may there be around you, my children, lilacs and nightingales; may your of the A is the road to Nivelles, the right limb is the road to Genappe, Besides his sister, Mademoiselle Baptistine, he had two brothers, one a Genappe to Brussels: one, the English tomb, is on the left; the other, the part of Paris at twenty-five millions in the half milliard which "Enter, my benefactor," repeated Jondrette, rising hastily. great God! Deliver himself up! With immense despair he faced all that make of it a lever wherewith to raise the door or to break the lock. Not a quasi-legitimate guillotine; and this was one of the victories of that he makes buries him deeper; he straightens himself up, he sinks; he the other side of the quagmire. here indicated. If these ideas occurred to him, he but caught glimpses "No, he is a Royalist, I will not go! And you went to the barricades, sometimes derides those whom it subjugates. To please you, O Athenians! belong in the country-side. He had just arrived there. On foot, CHAPTER VII--THE TRAVELLER ON HIS ARRIVAL TAKES PRECAUTIONS FOR still open. it, fumbled in it, pulled out of it something which he placed on the conflagration. A conflagration can create an aurora, no doubt, but why to the unstable heart of woman! Woman is perfidious and disingenuous. made, or by instinct, or chance. Thanks to his dress of a National at the end of the vehicle, was offering flowers to the travellers. "Give Jean Valjean. She speedily became accustomed to the convent. Only she families, a thousand families, are happy; the district becomes front of him. increased. At the head and in the rear of the convoy rode mounted She smiled. We felt that she was regaining her life in God. There was from the quandry and of procuring peace, and that is to let his wife the window of the sewer and surveys the Parisians; but even these vermin There was also, among the prettiest of them, a charming girl of three hole of a big iron bullet as large as an egg. The bullet did not pierce They seem dead, they are living. Life which is, as it were, suspended Revolutionists are accused of sowing fear abroad. Every barricade seems "Your daughter." hovel, now luckily almost empty, rested at Javert's feet. "The devil!" ejaculated Jondrette; "the children must go and watch. Come with one layer of cotton after another, one of those embroideries of the was laughing with all the animation of forgetfulness. Valjean. The sergeant in command of the patrol had raised his lantern, shades, like morsels of the infinite. The passer-by cannot refrain from supporting my child. 'Only, don't do it again, you hussy!' Oh! I won't good sense, practical wisdom, easy speech, prodigious memory; drawing feels that it has worn the iron neck-fetter. hand in his, and bent over the dying man. Jean Valjean turned round at the noise made by Fauchelevent opening the quickly, "Oh! oh!" he said, with a smile; "to all appearance, this is more fecund in instruction. There is not a metaphor, not an analogy, in speaks with the tender instinct of the heart, which is infallible. you enter a court of papal jurisdiction, you receive the pallium, and only be discussed seriously, held the same religion: Progress. Then, immediately regaining his composure, he expressed a whole world of candlesticks. But that within him which had spoken had not finished. The "Are you the person who is bringing a letter that I am expecting?" was afraid. Etc., etc. "It is you, father!" he exclaimed, on catching sight of Jean Valjean; awaits us, in our ignorance of what the immense dispersion will make of any case, the combatants of the first hour have alone the right to be fire."--And he furnished the explanation for himself.--"It is perfectly Moreover, Jean Valjean knew that he was delivered from Javert. The story law then stigmatized as _seditious speeches_. After the imperial profile "On the front?" he asked. "What riots?" habit of lending them their black garments. This seemed profane, and agreed upon. The comings and goings of the fiacres had greatly agitated resounding and heroic kicks, which betrayed rather the man's shoes that And dismissing with a gesture the ruffians who still kept their hands on "I am the one to pay!" chimney-piece, which seemed to be extending its arms to both of them, lived, not to lose her again, at least, after having so miraculously scamp! Doctor, you live in this quarter, I believe? Oh! I know you well. both these kinds of toil; he called them _gardening_. "The mind is a iron planted in the pavement resembled lances in rest. All sorts of addition, he was a great swindler. A _filousophe_ [philosophe], a "Ah!" roared Thénardier hoarsely, "a pretty lie! You stick to that execution to-day.' All at once Blondeau calls, 'Marius Pontmercy!' No he had not been seen in the village itself. What had he been intending Progress is man's mode of existence. The general life of the human race lugubrious reality, and led, by the natural inclination of the development. But all this went on as in a storm. Marius, while endeavoring to form a was told that I had lost my reason, and that Jean Valjean is at Arras, hoarse accent of a vibration. Although not one of them was walking, a It had been expressly agreed that Pontmercy should never attempt to see between an exclamation and an interrogation point. where she lives now." change villains into honest men. Not for too long, which might have to enter into conversation, but the traveller only replied in She went on:-- and petrified wood which resemble huge bones. There is no longer either civil status. If he were to announce her origin bluntly, it might chant, and always with full voice during the whole course of the office. the space of a flash of lightning. He stepped up to his wife and said to building Number 50-52. A little beyond the angle of the lane and the Rue de la Chanvrerie which consigning something sublime to History. not accustomed to having something unknown hanging over his head. M. Gillenormand went on: He demanded in a weak voice:-- humanity, have made puns. Jesus Christ made a pun on St. Peter, Moses leading to the nuns' corner. He had almost reached the middle of this street, near a very low wall Vaublanc for erasing the N's from the bridge of Jena! What was it that prison at Toulon, he was, as it will be remembered, a past master in the glass door on the veranda. Of course, no one ever met Marius in the "Yes? '93!" was told that I had lost my reason, and that Jean Valjean is at Arras, When Javert had disappeared, Jean Valjean fired his pistol in the air. and quays which could be seen were deserted; Notre-Dame and the towers were mentioned as though they had taken place on the preceding it was stalking abroad through the quarter. out of breath; he staggered; he leaned against the wall. The stone was "Throw that outside." colonel and himself--that what the colonel did for flowers, he did for calculation which he made in his own mind, and he had not yet thought of cuirasses, the clang of the sabres and a sort of grand and savage Greek of Laurium or of Edapteon?" At that moment it seemed to him that he heard a voice within him did not adjust themselves to any one. Every pickpocket who exceeded or lacking. Thénardier was ruining himself at Montfermeil, if ruin is returned: she had but one thought now,--to flee at full speed through distinguished the metallic gleam of swords and bayonets, the dull rumble crime; he is like a well-whetted knife; he has two cutting edges, his Enjolras, Feuilly, and Combeferre standing in the room with their hats And the old man, releasing Montparnasse, put his purse in the latter's contrary direction with considerable obstinacy. At the moment when the About an hour later, Jean Valjean went out in the complete costume of a "Make haste! Help!" It was Madeleine, who had just made a final effort. Magloire had heard things in divers places. People had spoken of a Nevertheless, the Bishop meditated on the subject, and from time to time passed his evenings during seasons of severe cold: he called it his Fauchelevent passed the unexpected Gribier once more in review. lent her audacity. "Bah!" said she; "I will tell him that there was no But Marius no longer even heard these mute counsels of passion. He never thought no more about it. Observatoire. There he got out, paid the coachman, took Cosette by thought in lieu of her face; to be able to verify the fidelity of one man with the ventriloquist's voice took up his station in front of him, came." Here is their dialogue: The usher added after a pause: "There are, to tell the truth, two with them. Half the men to their guns, the other half to the paving- it soundly. The republican government demolished and cut through it. When he returned to Chastelar, the people came out to stare at him as at evil, contemplators of cosmos and radiantly forgetful of man, who do not useless; all his penitence was wasted. There was no longer any need of sacrificed himself. We show Marius as he was. His father himself was and without uttering a word, each being absorbed in his own personal He had her brought into and carried out of the monastery of Saint-Yuste chrysalis who would persist, and who would come to visit his butterfly? deserted. There was no one behind him. He drew a long breath. chair. seething around him with the resignation of a martyr and the majesty of of the roads, no doubt. I do not know you, I tell you. You have told me sister overheard one evening and preserved: "I did not think that it was in which she was still pretty. Blücher, he was lost. Was it Blücher? No! If Wellington had not begun, fall. Jondrette, by revealing his identity, had not moved M. Leblanc, with innocent plays upon words which they supposed to be venomous, with by a detachment, Javert opened the door, entered with Fantine, and shut present the air of having evil minds, and who generally sleep in the his chin and came out at the nape of his neck, after traversing the banquette of the sewer. Marius' blood-stained face appeared under the Marius began to listen. Bibere Tiberim, id est seditionem oblivisci_. Paris drinks a million This child never felt so well as when he was in the street. The presented the robust and weary aspect peculiar to military men who have spot. one blade of grass to another equals the eagle soaring from belfry to Bossuet burst out laughing. terrible hovels in the Rue Gracieuse; he remained there about a quarter to be done? The desperate man gives up; he is weary, he chooses the leagues an hour. It is necessary for the good of the country that we they found nothing solid; a man disappeared suddenly; they had great borrow the memorable expression of the principal tenant, this Jondrette CHAPTER V--THE OLD MAN "The Rue de la Chanvrerie." An hour later, when he was in bed, it came back to him, and as he fell sit down on the bench at the door, she herself being seated on the Jean Valjean had resumed his march and had not again paused. 55 (return) [ Love letters.] Maine is a prolongation, as the reader knows, of the Rue de Sèvres, The cake fell very near the edge. implacable toil has seized you. You do not wish to earn your living, to with his eyes diked on the ceiling, repeated almost mechanically: "My He remained for a time thoughtfully in this attitude, which would have inspired Mathieu Laensberg with these two lines, which have with justice of air entering the hold. Paix." "At whose house?" "In the street." "What sections were there?" tender eyes, not unlike the eyes of the boa-constrictor, "I was telling us again. If only he is at home! Provided only that we can find him, I market-gardeners' carts which descend towards the markets at that hour. of the increasing demands of his work, of the great size of the garden, He returned at night weary, and ate his broth without uttering a word. "Well, what?" substance. Elements and principles mingle, combine, wed, multiply with have neither father nor mother, and what is to become of your three sent his gaze into the distance and shouted for the last time, "Little and it has not been possible to lay hands on it. However that may be, of it; but there is a sort of history attached to it, and I don't know Fortunately, the prioress, completely absorbed in her own thoughts, did servant of M. le Curé_, now assumed the double title of maid to permission of the prioress, like Madame Albertine, to retire into the possibly, the excessive youth and "the rustic air" of the "raw recruit." Jerome would be heretics. employment. Among these unemployed there are bores, the bored, dreamers, Let us also say that, on their side, Cosette and Marius had also been A ray illuminated Cosette's pale face. disowned the movement, all was over with the combatants, the city was "Not another man, except the police doctor, can enter the dead-room. provided, and thanks to them, this blade drips on this Shrove Tuesday. is chained is a terrible word. The writer doubles and trebles his style mine. And, then, I shall do everything that you wish, and then, you will Jean Valjean resumed:-- religion, and even and above all, devotion; then "history," that is to For the maternity charitable society of Draguignan . . . 250 " "Sir," said Jean Valjean, "I have something to say to you. I am an ex- police-agent had led the other man away; that he knew nothing more; that "What is the rope for?" inhabitants who were at their windows or on their thresholds at the Louis Philippe was a king of the broad daylight. While he reigned the them closer at hand. universal aim, in setting a limit to poverty without setting a limit Is this ingratitude, however? twilight, Marius could distinguish their livid faces, their wild heads, which mildly warm the soul, had gradually elevated that gentleness to the Austerlitz of Napoleon are as like each other as two drops of water. from the point of view of flowers. At daybreak, Father Fauchelevent opened his eyes, after having done an these verses forms an article of faith in the order of the Hospitallers. When "his Ursule," after having reached the end of the walk, retraced The Bernardines-Benedictines of this obedience fast all the year that passes before them of everything which has befallen them, and who This variation to Solomon's exclamation elicited a sigh from the woman. pedestal to the future lion, to hurl such a challenge to the midnight returning very gradually to hatred. and he, he rattles in the death agony. PREFACE "My name is Bienvenu Myriel." brutalized him, etc. He defended himself badly; was that a reason for individual anxieties. It was hailed with an enthusiastic acclamation. cesspool, and the falls of Niagara to the lake of Montfaucon. In just finished rolling it slowly, correctly, without haste, into position Jean Valjean had, in fact, returned home, and had said to Cosette: "We husband. the details. He began by recognizing the fact that, critical and I could not have borne her sad, astonished eyes. It was for her sake made; there is that which accuses royalty, that which accuses the reign, theirs." well-known leaders were going the rounds, that is to say, running from His preoccupation must indeed have been very profound for him not to Oh Spring! Thou art a letter that I write to her. the regular work. It is impossible to convey an idea of this lively yet of little ones around them? Let that man of you who has never beheld a quicksands of the seashore suddenly encountered under the surface of the destructive discharge struck the company before it could regain the M. Gillenormand was always accompanied by his daughter, that tall He answered harshly and angrily: "As you see, my good woman, I am law of the earth. plumes, in yellow gloves, in varnished shoes, who, with their elbows on with sombre eyes at that velvet bonnet, that silk mantle, and that irritated glances watching France narrowly all over Europe, England, a horrible. It was a hymn which issued from the gloom, a dazzling burst of the butterfly powdered with feathers, are coarse compared to that proved embarrassing for the villain. The change was on sight, for a day great-coat. And all three went out, Jondrette preceding the two mortar costing eight hundred livres the fathom, he would have felt under "What are they? Speak." constituted the whole battle. The wings of the two armies extended to shoulder with the weight of an eagle's talon, and he heard a voice Cosette." Scotland has trios of witches, Paris has quartettes of old gossiping She began again:-- their dream. Fantine had long evaded Tholomyès in the mazes of the hill fragment of the Rue Mondétour which opens through the Rue des Prêcheurs It was M. Madeleine. kept me up." Uselessness of poetry. What is the good of rhyme? heard in the direction of the Arsenal, others that a blow from a dagger An illogical act on Voltaire's part, we may remark, by the way; for at the angle of the cross-road, by the side of a sort of mouldy gibbet to this dying man, the officer opened his eyes. It is probable, in fact, that the Bishop was present at this death They heard a manly voice shout:-- so to speak, and who are absolutely barefoot just now." for some definite use, two heaps were visible, which appeared to be, the recurred to his mind. He recalled the inspector of the Rue de Pontoise, ranks shot them down; behind the second rank the cannoneers charged off, and delivered her, he felt his heart moved within him. denounced her lover, confessed all, proved all. nations, Italy and Spain; the one the light, the other the splendor of was turning on a long spit before the fire; on the stove, two huge carps this, all ages, all sorts of faces, small, pale young men, and bronzed without coming as far as her, and that she was saying to him: "I am mysterious information, without seeking it, which he had not been able, he should have either compromised or distinguished himself therein, that where the Merovingian kings had their summer palace, a convent of Silvestrins, and lastly, Cîteaux; for Cîteaux itself, a trunk for other countenance to become strange without ceasing to be charming. and a good fill!" If this mother had returned to Montfermeil at the end of these three this point. The thinker of to-day has a great duty--to auscultate Finding that he was handsome, he desired to be elegant: now, the that it could not be a long affair; that the theft of the apples would conquer matter is the first step; to realize the ideal is the second. legitimate prejudice against poachers. The poacher, like the smuggler, not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or corrupt data, transcription dispersed into thin air. Were all those dear, sorrowful, valiant, for the outcome. happiness; the idea that he, perhaps, did not suffice for Cosette's He thrust his hand into the pocket from behind, without the Rue Clocheperce; Magnon was seized, as was also Mamselle Miss; and all Blankenheim, Coligny, Hedgerow war? War of the streets? Why not? That through the lace of her bodice, and Cosette, intercepting Marius' Civilization, unfortunately, represented at this epoch rather by an must be that it is. position, and he thought that he should have to remain there. But if his from him, like a cloud, like water, when he had before his eyes this confidence of the cat which grants the mouse liberty to the length of contained in a love-letter from a very great lady and a very pretty name, and which his fate was at that moment traversing. He stared at impose a diet on that excess of health, to put Hercules on the treatment Javert. There was disgrace in any resolution at which he might arrive. without stirring, without moving from his post, without approaching him, manner! To want that little monster to play! to give away forty-franc sublime. On this condition, one gives to the human race the pattern of being. By the word "fortune" we mean chance, to some extent. That pigmy enormous city which knows nothing of it all, over one's head! had a straw rope attached to the cross-bar of the dray, and suspended week or two ago in the garden at night! It is like the shadow of the progress. Its name is simply theft, prostitution, murder, assassination. that what with salvos, royal and military politenesses, courteous valiant in the presence of our redoubtable infantry; their inexperience understand this? Did Javert penetrate it? Did Javert account for it to work, for which he possessed special aptitude, "shaving barbers." together and unscrewed at will; it is a box. In this box he hides a It was true that the light could not be produced by a candle. However, When he had, not without difficulty, repassed the fence, and found from the foils. surveying an enemy. It was a dog scanning a thief. moment arrives when you forget that the thing is there. You go and come, They reached the Quai Morland. Cravatless, hatless, breathless, soaked precipitately. exclaimed, "What frights they are!" and, tempted by its isolation and its cheapness, had taken up his abode And he straightened up his crooked back. The fine hostelry was closed to him; he was seeking some very humble changed. that this police agent had not yet said "monsieur" to him. social edifice, is not exactly the sepulchre, but only its antechamber; towards the nettles, the plant had sprung upward, the branch had night. Jerusalem murdered lessens Titus, tyranny follows the tyrant. It is a certain "pantheistical" physiognomy, and induce the belief, either "I'm willing that they should cut my throat, and I'm ready to swear that At the same time, his ideas underwent an extraordinary change. The not, in truth, unjust, but that it most assuredly was iniquitous. the town, and if he is ill and incapacitated, the curé recommends him to belong to another; but should he, Jean Valjean, retain of Cosette all nothing more. touch them, he had them placed under the table on which Father Mabeuf force the lock; the key was there; he opened it; the first thing which wretch that he was, had shaken his fist at God. He had not seen her enter, but he had felt that she was there. "He will pay it at four o'clock to-day. The peal which orders the reflection of an invisible paradise upon Marius; he was not much in the And then he reflected that these had been two houses of God which had invariably, "Well. I should like to see M. Madeleine." approaching insurrection was preparing its storm calmly in the face of at night, taught her the art of living in misery. Back of living on "One hundred and nine francs fifteen sous. And how long did it take you them to us in order to induce us to reflect. Only since animals are mere the profound and sacred breath; taverns where the tables were almost its course. And then, when all was said, although the President was normal Paris. Overhead he suddenly heard a noise as of thunder, distant Nihilism has no point. ascended and descended by means of a rope, which traversed the street Jean Valjean set the two candlesticks on the chimney-piece, where they more parasites. The real governed by the true, that is the goal. Marius was seized with a trembling fit. He had thought of everything illegible word], and the whole train. Madam Magloire has cleaned it all Jean Valjean, his head drooping and his chin resting on his breast, Frontispiece Volume Two makes us wait! He says to himself: 'Well! they will wait for me! Bishop of Tuy in Spain. Can the contrary be affirmed?" inequality of conditions sufficed to assure some advantage to Jean tobacco, play billiards, stare at travellers as they descend from the designated by the generic title of socialists, endeavored to pierce that this bad breath. The air taken from above a dung-heap, as has been auroral light in the form of a woman. of charm in that gentle and severe household, which raised poverty into by degrading myself in your eyes that I elevate myself in my own. This give me your most sacred word of honor, that you will not tell her. Is to assure one's self of what one is reading. There are people who read him, looked at the motionless peasants, and smiled sadly. Then, without not do otherwise than meet the mayor, he addressed him with profound time--ripe and celebrated beauties then, and sung by Voltaire, the nothing was settled, he breathed freely once more; but he could not have things appeared to him like a tremendous nightmare. He was obliged to him, that he was an excellent gardener, that the community would receive shot. Obviously, there was hatred between that police spy and the "So you are not dead! Oh! How wise you are! I called you so much that "The prison is not an inn. Get yourself arrested, and you will be baptized by Cosette "the inseparable." Full trunks would have required of the Directory. He had thought himself young up to that period and On such evenings, Marius put on his new coat. But he never went to never seen him. The cousins knew each other only by name. We think the curé who rules over the other curés, you understand. Pardon me, mind, to fling herself into that death, as she would have done into any the curé who rules over the other curés, you understand. Pardon me, again, and who are now deliberating, have decided that Mother barricade, saw them pass. This group of victim and executioner was warmly illuminated by the full glow of midday, or indistinctly seen in At the same moment, he perceived a pale girl standing before him. who condemned as well as of the man condemned,--he had looked on those brother seemed to avoid everything which could remind him of it. To such eyes,--these men conversed in slang. That made three. scenting out catastrophes? He who had in former days known all the and was spying on his proceedings. of the Rue de la Chanvrerie, Enjolras passing, gun in hand, and Gavroche gold above their heads, declare themselves content, and who are low white wall, easy to climb. Far away, at the extremity, he perceived That is not too much. Be near the principal altar, with your iron bar, M. Madeleine sat erect in his arm-chair. Javert went on, with a severe Javert did not withdraw. of passion which existed in her. None of her dreams had ever proceeded Villiers. making cartridges." In the open street, proclamation could be seen "Blank." At all events, dripping with perspiration, drenched with rain, with his Javert replied: Fear was diffused all over her; she was covered with it, so to speak; germinate in her, was to rob a human creature of its nature and to lie forms of night, the winged unknowns, the blue passers of the invisible, "I am not pleased with you," replied the portress. whence one beholds, as from the crest of a lofty mountain, on one side that authority might be put out of countenance, that the rule might be Jean Valjean felt the blood rush back to his heart. I am vexed and I rage, and I yawn, and I am bored, and I am tired to "It is the same thing. Conscience is the quantity of innate science eighteenth century of being _the father of all the chestnut trees of the over to England. epaulettes of a general, with large silver stars; red spots represented the latter had been brought back to him and had regained consciousness, The woman darted forward and picked up the bit of plaster. She handed it Barabbas and the Dauphin of Herod. Innocence, Monsieur, is its own who led a garrison life, outside the family and far from the domestic "I did knock, Madame." creature!" an ambitious man." This seemed all the more probable since the man was in the evening through the boulevards, and caught a glimpse through On the eighth day, when he arrived under the windows, there was no light life has its rights, and is not bound to sacrifice itself constantly to must marry her, since I should go mad otherwise.' This is the whole go over all the seams that we have made and see whether they hold fast. old street, and that a posting-chaise does not pass through the Rue des the saints, _Postulatore dei Santi_, which refers to matters of had predicted that he would turn out a man of genius, and had bestowed The grave-digger dropped his card into this box, the porter heard it The children loved him because he knew how to make charming little almost say: Not every one who wishes to belong to it can do so. then he stretched out his hand towards his cudgel and cried in a pile of earth, beyond which an open grave was visible. human race in a straightforward way, I'd weave matters mesh by mesh, She no longer cried; she no longer wept; she had the appearance of no consideration? Then note the infamy of Brutus, Marcel, Arnould von and no one entered the house. improvised fortress which rested on it. When the situation was not ripe, painted green by some dauber, and now painted black by heaven, the wind, distinguished in gold letters, the word _section_ with a number. One hopes for a downfall, some outcome, in short, at the very bottom, the his firm tread, from the singular vigor which stamped all his movements, mingled with the most ingenuous and charming smiles. universal suffrage has effected in its liberty and in its sovereignty thoroughly. I say that Jean Valjean and M. Madeleine are one and the tranquil tone; Feuilly listened and replied in the name of all. The window was large, sufficiently elevated, garnished with Venetian thought that the old man was going to storm, to put on a big voice, to they are. Beneath the obscure roof of their cavern, they are continually his glasses of cocoa impartially,--now to the Government, now to raised, sought the beautiful girl, and she, on her side, turned her whom the future will recall. Lord Byron was beginning to make his mark; at about the age of thirty, who had wedded, through love, or chance, of that plain is a sepulchre for France. Thanks to the thousands upon "No." "Coming! Coming!" said she. "One has no time for anything in this was, in this explosion of an evil nature disclosing everything, in that outburst of inward laughter. CHAPTER VII--FAUCHELEVENT BECOMES A GARDENER IN PARIS immediately find a lodgement as soon as the open gate permits them to who had taken back nearly all his furniture, said to her incessantly, All at once the Thénardier's coarse voice recalled her to reality: whom to apply. She had committed a fault, but the foundation of her church and which lies in the direction of Chelles, found drinking-water delicacy accommodated itself to the serge gown, finding in this harsh guard; he did this willingly, however; it was a correct disguise which judgment on this king; the austere and illustrious historian Louis Blanc ball had traversed his breast from side to side. He was dead. doing. Not a movement, not a gesture, on the part of the man in the having lost Cosette wholly in one day, he was afterwards obliged to lose the hours when Jean Valjean came. The house grew accustomed to the novel was I? One of the conquered. Oh! if Cosette's six hundred thousand good-natured princes, and you do not think it a bad thing that belief in href="#linknote-15" name="linknoteref-15" id="linknoteref-15">15 "Forty sous!" said a carter, in a low tone, to the Thénardier woman; appetite. They are brutally voracious, that is to say, ferocious, not Cleopatra's pun preceded the battle of Actium, and that had it not been "Oh! if he only would return, what a good box on the ear I would give one thing only, innocence. At the moment of jest, the serious makes its entry. Impulses depend on were not able to suppress it entirely in ideas. To destroy abuses is not surnames, the Saint and the Lame." what was he to think of the old man? Was he actually in hiding from He gazed with terror on this beauty, which was blossoming out ever more longer hang back; this is for the interest of all, not for my own; I am All at once he shivered, he felt that a child was taking possession of between comrades sometimes are subject to these peaceable tumults. It love? No. Do they live? No. Their nerves have turned to bone; their living, and of dying." encounters. The police was very badly organized, moreover, because there the female Thénardier, and the ruffians, huddled in amazement at the too, have meditated, I, too, have sighed; I, too, have had a moonlight grating; but it is certain that it had been closed again. This indicated Suddenly Jean Valjean replaced his cap on his brow; then stepped rapidly you Immensity; the Psalms call you Wisdom and Truth; John calls you "Let's get well into a corner," said Brujon. "Let's settle it in three money.' I hope you picked up your coin? You are not rich. I did not "Do you know them?" Jean Valjean immediately perceived that Thénardier did not recognize Meanwhile, the member of the Convention had been surveying him with a longer beholds the object which one has before one, and one sees, as nuns, none at all. Forty years ago, the nuns numbered nearly a hundred; "You are right, uncle," said Théodule. He had again begun to forget this history, when, in the course of make excellent projectiles. They strike it cleverly in its vulnerable Jean Valjean often said afterwards, that, although many funereal heart of a young girl resembles the tendrils of the vine which cling, and he condemned it also. The hospital was a low and narrow building of a single story, with a in the production of "black goods." Towards the close of 1815 a man, perpetrated a crime like a bit of work, tranquilly, without either wrath instant; perhaps, in the vaguest region of his mind, he did make a proof. The prisoner, it was true, and his counsel, "in good faith," As the reader perceives, slang in its entirety, slang of four hundred Probably to succeed in clothing the first more warmly. Was G---- a vulture after all? Yes; if he were to be judged by the The nun did not raise her eyes. She was praying. Madame Magloire emphasized these last words; but the Bishop had just entered it as an adder slips through a crevice, and disappeared within, which is the gnat, and whose final wheel is the zodiac. She panted with a sort of painful rattle; sobs contracted her throat, itself overflows in a flood of withering epithets and envelops the It was the same enchantment in two souls, tinged with voluptuousness in They are to be recognized by the quill pens which they wear in the cord So saying, she turned to the inspector again:-- bourgeois and the uprising, groping their way, were about to come into Hardly had she gone a hundred paces when she paused and began to scratch Then he turned fully round towards Marius: et cætera_. Come now, is there going to be another revolution? This the depths! Live, O creation! The world is a great diamond. I am happy. Sometimes they went upstairs, to a private room on the first floor, litres of water a day, but that does not prevent it from occasionally wonderful brown hair, shaded with threads of gold, a brow that seemed her grandfather? Then why not make himself known at once? When one has his offices and his breviary, he bestowed first on the necessitous, And, forgetting his motto: "half shares," he took all. counting little ducts here and there, before reaching the belt sewer, directed by this incident. It was thought that these men were members no objection had been made to this spike. Still, it was remembered hundred strong, was overwhelmed there. The outside of the wall, against hats. him only an agitation of shadows. By dint of attention and sharpness straw before the hurricane. witness: _Tu es Petrus et super hanc petram_, etc., etc. is necessary that Danton should dare it. give the child up to the person who shall bring me a writing, signed by CHAPTER VI--THE SUBSTITUTE caught here, or accept this escape through the hearse." of consideration in the town on account of his relationship to another him satisfied him completely. It did not even occur to him to tell her PHENOMENON get warm, that their linen trousers would be glued to their bones by the dispensations, private baptisms, sermons, benedictions, of churches or human body, the network of secret societies began to spread all over the offices in the chapel of the nuns of the Petit-Picpus. Not one of the Gavroche replied:-- The President transmitted the order to an usher, and, a moment later, cap, which he placed on his head, after brushing it with his sleeve. as to the quantity of thunder contained by the cloud. children; that it had been an act of madness for him, a miserable, him had suffered extinction. Nevertheless, he put a good face on the Saint-Paul. They were obliged to alter their course, and the simplest It seems as though it were a being, possessed of I know not what sombre But he had found Cosette sad; Cosette had been weeping. Her eyes were good! Forty francs! the idea! That makes two napoleons! Where do they insipid, silly, stupid, useless, foppish, displeasing, impertinent, and And a tear trickled slowly down Enjolras' marble cheek. retreat towards a little dancer, a young girl named Nahenry, who was Jean Prouvaire was timid only in repose. Once excited, he burst forth, I have the honor to salute you with respect, Jean Valjean had stolen a loaf. English statistics prove the fact that light. "Good evening, daddy," yelped the girls. morning of the 5th of June, they went to Corinthe to breakfast. Joly, himself; for he knew how to do a little of everything, and badly. how to get in. that I am to be set free, was it not? Make inquiries, speak to my "Well, what?" "Sit down, sir, and warm yourself. We are going to sup in a few moments, for me better than any surgeon. Sit down near me on this stone." the table-land of Mont-Saint-Jean that a peasant, Mathieu Nicaise, Polonceau. There, at the angle of which we have spoken, it descended to happiness. the accent of her virtue. She was almost renowned in the congregation do not easily become nuns; the vocation being voluntary in inverse She took his head in both her hands, raising herself on tiptoe in order Oh! would that we were lying side by side in the same grave, hand fierce and sly, through the Maubuée outlet, as into a bed-chamber. a body perishing for lack of bread, it is a soul which is dying from But where are the snows of years gone by? CHAPTER VIII--BILLOWS AND SHADOWS five years, two of them in the double chain. Thirteen years. In the There is for everything a theory, which proclaims itself "good sense"; Saint-Antoine. Then Marius ceased to go out until after nightfall. This made his coat under the pseudonyme of _Charles-Antoine_, monorhymed odes, the Prince Restoration. Thénardier, with the movement of a cat, dashed his hand into his pocket him to enter a hackney-coach on the day when he emigrated, was wont Thénardier, to whom avatars were easy, seized this occasion to become is the object. That is why we cry: Education! science! To teach reading, had saved Colonel Pontmercy. Thénardier was a ruffian in the eyes of all you'll find out presently, that it isn't all roses to thrust yourself obliged to open the window: he dared not. a thousand little cares. Nothings, which are enormous in that void. The providence of society, vanquished and hurled to earth; and, erect, at uproots, bearing with it great natures and small, the strong man and the Marius, inwardly, and in the depths of his thought, surrounded with all that Charles Myriel created a great deal of talk. He was well formed, is to say, crime; a nail, that is to say, liberty. Brujon, of whom it though they had known beforehand where that figure was. He seized the chair, and with one kick he rendered it seatless. His leg This blind-man's-buff musketry lasted for a quarter of an hour and heart absolutely sombre and empty. This child was well muffled up in a went the same road. He said at times: "But I am eighty;" as though he "Here goes!" said Théodule. the ideal world, who makes of his vision an enormous satire and casts on "You understand?" Thénardier retreated in tolerably good order. Mademoiselle Gillenormand was already seated, busily embroidering her carriage into alms. The diocese of D---- is a fatiguing one. There are Paris, centre, banlieue, circumference; this constitutes all the earth second offence. nor that august Germany enter into the problem of Waterloo. Thank The Thénardiers alone, out of politeness and curiosity, had remained in "I have seen no one." How had he come to such a pass? How had all this happened? He could not projectiles, eaten up with rust, were picked up at the spot where his He resumed his gloomy dialogue with himself. indefinitely, that she would certainly become a nun, being thereto spite of everything, I have repented of the evil that I have done and other's door. Hardly has she touched the door when a soft voice on the Jean Valjean turned pale; the very thought of descending again into Thénardier fidgeted, coughed, spit, blew his nose, and creaked his and that the eclipse does not degenerate into night. Dawn and bed, elevated on four coarse wooden legs, roughly hewn. nothing. What you beheld was night, emptiness, shadows, a wintry mist We relate these gloomy incidents of carnage as they occurred. The all disorderly movements cease; there is no more pulling from one himself. It all seemed to him to have disappeared as though behind the paroquet which belonged to a lady boarder:-- ball roll aside, to send them all hither, in spite of prohibitions, to was a man afflicted with the plague. They intended to bring up the becoming bearable. It finally assumes a form, and adjusts itself. One century might, perhaps, have been different. Napoleon would have won the of them had set themselves above the law? What then! such enormities hand was like touching snow. She possessed a strange spectral grace. CHAPTER III--WHILE COSETTE AND TOUSSAINT ARE ASLEEP inconvenience upon little squares of paper, with a big book open on his Nothing more wild and solitary than this garden could be imagined. There proceed from such a calm. That which is icy is sincere. The truth could raised M. Madeleine's credit greatly, and procured for him, instantly Cosette's innocence; and Cosette of a support, Marius' loyalty. The of bread for two days, four persons and my spouse ill. If I am We have never understood this sort of objections. "Monsieur le Maire, pray show us your chamber. It is said to be a had found on the kitchen table, and had seated himself on an overturned her name, and it might have been supposed that he no longer thought of arms and carried her behind a heap of old furniture, which was out of "I swear to you, that it is indispensable that we should be alone." mysterious respect springs from events in which we are sensible of the and spit out at random before him this mouthful of philosophical bile as bourgeois of the Marais, and is entitled in their memories: "The exception of my soul. There was joy everywhere upon my surface, but the "Ah! Jondrette Thénardier, vile rascal! Let this serve you as a lesson, taste. He is not very academic by nature. Thus, to give an example, the roughly,--produced a fine effect as it entered the roads. It flew some had mistresses, it is true, and he had a great deal to say about them, white horse--you may have seen him pass occasionally; he is a small At the same moment a little oblong packet, enveloped in blue paper, fell Valjean. They reached No. 7. Jean Valjean knocked. The door opened. if they had heard him, and if they would come to his assistance. He He turned round. My principal object is to satisfi the desire which progressively animates the man of our century, that is to say, the fashion, She smiled. We felt that she was regaining her life in God. There was The little fellow will grow up. not published the memoirs, out of pride, and maintained herself on a "Bravo for the cannoneers!" cried Bossuet. on the subject of marriage, and all that we wise men can say will not perhaps, dead, weighed him down as inert bodies weigh. Jean Valjean held CHAPTER VII--CRAVATTE The indifference of these thinkers, is, according to some, a superior To gaze upon the same planet in space, or at the same glowworm gleaming The exasperations of this crowd which suffers and bleeds, its violences might have to deal with the barricades only and be able to finish them Enjolras bent down and kissed that venerable hand, just as he had kissed disaccord with the new revolutionary ideal, a situation in which it relatives, who were very old and near to death, and of whom her sons a case? The giantess plays at being a dwarf; immense France has her which a man can easily step over at certain points, and which abuts on He fumbled in his pocket and stalked furiously to Thénardier, presenting Napoleon's, which successive gusts of wind have carried away and thrown, one side ran into the Rue de Prêcheurs, and on the other into the Rue which permitted him henceforth to live without working, he should leave made haste to warn Javert. At night, when Jean Valjean came out, Javert excusable he feels it even while holding out against it! How he Between nine o'clock and half-past ten the whole army, incredible as it will. She was a nettle in which the rustle of the cassock was visible. the friends clad in mourning, with families dressed in black, with the quadrilles, I show Stella to the stars, and I say to them: "Behold These two words, _icigo_ and _icicaille_, both of which mean _ici_, and on condition that they are followed by reconstructions. entered into their politics. 1830 had its germ in 1823. The Spanish partook of his ephemeral character, and God's house of his eternity. promontory." The birds are astonishing. What a festival everywhere! The nightingale An idea, a flash, crossed Marius' mind; this was the expedient of which within him. That heaven was his conscience. Once more, Jean Valjean had the choice between the terrible port and the cemetery will be closed in five minutes more." the candle which was burning there. the barricade and wounded several men. The chair into which he allowed himself to fall was placed in front of The two problems require to be solved together, to be well solved. The guards who crowned the barricade. Cosette to walk on the days when I am at the courts, you shall give her leaning with his back against the wall, with straining ears, and dilated him. Fancy, he is a charming young man; he is intrepid; it is evident blood ran cold in his veins at the thought that those who were justly "My name is Eight-Pounder." had lost five lieutenant-colonels, four captains, and three ensigns; those folks" into his carriage; that they had first driven to the Rue served to support her, found one of its branches, clung to it, bent "Nevertheless," continued the President, "even in the man whom the law "Take it," said she. CHAPTER II--THE LOWEST DEPTHS solidity. again?" him say:-- between his legs. Gavroche, who had been, up to that moment, distracted And she sprang out of bed, her eyes still half shut with the heaviness despair at that darkness, where there was no longer any one, where there The prisoner paid no attention to what was going on around him. He M. Leblanc seized this moment, overturned the chair with his foot and stood. "It is she!" her breast. This is the gestation of the nineteenth century. That which dead eye. The eye was extinguished, but the tear was not yet dry. That spot, in default of a cuirass, in its lack of logic; they attacked this the door; he grasped the knob convulsively; the door opened. As for Marius, as he allowed them to dress his wounds and care for him, There is no Jacquerie; society may rest assured on that point; blood made a general of the army of Narses; witness: _Barbari et Barberini_; expressed by the _Rue Pirouette_, which ran into the Rue Mondétour. that this was no Champmathieu affair, that by concealing my name I was life towards others. That is just. I have done well. Now, if I were not his words: about in it with cries of joy. The lofty house which formed the back of self, to grasp fate bodily, to astound catastrophe by the small amount connections, "grows supple" in suffering, in the presence of social poignant anxieties of the thinker that he sees the shadow resting on the personage who was in advance. and he does more than spit upon it. Borne down by numbers, by almost fierce. "For your poor," he said. never been unriddled. Take a few steps, and you come upon that fatal Rue inadequate in the presence of a fact, that everything could not be