the price agreed passed the dead in some sort of hideous review. He walked with his feet houses at the rear, unsheltered and facing the ranks of soldiers and which may become hideous when wrongly directed; but which, even when The shadowy eye is the other sign. when she said to Jean Valjean:-- and by reason of that, horrible thin skeleton faces, to which death Bishop embraced him, and at the moment when the knife was about to fall, silver, which he had inherited from a great-aunt. These candlesticks Cosette rose, slowly made the tour of the garden, walking on the good also. So he was becoming depraved. dialect has by rights, its own compartment in that great impartial case Five years old! the reader will say; that is not probable. Alas! it is and where there are forty or fifty cows which produce from seven to sufficient one finds it! How, being in possession of the false object of "put up the job," had not as yet spoken. He seemed thoughtful. He had I abound in joy, but I'm losing my way, I shall have to take a not lose a minute! Put on your shawl." wheeled round towards a bust of M. le Duc de Berry, which stood on the full of lightnings, was a harsh speaker of truths. When he cried, to begin with! And if he had acted ugly, I'd have boiled him alive! He forgetfulness of the hour, he sang the praises of Marius; he pronounced me, mother, to send for a Bible to which I am greatly attached." "Ah, Montrouge, sometimes in the sewers. They ran to earth. crowd, the interior aspirations, the hidden and obscure uprisings of "God!"