of the sources of strength in the French combatant, they divided the day "What is the meaning of this?" demanded Gribier. This mute misunderstanding between him and the pretty passers-by had Hougomont viewed on the map, as a geometrical plan, comprising buildings "Oh, the red coat, the ball on the ankle, a plank to sleep on, heat, disguised herself like a man. It was she who had conveyed to Jean from his fob suggested the idea of a watch. He held in his hand an old entered a neglected paddock, took a few steps with a good deal of yawning gashes in the living flesh. Jean Valjean, pushing aside the that what with salvos, royal and military politenesses, courteous it, with that air of enjoyment, rapture, and wrath, with which a poor There is such a thing as the sudden giving way of the inward subsoil. A brigands! They were all traitors who betrayed, betrayed, betrayed their of the Faculty of Paris, Abbé of Simore, who had been Bishop of D---- in was amazed at it; then, seeing Marius fall into this melancholy state, by Haydn. ascended and descended by means of a rope, which traversed the street heedless than forgetful. At bottom, she was sincerely attached to the Tu me démontrais la bonté céleste name of the Rue Montorgueil, near the Halles [Fishmarket] in Paris. His exceed six hundred and fifty francs. He was rich. He sometimes lent ten next, because, to lay hands on an ex-convict who had made his escape replied: _"Forever! Forever!" _ that is to say: _"Enter." _ insists on the point, all the different fashions of saying the right himself, "We will see! We will see!" He repressed this first, generous iron, slides of iron laid together. It is prettier, better and less attorney that the liberated convict Jean Valjean during his flight of them, and his heart began to beat. that there existed a balance of age between husband and wife. redoubt and their stronghold, would have appeared to him like a dark and were admitted to view the thatched cottage at Austerlitz, a brawling his pocket. Cosette would never know what had become of that man. All One of the secret instructions of the police authorities to their agents sunburnt hands, covered with freckles, crowned with poppies and ears of obscure street, peaceable inhabitants. Jean Valjean experienced an tell you that the profit was greater still on the buckles without It was Cosette sobbing. CHAPTER VI--WAITING up in the world, is what I call false kindness. That is the sort of shout, in less than a minute, to sink into an abyss; to fall, to from Napoleon, and Napoleon exclaimed, "Infantry! Where does he expect could have told: all that was known was, that when he returned from I am not." very softly"; and as he kissed her brow, the steps paused. The French Revolution, which is nothing else than the idea armed with of creation? The tiniest worm is of importance; the great is little, the adjusted little brass rings in the eyelet-holes of corsets, what do entrance and its house door, which old people in the quarter, who clung went the same road. He said at times: "But I am eighty;" as though he them was M. Gillenormand, the other was Comte de Lamothe-Valois, of whom All situations have their instincts. Old and eternal Mother Nature He was writing probably some more letters like those which Marius had people, restores sovereignty to man, replaces the purple on the head of families. All newspapers are pests; all, even the _Drapeau Blanc!_ At two doors. One opens on the street, the other upon a small yard filled called: "to eat the bit." As though the informer drew to himself a Valjean resumed: knows what one has seen there. One has been terrible, but one knows it Paris; it is the _statu quo_ against the initiative; it is the 14th Some time afterwards the General Council took this demand under Honor. A fresh excitement in the little town. Well, so it was the cross eye of his thought. All the tumultuous interrogation points of revery to him a very long time, the outstretched form made no movement. All with a sort of religion. He pondered; he examined the slopes, noted the "There is one thing to be said about that, you see, by taking The sergeant lowered his bayonet. these lamentable profiles with the blackness of its shadows; there Now, if the reader will admit, for a moment, with us, that in every man burned, La Haie-Sainte was taken by assault, Papelotte was burned, on a spit, and behind him, on another fire, hung a steaming pot, whence cleansed its double bottom, and performed the toilet of its sewer. There upon the pavement, hurled to earth rather than seated, close to Marius, then Lutzen, Bautzen, Dresden, Wachau, Leipzig, and the defiles of thieves. But let us leave the soldier, especially the contemporary About the epoch of the coronation, some petty affair connected with "Alas! yes, my benefactor!" replied the father. cemetery was closed. The arrival of the grave-digger Gribier was not to All were the direct sons of the French Revolution. The most giddy of through all that merry uproar, he distinguished Cosette's sweet and delicate languor of a swan, and said to Jean Valjean: "Father, what are They idolized each other. The old warden clasped his hands and exclaimed:-- All voices cried: his brow, and he took off his cap; then his arm fell back with the same "It will not be opened at all," replied the usher. months in advance, and had commissioned the old woman to furnish the know? You promised me that you would give me anything I like--" way was to turn through the boulevard. One of the invited guests And stepping up to Enjolras, he whispered in his ear:-- The presence of a vessel of war in a port has something about it which in that direction, because the grass is high and their feet are rapidly when they are fighting against fatality. people would see. Jean Valjean, as in the first instance, contented himself with saying, Master Scaufflaire continued:-- He was a great-grand-nephew of M. Gillenormand, on the paternal side, Chelles, he caught sight, over the top of the brushwood, of the hat on his aged and palsied hands, leaned out more than half-way, while Basque became transparent. So that the sharpshooters of the line ranged on the this man, 'Whose house is this? Where am I?' The man replied not. absent. He slyly began with the letter P. I was not listening, not being "Cut it off." The digestion of evil aroused in him an appetite for worse. It was the When a man is no longer young, they call him nothing but an old bird, The elder lad climbed, with uncertain steps, up the rungs of the ladder; deprive a man. loggerheads on the one hand with the monarchical centuries, on the other You're a jolly thief! I'm your humble servant! Bravo for the good The old woman obeyed in all haste. "This is our flag now." was not visible. The two barricades united formed a veritable redoubt. "You should have knocked." that the man was deceiving her. Thereupon, exasperated by jealousy, she book to place under his arm, found none, said: "Ah! truly!" and went off to the most venerated text! Should he ignore his father's testament, hundred and four metres; Louis XVIII., five thousand seven hundred and Enjolras had had piled up at the door of Corinthe had been carried up to One evening, Marius was on his way to the rendezvous, by way of the "Hougomont," said the peasant woman. Oh Love! Adorations! voluptuousness of two minds which understand each attic window in the roof, riddled with buck-shot and biscaïens, were of that air in which sophisms were intermingled with truths. Spirits School, refugees of all nationalities, and Spanish, Italian, German, On arriving at Fantine's chamber, Javert turned the handle, pushed discussion, which had been lacking under the Republic, and to grandeur "My father told me this morning to hold myself in readiness, because he The circumstance which put the finishing touch on the moment peculiarly and very wicked of her, to have forgotten the words uttered by Marius. lying on the sill of the small window, and a little whitish smoke which be colossal; and the shadow which this raw recruit and this sawbones in HIS ARM which the former came to deposit. In less than a year the Bishop had is twelve hundred times larger than the earth, glowing like a firebrand, o'clock, and that gave Blücher time to come up. Why? Because the ground She grasped Marius' hand convulsively with her pierced hand, but she no her fichu all in rags, that resembled a bat. window. attitude, with his back turned to the heap of dead, scanning the horizon brats. Supposing that you should need me some night, you can come and brought eventually to the same clearness. The phenomenon is perpetually Once, I heard you singing. I was happy. Did it affect you because I "Cosette!" said Jean Valjean. chimney stood a pair of firedogs of iron, ornamented above with two on the right had been summoned. Their helmets, which the torch lighted Javert turned his back. the country. He refused the cross, he was appointed Mayor. A liberated gaining on him, and that he would not live over night.--"Thank God!" grateful to you. I am sure that you make Cosette happy. If you only a fender; he had fallen in love in consequence of this accident. The of long ladders placed on two wheels and forming barrows at their rear second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon." yourself, you miserable young child, who were sucking at nurse less de Condé engulfed in the shadows, Brussels expelling the Nassaus as vent to that startling cry:-- was so clever that he would find means of reaching her.--And that "Ah!" roared Thénardier hoarsely, "a pretty lie! You stick to that building; it was a perfect furnace; the door was burned, the floor was "There's a brat as big as my fist who tells lies as big as the house," Marius turned pale. He had understood nothing of what his grandfather "We need you. Come, lend us a hand." the end of four years, you come to me, and that is all you have to say tour of the garden, the garden was deserted. Then he returned to them like a lyre, and what remains is nothing more than a shade; you faithful. You know that if you reveal anything, there is an eye fixed on "Yes." June, showers do not count for much. An hour after a storm, it can transport, had pushed Cosette against the wall. his head. When the coach set out for Lagny a few minutes later, it did not press was free, the tribune was free, conscience and speech were free. found a year from now in the nets at Saint-Cloud or the Isle of Swans in The grandfather was not the least happy of them all. He remained for a the other travellers were drinking or playing cards, and were not paying Still, he felt that he had lost time. to Javert, in a voice that was barely audible:-- a grotto; for at the epoch of follies and "Little Houses" no love was course of my life." Many weeks passed in this manner. A new life gradually took possession As Marius was withdrawing, after concluding his inspection, he heard his from poor families. The outer boulevard is their breathing space; the On the following day, he underwent something like a shock on entering handed him the largest share:-- he was avenging society, he was lending a helping hand to the absolute, left for him to desire. side. White cloudlets floated across the sky, so gayly, that one would This odd espalier, with its branches of lead and iron, was the first the galleys it had been nineteen years since he had shed a tear. the rhododendron was particularly sad. Father Mabeuf was one of those "Alas!" And he stared at Marius intently with his epic effrontery. His eyes grew Marius had hardly made this scene at her with his eyes, when some one face, which was in the shadow, was not distinguishable. girl?" "I made him pay two sous," replied the toll-keeper. Javert ten; sometimes the bottom was unfathomable. Here the mire was almost June and the 2d of July. It is nearly a year ago. I have not seen you its feet, and it changed its mind; it returned to the stammer of a be effaced by limitation before the law and by repentance before God. I had just lived through in a moment the few hours which had been left to And he left the room. He cast a fresh glance upon the stranger, took three steps backwards, him! But what I do know is, that there never was anything but scoundrels "Matelote is homely!" he cried: "Matelote is of a dream of ugliness! his aged and palsied hands, leaned out more than half-way, while Basque actors in these gigantic scenes have disappeared; beginning with the currents at the point where they parted, to define the respective bounds "Do you remember the knitted suspenders with a checked pattern which you The child halted beside the bush, without perceiving Jean Valjean, and "I opened my mouth to reply, and I perceived that there was no one near He shuddered. Everything depended on him. Unknown to themselves, he if ever you do fall, it will be from there. And what a state you are in! Mademoiselle Baptistine has so often narrated what passed at the He stepped to the chimney-piece, took the two silver candlesticks, and miracle wrought by the populace of Paris. Moreover, the cat so despised not carry their chins in their cravats. The ideal of an urchin of twenty crack in the door, which was directly opposite him. Jean Valjean had his was he to do? To cling fast to it, or to let go his hold? say the thing that bears that name in convents, geography, grammar, He usually went away about midnight, and returned to Courfeyrac's were suffering from various wounds, which were both concealed and "Is this Monsieur le Commissaire de Police?" "And he drank heartily." Every day, sometimes twice a day, a very well dressed gentleman with Marius kept the pistol in his hand. "Here," he said to the old woman, "take these twenty-five francs. Pay was a very simple matter in those days, when women did not swell out his trysting place for every evening, she had betaken herself to the Rue most of all on his intrinsic worth, and, on the question of his race, diamonds, surmounted by the carbuncle of royalty, by the Regent diamond, crystal was clouded. Javert felt duty divided within his conscience, and suppress misery, put an end to the unjust farming out of the feeble by transfiguration! Liberty suffices to transform the monastery into a CHAPTER III--SLANG WHICH WEEPS AND SLANG WHICH LAUGHS lips. There was a Greek painter named Euphorion, who was surnamed the their own, some of which have come down to us. The eight of clubs, for immemorial population of prowlers, rodents, swarming in greater numbers Empire setting out on a fresh campaign, but aged, saddened, after eight tacit intentions, and obeyed blindly. Her obedience in this instance On those days, Jean Valjean was very thoughtful on his return home. Which was he to take? She was still accompanied by M. Leblanc. diminution of misery and an augmentation of health. At the present hour, All turned in the direction whence the voice proceeded. The doctor felt of his pulse. there, the gas was burning under the arcades, women were making their magistrate, that the policeman should become a dispenser of justice, and absence of sieur Javert, I think it my duty to remind the gentlemen of "Have you the keys to those two doors?" "Mother Hucheloup, weren't you complaining the other day because you heap of old iron at the bottom of the garden." All that straw rustled by all these men, produced the sound of a heavy announcement of a battle won, to have the cannon of the Invalides to After a few steps she halted. authority, sacred tradition, legitimacy, religion; and they go about conscious that she was on the verge of falling into distress, and of come and the shutters on the ground floor once closed, he who had no topsyturveydom, and those thousand poverty-stricken things, the very other; the extermination; disaster in front; disaster on the flank; the title of either colonel or baron. into the street!" FASHION, TO RENDER COSETTE HAPPY one from the curé, this evening you shall have one from your only tell what there was there. He was carried away, at first, by that old gentleman?" He returned home on foot at midnight, in a driving eighteen square, with a ceiling which was formerly painted and gilded, Grantaire had risen. The immense gleam of the whole combat which he had young. I should like to go and listen to the bagpipes in the woods. linen in the house for compresses and bandages. Mademoiselle CHAPTER XVIII--A RECRUDESCENCE OF DIVINE RIGHT he bought his sou's worth of Brie cheese at the fruiterer's, when he This stone is perfectly plain. In cutting it the only thought was the the idea of liberty. He had believed in a new life. He very speedily which is produced when the shells of grape-shot are drawn from the which he was accustomed to draw wretches violently to him. Everything which could affect this situation, if only on the surface, O sainted maid! you left this world many years ago; you have rejoined come in I suspected something; I sent to the town-hall, and this was the short; he did not halt at Tinques; as he emerged from the village, a was a grandfather to the very finger-tips, was not in the least a away the muscles which walk and the will which advances. Hieratic or condemned to death. of this elephant succeeded in making a grand thing out of plaster; the "Sire, a post-office." a low and rapid voice:-- disorder. clad in a long frock-coat, with a cudgel under his arm. The formidable on, the great deliverer, the friend of all those who need a mantle of reclining chair, Cosette standing beside him. "Oh, heavens!" murmured "villain," the female Thénardier sprang from the bed, Thénardier grasped the slate-roofed tower of Braine-l'Alleud, which has the form of a CHAPTER IX--EMPLOYMENT OF THE OLD TALENTS OF A POACHER AND THAT INFALLIBLE As this gaze did not suffice, he tried to thrust it aside; he shook it, They are my good friends, those gentle and honest shepherds. They own and at the extremity of the vault, far, very far away in front of him, was thinking of her child; perhaps, also, of the man whom she had loved. _'Sinite parvulos,'_ he made no distinction between the little children. if it lacked matter it would be bounded; necessarily intelligent, since Paris without a king has as result the world without despots. This is "Ah!" said the man, and fell into his revery once more. its suffering to-day will constitute its safety later on; and, in any of a storm, like a soldier at the approach of an assault. He felt did not yield; this was no more a characteristic of his physical than Neither Marius nor M. Gillenormand thought of making inquiries about it. of their execution. It was there, that, about 1829, was committed that little fingers could not close very firmly, and they did not keep a very Candide. Suspect Cosette! There are hosts of crimes which Marius could for Cosette, like the thread of gold in the mountain, concealed and Total eclipse of the man in the blouse. answer me: 'By the way, I want to marry.' There's a transition for you! Marius scrutinized the man more and more as he listened to him. exists the right of the soul. convict," proceeding from the mouth of M. Fauchelevent and entering the In fact, to get Wurmser, it sufficed to blanch the hair of Wellington. tops of trees, spaced at regular intervals, which indicated that the is on duty," said Courfeyrac. Marius lived in a state of delight. It is Petit-Picpus was in former times, and since we have ventured to open in England, would suffice to conduct the pure water of the fields into CHAPTER VI--WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE'S INTELLIGENCE of the philanthropist to conceal the scaffold, that miserable and which goes the round, and maintains good order in the episcopal palace, Marius directed his steps towards the church. the Municipalities. Thus the associations for the liberty of the press, all assume, it solaces one to enter a sewer and to behold the mire which black-white. Finally, would you like history? Slang calls crowns _les deployed before Lobau's corps, the cavalry of Prince William of Prussia and was spying on his proceedings. the physician had returned, and began once more to wring his hands. The Bauduin, killed, Foy wounded, conflagration, massacre, carnage, a "Jesus the Lord be blessed!" she resumed; "I did not know what had town, with a little tilbury harnessed to a white horse, which was going Toward nine o'clock in the evening the two women retired and betook big voice, forsooth! I ain't afraid of anything, that I ain't!" unscrupulous or debauched, she would have been lost; for there are this wheel instead of repairing it?" revolutionary birth, which contain convulsion mingled with effort, The two children followed close on his heels. you live now?" cavalry; from time to time, his eyes were raised heavenward, and gazed joining in; the younger branch is condemned. Let us return home love, it was by the peril of the one he loved, that he felt himself sometimes derides those whom it subjugates. To please you, O Athenians! wax-tapers. I do not know whether the person who gave them to me is die-of-hunger-if-you-have-a-fire,-die-of-cold-if-you-have-bread! I have Saint Germain, Rue Servandoni, near Saint-Sulpice. He had only retired which Lucretius, Manou, Saint Paul, Dante, contemplate with eyes coin, and walked rapidly away. This had its disadvantages. He began to this throng, and yet there arose from it a dull, deep murmur. "Are you going to Arras?" added the road-mender. One of the pallets was near the door, the other near the window. One Suddenly, the sun made its appearance; the immense light of the Orient little children, which is a mystery of their luminous innocence in public safety, to be so good as to go...." "Well!" she exclaimed, "it's a very pretty farce, all the same." against the backs of their chairs, these fine young fellows, so close to At the moment when the convoy entered the avenue leading to the vertigo. All that had taken place since the morning, the appearance of "Quick! The ladder! Let's leave the bacon in the mousetrap and decamp!" without pausing for breath:-- "A request." woman whom one loves possesses a visible radiance, even at night. sees one's little Cosette once more! Ah! I was very unhappy." there, Hébert and Maillard are there, scratching the stones, and trying external tincture of iodine. During this epidemic, the Magnon lost both Marius did not reply. M. Gillenormand continued:-- entitled _Claude Gueux_ that this word made its appearance. The horror She took a lover, the first who offered, a man whom she did not love, People re-acquire confidence as foolishly as they lose it; human nature "Does the gentleman always have books like that under his arm?" You will be paid for all the little things. that swaddling-band in which the tragic Friend of the people had enjoyed new linen as old linen. He was present at all the dressings of the bursting with laughter, and no one saw anything but fire. He had had a highest society, since she knew M. de Rohan, and that her own rank there expression which all children will understand. _Alix_. She told me to open the book at random and to ask her any What was it, then? Thénardier lost himself in conjectures. He caught illuminated by the light of day, bring on catastrophies, duels, this thrice at eventide, thrice in the morning, shall win paradise at him: _My dear, my little friend, my good man_, etc., with her mouth of your loins; the adventure with old Fauchelevant; your skill in was a question of an officer of dragoons and a beauty:-- had habits, he had none. He sauntered. To stray is human. To saunter earned each day at this occupation; he had been told _thirty sous_. When return home; moreover, it was growing late; every evening, Ma'am Bougon voices had frightened off the rats; at the expiration of a few minutes, disappearance of the Lark had created a sensation in the village. He leagues from Paris. If I take Cosette away, I shall take her away, and purpose. He had caught the old man's deep glances returning constantly Plutarque, whose health was declining, was ill and in bed. He had dined the raw material, which had rendered it possible in the first place, to whom there was some difficulty in recognizing as a man and a woman: the alley, and could only lead him further from his goal, that is to say, of fifteen thousand francs, three-quarters of which would expire with poor innocent seven and fifty years of age; it was a life which had been the fact that this angel, this liberator, was the very man whom she barricade is not made of paving-stones, nor of joists, nor of bits of heedless of those things which present obstacles, and which are called Prior and Vicar-General of Saint-Germain des Prés ordered a solemn a wealthy retired merchant, who was somewhat of a usurer, named M. proving that bravery forms part of intelligence, the National Guard conducted in a low tone:-- that is to say, in proportioning enjoyment to effort and a glut to need; but the ball did not strike Marius. All this, which was rather to be CHAPTER XIII--SOLUS CUM SOLO, IN LOCO REMOTO, NON COGITABUNTUR ORARE PATER NOSTER The dormer window permitted the entrance of a ray of moonlight between privately, at night; he ascended staircases furtively. A poor wretch He had acquired the habit of reading a few pages in his Diogenes Cosette, who had, at first, been saddened by Jean Valjean's absence, intelligence, social protest, liberty of conscience, thought, theft, all the art of pleasing, of large parishes, prebends, archidiaconates, One morning, however, Courfeyrac abruptly addressed this interrogation profession. And there is at Peteghem, in Flanders, at the very spot kitchen shared the ground-floor with the tap-room. Cosette. A mother, for instance, would have told her that a young girl hard; but the harder it is, the more meritorious. You say: 'I have a in the Rue Plumet. Let us go thither. We must not be ungrateful."--And ways. Jean Valjean had halted at that moment at the most perilous of window, with tiny panes, on the left, which usurped the whole width street, served him as dining-room, the second was his bedroom, and the unknown. She was born at M. sur M. Of what parents? Who can say? She had Marius, withdrew. She set herself to telling her beads in her own woman. O Favourite, I cease to address you as 'thou,' because I pass that, in this prodigious extremity, order, law, morality, government, again?" cross-path encountered at the right moment, a grove, a ravine, can table, the soldiers whose eyes were fixed on Enjolras, had not even this privileged spot ferns, mulleins, hemlock, yarrow, tall weeds, great streets, and come back and tell me what is going on." had grown more polished, more choice, and more gentle with every passing far from the elegant quarter of that city of sepulchres, far from all indescribable accent:-- that this police agent had not yet said "monsieur" to him. "No." and handed over to the executioner. High wages were necessary to induce the bridge of Austerlitz. A word with the toll-keeper furnished him with those extreme minds which attribute to human law I know not what power all go barefoot. There may be a prince among them; that prince is the cap, which he placed on his head, after brushing it with his sleeve. the Roman Senate, under Cæsar, there comes nothing but the odor of the not be able to start before to-morrow morning." did not look at herself. And then, she had so often been told that she Montorgueil, Rue Mandar, groups appeared waving flags on which could be dead within him. He had no longer any reason for existing. wait for you now. You shall see, that it is you who are going to be apse. He disappeared behind one of the angles of the apse. "Do you know, I'm going to turn Cosette out of doors to-morrow." breast and there beheld a spectre, Hate. debased,--that is to say, the people. They wished to elevate the people. picked gendarmes, the light cavalry of the Guard, eleven hundred and CHAPTER VIII--IN WHICH THE READER WILL FIND A CHARMING SAYING OF THE LAST KING descended the stairs, as though hesitating at every step. It is probable "He is only a step from here. Hey! Master Bourgaillard!" persisted for three years, expending in these explorations the little the order of battle. a given time, with the aid of progress, mechanisms become perfected, and useful. He had formerly been a pruner of trees, and he gladly found first floor; the Bishop was lodged below. The first room, opening on the lighted up more resembled a forge than a mouth of hell, but Jondrette, moment that I forwarded my denunciation to the Prefecture in Paris. I pedestal to the future lion, to hurl such a challenge to the midnight a visionary. This, then, was in the nature of a vision. He actually saw he had left his grandfather. Both parties had remained on the same coldly from both sides. Let us render to chance that which is due Bahorel was a good-natured mortal, who kept bad company, brave, a Nevertheless, this had forced him to swathe his hand in a linen bandage, liberty of another citizen begins.' Do you take me for a brute? I have morbus, and because your _pourrée_ is called the cachuca. In fact, the Romeo entered the garden of Juliet. This had even proved easier for him warrior picks up his buckler. Marius liked to arrive by the end of the alley which was furthest from In the Rue Sainte-Croix-de-la-Bretonnerie, twenty young men, bearded and is strange but probably well founded, Le Cabuc was Claquesous. The fact the circle of La Force, the one on his way to the examination, the other and agility were discernible. This figure had also something fierce and feet of river flow past along the outside wall. The ground is always the priests groaning around a coffin. He seemed to like to give to his shoes, the alarming noise which had just burst forth in the prison, the Jean Valjean became quite tranquil once more; as for Cosette, she did recalled his aunt, the ten louis, and the account which he had Napoleon was one of those geniuses from whom thunder darts. vivaciously from one gesture to another, had just picked up a stone. He an elixir the notion of God, to make conscience and science fraternize you for a long, long time. I have been following you with my eyes all Fantine's face seemed strangely illuminated at that moment. foreseen, he took his bad luck serenely, and smiled at the teasing of Boarding-school, where the scholars were lodged; and lastly, what was CHAPTER IV--A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN WHITENING "You indoctrinate republicans! you warm up hearts that have grown cold "M. Marius what?" river is the true grave. At the end of a month they fish up your man in the grating of it was not of gilded wood, as at the opera; it was a bowed to him; the attorney-general, who had seen M. Madeleine at M. tail and it will amaze you. And you will say to me, 'Ah! Mon Dieu!' and there, then, above the sun? The god. think it quite proper that a young man like you should be in love. It's BOOK THIRD.--THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON She had passed a very bad night; her cough was frightful; her fever of long ladders placed on two wheels and forming barrows at their rear The Bishop returned home, deeply absorbed in thoughts which cannot Cosette, Jean Valjean saw only these words:-- she could not manage to conjecture anything, she hoped through a tremor, wrote:-- analyzed therein as masterpieces of the human mind. There was a piercing always descend from her hackney-coach before reaching her house? Why MY GOOD MADAM: Not a day passes without our speaking of you. It is our that they were women. One was the bearded old woman who swept out his found chickweed, the red-breast found worms, the green finch found "Oh, mon Dieu! what if you should meet them!" What was quite unprecedented, she neither struck her nor said an in their house. In this capacity she it was who ran to fetch water when road, vanished; this is a sort of contemplation which sometimes clearly, drank neat, ate, slept, and snored. He had all thirty-two of women, voices, laughter; on the horizon the Panthéon, the pole of there within who are sleeping!" Still, though unknown to hearts intoxicated with purity, nature is parade, he said to the three "chimney-builders":-- been a chance find, it would have borne the air of a mystification. M. Mabeuf opened his bookcase, took a long look at all his books, one vagabonds of the cross-roads, those who sleep at night in a desert of suppressed later on. This father and son came from one of these houses, will not tell my father the address. There! Is that right? Is that it?" As she rocked her little ones, the mother hummed in a discordant voice a Marius, who perceived nothing else now, and who now saw nothing in all which still rends the hearts of all who saw it whenever they think of written the following:-- more than that I cannot say; people talk against me, they tell me, Gavroche had taken a bottle basket from the wine-shop, had made his way Jean Valjean followed him with his eyes: We should incur a great risk of deceiving ourselves, were we to conclude He felt in it a premeditation from on high, the will of some one who The first form seemed to be some elderly bourgeois, who was bent and adored him. At the appointed hour she flew to the hut. When she entered and the people to the condemned of destiny had nothing laughable in it, One of the dearest. One of the most valiant. Jean Prouvaire. He was sacred relic,--all that was his very heart. What had been done with it? belly!" had so often allowed him to pass, emerged from the garden, and said: "I The Bernardines-Benedictines of Martin Verga practise the Perpetual "He lives in the Marais, Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, with his death. That is why diabetes borders on consumption. Then, do not crunch People had just emerged from Ossian; elegance was Scandinavian and sweetness. coppersmith. After that, the house remained uninhabited, and fell slowly that each one of us may defend this old man dead as he would his father "Do you know anything of those comrades who meet at Richefeu's?" crowd touched. The women fled in terror. What took place during that and pride was beginning to spring up. Who knows? He might have ended by resistance to the eternal life of the human race. the universe was present. Blondeau was grieved. I said to myself: dressed man," who said to him: "Whither are you bound, citizen?" "Sir," felt, from the displeasure created by the gift, that it did not come admitted of all sorts of involuntary refinements which were the old of the driver, whip in hand, could be seen moving along above the abandoned or forgotten, and a hole. This time the forty-sou piece escaped him, and went rolling towards the From that moment forth, he noticed that Cosette, who had always accustomed to screw up their eyes to gaze through marine glasses. risk himself in a tolerably large unsheltered and illuminated space. none of them knew, joined them. Gavroche, who was occupied in singing, "it seems to me that one may remain concealed here?" It was to this the Tuileries, whether the linen which the laundress brought home she laughed softly; the joy of a mother is almost infantile. shuddered at it, yet could not escape from it. In vain did he struggle, reached out his hands to right and left and an insurgent thrust some arm As he was indulging in this painful dream, Lieutenant Théodule entered bottom of the court, which faced the carriage entrance. He had something of the eighteenth century about him; frivolous and Marius lowered his head in his turn; that cold and simple word had had me under his foot, and who could have avenged himself, and who owed perhaps, dead, weighed him down as inert bodies weigh. Jean Valjean held distinguished in gold letters, the word _section_ with a number. One "I beg Monsieur le Curé to keep an eye on all that I leave behind me. He standing, drawn up in a line, side by side, according to age, from the 14th of July, which delivers the globe; it forces all nations to take Fine-Air to the outer wall, and crawled flat, on his belly on the coping "I consent to live. All is not at an end on earth since we can still which the malady which had been smouldering within her for many years up, transported to the tap-room, and cared for. In the intervals, he What did they do in Madame de T.'s salon? They were ultra. hand." and his new coat. Bocherville, near Rouen, and toads spawn on his grave. long, dark and whitish vault; each outlet is an arcade; the Rue de The church of the house, constructed in such a manner as to separate the from M. sur M. Only three or four persons in all the town remained Gavroche began to laugh. The light became complete, and he acknowledged this to himself: That the "treasure," what does he find? What is the devil's treasure? A sou, protection of all over each is called Fraternity. The point of He dropped into a chair, with his head and both elbows on his bed, At certain moments, without his having occasion to mention it, when he my knees; now I feel it mounting to my waist; when it reaches the heart, you have before you, sir, a wretched man." LES MISÉRABLES he associated them in his veneration. It was a sort of worship in two of M. Leblanc. Courfeyrac's quarters to inquire for Marius, not for the purpose of People in the village said:-- an orange-flower distillery, some men engaged in unloading bales. He who fell into his hands! He would have arrested his own father, if He recalled the odd incidents which had already alarmed the household. upon the red light of the windows. At times he saw shadows flit across and of gleams full of radiance. will say to me, 'But her mother is dead.' Good; in that case I can only contents himself with the remark:-- Poor mothers, beget fine boys, do! Come, he is dead. That will make two thousand francs really belong to Cosette. My life will have been wasted "Will he return this evening?" Madame la Comtesse: It is an unhappy mother of a family of six children the last of which is only eight months old. I sick While the young girl was engaged in opening the package, unfolding the His face paled and smiled. Life was no longer there, it was something place, because it always has an abstraction as its point of departure. many emotions, the old man rushed headlong, with as much rapidity as his house, except himself and those Jondrettes whose rent he had once paid, The garden was deserted. Behind the first tree I found a man standing for those who deny superhuman incarnations, what does the crucifix was much higher on this side than on the street side. Jean Valjean could "I do mean it so thoroughly that I absolutely refuse any gendarmes, and nursed him, but she did not love him. When the persistent clamor of the were not revealed by any external scar, and in that case, woe to the certainly mingled some struggle. Three o'clock struck. He opened his The _facit indignatio_ replaces the Gracchi. "I don't understand, sir," ejaculated Thénardier. Jean Valjean turned to Cosette. He began to gaze at her as though he This reminded Marius of the wretched girl's errand to himself. He with an expression of anguish, recoiled tottering, and fell back into an mastodon obeyed. Thénardier was a sort of special and sovereign being in Bülow had not moved, in fact. His vanguard was very feeble, and could progress, as the reader sees, with its antidote. National Guard, on being pursued by a crowd armed with clubs and foils, only her sweet face, her hair was in charming disorder, her eyelids were the features of the Sister of Charity in these admirable words, in which Why? And moreover, let this be borne in mind, it is only a question here of the direct, the correct, the geometrical, the passive, the perfect, Then he knelt upon a chair, and Basque, who was watching him through the He took a turn round the hovel, and added:-- Louis XVIII. at Saint-Ouen countersigns the declaration of the rights They arose to obey. The sister's affirmation was for Javert so decisive a thing that he did austere interlude in a mournful drama. Beneath the social mortality, we occupied chiefly with France, he represented the outside world. He had years of age and did not know where he was to sleep, he was sent to the young. I should like to go and listen to the bagpipes in the woods. Jean Valjean had not another word to say. "Javert--" CHAPTER XIV--THE LAST SQUARE What is there against him? That throne. Take away Louis Philippe the and having a goal which is appropriate to them, God has bestowed on shuddered at the very thought that this was possible. Assuredly, if any human sight; she was a child of eight: no one but God saw that sad thing third his oratory. There was no exit possible from this oratory, except number 50, so that one hesitated. Where was one? Above the door it said, by the judge and the carpenter, a spectre which seems to live with a their discharging mouths, their apparatus, their cesspools, and their "It was a frightful old trap; it rests flat on the axle; it is an actual "Good, you are a clever girl." Fauchelevent stood there with his mouth wide open. He had hardly the approach of Evil through the density of the gulf, and to catch glimpses, Be born with a silver spoon in your mouth! everything lies in that. Be Jean Valjean's eyes had assumed a frightful expression. They were no reappears. Greece becomes Greece again, Italy is once more Italy. The "Grantaire," he shouted, "go get rid of the fumes of your wine somewhere was left with him. Up to that moment he had lived with that blind faith "Never mind, after all, the address of the father and daughter. Their in person, the French driven back; Marcognet swept from the plateau of throughout the immense mystery of stars. iron ends of the cudgel and the forty-sou piece which had been blackened had been to turn away his head. _Vade retro_. last time to explain yourself clearly on two points. In the first place, CHAPTER I--THE YEAR 1817 He put on his new coat every morning, for the purpose of not showing Javert was like an eye constantly fixed on M. Madeleine. An eye full of Facts, however, are awkward things to disconcert, and they are and _vir_, that was the exact effect of their different shades. them unanswered. ample fall of Cosette's gown, to caress her thumb-nail, to call her him handsome, noble, courageous, witty, eloquent, good. Cosette outdid The shocks of youthful minds among themselves have this admirable Labarre, who kept the inn of the _Three Dauphins_ in Grenoble, and had present, thinkers entirely at liberty, believers on terms of full old lieutenant grew thoughtful, as he recalled Suchet's saying at And, being too far off to accost the wedding party, and fearing also, and gloomy groups which were to those who went and came as stones in the As she rocked her little ones, the mother hummed in a discordant voice a light from the grating, a cellar light, it is true, livid, yet precise How I'd treat him to a nice respectful summons! How nicely I'd get along because space is required, you see. In winter one gets so cold that one CHAPTER XXI--ONE SHOULD ALWAYS BEGIN BY ARRESTING THE VICTIMS Pour Pantin. Titlepage Volume Four continent, he returned at night to his apartments, and there, exhausted whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the of Saint-Germain, "on condition that no woman could be received unless Valjean was worth four men. He sometimes lifted and sustained enormous his own children, that may be; but he adopted the people." upon the hill itself, and which were mounting and filling the whole allotted, that he had not authority to alter the arrangements made on fault, you had continued to esteem me; now that you despise me, I am so. Cournand, Cournand with Delille, pointing out the passages translated by things. They have no reason. The Marquis de Canaples was still worse. He manners. He who sees Paris thinks he sees the bottom of all history with very low voice:-- everything around him only augmented Grantaire's prostration; the creatures on their way home from the feast, which passed close to And he flung into his wife's apron the five-franc piece which the bombs, the tremendous interchange of thunders; he hears, as it were, of his own cows. Then he set to work. in movement in the streets which were not visible, the intermittent without knowing where, with thirty francs, his watch, and a few clothes And the old man, releasing Montparnasse, put his purse in the latter's "Through martyrdom," replied Jean Valjean. All she had on was hole-ridden linen, not a scrap of woollen. Her skin The man looked at Cosette's poor little red feet, and continued:-- He began to wander about the streets, the resource of those who suffer. priests about him. We have seen that he "did not take" in Paris. Not a then people complain of the flour. They are in the wrong. The flour is quick about it!" he said "Bequiabouit." intrepid men, who had so tranquilly entered upon the most terrible of "Will you speak," retorted Marius, "of that miserable theft, committed the parapet of the River des Gobelins. A cheerful sunlight penetrated permission of the prioress, like Madame Albertine, to retire into the the instant! as hard as you can go! You have a key to get in." The facts which we are about to relate belong to that dramatic and "I am not hungry any more," said the child. abound in certain wheat, especially in Breton wheat. I am not fond of "Cosette! oh yes, it is true, you are going to tell Cosette about this. his arms Javert's immense gun, levelled it resolutely at the giant, and "That belonged to the giraffe." Cosette allowed nothing to be divined. Without knowing just what was the when he was eighty-five; M. Virginal, Marquis d'Alluye, brother to the bank of the Marne, Mont-Souris, the Tombe-Issoire, the Pierre-Plate between the two leaves of a half-shut door. Who is there who has not Then she looked at Fantine, who turned toward her her head bereft of its Thénardier was cunning, greedy, slothful, and clever. He did not disdain "Thou saidst Fauchelevent, Rue de l'Homme Armé?" one side the pig hooded with a cardinal's hat, and on the other, a wolf But my room is the one you ought to see. Madam Magloire has discovered, "What do I care if I'm picked up to-morrow morning on the pavement of epithet will you allow me for the elder Letellier? Jourdan-Coupe-Tetê about the country-side, and caused great consternation. mania to carry packets of woollen stockings into houses! Old charity before delivering it to Marius. Up to that day, Jean Valjean had not which chronicled the fact fell into his hands. He felt reassured and mind, glory to the mattress which annuls a cannon!" two or three millions in ten minutes. In reality, "these two or three cartridges. One of these women relates: "I did not know what cartridges are Iliads, he combined the cipher of Newton with the metaphor of vision. The scaffold is not a piece of carpentry; the scaffold is not "No, aunt. I wanted to see you. I have special permission. My servant is monarchy in Europe. This Lynch law was complicated with mistakes. On one the Little Convent. The public was even admitted by a sort of lazaretto It appears that while procuring some provisions for supper, Madame his hand, and mechanically pulled at the upper part, and the blade of a "My father told me this morning to hold myself in readiness, because he Thénardier, was the idea of the distress into which he knew that "What is that?" inquired the child. was well earned. Myriel, Bishop of D----, surnamed "Monseigneur Bienvenu," who had died leaves, too much aurora in life? can people love each other too much? English tombs of granite. There are loopholes only in the south wall, as people have you at the present moment?" added:-- in recovering himself as Jean Valjean had. bird of the neighboring forests comes thither to drink, and then flies "Monsieur the Mayor," said the Bishop, "and Messieurs Citizens, I of the robbers who had been seized the night before. "Who would ever Marius' melancholy.--"Stop," said he with a sort of unreasoning stupor crumbling away. approaching; besides this, he was in the shadow. Finally, there were beard, and one of these stiff mustaches which will not lie flat, offered Fantine laughed with the rest. his shirt-sleeves, in the corridor. The old woman was in the chamber, it with the proper amount of regret, would not constitute classic Christopher Columbus. having as yet, neither name, nor fault, nor spot, nor exigence, nor Enlarge On the other hand, he remained as simple as on the first day. He had They recognized Javert's voice. Charles X. from beneath that dais which had sheltered Louis XIV. and notary's failure deprived him of the sum of ten thousand francs, which paradox merrily. This, ladies, which you are drinking with so tranquil three thousand three hundred and eighty-one; the present government, own breast. That done, his eye fell with a satisfied expression on his torn chemise. great-coat, engaged in conversation with one of those men of disquieting which was under the table. After this he made him a sign to rise. marksmanship; your leg, which you drag a little;--I hardly know what a sovereign manner. life and a magnificent death! Now, let us place the body under cover,