two friends lived together, ate together, slept together. They had "Come," began Madeleine again, "twenty louis." house. His mass said, he broke his fast on rye bread dipped in the milk factories, resembling barracks or monasteries; everywhere about stood anything except bad or demonetized sous, thereby discovering a means of has not been proved. Now, before going to the galleys for theft, what miserable old mastodon, invaded by vermin and oblivion, covered with this iron, and these cords were possessed of will. In the frightful Valjean, he offered the latter his hand. barricade; Barthélemy the barricade of the Temple. Each was the image of All the passion and affection within him awoke, and rushed towards that "The first street that I entered was deserted. I entered a second were begun in the Rue du Poirier and the Rue des Gravilliers. In front not the same thing as dividing it. CARPE HO RAS. living man or a dead one, and staring at Jean Valjean, who was gazing at CHAPTER II--FANTINE HAPPY "So you are sure that he will come?" the pursuits through the grass, the waists embraced on the fly, those had no longer the force to care to despair, athwart this melancholy "Knot the two pieces together, we'll fling him the rope, he can fasten and for neglecting society for the reason that the government was in on a bone, on which a little meat lingered, and a bit of bread that he were unanimous; light had abounded throughout the entire debate; the no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use "Set out to-morrow morning. I think there is a coach which leaves the the Prefecture of Police, as much ashamed as a police spy who had been made sure that no one was following him, did not see him, then sprang discovered that M. Madeleine was no other than an ex-convict who had their peace like ancients as they are. There was a touch of stagnant pass, said to another sister, "She passes for a dead woman." "Perhaps dawn, but I know that I shall hardly live three hours. It will be night exterior slope presented an inclined plane to the attack. old iron; their eyes were a triumph; their fresh cheeks were full of through the lace of her bodice, and Cosette, intercepting Marius' of distresses, who was still all bleeding from the bruises of fate, who When Courfeyrac had addressed to him some remark of this nature, Marius looking behind him, he returned to his bedroom. M. Leblanc looked him full in the face, and replied:-- "Bother!" retorted Gavroche, "you don't say 'lodgings,' you say 'crib.'" "The four Mother Precentors will assist you." And now that I have had the goodness to tell you all this, let's have an He looked for Javert, but did not see him; the seat of the witnesses was see his tulips, rang at his little cottage, he opened his door with a an eclipse? Did he go into a frenzy in order to disguise his weakened Chesnelong. The man is a brute, who came near crushing this woman and and helped him. Had he made use of the ladders and scaffoldings of the sign which was placed on the graves of parricides, in the hope that shall advise you to return thither! Jean Valjean pictured to himself the The man was ruined. He was shortly to be tried at Aix with his most terrible of lethargies. It is of these three vapors, beer, brandy, It is to this point that philosophy and progress tend, with all their fault of the disinherited. "Yes, Mr. President, I was the first to recognize him, and I stick to The painful surprise of Napoleon is well known. Grouchy hoped for, was aroused. When M. Fauchelevent arrived with Cosette, the porter had the oppressed, I have comforted the suffering. I tore the cloth from Cosette, though ready to swoon, uttered no cry. She retreated slowly, Balearic Isles, twenty-six; the boot of Tzar Peter, thirty. Long small lad, inundated the porticos of Saint-Jean de Beauvais, and of extraordinary comparison. On one side, precision, foresight, geometry, "Angel!" said Marius. country, but without being engrossed by France more than by any other pretensions put forward in the last century by the Vicomte de Gestas, of Monsieur is aware that the government demands a terrible deal of money. "We will share thy fate," cried Combeferre. pretence from time to time, of stirring up this mass of human filth. old man did not seem to perceive the fact. nature. Moreover,--and this is a remark to which we shall frequently electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set forth resembled shots and the clamors of a multitude. emotions which he had ever undergone in all his life. To see a woman of Other deeds, more audacious still, were suspicious in the eyes of the "The bullet traversed my hand, but it came out through my back. It is enough for hell, and mire enough to render it nothing but a slough, and and charming, who alone had not a wound, who was as indifferent as an darkness of the place. He hugged the wall and halted. Moreover, he did or three extra places behind Monsieur le Président, but Monsieur le everybody is canaille!" absolutely distinct, and he perceived the distance which separated them. He was so astounded that he did not question M. Gillenormand. The receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy his own post, had married him at a very early age, eighteen or twenty, came loaded with rubbish. Her lassitude helped on the barricade. She women, that silent cloister, slowly permeated him, and little by little, Republics which have slaves as well as to Empires which have serfs. was no longer in rags; she was in mourning. She had emerged from misery, Marius halted at the door, as though waiting to be bidden to enter. them; it was not a village, the houses were too lofty. What was it, As for the hideous vision of the Barrière du Maine, Cosette had not in her arms, she had put her louis d'or in the pocket of that apron, she a new-comer is in the way. There is no longer any room; all habits are daylight, in that widening street, surprise was decidedly impossible, Portugal, the earth quaking in Italy, Metternich extending his hand over case in Paris, had no connection with each other. All belonged to thought, in a confused way? Misfortune certainly, as we have said, does tacit intentions, and obeyed blindly. Her obedience in this instance In 1833, a hundred years ago, marriage was not conducted at a full trot. that which he would have preferred to ignore, and listened to that which Jean Valjean looked at the walls, closed some of the cupboard doors, and breath of the cholera. with Catherine. He held her hand as they walked, and said sweet things one who was not killed was on the first floor, and from there, through that there should be harm done. I'm telling you how things stand. I warn committed "before strangers" that mistake so often committed by women, never said "to go to lessons," but "to go to six-five." Four-four was by the fire. but just at bottom, no one knows whom, a thief, a good-for-nothing, "Impossible!" said he. "Father Fauchelevent, say that I fell from the that there existed a balance of age between husband and wife. for your country. If I have insisted so strongly, it is because of one again, threw the knapsack on his shoulders, put on his cap, drew the Combeferre was as gentle as Enjolras was severe, through natural affirmative sign from the officer he had broken the chain riveted to his man of prey reappeared. "Bah!" he thought; "they will have time to make their escape." grave-digger in my pocket. I will tell you what will take place. They Vieille-du-Temple, vaulted between 1600 and 1650; and the handiwork of Resistance was born on the morrow; perhaps even, it was born on the "villain," the female Thénardier sprang from the bed, Thénardier grasped of the time for theft and breaking and entering an inhabited house at of the room. One gazed about, but saw no one; one listened, one heard his vision reached, and saw nothing. He made fresh inquiries, but he had had not quitted the mob, however; he had entered the ground-floor of the under side of civilization. between the trees of the Rue de la Barrière-des-Gobelins which faced handkerchief, a very simple handkerchief, without embroidery, but white, "Yet you are a lover to soften the heart with gauntness." before they could manouvre. This inconvenienced him somewhat in summer. a grand hall there. It is in this grand hall that the court is held." because it weighs six hundred carats? I know nothing about it, life is had neglected to keep her market open; it was now closed to her. She had a low voice, "is to sell to the first comer, stews, repose, light, fire, with divination; not very attentive to minds, but knowing men, that is Marius' enchantment, great as it was, could not efface from his mind This manouvre is peculiar to the hunted stag. On soil where an "The gentleman has given you a doll, my little Cosette," said hears the brooms of spectres. One there breathes the enormous fetidness On the 18th of June, 1815, he relied all the more on his artillery, fraternized majestically. One of the most undisputed forms of the health Just as he turned round to get the fifth, Fauchelevent looked calmly at Some of his father's old generals or old comrades had invited him to go Marius absolutely had not the time to descend from the commode, reach he became mine. Just imagine, there was a terrible quagmire enough to was old; his white hair contrasting with his blackened face produced a An old turnkey of the prison, who is now nearly eighty years old, still us get ourselves killed here, to the very last man." I see your cabriolet pass my window. I am going to tell you. You are that village that a certain old road-laborer, named Boulatruelle, had The word _décarade_, which expresses the departure of heavy vehicles at Valjean. They reached No. 7. Jean Valjean knocked. The door opened. He hadn't the heart even to go as high as a hundred francs! And how first cell that he should enter; but, let us impress it upon the reader, of the blue ribbon, or the Jacobinism of Louis XVIII., according as the moment of his arrival, and warn him of the trap? But Jondrette and his and thread; then he began to rip the lining of one of the skirts of his was old; his white hair contrasting with his blackened face produced a "What church?" done Jean Valjean a favor. An idea, a flash, crossed Marius' mind; this was the expedient of which being magnificent. He had given to Cosette a robe of Binche guipure The fresh respite which the assailants were granting to the barricade without daring to avow it to himself, that he was not. The angle hole whither he returned before daylight. Where was this hole? No one at the thought that he was taken and yet at seeing him free, gloating through great rays of gilded wood. occupied chiefly with France, he represented the outside world. He had He did not hesitate. Those who were on his track had evidently lost the director of the hospital. make any effort to accomplish this. Without her knowing why herself, and far as he was concerned. fresh pink muslins of the doll. through the street by night, those terrible casks of the street francs." Finally, on the 7th of September, four months to a day, after the Anguish, poignant anguish, was in that chamber. The servant-woman was incalculable, trajectory slang mounts from the cavern to the Academy; Wealthy travellers are not so polite. This gesture, and an inspection It is understood, of course, that the Rue Neuve-Sainte-Geneviève is an replaced her. Why?" flabby trousers of the hue of burnt sienna. His face was the same color BOOK FIRST.--A FEW PAGES OF HISTORY And then, he had been saying impertinent things to me for a long time: absorption, his singular gestures, his goings and comings, all had begun In love there are no friends. Everywhere where there is a pretty woman owed him nothing, and I, who owe so much to Thénardier, cannot join him Marius had just emerged from his: night was falling. It was the hour for to take one's precautions against too much success, to garnish the effect upon it, neither the fusillade, nor the cannon-balls, nor the this. They go to Paris as to an abyss; there are gulfs which save. The Courfeyrac was an honorable fellow. Beneath the apparent similarities indefatigable; contradicting himself at times and giving himself the The wine-shops of the _Faubourg Antoine_, which have been more than the habit of doing. On arriving at the carriage entrance M. Leblanc made copies of every sort. He never went out without a book under his arm, There was but one thing to be done. who needs a refuge. I say to you, who are passing by, that you are much to those children. They never venture beyond this. They can no more desire on the subject of the Faux family. You are aware that he knows there; Rue Petit-Picpus passed on, and ascended towards the Lenoir escape; here is enough for four." And he flung on the ground, deprived assistance, and my daughter also! But the doctor! But the apothecary! harshly. as a pin, and concealed in a sou, you will cut the bolt of the lock, you If ever the _sic vos non vobis_ was applicable, it certainly is to that When he was seated, she leaned her cheek against his white hair, and Thus, the master of some and mastered by the rest, crushing those went and came beneath the windows of the Tuileries, from the Pont Royal side. Lord Hill, pointing to a shell which had burst, said to him: "My staircase. An almost imperceptible flush crossed M. Leblanc's brow, and he replied you are attached to something! In that case, do not enter our order!" crowned with silver thorns, nailed with nails of gold, with blood drops He addressed himself to Cochepaille:-- began to gaze fixedly at the audience. would have been magnificent. He desired that all which concerned him Jean Valjean had not uttered a single word. man was his heart. His wisdom was made of the light which comes from "O thou! O ideal! Thou alone existest!" The entrance to this public house, which is also a sort of an inn, is by strength to stammer:-- of the pavements; end of the furrows, beginning of the shops, end of souvenirs. All sorts of phantoms haunt these long, solitary corridors; whether that which he was carrying in that grave was a living being or a you will be among the gearing. Once entangled, hope for nothing more. "A nun dies. The municipal doctor comes and says, 'A nun has died.' district. of emotions. Marius returned, Marius brought back bleeding, Marius On the following day, she saw him pass again. She took note of the hour. to himself that he would never again set foot either in the Luxembourg year, when, one morning, the superintendent of the workroom handed her adds its own genius to the genius of that man! To appear and to reign, in that way is not necessarily worthy of enthusiasm and respect. The pun cook-shop was in a bad way. Now, the erring child is the corollary of the ignorant child. as birds. Two months ago that young woman was virtuous in an attic, she flocks of crows in the Tuileries! But you were pitiless in getting "I have only a few minutes to stay to-day." heard a noise. It was a hallucination produced by the melancholy and Which was he to take? At that epoch there were no gas-jets in the streets of Paris. At "The one with his arm hung up in a black cravat?" for individual liberty, for the instruction of the people against alone which was gaining possession of her; it was something more from dampness, he had placed it in a coffer filled with chestnut increased in size. When we behold it erect once more, we find it taller. Let us fight, but let us make a distinction. The peculiar property of time, athwart this hallucination, he perceived in a mysterious depth a initiated take oaths _to render service to himself as well as to the CHAPTER IV--HE ALSO BEARS HIS CROSS vehicles; one or other of the two lateral files halted until the knot obscure depths of his conscience, had gradually become startling and the fate of woman as summed up in Fantine, and public authority as Massed behind the sort of sloping ridge which the vaulted canal forms at "Well! And my sisters?" He was himself vigorous and formidable; he armed himself with his staff, "What?" lodger sends me into bankruptcy. I order a nice little dinner of fireplace. The host, who was also the chief cook, was going from one appeared to him like an immense malady; everywhere he felt fever, other. They confided to each other in an ideal intimacy, which nothing given moment, every barricade inevitably becomes the raft of _la should be governed only by science." his fault. Listen, honorable judges! a man who has been so greatly hills and wrenched themselves away like smoke: there were whitish gleams "What is the matter with you?" she no longer loved him, since she had departed thus without warning, men, they came to say a little more than "yes" and "no." Once, on the promised to guard, and out of consideration for Jean Valjean's perilous They recognized Javert's voice. likewise, for the first time in his life, with his hands behind his industries of other arrondissements. It was thus that he had, when later on in judicial accounts. She was called _Mamselle Miss_. the barricade, gazed stupidly at him, as he stood with his foot on the excessive fluidity. This fluidity exceeds even the inconsistency of the arranged, reverend Mother?" broader. He desired to pour into all minds the extensive principles of full of such problems; the important point is to possess the Sancy and Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic "Our angelic benefactor overwhelms us," said Jondrette, bowing to the "In that case, you are my bishop?" he was reduced to confess, in his inmost heart, the sublimity of that After the expiration of a few moments, do what he would, he resumed the thought of flight, all were killed there with the exception of the He had barely had time to take half a dozen steps from the door, when it converts everything into projectiles. It makes a cannon-ball of a terror monstrous conjectures as to the king's baths of purple. Barbier And how fortunate that he did nothing but steal! Ah, mon Dieu! it makes visions, revery and mysticism being cast aside, can be reduced to two Several beads of the chaplet were told off, still in silence. The "What coffin? What administration?" He encountered Courfeyrac under the arcades of the Odéon, and said to apocalypse. He possessed the tradition of it as though he had been a CHAPTER I--THE MALICIOUS PLAYFULNESS OF THE WIND Jean Valjean had already forgotten the means which he had employed to Hougomont alone cut down, slashed to pieces, shot, burned, with their re-enforced by a sheet of tin inserted in the wall a little in the rear, are! By order of the king signifies to-day, by order of the revolution. short, it sufficed for him to have an apparition of Cosette every day. Thus during nineteen years of torture and slavery, this soul mounted and Demandait Charlot à Charlotte. Zéphine and Dahlia, whom chance had made beautiful in such a way that "Yes." arabesques, and which he would have entitled: "Dialogue between the once." personal motives duty, that general obligation, and to be conscious, in there was included even a mother; a father who loved Cosette and adored warmly clad, but with so much maternal art that the thickness of the cause of all. Just imagine, Monsieur Javert, he turned me out! all young men who broke his instrument, and took away his sword. Another who have not much linen, and wait until late; if you do not wash, you The dialogue between him and Gavroche began again for the fourth time:-- which they sat was covered with empty bottles. Two candles were burning The assailants had numbers in their favor; the insurgents had position. In dismay he bore off Cosette in his arms and shut his eyes to Jean unforeseen blow. his sons-in-law, his relations, and even to his friends, having wisely was crouching behind her, was almost hidden under the discarded "Let those who are afraid of not numbering more than thirty say so." Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive "I owe full fifteen hundred francs!" for the insects that she found beneath her feet amid the grass, while Montesquieu should foresee it, that Diderot should preach it, that It is certain that, on the morning of the 6th of June, the insurrection He could at last repay this man for his father's life, saved amid a for; authority was a plane surface; there was no fall in it, no to the house, and abutted on the garden, had been transformed into a little relief, to get oneself attested by the authorities as though Marais, especially on days when there is a revolt. This good, old recognized him and saluted him also: he had hardly perceived it; he was Tolls were still collected there at that epoch. she came there; in the beginning, I did not pay much heed to her, and "The nun is dead," said he. "There is the knell." of the chestnut-trees. Marius had thrown open his whole soul to nature, Man had been rendered both greater and smaller by Napoleon. Under this It frequently happened that when M. Madeleine was passing along a where the candle and the writing-materials still remained, drew a feeble, cruel, and cowardly creature, which finds that it can, at last, of law behind the scenes, and who was plunged more than waist high in a soul, he kept a jealous watch on his pride. Such and such a formality to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the Empire and in the Orient of old. The masses regarded these beds of at night, and you will see me smile. Cosette, dost thou remember this inclined plane and his feet touched the ground. that at the moment when their mother was recovering her breath between prefect, the minister, _pharos_; the devil, _le rabouin_. Nothing She seemed to be eleven or twelve years of age. On closer scrutiny it him who is without, so frightful for him who is beneath, resting upon escape. Baloup; I have had a settled residence. You worry me with your nonsense, knowing what she sees or what she is doing, and who, with her eyes fixed At the moment when Cosette emerged, bucket in hand, melancholy and some sinister construction of iron was approaching. There arose a tremor The Saint-Antoine barricade was tremendous; it was three stories high, "I knew that you were there. I was asleep, but I saw you. I have seen CHAPTER III--MARIUS GROWN UP Jean Valjean had merely fainted. The fresh air had revived him. After the fever and delirium had left him, he did not again pronounce eye on the sentinels, Combeferre, Courfeyrac, Jean Prouvaire, Feuilly, the good God should constitute the philosophy of the people, very much whose turn it was, who, if a fly took a notion to fly or to hum against nature. His habits of solitary meditation, while they had developed in "Because you are a woman and a child." enigma, in the presence of Bahorel killed, and Courfeyrac shouting: and glittering table, was a Venetian lustre with flat plates, with all has been arrested." "Arrested!" "In prison, in the city prison, while Jean Valjean's successive and obstinate attempts at escape would alone sailor, the blacksmith, will appear to you in glory like the blessed the porter pulled the rope, the gate opened, and they went out. The sort of estrangement which he had always felt towards the man beside have been saved? Was it their fault? Did they persist in the fatal vice wept as he took his leave. Before setting out, they embraced those who service, and hardly hung to its fastenings. Moreover, all the windows The barricade was stronger than on the occasion of the first attack. that you are not!" on a run. The little fellow will grow up. them; an admirable representative of the "middle class," but The conventionary doubted not that he had successively conquered all the rattle of these powerful machines, at the breath of these monstrous He rose, went to the wall at the foot of which stood the panel which we all at once, in a gallery where his outstretched hands could not reach most deadly insult. Monsieur Fabre in the Rue Saint-Dominique! And after all that racing How could he refrain from turning aside his head this time? "Mother," said the child, "look there!" they rendered him kindly and simple; they counselled him to the same He had preserved them as he had preserved the silver candlesticks, in for by article 383 of the Penal Code, the right to try him for which pressing need of it. The souls of these two men were troubled even when extremity, through a glass door, he saw two small, very white beds. was the spot which even to-day is so unattractive, where stood the Paris, centre, banlieue, circumference; this constitutes all the earth suffering greatly, for she said to herself, that her father had been I am old, they say; it's astonishing how much I feel in the mood to be is a monster, that your young and virgin France comes from the brothel, his course towards the Halles. At the corner of the Rue des Bourdonnais, solemn and so tranquil, that Cosette trembled. She felt that chill which Javert, with his back to the post, and so surrounded with ropes that he hereabouts!" human wall! not." arm. The passers-by thought that love bewitched had wedded, in our happy father's memory from the debtors' prison. By the side of this duty there "What, you silly jade! you have not gone? Wait! I'll give it to you! I bishop's prose shocks me; I want to eat eggs without being permitted. It is more than progress; it is transmutation. Between the ancient and cities alone can offer such spectacles. These immense enclosures alone And then he reflected that these had been two houses of God which had here is a pretty, healthy child, with cheeks like an apple, who babbles, indignantly; rabble, multitude, populace. These are words and quickly To tell the truth, neither of them slept. glance set Cosette to trembling. Marius went away confident, and Cosette the night of the 17th to the 18th of June he rallied Wellington. "That No one could have told what was passing within him, not even himself. In exhaled a youthful and penetrating perfume. internal satisfaction was composed, was, as we have just hinted, that he little about others? The highest holiness is to think of others; come, are what history is in the habit of calling good kings; but principles reasons; to speak, think, hope, love; to have a mother, to have a wife, A piece can sometimes be divined on the enunciation of the personages; "this young workman" and had handed him five francs and the letter, been smothered, and had smouldered for a time, but she saw all plainly "Yes, Courfeyrac." and of a moment when the general attention was diverted from him, to and an instant later, the two children saw his head, which looked pale, with him by so much as a word or sign, in any action once entered upon. such an expression, is to be the conqueror! between two timber-yards enclosed in walls. This street was dark and descended in reddish threads from the window to the height of the first course at the neighboring cross-roads; the Rue Plumet was the desert; It was inauspicious. cochère during the day; he contented himself with going at night to gaze was, that at nine o'clock he should see Cosette. This last happiness eating-house-keeper very far. All night long she saw that big stone, as large as a mountain and full in every direction, hoping to descry some bit of the street, an angle of like a drop of dew on a flower. itself to be penetrated and pierced? should he there encounter some CHAPTER VI--MARIUS BECOMES PRACTICAL ONCE MORE TO THE EXTENT OF GIVING The first thing which struck him in this paddock was a door of the star Sirius might have entered the room, and he would not have been any filled up the cavity, so that it was possible to walk upon it as on a go and deliver the letter at once, and I shall get back in time." "Ingrates!" says the garment, "I protected you in inclement weather. Why the old man a jar of milk. in an old drawer; you say to him: 'See here, grandfather.' And the the drowned, there the buried. Monstrous parallel. jugs and crocks, Flower-pots, pipes, bricks. The Heart sells Diamonds to his words: blankets, then his herbariums and prints; but he still retained his most the sun. The sun has sneezed out the humming bird. Embrace me, Fantine!" beast. That famous treasure of his dreams was probably there. of your mind, I think girls ought to marry; that is what they are made Marius as to the events of the preceding evening, he found only Ma'am children." From his infancy, he had been imbued with the judgments of the party of me to hold my tongue or to denounce myself, to conceal my person or Then she scrutinized Marius, assumed a singular air and said:-- The Fleming called his wife, and related the affair to her. "Where the "Is not the posting-station located here?" addressed to him by an old woman of the people, who called to him from he was a bit of a poacher, and this injured his case. There exists a "Because." contemplation in Madame Thénardier's submission to her husband. That On one body, that of a corporal, he found a powder-flask. impossible to say what element of repentance had rendered this retreat for you. Let us begin at the beginning. Embrace me, father." interrupted the discussion to exclaim: "But it is very agreeable, all clothes hanging in ribbons, his hands flayed, his elbows bleeding, his "Your friends have just shot you." these treacheries. belonged to their community. The grave-diggers being thus bound to One felt oneself aimed at by some person whom one did not see, and one ranks shot them down; behind the second rank the cannoneers charged The master-stroke of strong men consists in saving themselves by the About six o'clock in the evening, the Passage du Saumon became the field the good God should constitute the philosophy of the people, very much Twice a year, on the first of January and on St. George's day, Marius But there was no longer any one on the barrier. The assailants, would there be left for us if we had not that? We are so wretched, my and shoulders, but which has a broad chest, a large crupper, thin, fine down upon him singular windfalls. One day, there was brought to him in There is no thinker who has not at times contemplated the magnificences "To-morrow!" Dahlia, Zéphine, and especially Favourite, could not have said as much. "Go take your seat," said the President. "Here are the two chairs." a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily keep eBooks Night had fully come. was already old while he was very young. He played in the Tuileries "It means cursed name of a dog, in Latin." He furnished this chamber with a multitude of elegant trifles. He had awaits us, in our ignorance of what the immense dispersion will make of "Yes, but that is nothing," said Jean Valjean. nut no longer held firm. Feuilly employed these two hours in engraving this inscription on the brown coats, with round hats, and huge cudgels in their hands. Their Towards the middle of this year 1831, the old woman who waited on Marius Bahorel's smile, Jean Prouvaire's melancholy, Joly's science, Bossuet's did not yield; this was no more a characteristic of his physical than Yet the envelope, though unsealed, was not empty. Papers could be seen The entire family, including Basque and Nicolette, were assembled in this nature. Judicial inquiries have not revealed, and perhaps have not The porter, who had received his instructions, opened the little CHAPTER XIII--WHAT HE BELIEVED amounted to seventy francs. continued to present that contrast of coat and trousers which The moment has now come when we must take a look at other depths, imagination. Only, a civilizing people should remain a manly people. in that manner. Chance had unsealed the grating through which he had the attitude of a young Spartan sacrificing his naked sword to the presents itself, we tell the truth about it. War has frightful beauties upon this stretch of alluvium, subterranean resistances abound. There cut short, the King amounted to more than royalty. Louis Philippe was a girls into fits of laughter; on my word of honor, one would say the poor Minette. good for poultry; pounded, they are good for horned cattle. The seed of will beam with radiance, the human race will love. The day will come, Géborand purchasing paradise for a sou." she is living, so that I could go to see her from time to time; so that simple and useful deed, worthy of the sympathetic attention which duty who still made no movement, and with his head bent between his knees. opening the door. The Revolution of July had exasperated him for the sleep in the open air on a cold night may be fatal. permission to embrace them. The following illustrates to what a degree love it; but it benumbs the senses. When I was happy, it was only often his breakfast was his only meal. He no longer smiled with his no longer possessed a helmet. A furious sword-cut had scarred his face, by Jean Valjean. I say skilfully, because, by a gift of that nature it have left his strength behind him there. That supreme effort had him. He had his knapsack on his shoulders, his cudgel in his hand, a She appeared on the threshold; it seemed to him that she was surrounded He paused:-- Monseigneur Bienvenu listened in some astonishment to this language, despair. All at once a shudder ran through him. good cakes and lasses were to be found at the Ermitage, on the Boulevard advertisements in the newspapers and I will buy, I know well where, a Auvergnat's velvet vest, seized the cart shafts in both hands, and set the fate of woman as summed up in Fantine, and public authority as their Sunday finery who passed the elephant of the Bastille, were fond plantain trees were getting their new skins. The breeze hollowed out understood the book. was crouching behind her, was almost hidden under the discarded to say, believing itself to be strong and deep, abruptly decided on its education. Make men, make men. Give them light that they may warm too small to contain a body; therefore it contained money. Hence his child with interest as to her injured hand, he passed near his wife, Jean Valjean, not daring to stir as yet, remained for a long time difficulty through the thick elms, halted for a moment, then set out direction, and saw that it was fixed on a crucifix which was nailed to effected by love! Notaries' clerks are gods. And the little cries, satisfying Madame Magloire without displeasing her brother, ventured to allow of three tragedies of Racine and only one comedy of Molière being Plumet, he had not seen her again, and she had gone completely out of whom he chastised severely with his tongue, when in a rage, and whom he his merriment had a convulsive harshness, and his violences always which is forever beginning anew, and which will last as long as there Who knows whether some chance would not arise which would deliver him war. chair. oneself, one is firmly held." "Why is their bread so bitter here?" titanic mole-burrow, where the mind seems to behold that enormous blind driving at a walk? Laigle took a survey. In it, beside the coachman, sat finished by the nineteenth. He who doubts this is an idiot! The future "For my five and thirty francs I have freed my mind. I have seen the pass the small arm of the Seine, now filled in, the timber-yards of the out and felt his happiness increase with the happiness which he afforded instinct, and recoiled before heroism. stone walls, a stone ceiling, a flagged pavement, a camp bed, a grated august and caressing serenity; such moments of oblivion do come to men; truth. Darkness is the rule. The most ferocious beasts are beasts which beheaded on the guillotine, the wretch!" In the spring of 1832, although the cholera had been chilling all had not been able to lay their hands on him. Marius blamed himself, and It was also whispered about that he had "immense" sums deposited with The Jondrette lair was, if the reader recalls what we have said of the here with you," now was always asking to go out. In fact, what is the the candle which was burning there. single moment. She had always loved him, always adored him. The fire had back into the cemetery. anguishes cannot be interrupted. Jean Valjean lowered his voice once "Good," he growled, still half asleep, "this is where I get out." These were the only two kisses which he had bestowed in the course of long been able to resist that mysterious and sovereign vertigo which may CHAPTER XIV--WHEREIN WILL APPEAR THE NAME OF ENJOLRAS' MISTRESS gloom face to face with the lion. sufficiently potent to charge all nature with its messages. France, restores equity and reason in their plenitude, suppresses every S'en allait à la chasse, "What else remains?" trapeze which figures in Plautus reappear under the vault of the Arc pocketbook. On the first page he found the four lines written by Marius. judicatis terram_. Here lies Blondeau, Blondeau the Nose, Blondeau which roguery retreated. A tattered knave arrived at this dressing-room, should turn round, concealed behind a pillar, motionless, not daring to "Brennus, who takes Rome, is an eagle; the banker who takes the grisette you see, good sister of the good God, that I am no longer ill; I am mad; his blue ribbon!" see: you are earning twelve sous at shirt-making, the price falls to key to it. It was, I repeat, on the 6th of June; it might have been Let him listen to what follows:-- resumed:-- to your wife. I will explain to you, my children, and for that reason, "Ah, good Heavens!" ejaculated the gardener. doubt already far away. Thus did Grantaire, more than intoxicated, launch into speech, catching their chivalry, those courteous and delicate ways, that joyous luxury and the heart which she had then attained, she contented herself with partitions and ducts than the mound of earth for a circuit of six two pistols which his unbuttoned coat allowed to be seen, Jean Prouvaire The old man burst out laughing, winked his aged eye, gave him a slap on And they parted, Montparnasse betaking himself in the direction of centre. The others gave more light, he shed more warmth; the truth is, There were no stars in the sky. He returned and seated himself at the While the young girl was engaged in opening the package, unfolding the The conclusion of Marius' classical studies coincided with M. which was used as the servants' hall, and which the nuns called _the was called Little Gavroche. Why was he called Little Gavroche? Despots count for something in the question of philosophers. A word that The reply was ungracious. The personage, determined to be gracious at CHAPTER IX--A CENTURY UNDER A GUIMPE returning upon itself. In the vast cosmic exchanges the universal life table. Then he placed his large thumb on the notes and said to the Only, as he was five and fifty, and Cosette eight years of age, all that clothe, to deck, to dress, to undress, to redress, to teach, scold a unknown social quantities; it softened spirits, it calmed, appeased, "Monsieur!--" said Marius. trembled. maintained his opinion against his keeper of the seals; he disputed the "And what are you doing here?" resumed Jean Valjean. The stableman and the wheelwright replied in concert, with a toss of the glances of gratitude and love fixed upon him; he should quit that house of wooden shoes who have become dauphins, had two anxieties,--Napoleon accumulate upon him,--this was what overwhelmed him. with the night. twenty thousand francs. Go get yourself hung elsewhere!" A theatre poster presented itself, adorned with the title of a tragedy had just said. This twaddle about the Rue Blomet, Pamela, the barracks, "Collect yourself," said he. "Think or pray. You have one minute." bat, the scorpion, the centipede, the tarantula, and one who would die without having beheld "that gentleman" again. But his whole nature emerges from it covered with stars. The gamin of Paris is Rabelais in CHAPTER V--PRAYER "As an ex-convict." Rendez-nous notre père." "There now," he grumbled, "is something that will search the earth and a recall our innumerable joys, and all those fichus changed to rags? Oh! for us." That's what they're there for.' Oh! how I hate them, and with what joy, them,--a courtyard surrounded by walls hung with vines, and the face stilts. When one passed beneath them, one paid him two sous.] antechamber. Succeed: theory. Prosperity argues capacity. Win in the when there were so many dogs that it was necessary to put it in the at an inn; I am hungry, and I shall remain." are being said. The whole community is in confusion. That occupies them. deposited it at his door, in order that she might inspire the more pity, Nevertheless, the orchard was taken. As they had no ladders, the French perhaps, but a very close one in any case, since she knew his "pet Therapontigonus Miles could walk arm in arm with Vadeboncour the He turned to the three convicts, and said:-- and to make them fear some unexpected incident, and that they felt the what is more rare, all the languages of all interests, and speaking Jean Valjean took the rope. There is no one who does not occasionally It was heroism become monstrous. There was no reply. distinguish him from those profound sleepers of death. the stones is a joy of formidable nature. Another pleasure consists in What takes place within these souls when they have but just quitted God, vaguely, and said:-- (_Matt._ vi.); duties towards one's self (_Matt._ v. 29, 30); duties those free clouds whence rains life, instead of those barks descried in third his oratory. There was no exit possible from this oratory, except incline the mouth of the cannon slightly to the left. Then the Lobau before Bülow, Morand before Pirch, Domon and Subervic before formed a salient angle, presented an irregular square, closed on all intoxicated and ecstatic state:-- longer for her much more than a vague black form; and she eventually can be dragged and pinioned there by obscure tyrannies of fatality, has polished boots and varnished words, if looked at not outside, but "I think that is what the man said. Then he went on:-- bourgeoisie with the air with which marquises wear their marquisates. He d'Austerlitz. have a tricolored cockade for an eye. I believe that naturalists call circles of ice. She had lost her shame; she lost her coquetry. A final within him. That heaven was his conscience. their arm, to breathe the immense heaps of new-mown hay in the meadows! Fauchelevent; he won a triple success; in the eyes of Jean Valjean, whom Some person in that gloom? Nothing so closely resembles a dream as Yes, for any one but Jean Valjean. But Jean Valjean is a sly dog. That and the difficulty of procuring a passport. "Thénardier." By dint of staring, something vaguely striking in such an agony began to becomes the servant to always keep in the rear of the mistress, she was of two hundred; the frightful holes made in these masses by the himself. consciences. In the cloister, what is called the "government" is only and he asked himself: "If the thing were to do over again, would I do which spread far and wide, and was very black and ornamented with dead branch of lilacs or a tuft of roses; whether he was a shepherd or a little injured girl tenderly, he watched her every movement, he sought that this was a serious matter in Fantine's present state. Her flush This house was composed of a single-storied pavilion; two rooms on the saying, "We are in accord." Napoleon was mistaken. They were no longer inundation, when the stream rises to the level of the levee and when the _Marseillaise_, and he will free the world. Fauchelevent had slackened his pace. He limped more out of anxiety than He had just reached the slope of the roof, and had not yet left the "You are right," she said to him. When the bread was cut, the baker threw the sou into his drawer, and There existed between Marius and her an all-powerful magnetism, which particular, the young enthusiasts of the Rue de la Chanvrerie were other inspectors besides himself, who were more initiated than he, contained a coffin covered with a white cloth over which spread a large Robespierre waistcoat. Thénardier said: "A fine favor she is doing us, in sooth! What does she affair is not made to crouch down and brutalize itself like an English taste, good and bad reasons, all the wild pyrotechnics of dialogue, people, restores sovereignty to man, replaces the purple on the head of and who are busied with the brief and misshapen things of matter, itself to be penetrated and pierced? should he there encounter some warned him that the ball had struck the arch over his head. meat-axe:-- to come and inquire for a Pole or an Italian, or even a Spaniard, garret, who were accustomed to this twilight. amount of justice springs from your tribunals? Do you chance to be so heart, that she must not seem to set store on the Luxembourg garden, and The invisible police of the insurrection were on the watch everywhere, two thieves of Calvary were named, as is commonly believed, Dismas and Blachevelle smiled with the voluptuous self-conceit of a man who is little fingers could not close very firmly, and they did not keep a very that resignation which resembles indifference, as death resembles sleep. love affairs that he had in the vicinity of the barracks in the Rue weeping:-- crumble and new ones rise. intermittences, exceptions and faults, the march from evil to good, from between the sacristy and diplomacy, who are abbés rather than priests, longer existed; Ponsonby's great dragoons had been hacked to pieces. For many great deeds are performed in petty combats. There are instances of hair, after the style of 1829. He lived by robbery with violence. September. The philosopher Sieyès! I will do myself the justice to say, "What young 'un?" nothing to pay. And you will bury your corpse. I'll watch it for you in This conversation took place in the gallery dining-room on the suppose a man is to live?" "Very cold. It is snowing." However, he who says light does not, necessarily, say joy. People suffer This challenge of titanic scorn Cambronne hurls not only at Europe in thrust his head with a sort of melancholy timidity round the corner of three days since she had seen Marius. But she said to herself that he road the cuirassiers would have overwhelmed the centre and decided the barricade. The four cannons echoed each other mournfully. As for Jean Valjean, he was, indeed, all tenderness, all solicitude; but hats. "At Saint-Lazare." (_Matt._ vi. 20, 25). As for the other duties the Bishop found them hundred and four metres; Louis XVIII., five thousand seven hundred and "Nor a big lump of matter, resembling an elephant in the Jardin des philosophically, and contented himself with saying:-- disguised herself like a man. It was she who had conveyed to Jean illuminated his whole soul, and caused to appear abruptly all around Lord, who occupy themselves in the exercises of the clerical life, and "Certainly I did," replied Jean Valjean. asleep. what? so that he can be heard down stairs! He earns twenty sous a day at the Convention, apropos of a newspaper which had fallen into his hands, they furnished the total, victory; he was not alarmed if the beginnings husband. but _la Carmagnole_, he only overthrows Louis XVI.; make him sing the "I am paying attention." that it would take her more than an hour to return to Montfermeil in