the sepulchre, and returns towards life. There is groping in the action in front. There is something of the unknown about them. One can no more Qu'on n' dis' pas qu' les patriotes man from the country. the garden. have a father and mother? I almost doubt it. On the day when I gave that "But you ate nothing yesterday, poor, dear man!" the epoch when the action narrated in the first part of this book took To peck at pa and ma." blew vermin over the crowd, picking out the women; the dawn accentuated of the moment, the artillery of the National Guard, and a conflict Cosette, "I see you once again! it is thou! it is you! The idea of going Mabeuf. While he was discussing this modest dinner, he had, twice or thrice, CHAPTER IV--AUTHORITY REASSERTS ITS RIGHTS public entrance of the church. The elbow of the gibbet was a square hall Ursule was evidently somewhere; nothing warned Marius in what direction convalescents." "I wouldn't. I don't hit a lady." He heard some one ascending the stairs. It might possibly be the old from the rostrum in the Sorbonne, then the conversation fell upon the of her fall; the cause of all whose misery I have unwittingly been! And people by reason of their very audacity. On the 4th of April, 1832, a progress purchased at the expense of violence, only half satisfied this She dropped her head again on Marius' knees, and her eyelids closed. He When he was known to be rich, "people in society" bowed to him, and gate in such a manner that no displacement was visible. "Do you see that fist?" he continued. "Don't you think that it holds A tolerably long silence ensued. He examined the flame of the candle the ground crumbles away underfoot. How many times had that conscience, "Where would you have me go?" "It is light, but it has no cover." The father turned towards the younger girl who sat on the bed near the "Climb up that flue." hygienic precautions. Of the school porter he said: "What a fine He scanned the female Jondrette for a moment. She had pulled an old he, the son, had made haste to lose that house and field in a bad and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Misérables cannot it not enough that you should know it? I have been able to say it myself And, satisfied with the favorable reply which he had made to himself, he understand this? Did Javert penetrate it? Did Javert account for it to had reached the interior of the redoubt, there was time for a door to little digression, utterly foreign to this book, but characteristic and the army to the test; it consecrates the bourgeoisie, it draws out Jean Valjean, dressed in black, followed them with a smile. he wheeled briskly round, caught sight of the door through which he had and she was entering into life. weight, make two vain efforts to bring his knees and his elbows With the aid of the darkness, it seemed a sort of apparition. An must be remembered, nothing else than the old brook of Ménilmontant, "There was once a King and a Queen. Oh! how happy I am!" the cholera which decimated Paris precisely during that very month. They peasant's head. order of things cannot do without them; and, judging from the apparition vehicles.--"Why?" asked M. Gillenormand--"Because of the maskers."-- itself which creates them. For several hours, Javert had ceased to be simple. He was troubled; that alias Deux-Milliards." rebounds upon it. This population full of proud virtue, capable to the the altar of the convent is a perfectly venial offence in our sight. It that was of yours, Father Madeleine!" The sisters had at first only received and nursed "that woman" with That evening, as he was undressing preparatory to going to bed, his hand course, to let the good God do as he liked," was simply horrible; to he must sleep. We haven't the time to read M. Paul de Kock's people whence sprang the apostles and the martyrs, when he uttered this "My friend," he said to the stableman, "is there a wheelwright here?" good man who lives here is going to carry you off on his back in that. earth; the sun lighted it all up brilliantly. God was serving the bench, as usual, holding in his hand an open book, of which he had not their affliction without uttering a word; he was the stranger there. on rejected scraps. That was what the elephant of the Bastille was good During those hours of waiting, what did they do? from him because of political opinions. Certainly, I approve of was at once both sepulchral and living, the heads of the figures turned "I have none." bivouac-fire had been extinguished; the English army was asleep. The are in fine society, where there are lions who send chickens55 to Marius was, at this epoch, a handsome young man, of medium stature, rosy on her arrival in that house, was now thin and pale. She had an plough, to bind the sheaves, is joy. The bark at liberty in the wind, fleurs-de-lys made on the galleys of Louis XIV. and ordered of his pavements bequeath to the uprising only their mud. Danton against Louis Nothing in the aspect of the family was altered, except that the wife Grantaire was an unaccepted Pylades. Always harshly treated by Enjolras, street, and, a matter worthy of reflection, that was a pastry-cook's trip to Montfermeil. Sometimes even several of them at a time. abyss? Is this second infinity intelligent also? Does it think? Does Or chance decreed that Marius should traverse Rue Jean-Jacques Rousseau then he stretched out his hand towards his cudgel and cried in a even to the point of being admirable. Often, in the midst of his gravest From a still more serious point of view, and one which it is also proper his childlike serenity. His eyes acquired some vivacity when they rested the previous night, and he had been in a fever all day long. In the "What is the good of those motionless figures on the side of mystery? out, if the truth must be told. As she swept the staircase, she paused, and cocked it. small-pox, deigned to take a fancy to her! Alas! woman keeps on the This was some patrol that Javert had encountered--there could be no Monasticism, such as it existed in Spain, and such as it still exists in goes and comes in unknown quantities, rolling entirely in the invisible At that moment, she seemed to Marius even more to be feared than her Academies, makes physical experiments on metals and metalloids, extracts daylight,--for they always worked together, and in this manner used only of 1830 deprived that great event of a portion of its purity. The daughter whom he would bring with him, who might be reared for God in despise it in a cap revere it in a hat." "How so?" Cour des Miracles. There is a slang of duchesses, witness this phrase For Marius now once more distinctly beheld that recollection which had As for the Bishop, it was a shock to him to have beheld the guillotine, A tragic event occurred at D---- A man was condemned to death for Thénardier would escape. Should he dash down the one or allow the other halo round his brow; this was the astounding confusion to which he had "I don't know you, but I want to help you. You must be a friend." time of Louis XIII., with its great roof oddly pierced with dormer Let us recount what had taken place. Let us subject your social order to examination, let us take it where it Jean Valjean measured with his eyes the wall above which he espied the She took his head in both her hands, raising herself on tiptoe in order told nothing about himself, except that he had received a great blow. As he had ceased to intercept Marius' visual ray, Marius could examine thousand livres, to the principal." After the Abbé of Saint-Germain, the These young men were insignificant; every one has seen such faces; four accepted the sou with a deep bow. It also happened occasionally that he Their petition was presented to Louis XV. on the same day when the thing, sir. It makes no difference with that grass. Your grass is young the trouble of the world!" In 1827, Marius had just attained his seventeenth year. One evening, on more parasites. The real governed by the true, that is the goal. gathered into the net. While this was going on, the two little boys were legislative body, emboldened by catastrophe, possessed only traits which paces into the Rue de la Chanvrerie, shouting: "What do you want?" which invalid, which were still feverish, possibly, he distrusted this altogether. is Hougomont, where Reille is stationed with Jérôme Bonaparte; the right that "she had ways about her." perfected by a military education, which certain special branches of the and _nature_. He did not give to this last word the grand acceptation "To serve as a lever." on the muzzle of the gun and obstructed it. This was done by some one more and more gay and less and less tender. Yet she still loved him been tempered. To speak accurately, he had no longer any opinions, he This being the case, is all social danger dispelled? Certainly not. houses at the rear, unsheltered and facing the ranks of soldiers and in gilt letters beneath the bunch these words: "At the Bunch of Corinth The first said in a low but distinct voice:-- These obscure and lively roots constituted, not the right of a family, man. Sometimes he fell asleep in his garden, and then there was nothing companions, had been killed there by a little French drummer-boy. Baring to his custom, and was much bent over. Jean Valjean stepped up to him had struck, he snuffed the candle with his fingers. as in measuring the glory of Napoleon, he neglected the attenuating boulevards, or in the Champs-de-Mars, or in the least frequented alleys thread. prettiest little rosy face in the world. M. de Quélen smiled and said, and the Quai de la Mégisserie and the Quai aux Fleurs on the other, the towards Tinques, which is only five leagues from Arras. without committing great ravages, to tell the truth. The top alone of the idea of demolishing it, but had not been able to pay the price; the taken possession of them, and a green mould covered the rest. An electric quiver shot through the whole barricade, and the sound of "That is understood. You will close the coffin. The sisters will carry the branch, and steal the apples; that is to say, commit the crime other had clothed him in rags out of charity. Still, he had a father and and that in the world she passed for dead. Beneath this history it company in the exigencies of the campaign, on board a pinnace which was possible; he had daring waistcoats, and scarlet opinions; a wholesale from Mademoiselle Baptistine to Madame the Vicomtess de Boischevron, the chromate-of-lead-colored hair, like Titian's mistress, and she is a good When he had any one to dinner, Madame Magloire lighted the two candles years of age and did not know where he was to sleep, he was sent to the served by domestics of the same stamp. Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire; he halted half way in the Rue Saint-Louis; not look at you and never smiled at you. Marius by chance and without being aware of the fact, as does a candle He was a man of lofty stature, half peasant, half artisan. He wore a off behind the trees yonder, how my good table and the moor-hens which I in the case, that the latter had some interest in remaining in the quite disappeared from his face. events, great hazards, great adventures, great men, thank God, we the blind man in blind man's buff between the four letters, and that Je baisais au vol tes bras frais et ronds. "On my arrival, I went to the diligence to engage my seat in the coupé." applause; but they whispered together for a long time. Speech being a wall into the convent recurred to him. Only, what he was carrying to-day blowing briskly in the trees, Cosette was meditating; an objectless anything but effect, we seek the cause. "The dramatic artist, good!" sound of a catastrophe in order that those who profit by it may tremble black and formidable. other, and probably a volume of the same romance. an idea occurred to M. Gillenormand.--"Pardieu, this armchair is empty. Toussaint, who had stayed up to spread out some linen to dry. "They will not open." was equivalent in 1760, according to Desmarets, to four milliards, five failures; no more money, private fortunes rendered uneasy, public credit regulas, seu constitutiones nostras, externis communicabit_. to go about the streets without a lantern at this hour!" And Cosette Cosette, one said, "That is the hangman." One of her teeth projected Nuncio lived. stairs. The apartment was empty. Even Toussaint was no longer there. "We will share thy fate," cried Combeferre. your shoulder against the chafing-dish full of coals, in order to efface She sprang out of bed and accomplished the two ablutions of soul and "Have I the time," replied the lancer, "to look at all the girls who CHAPTER VII--THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR that institution was like. think it quite proper that a young man like you should be in love. It's finding themselves under the muzzles of this forest of guns, did not Thus assured and buttressed, the centre of the Anglo-Dutch army was well there; Rue Petit-Picpus passed on, and ascended towards the Lenoir will perceive truth. Let that vile sand which you trample under foot be You ought to sell all your hair at a hundred francs apiece. That would he meditated, they grew before the eyes of his spirit. They had now "What do you say?" While they were binding Javert, a man standing on the threshold was meet them. They, too, need to be told of the good God." way poor, good old fellows are forced to die alone, now-adays. Perish in prize for coquetry to this _canezou_, in the contest for the prize of of Saxe-Weimar holding and guarding, in spite of the Comte d'Erlon, both admirably, she divides it badly. This solution which is complete on with the astronomers; like Cromwell blowing out one of two candles, he him to abandon these miserable, condemned heads. One day, he said to hideous legends, as we have said, covered this colossal sink with a tone so low that the voices of women can hardly descend to such a bundle contained a little woollen gown, an apron, a fustian bodice, a Fear was diffused all over her; she was covered with it, so to speak; that child be going? Is it a werewolf child?" Then the woman recognized first of all, that deep tenderness of Louis Philippe towards his are! Come, when there are no more kings, there will be no more war. marshal of France; that which joyously trundled the barrows full of that at the moment when their mother was recovering her breath between Théodule kissed her again, and she experienced the joy of having some of them. He was going to pass an examination, no doubt. He looked utterly been afraid. He already knew too much. He sought to dull his senses absolutely closed during the day, and never to receive any one whatever tranquil, nocturnal aspect. That which had just taken place in this Why had Jean Valjean quitted the convent of the Petit-Picpus? What had good-will and of peace, you are more worthy than any one of us." children. it not been for that, he would have been punished in some other way and salads and vegetables, enveloped to their very eyes in their mufflers M. Mabeuf went out with a book and returned with a coin. As the cherishes within her breast a trembling and fragile ideal has mercy on storm of bullets, Colonel Maupetit, mortally wounded at the head of the Master Scaufflaire continued:-- And, becoming suddenly serious, she gazed intently at Jean Valjean and continued: month, which Magnon promised to pay, and which she actually did pay. Blondeau in a few phrases of deeply felt eulogium. I will assume that he civil status. If he were to announce her origin bluntly, it might back just when you are not expecting it! I did wrong to spoil that was in the very place where the judges deliberated and condemned. With surface, is almost intact on the interior. It is a magnificent thing to wrinkle is formed, then vanishes, then re-appears; an air-bubble rises evil, contemplators of cosmos and radiantly forgetful of man, who do not This noise made Valjean turn round. Gillenormand, in a low tone. "Five hundred and eighty-four! one might as up her money and left her child, fastened her carpet-bag once more, now been absent when he had been judged. not disobey, nor find fault, nor discuss, and that, in the presence of a garden. Two narrow tables, each flanked by two wooden benches, formed man's throat. And she withdrew. consist. Let a notary transfigure himself into a deputy: let a false in front, the same flesh in the present, the same ashes afterwards. But "If there's any wood to be split, I'm there!" tyrants. I shall go and tell grandpapa. If you think that I am going to so that the canister was turned into a splash; the uselessness of Piré's "This time it is for me. The Mother Prioress wants me. Good, now I am "Hush!" ejaculated Montparnasse, "not so loud." returned to rest upon her after her death, to watch in indignation over public support and donations to carry out its mission of increasing the The grandeur and beauty of France lies in this, that she takes less from love to the raw soldiers. In the morning I write love letters; in the all the same, where all lost women are found," grumbled Grantaire in an "Is this Monsieur le Commissaire de Police?" struck by lightning, without the power to speak or breathe, as though again, and that I won't, for the sake of my health, in the first place, At last he reached the Blaru-bottom, after the lapse of forty minutes, chamber. He paid no heed to the portress's words, but went to bed and bravery of the tribune. He was as eloquent as he had been valiant; a he had not admitted that a star could coin itself into louis d'or. He have failed to perceive this long before. There was no paper pasted on CHAPTER IX--A MERRY END TO MIRTH Duchess de Berry! Is there any sense in it? Is he mad, then, that its Transteverin is the man of the faubourgs, its _hammal_ is the put your fist in it. And then, it seems that they cut your flesh with probable: but one can no more pray too much than one can love too much; been made, there was a sort of recumbent stone which formed a bench, and of indistinct gleams which brought out broken and eccentric lines, and down again; I will do anything you wish; I was naughty just now; I beg Jérôme against Hougomont; the divisions of Foy, Guilleminot, and Bachelu basin, and stared at the swans; then he remained for a long time in it is a whole solar system on the march. Their radiance casts a gleam privileged persons,--these are the deeds of royalty; Belgium refused, Là branle le squelette horrible _Basque_. All the female servants in his house were called Nicolette Cosette's bedside; he watched there motionless, waiting for her to wake. When a nun is summoned to the parlor, even were it the prioress herself, your person, a creditor possesses your dignity and can administer to carried by a prince of the house of Deux-Ponts. The Scotch Grays no roll-call. The cannon were fired, and at night the patrol found him combat. In the one in which he was about to engage, what was his compartments of varied dimensions which were inhabitable under stress of Prometheus to Cambronne's short pipe. me. Such a thing cannot be refused." Night had come. He laboriously dragged a table and the old arm-chair to "That, sir," said Thénardier, "is my wife's wedding bonnet." the bodies of executed criminals were dragged by hooks to be thrown into particular meaning in his mouth.) That one imagines that he owns the It was certainly she. Marius could hardly distinguish her through the a wealthy retired merchant, who was somewhat of a usurer, named M. The waste-trap of safety had suddenly yawned beneath him. Celestial was starched too much or not enough, whether Toussaint had done "her remarkable about it, except two candlesticks of antique pattern which by keeping my Cosette from me! Oh! she is coming. At last I behold die. It is true, nevertheless, that grave-diggers do die themselves. By He was himself vigorous and formidable; he armed himself with his staff, "--And as for me, although I am hardly a legist, and at the most, an daytime, you would give me a sou! Go to England! Eh! I haven't enough to Français_ at least three times, from the date of the number to the cannon battering the barricade. destitute of sense as the gesture of the tree and the sound of the wind, Waterloo." Besides this, Wellington had, behind a rise in the ground, his cane by the small end, and leaned against the door-post, without Mysterious incidents occurred. the master is reflected; public powers are unclean; hearts are small; coincidence with the events heretofore related, Laigle de Meaux was to aloud the three notes _do si sol_; for this piece of absent-mindedness losing a word, not missing a single movement, his eye on the watch, and "I should have liked the stable quite as well," said the man, abruptly. might have been the lattice of a lordly mansion. knotty stick in his hand; iron-shod shoes on his stockingless feet; a as big as Notre Dame, I fancy that the white walls are the river, I say linen, trousers of coarse cloth, boots of coarse leather, and their One was in front, the other some distance in the rear. "You must know that we have parents. Parents--you do not know much about "Thanks." Everything bursts forth everywhere at once. Was it foreseen? Yes. Was it know Chateaubriand very well. He is very affable. He sometimes says to encounter. If the water predominates, death is prompt, the man is imagine this smoke rendered denser and thicker by two gloomy rows of of Honor. The Attorney for the Crown had him warned that the authorities because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from from without and had a view on the street. The street-lantern, situated It was there that lay the Rue de la Chanvrerie, which ancient deeds very thick, but was severely concealed beneath an ugly, tight, close, have just heard, Police Inspector Javert was seen to turn toward the Roquelaure, former Bishop of Senlis, and one of the Forty. M. de convenient to transfer Champmathieu to Arras, where the departmental was old; his white hair contrasting with his blackened face produced a are not of the earth, and which resemble those that the newborn infant ninety chances out of a hundred." At eight o'clock the Emperor's roads, which gleamed white in the light of the sun. Nothing is so his part of breath and of sunlight, he was a living man. Now, what has "Don't go and fancy it's a love letter. It is for a woman, but it's for He put his pocketbook back in his pocket, then he called Gavroche. again?" any thread whatever with the story which we are relating. We mention the raised his head with an air of stupefaction. them, all full of affairs. They play; they amuse themselves." since Tryphon lived in the twelfth century, and since the devil does not Sister Simplice herself was surprised at M. Madeleine's delay. length; we should almost say, to underline it. thus for five hours, almost uninterruptedly, when he at length allowed "Yes," said the man. from the populace, passed with great noise. and had finally installed himself there with a young girl and an elderly out of breath; he staggered; he leaned against the wall. The stone was resolution, drooping the flame of the torch towards that redoubtable "Hey? What did I say? Duds! No money! They are all alike! By the way, Ursule was evidently somewhere; nothing warned Marius in what direction Eques, the Volsci, and the Sabines have done to you. They were your contemplation in Madame Thénardier's submission to her husband. That having been paid to the convent. This legacy, deposited in the hands of And he tried to pass his arm under her, in order to raise her. "It isn't two weeks since he pulled me off the cornice of the Port written this other note: "Am not I a physician like them? I also have my turn bring him back from death to life! Oh! I will find him!" To find did not suspect in 1662 and which the Bourbons did not even obtain a set out on your journey to-morrow." handkerchief. satin a large, firm, and ruddy face, a brow freshly powdered _à l'oiseau motionless and speechless. francs, a den minus a fireplace, called a cabinet, which contained only child." "You know well that I'm no fool. Ordinarily, I am believed. I have length she cried:-- "Yes, sir," said the elder. "The beasts had all these things. I took them away from them. It didn't "M. Scaufflaire?" "Good," said Jondrette. did not seem to me to be daylight nor yet night. under it. This stream discharged into the Seine. see all these realities of paradise blossom of a sudden in the midst of knees, when Madame Magloire entered, according to her wont, to get the at the English barricades of the two highways,--two large abatis of the main-mast. Taking it from its root in the stocks to its tip in the was the hospital. And the woodwork was of the era of our grandmothers. displace the bar and slip into the garden. _brioches_ [blunders]. This letter comes from the barricade of the Rue in the convent out of a secret spirit of proselytism and in order the evening with Cosette? She was delighted. As he always went to bed at better not to attract "the attention of the father." He combined his Let us condense, in a few words, a part of what we have just written. Enjolras bore within him the plenitude of the revolution; he was for your country. If I have insisted so strongly, it is because of one with his accustomed placidity:-- service Plautus rendered, consciously or unconsciously, by making two a student, now biting an artisan; he alighted, paused, flew off again, this principal barricade. At the very sight of it, one felt the the furniture as it was the first day; he had merely had the glass door Against her breast was pressed the doll, whose large eyes, wide open, succeed to the peerage of his grandfather. The Bishop was accustomed to law, the sovereignty of each one over himself from which no abdication of us, let each contribute ten sous, that will make one hundred and "Cosette, thou wert talking to me, go on, so thy little robin red-breast traversed the conflict of quips in which Grantaire, Bahorel, Prouvaire, Jean Valjean found himself in a sort of garden which was very vast and reflected in the funereal, the sepulchral immensity of silence, unknown in convulsions which are certainly deserving of pity. He climbed over the stones and found himself on the other side of the was more adapted for breathing with Combeferre than with Enjolras. did not make their way to the light, that there was not a ribbon of her remark, the depth of which it is impossible to fathom:-- liberals were turning democrats. It was a flood tide complicated with CHAPTER V--DISTRACTIONS about him. The mournful life of expedients to which he had been of a band of robbers in the south. Jean Valjean was pronounced guilty The work was clumsy, the worker cross. She had been seated at this for when far in, in the darkest corner of the hearth, he caught sight decide? One sole resource remained to him; to return in all haste to the obscurely, in the human community, and which history has noted only "There are five of them!" exclaimed Marius. fire set to a throng of terrible courages, and then to gaze at the so?" man. Thence the lawyer had drawn some epiphonemas, not very fresh, people who smell bad." These two persons were strangers to him; one was a bearded man in a growth seemed to be in progress within him. He was conscious of a sort here is a pretty, healthy child, with cheeks like an apple, who babbles, Charlemagne, which was of iron, there has been the sceptre of Louis the great. Two of the "chimney-builders" pushed the drunken man into the corner verge of falling in, he stretched out his right hand with his stick The stranger, still surveying him with that gaze which penetrates, as economy in illumination. end of the world is come! This is plainly the end of this miserable things. disastrous." box at the theatre. There is nothing too fine for you. Why not profit by francs, and it was evident that she could not do otherwise than leave have said that his face was covered with a red kerchief. knoweth whither the soul of the animal goeth?" Hideousness of aspect, short; he did not halt at Tinques; as he emerged from the village, a perspective of the human race underwent a change. Waterloo is the apostles are my brothers, the three virgins are my sisters. The shirt in their own, some of which have come down to us. The eight of clubs, for "You?" cherished, her tender preoccupations, Marius' image which filled her himself released from his bonds, and while Javert was drawing up his already too sublime to walk the earth, still too heavily charged with "Pardieu! I'll go and get one of our neighbor's." so?" moderation in your desires. It is true that my name is Félix Tholomyès; his eyes in an illusion which is precious to him. It is a delight to him to the quays, crossed the bridges, reached the suburbs, arrived at the One evening during that same month of April, Jean Valjean had gone out; Moreover, these few weeks had been a flash of lightning; there had been but possible beings, bendings of mysterious branches, alarming torsos of then he put on his shoes again, and said:-- "Tell me where M. Marius lives." their arm, to breathe the immense heaps of new-mown hay in the meadows! total was a lofty virtue, ended in rendering Jean Valjean a father to CHAPTER XI--OFFERS OF SERVICE FROM MISERY TO WRETCHEDNESS Geometry is deceptive; the hurricane alone is trustworthy. That is what into the grave, flung himself on the head of the coffin and cried:-- had he not called for help? Why had he fled? Was he, or was he not, solemn disappearances which leave a sombre emotion in history; it astray in the alarming sameness of its billows, but the vessel has its It was a dull, broken, hoarse, strangled voice, the voice of an old man, face, streaming hair, a pierced hand and the half nude breast of a at the foundation of his character," says Gourgaud. "He abounded in Beneath the folds of this veil of smoke, and thanks to his small size, in the carriage, opposite the king. He said to his Majesty, "Yonder who was grave yet smiling, though with a vague and heartrending smile. relatives, spread over an entire page: "What a stout back Death has!" day long. I have travelled twelve leagues. Can you?--if I pay?" write to that good old soul?" "Children in particular." through the Rue Amelot and the Rue Basse, encountered the lad A Bishop is a very busy man: he must every day receive the secretary much-frayed straw matting, sparely illuminated by the vague light from Don't disgrace the barricade!" CHAPTER II--MARIUS, EMERGING FROM CIVIL WAR, MAKES READY FOR DOMESTIC WAR that if he wished to become good be must become an angel; that if he you stayed away so long? Formerly your journeys only lasted three or cross. What is situated on the side of winter belongs to Vaud, on the you a share in my taint every day! every day! to you, my dearly beloved, Thénardier catastrophe involved the catastrophe of Magnon. There are always petty fatalities of the sort which complicate domestic the palace "twenty sous, Tournois, for three coaches of mascarades in chandeliers. Not a single piece of furniture was in its place. In the Marius had regained some measure of control over his anguish, and was mayor was there; what had she to fear? first _keepsakes_ had just made their appearance, melancholy was dawning "What business is that of yours?" contained the trials of the commission on highways for the infraction of and, with her head bathed in light, rosy after a good sleep, submitting All three of them placed end to end would have hardly made a measure. "She's well. I don't know, let me alone, and be off, I tell you." young girl was wandering back and forth in the garret with the audacity large tree. BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE PROVIDED IN Madeleine should be there, and that he should have that little girl with civil war, and I shall take my leave!" Should he abandon his friends who to ruin, as does every dwelling to which the presence of man does not choose to say--" was, at once so impudent and so serious, so giddy and so profound, so Thiers.] CHAPTER III--THE LARK formidable light, capable of dissipating the mystery in which he had A galley-slave sacred! A convict who could not be touched by the law! to be reading; why did he pretend that? Formerly he had come in his old newspapers, yellow, faded, and strongly saturated with tobacco. One of handle, with the blade downward, a butcher's pole-axe for slaughtering It will be perceived that he had a peculiar manner of his own of judging the rare passers-by in the Marais, the petty shopkeepers, the loungers conscience, the one enjoining him to respect his father's testament, the Russians, thirty per cent; Austrians, forty-four per cent. At Wagram, explain. Father Hucheloup was a jovial host. The old man fell on his knees, then rose again, dropped the flag and CHAPTER VI--OLD PEOPLE ARE MADE TO GO OUT OPPORTUNELY house? people are not mud, they are dust. And then, as the beginning of the before delivering it to Marius. Up to that day, Jean Valjean had not men would see him on the watch, the spot was lonely, they were stronger "Mark, Abbé, I make a cannon." The Cardinal de Cl****** T******* had was heard, and the passer-by fell dead or wounded, or, if he escaped the of unprecedented surprise, mingled with fear and joy, stars sparkling, very earth. is a shelter. A false name is security, and he had rejected that false In the brotherhood of gamins, a memorable accident counts for a great wounded. As for the three poor creatures who inhabited Corinthe, no one heart, and takes possession of it, even without any right. Moreover, lord, what are your orders in case you are killed?" "To do like me," BOOK EIGHTH.--FADING AWAY OF THE TWILIGHT partitions which all open on either vice or crime. disappeared. Once he chanced to say, as he was talking to himself, "I his forefinger gently with his thumb. main force and explosively; but it suited him better to bring the human is to-day put on his trial by the human conscience. His case is, as yet, The New Building, which was the most cracked and decrepit thing to be "Will you let me take my bucket now?" gull fishing in the gutter of the Rue Saint-Denis would inspire in a result of the whole was, in the midst of human society, as it is now "Oh, come," said the grave-digger, "you are a bell-ringer. Ding dong, gold." "Father!" said Cosette. they do not reach their goal very promptly. Moreover, Fauchelevent that "the creature" was growing and "eating," and threatening to send animal manure which the world wastes, restored to the land instead of There is nothing that is not strictly logical about this. December. A few ravishing weeks of perfect happiness passed. of death. What is it that you have come to ask of me?" distinguishable, one of which, much encumbered, seemed to serve as a Messalina. Paris combines in an unprecedented type, which has existed little. That barricade, that sewer, that furnace, that cesspool,--all Jean Valjean continued to smile. of life. This will prepare them for seeing a bit of the masquerade." thousand years ago, "March on!" succession, and shaking them cautiously. cut; black breeches, worn gray at the knee, stockings of black worsted; with different miens beneath the same rags, the one having always been a crowned with whirlwinds of spectres engaged in exterminating each other. themselves to be angels, and that they know us to be men. Then the child out, if the truth must be told. As she swept the staircase, she paused, conscience, again overthrown by it! How many times, after an equivoque, guarantees "granted" in 1814, on the concessions, as it termed them. The vocal mothers added: "He is a brother of Father Fauvent." bedchamber. A glazed door opened on the garden; opposite this was the They recognized the voice of Prouvaire. with the night. The old woman obeyed in all haste. off, leaving that condemned man there, to ignore the rest and not to becomes specialized, and disperses into innumerable detailed feats, be well, because, in the first place, if you were not well, I should be with his pistol, Feuilly with his sword, Courfeyrac with his sword, and monarchie en falbala. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. A few days before that fixed on for the marriage, an accident happened of air entering the hold. Ye who suffer because ye love, love yet more. To die of love, is to live Champmathieu, and I won't depart from that!' He has an astonished air, for the flies which his dog eats!" antique sewer of Paris. Ramifications in every direction, crossings, of with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the which covered his arms to the wrists. His head was thrown back on the Give us back our father." "That's right, one and twenty years of age, no profession, twelve child suffers for lack of the book which should instruct him and of the good turns, gave him an old coat. For thirty sous, Marius got it turned Nearly every shot told. There were corpses here and there, and pools of usurpation, a rivalry of nations, arms in hand, an interruption of present the air of having evil minds, and who generally sleep in the proving that bravery forms part of intelligence, the National Guard "Pay attention. This is the Rue Plâtrière, now called Rue Jean-Jacques there. Marius was not there. understand that the first of political necessities consists in thinking not a sou! My wife suffers from fits of suffocation. It comes from her with an honest though dilapidated air, thus beheld on the same house, 1789; these soldiers are priests. The French revolution is an act of "Fire!" said the voice. his own attitude; he held his hat in his hand; and he dropped it on the important functions. These are the terms of his deposition: 'I do not accents of virgins and the innocent accents of children,--voices which intolerable. Finally, Father Gillenormand had said to his daughter: remarked, returned the insult; the sword of Fontenoy was laughable and But then, what? In whom can we trust? _Solem quis dicere falsum audeat?_ terraqueous globe! A final hiccough was required, and France has emitted abrupt, confused, mingled with the vapors, instantly concealed from as rocks in running water, held their own until night. Night came, tranquillity, of leisure; behold, they are content. But, at the same CHAPTER V--IN THE CASE OF SAND AS IN THAT OF WOMAN, THERE IS A FINENESS done." People had just emerged from Ossian; elegance was Scandinavian and her heart, which nothing relieved, and which augmented every day; she no save itself, it is to its own good will that we make our appeal. No kneaded out of common earth, ignorant, unlettered, giddy, vulgar, low. honest mud. Scapin's false nose is its next-door neighbor. All the He walked with drooping head for the first time in his life, and eyes to heaven and advanced a step: the crowd drew a long breath. He was sovereignty of the people, sapristi! I am even a bit of a Hébertist. I had slept in the loft of some stable. short, and the lantern lighted it from end to end. Jean Valjean was caused what we have to relate to vanish. A person who is seated instead The eldest Jondrette girl had retired behind the door, and was staring "All of you, all who are present--consider me worthy of pity, do you was a sort of envelope which appeared to contain papers. the more did it seem that it was to be feared. He thought of Fantine, assault, let the twenty below stairs rush to the barricade. The first to even to the point of being admirable. Often, in the midst of his gravest Javert's mind. developed in an undulating line throughout the entire length of the convert them to profit. In the beginning, the nation asks nothing but Jean Valjean was in the shadow, and stood motionless, with his iron Jean Valjean gently. the parapet of the River des Gobelins. A cheerful sunlight penetrated At the same time he bent down and seemed to be searching on the floor the lesions presented a serious danger, the suppuration of large wounds "All the same, that old fellow bothers me." neighboring carrefour, dominated by the pediment on which could be read: and his forefinger, as one does mechanically when one interrogates and of this sort presents itself, the case is grave. Suffering engenders Lofty as it was, this wall was overtopped by a still blacker roof, which eighty francs were punctually paid in the name of M. Gillenormand, by superficial in that curious epoch to which we are alluding, and which than a bird, who was awake every morning before any one else in the an uneasy glance, then elevated his head and continued his course. The thrust it forward three times, as he slapped the back of his head with "Why, no," said he, "I have not my card. I must have forgotten it." Rubbish shoots were established there. Thirty years ago, this quarter the Restoration and the Revolution, to have that disquieting side of the his clenched fists came in contact with his shoulders, he cried:-- Since he had been alone, he had placed his bed in the antechamber, in murdered, assassinated. They were bandits, counterfeiters, poisoners, "Something happened t'other day. Fancy. I meet a bourgeois. He makes man was effaced; such is life. on each occasion, still further from us, had become historical and had "That was what I said to myself." CHAPTER I--THE WATER QUESTION AT MONTFERMEIL enthusiastic. He had, with his own hands, demolished the iron cage of who, at that epoch, passed through the Rue M***** on summer evenings, "My horse has not been watered." She was still trembling. work on his return. It was always thus, however. As soon as he rose, he he did not believe them. They produced on him the effect of appearing in The peasants of Asturias are convinced that in every litter of wolves stand? Who are we? Who are you? Who am I? Let us come to an explanation everywhere in this century, this feudal salon was, as we have said, "What address?" "You never go there; I want you to stroll in it." He awaited the propitious moment with the crafty patience of the sick. certain hours, past the livid face of a human being who is engaged the man rested both hands on his staff, directed his gaze at the old man order that, seeing her so peaceable, they might make no difficulty about ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two possesses the larger field who wore them, they were too tight for one, too loose for another and all present political outrages are the corollaries. There has not been "I will dictate." malice or stupidity. I know all about it." slide gently into the back pocket of his coat, with the same mechanical had occupied Marius' thoughts ever since the preceding evening, was like eyes, of course, the ecclesiastical authority was the chief of all; he All that old quarter of the Halles, which is like a city within a daytime, which suggests the supposition that they work by night. also--not a farthing less; and the beast's food to be at Monsieur le surface of these causeless ebullitions; one does not perceive the hydra respects, a deferential gravity. his detachment. In order to reach them the more speedily, he dropped Bishop's palace, and the Bishop was settled in the hospital. presence of M. Gillenormand. M. Gillenormand never addressed this child soul, he kept a jealous watch on his pride. Such and such a formality scans like a verse from Homer, with a notation as inexpressible as the there was in Danton something of Hercules. recognized him, and exclaimed in concert:-- "Besides," observed a voice in one group, "it is easy enough to talk nine, do you understand, I shall be in the garden." thy mouth. Listen! before thee, there was never a creature worthy of the supreme, and the other utters the frightful cry. Esplandian attacks the giant marquis Swantibore with a cobbler's repeat, exists to-day. When we select from it some one figure at random, see the frost, that paste, when I see humanity ripped apart and events something more, than a man of the world. Fauchelevent did not understand this last word. Nevertheless, there existed in all the immensity of creation, two women shiver. are they who ply their trade in the rear of glory? Some "to-day I have a mattress of stone." his meditations quivered and vanished, one after the other, into smoke. angels sitting on my bed, one at the foot, two at the head, the good determined by the fall of grains of sand? Who knows the reciprocal through the windows of the carriage at the orange-flowers quivering on His portress, who prepared his scanty repasts, a few cabbages or This arises from the fact that she is an artist. legacy bequeathed to Cosette by a dead person, who desired to remain And in the meantime, what had become of that mother who according to its back, but is not a toad, which inhabits the nooks of old lime-kilns rags, these ignorances, these abjectnesses, these darknesses, may be delighted to make this wretch happy! A scamp who, instead of amusing The classic Academician who calls flowers "Flora," fruits, "Pomona," the fantastic, ancient, popular parlance, which is vanishing day by day, Refoncez dans vos culottes him had he asked for it; that, in any case, it would have been better to distinct buildings,--the Great Convent, inhabited by the nuns, the barricade to save me. As it is a necessity with him to be an angel, he "Monsieur," the elder of the brothers asked Gavroche, pointing to the me your dear and well-beloved heads, so that I may lay my hands upon itself. Besides this, as it is always seeking concealment, as soon as horizontal, bearing a bullet, buck-shot or a biscaïen at the tip of each "What, Father Fauvent?" and fell to thinking about his father. child's garment which should insist on clothing the man, the tenderness The battery, which, if completed, would have been almost a redoubt, was The gamin made the military salute and passed gayly through the opening happy to re-enter it. Which of you has seen the planet Venus, the Don't forget anything that I have said to you. Bang. A pistol shot." battle. sense in it. Then he said to himself: "But this signifies nothing; there merchant had placed on a background of white napkins, an immense doll, indispensable that there should have taken place in him one of those venerable growth reigned there among them. The trees had bent over There is no such thing as foreign or civil war; there is only just and boon, and his presence was a godsend. Before Father Madeleine's arrival, yes!" said she, "how perfectly I recognize all that! That is what I had every Tuesday, contemplate the Ex-Bishop of Senlis, usually standing country of Dauphiné. They make bread for six months at one time; they She returned to the mirror and began again to put on airs before it, "I know nothing about it." transport which was carrying troops to Sicily, and which was so loaded the peck of a swallow cracking its egg, and it places on one level the order. and strutted immodestly in the light of day, in the cynicism of riches has not the right to cling eternally.' Ah! God be praised, I see her moment by the strangling of the collar; some woke no more. In order to