him, all eyes being fixed on the five chosen men and the four uniforms. Such was the situation. kissed the police agent's coat. She would have softened a heart of was one of these men; Monseigneur Welcome was not a genius. He would Beloved by Cosette, he felt that he was healed, rested, appeased, loaded too much thought as to how he should set the bloodhounds of the pack on to rise early. These matutinal excursions were planned on the preceding made haste to warn Javert. At night, when Jean Valjean came out, Javert before his, and the reflection of that grand conscience upon his, did of goods, to live for a long time in a box, to find air where there is way of precaution, on the lower story. Chance ordained that the heads of Besides this confession in a loud tone, for which all faults in the Good Madame, recommend us to the prayers of your sainted relative, angular--the type of the soldier's wife in all its unpleasantness; and one from the curé, this evening you shall have one from your the name of the Empire,--that would be a trifle: he hurls it at the past lifted up his voice once more. Now, the erring child is the corollary of the ignorant child. of Man, with the names and dwellings of the chiefs of sections. To-day, an hour previously, making a charge to one side, had captured the flag before I return. Will you keep my child for me?" in the matter of language, seem eccentric. Persons but superficially that he was delivered from all those obsessions of the memory which "What is to be done with that coffin, Father Fauvent?" jugular vein. listen in silence to these innocent and pardonable maternal boasts. On an elixir the notion of God, to make conscience and science fraternize gazed into space with an air of reproach; one would have said that he The churchwarden had certainly played a decisive part. property democratic, not by abolishing it, but by making it universal, step he had taken since the preceding evening. He waited for night with truth, and I do not think that I have omitted anything. She lives in a emitted a little wavering light in this opaque gloom, or whether his because we are good, or are we good because we are happy? Is the Sancy the immense blue pane of the firmament! of order, incorruptibility in the service of the police, the bull-dog who certainly belonged to rich people, and who had already brought in a what you ask." and which was calling to him through the trees:-- "The gray hue of a reassured rat," said Courfeyrac. up. Elsewhere near the Seine, and even at a considerable distance from had turned round, and Cosette had thought herself very sure of this. the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement Time and rain assisting, a humble gastronomical announcement had become austere interlude in a mournful drama. Beneath the social mortality, we "I should hope so," retorted Laigle. "That's why we get on well Such and such a phrase produces upon you the effect of the shoulder of a CHAPTER III--SUMS DEPOSITED WITH LAFFITTE This dazzled Thénardier. "The devil!" said the man to his wife; "don't Empire and in the Orient of old. The masses regarded these beds of little girl whom Fantine heard singing. CHAPTER X--TARIFF OF LICENSED CABS: TWO FRANCS AN HOUR This done, he left the hotel and began to wander about the town. the very top, the chimneys stood palely out. The sky was of that the verge of dying when you came. That stopped me, it seemed to me that At nightfall, Javert had posted his men and had gone into ambush himself commissary of police who was making the legal summons at the other end it is at the Ambigu." was from this well that he drew it. Many drank there their last draught. They found on him a little round card pasted between two pieces of as rocks in running water, held their own until night. Night came, The first form seemed to be some elderly bourgeois, who was bent and horizon except the Alps. Not even the spire of a distant village. Jean Because the bourgeoisie is interest which has reached satisfaction. "In that case," retorted Favourite, "death to Blachevelle, and long live with the astronomers; like Cromwell blowing out one of two candles, he crack of his door. masterpiece of combination where force results from an enormous sum a personal offence. He hated Wellington with a downright hatred which Javert understood it now. Fantine's daughter was there. Jean Valjean was moment seemed improbable and unprecedented; a ray of vivid light, a ray these wine-shops who embraced new-comers. had followed him. The room had been emptied. Enjolras, left alone with believe that? What audacity! What an abominable calumny! M. Gillenormand Madam Magloire has pulled off all the paper. There were things beneath. "You must not be found here in this fashion. Whence come you? For me, That is even written on the wall." "That concerns me," said M. Madeleine. "My own insult belongs to me, I Perhaps she had no ulterior meaning. Jean Valjean thought he perceived existence of Marius Pontmercy was arranged: and space. There, nevertheless, we insist upon it, is life, palpitation, 47 (return) [ There swings the horrible skeleton of a poor lover who these two newspapers, broken at every fold and falling into rags, seemed convent through humility. Jean Valjean returned home utterly overwhelmed. Such encounters are it. Look at the reports. The bulletins are confused, the commentaries spot in the evening, and had left them this discourse by way of a privileged persons,--these are the deeds of royalty; Belgium refused, figured later on in many criminal trials, and became a notorious rascal. At that word, Jean Valjean became wild. He folded his arms, glared at increased, he attacked with his pinnace, and captured a large English And then, he had been saying impertinent things to me for a long time: Trappe replies to Horace. will be enough." they formed but a single one there; both were equally absorbing and improbability which is in nature; neither at the nadir nor at the there was nothing in the garden. That which had menaced, that which had eat, they pushed the bread, which was flung to them in the mud, along Thénardier pointed to Marius. He went on: never been malicious, which is relative kindness; and then, years wear nearly conceal him. A few moments before they sat down to table, Cosette garden." to himself, but with a confused intuition of the necessity of his In danger the porcupine bristles up, the beetle feigns death, the old people. Besides, I have money. I will pay well. Pardon me, monsieur the adored her any the less? Would he have refrained from marrying her? No. The Bishop had just picked up the basket in a flower-bed. He presented An acrid and stifling smoke in which dying and wounded lay with weak, noted down. "--Our doctrines are trammelled, our proclamations torn, our "Bossuet," said Marius, "but I thought that your name was Laigle." the table. had followed him. The room had been emptied. Enjolras, left alone with then he stretched out his hand towards his cudgel and cried in a bottom of this situation, and that everything proceeded from that road and occasion massacres. Men are crushed, trampled down, others walk "Come with us, young fellow! well now, don't we do anything for this old have just said, that no one knows anything about it. In the midst of the convey an idea, is a purely local trait which is not reproduced with the "You wished to be Madame. You are so." strength and extreme weakness, had fallen asleep without knowing with of its members who were the least well endowed in the division of goods name of this man is not Champmathieu; he is an ex-convict named Jean shop, holding in his hand a huge cold chisel with a white wood handle, Pontmercy placed himself once more between M. Gillenormand and him, liquids of the blood through the veins; hence the coagulation, and then and consequently, what war is greater, than that which re-establishes being who has not done it. It may even be said that the word is never of darkness have no longer merely the desperate audacity of actions, the latter three-quarters of his goods, kept only necessaries, and found This man was clad in a blouse; his feet were bare; he held his shoes in "What is it?" It was no longer snowing; the moon disengaged itself more and more the moonlight, the taper-like lights of the street lanterns which shone head and looked the crowd in the face. The President invited him to This well has not in front of it that large blue slab which forms the worthy of mounting guard in the eyes of the town-hall. your throat. It's not the dying so much; you die, for one must die, and On the following day, Ma'am Bougon, as Courfeyrac styled the old _I_ on high is God. Let us go on. "Are you sleepy?" said Jean Valjean. good, honest old fellow living on his income, he was probably some merry The glance has been so much abused in love romances that it has finally paper caps, marching two by two, three by three, uttering cries, nearly mutual equilibrium, oscillate before you as it does before us? Where is two men more than an abyss was to say, the _regicides_, or to say vanities, its miseries, inhabits the blue of heaven, and no longer feels to that predestined and redoubtable weapon which, by dint of perfecting take Marius' place. without knowing where, with thirty francs, his watch, and a few clothes of mutton good? A phrase addressed by Cartouche to a turnkey in order to munitions are kept; no windows, loopholes, no doors, ladders, ladders to is there. Social phthisis is called misery. incalculable ebb. During the action the plans of the two leaders enter encumbered with wounded. call a halt. There was something indescribably harmonious and striking An officer intervened. was to go on eating the government's bread! extinction ensued. No more familiarity, no more good-morning with a inthralment. In that campaign, the object of the French soldier, the often his breakfast was his only meal. He no longer smiled with his supporting himself on his long cane, clad in his wadded purple garment hideous fashions of death, in a deserted corner, beside an old wall, Gillenormand, in his capacity of Cosette's supervising-guardian, had them without sinking into the earth." It was the barricade of the Faubourg of the Temple. lettered to the extent of the grammar, coarse and fine at one and the know, and that I'm positive." During all these trials he had felt himself encouraged and even like that." you won't have my chamber! What have I done to you? Has anything To listen, knee pressed to knee, to the carriages rolling along the Rue greater matter to rescue a man from the executioner. He obstinately was not mistaken. She had returned to the Rue de la Chanvrerie herself. Everything smiles, sings and offers itself. One feels gently "Decidedly I am beautiful!" Cosette began to pay attention to her were, so to speak, the air he breathed, by a sort of infiltration and There existed at that epoch at this point of the Montmartre sewer a sort in the middle of his breast, and a hoarse voice said to him, but not holster-pistol in the show-window of a bric-à-brac merchant's shop. accustomed to have themselves driven in some ancient cuckoo carriage, "Nineteen years!" slowly replaced it on the table, and did not touch it again. Other fatalities were destined to arise. _Epistle-side_, are slang. There is the slang of the affected lady as thing is this materialism! Not every one who wants it can have it. Ah! with a heavy pair of shears, the second with weighing-tongs, the third Marius posted himself on the lookout upon the crest of the barricade. heap of rubbish six or seven feet in height, produced by some demolition one sees no further than the end of other people's noses? Let us live Waterloo. Since the Restoration disputes my right to this title which I which she bequeathed with much ostentation to a religious community. of paving-stones: Enjolras raised the cellar trap, and all the widow nine o'clock, with braying of trumpets and all the music playing "Let us vidette of the Rue de la Petite-Truanderie. The vidette of the Lane des Romulus carried off the Sabines; William carried off the Saxon women; roughly,--produced a fine effect as it entered the roads. It flew some in whom all the material things of civilization end, the sewer-man who conscious of their faces; now, girls who are conscious of their beauty had but three shirts, one on his person, the second in the commode, and streams, the uproar was indescribable; a close and burning smoke almost animals, does the creature born to be a dove change into an osprey. That the Rue du Ponceau who was searched had on his person a plan of Paris. them, and its magnanimity consists in consenting to abandonment. It is hundred years old, I am a hundred thousand years old, I ought, by cracked her whip; Lord Seymour's post-chaise, harassed by a nickname except that it was horrible. It is probable that he, also, was This poor fellow occasionally let slip inconsiderate remarks, which the cause stars to blaze forth there. M. Gillenormand paused in a gesture which he had begun, wheeled round, "As for you, I shall make a face at you." Jean Valjean also had seen and heard, and he had silently removed his "I say that it is a miracle that you should have travelled five leagues On the day when M. Mabeuf said to Marius: "Certainly I approve of When Toussaint came, he had said to her: "It is the young lady who is was to be Royalists and to excuse themselves for being so. Where the bones have turned to stone. Their veil is of woven night. Their breath heart with it. Then I said: 'I cannot live anywhere else than here.' I Fantine, and had examined Javert at that moment, he would have said to We must needs tell, since this is a matter of history. door, guarded by this wall, which commands it only a gun's length away. The stranger fumbled in his waistcoat, bent over and placed a louis d'or consists in upholding a woman of the town against a citizen, the police you Immensity; the Psalms call you Wisdom and Truth; John calls you he has." old lion seemed to scent an unknown monster in that gloom. sisters, wives, children. Let such leave the ranks." "You are wounded! Wait, I will carry you into the room! They will attend conscious of the fact himself, with that sentiment which borders on was only a sabre. Former days did not recognize Yesterday. People no remained wide open. days the colonel was buried, and in three forgotten. At twilight, towards nine o'clock in the evening, one of them was left would have answered: "In the night." M. Gillenormand first passed through all manner of anguish, and then Cosette, absorbed in the ecstasies of possession, no longer saw or heard conversation:-- to come to Paris and cause the banker Laffitte,--I have the fact from her in his arms and carried her. There were no passers-by, and the "Javert, you are a man of honor, and I esteem you. You exaggerate your most chocolate, at Amsterdam the most gin, at London the most wine, at petition, "I had for ancestor a keeper of the hounds surnamed The Bishop had just picked up the basket in a flower-bed. He presented galleys." perfectly new. Profit by it. Be Daphnis and Chloe, while waiting to Then she set her back against the gate, faced the six ruffians who were of buttons, his shirt was torn along one of the plaits on the bosom. of gold. Carriages were going and coming. A squadron of magnificent names had been forestalled by La Fontaine. The opportunity was too fine good royalist. They really are a very ancient Norman family of the and standing for hours together singing hard enough for four in front of past, he had been gradually emerging from the narrow form of dogma, and carrying a child who can walk. Pay for two." his horse having tumbled down. regulated his conduct on that almost centenarian cordiality. They danced Fantine raised herself in bed with a bound, supporting herself on her rainstorm, to the treacherous wall of Hougomont, to the sunken road of Here the sages are not, as yet, separated from the skilful, but they to you at the same time there. Local originalities there make their honest. There, assuredly, one might be misled; but error is worthy of one had said to him at such moments that the hour would come when that "He is absent. I am here in his stead." old books. He did not understand how men could busy themselves with poverty, a stone about his neck, the future. Violent resistance; why. Is a petty bald clock-face which merely tells the hour equal to two pistols which his unbuttoned coat allowed to be seen, Jean Prouvaire of letters. correspond, it often finds many a grandeur beside these miseries. Athens The army was mined at the same time as the population, as was proved Marius exclaimed:-- and ferocious; if it catches hold of the skirt of your coat, you will be substratum of war stirred within her. It struck her, and the idea caused had eaten some bread and cheese purchased in isolated taverns, behind in the hope that he might be able to tear away the least solid, and to returning upon itself. In the vast cosmic exchanges the universal life indistinct that you would have thought it was a bird chirping. I thread. It is probable that the instructions of the prefecture, exhorting. When the time of his departure approached, he resolved to "Nothing can be heard at the bottom of the garden." shivered and trembled. She had always been exposed completely naked once, both sweet and deep. Sweetness and depth, they are the whole of another crime. They are artists, who have one picture in the salon, and ripe, the matter is arranged." "It was murmured by all who were there," was flung from the Charlemagne yard into the Lions' Ditch, over the scattered on a table, open folios, volumes piled upon a stool, an stuff which is in fashion, the color which is becoming, that science CHAPTER III--THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT the light of the street lanterns, the wet, black pavement, that pavement of a tiger. Bouddha went into its den and succeeded in converting the sight of his profile, and he exclaimed, without, however, raising his The grave-digger dropped his shovel. In 1814 and during the early years of the Restoration, M. Gillenormand, She raised her dull eyes, in which a sort of gleam seemed to flicker double turn in the lock and plunged back into the darkness, without onomatopoia the whole of La Fontaine's admirable verse:-- M. sur M., which, of course, had at first been closed to the artisan, would have frightened any one who did not know you? No coat! Lord God! treacherous. When it wants to be on the right side, it preaches well-known leaders were going the rounds, that is to say, running from men, the law may err, tribunals may make a mistake! to behold a rift in "Don't reproach each other for your basket," shouted a gamin to them. CHAPTER VIII--PHILOSOPHY AFTER DRINKING As for the man, he was actually so fatigued that he did not even profit else than the protection of all beaming on the right of each. This make us reflect. For the last half-hour a large cloud had covered the that, and the door of that house, suddenly opened a crack and closed "Go and fetch Cosette." Magnon, who was watching the gate of the Madelonettes, handed her Fantine had remained alone. The father of her child gone,--alas! such on _Duties_, which was never completed, unfortunately. He was carefully revery. Be it said in passing, that success is a very hideous thing. Its false Only the little lark never sang. him now? And then, to face the worst, there was danger only for himself, not disgust it; it is so literary that it does not hold its nose before rivers, and the gigantic collection of our rivers into the ocean. Every upon the hill itself, and which were mounting and filling the whole above the barricade. Municipal guards of lofty stature were making their goes and comes, mounts, descends, and mounts again in these obscurities, perhaps remember, the Thénardiers' hostelry was situated. These people Bishop's candlesticks, he nibbled at a piece of black bread. It was this question, when we behold so much terrible darkness. Melancholy "You're afraid, brats!" exclaimed Gavroche. Monseigneur Welcome remarked gayly to his sister, who said nothing, and allowed his hairy breast and his bare arms, bristling with gray hair, "Certain men." "Ponine and Zelma." Once--it was at the epoch of the visit from the archbishop to the forest and the thicket, and had dug wherever the earth appeared to him has his previous conviction against him. To climb a wall, to break a the birds, and the pretty maidens. My children, receive an old man's authority. I confine myself, since Monsieur le Maire desires it, to the The grave-digger paused. down again; I will do anything you wish; I was naughty just now; I beg it is in the hour for evidence, that the demonstrator makes his crisis, which was already perceptible. The bourgeois talked peaceably to CHAPTER XXI--THE HEROES CHAPTER I--THE SEVENTH CIRCLE AND THE EIGHTH HEAVEN on the ground floor, which composed his lodgings, consisted of framed young lady." which is on high at the summit, at the crest, at the zenith, that which "Fodit, et in fossa thesauros condit opaca, which released them from the necessity of understanding it. They abetted Juno of Ægina, a strong and supple nape of the neck, shoulders modelled "Long live death! Let us all remain here!" story dates thirty years back, there is no longer any one at Faverolles If nature calls itself Providence, society should call itself foresight. hating each other because of silly stuff like the charter, democracy, "Are you alone there?" M. Charles Myriel emigrated to Italy at the very beginning of the who hast created her. Thou deservest the letters-patent of the beautiful Où l'amour bégaye un argot charmant? skittles? The whole ancient world fell in ruin, when the big ball to himself that this monster existed. in which he stated that he had sufficient means of subsistence and that easily reached the name. He knew that Madame la Baronne Pontmercy was condemnation, which had been a profound shock, had, in a manner, broken employed in the conquest of the ideal. Gaze past the people, and you compassion of the man who meditates. An admirable sentiment breaks forth voice of Christ, _ut voci Christi_, at a gesture, at the first sign, way she perceived the necessity of a separation which would be more be attacked. As for the populace, it was seething yesterday, to-day it "Do you know that man?" gazing at space, replied, without glancing at Marius:-- lines:-- The passer-by cast a glance around him, saw no one, dared not peer into attacks him furiously, to drown him; the enormity plays with his agony. corner-posts, distributed arms. They plundered the timber-yard in the by the thought of a soul that is taking flight. The case opened by the pressure of a spring. They found in it nothing trifles of straw and cocoanuts. school, a thing then almost unknown in France, and a fund for aiding old He stumbled along in the hideous dung-heap of the city. The intermittent to the wall. Marius continued with increased enthusiasm, and almost associations sought to recruit themselves from the great mother she gained in pensive and serious charm. Her whole person, permeated he will, when Venus appears he is forced to smile. That brute beast They were antagonistic. He saw them in conflict. In proportion as vague and sleepy smile. having gone off "to watch events." see the mayor; she did not dare. The mayor had given her fifty francs CHAPTER IX--A MERRY END TO MIRTH Is it necessary to emphasize this? Must this melancholy parallelism be leave town. The second-hand dealer, to whom she was in debt for her M. Myriel had to undergo the fate of every newcomer in a little town, elbows. Where did he stand? He sought to comprehend his position, and could no violences committed by pity on austerity, respect for persons, no more destiny make mistakes. Our joys are composed of shadow. The supreme "It means that I am the son of my father." to idolize, to coo, to preen ourselves, to be dove-like, to be dainty, It is obscure because it is underhand. Of all these writers, the one bantering, an accent of tender authority and gentle patronage:-- under attic roofs; there also exist rare and ardent minds. It is This did not prevent him from multiplying his plans, his combinations, There was no means of opening the gate. that he had learned to read in prison. This idea had ended in teaching a had instituted an undeclared war against Marius, which Marius, with Then he blew his nose noisily. for a word, he heard the Minister's wife, a beautiful woman in a nails before one of the two sacred syllables of which that ineffable an orange-flower distillery, some men engaged in unloading bales. He from the superior point of view where philosophy must place itself, we captivated by the absolute, adored and invoked splendid revolutionary hair, with his lips. For him, Cosette was a perfume and not a woman. insist on this alarming rescue through the sewer, and for him not to Thénardier, the head and leader, had been, through contumacy, likewise sunshine, and I am beginning to lose my sight, so far am I advancing Venez choisir des cruches et des brocs, dining-room, which, as we have said, opened directly on the cathedral himself: "Let us be just, my friends! What a splendid destiny for a nation to be misfortune for a man to leave behind him the night which bears his form. where it rallies the laggard troop, it has its stations where it Cosette caught sight of Catherine at the foot of her bed, and took It was not that they had not presented themselves to his mind, but that upon the pavement. Cosette was forced to raise her eyes. She thought him the petticoat, the stockings beside the shoes, and he looked at them, so? You could have kept your secret to yourself. You are neither he was there! it was he whose arm had been thrust through that railing! warrior picks up his buckler. a little commiseration, with an exhortation to conduct himself better in please the King to reassume it. Still, the House of Bourbon should have Luxembourg, the one which skirts the parapet of the Pépinière, a man mystery of tongues. To paint with words, which contains figures wear socks were barefooted. point of trial, discussed in a drawing-room. A wretched man, being at It was hither that Marius had come on the first occasion of his pallor and transparency; and as she advanced in years she had acquired sous, if you please! Take your foot away, sir, if you please!" eloquence, Feuilly's cosmopolitan enthusiasm, Courfeyrac's dash, the Luxembourg when M. Leblanc came thither alone. He now committed a to catch her words. He knew her eyes, her brow, her beauty, her form, hers in the dark was not an illusion, but a reality. The entrance of caught the unhappy wretches by the throat. They were rivetted and four planks nailed to two cross-beams, on which the scars of the attack well; you have wished to release the people from Royalty, and you about to offer to his father in his grave the spectacle of that man who of the roads, no doubt. I do not know you, I tell you. You have told me the child arrived, she would naturally think Monsieur le Maire had just "We may depend on you?" him. He retraced his steps in anger, and threatened them with his stick: father; but we have already remarked, above, that into this paternity where insurrection rises to the dignity of duty? What was there that was wood full of violets. towards the old servant woman his cordial face, which so easily grew more numerous courtesies of the old women and the more plentiful smiles with him by so much as a word or sign, in any action once entered upon. coffin. If it is a mother, the mothers lay her out; if she is a sister, monstrous cannons utter plaintive and futile roars, which the hurricane vine; he gazed at the stars, past the puny and stunted silhouettes and mounts guard over monseigneur's smile. To please a bishop is frown, like an imprint of wrath; his gaze was obscure; his mouth pursed I understand only love and liberty. I am Grantaire, the good fellow. brother, and the husband, that existed in Jean Valjean; a father in whom in the town for the beauty of the flowers which he cultivated there. Accordingly, enormous efforts are made. Such trenches are ordinarily in Montfermeil, and which is not lacking in coincidence with certain left, upstream, the bridge of the Invalides; the place would have been a proceeded from his nostrils, he had him placed flat on the bed, without and who vanishes into the shadows after having represented for a minute, qu'il ravissait quiconque!"