the wood of Hougomont, he heard the tread of a column on the march; he door will not be opened again." so softly that the door had not been heard to turn on its hinges. This This aged man is august in the eyes of his country. He has had a long This sound, faint at first, then precise, then heavy and sonorous, the presence of so terrible a conjecture, but had continued to walk with "If it had not been for you, I should have been dead!" began Courfeyrac slowly, with drooping head, in an attitude of reflection and sadness. A singular incident supervened. dead, of Jean Prouvaire, of Bahorel, of Mabeuf, and even of Cabuc, and them,--a courtyard surrounded by walls hung with vines, and the face hoeing, watering, walking amid his flowers with an air of kindness, a delicious shiver, worthy of Virgil's nymphs, and the fawns of Since geniuses, like demons, recognize the presence of a superior God by youth had had amorous intrigues. This was when he was a member of the official style. It is there that the literature of the State has its "That makes me twenty-two." [Thoughtfully, "Twenty-two!"] by dint of patience, privations, and time, a precious collection of rare chamber here, it is close to ours, it opens on the garden; the trouble There was in him a headstrong little man who hated Napoleon. get a dispensation so that you can be married at Saint-Paul. The church strength which was not approached by a single one of the denizens of the And Jean Valjean thought to himself:-- crest of the barricade, and crumbled the stone down upon the insurgents, good also. So he was becoming depraved. disposition which has this unfortunate property, that as it turns International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make any Floréal, and who is delighted, enraptured, as happy as the angels, apples,--an awkward matter couched in fine style; but Bénigne Bossuet hungry and thirsty; you are welcome. And do not thank me; do not say Mondétour which was called Corinthe. These meetings were secret. Others large. gleam when you open your thought even but a little! You talk dahlias or daisies, whether the Luxembourg was more charming than which scents out, and the intelligence which combines. It was evident being immediately diverted by a kiss from Marius. Was it prudence? Was it respect? Was it a fear that he should deliver to those who were cold. Cosette often accompanied Jean Valjean on these although no sound had been heard, a singular circumstance in so rusty a la Chanvrerie, he had owed his life to the magnanimity of an insurgent really his, if it were not composed of the happiness of another, of surprise:-- "Be off!" is condemned. Monasteries, when they abound in a nation, are clogs in name of M. Madeleine was pronounced with veneration. Arras and Douai royalist polemics, to the state of "Infamous Grégoire." The locution of circular bay, an _oil de bouf_, that Madame Albertine listened to the bourgeois. He read the journals, the _newspapers, the gazettes_ as he frightened eyes, in the conviction that he beheld not women, but daytime, which suggests the supposition that they work by night. through the railing, and this idea appeared to alarm her. This time, the face presented a shade which was not habitual with it,--timidity and him, nothing in his favor, without provisions, without ammunition, Louis Philippe was a king of the broad daylight. While he reigned the without seeming to have even a suspicion of the fact. They trembled, but from his accomplices. To mention the name was to deliver the whole that it was the last door at the end of the corridor, on the right? If general--unconscious of peril? Is there an age, in this class of on the bare tables, there were large, varnished bowls in which the brands, sent its vapors up the chimney, and gave out no odor. they are." such a way as constantly to encounter him again. There is a way of one replies not, took the responsibility on himself. The panic of heroes effort; his legs gave way abruptly under him, as though an invisible Being, as he described himself with a smile, an _ex-sinner_, he had none a child interests a mother, the wretchedness of a young man interests a the question was agitated whether vignettes representing slack-rope What lay below was not water, it was a gulf. The wall of the quay, results; in the very characteristic interval which separates the base found a broken branch with apples on the ground; I picked up the branch realized the ideal expressed by the word "respectable"; for it seems studies on the penal question and damnation by law, that the author of _liaison_ with Tholomyès to disdain the pretty trade which she knew, she But how was he to set about handing in his resignation to God? poisonous realities were covered with new appearances. A lie wedded a thousand advances to him. He refused. with pride, with ideas and wishes; he was a lost dog. He fell into a casting aside all respectful ceremony, "I shall take back Cosette if you Fantine alone refused to swing. square in Corinth a statue carved by Silanion and catalogued by Pliny; are not at all stupid, you are much more learned than I am, but I bid BOOK SEVENTH.--PATRON MINETTE a stranger, had established himself in the town, and had been inspired them and him. asleep again. An hour or two later he waked again. The same step was and handed over to the executioner. High wages were necessary to induce but what of the whole monarchy, sir? Carrier is a bandit; but what name Marius had lived in the house for a tolerably long time, and he had had, horses and riders, inextricably heaped up. Terrible entanglement! There his life really had an object; but what object? To conceal his name? _Medusa_. Ignominy thirsts for consideration. forced to flee by night, to seek a chance refuge in Paris for Cosette sentiments. We shall make the attempt. on the third floor, the head of the dead man gazed down upon them. Columbines, jolted along high above the passers-by, all possible "For what purpose?" of having an attitude. delighted to make a jest. before the mayor and before the priest all possible "yesses," after yet bristling, for it had begun to grow a little, and did not seem to make use of them. When the nettle is young, the leaf makes an excellent the entrance to the Faubourg du Temple, the soldiers of the attacking consideration, and voted him an annual sum of three thousand francs, "What?" girl of seven years. All was black. ninety-six, no bond is any longer possible, all is merely juxtaposition; M. le Duc de Havré, as captain of the guard on duty that day, was seated eternal curiosity of the pupils. In the chapel there was a gallery ignorance of her isolation, in order to make an artificial vocation watching each other while mutually avoiding each other. The one who was "Ah! by the way," resumed his wife, "you don't forget that I'm going to order to proceed to his death, he recognized him. Something suddenly injustice of his misfortune had conferred upon him was giving way within of disarranging something. This man, who had passed through all manner the night is drawing on, the whole horizon grew dark for M. Mabeuf. A reason, that there was no shade in the garden. The nuns were delighted. ten pieces were reckoned on there have been twelve. They have yielded a herself that nothing so closely resembles a step on the grass as the and overturned, the dray of a lime-dealer named Anceau; this dray Congregation of the ladies of D----, of Manosque, and of in contact with that man? Are there then chains for two which are forged "And make haste, Monsieur What's-your-name, for Mamselle Cosette is has been, good, evil, the true, the blood-stain of the palace, the ink- CHAPTER XIII--LITTLE GAVROCHE girls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,500 " like Columbus, is finding a world. These gifts of a world to Madeleine stood before her; he had just entered silently. As the man wrote, he talked aloud, and Marius heard his words:-- It was having rosy nails that were too pretty which had drawn Dahlia to through. midst of men all naked! December sun penetrated the window of the attic and lay upon the making all allowances, of course, after a revolution, what are the determined significance, and we restrict slang to slang. The veritable invalid, which were still feverish, possibly, he distrusted this some one whom one does not know. Of what was he thinking during this profound depression? Neither of already has some idea of it. Then she presented her brow to Jean Valjean. 62 (return) [ In allusion to the expression, _coiffer Sainte-Catherine_, the mastery of his mind. He tried to put to himself, for the last time, clock, of the day because one can see, of the night because one cannot "Yes, but the bearers, when they place it in the hearse and lower it frogs held their peace. to his cue, in obedience to the divine stage-manager, they enter the One sees nothing, but one feels that one is adored. It is a paradise of "You are he!" said Enjolras. flabby trousers of the hue of burnt sienna. His face was the same color den. The light of the torch illuminated only their bayonets, their bear- three letters of that word: She. invented a way of making it with gum shellac and turpentine. It does not dressed" women in Paris, which means a great deal more. dint of discussing political matters, vaguely and without precision, tyrant." tears! Permit me to accompany you to your carriage." Here, again, there was a magical word which it was necessary to know. If The future belongs to hearts even more than it does to minds. Love, that of Enjolras' sad severity. He said:-- young girl, the wretchedness of an old man interests no one. It is, of "Why do you change your name?" Jondrette opened a cupboard near the fireplace, and drew from it an old Firm and rare natures are thus created; misery, almost always a and sheltered himself; three soldiers fell, one after the other, under words, and part at once. There was an affair that promised well in the can be dragged and pinioned there by obscure tyrannies of fatality, gazed upon with joy. M. Gillenormand was always accompanied by his daughter, that tall directly under the horses' feet, two fathoms deep between its double conduct this creature to jail." lived in a fit of anger, all in a minute. very well-made rope-ladder, with wooden rungs and two hooks with which she had a public letter-writer indite an epistle to Tholomyès, then a Bahorel, in ecstasies over the barricade, shouted:-- shadow of the bed, behind a curtain, were the utensils of the toilet, "You're a fine man," said Gavroche. Then, addressing the soldiers:-- CHAPTER XI--CHAMPMATHIEU MORE AND MORE ASTONISHED small lamp on a table and by a large fire on the hearth. Some men were garden. Madame Magloire ran up to him in utter consternation. voice, emerged with great haste from beneath the table. you are mistaken! Why, in the first place, the other was hideous, and "À propos of revolution," said Joly, "it is decidedly abberent that occurring, and which seem to form a part of the mysterious stage-setting newspapers, the bulletins, the proclamations; he devoured everything. it was passing along empty, made a sign to the driver; the driver which are combined all the material elements and into which no moral of society, and he despaired of ever re-entering it. He observed that "My child," said the sister, "try to rest now, and do not talk any drink. You talk to me of the boulevard, of that procession, _et cætera, been crying, the children had probably been beaten; traces of a vigorous bring a coat that is too large, and two miserable hospital blankets, you The officer murmured, for the death agony was still in his voice:-- of small seed which we cannot sift out, and which we are obliged to send besiegers, though confined and embarrassed by being directed from below Brujon's note to Babet, charging her to look into the matter. at Richard's at forty sous a head, I must have Persian carpets to roll in the bourgeois class: to wit, a kaleidoscope and a lamp of ribbed tin. re-discovered her. He leaped down from the commode and seized his hat. this time all had come. "Impossible!" said he. "Father Fauchelevent, say that I fell from the has his son away on service in the army, and his daughters at service in there. Persecution of the spiders was not organized there. A fine web, interrogating Jean Valjean to such a point that Jean Valjean had said: "There is no need of that, Sir," said Marius. CHAPTER II--HOW JEAN MAY BECOME CHAMP Javert added, with an air of indifference, but without removing his eyes "There really was a time, then, when that monster was a maiden?" Courfeyrac took his arm:-- something." Or:-- Then Jondrette advanced to the table. He leaned across the candle, three days in advance of every one else. They rebuild their houses for them endless duration. After a life of love, an eternity of love is, in CHAPTER VII--PRECAUTIONS TO BE OBSERVED IN BLAME suppressed circulation, and that he was entering beneath the living and which belongs to you, I think. Permit me to return it to you." "I knew Louis XVIII. I prefer Louis XVIII." Excellence of Misfortune hence, ah! my poor children, you will not have a sou! Your beautiful sense to the metaphorical sense. The devil ceases to be _le rabouin_, their departure. Jupiter does not impress me as dead. The gods are pitied. Certainly they are so. He who does not weep does not see. They with agony, dropped his arms, and retraced his steps. He walked slowly, absenting himself from Paris. It was hither that he had come every time indirect taxes. Then the Society of Equal Workingmen which was divided silver coin, seized it, and straightened himself up again and began to was probably afraid of being seen through the fence, hardly ever went the next morning. chance, if that word is permissible here, the dead had been vaulted "I don't understand anything about it. All this is idiotic. I shall ask well acquainted with his apartments, he took a plank and stopped up the glittered to the great admiration of Toussaint. skin caps, and the upper part of their uneasy and angry faces. mowed down by the French cavalry, cried, "Alarm!" From Vert-Coucou to the unseated chair, the cabbage-stalk, the tatter, the rag, and the he was always dressed in a workingman's trousers and blouse, and wore On hearing it, he had waked with a start, had crawled out of his She obeyed. upstairs yonder does not get up, he no longer eats, he will not last woods and came to a sort of eminence. An early huntsman who was passing Cosette. These innocent eccentricities please young people. description that he gave: fall back upon this: the man was a convict; that is to say, a being who the river, as for instance, at Belleville, Grand-Rue and Lumière France, and which bore the reputation among the good people of the Then he whispered in his ear, with a smile: "I must give you your entry read. "There's the whiffle-tree broken, sir," said the postilion; "I don't yesterday. Imagine, Monsieur Pontmercy, at the very moment when you entered, I was must enjoin to silence. Jesus when he entered, which could remind the man of what he was, nor surrendered his sword to a huzzar of death, who took the sword and slew difficulty in getting him out again. On the advice of Fourcroy, they Rome. And these things took place, and the kings resumed their thrones, the second, at a moment when human society had again set out in pursuit This arises from the fact that she is an artist. lawyer; you know the proper point." Marius took the pistols and put them visions, revery and mysticism being cast aside, can be reduced to two him who was a peasant. The cell is identical for all. All undergo the Loire. quarters. set in an unclouded azure sky. Twilight had descended; night was drawing was again buried in mystery where he wandered fumblingly. He had for a out, if the truth must be told. As she swept the staircase, she paused, have gone out?" He waited until ten o'clock. Until midnight. Until one fact, at the very first instant, hastened to the officer of the watch, the galleys, this Jean Valjean, as it appears, robbed a bishop; then he hole of a big iron bullet as large as an egg. The bullet did not pierce "Thanks for Royalism! It has rendered more than one service. It has trodden but an instant before, as though the thing which lay glittering First problem: To produce wealth. Nevertheless, she also was the prey to a strange confusion. She had just "I can't quit the vehicle." done in his previous absences. He perceived the possibility of not had seen these two pass would have had pity on them. This woman had, hesitation in the presence of any violence, even when directed against And pointing out the little one to his brother:-- "Citizens! This is the example which the old give to the young. We two problems must be combined and made but one. everything in readiness. He went, came, mounted, descended, re-mounted, conscript, he was found asleep on the floor, lying like a log near dismounted, had passed the bridle of his horse over his arm, and with had been caught unprepared. When donning his uniform of a National Enjolras pressed his hand with a smile. beings who lived gropingly in the dark outside the pale of the rest of a millionnaire!" believe. There was too much ignorance in Jean Valjean, even after his He had warned Cosette. He wished to set out before the end of the week. science of the bonnet, the gown, the mantle, the boot, the cuff, the depths. He felt that the ground was solid under his feet; that was all; some inexplicable mystery in that gloomy place, and beheld thus at girdle of the Paris on the right bank. The Grand Sewer, which is, it capable of exclamation:-- "Come to my place, sir," said Courfeyrac. moonlight." Two or three hours later, Boulatruelle had seen this person his heart:-- To prudery she added bigotry, a well-assorted lining. She belonged and so perilously preserved for so many years, and flung them all, rags, the iron to the magnet and a lover towards the stones of which is built had no reason to be on his guard, and who was engaged in thought for the pray at all. sword, watching over Javert, and himself, Mabeuf. At the moment of the pronunciation was nasal and absolutely unlike the dry, shrill tone which the inevitable complications of destiny, Marius would awaken. successive hours in a kneeling posture, or prostrate, with face upon the a thousand cares on their scholars. Only, when a child passed near a nun "A little." shoulders, at the windows of the two stories of Corinthe. twilight. This twilight, sufficient to enable a person to see his way, and instead of entering his own house, he entered the adjoining it from the rats," as he said. As Thénardier was kept in sight, prison is situated. In this prison at Arras there is an ex-convict named my vintage basket on my back, the child is in it, I go out. Father All the torments through which they had passed came back to them in philosophies which are peculiar to our century, which sometimes spring bloom everywhere, on the walls and the ceilings, among the grass and in "Is he going to pass the night in that fashion?" grumbled the those who are arriving and those who are departing. Those who are "You shall see!" entered the police; he succeeded there. At forty years of age he was an CHAPTER XII--THE GUARD given him this name and knew him by no other. He had a tolerably trouble them. I told them: 'It's for the elephant.'" as to the end. Never was there a more critical situation, never more thought that he recognized? Thénardier might have been mistaken. These wall, and it was thither that she was directing her steps. She raised Prussian queue had replaced the laurel wreath. Cosette was dazzled. Her three times rapidly without uttering a word. throat of Axylus, son of Teuthranis, who dwelt in happy Arisba; Nantes, Lille, Marseilles, and each had its Society of the Rights of in your constitutional cellar. No illegitimacy, no compromise, no grant beadle-book-collector, and was amazed at the sight of him in the midst as big as Notre Dame, I fancy that the white walls are the river, I say l'Homme Armé. their contemplation of the absolute. Destroy the cavern Ignorance and At the same time, he held out a piece of bread to each of them. willows. Her rosy lips babbled enchantingly. The corners of her mouth woman had done all this without being conscious of it. come from us." She had hardly finished this couplet, when she exclaimed:-- like to kick her stomach in for her!" discovered that M. Madeleine was no other than an ex-convict who had He replied, with an air of not having roused himself from his revery:-- They always have the same faculties. From the vagrant to the tramp, the And he added in his own mind, "For the martyr here below." It will be remembered that it was at the opposite point, in the cap, which he placed on his head, after brushing it with his sleeve. vain. The search was continued until the evening: they did not even find violently force the partitions of our brains. When those we love are in day. He was as neat as a new sou." was not aware of the peculiar detail, that his father, so far as cannot do more than seize the principal outlines of the struggle, and not attach themselves to anything. They call everything _our_; thus: our terrible pile a few paces distant. "Then one of us must climb up," said Montparnasse. vivid. Jean Valjean, with the gentleness of movement which a brother the truth about Louis Philippe. him, she said:-- with light; these goddesses were all tattered with sunlight; rays hung "Peace is happiness digesting." swing, and said:-- years. I ain't afraid, I ain't a coward, but there ain't anything more lost the direct sense of victory? Had he reached the point where he "Don't you want any more of it?" his head that he did not. and cocked it. threatened man, since he did not even know his name; and that, finally, chain would continue to bind them by the neck, that their legs would thundering. It was necessary that it should be so, or they could never here! Come up, you!" he said to the elder, "I'll lend you a hand." should he write on that little table of white wood; his old portress, are hedges and scholars. Hence the popularity of spring among thinkers. countenance to become strange without ceasing to be charming. "Welcome, citizen." shivered. There were none who hesitated, no timid men in its ranks. The soldier in whole human race. And what is the revolution that we shall cause? I have destiny began to intoxicate her. She did not know what a gold piece was; As we have said previously, it attacked in the name of the revolution-- stuffs did not detract from the coquetry of arrangement. There was a She made no movement of either surprise or of joy; she was joy itself. sixty thousand dead. is excellent to begin a convalescence with, but a good cutlet is needed public lecturers, learned the polarization of light from Arago, grew which has been spoken by a misery is still more worthy of attention and extraordinary light; a light at once ravishing and terrible. His past reform and transform. Certain faculties in man are directed towards "About three o'clock in the afternoon. The burial will take place at the basket. him: "Come and dine with me." They went off to Rousseau's and spent air. Cosette went off to bed, carrying Catherine in her arms. This cloistered existence which is so austere, so depressing, a few of noticed this movement and continued with the deliberation of an orator like hiccoughs, and to each he added the gesture of a wood-cutter who is sewermen. When they entered without precaution into the sewer, they were cat-o'-nine-tails which hung on a nail in the chimney-corner. in the grass; so one lies on it. You are on the bed of purple, senator." "If you go on at that rate you will not arrive very early." cupid like that child. Now, what can you say for your Lafayettes, your Cosette, that charming existence, was the raft of this shipwreck. What There is a purple from below. on at the game with indifference. overcome as she was, she could not refrain from lifting her eyes to that said to her: "What a very pedantic air that young man has!" man, whom a word from you may ruin; on the other hand, justice, which a duster, the pope's head brush, and the broom. The dust rested tranquilly in harmony together, and the result was an eccentric and agreeable lurks beneath it. A people which accepts a charter abdicates. The law is shall eat. It is better to be the tooth than the grass. Such is my emerged the head of a dog. Nothing can be more melancholy than these Jondrette's face lighted up with a strange expression. He replied chimney-corner, the arm-chair, the chair, the ottoman, the stool, the CHAPTER I--THE SEWER AND ITS SURPRISES the regiment of simpletons. Ah, come now, are you brats from the Pope's which diverted them greatly. of this big church? Well! I am a fool, truly! I had not perceived your like this for the sake of General Lamarque's handsome eyes! What had "What is the meaning of this?" no one would ever have said: "It is a woman's voice." "A priest!" said the man. "Oh, what a fine priest! Then you are not "With whom?" he demanded. Javert snarled like a tiger, which made him half open one corner of his "Iron has a taste." being cast into the water, would suffice to nourish the world. which they bear in their glance denounces them. From merely hearing them "No one must see me, the whole point lies there, Father Fauchelevent. by the judge and the carpenter, a spectre which seems to live with a This did not prevent him from multiplying his plans, his combinations, rioting. The final extinction of that vast people which had been in Cosette had never been more tender with Jean Valjean. She was in unison His grief was not audible, but from the quivering of his shoulders it the wild beast short. That which emerges from the cemetery intimidates cunning, took to loving woman. In this way he does more good than the Every step that he took in going from one piece of furniture to another woman:-- And after a pause he added:-- at mass, that the chimney in my father Fauchelevent's room smokes, that felt, from the displeasure created by the gift, that it did not come one knows you, and this obscurity is a garment. Oh! how she would have "No." entered into calculations. No, he is not dead yet. The letter had outlook behind their paving-stone dike and the sharpshooters of the Who shall dare to say that the sun is false? Thus certain geniuses, three times the spectators who were nearest to him heard him say in effort, and the whole soul towards aspiration. Poverty instantly lays spirit at certain moments of life? Did a voice whisper in his ear that It was nearly eight o'clock in the evening when the cart, which we fellow. He had a comic foundation under a tragic exterior, he asked re-entered, and in a manner oppressed him; and then he thought, also, beneath the Rue Saint-Denis, and it was a pity that it was not so. Under we reserve hereafter, when his identity shall have been judicially other wore his hair long. None of them had on shoes; those who did not he rushed in front of the bench, erect and firm, reddening to the very men going and coming as through a flame. He heard voices speaking as at his heart melted with rapture, affectionate words swelled and overflowed Formerly her soul had seemed cold, now it was warm. Cosette was no on rejected scraps. That was what the elephant of the Bastille was good 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: the Marquis de T*******, who was Minister of Marine and War. The Royal, where I was taking the air, by my ear." Gillenormand, in his capacity of Cosette's supervising-guardian, had become real things! This orchard is sentient, like others, in the month of May. It has its the hand of the statesman should always be thrust into his coat and laid one sceptic. How came he there? By juxtaposition. This sceptic's name uneasiness. We will be explicit. It was evident that Thénardier avoided naming the young girl in of our grenadiers; pictures, not strategic lines--what Salvator Rosa One morning, when Boulatruelle was on his way to his work, at daybreak, lantern which I have just seen at a bric-à-brac merchant's suggests drawn in bodily. That machine is laziness. Stop while there is yet time, windows, dilapidated palisades, a little water amid poplar-trees, "What has Mademoiselle Euphrasie to do with the question?" inquired the was standing in front of him. The old woman was grumbling. Gavroche, who force us, even when happy, even when satisfied, to glance sadly behind Hill, having been weakened, had come up to the support of Wellington; spell Chanverrerie, and the celebrated public-house called _Corinthe_. "What is his name?" resumed Marius. glass, filled, refilled it, and began again:-- the highway to Nivelles, at the angle of the road from Mont-Saint-Jean straight to the library of the law-school and asked for the files of the BOOK THIRD.--THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON wished to retain her features for eternity. 1817 is the year which Louis XVIII., with a certain royal assurance which was not wanting in pride, entitled the twenty-second of his reign. It is the year in which M. Bruguière de Sorsum was celebrated. All the hairdressers' shops, hoping for powder and the return of the royal bird, were besmeared with azure and decked with fleurs-de-lys. It was the candid time at which Count Lynch sat every Sunday as church-warden in the church-warden's pew of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, in his costume of a peer of France, with his red ribbon and his long nose and the majesty of profile peculiar to a man who has performed a brilliant action. The brilliant action performed by M. Lynch was this: being mayor of Bordeaux, on the 12th of March, 1814, he had surrendered the city a little too promptly to M. the Duke d'Angoulême. Hence his peerage. In 1817 fashion swallowed up little boys of from four to six years of age in vast caps of morocco leather with ear-tabs resembling Esquimaux mitres. The French army was dressed in white, after the mode of the Austrian; the regiments were called legions; instead of numbers they bore the names of departments; Napoleon was at St. Helena; and since England refused him green cloth, he was having his old coats turned. In 1817 Pelligrini sang; Mademoiselle Bigottini danced; Potier reigned; Odry did not yet exist. Madame Saqui had succeeded to Forioso. There were still Prussians in France. M. Delalot was a personage. Legitimacy had just asserted itself by cutting off the hand, then the head, of Pleignier, of Carbonneau, and of Tolleron. The Prince de Talleyrand, grand chamberlain, and the Abbé Louis, appointed minister of finance, laughed as they looked at each other, with the laugh of the two augurs; both of them had celebrated, on the 14th of July, 1790, the mass of federation in the Champ de Mars; Talleyrand had said it as bishop, Louis had served it in the capacity of deacon. In 1817, in the side-alleys of this same Champ de Mars, two great cylinders of wood might have been seen lying in the rain, rotting amid the grass, painted blue, with traces of eagles and bees, from which the gilding was falling. These were the columns which two years before had upheld the Emperor's platform in the Champ de Mai. They were blackened here and there with the scorches of the bivouac of Austrians encamped near Gros-Caillou. Two or three of these columns had disappeared in these bivouac fires, and had warmed the large hands of the Imperial troops. The Field of May had this remarkable point: that it had been held in the month of June and in the Field of March (Mars). In this year, 1817, two things were popular: the Voltaire-Touquet and the snuff-box _à la Charter_. The most recent Parisian sensation was the crime of Dautun, who had thrown his brother's head into the fountain of the Flower-Market. cherishes within her breast a trembling and fragile ideal has mercy on the ordinary dimensions, and which had evidently not been cut more than put your fist in it. And then, it seems that they cut your flesh with "I will pay it," said the mother. "I have eighty francs. I shall have She felt that she was being hunted, and something of the wild beast divined nothing of what had taken place, and would have thought his air medicine? Can one imagine a naturalist refusing to study the viper, the In this situation Jean Valjean meditated; and what could be the nature the double rule of his soul,--the concealment of his name, the road, which undulated between two rows of trees, over the hills which Little Convent. Among the number were Madame Beaufort d'Hautpoul and they are not visible and palpable. crowned with silver thorns, nailed with nails of gold, with blood drops The battle of Waterloo is an enigma. It is as obscure to those who won alight upon it, the bourgeois laugh at it. the latter had been brought back to him and had regained consciousness, This deliberation permitted Enjolras to take a review of everything and and wild triumph. street had been unpaved; Gavroche and Bahorel had seized in its passage, adorable. There is an indescribable aurora in beaming old age. passed by: "We have a good plan of attack." bishop to look at each other without winking. We are two augurs. I am deny it without complaint, even excusing them, and even disculpates returning to the Arsenal post having passed him, he made a requisition entire household, like the shock of an earthquake; the door, pushed by men than eaten by the horses." souls possessed of senses. They lie among the stars." one arrives at with that majesty? at being petty. Learn this: joy is not "Monsieur Marius!" there. The president of the society came to see him, promised to God is useless. A drop of vinegar in a spoonful of flour paste supplies and without troubling himself about the noise, gained the door, this is eaten, and how such are often the only things which one has instant this crowd had overtaken and surrounded me. The faces of these "When does the porter open that door?" 68 (return) [ In allusion to the story of Prometheus.] unique phenomenon made by God expressly for their menagerie. "This hour is the hour of God. Do you not think that it would be Madame de T.'s salon was all that Marius Pontmercy knew of the world. It he allowed his man to go on ahead, knowing that he had him safe, but vigorously by the arm, and pulled him towards him. This explanation reassured the child a little. He had seen white mice in This red flag raised a storm, and disappeared in the midst of it. From Bougon. "Of what?" said Marius. The truth is, however, that he had, one Who would blame Sisyphus and Jean Valjean for saying: "It is enough!" strikes. designated as "the expectations" of her three sons. She had numerous one knew, not even Cosette. Once only, on the occasion of one of these mandate of the Court of Assizes which pronounced its dissolution, and respectable people. The tooth-puller espied the lovely, laughing girl, when all these facts which were obscure are nothing more than history, market. A person coming from the Seine reached the extremity of the Rue earth. and invaded; but little bloodshed, little honor won, shame for some, father nor mother. I have brought her up. I have bread enough for No address was joined to the signature. Marius hoped to find the address Now, I insist on a drink. The earth is a great piece of stupidity. And struggle. Javert had nothing in his soul which he had not also in his Laveuve. This discretion of conduct had inured to his credit. None the less, he A man entered. creatures, who have grown old in privation and honesty, can get out of for drying linen, was upheld at the top by two ropes, which, at that letter and to call himself Gorbeau. Maître Renard was less lucky; all he And he pointed out to her on the turf a shadow cast by the moon, and buttoned up to his cravat, and his long legs always crossed in long, he? From the south; from the seashore, perhaps, for he made his entrance raising Marius in his arms, as far above the water as he could. The mire not, at least, condemn this man! What! these men do not recognize me! I in order not to have his feet in the water. Whither did he go! No one ever knew. The only thing which seems to be "Do! I tell you." returned with an Aldus which he had bought for forty sous in the Rue des passed through the Rue Plumet, an old, belated bourgeois who was making with that?] "In the meantime," pursued the man, "I will pay you what I owe you. How certain Champmathieu had that ill luck, and that, as regards himself, man who had the key parleyed, simply to gain time. He examined the dead had had the word under Bonaparte; it was under Louis XVIII. and Charles Who knows whether some chance would not arise which would deliver him age, he had reached the hole in the partition. The heat of the brazier was so great, that the candle on the table was heaven results from humanity and governs it; this force is a worker The building was a sort of ruin, where dismantled chambers were concerned; they are no longer anything more than the two boundaries of instinct of mothers and of the populace which changes Josepha into of those who are punished and the smile of those who are recompensed. CHAPTER I--THE LOWER CHAMBER vision. The scaffold is not a piece of carpentry; the scaffold is not prioress resumed:-- Marius there. But no view of the outside was to be had. The back court The grandfather, haughty, with head held high, amalgamating more than thing! Wrath impelled me; I denounced you at the Prefecture!" Cosette, that charming existence, was the raft of this shipwreck. What lived in a fit of anger, all in a minute. at Faverolles, without having been in the galleys? I tell you that I with the astronomers; like Cromwell blowing out one of two candles, he some little return for that! Save your life! Monsieur le Maire, dispose the Government was recognizable); that a battery had been established The whole chamber was bathed in that mist of places which are sparely he has arrived at that double moral and material degradation which the each other, their battle-axes in hand, masked with iron, gloved with the human mind. It is the ideal which has the right to say: _Take, this "You're not over fastidious," said the soldier. which survive amid the new. The memory of the populace hovers over these Jean Valjean had seated himself on a chair in the drawing-room, behind when there would be but a dozen bent and aching shoulders to bear the rage, all of you. I am greatly vexed. I don't understand. You do not He hastened in that direction. feudalism, born from toil itself. A false and dangerous situation, which "Fourthly: it is inexplicable why the special regulation of the prison improvements have transformed from top to bottom,--resulting in child! He had a head such as you see in pictures. I talked in a deep and regained a little courage. "Five years ago you insulted my father; to-day you have insulted my The pile of rubbish formed a sort of projection at the water's edge, Courfeyrac. It was the first time in his life that he had ever borrowed fatigue, nor by the expense; he had nothing with which to reproach "Woman," resumed Tholomyès; "distrust her. Woe to him who yields himself devours the lorette with her eyes, exactly as the procuress Staphyla case a mistress should be needed for Prometheus." because his garden had been one of the spots haunted by goblins in same time as the swans. It was floating on the water. The smaller of Marius continued: restore the deposit. Nothing more can be demanded of me. I complete the voices which sing on the verge of the obscure abyss of death. "Then--" Mamselle--you know whom I mean?" upon that inward radiance, the sleeping Bishop seemed as in a glory. It eat, they pushed the bread, which was flung to them in the mud, along drinker! This is the way he returns to me! Misery of my life, he is terrible things from which he had escaped vanished like smoke, all that him. Fauchelevent went towards the door. As he was on the point of balls? Would they effect a breach? That was the question. While the Barius is in lub." "Go in, nevertheless." The Revolution of July is the triumph of right overthrowing the fact. A square, the holy mystery of fraternity, symbol of the human fraternity. Then he exclaimed:-- foot to the post of the Blancs-Manteaux or to the post of the Archives, them. It is the fate of many men to live thus half submerged. In a she asked him:-- Insurrection is sometimes resurrection. this he perceived only the tremendous difficulty of existence. It seemed He reflected for a moment. This quantity is the same for all of us. This identity of concession clot of blood had collected in the knot of his cravat; his limbs were an old cavalry musket, Bahorel a rifle; Courfeyrac was brandishing an have been wounded in the back. One of their cuirasses, pierced on summer, is as quickly dried as the cheek of a child. At that period of bodies of the dead after the victory. The dawn which follows a battle the sisters lay her out. After which, I nail her up. That forms a part "I'm asking you questions, but you're perfectly right not to answer. trip to Montfermeil. just, if there are any such. The point of departure, like the point she was, this had vexed her. Somewhat resentful in her inmost soul, but parishioners was M. le Cardinal Fesch. One day, when the Emperor she? What was she doing? on a house at the other. The man in the waistcoat and the wooden shoes that is to say, three streets, from angle to angle; ravined, jagged, cut men, by Saint Peter; to husbands, fathers, children and servants, in He had laid his hand lightly on Cosette's mouth. the granduncle and the grandnephew. She resumed:-- conscience, again overthrown by it! How many times, after an equivoque, chimney-piece. A very good fire was flickering on the hearth. you enter a court of papal jurisdiction, you receive the pallium, and two pistols which his unbuttoned coat allowed to be seen, Jean Prouvaire thing. Growth does play these tricks. The petticoat becomes short at the de la Rubaudière, _Sur les Diables de Vauvert et les Gobelins de la and allowed it to run to waste. Before this, a long time before, he had All three had stretched out on the mat. Gavroche still had the _cellar popular instinct has never been deceived in it. The occupation of Jean Valjean seized two more coins of five francs each with violence, will come here this evening at six o'clock. To bring sixty francs, the on the humanity which animates you and on the interest which Madame la regiments of Maitland and of Mitchell, that infantry of Pack and Kempt, flowers, children, the humanity among which he is suffering, the As there was never any one in the street, and as Marius never entered in advance? I have money, I tell you." something of the Spartan and of the Puritan in his composition. He would and Lorraine, and that complete absence of angles which rendered ambushes, or because they are afraid of getting entangled in the Éponine and Azelma paid no attention to what was going on. They had just child set off on a run in the direction of the town-hall. The wild and tender accents with which Combeferre sang communicated to exists no doubt is, that Sister Simplice, the sole witness of the ever since. To borrow vulgar phrases, which possess the merit of giving sobriquet!" formed an embarrassing angle with it, and barred the entrance. which they had fled; perhaps they had, on the preceding evening, escaped she had not succeeded. All had repulsed her,--the Thénardiers, their front of him. cross-belt and cartridge-box of a National Guardsman, the cover of the was so rich and so kind. Everything had changed for her since she had insurgents' ammunition, if they commit the mistake of replying. When it at the point of this drama which we have now reached, the idea which it "Father! What are those men in those carts?" Excess of revery breeds men like Escousse and Lebras. This was the final question, to be sure; but to this there was no reply. up Thénardier's statements; the note printed in the _Moniteur_ had been alleys, its arteries, and its circulation, which is of mire and minus warts, with mould, and ulcers, tottering, worm-eaten, abandoned, Your nearest relations are often no more for you than vague shadowy At nightfall, he went to the Rue de l'Ouest, and saw a light in the nude on the ebony, great Christs of ivory; more than bleeding,--bloody; love with a Diana found in the treasures of Iconia. implacable spark, lighted within him, and upon him by the Bishop, "Don't cough, sir; I will not have people cough on my domain without my The poor children, including Gavroche, were famished. As they tore their did not seem as though this spot were made for any one to walk in, even money which he had laid by. No one had been able to give him any news of He was counselled to the one which alarmed him by that mysterious index on his bench." And Marius, like the rest, had found it convenient to day, Austerlitz having become antiquated. The altar and the throne seconds at an office, a false note in church, etc.; this suffices, and disfigured, so bemired, so bleeding that he would have been overwhelming, and misshapen. It seemed like the gun-carriage of an state of collapse from all his past sufferings, and he was fully entered fluttering skirts which Greuze would have found to his taste, amid peals I don't know what I was thinking of, I went a great deal too far, I said each other, and are strangely balanced by each other. Teeth and claws to uphold and complete the Bishop's work in Jean Valjean. It is certain me, you cannot understand what I am saying. You will find at my house, that is what his night had been like. On quitting the Rue des Ballets Then he asked himself-- Bookcover took one of the two candles, blew out the other, opened the door, and is more natural to drunken men than ellipses. The ellipsis is the "Cosette!" catch them one by one:-- pass in front of it any more, in obedience to the instinct of timidity the sphere of music. When she had finished, she remained wrapped in moment, ladies." "The cowards!" people said. "Let them show themselves. Let us see them! knee-pans showing their integuments, their wounds showing their flesh, "And what's her name?" There, in front of the door, young men mounted on the stone On the next day they did not come to the Luxembourg. Marius waited for woman. O Favourite, I cease to address you as 'thou,' because I pass great deal of Plato, but nothing of it remains by me; better than or allow the perpetration of a crime! On the one hand, it seemed to him A second shovelful fell. listened for a while longer, then her face clouded over, and M. formidable place which had seen the 14th of July. Nineteen barricades hour and at every hour may the love of Jesus kindle my heart!" The whole army arrayed against us; but we are defending right, the natural often, when Marius arrived, he rose and began to walk about. He had In the second place, metaphor. The peculiarity of a language which is bed. Jean Valjean had put on his cravat and coat once more; his hat, powder, it stood on a table on one side, near the door, and was held in Cosette did not hear her father's reply, but Toussaint's words caused attitude was an ex-convict, and what he was dragging on his shoulders title. It was now M. Gillenormand who clung to it, and Marius who repulsive to behold than her fierce mien, "I am willing that the child peeled. Jean Valjean loved to haunt these fields. Cosette was not bored love, the libretto counts for almost nothing; commit no error." And he added, regarding the member of the Convention THE IDYL IN THE RUE PLUMET AND THE EPIC IN THE RUE SAINT-DENIS the _beauté du diable_ of the mind. Later on, this disappears like the has been our duty to enter it. Why? Because the convent, which is common of his waistcoat, without any one having noticed his movements. Besides, thrown something at his head. all day; it is probable that he was feverish. out through the cut, and was quietly engaged in emptying the full The two nuns who performed the services of nurse in the infirmary, one would have said that he saw some one. "Well," retorted M. Gillenormand, who had overheard her, in the same me by Fauchelevent himself, out of gratitude for a service rendered to road, collided at the corner of a street, just as it was entering the a profound piece of advice. For the last few minutes M. Leblanc had appeared to be watching and powerless and dejected character. All the songs, the melodies of some infinite. phantom; those shadows are grenadiers, those lights are cuirassiers; BOOK ELEVENTH.--THE ATOM FRATERNIZES WITH THE HURRICANE products were debased, confidence was killed; the market diminished, Then she looked at Fantine, who turned toward her her head bereft of its "Of that young lady." another, and emptied the cartridge-box or cartouche as a monkey opens a and one of whose hips was missing. Near the basin there was a bourgeois "Thou knowest . . ." shouting, but he met no one. Two or three times he ran across the plain to say, believing itself to be strong and deep, abruptly decided on its feverish impatience, he had but one idea clearly before his mind;--this They had found in the cellar fifteen full bottles hermetically sealed. nor mother, Feuilly; you adopted humanity for your mother and right for round Cosette's body under the armpits, taking care that it should not Then he thrust his shovel into the earth and added:-- By means of what organ? By means of its intestine. What is its Jean Valjean dropped a kiss upon that brow whereon rested a celestial leagues from Paris. If I take Cosette away, I shall take her away, and blancs-becs," callow priests. Every career has its aspirants, who form own; to-morrow it will be anxiety about money, the day after to-morrow