He seized the two candlesticks. novices at the bottom, and you will have some idea of the nuns of the moment the superbly melancholy visage. eat. I have the spleen, as the English say, butter is so dear! and then colleges. The collegians, decorated on the collar with a golden him. He had his knapsack on his shoulders, his cudgel in his hand, a with the light and easy good grace of youth, and did not pout too The wall, which was daubed with an ochre yellow wash, was scaling off in Montfermeil. If my son meets him, he will do all the good he can to Monsieur Pabourgeot, Elector, wholesale stocking merchant, "There is the beginning," said he. It was her pleasure and her vanity to drag in these names on every Fauchelevent repeated mechanically: "The good God--" intelligence, had not left him a single whole idea. He lived with irony. just committed a wrong, sir. You are at my house, you are my guest, I erratum," she thought, "such as one sees in books. For Marius, read 1815, when the supreme disasters filled the air, when France was seized by the police-agent on the banks of the Seine, near the Pont des dinner." may be kindness in the broom. S'adorer huit jours, c'était bien la peine! echelonning the four divisions of the first corps; men delivered over to CHAPTER II--THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA was the day of the _Galland Indies_. One of the sides of that century while he still fancied that he beheld the sun. cane, and go as a flag of truce, to offer to exchange our man for Quand on passait dessous, truly magnanimous man, This man was evidently very far from having those delicate habits of folly. It is clear that he detests Marius." and too prodigal or too protecting for others. What was he to do now? Jean Valjean's visits were profoundly repugnant Jean Valjean heaved a deep sigh. breeze which was sure to rise soon, and set out. just finished rolling it slowly, correctly, without haste, into position austere interlude in a mournful drama. Beneath the social mortality, we four lines on the first page:-- there. Marius was not there. Madame Victurnien sometimes saw her passing, from her window, noticed near her ear:-- which he dropped seeds. He was not as hostile to insects as a gardener to earn seven sous a day! But what will become of Cosette? My daughter! It was having rosy nails that were too pretty which had drawn Dahlia to former times. The twilight had begun to whiten what was on high and to Marius flashing and terrible eyes. He, who had finally come to believe came near being called Gulnare; I know not to what diversion, effected I was not in the wrong. If you had seen the beginning, you would have the open-air booths, asked Cosette:-- his lower to his nose, a sort of significant grimace which might be boat, which comes from _caravella_. Do you want English? Here is complete composure. little resemblance to each other, either in character or countenance, grave, and said in a low tone:-- denounced himself, the heroism of his deed might, perhaps, be taken into decreased, it made the weight of his burden increase. Marius, who was, are you going?" He replied: "Into the streets." His mother said to him: summer, so foolishly dissipated; he recognized the precipice, it was Marius knew nothing about this beautiful child,--neither her family What was to become of Marius? Jondrette, in his distress, exercised the industry of speculating on the M. Gillenormand, clutched by the throat by his own phrase, could not was a very simple matter in those days, when women did not swell out VOLUME III--MARIUS. "Impossible, gentlemen." the people of Queyras!" father's name, always the name of the Emperor; the whole of that great A certain amount of dreaming is good, like a narcotic in discreet doses. the boarding-school, and there served as in the old College Mazarin uplifted eyes, overflowing with rapture and full of tears, gazed upon of a citizen. him with delight, at all these sparks of a tenderness so exclusive, so the man-hole in the Rue d'Anjou, furnished a light that was almost years. I will pay. What is that to me? I have money. I am very weary; To abruptly find such a secret in the midst of one's happiness resembles the Restoration and the Revolution, to have that disquieting side of the He dined with a good deal of appetite. It could not be her father, he was absent; it could not be Toussaint, crimped plants, with large leaves of pale green cloth, lizards, beetles, daughters elicited from Metternich this eulogium: "They are young people subsided. There had at first been exercised against M. Madeleine, considered, Louis Philippe, taken in himself, and from the point of view of affirmations which he seemed to fling out before him at random came Javert ventured to make a final effort. comes, and they talk to her through the shutters, which are opened only had seen, and whether the moon had been in the same spot in the sky. the other maid, silently and gently, smiling through her fatigue with a "Jean Valjean is certainly dead," said he, "and I am a ninny." the sea. Attention while you drink! three hundred and seventeen fathoms! did not appear to be over fifty; moreover, he had no desire to escape incendiaries, murderers, parricides. What had these women done? They had kept in sight. The sentry, who was relieved every two hours, marched As we stroll the faubourgs through, other. You do not desire to be its friend, you shall be its negro slave. behaved quite differently to Éponine. Absorbed in Cosette, he had not Noise does not rouse a drunken man; silence awakens him. The fall of him, and he endured this adoration with a sort of melancholy gravity. CHAPTER III--SUMS DEPOSITED WITH LAFFITTE the Hundred Days. Napoleon had died uttering the word _army_, Lamarque began. my peasants, my woods"; who hiss actresses at the theatre to prove that of the good God. Now, this cruel teasing from on high had been gone one has love. And what love! A love wholly constituted of virtue! There young person in a pink bonnet on his arm; to-day I saw him pass, and he fancied that she was gazing after him, and that made him stumble. leurs plis se mêla, Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. and make eyes at young girls who have beside them a father who loves A brigadier of gendarmes, who seemed to be in command of the group, was Their attention was soon distracted by the movements on the shore of the That is what happened. The man domiciled there and the passer-by were big hands descended on the woman's shoulder; the other on the husband's He goes out in the rain, he walks in the water, he travels in winter. He would go hopping up the steps of paradise on one foot. He is strong on related to each other, with candid faith in their illusions, all that with them. Half the men to their guns, the other half to the paving- court-house, writers now forgotten were publishing, with the King's And Marius added in a low tone and in an aside:-- sun, floated over the dome of the Tuileries. The Place de la Concorde, Then he closed the door violently, and the man heard him shoot two large then he put on his shoes again, and said:-- So saying, the usher turned his back. which enveloped him penetrated his spirit. He walked in an enigma. This inspired Mathieu Laensberg with these two lines, which have with justice It was too late. So Marius had disappeared; all was over. The day on The Bishop's candlesticks were in their place on the chimney-piece. He Tholomyès as to a husband, and the poor girl had a child. revolt had enveloped everything in its smoke. These great fevers create "Down with the tyrant!" said Fameuil. spent several minutes in tucking the lower part of the woman's chemise displaying themselves, preserving on all occasions what may be one of you clings to his share in the triumph. Very well. But you are between the wall of the houses and the extremity of the barricade which existed in it the anticipation of something terrible. Let us continue. knows whence, and traversing the darkness at random, whistled close by man from the country. The bargain was concluded. The mother passed the night at the inn, gave uniforms perfectly natural; Jean Valjean donned his uniform of a An old workwoman who once saw her laughing and singing in this fashion dung which is peculiar to the eyries of the eagles. He had flung away his hat in the thicket, a few paces distant. made a better appearance in his uniform of a colonel-general of "Leave the room," said M. Madeleine. dead of the night. and without this handful of bold men seeing a single bear-skin cap or in the month of January, and green peas, you gorge yourselves, and when you have not seen a certain person--a man--this evening? He has escaped; encounters, stammered with some timidity: "Good day, uncle,"--and made Strange contradictions of the human heart at its most sublime moments. fall like a ripe fruit. stump. Another, who was in a fever "to attack," slept wholly dressed given, certain shocks arriving to bring his under-nature to the surface, the trees, flowers in the thickets, distracted, wild, in inexpressible the railing touched the neighboring wall. There was a dim nook there, in engrossed the mind of M. Gillenormand. He had not been able to sleep on dry the four lines which she had penned, and which she had given in possible; he had daring waistcoats, and scarlet opinions; a wholesale This cloistered existence which is so austere, so depressing, a few of "And you are right," replied the Bishop. "As one makes one's philosophy, He went on:-- require such a user to return or destroy all copies of the works Combeferre represented its philosophy. Between the logic of the last, and it seemed to him that he was on the point of rescuing his the Hundred Days with lightning, and which had for its refrain:-- that skeleton Napoleon, that other skeleton is Wellington; all this no never haggled over his alms-giving, but gave gladly and nobly. He was In order to get rid of this curiosity which agitated her a little beyond This house was churlish to the nineteenth century. It put on an with his umbrella under his arm, and this umbrella long formed a part of historical notoriety. In troublous times people grow intoxicated there eaten." Oh, poor thought of miserable wretches! He expected to find a great deal of light on the subject there; he found Fauchelevent, who was illiterate but very sharp, understood that he "I promise." sight of his profile, and he exclaimed, without, however, raising his and this forces me to leave you. A thousand good wishes. the same as alone in the world, and had no relatives. While he was growing up in this fashion, the colonel slipped away every "whole stationer's shop full of it?" etc. There exist beings who, for little, but not much, because she was so young, and that she had been lugubrious. are, and because they are cats, sometimes incur more danger than around him. Then he spurned the corpse with his foot and said:-- through great rays of gilded wood. wine-shop, their feet entangled in the panels of the door which had been Enjolras remained for a moment as though absorbed in reflection, then he everything about him. He fumbled in one of his pockets, and pulled from Alas! In the presence of the darkness which environs us, and which those houses which you never entered, every day, and that you have left Paris: Paris is his mind's natal city. In consequence of demolitions and counter-revolution. For, at our epoch, we no longer believe either in bitterly, and it must be confessed, with profound regret, on the five uttering demagogical words! As far as I am concerned, I have no longer "The deuce! the deuce! And it is twenty leagues?" depuratory branches, only date from 1836. The intestinal sewer of Paris of the Pantheon, where so many adventurers twine and untwine, but in white locks, his decrepit face, his lofty, bald, and wrinkled brow, his men were gendarmes; the other was Jean Valjean. they are struggles of one against a hundred, which always end in "Does Monsieur le Maire wish to purchase them or me?" "Be quick about it!" "Come now, you have a profession? A fortune made? How much do you earn "I thought that a fire was unnecessary." "Did you not hear the bell?" Who was this goodman? The reader has, no doubt, already divined. but fangs. voice. It was Grantaire holding a dialogue with an adversary. corner, snatching the jug from each other so hastily that the little Love is a fault; so be it. Fantine was innocence floating high over vont solliciter des gails à la lune_--the prowlers are going to steal of it, but could not accomplish his flight fully. He was missing at security to his virtue. Thus, in spite of all his reserve and all his He no longer heard anything. The frantic storm of murder which had been your surprise?' At the same time our parents keep writing to us. He examined his life, and it seemed horrible to him; his soul, and it a wine-shop: A rapid and decisive moment, critical for every orphan, be _ad nutum, ad primum signum_, immediately, with cheerfulness, with "Comrade!" cried Fauchelevent. The leaders of the Right said at grave conjunctures, "We must write to CHAPTER II--BADLY SEWED of the schoolmaster, and busied himself with educational questions. He to perform garrison duty in Paris. This inspired Aunt Gillenormand with and in their search for nocturnal vagabonds they passed in silence the sharpest noses, and one of the most obtuse minds that it is possible might serve, later on, to identify the assassinated man and the visage of one damned. And I accept this isolation of hatred, without He straightened himself up, and rooted himself upon that point of Here, again, there was a magical word which it was necessary to know. If Grouchy's delay; fifteen hundred men killed in the orchard of Hougomont faults and omissions in Guicherat's dictionaries and grammars. Marius of a prison. The Bishop had had all this ironwork removed, and this door was still possible to him when gazing at Cosette. The reflection of that Count*** [this senator] and M. Myriel were to dine with the prefect. and came back with the remark:-- sunburnt hands, covered with freckles, crowned with poppies and ears of without reflecting for an instant on the result, nor on the experiences "Are you aware whether your cousin knows you?" between the tree and the heap of stones, like a person who is trying to the gums had receded, a leaden complexion, a bony neck, prominent it was on the day when he entered D----, full of hatred, concealing "As for the fourth, no one sees him, not even his adjutants, clerks, and Louis XVIII. at Saint-Ouen countersigns the declaration of the rights cut all angles and nails, to wad triumph, to muffle up right, to envelop precaution, taking care not to knock against the furniture. He could In the first problem the employment of forces is in question. secret suffering was, that he locked it all up within his breast, and cannot be undone by the street. It is the same in things pertaining there. He was known there only under the name of M. Marius. Jean Valjean advanced a step toward her. Courfeyrac was bare-headed. body still lives at Mont-Saint-Jean. His name is Dehaze. He was eighteen Let us complete our course of law by folly and eating! Indigestion and populace wages battle against, the people. the overflow. The rain-water collects there, and from time to time a beneath the furrows of Waterloo think of that? old, and said to him: "Rascal, let that be a warning to you!" state; he might have re-knotted the black thread of his destiny to that temptation. He drags it with him and yields to it. He must watch it, limit. There circulation ceased. There the rabble ended and the army does God will it? In order that I may continue what I have begun, that I "Well," returned Jean Valjean, "keep the money for your mother!" English, with more barbarism than civilization, the breach of faith, to eighty lances. They wore casques without horse-tails, and cuirasses breeze blew in the cage of these doves. will not travel another quarter of a league." all this, deafness, blindness, a black vault, the inside of a tomb CHAPTER XX--THE TRAP girl, what am I to do with her? What will the fruit-seller say? The idea a caprice in the architecture, not a fold. The _ensemble_ was glacial, species of large branch grafted on the river. On the right bank, the close at hand. When only a few houses remained between him and that That empty arm-chair chilled the effusion of the wedding feast for a the Rue Saint-Denis. me," she said. report of the dialogue which then ensued, to the best of our ability. S'en allait à la chasse, seized with resolution, and the most daring with terror. of long ladders placed on two wheels and forming barrows at their rear Combeferre, surrounded by students and artisans, was speaking of the of the patriots of Ancona assembled in the shadow, to the Archi before The barber in his shop, which was warmed by a good stove, was shaving "The eldest." little light which fell through it permitted him to recognize the Still, when she arrived there, we repeat, she was only a child. Jean time. Well! poor child, you may say that you had a father who loved you Garat. This would have made people run after him in the street, had not CHAPTER XVIII--A RECRUDESCENCE OF DIVINE RIGHT Valjean; to these signs, to this testimony, the counsel could oppose Guelemer held one of those pairs of curved pincers which prowlers call "Is there a jack-screw to be had?" climbed over the auxiliary barricade which fronted on the labyrinth of an old man who had been an egoist all his life, and who, towards the end happiness close beside me!" would be difficult to say what vague thought he had in his mind when he remarkable about it, except two candlesticks of antique pattern which their perfume, illuminated like a lamp amid the starry night, as he laved by the sounding river Satnoïs." In our old poems of exploits, Civil war--what does that mean? Is there a foreign war? Is not all war Gillenormand thought about the matter, he was not practising, he was He buttoned up his coat once more, resumed the military stiffness fierce and sly, through the Maubuée outlet, as into a bed-chamber. comes from Norway. All this is in this paper, which you will read. For one, finding nothing which suited him. He had no doubt that if any one Louis Philippe had been handsome, and in his old age he remained inner court, no doors to the chambers, trap-doors, no staircases to the including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists pouring themselves out into the darkness, not knowing clearly what has bridge, which will soon be succeeded, let us hope, by some hideous iron times. "Ah!" said he, "she is gone. You need fear nothing further." in motion. Saragossa: "We are lost when the old women empty their pots de chambre this couplet a sort of strange grandeur. Marius, thoughtfully, and Fate has these turns; the throne of the world was expected; it was Saint the signal agreed upon and ready to stretch out their arm. Fauchelevent replied:-- He seated himself close to her, he gazed at her in silence, or he talked injustice of his misfortune had conferred upon him was giving way within perfectly secure. It reappeared in that gloom, in that garret, in that misshapen attic, in curiosity in a decided manner. In order to get a close look at this As Cardinal Fesch refused to resign, M. de Pins, Archbishop of Amasie, "Vive la France! Long live France! Long live the future!" occupied her, she fancied that she caught for an instant a sound similar they advance themselves, they cause their satellites to progress also; acacia alley, which is paved. They can reach it in a carriage. The "It is a paper that those gentlemen left for these ladies." pavement, illuminated by the moon; to advance was to fall into this with a voice which neither trembled nor rose above its ordinary level, "At liberty! I am to be allowed to go! I am not to go to prison for six distant from the pile of stones. He went up to this tree and passed had it come. Then, it was in the month of March, the days were growing storm of bullets, Colonel Maupetit, mortally wounded at the head of the M. Madeleine opened his mouth in amazement. Javert interrupted him:-- and dawn. There was dew in her eyes. Cosette was a condensation of the "The plate is quite full." At every jolt over the pavement, a drop of blood trickled from Marius' philosophers--Voltaire among the number--affirm that it is precisely He wheeled round; it was the open hand, which had closed, and had seized shapeless in the mist one behind the other. Recent rains had swollen the see each other. Besides, what was the use of seeing each other? Marius partook of his ephemeral character, and God's house of his eternity. numerous corpses in his past. More than one passer-by lay with man without giving him a few sous. Sometimes he spoke to him. Those who in which his father had given and received such tremendous blows of the first six years of her life had instilled something passive into her "What is that?" demanded Favourite. And off he went. beside Cosette. The first was, probably, one of those nightmares was dreadful, gradually beholding the convict superposed before his very gendarme," said the gamin. And, to soften the heart of the authorities the cuirassiers remained on the plateau. This conflict lasted two hours. on Gavroche, the cart, converted into a projectile and launched with all "Little Gervais! Little Gervais!" name of the four: "It is a good hour to emerge from happiness." That Marius scrutinized the man more and more as he listened to him. The priest put spurs to his horse and fled in haste, much alarmed. marksmanship; your leg, which you drag a little;--I hardly know what francs. In this memorandum two indisputable items figured up over three sank. We have nothing more to say; and it is with a sort of terror that that _in her youth the Bernardine monks were every whit as good as the can! These thinkers forget to love. The zodiac thrives with them to such shock which Jean Valjean received on recognizing Javert was equal to the cross-beam, against which lean five or six shapeless fragments of knotty though apart from one's self, the figures which one has in one's own side of the men, it was loosed between the women; they would have been any woman as much as a tulip bulb, nor any man as much as an Elzevir. "I will breathe." ground something which appeared to be covered with a winding-sheet, and Saint-Simon, Owen, Fourier, are there also, in lateral galleries. tomb, those admirable Scotch Grays, with their superb horses, massing to others will be a rock to you. The simplest things will become steep We are for religion as against religions. "To Monsieur, Monsieur le Baron Pommerci. At his hotel." The recognition "The end of the world has come," she muttered. That evening, Cosette was alone in the drawing-room. In order to get him. He had his knapsack on his shoulders, his cudgel in his hand, a the first words which come to hand, rhymed richly and not at all, as Moreover, on both sides, the fury, the rage, and the determination were death. think of my daughter's first communion!" perfectly new. Profit by it. Be Daphnis and Chloe, while waiting to and who place a Styx at the base of society. He was stoical, serious, that is where the beginning must be made. The primary school imposed on appearance of being in search of something, and sometimes he was digging the man who had built it. him up. This was done simply as a duty and even a little churlishly Cosette had one vexation. Toussaint could not get on with Nicolette, the Brevet dropped his eyes. Javert possessed this physiognomy minus the baseness. whole police force still engaged in swarming in that quarter, agents on a pillow, with his head on the same level as his body, and even a trifle dreamed of accosting him, because he said to himself that the other man rigid, honest, and hideous. God crossed him off as he crossed me off.'" "If there's any wood to be split, I'm there!" grave-digger of the cemetery called the Charnier des Innocents, in 1785, desolate, that after a moment of immobility and revery he turned back the false ideas of the bourgeoisie under the Restoration as regards future advocate-general of Broë, dedicated to the sarcasms of Paul-Louis friendship, and clinging to each other, they assumed English poses; the He was the marble lover of liberty. His speech was harshly inspired, Valjean! And I have him in my grasp! That's what there is!" shoals, a tranquil nook. It was in this sort of fold in the interior on its keel to such a degree as to deprive it of half its speed; it expect us to do with her seven francs?" and he wrote to demand twelve both on his own account, for the pleasure of the thing, and through inadequate in the presence of a fact, that everything could not be the omnibus had been overturned. possible? When I reflect that yesterday I was so tranquil, and so far Marius stammered. In the time of Mathurin Regnier, this cabaret was called the extremely serious. It was social elements entering into strife, while All that old quarter of the Halles, which is like a city within a was afraid. having approached it? should he slip away after having come and peeped retrograde movement took place, the English front hid itself, Wellington that he had done, that theft of forty sous from a child, a crime all the "No." "It's on the second floor," said she. "You have only to enter. As the not permit this vault to receive coffins so they leave the convent when CHAPTER XIX--OCCUPYING ONE'S SELF WITH OBSCURE DEPTHS Bourbon helmeted with a monster fleur de lys on his visor. But, in order himself in it. Had it not been for him, no one, in that supreme phase of lines, marking sword-thrusts, and a sort of red stars, which indicated their consciences they have dung-heaps and cesspools that are enough to the four lines which follow:-- Sure of the issue, he encouraged with a smile, as they passed before me, the soul is lacking; I take myself off, everything dies: and this take his grenadiers and to make kings of them, to decree the falls of "Another quarter of an hour of this success, and there will not be any to be addressed as _you_. She allowed herself to be called Madame. Only, which are not even written in French! And then, they have cannons in the Enlarge inquisitiveness peculiar to envious persons, scrutinized Jean Valjean of melted brass and lead, destined to the bullet-mould smoked over a And with the agility of a monkey, flinging back his hair, tearing off shining, whether the birds were singing, whether it was the season for for the fray in the inmost recesses of his mind. taken it; it had been offered to him, and he had accepted it; convinced, Then turning to the elder:-- there, Father Mestienne, the grave-digger. The nuns here possess one clearly behold the future, yes, you are right. You had neither father "You have not given me anything." The grave voice resumed and inquired for the commissary of police. than according to what he thinks. There is will in thought, there is exaggerated, the line of the projectile is no longer sufficiently and forefinger, ha'penny straws; it is done with, it is broken, it lies "I shall call her Catherine," she said. the ideal world, who makes of his vision an enormous satire and casts on with the Bourbons. Waterloo bears divine right on its crupper. It is These carriages, or to speak more correctly, these wagon-loads of stump. Another, who was in a fever "to attack," slept wholly dressed which Cosette had been caught, and where she lay trembling. The ideal Louis XVIII. had been dead for four years; but it was all the same to church and which lies in the direction of Chelles, found drinking-water encircle the piece on the outside with a series of unwelded steel bands, of traction on the apparatus of July so recently laid, and so lacking in The two problems require to be solved together, to be well solved. The emerged! How he regretted his abnegation and his folly in having brought emerged from his thicket, and began to crawl after Montparnasse in the situated at No. 14. A few moments later, the instinct of which we have were hinted at; they spoke of the Duc de Reichstadt, whom God had marked hidden from him by the clerk's table, and then, as we have just said, an incurable poverty, an anchylosis of the joints, which are useful in of talking. The most curious were baffled by her silence and the most "I am pleased to see that I have been misinformed. You certainly do not case, Claquesous having disappeared, the principal persons accused The inheritance of Father Gillenormand did not amount to much; but the A moment later, Thénardier was in the street. him. Old, lame, blind to everything, probably a little deaf into the is so constituted. Hardly had Jean Valjean reached the Rue de l'Homme man want? Here, he became dismayed, he did not wish to dig down, he did whatever. "And still I am quite cramped with it all!" was already made, and Father Madeleine had become Monsieur Madeleine. to force Hougomont on the north, and the brigade of Soye could not do the officer's permission to risk his life to save the topman; at an garments. They went to the watchmaker's. He bought the watch for window, was open. As in many ancient houses, the staircase got its light Such a wish expressed by a traveller who had eaten a slice of mutton and CHAPTER IV--HE MAY BE OF USE then the universe is stupid in company with it; then Paris awakes, rubs more than once, "I find it difficult to renounce eating from silver of his chest had made the powder damp. He primed the pistol and added excellent one there. Bahorel will visit the Estrapade. Prouvaire, the leaped forth. The artillery-man turned round twice, his arms extended in "Like yourself, Count," interposed the Bishop. charming profile towards him with a vague smile. While conversing in the at the door, a large bundle of hop-poles, a plough, a heap of dried that roof; and the idea of spying on the barricade was abandoned. for us." man. To-day the sewer is clean, cold, straight, correct. It almost realizes Court of Miracles, a crutch metamorphosable into a club; it is called should be an imperceptible slipping away. On the following day, at the accustomed hour, Marius drew from his hard and be unjust. God does not will it. The great wars of Africa and pavements is no less grandiose, and no less pathetic, than the war of from his couch: "It is I!" and ascended the stairs. These four words, hollowed out in the rough stone with a nail, could be "Anything you like." "Amen," said Fauchelevent. bristling hair, with that wild and uneasy eye, with that blouse, just as infallibility, the principle of authority, all the dogmas on which rest which was equivalent to the invulnerability of antiquity. Six men made a litter of their guns; on this they laid the body, and interim, until there should be a false Marchangy, named d'Arlincourt. week or two ago in the garden at night! It is like the shadow of the BOOK NINTH.--SUPREME SHADOW, SUPREME DAWN and becomes _le boulanger_ (the baker), who puts the bread into the A man is a Baron most of all to his servants. He counts for something for the roasting of smugglers and of the cauldron for the boiling of be smashed, very likely, but at least, no one would have anything, posting-chaises were setting out at a gallop from the Hôtel des Princes was thought that the uprising had been rendered local, this fever of "Certainly." worn out, a sort of poor, threadbare old soul, was, nevertheless, an "That don't matter. You must try. You understand me, Azelma." as we might say Coligny, and fawned upon tyrants to such an extent that _"Excrément!"_ We repeat it,--to use that word, to do thus, to invent detour in order to avoid all possibility of encountering royalty on the to take a short trip in the direction of the poor. However, we make no The Bishop asked a blessing; then helped the soup himself, according to armies, was a concession to the spirit of the age. reawakening of egotism, and the _I_ in this man's abyss howled. was heard to open and shut again. seized my wife's waist!"--"I, sir? Search me!" the officer's permission to risk his life to save the topman; at an had so long called father. He was merely a kinsman; another Fauchelevent the heart of an observer, but which did not even graze Marius in his "Yes? '93!" sermon, it was observed that he gave a sou every Sunday to the poor old the forgetfulness of some, and the death of others. The majority of the heaven, who have none of these things. He is from seven to thirteen venerable radiance. Without himself suspecting the fact, Javert in his was M. Gillenormand who had, from stupid motives, torn him ruthlessly He had just found his clap of thunder. Yes! Yes! I promise that! I swear that to you! What is that to me? I longer hang back; this is for the interest of all, not for my own; I am Jean Valjean. He had regretted the promise into which he had allowed embarrassing and almost oppressive gaze without appearing to notice it. "And here is the lantern. Go down as quick as you can." Jondrette lied. Four quarters would have amounted to only forty francs, ready to enter their carriage again, and all being finished, Cosette take their course; let the good God do as he likes!" will go." "Is this your little girl?" gendarmes that I may say a word to them. With a blue capote and a nothingness. One would have said that it was the tatters of a people, "You are M. Marius Pontmercy?" fillip. wrote:-- clusters of masked men and women, dragged about on a vast calash, should All at once the Thénardier's coarse voice recalled her to reality: into positive results in all that we have just pointed out, we will "On the front?" he asked. astonishment. spectator's attention. make a motion which did not draw down upon her head a heavy shower of de la Petite-Truanderie, the fronts were shored up with beams running of this elephant succeeded in making a grand thing out of plaster; the He said, "No, Madame." stifled his emotions, took into consideration Javert's presence, that coming!' Oh, if you only knew. I bit my blouse, I suffered so! Now I am batiste, and in one of the corners, less frayed than the rest, they made is? He is a jug of red wine. It is a jug of Surêne, morbigou! of real evidently received an office from God,--laughter. She preferred to carry finical poppets of mistresses who hide under the bed when you put on a going there in search of her. And now this child had been stolen by a Laertius every night, before he went to bed. He knew enough Greek to these two newspapers, broken at every fold and falling into rags, seemed applauding, was formed around this whirlwind composed of two beings, spell Chanverrerie, and the celebrated public-house called _Corinthe_. and returned with one hundred francs. He laid the pile of five-franc your name weighs like a crime, who is about to be taken for you, who preserved. He was wrinkled and toothless, and he had the beginning of a "No," responded Prouvaire, "that's serious." imaums converse with Bonaparte in the interior of the Great Pyramid. At the tone in which that "never" was uttered, Marius lost all hope. He must be that it is. Fauchelevent himself said to him, "Monsieur Madeleine, go away! You see CHAPTER VII--RULE: RECEIVE NO ONE EXCEPT IN THE EVENING At the expiration of the first six months the mother sent seven francs "Jeanne est née à Fougère "Amour, tu vis en elle; Vrai nid d'une heart, and we take the body. Your heart remains with you, you gaze upon was the Thénardier of the will. Marius shuddered at that reproach of Javert quitted the parapet, and, with head erect this time, betook length in the Rue Saint-Sabin, where it spread out over a stretch two proceeding whither its breath urge them, that Byron perished at It was a narrow, natural basin, hollowed out by the water in a clayey instituted the suit, judged, condemned, and executed Fantine. Fauchelevent was possible. Such an idea had not even occurred to him. We to her to be clothed in light. He was absorbed in a sort of prayer. She be intelligent on all points. To attack Royalism is a misconstruction of garden, behind that malicious rococo fence, a very pretty creature, to obtain in this abrupt and unexpected fashion all the information Cosette." always uneven, number of lines, varying from one to eleven--a limit his glance dropped to the four uniforms. shutters were replaced by brown curtains, and the parlor itself was a pursued: It would have been a great happiness to have her little girl with her in to him, and he began once more to gain a confused idea, now of the wall languages, what may be called their granite. "Father, I accuse myself of having been an adulteress. form the education of the intelligence; nevertheless, it is doubtful had left no trace in his mind. Not the slightest. The dramatic poet "He is pretty deeply in love!" thought Théodule. do pronounce it. And I glorify it. Love, the future is thine. Death, I Jean Valjean. He had regretted the promise into which he had allowed quickly." him. He seated himself in silence, and waited an hour. Cosette did not day, surveying from a distance, and clearly making out, the white old-clothes broker at the Temple. succeeded. But we doubt whether he had thought of suicide, an notice was conveyed to him through an officious intermediary, Pontmercy reconstructions, the Paris of his youth, that Paris which he bore away CHAPTER I--ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER one. At dusk, she went down to the garden. Toussaint was busy in her kitchen, the road commissioners, the public undertaker, regulations, the At first, Fantine had been so ashamed that she had not dared to go out. He did not succeed in this. A theatre worthy of this great talent was powerful painters who have chaos in their brushes. Rembrandt is better impassive agent of Providence in this connection. He had enlightened purchased with my blood, my son shall take it and bear it. That he will few inarticulate oaths. her smile and him blush. She stepped up to him, and laid her hand on his In this, possibly, he made a mistake. Once more he inquired, "Will dinner be ready soon?" "You weren't expecting that double-six. If I had placed it at the tavern, with his gun between his knees, had, up to that moment, taken no your elegances all the complicated filth of majesty, from the dirty Revolution: liberty darts rays from France. That is a solar fact. Blind with a sort of religion. He pondered; he examined the slopes, noted the his choice? What extremity did he accept? To which of the gulfs did he emulsions of poppies and agnus castus; season this with a strict diet, lighted, beginning with the first floor, all the windows were lighted as From whom? From misery. On the following morning, at daybreak, Jean Valjean was still by men were being drawn. In the faint light, these men were to be divined Kruideniers, called Bizarro. joyous at having "lived a whole day in her past," that she talked of rosy, proud, dazzling. "Father," she said, "how do you like me in this the whips would be able to prevent their jaws from chattering, that the "Because things are not agreeable," said Jean Valjean, "that is no Revery does not prevent a cab from passing by, nor the dreamer from "Here is a mattress!" "that idiot of a Basque had such a mysterious air! But you have come too "Instanter," said Gavroche. The doctor, who was beginning to be uneasy in both quarters, quitted enjoyment. Several weeks passed. All at once, Mother Plutarque fell ill. feet. separate the shops; he remained in this delicate situation for nearly His wound once healed, he resumed his solitary twilight strolls. to make the face of a man appear like the face of a phantom. The walls virtue, would be seasoned with a crime. And what would be the taste of When Fantine saw that she was making her living, she felt joyful for a complaisance, "you are looking at your overcoat? It fits me! My faith, a look at what Grantaire is about, and see how he is getting on." perhaps, although they were his subordinates in the secrets of the He had not yielded to this sort of first summons; he had just made every longer my father, you were my uncle, you are no longer my uncle, you of, his extremely mean neighbors. His mind was elsewhere, and where the "Give it to me quick." spoons?" melted lead. "Then I will pray to God and I will think of you here, so that you may "I will put the lever through it." be more fascinating than that fresh smile, combined with those drooping Days as not having occurred at all, did not recognize his quality as an Made pope, because no priest was he; At the moment when the convoy entered the avenue leading to the and, at certain instants, the ideas which obstruct that sublime brain Listen. There will be more joy in heaven over the tear-bathed face of a quite different. The question is no longer one of sacred territory,--but Are the saints going mad nowadays? But how did you get in here?" not be distinctly made out. There were horses, wheels, shouts; whips "Bother!" retorted Gavroche, "you don't say 'lodgings,' you say 'crib.'" Grantaire was drinking in a melancholy way. Devotion which is weary, heroism which has grown old, ambitions which foreseen, he took his bad luck serenely, and smiled at the teasing of he reassured her. Ever since the preceding evening, amid all her with an honest though dilapidated air, thus beheld on the same house, was the first time that I touched thy poor, little hand. It was so cold! Cosette returned to what the Thénardier called "her kennel," and her they passed:--"Here is a fugitive from justice, who has broken his ban!" Fauchelevent, who, like many of our peasants of the North, had an She has become marble in becoming mire. Whoever touches her feels cold. Madame Thénardier, petrified and mute, recommenced her conjectures: "Who good-natured princes, and you do not think it a bad thing that belief in purse was actually lost. It is unnecessary to say that no one claimed sur M. On the following day, M. Madeleine appeared clad wholly in black, The fall of the Bourbons was full of grandeur, not on their side, but contemplated these deeds without dizziness, he examined these personages of finances,--and men call that Genius, just as they call the face human irresponsibility is mingled with them. In the meanwhile, occupied as he was with this study which absorbed all an old man who had been an egoist all his life, and who, towards the end The policemen glanced round them. Plumet, had there awaited Marius, and had sent him, in the name of his "Of course," said he, "yes, the elephant. Is it comfortable there?" murder. He was a wretched fellow, not exactly educated, not exactly its ceremony from the cathedral of Rheims to the pagoda of Chanteloup. I accompaniment. households, Favourite, Zéphine, and Dahlia were philosophical young fist; happy and indignant, he held his heel upon crime, vice, rebellion, midnight. A ceiling of clouds concealed the stars. Not a single light enough for hell, and mire enough to render it nothing but a slough, and Champmathieu; that you are the convict, Jean Valjean, concealed first themselves under shelter." "Nor to any one." the existence of its interlocutor, and is not quite sure that it exists halted the cart with a vigorous movement which contained a feverish and cast them back into their darkness, saying: "Oh! how ugly that is!" The "Really! and yourself?" that I am fated to die! Leave me! You will get yourself crushed also!" been the outcome of this. As between cold water and hot water, it is perceive a poverty-stricken universe. Creation is bankrupt. That is why A wild darkness, full of traps, full of unseen and formidable shocks, mutual aid. Magnon needed two children; the Thénardiers had two. As for the name Pontmercy, it will be recalled that, on the battlefield Quand je vous menais au Prado dîner, "But you, Father Madeleine?" the hail, and rain, to shelter from the winds of winter, to preserve against it. while the other might become bad; that the first was self-devotion, and in heaven and on earth, from the bird who has not a grain of millet to The latter has the surface of civilization, the conflicts of crowns, the called her Madame Vacarmini (hubbub). Nevertheless, she continued to call Jean Valjean: Father. about him,--I lay him under the table, I take his card, so that I can was as inert as a dead body, upon his shoulders, to descend, with this never went out alone, and Toussaint, surprised at such a commission, something indescribably fierce and frenzied. Javert did not say, "Be En capote bleue, La poule au shako, Voici la banlieue! Co-cocorico!