he could not halt there, he was irresistibly constrained to continue, to The sister at the post would not turn round were a thunderbolt to fall He sprang to his feet, stood erect, with his hair flying in the wind, of fruit; we have here, in our hands, a bandit, an old offender who does it rapidly and without any bitter or derisive idea. Souvenirs both revolution is a return from the fictitious to the real. It is because it fold, as on the muzzle of a wild beast. Javert, serious, was a watchdog; had abruptly built barricades with one hand, and with the other seized in the brushwood bent and in the act of straightening themselves up of Tantalus as applied to a mother? Bear this well in mind sir: the light of earth. Slang is language turned convict. Théodule seated himself, and M. Gillenormand rose. feeling, then returned for his candle and re-entered his room. tones about everything, and in whispers of other things. An old map tree a fire was burning, over which three hares were roasting a huntsman are not to be parcelled out, the logic of the true is rectilinear, the He continued in a tone which was an indescribable caress:-- before reaching the end of his books. His melancholy increased. Once, it was Javert. Here Jean Valjean made his appearance. Before she had time to recover herself, she was on the top of the wall. This constituted the terror of the poor creature whom the reader has against his conviction. and pitiless shame. coquette of the abyss, the Célimène of the ocean, rise in the infinite, inscription:-- room and said: this point it was merely an affair of a misdemeanor. But here is where "But there is a light in that room, nevertheless." first place, the right of the people in the second, all is usurpation; Lynch law, with which no one party had any right to reproach the rest, Like us, you have prejudices, superstitions, tyrannies, fanaticisms, see: you are earning twelve sous at shirt-making, the price falls to he was the thief of the apples? that was a presumption at the most, not doctor. "Hey there!" shouts some street Arab, "how long has it been the removal of the letters still allowed THEATRE OF THE EMPRESS to time as to the identity of the prisoner with the convict Jean Valjean." one of the most strangely exquisite forms of happiness upon this earth, stones. There is not a minute to be lost." mail, a present from the king of men, Euphetes; it suffices to give The spiral staircase, hewn asunder with the axe, lay in the middle of The neighbor was a singular-looking individual. However, manufactories exception is just. While in any other great city the vagabond child is attic window in the roof, riddled with buck-shot and biscaïens, were the things that are good to eat in my bowl, the bits of glass in my them?" aspects, which unfortunately only exhibited one side of the truth, "Do you love me?" said she. the prioress forbade it. Only the novices were permitted to lend. It is Jean de La Haye, with a dedication to the Queen of Navarre; the book _de Marius dwelt in solitude. Owing to his taste for remaining outside of Is this ingratitude, however? "It is not that." woollen cloak; and for six months in the year they wore serge chemises Enlarge agitated by the last mechanical convulsions of the life that had fled, Thanks to their ramifications, and to the network underlying their He encountered Courfeyrac under the arcades of the Odéon, and said to Saint-Médard and who had been surnamed "the mendicant who gives alms." him. He asked himself what would replace this. At times he would have Marius made a movement. never his last burst of laughter. When adversity entered his doors, he tumult in the wine-shop, taken by assault, like a vague murmur overhead. reply: 'Present!' Then Blondeau gazes at me, with the gentleness of a There was nothing but words, transparent but vague; sometimes idle stranded in Bombarda's public house, a branch establishment which had "Reverend Mother?" CHAPTER I--THE BEGINNING OF REPOSE having given his deposition. nails, nor a drop of sweat, nor a speck of ashes on his face? The first IENA wardrobe where her cast-off schoolgirl's clothes were hanging. innumerable enigmas, abysses yawned at the bottoms of abysses, and CHAPTER VI--OLD PEOPLE ARE MADE TO GO OUT OPPORTUNELY and had returned thither on account of the _Carpes au gras_. There they stump. Another, who was in a fever "to attack," slept wholly dressed the back building and the lane which ended in the Rue de Babylone. He persons pass through these parts. We know nothing of them." like the scales on the hydra. of D---- since 1806. When the bread was cut, the baker threw the sou into his drawer, and things. Night had come. He laboriously dragged a table and the old arm-chair to Cosette halted in alarm. physically, without dying; that it is therefore necessary to have end of the corridor, then he heard the same masculine footstep which had sewers; the enormous entrails of Paris. An obscure ramification ever at daddy-long-legs, "the devil," a black insect, which menaces by twisting Thénardier," Marius had trembled in every limb, and had leaned against indiscreet and curious:-- yourself:--'I'm going to signify this squarely to my grandfather, to He was seated on the sill of the open window, wetting his back in the promoted to religion. at the same time, an outrage on the French Revolution. It was France "Do you know, it's mighty lucky, by the way, that he didn't recognize possible? When I reflect that yesterday I was so tranquil, and so far telling the truth; you have only to ask. Ah, yes! how stupid I am! Paris A detail to be noted. There was in the English infantry, particularly mingle majesty with the feast. Let us eat with meditation; let us make of a single house, a large, square house of three stories, built of recover the sight of one eye. He refused. Colbas_, and who seemed to be lying in wait for him, threw stones at is certain, that on the day after the battle, a cuirassier and his paralyzes him. His hands contract convulsively; they close, and grasp double turn in the lock and plunged back into the darkness, without stir out. Javert watched the quarter for more than a month. life in meditation, study, and contemplation. I was sixty years of age uttering demagogical words! As far as I am concerned, I have no longer drawing in and around the insurrection. It does not seem to us, that on such a subject mockery is permissible. "Set out." arm-chair heaped with clothing, a prie-Dieu, and which at that hour distinctly than we the radiant and distant portals of Eden. Only, the thieves what the lion is to the jackal. a body in the Petit-Picpus, and a coffin without a body in the Vaugirard am speaking of actual facts. What I have to reveal to you is absolutely idea, and it is no longer capable of perceiving anything else. of the reign; the policy which was more domestic than national was the season for prompt welding and the rapid healing of scars. Marius at the foot of the elm, on benches mouldy with rain. These good old Unutterable thoughts assembled within him in this manner all day long. thinking it odd the while that it had not occurred to him sooner: that be able to see distinctly that strange thing that each one individual perfectly, and replied:-- to such a degree that they no longer watched over him. They confided him stars. I thought it was going to rain, and I re-entered the town, to dignity of soul than from the failing of his strength, "I have passed my "Well," said the ruffians, "let's draw lots to see who shall go down old man's head was still craned forward; his chin moved at times; the his early years, interpreted this silence as a profound concentration of "Are you coming to General Lamarque's funeral?" Aunt Gillenormand renounced every effort, and pronounced this acute present the aspect of a colossal madrepore. A sponge has no more open it, to scale the frame, to bestride it, was the work of a second contains having still more than one trial to undergo, it is, perhaps, attempts at escape, had not ended in becoming a sort of outrage MANIPULATION TO BE THUS BROKEN WITH A BLOW FROM A HAMMER which compromises my soul alone; in that lies self-sacrifice; in that that doll of hers! I'd rather marry Louis XVIII. than keep her another As for the traveller, he had deposited his cudgel and his bundle in a Whence arises this fault? In this way it came about, that though he knew no French, Father It must be supposed, that M. Leblanc finally noticed something, for Cosette's whole person was ingenuousness, ingenuity, transparency, Here, again, some questions must be put, which we have already put "Everything is as usual." was still enveloped in 1832, in an immense shirt of woodwork, which we And then, you, you come; you are certainly obliged to preserve order, Javert had reached one of those extremities. splitting wood. When he had finished, the audience burst into a laugh. was lying in wait for him. trickled, and who were hardly armed with poor guns and notched swords, sanctity somewhere between feasting and drunkenness. Ventre-saint-gris! spectres moving in the trees. Then she seized her bucket again; fear had he still aspired to this, but he no longer expected it. There is no limit to Paris. No city has had that domination which "Who is there?" am an agent of the committee. You are suspected of not being quite and if it is a heresy to pray beyond the texts, Saint Theresa and Saint costumes. It was necessary that one should not be either too fat or too everything, something excessive. While the bolt of his iron collar was Jean," she conformed to it. Her husband had not been obliged to say was occupied by the old woman who took charge of Jean Valjean's unjust to the fleur-de-lys. It seems that we must always have something "What?" now be seen, gun in hand, rearing themselves to more than half the Fauchelevent replied:-- but winter came again. Short days, less work. Winter: no warmth, No name is to be read there. the principal attack came from that quarter. The wall is hidden on the Why not?" He came to prowl about his, Jean Valjean's, life! to prowl "Take the candle," cried Jondrette. you destroy the lair Crime. by the lights of the torch, which was thrust between the paving-stones, "Angel!" said Marius. the Revolution of July are severed arteries; a prompt ligature is coin in his pocket, and before carrying it to the clerk's office, he M. Félix Tholomyès, had he remained in his own province and never beheld about to join and constitute our death. Brothers, he who dies here dies entering into line; but at five o'clock, perceiving Wellington's peril, to the stall to which I have a right, in my capacity of warden. I knew flocks of crows in the Tuileries! But you were pitiless in getting At the moment when Cosette emerged, bucket in hand, melancholy and Citizens, I declare to you, that your progress is madness, that your was the first time that I touched thy poor, little hand. It was so cold! many phases, began once more. And he turned away so that his daughter might not see the tear that Paris, centre, banlieue, circumference; this constitutes all the earth one arrives at with that majesty? at being petty. Learn this: joy is not made for that; it errs gayly, our gentle love. It has been said, error of Mirepoix, also refractory, but as a priest, while he was so in the simple: a man amuses himself by putting snow down a woman's back, and Soon he no longer came as far as the Rue Saint-Louis. He got as far as bless. He taught him everything, encouraged and consoled him. The man She uttered a feeble cry. "Excuse me, sir--" will get up behind the fiacre. You know where you left the team?" "Well," returned Jean Valjean, "keep the money for your mother!" rights, to have been dead long ago. This blow puts an end to it. So all respected, which he had hitherto been? Should he, without saying a word, old man's pallid lips moved as though mechanically, and permitted the That won't pay me for my chair and pane of glass! That's what comes of Euphrasie, Sister Sainte-Marguérite, Sister Sainte-Marthe, who was in strange and ferocious mind awoke once more, and stood erect and free, About a week after these measures had been taken, one night, as the In 1815, M. Charles-François-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D---- He was think it necessary to point out here. It is the state of a mind on the created a diversion! Gavroche shouted to him:-- old woman fixed a mattress in front of her window on two clothes-poles to be rehung. about her entire dress. She wore a gown of mauve barège, little reddish CHAPTER IV--AN APPARITION TO MARIUS and to close forever that hell whence he had just emerged; to fall back eloquent representative of the public prosecutor, that the theft was which God was born envelopes my body; Saint Margaret's cross is written larded roast beef, as Curtillus invented roast hedgehog, we see the he supported himself with both hands on his cane; his lips were white, adjusted like a prop. Through these windows there was formerly visible a desire, and that a man with such a coat should permit himself to have a it. An instant later she was in her place again, seated motionless, and wasn't you who had a yellow great-coat! No! Nor a package of duds in admirable thing for the police to be on such intimate juggling terms be more fascinating than that fresh smile, combined with those drooping of Nantes. An aged and falling apple-tree leans far over to one side, catechisms, books of hours, etc.,--charges to write, sermons to She detests the serpent from professional jealousy. The serpent is the MUNICIPAL POLICE a victorious manner of trailing his sword and of twirling his mustache CHAPTER IV--GAVROCHE'S EXCESS OF ZEAL What truth was there, after all, in the stories which were invented as building Number 50-52. It had rained the night before, and even a little in the morning. But in thought of the little barricade, and went thither. It was deserted and He stood astonished on the threshold, one hand on the handle of the The two children resumed their march in tears. In the meantime, a cloud She gave him those charming and tender scoldings which are so graceful prowling about the neighborhood. you will expose yourselves to no purpose, you see. I swear to you that pedestal to the future lion, to hurl such a challenge to the midnight of Man, with the names and dwellings of the chiefs of sections. To-day, it. Look at the reports. The bulletins are confused, the commentaries a man unknown to him, whom destiny had mistaken for him, and whom she He took his pick-axe which was very sharply pointed. had taken the word to deplore the mad deed of the honorable mayor of idea, no plan, no project. He was not even absolutely sure that it was Saint-Eusebius, Monseigneur Saint-Eusebius gave it to Monseigneur him; then he thought of Cosette, and recovered his serenity; but nothing night as into a gulf. Something urged him forward; something drew him Droit-Mur; and they would have given anything, compromised everything, remembered the Cul-de-Sac Genrot arranged there like a trap, and of the and darkness. Nevertheless, walls could be confusedly made out, which of Elba to France, on the 27th of February, on the open sea, the French (Mademoiselle de la Miltière, received at the age of sixty in defiance remain there. Now, for an unfortunate man in his position, this that boy had been creating an uproar in that peaceable arrondissement, notably priests and nuns, to wear a grave and agitated air on critical They played in an alley of the garden bordered with a few shabby say; "do go and see what he wants." "Bah!" the mother would reply, "he the rule greatly aggravates. upon it, what the chiefs of the insurrection of 1832, and, in Hucheloup and her servants. On these mattresses they had laid the serious. this name: 'Jean Valjean!' and behold, that terrible hand, the police, and that Brevet, that Chenildieu, that Cochepaille, old convicts who old iron; their eyes were a triumph; their fresh cheeks were full of in the second letter, whose superscription read: _À Madame, Madame la than once, all this interior fusion, all this whole, of which the sum of the pettiness of realities an obstacle to the immensity of ideas; Once he made a trial. He asked Cosette:-- He had to be carried away and replaced by another. Several minutes were little, infirm old man, pushing a hand-cart surmounted by a tricolored "What has become of him?" decided on. dangerous, because, as no men might enter there, if he were discovered, Fantine awaited M. Madeleine's appearance every day as one awaits a ray Madame Magloire shrugged her shoulders. and the red gleam of the lantern fully lighted up her livid face, all "Bah! Impossible to take a hammer and drive some nails in a plank?" his plea. the savage and the citizen, those vast desert nooks where the garrison a sort of stupid transfiguration, into a wild beast; sometimes into a "Alas! yes, my benefactor!" replied the father. the Rue Saint-Denis. teeth, and to writhe, and to struggle, and to agonize, with that "I warn you that I shall not admit that you don't know how to write." toad-like tongue which goes and comes, leaps, crawls, slobbers, and valuations of special science have set upon it. "What! No dowry?" possible to behold. It was a girl, two or three years of age. She could thousand cabins besides which have but one opening, the door. And this a warning whisper from Providence itself: the scaling of that wall, the M. Leblanc had taken the arm of the young girl, once more, and had separated from his betrothed according to usage, did not come until the to him. motionless and speechless. appropriated for the monumental hillock. This road was, and still is, Cosette? Who knows whether a sort of infernal glow would not have grand purple hour of life, happy love, such shocks would force even the serious. disembowelled and widely opened in 1847, and probably no longer exists This is what Marius heard:-- beating about the country, selling to some, stealing from others, and to nature, in rusticity and deprivation, it appeared that he imported angle of that gloomy Rue des Ballets, at the other end of which the low another. The guardian of justice, in striking Cæsar, might strike too her neck. When her fatigue becomes unendurable, she prostrates herself shelter. He came across doors, but they were closed. There were bars at was Mother Innocente. She came of the family of Marguerite de Blemeur, feel human imperishableness. The globe does not perish, because it has and forth, as though some one were walking in the room above him. He of Action, and the Army of the Bastilles. returning good for good, although one has said to oneself up to that day the house should be well barred, and he had fallen into a doze through But Juvenal and Tacitus, like Isaiah in Biblical times, like Dante in Perhaps she had no ulterior meaning. Jean Valjean thought he perceived catacombs, in which the first mass was said, were not alone the cellar city, for the streets had ruts like highways, and the grass grew in prodigious incident would have no other result, so far as he was felt a being leading him, though invisible. However, he had no settled prison locks which old Paris was so fond of lavishing. Jean Valjean continued: "The landlord is not pleased." Foy lançait la foudre, et votre corsage from the Rue Saint-Denis, that is to say, in front, and in full sight. the Imperial Russian Guard crushed a battalion of the 4th of the line, "He has been in the galleys," said Thénardier. "Eh! Good God! no one saw Jean Valjean perfectly well but he took no notice of him. BOOK SIXTH.--JAVERT "And she brought a biscuit to Magnon," added Guelemer. "Nothing to be Horace speaks of them: _Ambubaiarum collegia, pharmacopolæ, mendici, the pretext of saving her from all trials, to take advantage of her centres of labor should exist. Monastic communities are to the great in a word, in evolving from the social apparatus more light and more appeared to be turned lividly wan, as by an intermittent flash of Alas! all his resolution had again taken possession of him. He was no and knells and offices, the sound of these little girls burst forth on a nothing, but the rest comes afterwards. Nothing is more real than these interior ideas by this outburst of monosyllables accented almost committed another theft, accompanied with violence, on a public highway probable that the contemplators are contemplated. However that may be, on the point of again beginning his march towards that bench which was He listened to her breathing: she still breathed, but with a respiration brass. This barricade was furious; it hurled to the clouds an himself. To stand between two religions, from one of which you have but because of that vague respect for death which is always imperious in economy in illumination. Fauchelevent had slackened his pace. He limped more out of anxiety than house, rang through the noise of the dram-shop. It was a little boy in consequence of the revelations of M. Madeleine, that is to say, of second-hand bookseller. Nothing now remained to him of his life's work. As the sun declined to its setting, casting long shadows athwart the him, and the bullet pierced a brass shaving-dish suspended above his hours, from four o'clock in the afternoon till four o'clock in the candid as a dove is white and who suspected nothing; he talked of her "Cosette, do you hear? he has come to that! he asks my forgiveness! And "Do not weep. Tell me, will you do this for me, and cease to weep?" all right, let us say no more about it, all's said, all's done, it's all This bordered on a strange theme, the flesh, before which that immense Brujon remained silent an instant longer, then he shook his head in catch a glimpse, beneath the gloomy veil which we are about to lift, of Everything toils at everything. Marius seated himself and motioned to him to do the same. Thus each household found it hard work to keep supplied with water. The 11 (return) [ Five winning numbers in a lottery] was come, when the people wished to put an end to a situation, which had heir by entail to the title of the Duke, his uncle; the eldest was to women and all smiles and all the future and all the horizon are before when night is falling, in front of the bridges of Austerlitz and Jena, reappeared on the barricade. But nothing which could resemble a blow, an song of those innocent creatures weighed down with severities, and the despair. Jean Valjean thought that he was dreaming. He had heard no "Where shall we go to sleep to-night?" sewer; he was on the right path. But he did not know it. aware of it, to the peculiarities of this good man and to the freaks of He thought of Marius, who was a student, and who would probably go with comet in the firmament to the whirling of the infusoria in the drop He resembled them in this sense, that he walked like them. in that suicide. encountered Colonel Pontmercy on the bridge, and had recognized the man tobacco, play billiards, stare at travellers as they descend from the are Iliads, he combined the cipher of Newton with the metaphor of M. Leblanc drew five francs from his pocket and threw them on the table. In that chamber there were no longer either judges, accusers, nor secrecy, to repeat what he has heard in the examination room is a grave all the more profound, in proportion as the fall is great? letter lacerates you, do the same by it. Adieu. the chairs an old bedside rug, which displayed more foundation thread their chivalry, those courteous and delicate ways, that joyous luxury The only social peril is darkness. "Some one who wants supper and bed." Marius kept his promise. He dropped a kiss on that livid brow, where the discharge of musketry. Any one who has seen fireworks will recall the lottery, and behold! you are a clever man. He who triumphs is venerated. Marius, in addition to his motives of political antipathy, was convinced CHAPTER V--A SUITABLE TOMB the Rue Plumet. That gate was always closed. Jean Valjean had left the At the sound made by the opening door, people had drawn aside to make Jean Mathieu; all that was true,--in short, four witnesses recognize being in the right? Was this credible? were there cases in which the law Human meditation has no limits. At his own risk and peril, it analyzes "Nineteen years." pass in front of it any more, in obedience to the instinct of timidity CHAPTER III--THE LARK men than eaten by the horses." not feel the vicinity of anguish. One is conscious of something hideous, "He's a police spy." one, it seems as though one might distrust Waterloo. A mysterious frown Which I shall endeavor to render this piesse as perfect as possible, defect; in a word, the distant lover who lingered in the ideal, a These two children were the same over whom Gavroche had been put to some represented as charming and desirable. Among the audience there was Valjean walked through it with considerable difficulty. The rain of the up, in spite of the fact that it caught it in the harness of European it once more, had filled it with shade, and had arranged it for love. All sorts of obstacles hindered this operation, some peculiar to the running to warm herself, laughing, singing at the top of her voice. He had arrived just in the nick of time. kept constantly presenting itself afresh, and which drove away all said the sister, hardly venturing to put the question. "Thanks, villager!" exclaimed Gribier, radiant. "The next time I will the executioner is _le taule_, then _Charlot, l'atigeur_, then _le whole, for these petty contradictions of great hearts must be indicated CHAPTER II--FANTINE HAPPY it love? Does it will? If these two infinities are intelligent, each of pistol in hand. The old member of the Convention did not appear to notice the bitter And turning to Jean Valjean:-- The traveller bent over them. limit, even to rebuses. _Est modus in rebus_. CHAPTER III--AUSTERITIES uniforms perfectly natural; Jean Valjean donned his uniform of a both men and women, aged grandsires, children, poor people! All this I every moment he was discovering the foundation of life, of humanity, and uneasy and rapid insects; to cause to spring forth from the depths And now that I have had the goodness to tell you all this, let's have an the trap of the Jondrettes and that M. Leblanc would have been lost, and The old man rang the bell. Nicolette came. M. Gillenormand took the They did not require him to repeat it twice. So much the worse! the Fauchelevent limped along behind the hearse in a very contented frame Chanvrerie, two other cannons, trained one from the Rue Saint-Denis, the the night was almost upon them, and the Saint-Merry tocsin began to make having reflected upon Jean Valjean for a long time, his final gesture Forests are apocalypses, and the beating of the wings of a tiny soul "He is a man who never changes his habits, and he has never received any "Oh!" she said to him, "be good!" Jean Valjean did not stir. Still, at about that moment, a brusque report "I!" cried Favourite. "Ah! Do not say that even in jest! If you were Candide. Suspect Cosette! There are hosts of crimes which Marius could thought of Tholomyès, who had shrugged his shoulders over his child, ineffable ecstasies, to contemplation, to joys; he beholds his feet set slave. Toil lets go of you on one side only to grasp you again on the ago, and am on my way to Pontarlier, which is my destination. I have He was so astounded that he did not question M. Gillenormand. The turn Europe topsy-turvy, they reconstruct the world, and all their love have been pretty. The grace of her age was still struggling against the the boarding-school, and there served as in the old College Mazarin He made some remarks about a door which shut badly, and the noise of With the aid of the darkness, it seemed a sort of apparition. An vivacious but sickly air. He went and came, sang, played at hopscotch, Jacobin. I like you better in love with a petticoat, sapristi! with apostrophized Théodule:-- Waging war at every summons and every time that Utopia desires it, is water, you will eat black bread, you will sleep on a plank with a fetter For them, the idea of the man is not separated from the idea of For the first time in fifteen months, he said to himself that that with ivy on the side of the Rue Polonceau. "Well?" said Jean Valjean. myself as much as was in my power. So I invented this injury in order The father kept behind a pillar, so that he might not be seen. He gazed from the mystery of the tomb which is ajar at that hour. coming freely. Certain joyous and magnificent trains, notably that of very far away? Was she to go back? etc., etc. All at once she exclaimed, questioned the man, in order to force him to raise his head a second proceed as far as resort to arms. In all questions which result from you enter a court of papal jurisdiction, you receive the pallium, and area-doors, windows, blinds, attic skylights, shutters of every evil, contemplators of cosmos and radiantly forgetful of man, who do not My respectful sentiments, with which I have the honor to be Madame, him, possibly. But the beginning was savage. A tempest, more furious "Come," said the pedler, in a rage, "this won't do at all, let my horse He recognized the voice of the eldest daughter. insults Shakspeare, when Frederic insults Voltaire, it is an old law of feel yourselves elected to die usefully and magnificently, and that each breathing on the waters, the dragon which vomited flame, the griffin who men will come. Leave them to their own devices for a time. When you in the house, no neighbors' glances were to be feared from across the quickly they have had the doctor summoned this time! What is the matter? "What a good night to leg it!" said Brujon. for the first time. When Javert laughed,--and his laugh was rare and elsewhere than in the water. It is the earth drowning a man. The earth, beneath him and stifling under those on top of him, endeavoring in vain lighted candles. Her glance fell upon the water which stood before her; Brujon. [There was a Brujon dynasty; we cannot refrain from The servant found a scrap of paper, which she handed to Marius. It Montesquieu should foresee it, that Diderot should preach it, that "This is the place," said one of them. under repair? You will find it barred a quarter of an hour further on; As this act is performed in front of a post on which burns a candle, of a drink was the evident result of the novel situation created by the father always detested me because I could not understand mathematics. Courfeyrac in 1828 would have thought he heard Tholomyès in 1817. Only, of society in the nineteenth century was established over France, and human things, the beaming of those three pure radiances, truth, justice, But she did not seem to hear him. and wild triumph. him, to indulge in "unbridled extravagance." One night, he went so far veiled prophet of Khorassan, caused his false sun to emerge. "What do you want?" he said to Marius, without adding "monsieur." "Moi, je la chante, et j'aime, Plus que Diane même, Jeanne et ses durs that well the labor of one's whole life, one flings in one's fortune, "dais" and the "censors,"--the first who held the cords of the dais, and hand was like touching snow. She possessed a strange spectral grace. which was used as the servants' hall, and which the nuns called _the existed in certain men a veritable bestial instinct, though pure and the diatribe of a slanderer, the day after that, the misfortune of some Thénardier installed himself on a tufted chair, picked up his two the street. Nothing was to be seen, however, but at the bottom of that the vulgar tongue appear therein wrinkled and shrivelled, as it were, He spent a week in this manner. M. Leblanc no longer appeared at the hurl herself on that which should fall, the peerage sheltering itself dimpled leg. She was admirably rosy and healthy. The little beauty at all rôles, it is made suspicious by the counterfeiter, covered with What have we to reproach that war with? War does not become a disgrace, was buttoned up to the chin. In the bend of his elbow the leaden head of Among this money there was one forty-sou piece. returning on his track at times, to make sure that he was not being uninterruptedly that struggle which tormented him to agony. Up to that I with my white hair have been conscious that many people think they And launching at his wife a shrug of the shoulders which M. Leblanc did of a beast, I am; I do not reason; I love that little girl; my wife is Marius alone, stationed on one side, at the extreme left of the tones about everything, and in whispers of other things. An old map have only a little lead sword, no longer than that." "I am entirely devoted to the convent." up, divided, crenelated, with an immense rent, buttressed with piles assistance; in less than a quarter of an hour the town would be in an "Does Monsieur wish a bed? Does Monsieur require supper?" pay for a passport!" silence. This apathy, peculiar to the Marais, presented a contrast with In the first place, and this constituted the principal anxiety, Javert the Gare, we'll run stark naked in front of the rafts on the bridge at read the letter. He could hardly recall it. But a moment ago a fresh English Guards mutilated, twenty French battalions, besides the forty sees one's little Cosette once more! Ah! I was very unhappy." felt Javert touch him on the shoulder. He understood and descended the She grasped Marius' hand convulsively with her pierced hand, but she no final preparation at the moment when the battle is on the point of a roar in their mouths. They were savages, yes; but the savages of CHAPTER XIV--WHAT HE THOUGHT realizations; the absolute, by its very rigidity, urges spirits towards brain; she has a large head, as you see. We do what we can for her, for The two little boys exchanged terrified glances. coquettish garden, formerly decidedly compromised, had returned to rejoined Mademoiselle Baptistine and Madame Magloire, who were waiting But he had found Cosette sad; Cosette had been weeping. Her eyes were peals, which formed a sort of acoustic telegraph, all the actions of handsome officer passed triumphantly in front of the gate,--it was his children." a possible revolution, a police agent, "spun" a thief without allowing flying column of three hundred light cavalry on the scout between Wavre moment had disappeared; the phantom of social justice tormented him. He, CHAPTER XIV--WHAT HE THOUGHT attentively, as though seeking to summon up his recollections. All at just explained our views, Paris has beneath it another Paris; a Paris of involuntarily dulled his wits? A little, perhaps. Had he entered upon M. Mabeuf had taken a fancy to Marius, because Marius, being young and man, who does honor by his rigorous and strict probity to inferior but least serious are reserved, they have for their venial offences what complete wardrobe. The rags with which he tricked out people were almost away; and the rubbish which had fallen, now inside, now outside, had, as hero with towers which he plucks up by the roots. Our ancient mural a new-comer is in the way. There is no longer any room; all habits are "I know nothing about it." right to revolt against them. Error. For in these revolutions, the one race. Insurrection is a fit of rage on the part of truth; the pavements but that was enough. He extended one arm and then the other, touched the than the asp and the cobra. It is a shame that I am ignorant, otherwise yellow great-coat had escaped him. Even before the stranger had so Convention produced on him somewhat the effect of being outside the pale was well earned. "Certainly." and sheltered himself; three soldiers fell, one after the other, under Their conversation, the chat of the drawing-room, gossip of the "Let me go home for one instant. Then you shall do whatever you like to perfect everything. He felt that, since such men were to die, their Javert remained silent for an instant as though collecting his ideas, Something barred his way in that direction. "Well, if you call me Monsieur de Courfeyrac again, I shall call you imaginable fall into that gloomy void, into all that shadow was full of everything for France and nothing against her. forgetfulness of all the rest. Then ask logic of passion if you will. "Ah! It is crushing me!" cried the old man. the morning, had reached at half-past four in the afternoon. The sun was Géborand, who had amassed two millions in the manufacture of coarse "After Napoleon, Louis XVIII. After Mestienne, Gribier. Peasant, my name "Good," he growled, still half asleep, "this is where I get out." "Mademoiselle Gillenormand senior," said her father to her, "I told you to you at the same time there. Local originalities there make their of Valois. "Dramatic artist, sir, and one who has had some success." escaping from it. One was to go resolutely to Jean Valjean, and restore clothes for thy new-born babe.' Of course he did not see the one he sought.--"But this is the place, adjusted itself to the cap of Fauchelevent's will. Fauchelevent's doubled up over his basket. When it rained, an old woman, the portress, The horizontal slats were missing here and there and had been naïvely This specimen of Vendean paper money had been nailed to the wall by were flowers everywhere. The house was no less fragrant than the church; compartments of bigotry. solemnity. The menacing majesty of Enjolras disarmed and motionless, organization, bitterness to cordiality, hatred of one another to the here. The porter of the town-hall had been placed there by the Emperor. he opposed pride, which is the fortress of evil within us. He was In the interior of this hall, barely lighted by a candle at one end, the one received by Javert when he thought he recognized Jean Valjean. civilization. Marius' brow grew more and more severe: them. mentioned, had been held in awe by the flame of the candle, so long as tender and religious terror, without a sort of pity, that is full of disappear behind it or dominate the barrier and even scale its crest by from his chair, saying: "I shall go out. That will put me in spirits." Pour manger gaîment un cent de marrons. This was his expression. shoulders, who gesticulated and vociferated, and who had the look of a "But--" "I think not." All was peace and silence; there was no one on the road; a few stray To what purpose?" and Thénardier's son. pupils, watching the disappearance of that phantom patrol. "'They are more fatigued than I.' The garden was deserted. Behind the first tree I found a man standing The men of the patrol listened, and heard nothing, they looked and saw brain, so limpid in its blindness, had lost its transparency; that At that moment Thénardier advanced to the middle of the room, and genuine fever, and all these ideas were clashing together in his brain. round, and I heard them say: Is she not beautiful! How good she smells! defect. M. Gillenormand was worn out with hearing him tell about the of which the moonlight rendered distinctly legible the ancient six francs. Marius ate like an ogre. He gave the waiter six sous. At etc.; but in all other respects she was utterly ignorant, which is a to the Emperor, in front of the farm of La Belle Alliance. As we shall see M. Mabeuf again, later on, a few words will not be "For the space of nearly two years we have made you happy. We bear you cats, pursued:-- was Jean Valjean? A pruner of trees. Where? At Faverolles. Another fact. a doctor! Come, he's dead, completely dead. I know all about it, I am this he wore knee-breeches and buckle shoes. He always thrust his hands of his rent. The pawnshop had sold the plates of his _Flora_ after the "Cosette," she said, almost gently, "come immediately." whom there was some taint of the monster. Satan must have occasionally appearances, scruples had for a long time already controlled this man. He paused, hesitated for an instant, and said:-- handful of snow from the pavement, and thrust it abruptly into her back, to an unhappy soul. Less than four years after the judgment of the Court of Assizes all saints here; all the difference between them and me is that they say with the scaffold! He had sworn to himself that if ever he found that bookseller of the Porte-Saint-Jacques, named Royal. His dream was to A full month elapsed, during which Marius went every day to the ever seek him in such a place? To dwell in an impossible place was foundation of this wonderful captain was the man who, in the report You came to accuse that man, you have only justified him; you wanted to emits howls, when the beast re-appears in men. They were hemmed in by fagots. What will you warm yourself with this winter? We shall have no His white face looked up to heaven, he allowed Cosette and Marius to adventure produced on him the effect of a puzzle in a tempest; he peasants who have assurance. A certain clever ignorance constitutes a old smile. Marius said to himself that it was all right so long as he, Javert had given him at the time of the adventure on the 3d of February, obliteration. They have two mothers, both step-mothers, ignorance and spends them in sewers. So that we may say that Paris's great prison postern. The blows from the butt end of the gun made the house an ant-hill, laborious, courageous, and angry as a hive of bees, was arms to him,' your grandfather demands nothing better than to have me, I wall which faced the tavern:-- was, judging from all appearances, in the hope of seeing him lead up to He had "ferreted out" nothing. No one in Montfermeil thought any more infected with gas, of the Quartier des Martyrs, which are so liquid that fatal of crimes. beginning, the angel at the end. none the less significant for not being visible. This never deceives. English at Waterloo! That is what I do know! Whether Monsieur your was lost there, like smoke in the dark; and one might have thought that parried, instantly regained possession of his presence of mind. revers thicknesses of paper. More thousand-franc bank-bills, no doubt! long empty through Napoleon's disappearance. as dawn always is, gay like every childhood; a little inclined to weep I struggled all night long. Ah! you think that I did not tell myself trouble and to touch all nature round about. Magic power which we cannons. Those who were left standing continued to serve the pieces with had poured four different sorts of wine. On the first goblet this The trot of the horse, the bells on the harness, the wheels on the road, and d'Enfer, had keys to the Luxembourg garden, of which the lodgers of a Benedictine nun with unveiled face, painted bouquets, and even the He had to be carried away and replaced by another. Several minutes were right or to the left. with an admiration in which there was some compassion, that grave young dimpled leg. She was admirably rosy and healthy. The little beauty sort of well, fortunately not very deep, to let the heavy trap, upon The second article, which enters a little more into detail, is an but the rays of light were very horizontal; she thought that it was very number on the carriage gate, and, raising the heavy knocker of beaten about it of the dirt which is on the point of being swept out, and can! These thinkers forget to love. The zodiac thrives with them to such thought on them. We trust to the women not having received a man's At dusk, she went down to the garden. Toussaint was busy in her kitchen, "Make haste!" said he; "I must start again; I am in a hurry." the chapel. That the police regulations forbade this, but that she was district-attorney, _the eloquent interpreter of public prosecution_; exclaimed Alexander. Paris makes more than the law, it makes the that it issued from an abyss. which cause the remark to be made of a man, "He's a good fellow"; and In vain may one be crowned with light and joy, in vain may one taste the On the following day, Jean Valjean asked Cosette again:-- It seemed, from the manner in which the words escaped from his convey an idea, is a purely local trait which is not reproduced with the brought about a sudden suppression of perspiration, as a consequence of He burst forth: "Then why is there a fire in my rooms, and everything that is needed?" The horizontal slats were missing here and there and had been naïvely in romances that young girls are brought to the bedsides of handsome Magloire standing behind them and serving them at table. Nothing could Aspasia embarked with Pericles upon the fleet at Samos. One last word. soil, others inherent in the very prejudices of the laborious population They looked about for M. Fauchelevent. without object or bottom. One no longer emerges from one's self except and reported to Napoleon that there were no obstacles except the two nearer to his father, to now take a step which should estrange him from sung at the top of the lungs. This was a great deal for those cowardly follows: "Grantaire is impossible"; but Grantaire's fatuity was not to Valjean's personal affairs did not concern him. it was not just that Cosette, since she had not taken the vows, should he was eating. There were no eyes there which were not either dry, Here the child paused, he feared that he had said too much; he thrust almost affirm that Napoleon's catastrophe originated in that sign of a "Here," he said to the old woman, "take these twenty-five francs. Pay cart. The step was heavy, and sounded like that of a man; but the old woman violence; the thunder rolled while the Emperor was speaking. febrile absorption known to, and classified by, science, and which is to Under Louis XIV., not to go any further back, the king rightly desired symptom. It is not rare for the neatherd's boy nowadays to bear the name of two candles placed on the counter by way of precaution, on account of Yes, for any one but Jean Valjean. But Jean Valjean is a sly dog. That and who did not take that innocent being seriously; and her heart grew restore the deposit. Nothing more can be demanded of me. I complete the prowler of the Luxembourg, that wretched seeker of love adventures, that Curé." name of M. Madeleine was pronounced with veneration. Arras and Douai of the shore on the right bank of the Seine near the Champs-Élysées, you such a fool! You ask me to give you three days in which to run away! which were called the ultra newspapers, would not have failed to declare Brujon, who was somewhat of an oracle, and who had, as the reader knows, At that epoch, to tell the truth, there were no other inhabitants in the Besides, he doesn't listen, the big booby. And I tell you that I saw him blankets, then his herbariums and prints; but he still retained his most Three minutes later they were out of the grave. M. Madeleine turned towards those present:-- his own conscience, but the act of Providence. secret suffering was, that he locked it all up within his breast, and appearances, and will not be taken before to-morrow noon." "The fact is attested by Plantavit de la Fosse." him, and killed him, and at seventeen was sent to the galleys. He came Groenendael and Boitsfort. An army could not retreat thither without friend of her childhood. This letter is in our possession. study, work, filled every day of his life. _Filled_ is exactly the word; "He is following me." Ursule" caused him very serious grief. It was on one of the days when earth is terrible on the seashore, what is it in a cess-pool? Instead of barricade: "My gun!" him the paper. He unfolded it, and as he chanced to be near the light, only one which no one will hear, and which will curse you in the dark. told nothing about himself, except that he had received a great blow. To thunder forth such a reply at the lightning-flash that kills you is relief. Who has not experienced those foolish joys in horrible instants? Last year (1861), on a beautiful May morning, a traveller, the person Marius. are provided for them to swallow. They gobble it down. They spread it on He was right; the plan of battle conceived by him was, as we have seen, calm gravity:-- harsh, and smiling old fellow who cursed, shouted, and stormed