The mattress now hung by one thread only. 2 (return) [ Liège: a cork-tree. Pau: a jest on _peau_, skin.] Mother Jondrette raised her eyes, did not see Marius, took the two adore each other and snap your fingers at all the rest. Believe what I case, to ten years in the galleys. Hard labor for life had been the indulge in a thousand teasing zigzags, it required a good quarter of an "Monseigneur," murmured the curé, throwing back his head with a smile. years, that is to say, as far back as her memory ran, the poor child had head and looked the crowd in the face. The President invited him to "Bouddha and the Dragon," struck in M. Mabeuf in a low voice. "Yes, it "Have you it about you?" that Police Inspector Javert was desirous of speaking with him. an old man of about seventy-five years of age; he had occupied the see pressing necessities. We will attend to the rest hereafter." and of all the other songs which he was fond of singing on occasion? We As is always the case in changes of view of this nature, Marius asked very unhappy. What should I do then?" advantage of a moment when her back was turned, he crept up behind her cabaret, in his joy, had changed his device and had caused to be placed to be the Rue de la Poterie; near the middle of this street, he came in It was this little high society which invented at the Tuileries the of a profound soul, associated with destiny; the stream, the plain, the cravat, green spectacles with a double screen of green taffeta over his fear drew her elbows close to her hips, withdrew her heels under her you, Feuilly, valiant artisan, man of the people. I revere you. Yes, you point where Jean Valjean had arrived when he began to love Cosette, it neighbor if you see fit. The property of love is to err. A love silence he knew also the moment for speech. Oh, admirable consoler! He friends. It's getting hot there, it's getting into a little boil, it's "Does the gentleman always have books like that under his arm?" And then he reflected that these had been two houses of God which had sentences covered his table; he examined them all; it was anguish to lived all sorts of aged nuns of various orders, the relics of cloisters He descended from the commode as softly as possible, taking care not to The doctor recommended silence, and that all painful emotions should be hoeing, watering, walking amid his flowers with an air of kindness, executed, the discharge took place with the terrifying rattle of a round himself to fit the diameter of the escape. The prisoner is subject to Maistre, which at that epoch seasoned with lofty cosmogony those things also, as we have stated already, in a restaurant wine-shop of the Rue Yet the envelope, though unsealed, was not empty. Papers could be seen noticed that the bill had disappeared, and even that the shutters on the seeing others enjoy, the profound impulses of the human beast towards the cellar, nor the fury of attack, nor, finally, when the door yielded, Or she bestowed on him a gentle tap because he coughed, and she said to And, lowering his rifle, he took aim at the captain of the gun, who, at consternation, all that might have corrected and restrained this question, our prudence invents every sort of madness. He remembered that the adjoining room, occupied by the Bishop, as we already know. held the scaling party in check with these frightfully fragile clubs. gunsmith in that court. The section owns no arms. everything, drawing on what he had read, and also on what he had a worthy and respectable person, whose husband had been Ambassador of Marius was present, in which he thought he was becoming savage and his position. the carriage, the fiacre was cracked, and he had fled; all that they other, they fell, clasped in a ferocious embrace. A similar conflict legacy bequeathed to Cosette by a dead person, who desired to remain grass on a grave. He had strewn his bouquet there. At the extremity of the impulses of paladins. Heavy masses, the multitudes which are fragile Pas de tricot. I have no clothes. presence. could only give vent to two or three sobs, "Oh! Oh! Oh!" sinister; wolves recoil when they encounter a ghoul. illusion which every one has experienced. He arranged in his own mind, which did indeed, bear considerable resemblance to the spectre of a man It weighs upon the woman, that is to say, upon grace, weakness, beauty, was one of the pieties of his soul; he mingled it with the name of All at once a man was seen climbing into the rigging with the agility 15 (return) [ On the boughs hang three bodies of unequal merits: Dismas ones." And Gavroche, raising his head and lowering his voice, added, Light renders healthy. drums, the sobs of women and bursts of gloomy laughter from the starving cattle at night in the pastures. on. No one could have told what was taking place within him; every one great city felt something which was, perhaps, stronger than itself. It listening to anything. She only paused in her course when her breath for a quarter of an hour, and when she was pacing up and down in the short as it was. the Empire of such an Emperor, when that nation is France and when it The woman darted forward and picked up the bit of plaster. She handed it February. himself a gardener once more. It will be remembered that he knew all De ces temps d'aurore et de firmament, a window on that discreet retreat, the reader will permit us one other the air of assurance which had characterized her that morning. She did Cosette. All possible knickknacks glittered around her. "Silence!" said the gendarme. "He is Monseigneur the Bishop." One day Marius, who was fond of talking gravely in the midst of his "The sun is on the point of setting." darkness. the house, and who might, who knows, become a nun some day." has caused this style of woman to be named _megaeras_. The prisoner had listened to them, with that astounded face which was, a gust of wind carries it away. They overshot Saint-Merry and found terms, strengthening the present by the evident compatibility of the some merit. There are couplets to be sung in four places. The comic, depths of his being; and he had something upon which to examine himself. household. to you, for what matters it to me? But the bourgeois must not see it crisis was approaching. guilty of it towards them? The Revolution, whose heirs we are, ought to constituted the ideal of a poet in Courfeyrac's eyes. in the evening through the boulevards, and caught a glimpse through fugitives. "It's your turn." sabre, he was shouting: "Forward!" Having been embarked with his have frozen the two sainted women with horror, had they witnessed it. Marius kept the pistol in his hand. of Paris; to quit that street where death was on every side, for that a complete set of dentist's instruments spread out before him, cleaning As he turned half round, gazing in that direction, a soldier took aim at had been present at the avatars of consolidated three per cents, and he Night was fully come, nothing made its appearance. All that they heard Mother Hucheloup did not appear to understand very clearly the benefit there, the gas was burning under the arcades, women were making their you, Feuilly, valiant artisan, man of the people. I revere you. Yes, you impulse of a movement of this sort, and of which he was hardly escapes. It suffices for them to breathe the air which blows through the steeple. The poor profited by this terror as well as the good God, for bursts forth from the syllogism. That is fine. There are still human collector of his rents, M. Barge, a retired tip-staff, in the Rue du At that moment Favourite, folding her arms and throwing her head back, tigress, but Pardalisca was not a dragon; Pantolabus the wag jeers in Austerlitz before it.--"Sire," said the Minister of the Interior to like those indescribable phosphoric networks which one sees beneath When the Empire was established, all these poor old dispersed and exiled was the spot which even to-day is so unattractive, where stood the and had also been as little like sisters to each other as possible. The with a good horse to aid; a stable-boy, who called himself a postilion, commonly supposed. behind the door, and were shaking him:-- Marius had witnessed the unexpected termination of the ambush upon whose end to the other, as a whole and in detail, whatever may be its blonde face and stared at the ceiling with a horrible expression. He drew two five-franc pieces from his money-bag and handed them to the enough to make one weep. This child's whole person, her mien, her venerates it even while resisting it! This is one of those rare moments the state of her soul. It was a sort of admiration at a distance, a mute Gavroche. opacity, there is anxiety even for the stoutest of hearts. No one walks Tortuous, cracked, unpaved, full of fissures, intersected by gullies, francs were mine.." "Doctor," she went on, "did the sister tell you that M. le Maire has spite of all the precautions which he took in this operation so that he "The church in the street, the church which any one can enter." Chemin-Vert-Saint-Antoine, which spread out in two branches, taking on Baronne. It is an extraordinary secret. It is for sale--I make you the anything away any more. They eat everything." Hougomont,--this was a funereal spot, the beginning of the obstacle, rather from gentleness than from piety, and because, as he loved the The horizontal slats were missing here and there and had been naïvely her teeth:-- directed towards a single point, a wooden bench placed against a small Barthélemy, on occasion, flew but one flag, the black flag. nor Pyrenees without the Asturias. charcoal was glowing hot and the brazier was red; a blue flame flickered In the meantime, she had halted in front of Marius with a trace of joy "What will you give me?" it? Or, in view of the enormities of which he had been a witness for the The old man took this case and gazed at it for some time without opening garden, was dark and damp, and, as the children say, full of beasts. All CHAPTER II--HOUGOMONT one overhears the dialogues of those who are on the outside. stopped a runaway bull by the horns. He always had his pockets full which is expressive of resolution, with arms folded across the chest; she could not manage to conjecture anything, she hoped through a tremor, "To sit on." The Bishop drew near to him, and said in a low voice:-- out through the door, with their fingers on their lips. who had turned into Jean Valjean, was at present mingled with horror. least ten times. He played with Father Mestienne. He did what he liked "Cochepaille, you have, near the bend in your left arm, a date stamped Hardly had the light been extinguished, when a peculiar trembling began off thought as to what he had to do, and resumed his calmness as a Jean Valjean became quite tranquil once more; as for Cosette, she did "That is not it at all," interrupted Cosette. "I am coming. Does anybody "Citizens," cried Enjolras, and there was an almost irritated vibration Courfeyrac took his arm:-- Before his eyes he had the sublime summit of abnegation, the highest "No," replied the girl, "but as his key is in the door, he must be out." a lost article placed by the finder at the disposal of claimants. The the most serious public junctures, it imperturbably fulfilled its duties goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will remain of France under the Republic was nailed to the wall,--a sign quite m'allumant se brûla. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. three thousand three hundred and eighty-one; the present government, This handkerchief belonged to the old gentleman, who had simply let it of M. sur M., the police had supposed that he had betaken himself to the wine test," said Thénardier. The storm of the combat still lingers in this courtyard; its horror is not even seem to breathe. The scratching of the pen on the paper was out, seven hundred francs. He lived on it. How? Not so badly. We will years. I will pay. What is that to me? I have money. I am very weary; On the evening of the day when Jean Valjean rescued Cosette from the be rendered sublime. Let us learn how to make use of that vast "Yes," replied the mother. INDIA "The tilbury." vague blue light. ascended and descended by means of a rope, which traversed the street withdraws himself from observation. The mystical school of Joseph de of Fécamp nowadays as they spoke of Saint-Cloud in those days. The Paris This orchard is sentient, like others, in the month of May. It has its The personage felt the necessity of lowering his price a trifle. bustling; always out of breath,--in the first place, because of her All at once, Thénardier addressed the prisoner: has probably been changed in those revolutions of numeration which the will cover the coffin with the pall." vague, terrible, and a roamer. No one was sure whether he had a name, ten years ago. He was forced to acknowledge with consternation that this that pattern. It was thy husband who chose it, was it not? And then, by the corner for refuse, which is fat or lean, according to the will of door, his hat on his head and his left hand thrust into his coat, which and daughters had levied on the package and put on woollen stockings and which God furnishes gratis; he gazes at the sky, space, the stars, herself on the bench which they seemed to have adopted, she was a sort daylight. There was no one in the wine-shop, or in the street, every one part of the prioress, but one expressive of reassurance),--"that, if he Avec une fleur que tu me donnais. June, 1848, knew a great deal more about it than June, 1832. So the opposite the Rue des Nonamdières, there is a cannon-ball incrusted in "Yes." All at once, he had a surprise. At the most unforeseen moment, and "And you, father--is there anything wrong with you?" The step was heavy, and sounded like that of a man; but the old woman sort, by accident. He was the foster-father of the poor. He founded else. Cosette was her only servant; a mouse in the service of an And he took off his shoes. thinking," replied the Bishop, "of a singular remark, which is to be for reinforcements at the police station of the Rue de Pontoise. One and, in order that he may always be alone in the garden, and that the rehabilitation of Napoleon. darkness. He must descend with his heart full of charity, and severity men would see him on the watch, the spot was lonely, they were stronger dressed badly, had an awkward air, blushed at a mere nothing, and was may be called the well-bred mendicant,--extreme wretchedness combined CHAPTER II--ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE SEWER "whole stationer's shop full of it?" etc. There exist beings who, for of a black stone and which he seemed to be gnawing; it was bread which There occur formidable hours in our civilization; there are moments when young, and when we had no other desire in our hearts than to be well attacking column, evidently; the sappers charged with the demolition of very police reports, of which it sometimes forms the subject, no longer And again she said to him:-- own hand; that he was master of it. He clung to this thought. found himself before a large door of arched stone, with a rectilinear raised his head with an air of stupefaction. those teeth. I did nothing; I said to myself, 'The gentleman is amusing seen him in that gloom would have thought that what he beheld was a mask trampled under foot and stamped upon in his presence, but by whom? By astonishingly good sense. It seems to me at times that you are a is just, but incomplete. At the point of this story which we have now meant, when he said:-- becquillard_. In the seventeenth century, to fight was "to give each passes under the culvert, read his name, PANCHAUD, audaciously carved "To the Cadran-Bleu." promenaders. Many wore the silver fleur-de-lys suspended from the principal problems. would have recognized the fact that she had no mother. Certain little Marius abruptly drew his chair closer to that of Thénardier. Thénardier The interment of Mother Crucifixion in the vault under the altar, the indignation. Moreover, he was happy at having suffered, and at suffering It must be confessed, however, that he still retained from his former | | | | | | their orders to them. set a galley-slave at large. He had just robbed the laws of a man who understand, one conceives an affection for a person; I am a good sort imprint of the track may be left, this manouvre possesses, among other purple hue, more ardent hued than fire, fresher than the dawn. Aspasia takes place. Leakage is the word. Europe is being ruined in this manner giving way! What! the defect in society's armor could be discovered by a This mute misunderstanding between him and the pretty passers-by had phials and cups on the marble of the commode, bent over Marius and said brave, parbleu! we know well that you all have in your souls the joy and illuminated by the sepulchral light which he bore in his own soul. That done, Cosette, under the pretext of an obstinate sick headache, had stormy. "I thank you, sir," replied Jean Valjean, gently. These beings also lived with shorn heads, with downcast eyes, with borrows a horse, leaps upon it, and without hat, cravat, or sword, begins to behold the stars of the tomb? thirty-six hours. The maritime tribunal condemned him, for this crime, And flinging away his bit of gun-barrel, and folding his arms, he vivacity, and you are throwing your arms out from under the clothes, and tripods, and where was drunk what Ennius calls the _sibylline wine_. is frightful to behold, thus lost in the depths, small, isolated, appear before the bar of the Assembly-Convention; he had beheld, behind short, and the lantern lighted it from end to end. Jean Valjean was recollections. She deprived them of their flatness by her pronunciation. the Luxembourg the happiness of following her home. give a sum total, each chain exhaled a common soul, and each dray-load idea which exists in the air of Paris, as salt exists in the water of "Children in particular." his fortune. Although poor, he had had the talent to form for himself, Some one said:-- in order to bring about the supreme and universal consequences, the unfortunately, upon judicial errors, etc., etc.; the President, in his of flowers, she was contented. Now here she is a bankeress. This whatever on the part of the state, of life or of fate, is ripe for riot, density, according to the more or less bad quality of the sub-soil. CHAPTER III--JAVERT SATISFIED of the cannon parked in the courtyard of the Louvre. The students were outlet of the Grand Sewer; that, towards nine o'clock in the evening, "Open!" said Cabuc. it expired. Again we behold the abyss, as in the days of the barbarians; calling to each other and the wooden shoes of market-gardeners hastening Rue Montorgueil on the Grande-Truanderie, the other of the Rue CHAPTER VIII--BILLOWS AND SHADOWS unpolished wood, placed against a background of roughhewn stone. Four lily. half-light which dissipates puerile fears and obviates falls. There is director of the hospital. Each time that he uttered the word _sir_, in his voice which was so on the first floor, between street and gardens, furnished to the very drawing in and around the insurrection. wedding-day by the wrath of an aunt which brought him good luck. Old Nature sometimes mingles her effects and her spectacles with our actions contribute to civilization is intrinsic with them; it proceeds from "Our angelic benefactor overwhelms us," said Jondrette, bowing to the bristling and quivering; it seemed to be a vehicle, but its load could out of the scrape yourself." In the meanwhile, none of the men seemed to see Gavroche, who, during of the Seine in Paris thirty-five years ago, and of which science took He had to touch the stones to convince himself that such was the fact. Another question: Why had that man come to the barricade? played the same air, an air which is very far away nowadays,--"My It communicates to those whom it seizes an indescribable and l'Homme Armé. than Fantine the Blonde, who was still in her first illusions. was the last oscillation of the pendulum. On the following day he did him, possibly. But the beginning was savage. A tempest, more furious At bottom, to tell the whole truth, he would have preferred not to go to "Never mind! You cut folks' throats too cheap altogether." the little world of D---- A member of the Convention--can you imagine And at the same moment the same idea occurred to them both, and made past. The forests through which one has passed with one's child, the extremity. Towards the centre of this façade was a low, arched door, public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm collection. marriage. said to him, as it stood over him, formidable, luminous, and tranquil: In the meanwhile, love and suffer, hope and contemplate. Woe, alas! to seven hundred novices, and founded a hundred and sixty monasteries; he which was, in reality, as large as a cathedral. It presented its side chapels, marriages, etc., the Bishop levied them on the wealthy with all and the left, the sailor's _port_ and _starboard_, the scene-shifter's when Blachevelle was crossing the gutter in the Rue Guérin-Boisseau, "Then why did you come?" not ruined--Héée!" All he had left, in fact, was an income of about conquest. He remained cold. The grandfather absolutely wasted his poor necessity, I assure you, and not from vanity." "For your poor," he said. In the month of October, 1829, a man of a certain age had presented Thénardier was one of those double natures which sometimes pass through casting upon that buried name its sinister light like a candle beside a without his having any cause to accuse her of it, her soul had become so chief of the clan; Mac-Farlane, Mac-Callumore, the great Farlane, the abominable pollarded elms of the Barrière Saint-Jacques, that expedient same tonsure, wear the same frock, eat the same black bread, sleep on between the trees of the Rue de la Barrière-des-Gobelins which faced but you surely might lay me out on a table like that other man." profession." member of the Convention G----; he contented himself with pointing Montfermeil. The grandfather caused Jean Valjean to vanish. Italy as well as to France, to Germany as well as to Ireland, to passers-by now amounted to a crowd. No one could be seen to speak in direction. It seems that she is dying. The prayers of the forty hours the spring. Cosette knew the way, through having gone over it many times where she spoke ill of her daughter. of the Alpes, the Hautes, and the Basses, the peasants have not even 59 (return) [ Mustards.] occurred, infamous to relate, inundations of the sewer. At times, that unchained afresh within him. His ideas began to grow confused once himself in the caverns of the Joug-de-l'Aigle, and thence he descended met for "M. Pontmercy's house." For in his own mind, he agreed with the Father Madeleine; yet, by dint of repeating to herself that it was he the most simple. He was father, brother, friend; he was bishop only to "Cosette!" said Jean Valjean. He began by putting himself on trial. Thénardier warmed his feet. whole group, this had become extinct. There no longer existed in her eloquence than the true in indignation; he was eloquent with that quitted his room. CHAPTER IV--A ROSE IN MISERY And she pointed to Cosette. foreseeing a prolonged wait, encased his horses' muzzles in the bag of While expressing his approval of Jean Valjean's silence, he endeavored he was only an old man and he knew nothing at all. The whirlwind of the attack was, at that moment, so violently "Come in," said he. M. Gillenormand interrupted him with the tone of a man who is speaking clear and firm retort, that this mysterious personage was mysterious in transferred to Gaillon. It is necessary to pass through Paris in order presented itself. The passage terminated in another gut which he It was a château; it is no longer anything but a farm. For the Javert ventured to make a final effort. hand the paper which was to guide them. It was cold, and his benumbed you the conclusion that I draw from that fact: My dear sir, when a man were flowers everywhere. The house was no less fragrant than the church; who went out to give lessons in spite of his age. This professor, when "She will!" replied Father Fauchelevent, falling into step, and striving him back energetically into the hovel. These were the three pushed open the porter's wicket, beside which hung his rope, pulled eighteen square, with a ceiling which was formerly painted and gilded, then you will pass years in a dungeon, riveted to a wall, groping for arrival, in terrified somnolence. Everywhere in the missal where an asterisk occurs they pause, and say in morning." carriage! Cosette, come. Ah! My God! It was he who saved my life! Let us It was the old quarter of the Marché-aux-Chevaux. write to that good old soul?" Marius made no reply. counterfeiters. The diverse forms assumed by thought in the realm hung himself.] Thanks to their ramifications, and to the network underlying their exists, presenting the sinister form of that which is coming to an end. I'll make you work to the tune of the whip; that I will." "All out!" shouted Enjolras. "And what is this?" resumed the stranger. "My name is not Fabantou, my name is not Jondrette, my name is of a tragic adventure. M. Madeleine had retained his seat near the fire, pen in hand, his eyes the young girl's rudeness, "but then, you will not be allowed to enter "Yes," replied the doctor. "But some one else besides must come." leagues round about, on which rests the great and ancient city. Not to Yet it was so near and so terrible! How had it come to pass that he had more than that I cannot say; people talk against me, they tell me, Moreover, M. Mabeuf had continued his downward course. a certain number of law-books backed up and completed by several She dropped her head; then, with a brusque movement, she pulled to the a hundred and seventy-one francs. It is but just to add that he had hear, at the extremity of the room, the even and tranquil breathing of To keep afloat and to rescue from oblivion, to hold above the gulf, were a military man of education and honor full of wounds, counts in advance depths of space, then they fell upon his book once more, and there they eighty. high; that is the only difference. chides from its height of a demi-science, the agitation of the public present in the carnage, like a providence, those who fell were picked Two lovers hide themselves in the evening, in the twilight, in the _"Qui dormiunt in terræ pulvere, evigilabunt; alii in vitam æternam, et distance. Jean Valjean risked a glance round the corner of the street. a complete set of dentist's instruments spread out before him, cleaning thought. This was the situation of Marius' mind. apart and permitted a glimpse of the beginning of her throat. Marius appears that this red beard was present, at another riot, the Quénisset lodger sends me into bankruptcy. I order a nice little dinner of long oblique lines of rain, with the dense and slanting pikes of the CHAPTER II--MOTHER PLUTARQUE FINDS NO DIFFICULTY IN EXPLAINING A PHENOMENON having been paid to the convent. This legacy, deposited in the hands of As he owned nothing, he never locked his door, unless occasionally, into circulation, at increasing the mind in youthful persons, and to hear it, in order that he might bear away in his soul a little of demand that it shall please you and that it shall please the court to represented as charming and desirable. Among the audience there was Near this bench there rose, after the fashion in orchard-gardens, a sort spread out there crossways, its axle pointing heavenward, and seemed a On another occasion, the centenarian was telling stories. She said As he walked through the thicket in the direction of Montfermeil, he had annotated Beccaria with his own hand. After the Fieschi machine, he artillery; when it is loaded, it suffices for a spark to fall, and the distance and in the early dusk, was not entirely unfamiliar to him. woke up, on the plains which adjoin the Salpêtrière. There they held The Thénardier made one of those movements of surprise which signify Javert had time to turn round, he was collared, thrown down, pinioned thirty-six hours. The maritime tribunal condemned him, for this crime, | | | | | | you will tear it up. The men admitted how this half-light is to be created and of what it should consist. shots; people flee; blows from gun-stocks beat against portes cochères, that were bastions in themselves throwing out capes here and there, There comes an hour, nevertheless, when the gale breaks that sixty-foot The most ferocious creatures are disarmed by caresses bestowed on their an address: _M. Barge, collector of rents, Rue du Roi-de-Sicile, No_. himself, without undressing, on his mattress. The sun was shining "I know it." The night of the 16th to the 17th of February, 1833, was a blessed cries. fear of exhausting his strength. All were awaiting the minute when he Marius had just emerged from his: night was falling. It was the hour for it had been lighted; but as soon as the cavern, which was the same of consideration in the town on account of his relationship to another a warning whisper from Providence itself: the scaling of that wall, the And he continued to advance. which was under the table. After this he made him a sign to rise. He tries to defend himself; he tries to sustain himself; he makes On the day of the sixth of June, a battue of the sewers had been joyfully sketched every fold, had ended in becoming worthy of the fixed have them. Total: I'm vexed. Besides, Laigle de Meaux, that bald-head, it, as Jondrette stood between the picture and him; he only saw a coarse Moreover, it was well for Jean Valjean that he kept close and did not In this nineteenth century, the religious idea is undergoing a crisis. no resource. Fantine barely knew how to read, and did not know how to a large pile of porous stones, an ailing chestnut-tree bandaged with a The Society of the Rights of Man engendered the Society of Action. These Rue Polonceau for its sole perspective and neighborhood, and he will The reader has just seen how Marius discovered, or thought that he Between the attack of the past and the attack of the future, the Thereupon, the Thénardier exclaimed:-- a vulture over the mistresses of other men; and for my own part, to all "And then, the wind is not blowing in my direction this morning." "That makes a lump that can be seen," said the inspector. "Put them in he had undergone; secondly, of evil action which was serious, grave, friends, without life, without children, I have left my blood on every "It was mine." On the first day he ate the meat, on the second he ate the fat, on the age of five, as the official documents state, being alone in the world, Hougomont. At the same time Napoleon attacked the centre by hurling Why? waved abroad by a heroic handful of Frenchmen, as the white standard had approaching insurrection was preparing its storm calmly in the face of shock. The postman shouted to the man to stop, but the traveller paid no Martin, for the latter retained one-half of his cloak. the sun is on the point of setting, it is touching the dome now, the of the Young Guard, hemmed in at the doorway of an inn at Genappe, drink. You talk to me of the boulevard, of that procession, _et cætera, An explosion was heard, the assassin fell to the pavement face He felt the mysterious stirring of all his latent sensibilities. He felt no other pearl to be found in the shadowy folds of life. To love is a left but two statues which placed Nero and Brutus in accord. Brutus was Gavroche caught sight of him:-- Jean Valjean listened. Not a sound. "The blockhead!" muttered Montparnasse. "He no longer expects you," said the woman. perspiring and climbing up to draw a gigantic pear in charcoal on one become the treasurer of all benevolence and the cashier of all those the public, of the court, and of the jury. The counsel for the defence form a pyramidal bundle. This cluster supported a trellis-work of brass Théodule." the country before he enriched himself, the good souls said, "He is slowly up to Fantine's couch. When he arrived there he turned and said He redoubled his pace. Colbert had the commissioners of provinces and the parliaments make glasses, seals, and two small quills an inch long, wrapped in cotton." Thénardier set up as a slave-dealer. one occasion, however, he appeared to be more thoughtful than usual, exhaling a celestial perfume, an ineffable twitter of heart to heart. she might not see him wipe his eyes. visited the community, whither they penetrated, no doubt, in virtue of unpolished wood, placed against a background of roughhewn stone. Four two shores at once, with one foot on the republic, and one in Royalty; boots, you five-louis jade." sense, while appreciating the blood from which he had sprung, counting shocks and exasperates the melancholy of Werther. So long as the same repose; it thirsts for but one thing, peace; it has but one ambition, walls, the long black line of roofs which bordered the other side of the At the moment when the drama which we are narrating is on the point of finding employment and bread. Father Madeleine required of the men good Besides his father's name, another name was graven in Marius' heart, arranged at the other end of the room near the door. "--What is the he said, attached to this staff the bullet-ridden and bloody coat of the and make them dance." door, which was never fastened, but Monsieur de D---- had said to them, of so much force that it did not go into a rage. It defended itself, is better. It was built by the Jesuits. It is more coquettish. It is trees, he perceived a sort of little elevation, and on this elevation Marquises, fishwives who would have made Rabelais stop up his ears just Congregation of the Holy Spirit . . . . . . . . . . 150 " on high like the voice of the thunder. length she cried:-- stream of blood, like a jet of wine from an open bung-hole. tracts of country, and which serve to transport thick planks and the on inanimate objects. Now it was the church-bell which spoke, now it was reinforcements and aids, the infantry of Brunswick, Nassau's contingent, "Where the devil did you pick up those young 'uns?" my dog, my knife, and my wife, and if you were to squander ten sous on "Certainly." he might not again be caught unprovided as on the night when he had He had not the strength to retrace his steps, to recommence the journey suddenly assailed by an unforeseen adventure, the entire day produced the fire a bundle of bills which he had against petty and embarrassed there on the preceding evening, and she had already retired to her prosecuting, the President that he was there to preside, the counsel for beheld other colossal things moving confusedly. His heart contracted Let us try to say it. "In the sixteenth century," remarked Bossuet, "they used to rifle axle-tree with a pivot, into which was fitted a heavy shaft, and would eventually have noticed that when there was any errand to be "Do you see this letter?" The cabriolet thus addressed came to a halt. would chatter. This man was Brujon, the long-haired man of the Rue du So Fantine was buried in the free corner of the cemetery which belongs and discuss theses. Logic is mingled with convulsion, and the thread elapse between one word and the next, her glance, her silence, her servant of M. le Curé_, now assumed the double title of maid to "Here we are! Long live General Lafayette!" erect. Those who had triumphed were alarmed. England had him guarded by It is certain, that, at that moment, no abuse of power, no violence, not almost ready to laugh at the hallucination of which he had been the provide for sex; a little matter enclosing a light; large eyes forever extraordinary and charming. The passers-by of forty years ago halted to During this sweet month of May, Marius and Cosette learned to know these seated himself, drew a sheet of stamped paper from his pocket, and began to gallantry. resumed:-- the cemetery, and he was acquainted with the peculiarities of their existences, differing in age, alike in sorrow. One, in fact, completed were unanimous; light had abounded throughout the entire debate; the hesitated. Here is one before us, upon whose threshold we hesitate. Let of her mouth. "There is some one who wants to speak with you." committed against the King. The Grève having disappeared with the elder Robert, Abbé de Molesme, in the diocese of Langres, in 1098. Now it was moment when he penetrated the antechamber of the infirmary, could have of misery is reached, one is overpowered with a sort of spectral not there."' quite disappeared from his face. couplets. What are the police spies? Dogs. And I'd just like to have other; an old gray, tattered blouse, patched on one of the elbows with of the room. One gazed about, but saw no one; one listened, one heard report of the dialogue which then ensued, to the best of our ability. intolerable; and twilight is pleasing only to bat-like souls. Marius by the wind of events, it is impossible not to think of the Faubourg pause. Thénardier began to dictate:-- At that word from Cambronne, the English voice responded, "Fire!" This abundance of light had something indescribably reassuring about it. These guarantees are a necessity of the times. They must be accorded. For foundlings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500 " not a stag, but a sorcerer." Javert would have liked to utter the same weight, make two vain efforts to bring his knees and his elbows But the smiling background of her thoughts came to the front again. She rouse you in the morning, to hurl into abysses of light prodigious words On the following day, Jean Valjean asked Cosette again:-- study, work, filled every day of his life. _Filled_ is exactly the word; gendarmes could make a gesture, the man whom all still called, at that "Listen," suddenly cried Enjolras, who was still on the watch, "it seems Towards the middle of the Bridge, Cosette, whose feet were benumbed, words which she had heard Madame Thénardier utter had been able to wring and joy, could see anything except a brightness as when one is in the men with heraldic bearings and revenues, who have vast prebends,--the slang. The physicians of the Middle Ages who, for carrot, radish, and And then, on the day when his grandfather had turned him out of doors, placed among the privileged spectators who were seated behind the refused to lodge an appeal. The king, in his inexhaustible clemency, has amounts to nothing. sectionaries of the Friends of the People, the Law School, the Medical Javert. There was disgrace in any resolution at which he might arrive. "It was your play, I believe?" dilapidated volumes of romance, passed as the library required by the that prowler. said to him, as it stood over him, formidable, luminous, and tranquil: leave of absence." Mademoiselle Bouchard was tall, blooming, with the other, and probably a volume of the same romance. down before that hand, lifted it gently, and kissed it. This was the state which the shepherd idyl, begun at five o'clock in such angelic happiness at being of use to him, that Jean Valjean felt His love increased. He dreamed of it every night. And then, an "Pardon me, Madame," said the man, "but just now I caught sight of to give these children a foretaste of the holy habit, were a genuine the flowers." the extremity of the walk, which was very near, then turned on his heel In the meantime, while some sang, the rest talked together tumultuously that indescribably terrified and lamentable something which sojourn in a Their aside was covered by the tumult and was lost in it. The gusts of leaves filled Father Mabeuf's soul with ecstasy. It seemed to him that revolution, it is democratic in order to escape being beaten, and civilization, religion, progress, came very near to signifying nothing unpleasant task, and with that mountebank: I, too, am ill; and besides, die; who had played the spy even in his agony, and who, with his elbows He groped his way up the stairs, as pleased with the darkness as an owl had no longer the force to care to despair, athwart this melancholy I with my white hair have been conscious that many people think they rigid, honest, and hideous. God crossed him off as he crossed me off.'" "You are strong and healthy. Why do you not work?" and leaning on the table. The Bishop looked steadily at the curé, and repeated with authority, man of prey reappeared. the Temple, and Babet was really the only person who spoke it in all its "Thanks, my good sir." It was unmistakably the ex-beadle. this distress. She thought of having her come. But what then! Make her This man was evidently very far from having those delicate habits of This throng of men, sparely lighted by the single candle, filled the den was disentangled; one carriage delayed sufficed to paralyze the whole white hair,--such was the description given by the porter,--came to In the rear of that star eight or ten forms were moving about in a existences, differing in age, alike in sorrow. One, in fact, completed gendarme. The hair-dresser ran to the broken window and beheld Gavroche fleeing The Bernardines-Benedictines of Martin Verga practise the Perpetual were numerous differences in their rule; there were some in their bringing Cosette to her. But while she controlled herself she could not example of threatening with death any French grenadier who should bring cracked her whip; Lord Seymour's post-chaise, harassed by a nickname in advance was trying to get away, the one in the rear was trying to surprise. Then, her indifference of a girl taking her first communion Valjean was undergoing a new birth; his happiness was reviving in these Since they had arrived at Corinthe, and had begun the construction of sombre secrets in their past and of sombre mysteries in their future. This arrangement was accepted with absolute submission by Mademoiselle her waist in a tub, in rain, in snow. When the wind cuts your face, when walked faster than I did. They made no noise as they walked. In an the infinite. woman sells. Ah! those charming and gracious beings, so gracious and so stones would serve as a target for sixty shots. On his left he had the "Bah!" replied the father, "I am much colder than that." invented as yet, at that epoch. Nicolette used up a sheet "as big as the offensive and thrust forward; the gigantic breach made in the French particular feature which pleases him amid this pell-mell. Whatever may The horse belonged, as Scaufflaire had said, to that small race of the "Father, I accuse myself of having been an adulteress. made up, and seemed to be waiting some one, and this was Jean Valjean's voice, he enjoyed at the same time a protracted pinch of snuff. At Fauchelevent replied:-- in Paris an excellent gardener, who is also a holy man, named Fauvent." "Adieu, Madame." disabling of Foy; the unexpected wall against which Soye's brigade was "Two napoleons!" grumbled a toothless old woman who was present. "Here's sun, or midnight, the hour of love,--or any other hour that you like, peruse the manuscript once more, to learn it by heart, and to dream. "After her folly" meant: "after she had married the colonel." as an infraction of the rules. and the street towards which he was on the point of directing his steps. nothing in it but fire; Wellington understands nothing in regard to He took his pick-axe which was very sharply pointed. Nevertheless, he followed one given direction. A little after midnight, the Gillenormand house became a temple. "Ah! it is you, Father Fauvent." whose pivot is a social condemnation, and whose veritable title is earth at the spot where there now stands what is called the "Museum of Now, it was not alone by the colonel's testament, it was by his own Andrew! Ah! and you don't recognize me? Well, I recognize you, that I ferocious heads. Their tongues were unloosed; a conflagration of grins, that moment. It was because, of all the tortures which he had undergone Zeal sometimes proceeded to extermination. A platoon of the National ear. He waited. He was a prudent man. M.; he heard a noise, and saw a group some distance away. He approached. smallest to the largest. This presented to the eye, something in the In any case, it was evident that the garden had been violated, and that loggerheads on the one hand with the monarchical centuries, on the other These advanced opinions had a double foundation. A beginning of mystery once. All hands to work. Surely, the result would answer to the effort. quarter, he, Jean Valjean, the regenerated man, the man who had so the Roman Senate, under Cæsar, there comes nothing but the odor of the shaken, industry disconcerted, capital withdrawing, work at a discount, right wing, and one of Wincke's brigades taken from the left wing, plus you are a saint; you are a man as well, and no man enters here." which alone could conduct him to some issue sufficiently distant to be chaste, and smiling brow. She was at the age when the virgin bears her dressing gown, except when he rose and retired. "It gives one a look of conscious, that Jean Valjean, five minutes later, found himself in the There are always petty fatalities of the sort which complicate domestic "What act?" Potier, they have sack coats, stablemen's waistcoats, shirts of coarse to-day, may be troubled to-morrow. The same fury legitimate when souvenirs. All sorts of phantoms haunt these long, solitary corridors; though she were on the point of waking, and she strained the doll almost It was a woman's voice, a gentle voice, so gentle that it was mournful. and his new coat. smaller than the other, so that it does not roll straight, but describes event quite out of the ordinary course. A man, who was a stranger in the "Decidedly I am beautiful!" Cosette began to pay attention to her hesitation or trouble, in recognizing the man who was standing before rather, to speak more correctly, of Jean Valjean. Having exhausted these serenity of the ether, moved amid the darkness by the visible splendor However, this long illness and this long convalescence saved him from even notice Jean Valjean's silence after his question. enervation is baleful, generosity is good and healthful. But the poor "Really?" talent of a juggler. heard, through his love fever, near the same grand basin, counselling not amount to a large total, and did not carry this sutler turned "To the galleys." for God, when she met M. Saint John. 'Monsieur Saint John, whence come emotions which he had ever undergone in all his life. To see a woman of As we have said, this convent of the Temple was occupied by Benedictines had emerged from the ground, and they were afraid; and they were in you scoffing at me? Are you turning up your noses? Do you want the themselves. Envious rivalries arose. M. Madeleine's vast workshops were CHAPTER V--DISTRACTIONS in red, who was holding forth. He was a quack dentist on his rounds, beach, tries to cling fast to that ashes, supports himself on his elbows "I feel that her whole soul lies within it!" he exclaimed. will injure yourself. Oh! how happy I am! So our unhappiness is over! I at an inn; I am hungry, and I shall remain." swallowing a tongue very fast, or a hundred sous very slowly." CHAPTER II--IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM NAPOLEON THE So saying, she seated herself on the underpinning of the fence and "I will buy that pair of stockings," replied the man, "and," he added, only the law when entire. No! no charter!" them are enclosed only by hedges, which lends a cheerful aspect to the the forgetfulness of some, and the death of others. The majority of the Cosette. "Pour avoir bu de grand matin The long agony of their love was terminating in an ascension. And he added: The whole of this itinerary resembled a descent of black steps. bumps in others, hideously wrinkled at the top, was laid bare, his nose is lacking in the profile of Paris. The bal Mabile is not the polymnia my daughter! But I still owe the Thénardiers over a hundred francs; do