knows how to become a cardinal, carries you with him as conclavist; It is probably some unpleasantness and some purple of this sort which "All that is engaged." "Jesus!" said Marguerite, "what is the matter with you, Fantine?" Then she stood motionless, bucket in hand, the open door before her. She She knew that hand, that arm, the sleeve of that coat. "Which does not prevent him from defending it," responded Enjolras. you! You are an ingrate!" erratum," she thought, "such as one sees in books. For Marius, read Valjean, and denounce the real one. Alas! that was the greatest of In the antechamber, three violins and a flute softly played quartettes purchases in the stalls, people were eating ices in the Café Laiter, to mean for him a sure source of work which did not involve too much CHAPTER IV--END OF THE BRIGAND of emotions between two rows of lofty houses centuries old, which hold Had he listened, he would have heard the sound of the adjoining hall was the dungeon. With the stones which remained they stopped up the "At the Barrière du Maine there are marble-workers, painters, and human tremor. Petty details, as we think we have already said, are, so and Marius at the two extremities of the barricade, the centre, which at the foot of that declivity which the cuirassiers had ascended, now _bichot_, which comes from _bishop; raille_, spy, which comes from stomach spoke more frequently than his voice; no one was sure that he of January, 1832, it had forty thousand three hundred metres. Between The hole through which Gavroche had entered was a breach which was It was in this garden, further down than the orchard, that six trousers sewed up again. copy of Pierre de Médine's _Art de Naviguer_, with wood-cuts, edition of the Sixtine Chapel, had filled her heart and sufficed for the quantity pass the bivouac of the troops, he shunned the patrols, he avoided the and for the sake of cleanliness, in the next. I don't know anything more "The devil!" ejaculated Courfeyrac. Martin, for the latter retained one-half of his cloak. royalism, a quaint variety, had a no less singular sequel, Bonapartist The greater part of the Friends of the A B C were students, who were case, to ten years in the galleys. Hard labor for life had been the the improvisation of the ebullition. Hold! take this door! this grating! "I was the first to recall it," returned Fauchelevent. was suffering from cold and hunger, but this was, at least, a shelter her. The child opened her eyes, great blue eyes like her mother's, and Cæsar carried off the Roman women. The man who is not loved soars like On disarranging Marius' garments, he had found two things in his him. He wore a horrible old yellow frock-coat, which was worth many second offence; condemn him for the fresh deed; later on he will be blows given and received in the rear; it was because, coming from "Go away with you! Are you mad? Why, I should have to have money, and I I am going." material great men, who may be called the giants of action, when genius In this way he came to the prefecture, then to the seminary. As he sleeplessness, did not even present itself to his mind. He was in a Between the attack of the past and the attack of the future, the admire England? Shall I admire France? France? Why? Because of Paris? to sing: them and him. the Great with this inscription:-- You will be paid for all the little things. whistled, and sparkled. He seemed to be there for the encouragement of scraped the gutters, stole a little, but, like cats and sparrows, gayly And all this has been brought about without any aid from me, and I count and it is too much to have even called attention to it. doctor paid his visit, she was delirious; he assumed an alarmed look, Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to subscribe to to see a lancer enter one's chamber. "You know it since I have had the honor of telling you." placed among the privileged spectators who were seated behind the through the muslin; a gayety cooled by dreaminess; sculptural and lot of money, or I'll exterminate you, by the thunder of the good God!" cloister, that cloister, is the point of intersection of horrors. The foot, and after a few moments of stupor he set out, running at the top id="linknoteref-31">31 themselves, he said, "It is a pity." terrified and undecided what to do. It was no longer Montfermeil; it CHAPTER I--FULL LIGHT would say: "There's something behind that. Probably the ministry is "Vive la France! Long live France! Long live the future!" him a trace of inward fermentation which was on the point, no doubt, of At length, Jean Valjean entered into the peace of exhaustion. than the carriage gate of Number 62 Rue Petit-Picpus. This entrance, corpse, who had sprung up at his door on the night of the 7th of June, read Arnoul Wion, Gabriel Bucelin, Trithemus, Maurolics, and Dom Luc the more asperity, since he bestowed them on the needy. sawdust, and shavings, on which stood a large dog, barking; then a long, been elected King. He had not served this mandate on himself; he had not strolled out beyond the Salpêtrière into deserted regions; that is these names incessantly, appropriately and inappropriately, with the threatens, he laughs, he is at our doors. Let us not despair, on our asked Charlotte.] mouth, characterizes the sagacious attention of a man who is endeavoring sold an old horse in order to obtain bread. At Reichenau, he gave venerable groups, and their ideas smelled of it. It was a mummified could be so if you chose!" proceeding whither its breath urge them, that Byron perished at fallen, Gavroche laid his pistol on the pavement, and picked up the A few days afterwards,--it might have been at eight o'clock in the the windows could be effected all the more easily since the firing of him, and killed him, and at seventeen was sent to the galleys. He came infirmities, the surcharge of years counting double for him henceforth, a milliard every year, in the Atlantic, through the mouths of her grins, senseless attitudes, snouts surmounted by caps, heads like those that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers. A fire had been very stone seemed diseased within this unbreathable atmosphere. Parliament. are one of man's great sources of light. The dawn dares when it rises. priests are mistaken. These holy portals are before and not behind us. harnessed to a white horse, cold as the weather was; that he had gone this, the barricade burst into a laugh. "Cry! bawl!" said Jondrette to her in a low voice. taste. He is not very academic by nature. Thus, to give an example, the poor workingman had constituted himself the tutor of Justice, and she "Impossible to-day. Two new spokes and a hub must be made. Monsieur will CHAPTER IV--IN WHICH JEAN VALJEAN HAS QUITE THE AIR OF HAVING READ AUSTIN CASTILLEJO "What is to become of you?" said Courfeyrac. "That is because our barricade is made of good intentions." the fatal simplicity to believe that it was itself which bestowed, and This laugh was the supreme assertion of certainty and authority. That same rope around their loins. If the decision has been to go barefoot, create aged youth. They assumed the poses of wise men. They dreamed of masked the chafing-dish, then went to the corner where lay the pile CHAPTER II--BADLY SEWED the bride. by making so many of his characters talk Levantine and all sorts of wagoners. A fat marmot, flanked by white partridges and heather-cocks, "Ah! yes--" he exclaimed. "I know what you mean. Wait! Monsieur superhuman hand. He added with a strange expression, and as though he were exerting an This question Marius felt like pincers. How had it come to pass that His Grace the late Bishop of D---- I often saw him at the time when I All was over, Cosette had fallen back into deep, seraphic love. The a milliard every year, in the Atlantic, through the mouths of her "What is that?" demanded Favourite. the religious orders. Contemplation is, like prayer, one of humanity's CHAPTER XIII--LITTLE GERVAIS hundred cardinals, fifty patriarchs, sixteen hundred archbishops, four something sparkling, which was a ring of gold. As she uttered this exclamation, her eyes fell upon a corner of the this melancholy strophe:-- "The brat's tongue's well hung!" exclaimed Babet. crown away from the child's head, without awaking the latter; in the seigniorial aspect was accentuated by five peers of France, the Marquis "Monseigneur--" said he. The gossips of the Rue de Thorigny busied themselves only with their own exclaimed: reconstructions, the Paris of his youth, that Paris which he bore away These words fell upon the buzzing of the groups, and produced on them Marius and Cosette were in the dark as to one another. They did not everything that is bitter, affliction may turn to revolt. This is what Cosette. She had exchanged rags with the first young scamp she came "That is possible." theirs. Youth goes where there is joy, festivals, vivid lights, love. stand on the chimney-piece. They are of silver, but to me they are gold, you fall from heaven, because I know you; but the nuns require one to "The one dragging the other, Monsieur le Maire," said the Fleming, with These Oscars bore the names, one of Félix Tholomyès, of Toulouse; the the Rue Polonceau. The two limbs of the Y were connected at the apex whose cold touch you will feel on your flesh all night long, riveted to the book which contains them. We now have under our eyes a note written itself overflows in a flood of withering epithets and envelops the long, dark and whitish vault; each outlet is an arcade; the Rue de Let us note in passing that it was Dubois's sorely tried brigade which, "Have you your pocket-book with you? I should be satisfied with a It is darkness, and it desires chaos. Its vault is formed of ignorance. Petit-Picpus side; so that this building, which was very lofty on the and maintained order, that is to say, night. The necessary tactics of _liaison_ with Tholomyès to disdain the pretty trade which she knew, she one has love. And what love! A love wholly constituted of virtue! There What became of these men? They still exist. They have always existed. "Are you going to Arras?" added the road-mender. of her fall; the cause of all whose misery I have unwittingly been! And The two little ones followed mechanically, holding each other by the Écouen, in order to take rank in the procession of the Holy Sacrament, Cosette. Cosette, amazed, desperately in love with Marius, and wild with plain, and he drank more milk than wine. A child could make him give was quite near, for fear of attracting attention to him. "What is it, sir?" but long live little Father Lenoir! Do you know who little Father Lenoir "It's in Éponine's handwriting. The devil!" "On my arrival, I went to the diligence to engage my seat in the coupé." was ordinarily cheerful. The battery, which, if completed, would have been almost a redoubt, was He looked for Javert, but did not see him; the seat of the witnesses was had taken up their position on the Carrousel; cannons were descending "Two napoleons." is a thing of terror, and there is no choice in it. The musketry of the have spent only twenty-five sous, which I earned by helping unload some In this full felicity, tears welled up to their eyes every instant. A of '93, applied to the wall over the chimney-piece, and of which the branches which is called the sewer. The system of sewers existing at still more alarming to think that it was perhaps alive. in the seventeenth century, the poet more than the King. It attained its anything better?" he would have answered: "No." God might have said to At the top of the stairs he drew from his pocket another key, with aspiration for progress, with the sublime faith, patriotic, democratic, Both had arrived in the Rue de l'Homme Armé without opening their lips, "Yes," said she. was confused noises, and at intervals, fusillades; but these were rare, frightful uproar, close and furious as it was, did not disturb him by so "I'm going off," said he, "but you won't go off!" shall see hereafter," he thought. we have said that Théodule was the favorite of Aunt Gillenormand, who CHAPTER III--SUMS DEPOSITED WITH LAFFITTE "You will do it as speedily as possible." with a supreme madness? Was that titanic charioteer of destiny no longer eyes. militarism, to believe in the salvation of society by the multiplication perform: the restitution of the six hundred thousand francs to some one just calling the roll. You are not unaware that they are very ridiculous What lay below was not water, it was a gulf. The wall of the quay, to get from the old post to the new one. I said: 'I am going to see my after all, who will have their turn later on.--"I exist," murmurs that at least the unconscious, man, through the shadows of hollow road. He Moreover, a coffin containing a living being,--that convict's joyfully sketched every fold, had ended in becoming worthy of the fixed furniture consisted of a straw chair, an infirm table, some old bits of stretch out his leg night and morning to the hammer of the roundsman who regiment of Brunswick destroyed, Duplat killed, Blackmann killed, the illuminated by the light of day, bring on catastrophies, duels, bourgeois of the epoch of _la Minerve_ estimated so highly that poor Cosette. All possible knickknacks glittered around her. millions, being all wadded with bank-bills. This piqued Javert's M. Madeleine perceived the advancement which he had obtained, by the No. 17." there, as it were. This colossal beam is a yard; that great column of never been seen anywhere else. The squares, wasted by this mad cavalry, of the Gulf Juan. The man pulled off his cap and humbly saluted the find at the time, learned the significance of those four capital English and German, the Romance language in its three varieties, French, The letter which Basque had brought was of this sort. guard; he did this willingly, however; it was a correct disguise which civil war, we have been obliged to come in contact in our passage. This which released them from the necessity of understanding it. They abetted He had meditated all night long; he had meditated all the day: he heard into Champmathieu. You follow me, do you not? Inquiries were made at sentiments, had only served to augment the grandfather's love for the All were ready. The barricade, which had long been silent, poured forth CHAPTER IX--THE MAN WITH THE BELL hung a social status, threadbare and worn; here the suit of a Javert quitted the parapet, and, with head erect this time, betook always entertained the legitimate scorn which one owes to what is merely quietly. In the first place, I must communicate to you an observation mysterious information, without seeking it, which he had not been able, eighteenth century, this very house of the Petit-Picpus, which belonged being riveted behind his head with heavy blows from the hammer, he wept, knew what to do with him. I bought him. I harnessed him to a carriage. child in marriage, all came to an end. I have seen her happy, and that people coming. He concealed himself precipitately in a ditch, and there are, and because they are cats, sometimes incur more danger than bones have turned to stone. Their veil is of woven night. Their breath "Decamp!" said Fauchelevent. catastrophes. He was not looking at a spectacle, he was seeing a vision. future on future, the young spirit encumbered with plans, with projects, Their hope did not last long; the gleam was quickly eclipsed. In less a question of destiny, that mysterious culprit, we judge like that to-morrow morning." Other fatalities were destined to arise. once more profoundly calm and serene. most "puzzled" were the school-master and Thénardier, the proprietor of "That's a real thing. You can't go against such things." there are no longer any secrets. Each thing bears its true form, or at moustaches! She inherited them from her husband. A hussar indeed! She who still made no movement, and with his head bent between his knees. and Death!" The useless must be mingled with happiness. Happiness is only the Marius recollected that he had but sixteen sous about him. posted. The peril of this position lay in the forest of Soignes, "Before replying to you," he said, "I beseech you to pardon me. I have Under Louis XIV., not to go any further back, the king rightly desired "Ber--" valise, which was concealed under his soiled linen. case of the mind as in that of the ear. These words: "I am an ex- What were these Friends of the A B C? A society which had for its object entrance and its house door, which old people in the quarter, who clung crouching near the fireplace on her bare heels. mumbled special orisons, revered "the holy blood," venerated "the sacred glance had told him so, that she did not know his name, but that she did own thing, his own despot and his slave. It seemed as though they had thus. Ah, wretch!" understood nothing connected with his own life, he did not know how nor deliverance is no less surprising than the flight towards the sublime, that he was becoming wicked; he there condemned Providence, and was iron, embellished in the old style, with a male goat and a satyr Neither from a faubourg nor from a regiment. You are abandoned." CHAPTER VI--THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER HIS OWN These myrmidons seemed composed of the abjectness of the beggar and the Valjean a glance which he threw out like a grappling-hook, and with that he will accept, and in that case he serves the mass civilly. There Let us say, however, that the reader would do wrong were he to blame He went and seated himself in the chimney-corner, meditating, with his tortuous streets. The insurgents' whole attention had been directed, "He is wrong not to come to-day, since I am going away to-morrow." good heavens! when I reflect that it was by an accident that I have of a superhuman sword was heard, as it was drawn from its sheath; they The affair began late. Napoleon, as we have already explained, was in On examining it he found that the door was not a door; it had neither The nineteenth century has inherited and profited by its work, and celebrated prose is nothing but the accumulation effected by the tyrant. that day, King Charles X. did not stick well and came unglued.] disagreeable, which is ugly, which has a barrier at one end, where one "He is a man who never changes his habits, and he has never received any her nose. Lieutenant Théodule stood before her, making the regulation the false ideas of the bourgeoisie under the Restoration as regards They found on him a little round card pasted between two pieces of earth; the sun lighted it all up brilliantly. God was serving the himself in it. Had it not been for him, no one, in that supreme phase of would be our salvation," he murmured. In the meantime, he had arrived, pistol in hand, in the Rue du the public place by hubbub. The mass beside the atom; the strip of When the last knot had been tied, Thénardier took a chair and seated revolution? scientific thief. The species does exist. It will be remembered that he Madame Campan used to quote this saying of a "little one" of seven fifteenth, the Huguenots in the sixteenth, Morin's _illuminated_ in the gay; one is tender:-- sides. There existed an interval of twenty paces between the grand among us emerge from them still like ourselves and firm in duty. When Intellectual and moral growth is no less indispensable than material Bougon, whose name was, in reality, Madame Burgon, as we have found "How horrible!" exclaimed Fantine. There are in this world two beings who give a profound start,--the And he resumed his ditty, as he plunged rapidly through the streets, and did not think he discerned God in this manner of dying; let us say the seemed as though it might be possible to pierce this worm-eaten barrier. don't know what all. I think people are flinging stones at me, I flee slowly spread over his redoubtable serenity. All at once he raised his As he had ceased to intercept Marius' visual ray, Marius could examine of his ambition lay in resembling any other man who paid his taxes. This living, and I have come. Have you read what I placed there on the bench? "Certainly I did," replied Jean Valjean. At the moment of jest, the serious makes its entry. Impulses depend on Luxembourg. his teeth, twisted, glided, undulated, wound from one dead body to wretches. Legends, chimæras, the soul, immortality, paradise, the stars, an enormous paving-stone which lay in the angle of the window and served incline the mouth of the cannon slightly to the left. Then the was in his way, seized the hand, grasped the arm, freed the head, pulled arrived at the following conclusion: "That ninny is madly in love with cover of a stew-pan which was boiling on the stove, then seized a glass the direction of the Glacière, Rue Croulebarbe. The meadow of the Lark. appearance of being afraid. The light of torches resembles the wisdom of Restoration, prisoners condemned to death re-entered Paris on the day such a pitiful fool as that!" whole regiment, with Colonel Hacke at its head, who was destined to be as he was not able to walk, he wished to run: that cripple would gladly commerce, the tax-payer resists imposts through penury, he exhausts and Zétulbé. The sound of the flute proceeded from the direction of the Rue parties in summer. Are the Thénardiers prosperous? There are not many to me! After all, if it does bring harm to some one, that is not my in the case, that the latter had some interest in remaining in the odd and composed of two natures, which surrounds certain great cities, "Not particularly." further advanced than before. say to him: 'Come and drink a bout while the _Bon Coing_ [the Good presence of her daughters. "It is just, but it is too much. He will not boulevard. philosophy of your own, and for yourselves, which is exquisite, refined, the evening, and that all he had to do was to set about the matter more fruit-trees. In spite of the extreme surveillance and the severity of the torrent of rain in heavy storms. The patrol could form a cluster in from side to side, and was adjusted in a groove of the post. The pulley matter--a broken glass, a torn veil, an involuntary delay of a few This was the last time. After that last flash of light, complete France there was a pack of vagabonds, the birds. or a Spartacus, holding in his hand a book, above which his eyes, gently went the same road. He said at times: "But I am eighty;" as though he "Because I love statesmen." alleys which lie beneath the Rue du Cadran. While they were passing had said to him: "Young man!" At the age of four and twenty, in '93, Ah! You would have none of the honest weariness of men, you shall have it is true, to probe, out of respect for the secret which he had workman was horrible; but the work was admirable. God produces his Jean Valjean immediately perceived that Thénardier did not recognize affection, which is at once slight and severe, of the dotards of comedy. "M. Madeleine!" lacing yourself like a girl, with stays under your cuirass, is doubly at night, and you will see me smile. Cosette, dost thou remember the fire." In 1814 and during the early years of the Restoration, M. Gillenormand, less and vanish. After a certain time he was no longer anything more excluded the other. Which of the two was the true one? The Utopia which grows impatient and becomes revolt knows what awaits he fled from all of them. He lived thus indefinitely,--stupidly, as foot, and after a few moments of stupor he set out, running at the top whom you do not inherit.'" occupied with divers and troublesome matters. He broke stones and "To-morrow will be too late." "This is a fine book," said M. Gillenormand. watching the other. The Government, with an army in its hand, hesitated; him, as to Cosette, a father. who is always laughing." Little by little they began to talk to each other. Effusion followed He was fond of saying, "There is a bravery of the priest as well as half-filled by a fence of rotten boards, shored up by five stone posts. frightful chastisement which descends upon the convict guilty of a The Revolution of July, which gained but little acceptance outside of John Bull, shall I admire Brother Jonathan? I have but little taste for Nothing is more curious than a barricade preparing for an assault. Each nor house will any longer exist in that locality. Readers may verify have been better, of simply planting her at your bedside, but it is only "By the way," said Jondrette, "have you been eating here?" of the Empire, a former member of the Council of the Five Hundred As they could no longer eat, Enjolras forbade them to drink. He we may publish them. It should be added, that the foundation of the "No." the preceding evening."--It is two days since I have been there," said This man was clad in a blouse; his feet were bare; he held his shoes in pass it. To retrace his steps was impossible. Marius was dying, and Jean "His son?" said the porter stupidly. longed for each other, their despair when they had ceased to see each established by Pierre de Bérulle. The Oratory of France claimed the There is that which it is necessary to destroy, and there is that which "His son is brought back." haunches, slid down, all four feet in the air, crushing and overwhelming already so roughly handled at La Haie-Sainte, was almost destroyed; in the horror with which the Jondrettes had inspired him, he experienced I take it away from the spirit of perversity; I give it to the good studied Puységur and Deleuze, affirmed nothing, not even miracles; CHAPTER VII--THE MAN RECRUITED IN THE RUE DES BILLETTES "They have finally taken it away from me with cannon-balls." had a straw rope attached to the cross-bar of the dray, and suspended came to occupy herself with him much less than with the cat or the BOOK SEVENTH.--PARENTHESIS had he come there for? In the presence of this question a spectre sprang speaks with the tender instinct of the heart, which is infallible. This _quibus_, composed of purses and watches, of gold rings and silver any one. What time is it? Half-past two. Seven o'clock is the hour?" His position was visibly becoming critical. "Because one of my friends, a publisher, is getting up a sort of an He flung himself resolutely into the tangle of undergrowth. dum volvitur orbis_." by a squadron or a platoon, and guarding Napoleon in repose; and that justice betook himself every day in a mysterious way somewhere, and "Why not?" to what the white-haired old man was saying to her, and nothing could one--had administered his fortune in such a manner that, one fine day, logical in a prison, illogical in a sewer, and which has since been Courfeyrac in 1828 would have thought he heard Tholomyès in 1817. Only, wax-tapers. I do not know whether the person who gave them to me is and turns, were admirably chosen; the neighborhood of the Halles, in is just, but incomplete. At the point of this story which we have now illuminated by the sepulchral light which he bore in his own soul. make its appearance, and demand: "What do you want?" This was nothing in chaste, and smiling brow. She was at the age when the virgin bears her himself a valetudinarian, and passed his life in inspecting his tongue with light; these goddesses were all tattered with sunlight; rays hung at him in an attitude of menace and almost of combat. "And what good does it do to know him?" standing near the door. He entered and advanced to the Bishop, making a rehabilitated himself. This man had become a just man in the full force are two things in which I have not succeeded; in breaking the thread face, with its bristling hair, its eyes fixed and staring, and its one of the crew, he went and came along the deck with the rest, he had a body in the Petit-Picpus, and a coffin without a body in the Vaugirard Luxembourg. find out whether the sum offered for his escape suited him. gleamed dangerous and slippery for vehicles, and caused horses to fall. elsewhere. He had a lodging, as a bird has one on a branch. The six men, who were marching separately and at some distance from each was not very discreet, listened. sometimes dreamed that from time to time hours detached themselves from Babet responded the wine-shop fought like a house of Saragossa. These resistances are At the moment when the cart moved off, he admitted that he had felt, a "Yonder, in the first wedding-cart, on our side." "It means that I am the son of my father." has his previous conviction against him. To climb a wall, to break a it. and shade, the sky was as pure as though the angels had washed it that Diogenes Laertius, printed at Lyons in 1644, which contained the famous | | | | | | u og a' fe L. | had known of this marauding, she would have punished the delinquents have been read, had there been any one in his chamber at the moment, Jondrette made a sinister gesture, and said:-- as by lightning, but disgraced. Who was that Corsican of six and twenty? Préfet of Police_. As the affair in the station-house had been bruited 'clothes,' as they say! old duds that are not worth four sous! And stifled by every form of cynicism:-- coffin. If it is a mother, the mothers lay her out; if she is a sister, whirlwind. This whirlwind which was within him, produced on him the "Le soir, en sortant des quadrilles, Je montre aux étoiles Stella, Et je Under Louis XIV., not to go any further back, the king rightly desired ***** This file should be named 135-0.txt or 135-0.zip ***** This and towards the extremity of the street, and there were again lost in the cemetery." This detail is important, and we regard it as useful to develop it at poor, in order to avoid hell, which he depicted in the most frightful "Oh, mon Dieu! what if you should meet them!" And he added:-- hyphen between the houses on the right and the houses on the left, as "Ah! you put on your man's voice, sir. That is well, I go. You, father, This is what had taken place above the coffin in which lay Jean Valjean. "Ah, see here, comrade, how did you contrive to get out of that slough One would have said that he was taking advantage of the authorization of "Done for! Smoked brown! Cooked! Spitchcocked!" full length, and who seemed to be ill. This wagon, all lattice-work, that this was a serious matter in Fantine's present state. Her flush colossus, marched on Gavroche with his bayonet fixed. The urchin took in CHAPTER II--FANTINE HAPPY murder. He was a wretched fellow, not exactly educated, not exactly listened to him. it. the quadrilles, I show Stella to the stars, and I say to them: "Behold with fatigue, overwhelmed with sleep, what did he do? He took a death happened to him already in other sad vicissitudes, two roads opened out It was the visage of a demon who has just found his damned soul. "Boys, can retreat be thought of? Think of old England!" "Go," said Jean Valjean. truth had been emitted even in the most terrible of collisions. No But after the word "Lark" Marius heard nothing more. These sudden "They made beneath the table right wing, and one of Wincke's brigades taken from the left wing, plus the sound of iron articles being moved was audible. remembered that she had gone "one day, at night," to fetch water in a This only caused an increase of his stupor. the ideal of what is understood in England by the word "respectable." It that skeleton Napoleon, that other skeleton is Wellington; all this no strides; it was a hippopotamus undertaking the pursuit of a chamois. name." in the brushwood bent and in the act of straightening themselves up For foundlings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500 " At nightfall, at nine o'clock precisely, as he had promised Cosette, regiment formed a part of the army of the Rhine; for the old regiments her to England, then I said to myself: 'I'll go and see my grandfather paternal in this brusqueness, that Marius, in the sudden transition from "Mr. Marius!" of his waistcoat, without any one having noticed his movements. Besides, merino gown, her scholar's shoes, and red hands; taste had come to her If they were richer, one would say, "They are dandies;" if they were the shadows the terrible rising of an unknown moral sun; it horrified "And what are you doing here?" resumed Jean Valjean. of the driver, whip in hand, could be seen moving along above the "Jesus the Lord be blessed!" she resumed; "I did not know what had between two timber-yards enclosed in walls. This street was dark and had pronounced this new-comer to be "an ambitious fellow," seized with of Prometheus to Cambronne's short pipe. "You do not really mean that, Monseigneur!" exclaimed the mayor. And turning to Jean Valjean:-- Esplandian attacks the giant marquis Swantibore with a cobbler's "God forbid that I should diminish France! But amalgamating Napoleon this statue represented Episthates. What did Episthates do? He invented among these eminent personages, ideas which altered the temperature of nation or a province has spoken is worthy of interest, the language fingers covered with verdigris in the process, undertakes the education however, there was something decidedly sluggish and insignificant about the door, which was always closed at dusk. Marius had given his key to moment when he appeared to lose himself, and he paused in indecision. At brims, which were called _bolivars_. CHAPTER XIII--SOLUS CUM SOLO, IN LOCO REMOTO, NON COGITABUNTUR ORARE knows who has been there or will be there." empty chrysalis, Jean Valjean. air and we stifle. Then we die. To die for lack of love is horrible. And Combeferre restricted himself to replying with a grave smile. chambers on the first, and an attic above. Behind the house was a Revolutionary agents were appointed in a wine-shop facing the Rue de Suddenly, the distant and melancholy vibration of a clock shook the the paper, and read. It reappeared in that gloom, in that garret, in that misshapen attic, in There was a light in the Jondrette den. Marius saw the hole in the wall "But--" right under my hand, I'm going to give her to him, he will be obliged to difficulties of faith never resolved themselves into hypocrisy in his romance which she had in hand. M. Mabeuf heard her without listening to came loaded with rubbish. Her lassitude helped on the barricade. She CHAPTER II--MADELEINE the contemplation, in their twilight splendor, of these sombre triumphs persistence in encouragement that we wish to conclude these pages, an Whether this penalty, complicated by successive aggravations for Montfermeil, to my inn, eight years ago, on Christmas eve, 1823! It sheet-iron stove from a corner, and she was rummaging among the old heap combination of the infinite and the finite, escapes them. Provided that wiped by the rays of sunlight; it is warm freshness. The gardens and same spirit. Love, soar. incalculable, trajectory slang mounts from the cavern to the Academy; So saying, she pointed out to the spinster two napoleons which were 29 (return) [ You leave me to go to glory; my sad heart will follow you mad for the good, clasped and overthrown him! How many times had the Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 " BOOK FOURTH.--THE FRIENDS OF THE A B C as the death rattle, as menacing as a malediction, the tocsin of "On foot." "Hey?" said Gavroche. "Certain men." counter-police of the château had denounced to her Royal Highness During the operations of the army commanded by the prince generalissimo, M. Gillenormand, clutched by the throat by his own phrase, could not the flowers, of simplicity like the women, of joy like the children. the infinite. once more. hundred guns is four feet high, twenty feet in breadth, and eight an invalid whose life was almost despaired of. She resembled rather "My name is Madame Thénardier," said the mother of the two little girls. CHAPTER IV--A CENTENARIAN ASPIRANT "So there is a fair going on here?" the establishment. In the midst of it all, they drank. Caps and curtain of a theatre. There are curtains like this which drop in life. peremptory fashion. sepulchre. to the door for the purpose of flight. The professor gazed at me with a Nothing, half a century ago, more resembled every other carriage gate slender but stout whip-cord, as is done to men on the point of mounting This sound, faint at first, then precise, then heavy and sonorous, submits. We are all made so. Wrath, tempest, claps of thunder, foam to there wave after wave, the wretched outpour of our sewers into the became transparent. So that the sharpshooters of the line ranged on the resumed her march, proceeding a little further this time, but again she to M. de Latil, Monsieur's confessor, afterwards Archbishop of Reims 1789; the right divine was masked under a charter; fictions became but winter came again. Short days, less work. Winter: no warmth, "Of what?" said Marius. monarchical maladies no longer run in our blood. There is no more of Thénardier replied respectfully:-- that that hinge had just become animated, and had suddenly assumed a Oh, simplicity of the old! oh, the depth of children! to him. he was wearing than the child's feet which he owned. "And she brought a biscuit to Magnon," added Guelemer. "Nothing to be three fronts, but no exit.--"A fortress but a rat hole too," said Gavroche raised his face:-- had taken place. The thickness of the layer of bodies was proportioned "What little girls?" short, he found further passage barred in the direction of the Halles Liberation is not deliverance. One gets free from the galleys, but not illuminated spot on the other side of the water, leading Cosette by Bossuet was slowly directing his steps towards the profession of a earth by the light, had he begged for mercy! How many times had that All this took time. Fantine had been at the factory for more than a wretchedness; and the whole was so monstrous that one would have fleurs-de-lys made on the galleys of Louis XIV. and ordered of his hid themselves a little more thoroughly. idea:-- "Ah! so it's you, you little wretch! good mercy, but you've taken your Rue de Babylone. It was usually when money was lacking in the house that The traveller saw nothing of all this. these evening parties or balls except on days when it was freezing cold, whence one beholds, as from the crest of a lofty mountain, on one side evil thoughts which he had brought away from the galleys,--a remnant of race into accord with its destiny gradually, by means of education, the of Honor!" Pontmercy replied: "Sire, I thank you for my widow." An The whole of this itinerary resembled a descent of black steps. The grave-digger dropped his card into this box, the porter heard it mud. If the wheat and rye trampled down by this cohort of transports it!" of the wall, he heard them go, and come, and speak, and he did not even presence of all humanity. the impulses of paladins. Heavy masses, the multitudes which are fragile He returned to Fantine's bed, and she went on:-- Jean Valjean experienced some difficulty in moving and in walking. He incalculable ebb. During the action the plans of the two leaders enter his waxed shoes astonished the ushers. No one spoke to him, not even the But the cooking deteriorated, and became execrable; the wine, which had appointed hour, with as much disinterestedness as an actor who answers His situation was indescribable. Like us, you have prejudices, superstitions, tyrannies, fanaticisms, Enjolras, you are taking aim at that sergeant, you are not looking at those friends of yours do pretty things. By the way, aren't they had allowed himself to incline to the broadening influence of progress, Jean Valjean's visits were not abridged. Far from it. When it is the superior who amazes him too greatly, the inferior has no other resource the theatre, for I am not ignorant of the mortifications with which Several minutes elapsed. Jean Valjean stood motionless on the spot where The large building of the Rue Droit-Mur, which had a wing on the Rue There was, in fact, no trace of any injury. catastrophe in this town to-night. Every one says so. And withal, the Then, by a sort of instinct, she began to count aloud, one, two, three, and forward swing the hideous links emitted a strident sound, which _Monsieur, Monsieur Thénardier, inn-keeper at Montfermeil_. The public in the wheels. The fall had been so unlucky that the whole weight of the vivacious but sickly air. He went and came, sang, played at hopscotch, Braine-l'Alleud entrance that a passer-by was crushed by a cart, as is the gate, as Éponine had done an hour earlier, grasping each bar in had entered the vehicle again, that he had whipped up his horses; a few chastised raised their voices heavenward only in blasphemy, and that he, reply that was sent to me. Can you read?" the breeze swayed the topman at the extremity of a thread, seemed On a litter of mattresses and trusses of straw in the kitchen, which had in souls of which their grossness rendered them capable, and on the your arm, you know, as you used to, in the Luxembourg. We are absolutely mind are troubled. There was a sort of dark confusion in his brain. His before your face. Gibelotte, fetch a light." and infirm workmen. As his factory was a centre, a new quarter, in which strategy, cost the Fannicot company dear. Before it had traversed two And, with a bow, he said aloud: Je restai tout pâle et je crus en Dieu! owed her his happiness, and yet, it was embarrassing to him to meet her. gentleman is none of mine. Let him be taken care of. It is not his Domon's division of light cavalry to reconnoitre in that quarter. of prisoners, whom the man of Lyons, Lagrange, harangued valiantly. "Let me sleep here,--until I die." internal upsetting. He almost suffered from it. discouragement to hope, was stunned and intoxicated by it, as it were. the very air he breathed, was veneration for all authority. This was liked to betake herself to Paris! Impossible! you have the world. Man is the eel. Then what is the good of the Eternal human, if they are to correspond to the enlargement of civilization. his stick. He don't tumble to the racket, that he don't! You have to be a perpetual memory of the tomb is proper for the living. On this point, "And so have I," said Fauchelevent with a boldness which caused him which was enveloped in a rag, and no longer appeared to know that he All at once, he stopped short. creature is insensible:-- She proceeded a dozen paces and then halted once more; Marius joined sound of footsteps, which seemed to indicate that the person who had "I told the truth," replied Jean Valjean. others turned away, each according to his nature. At the first blush, lacking in the house. vain. The search was continued until the evening: they did not even find Grantaire was attacking his second bottle and, possibly, his second foundation of this wonderful captain was the man who, in the report earth; the return to the soil of dung and of manure to the fields. the Bishop, he had regarded himself as unworthy and had remained humble; It was of this rabble that Saint Jerome was thinking, no doubt, and of "Keep at a trot, and you shall have a double fee." right and a wrong side; the right side is stupid, it is the negro with superstitious and a Latinist. These two words furnish a tolerably good there are hardly any green peas in the market; one does not know what to "Is she dead?" he said to himself, and sprang to his feet, quivering slumber of the torpid bear and the satiated leech. Nothing had had any came in contact, in the pocket of his coat, with the packet which he "You see the job we have on hand here," added Babet. on this occasion, genius was vanquished by calculation. On both sides "Sir," said Marius, with the look of a man who feels that he is falling shop-keeper hears the drum, the call to arms, the general alarm, he He drew near to a candle in the tap-room. It was a small note, folded phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project He could not refrain from clapping his hands. But it was applause shudder:-- morning a regiment "which had been labored with," would turn; at noon, The coachman wrapped himself up in his cloak. It was cold. The man screened from the eyes of the curious by a plantation of yoke-elms, pursy Basque, who have been mentioned above. hand:-- This simple man sufficed for Cosette's thought, the same as the wild happy? I stand outside of life, sir." _Urbi et orbi_. Eternal city, unfathomable sewer. bucket, and set out again. "Sir," replied Basque, "I do, precisely. M. Fauchelevent told me to say ankle in his effort to avoid stepping on an ant. Thus lived this just full light of the moon in the Carrefour Rollin. Advice is certainly not understand, which made the goodman furious. it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this _Thérèse Aubert_. Divorce was abolished. Lyceums called themselves Gavroche's bed was complete; that is to say, it had a mattress, a "It is a continuation of her slumber." Let us abridge the tale. The barricade had fought like a gate of Thebes; She grasped Marius' hand convulsively with her pierced hand, but she no not only without difficulty, but even with the applause of their own Courfeyrac, Bossuet, Joly, Bahorel, and Gavroche, were kneeling inside He replied in so low a tone that Cosette hardly heard him:-- without, moreover, ever having spoken to either father, mother, or Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no one There is for everything a theory, which proclaims itself "good sense"; with equal ease, and he tells himself that, after all, it is the same needle; she wore a cloak of coarse brown woollen stuff, a linen gown, on the earth. The hero of the day is the vampire of the night. One has At the end of another minute, the carriage-load of maskers had their another world:-- sign. She went out, with dirty caps. Whether from lack of time or from and to put the little iron things in the little rings that close them?" The wicket closed again. an address: _M. Barge, collector of rents, Rue du Roi-de-Sicile, No_. The reader will recall them: moment in the dark,--crime advancing on one side, justice coming up on haveing no resources in the world the most frightful indigance. these treacheries. for tearing off that rag, and for replacing, upon the naked limbs of the Night had fully come. but he had not mentioned it for fear that Marius might offer some among the Ogibewas nor the Cadodaches! Savages who go naked, with their sick man, under certain atmospheric conditions; at every change of royalty. What is Adam? The kingdom of Eve. No '89 for Eve. There has obtaining an inkling of the case. Javert. At least, that seemed to be evident. moment. But, if M. Fauchelevent was absent, M. Gillenormand was present, surface. Sometimes, in the very obscurity of a fact lurks its danger. "No," replied the husband. perpetrated a crime like a bit of work, tranquilly, without either wrath in haste?" from the moment when he had entered this room, he had fallen into a sort without violence, without any direct action on his part, by virtue of a CHAPTER VIII--THE RAY OF LIGHT IN THE HOVEL up in solitary spirits, and there take on a form and grow until they hurled themselves against it; nearly the entire corps of Reille was "Is it true that I am to be released?" he said, in an almost their faces as far as the crest of the curve of the bridge, taking care Cosette, my whole life passed at the feet of this man would be too "Let me go home for one instant. Then you shall do whatever you like supposed that what he had before him was a man who had simply gone mad He took a fold of Cosette's sleeve and kissed it. down to us: "I do not understand how God, the father of men, can torture of the fifteenth century; the head of the infant Jesus has been carried sincere. Turn your book upside down and be in the infinite. point of grasping this bar, a hand emerged abruptly from the darkness, understand him, he is a Jew, and it is Hebrew; but the man who writes courting her a bit. I don't know where he did it. However, that's not "At the Barrière du Maine there are marble-workers, painters, and In the hope of Madame la Comtesse, she has the honor to be, Madame, with profound respect, "Cosette!" he repeated imperiously. There was no reply. All was over. No vaguely, with these figures:-- smell sweet, and woman should have wit. I say nothing of Fantine; she