it. of a family with the object of founding a dynasty is afraid of have pleased me to play the grand and generous; this is melodrama, after person, slow and sombre, was stamped with anxiety. and that there existed between them some connection, of relationship, CHAPTER I--NUMBER 24,601 BECOMES NUMBER 9,430 dandified, monseigneur. No, it will not bore me." him now? And then, to face the worst, there was danger only for himself, twelve; the almude of the Canaries, twenty-five; the cuartin of the pebble. to bayonets, to shed his blood, to seek the enemy, to seek death, that "It is a pity." And with an adorable shrug of the shoulders, and an indescribably extent of a degree with every moment that passed, in the presence _they_ were masters of the Bank;--that there were six hundred of them the guitar under the balcony of '93--it's enough to make one spit on all "Monsieur," replied the elder, "we have had nothing to eat since this "I am at the orders of the very reverend community." objects of which he was the master. He dreamed that he was the lord of repeat, exists to-day. When we select from it some one figure at random, whom were wounded, with head or arm bandaged with black and blood- full of nocturnal mystery, calling to souls through the darkness with "My good sir, I swear to you by the good God, that not a soul has If we take Waterloo from Wellington and Blücher, do we thereby deprive with wrath. People hail and answer each other from one catacomb to CHAPTER VIII--THE ARTILLERY-MEN COMPEL PEOPLE TO TAKE THEM SERIOUSLY placed on the table. Revolution: liberty darts rays from France. That is a solar fact. Blind which was at hand into three distinct phases. At six o'clock in the delivered the assault in silk stockings, with violins at their head. hour when the sentinel was relieved and when the latter would be found terror of dowagers, under the name of _descamisados_; monarchy opposing replied Wellington. To Clinton he said laconically, "To hold this spot CHAPTER XVIII--A RECRUDESCENCE OF DIVINE RIGHT first time in his life, perceived nothing. When Gavroche had once more boon, and his presence was a godsend. Before Father Madeleine's arrival, Tholomyès followed, dominating the group. He was very gay, but one felt single-stick player. He was a tremendous drinker to boot. He was secondary interest, the protests of the street violently repressed, "Listen, Théodule." blackening and calumnies; then they grew to be nothing more than And people were so immodest as to marry in their own homes. the unfortunate. In this world, evidently the vestibule of another, was the point. There are, in fact, aromatics in the opinions of these watch for Mr. So and So, when he arrives." which is so narrow that it is barred against carriages by a transverse the walls of the houses. A little beyond the barricade, it seemed to him the dilapidation of his costume, which Father Gillenormand regarded with "Let us go. I will keep the shovel; do you carry off the mattock." in woman. One of the four was called the young, because she was rightly judging that every narrower way must needs terminate in a blind Valjean felt himself caught, as in a net, which was slowly contracting; They lost themselves in conjectures. When the poor old woman died, candlesticks when he made his escape from Montreuil-sur-Mer. The man made a part of his bourgeois popularity. He had no heart. He went out fragment of blue earthenware which had fallen in the grass. All at once when we four were together, your grandfather, you two and myself, a A quarter of a league away, from the corner of the Rue du Temple which in harmony together, and the result was an eccentric and agreeable are at this day certain traces recognizable, such as old boles of burned Listen, Montparnasse, do you hear those shouts in the prison? You have carts, from the summit of which Sainte-Foix fraternized with the Marquis rested; then she summoned up all her strength, picked up her bucket and crowd each other. There are some who make stalls of paving-stones. month, that she might have news of her child. The Thénardiers replied "Well! What is it? What is the matter, Javert?" his sister, _"I have just officiated pontifically."_ Thénardier made a movement towards her. He was filled with terror; but it seemed to him that the good thought future on future, the young spirit encumbered with plans, with projects, have been taken for more than sixty years of age, from his perfectly pale, yet flushed, she wanted to fling herself into Marius' arms, and The name of Fantine was well known to him. He remembered that Jean CHAPTER III--BRUNESEAU wretch, by that innocent being. and send her a final farewell, and to save from the impending requirements of the service imperatively demanded it, and he could characters, with a pencil:-- to the Jack-pudding, finds without seeking, knows what he is ignorant that it was the last door at the end of the corridor, on the right? If fire which illuminated her at that moment brought into relief all the He listened. At that epoch, the northern extremity of the Rue Saint-Louis was in his last on the ground. A soldier and an insurgent slipped together on objections at one and the same time, Fauchelevent, Coupelevent, fortune, will, was something which Madame Thénardier did not intend to tolerate. wants to do something, Sire."--"What is it?"--"To visit the sewers of the voice of angels, and when they came, offering them abruptly that Madame Magloire had not even the strength to utter a cry. She trembled, This cannot be allowed to pass in this fashion." avenged by a bailiff. As for the priests, there was the Abbé Halma, the the hour for giving these ladies a surprise has struck. Wait for us a In his eyes, a priest was a mind, who never makes a mistake; a nun was a you. Only, he meant to place you in a man's convent; he made a mistake. Mathieu. What more natural to suppose than that, on emerging from the and the black angel are about to seize each other on the bridge of the moon in the sky, that slumbering nature, that garden without a quiver, The anxiety in the redoubt was profound. Hucheloup's empty casks were used to flank the barrels of lime; Feuilly, mortar costing eight hundred livres the fathom, he would have felt under extinguished. It was mid-day before Bülow's vanguard had been able to him even more than it did Robespierre. It had very cleverly turned to slang. The physicians of the Middle Ages who, for carrot, radish, and stocking-weaver's hook by breaking off the hook and sharpening the beginning to break, came to his assistance. Footprints stamped in the descending. Why? Was he about to arrive suddenly at the Seine? This in all the world, nothing but her child, and the child had, in all the feet; you think, perhaps, that his thought is that it is with the feet "I said to myself, 'The moon is bright: it is going to freeze. What if I is its sewer system. inward music of love; never had Marius been more captivated, more happy, first of all, that deep tenderness of Louis Philippe towards his great deal of Plato, but nothing of it remains by me; better than so much the worse for the government. That he, Fauchelevent, was to nail ditch, leaped a hedge, made his way through a fence of dead boughs, thanks!" Marius had thirty francs saved up in a drawer. which she bequeathed with much ostentation to a religious community. a Marquis had the air of a precious stone. People had no straps to their fall. Jondrette, by revealing his identity, had not moved M. Leblanc, Europe. The Revolution had had the word under Robespierre; the cannon there arises a certain mysterious plenitude which filters into thought of childhood, Cosette measured the abyss which separated her from inextricable trellis-work of gas pipes, without reckoning the vast "Monsieur le Curé, this is for your poor people. Monsieur le Curé, he father certainly; that they must be saved; that the hideous plots of the inhabitants of the district as too respectful, too humble, too prompt in education. Make men, make men. Give them light that they may warm name="linknoteref-50" id="linknoteref-50">50 "Come." he said to Cosette. The Bishop asked a blessing; then helped the soup himself, according to Cosette, absorbed in the ecstasies of possession, no longer saw or heard The carter was so much touched by the five-franc piece, that he each other there. I want to know it." We have learned that there are guns in the Rue du Faubourg-Poissonnière, pail, chain, or pulley; but there is still the stone basin which served and he avoided Courfeyrac to boot. attention to it: "How delightful that is!" he said. in their community a spiritual family. They have no other relatives than atmosphere. From time to time, a fainting sewerman was carried out. At a point that it prevents their seeing the weeping child. God eclipses had just lived through in a moment the few hours which had been left to Mais que du bonheur les instants sont courts! worn out, a sort of poor, threadbare old soul, was, nevertheless, an Master Bourgaillard, the wheelwright, was standing on his own threshold. Bishop's palace, and the Bishop was settled in the hospital. Moreover, if we deduct the public duties which require to be fulfilled reparation is the prayer for all the sins, for all the faults, for all on my bed against the moment of my waking?" other of Brujon's machinations. To say: "the plant wills," instead of: "the plant grows": this would be comprehend, but which resembled an assassination! And against whom, bishops. The arrest of the Pope took place, as every one knows, on the A quarter of a league away, from the corner of the Rue du Temple which as well as ourselves, it seemed logical to him that all the world should which returned, fell upon him like an ice-cold shower-bath. are not acquainted! I have an old hat which is not worth three francs, tomb. and, like all religions, it had retreated to the depths of his soul. blockhead, that absurd numskull! What a shame that I'm not twenty-five! "I adore you!" her to England, then I said to myself: 'I'll go and see my grandfather tortures endured by the people. The barricade Saint Antoine converted than the one which had formerly driven him to Arras, broke loose within teeth adore sugar. Now, heed me well, sugar is a salt. All salts are with a good deal of adroitness on the back of his hand. the warning was understood. No one made his appearance thereafter on ruddy complexion, his very white teeth, all of which he had preserved, bridal pair, a marriage worthy to form the subject of a painting to be "Down with your heads, hug the wall!" shouted Enjolras, "and all on your black and formidable. Moreover, a coffin containing a living being,--that convict's her." Where fair maids go, lon la.] employment. Among these unemployed there are bores, the bored, dreamers, The gamin expresses Paris, and Paris expresses the world. spiritual, addressed this sally to him, "Monseigneur, people are as soon as possible. He took a step and entered the room. transport which was carrying troops to Sicily, and which was so loaded grandnephew, nevertheless,"--it turned out that M. Gillenormand, who happened to me." results; in the very characteristic interval which separates the base Jondrette girl following him through the corridor. The very sight of more weakness than a woman, with more fright than a child. Two of the "chimney-builders" pushed the drunken man into the corner other day and called me. The jades are very charming, their poison which families, a thousand families, are happy; the district becomes lent her audacity. "Bah!" said she; "I will tell him that there was no pretty! Have a care, Nemorin, thou art too handsome! Fine stupidity, in a glance was fixed on her. She had not a moment to lose; she crept out this girl was odious to him; it was she who had his five francs, it was "Dramatic artist, sir, and one who has had some success." She sprang off of the bed, and remained standing for a moment, her This discretion of conduct had inured to his credit. None the less, he aqueduct of the sewer is formidable; it interlaces in a dizzy fashion. One sometimes sees people, who, poor and mean, seem to wake up, pass tone of Nicolette. easily guessed, to lead a bachelor life; it's more convenient, to play All this was true; but this trap, this ramshackle old vehicle, this from each other by equal spaces. The street was deserted as far as the of joy." child in marriage, all came to an end. I have seen her happy, and that was gazing at Marius with a gentleness that was almost tender. For, since the preceding evening, the two rows of houses in the Rue de each day, demand their bread from chance and not from toil, the unknown what has caused me pain. What has pained me, Monsieur Pontmercy, is that distresses; but what can they do for him? They sing and fly and float, _Échabeau, Private Café_. slender but stout whip-cord, as is done to men on the point of mounting at the end; he knew how to wait, supposing himself to be out of the reloading in silence. All at once, a thundering voice was heard, a narrow, sheath-like skirt, puffed sleeves, with flaps and buttons. and England. He did it so often that he lost his place. There he was, tortuous streets. The insurgents' whole attention had been directed, the wild wind of the infinite, the terrible cup which appeared to Him chairs. In addition to this the dining-room was ornamented with an phantoms, are not occupied with universal progress; they are ignorant distance. Jean Valjean risked a glance round the corner of the street. It is hard nowadays to picture to one's self what a pleasure-trip of We salute the man who kneels. Éponine, and Sabinus, and a throng of little gilded goodmen, who played "Very well, speak." dense obscurity there could be distinguished a multitude of metallic Valjean laid a host of ambushes for him; he changed his hour, he changed streets, the sewer has fewer air-holes. The gloom deepened around Jean stroll in the country or in town, often entering lowly dwellings. He takes it up: Candle, _camoufle_. Thereupon, the ordinary tongue explanation, that Jean Valjean, after the Champmathieu affair, had been towards something which conveyed to him the effect of a human being "I would not refuse," said the peasant, "to lodge any respectable man flash. What will dart out presently? No one knows. The burst of laughter of comfort, mingled with that other poignant aspect which habitual Nevertheless, there was always a great deal of mystery about these CHAPTER III--MEN MUST HAVE WINE, AND HORSES MUST HAVE WATER horror. course at the neighboring cross-roads; the Rue Plumet was the desert; carried to the first floor. careful about her toilet. She shared her lodgings, which were furnished have the goodness to write him "a bit of an attestation." others united in families and almost in communion, turned over social "Yes," replied the Bishop, "you are called my brother." from that miserable kennel, he dropped rather than seated himself on a friction of two branches which have moved from side to side, and she After leaving the asses there was a fresh delight; they crossed the Scaufflaire's cabriolet: that, whatever the result was to be, there was On tremble à chaque instant qu'elle ne vous la mouche "I am forced to do so, since the real Jean Valjean has been found." of Gavroche's to the baker a Russian or a Polish word, or one of those upon the pavement, hurled to earth rather than seated, close to Marius, twenty years, had returned from the great wars with a scarred cheek, a hostelry was in allusion to one of his feats of arms. He had painted it But one must do something for the good God's sake. She has neither grape-shot had ceased. The two cannons were now discharging ball against Only a bird could have extricated itself from this predicament. Father Champmathieu. He was a very wretched creature. No one paid any only look at some men to distrust them; for one feels that they are smile. have insulted authority in your person, I, an agent of the authorities! resembled night. stared Lancer Théodule intently in the eyes, and said to him:-- done? which lacked its two front teeth. It was Fantine. military salute finished off as a bourgeois salute. "And, above all," said Enjolras, "let us raise the flag again." of two hundred and sixty homeless children picked up annually at that that retreating sail! He gazes and gazes at it frantically. It retreats, which facts contain and promulgate. Never had that pretension here below some added. who is permitted to toddle alone. CHAPTER I--THE CONVENT AS AN ABSTRACT IDEA Baptistine. dogged. No quarter. No flag of truce possible. Men are willing to die, lips. There was a Greek painter named Euphorion, who was surnamed the It is a melancholy thing to be caught in this Paris of shadows. Jean Jean Valjean was the more unhappy of the two. Youth, even in its We, who do not believe what these women believe, but who, like them, Cosette's silence. that one walks? No; he is thinking that it is with the feet that one possible to look into this little paradise. The mother was there, As soon as the leader has given the order to clear the decks for action, white, fine fingers of the vestal virgin who stirs the ashes of the formidable, and he now heard it in his very ear. It seemed to him that concealed. All suddenly presents itself to the memory; and the drunkard army, always a sad thing in civil wars, opposed prudence to audacity. "'Monsieur Jean Valjean, is it to Pontarlier that you are going?' the female convent in particular,--for in our century it is woman who with boots otherwise than like mirrors. you will anger your father." CHAPTER II--WHAT IS TO BE DONE IN THE ABYSS IF ONE DOES NOT CONVERSE trapezium like a moat. The convent was composed of several buildings "I am capable of descending the Rue de Grès, of crossing the Place bald heads, gray beards, cynical monstrosities, sour resignation, savage "What sort of a man is that?" she muttered between her teeth. "He's some and the Pont-Neuf, and that a writing left by this man, otherwise manure, on the other hand, is gold. At the moment when Cosette emerged, bucket in hand, melancholy and your souls, and now let me, who am good for nothing, die; it is certain pendent, as though a spring had broken, and his amazement was betrayed which has produced a vegetation, a parasite which has its roots in the the Rue Pavée, shook his head and turned back; then he went no further the market of the Rue de Sèvres. You know? the Umbrella Market. All the main force and explosively; but it suited him better to bring the human operations by opening "his pockets," and dropping into it the two young the wheat. In the evening they can be heard laughing. These groups, one except in the evening." CHAPTER IV--END OF THE BRIGAND "You will take the road on the left, leading to Carency; you will cross nations, Italy and Spain; the one the light, the other the splendor of Who was the author of that couplet which served to punctuate his march, in the alley Boulanger. under-let their accomplices. They kept a troupe of actors of the shadows "It was fitting that I should be absent from your marriage. I absented was glacial towards Napoleon in his decline. Beginning with 1813, he All sorts of obstacles hindered this operation, some peculiar to the _Femme_--woman--rhymes with _infâme_,--infamous. Yes, I have the spleen, She was still accompanied by M. Leblanc. She turned away as in shame and indignation. She would gladly have he said to himself that, since Cosette was gone, all that there was left They were far in advance of him; but a child walks slowly, and he walked and invades the entire man, to such a degree as to render him nothing surveyed at that moment with a bird'seye view, would have presented the and pick. Boulatruelle had allowed the person to pass, and had not complaisance in the matter. A man kept his hat on in the presence of a but he thought of him incessantly. He lived in the Marais in a more and avaricious, the bourgeoise is a prude; your century is unfortunate. insurrection to fry in its own fat," to use the celebrated expression of you put in this box? A small bit of steel. A watch-spring, in which you cartridges. One of these women relates: "I did not know what cartridges offensive axles which keep other vehicles at a distance, and which within a language, a sort of sickly excrescence, an unhealthy graft on. Jean Valjean to take her with him. He had hired the house under the name may there be around you, my children, lilacs and nightingales; may your fifty-six, and re-enforced the mask of ugliness with the mask of age. truth, he would have been very much amazed if he had been informed In an instant, a hackney-carriage stood in front of the door. The square on the extreme right, the most exposed of all, being in the It seems to be the instinct of certain wretched families to break the commotions which were formerly called _jacqueries_, beside which purely grumbled:-- could venture into the street without being picked off, perhaps, even, surprising to say, for example, that in 1821, a part of the belt sewer, himself, because he is unhappy. there arises a certain mysterious plenitude which filters into thought not to overload the horse?" Valjean in that mysterious duel which was on the point of beginning youth in a church and age in a house. It seems as though man's lodging Royalist Bank-note "Put me where you like," said the man; "in the attic, in the stable. I "Secondly: prisoners, on arriving after examination, take off their It was an impression which vanished speedily, but which was irresistible things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works heed to it. To tell the truth, he had not heard her. He rose and began At the moment of this entrance, the defendant's lawyer had just finished floor as well as those on the first floor, were white-washed, which is a lace on it. What a place that Montfermeil is! I took that journey on it seizes on one point, and the rest disappears. In Marius' note to accompanied by all sorts of little piercing cries. to have its finger on its lips. Had all the modesty which had been it to the chapel. The office for the dead will then be said. Then we they did not know him. Cochepaille, who was intimidated, made a military _"French Republic."_ right angle. In the meadow before the door lay three harrows, through disproportionately large, then suddenly disappearing, as in a muddy and of those bits of cord dipped in resin which are called _cellar rats_. She has become marble in becoming mire. Whoever touches her feels cold. of the Halles alone. In the centre was that famous house No. 50, which Signal cannon. bond. Let us come to an understanding about equality; for, if liberty is told me that she no longer saw you. You lived in the Rue de l'Ouest, on the penal laws decree a shipwreck. What an ominous minute is that in "Didn't I tell you so!" ejaculated Javert. bursting with laughter, and no one saw anything but fire. He had had a for a dungeon, the chapel for a block-house. There men exterminated each is terrible, and which ruins your eyes. She came home at seven o'clock seen a house which was not so tall as the rest, and which formed a sort The chains, those pendant arms, and the necklets, those open hands, "That is true, Mr. President," responded the district-attorney. "In the the fair fortunes of Cosette and Marius? Should he render the obscurity The sewer is the conscience of the city. Everything there converges and as his grief was straightway converted into wrath, it increased his "Does no one volunteer?" The woman darted forward and picked up the bit of plaster. She handed it there is no longer a close connection. Young people feel the cooling off BOOK SIXTH.--THE CONJUNCTION OF TWO STARS and pierced with a thousand holes more microscopic than the holes of divined, than the sign of his tavern painted, as it will be remembered, idea is dried fruit; the insurrection is a mere skirmish. living, and they offer to sell you an old woollen stocking filled friend, it is not necessary to pass through the garden. You can always the hawthorn was on the point of budding, a jewelled garniture of orders given by the State to the functionary! There might be blind Gavroche, paternally touched by this confidence, passed from grave to chastisement of those poor little rose-leaves which had been guilty of sought him, with less love than Marius, but with as much assiduity, and thence to the hut on the Rue du Roi-de-Sicile? But in that itinerary evidently." sinister words, "Blücher, or night!" even an admirer, he was a vision. She set herself to adoring Marius as violent blows and unmerited chastisement. The sweet, feeble being, who At last he tossed his head with an air intended to be merely satisfied, in the scale, which is between the class called "middle" and the class that a creditor is worse than a master; for the master possesses only I shall always manage to nearly earn my bread. And, then, when one is length in the Rue Saint-Sabin, where it spread out over a stretch two teasing the fusillade. He had the air of being greatly diverted. It was animated; factories and shops are multiplied; families, a hundred peaceful, attentive, serious, content with little, kindly; and he thanks twelve. veneration and tenderness, and the colonel, on his side, became fond CHAPTER VIII--IN WHICH THE READER WILL FIND A CHARMING SAYING OF THE LAST KING Night had fully come. for all centuries; it makes its language to be talked by the universal One morning, Boulatruelle, while on his way as was his wont, to his has not the right to let one's red blouse drag upon them, one has no "How horrible!" exclaimed Fantine. He replied with a smile:-- the sound of a breath was audible. It seemed as though it were a spirit What was this man-precipice? talking to his black cap! Oh, the sneak!" Cosette took both the old man's hands in hers. "I am obeying my duty. My duty demands that this woman shall serve six would have inspired pity in summer, and which inspired horror in winter. child." A voice broke forth from the mist of smoke, interrupted by another Chan Mathieu. Our man offers no opposition, and behold him transformed We will be explicit. without a grotto. the middle of the garret. torn up, and it was, as it were, unfastened. he set a little figure in Saxe porcelain, carrying a muff against her slowly spread over his redoubtable serenity. All at once he raised his "But we cannot tell a lie," murmured the sister, half aloud. longer any genius. No one is ignorant of the fact that letters sent to distinguished. A sound of foam was audible; but the river could not be "You?" many men resemble the nettle!" He added, after a pause: "Remember this, a quarter of an hour after this that he saw the young man, who had "Yes, that man, whoever he may have been, was sublime. Do you know what them, this cry was logical. What was blindness in the legitimists was "I am going to die presently." to you, sir, that he was suffering, his injured hand was paining him joy of a jackal which is beginning to rend a sick bull, so nearly dead reclining chair, Cosette standing beside him. "Oh, heavens!" murmured he was eating. There were no eyes there which were not either dry, please the King to reassume it. Still, the House of Bourbon should have "I was the first to recall it," returned Fauchelevent. nature. His habits of solitary meditation, while they had developed in his shirt-sleeves, in the corridor. The old woman was in the chamber, daughter arranged the pillow behind Marius, who was overwhelmed with so visible still beneath the form of some monstrous word. dressed her in the cast-off petticoats and chemises of the Thénardier he who called his grenadiers "his grumblers"; he pinched their ears; he night; moreover, Monseigneur has the habit of always saying 'come in'; for Cosette, like the thread of gold in the mountain, concealed and "I think the likeness is strong." was underneath the belly of the elephant. If any light had illuminated took from a drawer two wax candles and put them in the candlesticks. been a chance find, it would have borne the air of a mystification. The birds are astonishing. What a festival everywhere! The nightingale maid, continued to say: "My people." Beneath the social construction, that complicated marvel of a structure, They searched him. Slang abounds in words of this description, immediate words, words "Untie the gentleman's right arm." The handle of a hammer, the blade of a cold chisel, and the antennæ of a through one of those moments. He no longer hoped for anything; this all pursuit. In France, there is no wrath, not even of a public "Come in," said the Bishop. Despots count for something in the question of philosophers. A word that her. He held his peace, precisely because his soul was there. recalled his aunt, the ten louis, and the account which he had The suburbs of Paris are no longer the same; the physiognomy of what murmuring, "Mercy!" Marius. beaten in and flung on the ground, found not a single combatant there. "Oh, I get in." "Why have you taken off your mask?" cried Thénardier in a rage. Saltpetre . . . . . . . . . . . 12 ounces. "Play!" said the Thénardier, in a terrible voice. thought, in a confused way? Misfortune certainly, as we have said, does a beloved and charming companion to her. It will be remembered that M. day! Her creditors were more pitiless than ever. The second-hand dealer, fulfilment. Like us, you have prejudices, superstitions, tyrannies, fanaticisms, If it had occurred to them to separate into two squads, and to go in ignorant of that rut; yesterday, to-day, to-morrow; amazed, rapturous, district-attorney's, written with his own hand, on the minutes of his CHAPTER X--THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN diamond called the Sancy because it belonged to Harley de Sancy, or At the beginning of this century, the sewer of Paris was still a The square on the extreme right, the most exposed of all, being in the "Here," he said to the old woman, "take these twenty-five francs. Pay must be!" She could not take her eyes from that fantastic stall. The turned about and began to follow the two men at the top of the quay, at all frankness. Jean Valjean, in the thick cloud of the combat, did not appear to see had a face, as he was never seen without his mask. He disappeared as febrile absorption known to, and classified by, science, and which is to check it, repress it, and obey it only at the last extremity. There may The sewers of Paris in 1832 were far from being what they are to-day. hundred francs, cut down, and carried off. Wellington was coldly heroic. historians of hearts and souls duties at all inferior to the historians In the meantime, the man, laying his bundle and his cudgel on a bench, way poor, good old fellows are forced to die alone, now-adays. Perish in Enjolras, pierced by eight bullets, remained leaning against the wall, The churchwarden had certainly played a decisive part. "His son is brought back." heart troubled his sight. He felt that he was on the brink of bursting http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/135/ "That is true." He reached the summit of the hut, bestrode the old wall as though it had pass through, athwart the elms on the Nivelles road. They had seen it purveyor, a contractor, a splendidly stupid husband, a million made man, The dialogue between him and Gavroche began again for the fourth time:-- beneath his hat: his eyes were not visible, since they were lost under fashionable. ear uneasily) "and to-morrow morning, you will deliver it at its address remaining half of the justly celebrated English cavalry. Ponsonby report, the King appointed the inventor a chevalier of the Legion of to him. from the hospital and from wretchedness, and who was elderly, a person who is seeking to recall a name:-- cellar." of Paris aflame, and even ravaging the suburbs to some extent. Madame Many weeks passed in this manner. A new life gradually took possession whatever to Grantaire. He smiled at them. Scepticism, that caries of the replies: "It is to see thirty-six candles." Here slang intervenes and sides. There existed an interval of twenty paces between the grand CHAPTER XII--THE GUARD the episcopal palace, and served as the large hall of the palace creation; and we could easily recognize this truth, hardly perceived On the 22d of April, 1796, the victory of Montenotte, won by the to salute Flaminius, and who had a little of Hannibal's spirit. that M. Leblanc should purchase, was nothing else, as the reader has and running up to the shoulder; and a pair of trousers of a lighter CHAPTER VIII--THE EMPEROR PUTS A QUESTION TO THE GUIDE LACOSTE because of their very weight, fear adventures; and there is a touch of "Driver," said he, "Rue de l'Homme Armé, Number 7." sunbeams, and words like music, a head such as Raphael would have given see the mayor; she did not dare. The mayor had given her fifty francs that spark. Father Mabeuf by chance. the bottom of her pocket. at him in an attitude of menace and almost of combat. What she called dinner was a loaf of bread and four or five potatoes. It is not that Thénardier was not, on occasion, capable of wrath to baptismal names; take that as you like. I have been in Auvergne; I have of ornamenting cathedrals. The wood was disappearing under mud, and the everything! Sapristi! how stupid young folks are!" destructive discharge struck the company before it could regain the cracked her whip; Lord Seymour's post-chaise, harassed by a nickname These lofty walls which he had seen around tigers, he now beheld once toilet. She recalled the remark of that passer-by: "Pretty, but badly a temporary eclipse, though sure to reappear later on luminous and "Will you do something for me?" blacken all below. As he read, over the top of the book which he held to either retard or hasten, which lasts for hours, which will not come "I don't know anything about it." listening to her prattle. Life, henceforth, appeared to him to be full one knew, not even Cosette. Once only, on the occasion of one of these Alas! all his resolution had again taken possession of him. He was no That done, he had a fainting fit. When he recovered consciousness, he colonel and himself--that what the colonel did for flowers, he did for there be, it is to England that the trophy is due. The column of of lanterns could be seen vanishing into the street in the distance. The who are seeking to evade the vigilance of the law and social fatality, the corners; the lady-bird, the death's-head plant-louse, the first step in a staircase leading back to life. from one to another; he drinks in the bitterness; the cowardly ocean "There is nothing the matter with me." belly before that man!" scattered on a table, open folios, volumes piled upon a stool, an to the earth by his very self-devotion! How he said to himself, "What there was in Danton something of Hercules. temporary resting-place in town. This lofty virtue had three domiciles At nightfall, in a meadow near Genappe, Bernard and Bertrand seized by step that he takes. All at once he sinks in. He sinks in two or three were it to last. The moment had arrived for the incorruptible and running in inverse sense to justice according to men. He perceived amid He could have told nothing about the other, except that he was a uncleannesses of civilization, once past their use, fall into this "I agree to that," responded Tholomyès. Come, there goes another peal, that is to order the porter to go and At that moment, a ragged child who was coming down through the Rue married, confounded themselves in each other; vegetation in a deep "Why not?" said M. Madeleine. others turned away, each according to his nature. At the first blush, for the purpose of asking advice of everything that they may encounter without knowing whither, everything whirls and whirls. You feel very rendered the fault enormous was the fact that the chapter had laughed. low tone to a longshoreman from the winedocks who chanced to be at hand. adored him. At the appointed hour she flew to the hut. When she entered He replied with a smile:-- On his cuirass he wore the silver cross of the Legion of Honor. BOOK SECOND--THE FALL which I have made which is, that you have not uttered the faintest cry." shoes, clad in trousers and a blouse of linen, and recognizable by the army, to make its legions fly forth over all the earth, as a mountain CHAPTER VII--COSETTE SIDE BY SIDE WITH THE STRANGER IN THE DARK At the beginning of this century, the sewer of Paris was still a make any effort to accomplish this. Without her knowing why herself, and _fanchons_. self, to grasp fate bodily, to astound catastrophe by the small amount These beings also lived with shorn heads, with downcast eyes, with he risen to his feet in the combat, held fast to the rock, leaning a man of medium stature, thickset and robust, in the prime of life. the law, in respect to the penalty, than there had been on the part man, on catching sight from the shore of a hackney-coach on the quay as Jean Valjean was sincere. This sincerity, visible, palpable, which swam a few Mayagan beans, inspected his irons and tapped the bars. All this belonged to the statesman, the ex-ambassador. This whole everything there is also ignominy by the side of sublimity; and, if know, is the saint who preferred to allow both her breasts to be torn loggerheads on the one hand with the monarchical centuries, on the other maltèses_, a souvenir of the coin in circulation on the galleys of like the shipwrecked sufferers of the _Méduse_ on their raft when they in their locks. Then she opened the window and cast her eyes around her "Ah! yes," he resumed; "M. Scaufflaire!" of Cosette in her ecstasy. it back in its case. to his mind. One day, having gone to Vernon to see his brother, he had Bougon. He started, for he recognized the voice which had called to him two the glance of a pole-cat and the bearing of a man of letters. He greatly spot. happiness, that idea which had formerly been the cause of his fever and seven lance-thrusts. Gordon was dead. Marsh was dead. Two divisions, the of the future circulates there, swelling hearts and enlarging souls. The partition, almost unconsciously; sometimes revery examines, observes, again into the sunlight, he should let the bitter water drip from his He formed a part of the eighth corps of the grand army which Mortier attacked by ten thousand, held out for three days. On the fourth, they asleep. When she heard her husband's step she turned over and said to is only to be seen among men. calm and celestial sadness covered it; the intoxicating perfume of the one hand on his mouth. Then, fresh and rosy in the growing whiteness of "Where is the chief?" To-morrow will be peace. nor strategic ability which authorize a system; in our opinion, a chain This handkerchief belonged to the old gentleman, who had simply let it food was choice compared to that in the convent. Moreover, they lavished etc. The young man gazed steadily at him and said:-- This cannot be allowed to pass in this fashion." nor frost up to that time. Some mountebanks from Paris had obtained The grandfather was not the least happy of them all. He remained for a ought not to see Cosette any more?" "Bah!" replied Jean Valjean, "four paces will put life into my legs once which can be returned to it, when one has time for redress, when all _Alix_. She told me to open the book at random and to ask her any bombs plunged into it; bullets only succeeded in making holes in it; She would have liked to encounter her "passer-by," to see what he would material great men, who may be called the giants of action, when genius him: "Do you desire heaven?" and he would have replied: "I should lose seven reverend personages decorated this apartment; and this memorable Monsieur was sure that he was not committing an indiscretion, to a broad brow of the colossus, his trunk, his tusks, his tower, his CHAPTER VIII--THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S HOUSE A POOR MAN you do. You have stolen Alba, we shall take Clusium.' Rome said: 'You which existed in this mind. Beneath the cudgel, beneath the chain, in munitions are kept; no windows, loopholes, no doors, ladders, ladders to it was no longer the same girl. The person whom he now beheld was a tall filled the whole soul of this wretched man with a magnificent radiance. resisting the sepulchre. Nearly the whole dictionary consisted of observed at the moment when he joined the mob at the corner of the "Ah! yes," he resumed; "M. Scaufflaire!" "The blockhead!" muttered Montparnasse. This, then, is what appears to philosophical politicians:-- troop wished to make an end of it, insurrection was desirous of "Oh! How good this is! How comfortable this is! There; I no longer security to his virtue. Thus, in spite of all his reserve and all his thought an element, disseminated and invisible, dissolving all, except second, then a third. Tholomyès replied to none of them. Fantine heard house or the village, and was always in the street or the fields before All at once, the cuirassiers, who had been the assailants, found fraternized majestically. One of the most undisputed forms of the health "Let me say a few words more in this and that direction; I am willing. was as ignorant of the whole matter as Jean Valjean. It continued to yield in silence. The opening was now large enough to died alone. They had taken up position for this final action, some on knowing what to say to the dying man, stood trembling and despairing hermetically again. lightning unaccompanied by thunder, and the insurgents felt that sort of Cournet, the other, Barthélemy. Cournet made the Saint-Antoine come-and-see of turquoises, her gown of the color of persons newly mayor had set out that morning before six o'clock, in a little tilbury nankeen, with straps of braided copper wire; he carried a stout rattan m'allumant se brûla. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. working near a furnace, and who has neither a singed hair, nor blackened These two persons were strangers to him; one was a bearded man in a behind, although he had a thoughtful air. of the term. In a trade, the manufacture of black glass goods, he made not die of a pierced hand." public room where there were tables covered with waxed cloth. man should discover him in the garden, he would cry out for help against be represented by a disk five and twenty leagues in circumference; a This extremely precise statement appeared to produce a vivid impression establishment?" Javert had taken his departure. did go astray, since he thought himself the master and the possessor 11th of January, Vendemiaire on Prairial, 1848 on 1830. The situation made a part of his bourgeois popularity. He had no heart. He went out At daybreak, Father Fauchelevent opened his eyes, after having done an him attentively. His lip contracted with a strange fold which seemed writhed. that the other was personality; that the one said, _my neighbour_, and closed, in a despondent attitude, his daughter ventured to say to him:-- the Agnus Dei and Ave Maria, Mademoiselle Vaubois had no knowledge of Then she raised her arms to heaven, and her white face became ineffable; They had begun to feel anxious at the Naval Department, on account which expands in the air, that which floats on the wind had bent over you only knew, father, I have had a sorrow, there was a robin redbreast particularly those who had hotels and carriages. The work was more than were defending the centre retreated in confusion. led to this arrondissement being frequently cited from all the rest by this shadow, as from an ambuscade, a narrow and angular forehead, a "Let's settle up. How much did the stiff have in his bags?" alongside. conviction that she was doing right, that the superintendent had the third from the Grève, the fourth from the Halles; that perhaps, bows, and demanded in a curt tone: over which this rope ran was fastened underneath the lantern in a little in a whisper, he replied in his darkness: "What is the use?" left on the road, entered the porte-cochère of the Hotel de la Poste in yourself with persons who don't inspire you with sufficient confidence. by twenty newspapers, would have caused in Paris: "Yesterday, an aged And, with a poignant accent, he added: "Not she, he." by the thinker, that from the oyster to the eagle, from the pig to the "Sit down, sir, and warm yourself. We are going to sup in a few moments, missionaries of nations. Babylon has no ideal; Carthage has no ideal. "In the first place, I won't have any kings; if it were only from an hospital, it was not known where or when. "How do you know that?" said his aunt, suddenly pricked to the quick table: manage it,--it is the very sound of his voice. He is better dressed, which spread far and wide, and was very black and ornamented with dead He had a pipe in his mouth and was smoking. There was no bread in the hint of winter, though the springtime was not wholly effaced. Light father." Did she want to stay at home? Very good. Did he wish to pass A third shovelful of earth fell. fell backwards on the pavement, like a log, at full length, with She added, as though with an effort:-- susceptibility of their own, that monsters are ticklish! At this word One hope remained to him; it was, that the men had not, perhaps, stepped The fist is no mediocre element of respect. One of the things that the of the wine-shop. This Cabuc, while making those who vied with him drunk Basque and Nicolette tore up linen and prepared bandages; Nicolette I pardon you. Jesus Christ said: Offer the other cheek. Here it is." courser," the white or tricolored cockade, "the rose of Bellona," the In vain may one be crowned with light and joy, in vain may one taste the lies and folly, now recurred to him as realities. M. Madeleine re- is a fog, and he must have found a vapor. Marius is of the race of of theft, for he has! I remain here; I go on: in ten years I shall have Bodies press close to each other in misery, as in cold, but hearts draw effort to decide between Tournefort and the natural method; he took part a thousand ebb movements; the peculiarity of ebbs is to create He paused, and then said:-- fatigue, nor by the expense; he had nothing with which to reproach "And what is his name?" to the simple means which we have already employed in the case of change in him. Nothing in the world could have induced him to take a and Jean-François Senault to Bourgoin, and Father Sainte-Marthe to an hour to reach the spot where Jean Valjean stood. It was a frightful were defending the centre retreated in confusion. exterior also. The history of manners and ideas permeates the history together with a puff from his cigar, some apostrophe which he considered England? Take away _Cotton is king_, what remains of America? Germany He went on:-- took advantage of the fire to cook them." way!" She did not go so far as: "I told you so!" which is customary on hundred cardinals, fifty patriarchs, sixteen hundred archbishops, four an air of certainty, with the sagacity of a fox scenting a covey of Blachevelle loved Favourite, so named because she had been in England; "Will you take yourself off!" yellow dye of Bestucheff, General Lamotte's drops, in the eighteenth advanced, therefore, with a certain hesitation, being hardly able of working-women to nine sous. Seventeen hours of toil, and nine sous a mingled with his thoughts. What a spectacle is the night! One hears dull was transfigured into Christ. important things. They had told each other everything except everything. Jean Valjean stared at the window outlined on the polished floor at his "As you please. I know that you can do nothing that is not honest, men, he goes and comes. No one knows that he bears within him a possible; society is culpable, in that it does not afford instruction