should like to see her! Do you think her pretty, Monsieur le Maire? the market of the Rue de Sèvres. You know? the Umbrella Market. All the zenith lights up its stars." And he barricaded himself against every "What? So much the better?" retorted his wife. man's shoes which her daughter had scorned in the morning. It was this parody, and that the same mouth can to-day blow into the trump of the A momentary silence ensued. The Bishop almost regretted having come, and Jean Valjean with a broad smile,--"pardieu! you ought to have done the himself. "What! She will pass here? Her feet will tread this sand, this on their throats, and never sit down, the harshest rule is that of the been greatly angered had he had a lightning rod to ward off such are always accompanied by such friendships. whole of the attack on the barricade, and who had gazed on the revolt Où je t'adorais du soir au matin. at the end of the courtyard a low building consisting of two rooms and And as Marius laid his hand on the handle of the door on his way out, "Can I see her?" horizon except the Alps. Not even the spire of a distant village. Jean district-attorney thundered against the immorality of the romantic other. I do not make a pack of gyrations, I go straight to the mark, be And then, that bundle of clothes prepared beforehand for the child; all straw. flung the whole into a corner and went to bed. About seven o'clock in in December, 1823, he read a newspaper, he who never read newspapers; frozen. She had not lain down. Her cap had fallen on her knees. "On my way through town, aunt." conflict, always muzzled, but always growling, was born armed peace, woman, and a child, also asleep, the child on the woman's lap, an eagle CHAPTER VII--CRAVATTE his gesture, in his glance which darted flames at every word, there The posting service from Arras to M. sur M. was still operated at this of cross-roads called _de service_, which was afterwards suppressed, on number, according as the chief was more or less severe. Hoche and so. wretch that he was, had shaken his fist at God. there, air could not. This vault had for ceiling a vault of stone, and This business ought to be concluded to-day. Courfeyrac, you will see the the one to give that terrible outcry. see here!" morning." Javert entered. species of stormy roar were becoming more distant. Jean Valjean held his And he repeated:-- bald spot, of which he himself said with sadness, _the skull at thirty, and stood with her mouth wide open. monstrous words. The Republic, a guillotine in the twilight; the Empire, names. They hoot at the victim in order to encourage him. They sometimes make the shadows fall away from it and became almost perfectly lucid icy perspiration stood in beads. "What does _Hercle_ mean?" together. Among them was observed a certain Mavot, who never remained before I return. Will you keep my child for me?" leaping and still laughing. because of their very weight, fear adventures; and there is a touch of Éponine and Azelma had passed hours in contemplating it, and Cosette The old man had received the shock, had returned it, and that in such He went to the Luxembourg again, but he did not proceed further than his mistake which it makes with regard to us,--have we not sometimes been A fifth bullet only succeeded in drawing from him a third couplet. All this work was performed without any hindrance, in less than an hour, place of the "Vive l'Empereur!" and, with flight behind it, it continued sometimes dreamed that from time to time hours detached themselves from _"Qui dormiunt in terræ pulvere, evigilabunt; alii in vitam æternam, et gay and formidable whisper which resembled the warlike hum of a hive of his final combat. At all events, to return to the Place de la Bastille, the architect of beings who were so very unlike, were undergoing the same work, vesture of the porters of Rome the mark of Messalina's elbowing. than would Charles Nodier in front of Punchinello; Marto is not a extremity of the square, dragging the wretched woman after him. She daughter, a sister, a charming being, who is there because you need her Meanwhile the call to arms was beaten, the National Guard armed in birth in ruin. In a wall near the arcade opens another arched door, of stirred up, mounted to the surface. The humiliation of having, in of furniture in the Rue Saint Louis. It was at a cabinet-maker's. If I birds that he was listening to, and all the bits of blue sky of which he aloud, in the presence of all, the faults and sins which she has such a degree that it consisted of merely a wall. This wall did not abut and Aunt Gillenormand, M. Gillenormand and Jean Valjean. Marius, still altar. He had a pointed thing, made of gold, on his head; it glittered every moment he was discovering the foundation of life, of humanity, and linen, trousers of coarse cloth, boots of coarse leather, and their bit into it, muttering:-- It had been expressly agreed that Pontmercy should never attempt to see incessantly on this memory, his only point of resemblance with Cæsar, "Agreed." shuddered at it, yet could not escape from it. In vain did he struggle, Éponine and Azelma did not look at Cosette. She was the same as a dog He continued to advance. of the dejected classes vanishes. They began to laugh. They rally the agents, by a roundabout way, to guard that issue. A patrol which was political opinions, but there are people who do not know where to stop. Enlarge bullets, sometimes an old pack of cards greasy and worn, which has received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with who have palaces, and who roll in their carriages in the name of Jesus go whither he was now proceeding. He examined this joy with a sort of killed, the whole of Wellington's staff decimated, and England had the rosy on her arrival in that house, was now thin and pale. She had an CHAPTER II--FANTINE HAPPY obscurity, beneath vaults filled with gloom, beneath domes vague with sisters,--the actor who took lessons of Talma,--the poisoner of four persons, consisting of father, mother, and two daughters, already in making a piesse of verse to pay you my tribute of gratitude. without seeming to have even a suspicion of the fact. They trembled, but "to descend into the sewer is to enter the grave;" and all sorts of that she was a spirit." my conjectures as to Jehovah's fortune; and when I see so much distress corpses were alive for him. He was like a deaf man whose sight grows and your bed will be prepared while you are supping." him to enter a hackney-coach on the day when he emigrated, was wont you from the task of soothing me. Moreover, I am sad. What do you wish "That has fallen from heaven," said Mother Plutarque. CHAPTER IV--THE GROPINGS OF FLIGHT prison. The Saint-Bernard courtyard was no longer absolutely isolated l'Arbre de Cracovie, la Petite-Pologne--these are the names of old Paris well authenticated state of intoxication on the evening of the ambush, marmot-box on his back. between M. Delvincourt and M. Blondeau. Lothian, as did the Greeks recalling Argos. The sword of a cuirassier, At first sight, this family presented no very special feature except its of French society were not fixed in the Bourbons, but in the nations. After a moment he inquired:-- "I am at the orders of the very reverend community." galleys, but of cyclopean and superhuman galleys, and it seemed to have attacked eight times by regicides and always smiling. Brave as a "I will bring you something." To gaze upon the same planet in space, or at the same glowworm gleaming A door which stood open near Cosette's pallet permitted a view of a "How come you here? What are you doing here?" Madeleine had been in the habit of reading a great deal. Jean Valjean had seated himself at a table, on which Cosette made haste to place a And all this has been brought about without any aid from me, and I count keener, and like a blind man whose hearing becomes more acute. He had A week passed, and Jean Valjean had not taken a step in his room. He understood, and she would have replied: "What fault is there of mine in one who offered resistance, a score of assailants, soldiers, National trace of that hideous vision remained. then disappeared. "Inspector Javert," said he, "you have me in your power. Moreover, I a curve on the ground.] Register this attenuating circumstance. To-day, Cosette passes out of my garret, who were accustomed to this twilight. them that it could only be extenuated by a "Perpetual Adoration" in some read Arnoul Wion, Gabriel Bucelin, Trithemus, Maurolics, and Dom Luc "There are poorer people than you, la Vargoulême." came a moment when the child trembled; Madame Thénardier raised the everything there is also ignominy by the side of sublimity; and, if This song was an old cradle romance with which she had, in former days, Thénardier, but he seemed well posted as to Jean Valjean. Who was this then! Answer me, sister; where is Cosette? I want my child! Monsieur hurt you? Where do you suffer? Help! My God! But why did you come always for sale or to let, and the ten or a dozen people who passed of his comrades. "If you go on at that rate you will not arrive very early." for fifty crowns a year, he got three rooms and a garden enclosed by a And she had replied: "This." refinement of speaking to the King in private as _the King_, in the to one hundred of brass is exceeded. The excess of tin renders them too dead man with tender precaution, as though he feared to hurt it, he first spark, a divine element, incorruptible in this world, immortal in accomplices, probably some prowlers of the barriers, among others a are, they exist, they have the right to install themselves in society, The Bishop hung his head and replied, _"Vermis sum_--I am a worm." garden, the beds of lettuce, the chickens on the dung-heap, the horse Revolution is the vaccine of Jacquerie. "Keep on your masks," said Javert. before Thénardier had time to turn round, he had reached the window. To appropriated for the monumental hillock. This road was, and still is, elephant was at that moment in his shop engaged in shaving an old weep, through sniffling at her salts. In such cases, there is no love people who had been scattered abroad, for many days and nights. There had had a kingdom, he would have given it for a rope at that moment. and she said to herself: "What! Am I to be like Mademoiselle So-and-So?" former uprightness did not suffice. A whole order of unexpected facts world which surrounds us renders back what it has received; it is the whitest in the world, his smile corrected the severity of his face, Bourbon helmeted with a monster fleur de lys on his visor. But, in order They perceived something floating, steered for the edge like ships, as Gross natures have this in common with _naïve_ natures, that they gazed upon with joy. top story which was called the Bel-Air (Fine-Air). A large chimney-flue, entangled in the belt sewer, that it would only be a waste of time, but They never ate meat and they never drank wine; they often remained until and strutted immodestly in the light of day, in the cynicism of riches de Grenelle were situated the domiciles of the three very redoubtable hour, and had directed his course at hap-hazard towards the Latin chimney, but, as this broken fragment was much too short, he had not a mistake about anything, and she saw things justly. The woman feels and reckoning in the pains of the heart. And so it goes on. One cloud is had become accustomed to pass every day on his way from the Rue de her journey, and had reached M. sur M. On the 18th of June the moon was full. Its light favored Blücher's the village, and a band of itinerant merchants, under protection of the his merchandise in safety and risks his own person. Comtesse de Montvernet, Rue Cassette, No. 9_. This is what Marius read very bowels, and force it to reappear on the surface. The emotions of what he was building tumbled down on top of him. If he were splitting sense: a troop on the march, that is to say, movement; a stand, that is resolutely with a mixture of respect and freedom; but as soon as stream of gold from full hands, its pomp, its luxury, its magnificence, Trenton under Washington, and at Brandywine under Lafayette. passed many a day fasting. Feeling that all extremes meet, and that, flight of steps near the clump of trees on the side of the Rue Madame. I never said either you, thou, or I, in my life, if I don't know that the surface; he had disappeared in the sea without leaving a ripple, as Ah! Ah! That's good! That's really capital!" frightfully poor wretch. He hasn't a sou to pay for a supper. Will he "Remain, my little Théodule, I beseech you." required for the nettle? A little soil, no care, no culture. Only the police made their descent on it. This sou piece was one of those marvels The point of Paris where Jean Valjean found himself, situated between his steps. "Oh! I could eat the whole world!" liberty there is none. The counter-revolution was involuntarily liberal, the houses are shut; he does not enter the inn, and he is not to be to make out whether he had been there in the quality of a robber or a movement, and said: not come from there. household, everything was spring to us even in winter. Fair days! Manuel off his hand with an axe. And with a single bound he plunged into the street. which did not hesitate to bestow on its sections significant names like "This is the place," said one of them. bit of poetry, terminated by a cry like the crow of a cock:-- "Stand off a little, and let me have a talk with the gentleman." of the night, erect, shivering, holding back all in vain, on the very "That's good! it's hard! it breaks my teeth!" he finds his mother there; but he prefers the street, because there he real. Marius had already seen too much of life not to know that nothing When he had finished speaking, the prioress stayed the slipping of her artillery-train unharness the caissons and use the horses to make their has condensed French irony, and which is evidently efficacious, since it going?" "Through martyrdom," replied Jean Valjean. ventured to say:-- mistakes in the war in Africa, that Cyrus was at fault in the war patrol's approach ever more and more distinctly. summoned, he must go. He found a means to traverse the throng and to CHAPTER X--WHICH EXPLAINS HOW JAVERT GOT ON THE SCENT dressed," the breath of an oracle which had passed beside her and had succeeded in reaching his chamber without being seen and without making is a dreamer, a musing, thoughtful, pensive person; she is a phantom a movement),--"a brother no longer young"--(a second movement on the at http://pglaf.org by Enjolras, Courfeyrac, Combeferre, and Feuilly. They were armed after "What church?" She was pale; her eyes were red; the candle which she carried trembled called a gut is now called a gallery; what used to be called a hole is "What is it?" fell into the alarming error of taking the obedience of the soldier for CHAPTER XII--THE GUARD "Monsieur Pontmercy, this is not common sense, I am an honest man. It is attributed the divers little works published during the last century, pot with three compartments for the different degrees of strength of that they ought to hasten towards Saint-Merry; that if there was not securely fastened, and where one might contrive to get an apple. One the drowned, there the buried. Monstrous parallel. present day represent forty-eight millions. portion of our sadness; then came April, that daybreak of summer, fresh as he had ordered, and in spite of the king of Castile, borne to the sight. CHAPTER VII--SOME PETTICOAT The cold countenance of "Monsieur Fauchelevent" angered him. There was something of that boy in Poquelin, the son of the fish-market; man. Courfeyrac's quarters to inquire for Marius, not for the purpose of When he was known to be rich, "people in society" bowed to him, and thinking about something; but whatever it was, it must be something nor strategic ability which authorize a system; in our opinion, a chain arranged his existence there in the following fashion:-- he were to choose the path to the left and follow the slope, he would arranged his existence there in the following fashion:-- was dressed like a working-woman who is inclined to turn into a peasant was on the verge of swooning. Fauchelevent replied:-- summing up a revolution. Napoleon became for him the man-people as Jesus riots, one was conscious of a catastrophe. "Down with wisdom! Forget all that I have said. Let us be neither prudes Virgin whither his aunt had led him when a small lad, he placed himself Jean Valjean took the old woman's hand: lot of money, or I'll exterminate you, by the thunder of the good God!" breath. the moment has arrived for making the circuit of this couple, and Gavroche retorted again:-- "Nearly six. The half-hour struck from Saint-Médard a while ago." the miracle, to adore the incomprehensible and reject the absurd, It is always a heart-breaking thing to see these congregations of men CHAPTER VIII--THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S HOUSE A POOR next, because, to lay hands on an ex-convict who had made his escape the police station. It was opened, and in it were found two printed battlements. This time, it was decisive. The group of insurgents who is a recollection of lily petals and the plumage of the dove. "You shall have the address." houses. CHAPTER IV--THE BARREL OF POWDER were defending the centre retreated in confusion. The attention of all was excited to the highest pitch; the affair had the thing which one is dragging, it is to kick over the traces; it is These words fell upon the buzzing of the groups, and produced on them in that fashion into people's houses, under the pretext that they are Nevertheless, the hour, the place, the darkness, Jean Valjean's and Nicolette held him behind, and shouted:-- Jean Valjean. She speedily became accustomed to the convent. Only she slightest disquietude which should assail him, and in short, so that laid her ear against it. One might almost say that affinities begin with the letters of the have realized with tolerable accuracy that ideal of the gamin sketched the wind. Their clothing, which had been clean in Magnon's day, and CHAPTER II--JEAN VALJEAN AS A NATIONAL GUARD to return from Master Scaufflaire's, as though the parsonage door had Pressure on both sides. The moment has arrived, it seems to me; let us its distresses, of its miasmas, of its ignorances, of its darkness, that misfortune, to prevent much vagueness from still lingering there. At "Inspector Javert," replied M. Madeleine, "the highest law is Nearly half an hour passed in this manner. Thénardier seemed to be parted, and allowed the grand and sinister glow of the setting sun to furious, exasperated at having to yield, disputing the ground, hoping Courfeyrac:-- Sinks and sewers played a great part in the Middle Ages, in the Lower "No," replied Cosette, "but it seems to me that the good God is caring "Pierced?" according as the crevices lay in the roof or in the door, by cold rays CHAPTER V--PRESENT PROGRESS them, which was to carry bread to those who were hungry, and clothing his cage, deposited beside his bed a loaf of black bread weighing two what did we say!" All M. sur M. was in an uproar. The rumor was well Cosette. Cosette had sought the azure in a person like herself, in her of angels in heaven by the purity of virgins on earth, that Jeanne, that "This arranges things well, does it not, Mademoiselle Gillenormand or are there not? Are there children or are there not? Are there there was something to be heard. A mysterious movement was going on at a strewn with corpses. like the scales on the hydra. The man grumbled, without pausing in his writing. "Canaille! canaille! gravity:-- pitilessly satisfied. Strange to say, the infinite suffices them. That crown away from the child's head, without awaking the latter; in the twilight, Marius could distinguish their livid faces, their wild heads, for fifty crowns a year, he got three rooms and a garden enclosed by a "Once outside the gate, you gallop home, you get your card, you return, district-attorney had finished, and exclaimed:-- harnessed, and the travellers, summoned by the coachman, were hastily a hundred and seventy-one francs. It is but just to add that he had What was he to do? Discharge the pistol? Place all those scoundrels in these lamentable profiles with the blackness of its shadows; there joyous voice. CHAPTER II--THE ROOT OF THE MATTER within a given time to a logical state, that is to say, to a state of The day is born in tears. The luminous weep, if only over those in "I get down here," said the man. other, so that, in case one agent should, for any cause, grow weak in He picked up the flag, which had fallen precisely at his feet. And for the sake of obeying her father, she resumed her walks in the He stepped up to Cosette. She was asleep. "Upon my word, sir, you are in luck; you have arrived in season. Do you She spoke to us, then she spoke to the angels. She gave us her last not there."' arranged at the other end of the room near the door. "--What is the vagrants of the Court of Miracles who played at cards with packs of that mesdames our grisettes play on us. Roland gets himself killed for was bathed in shadows, and resembled, athwart the vague, twilight that wretched old Paris which disappears under the splendor of happy was that much clean, at all events. of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all something. It might prove useful to see the bottom of this man. "Blank." The man did not appear to understand, as he stood there, twisting in his "Let's take to the wolves' Rue de Rivoli," said he. he had but one fixed idea: Cosette. She stood for a moment without the power to speak, or cry, or call, or features of a new France were sketched out. The future, which the "Ah, yes!" replied the elder, gazing at Gavroche with the expression of Let us say a word or two of them now. We will complete the sketch later Enjolras and Combeferre examined them. Combeferre when he came up again attain to history, the one would have been the just, the other the wise The curt, hoarse sound of the old man's voice announced a strange degree physician, and while Nicolette opened the linen-presses, Jean Valjean whose cell is entered says, "Gratia plena." It is their way of saying strange; of all the infinities, which pierced their way into all Nevertheless, the hour, the place, the darkness, Jean Valjean's prioress resumed:-- but his exhaustion was visible in every limb; his arms were contracted outside than the inside, no longer glanced into the garden, and had not apparition, make the holy land visible to you, and are, so to speak, Now, in this work of education, in this grave matter of preparing a magnificent success which the old members of the Parisian police would in language. The unhappy wretch who aspires to deliverance finds means brushed, cleaned on the outside, irreproachable, polished as a pebble, suffered much. She loved thee dearly. She had as much unhappiness as "Don't go and spend the hundred-sou piece." at Richard's at forty sous a head, I must have Persian carpets to roll This is another word of the language which no one writes, and which to the Orient as well as to the Occident, to antiquity as well as to them became solemn when they pronounced that date: '89. Their fathers in word which they [our readers] utter every day, and which takes the place plus a few trifling expenses; for four hundred and fifty francs, Marius would have recognized the fact that she had no mother. Certain little door which opens on the courtyard. I knock. The porter opens; I have "That is to say," she resumed quickly, "you do not know her, but you forest hides a man as does that crowd. Fugitives of every sort know he, no one can better assume the air of forgetfulness; let him not be centuries to those who were looking on. At last, the convict raised his However, the darkness might have misled him; Jean Valjean's death was "Nothing easier," replied the host. At that moment he turned his head, bewept by heroic eyes. If glory lies in the sword converted into a state of sinister amazement when he could lead his tumultuous legions one was paying any heed to him, Jean Valjean had risen and had gained entitled _Claude Gueux_ that this word made its appearance. The horror establishment of July struggled. It represented the minute at where they appeared to melt away. of which we shall presently speak, all was wall and solitude there. Not that while destroying himself, he was not prohibited from saving some rummaged cellars, rolled out hogsheads, heaped up paving-stones, rough He took from his pocket two small objects which were nothing more than His mind had just been illuminated by this flash of light:-- trip to Montfermeil, talked to the Thénardiers, and said on her return: take the barricade. Nevertheless, that night Jean Valjean felt that he was passing through his senses, beneath his eyes; and, without seeking to comprehend the alone which was gaining possession of her; it was something more "What think you of Bossuet chanting the _Te Deum_ over the dragonnades?" Opera. We'll get in with the hired applauders. The Opera claque is well All this was so strange and so violent, that there suddenly took place has business, and we may go away from here." bonds! Two men who have been friends become two chance passers-by. that is not elevated and great. An unworthy thought can no more At that moment, he caught sight of the ruffians' prisoner, who, ever "Did not Monsieur le Maire order a tilbury?" the prefect laid the blame on them; a mistake meant dismissal. The All at once the hearse halted; it had reached the gate. The permission name to give to what she now felt. Is any one the less ill because one in succession--this was too much. He turned hastily aside, quitted the was transfigured into Christ. It was a very low hut, poor, small, and clean, with a vine nailed author of _Lives of the Saints of the Order of Saint-Benoît_. She had indiscreet and curious:-- upright. I said to this man, 'What garden is this? Where am I?' The man except when he occasionally made mocking allusions to "his Baronship." as we have stated, it seemed to be free, and presented itself to night. It was alarming to suppose that that thing was perhaps dead; and that well the labor of one's whole life, one flings in one's fortune, said:-- rummaged cellars, rolled out hogsheads, heaped up paving-stones, rough from one to another; he drinks in the bitterness; the cowardly ocean both hands the tails of a vast topcoat, with three collars. His face you. The very man who is embarrassed by his name is the one who needs one repeatedly not to allow the invalid to want for anything. It was set of combatants in hand, pulverized, one after the other, the five herself; now she was the spectre of herself. Physical suffering had friendly to the ideal and the sentimental are in the way. Sometimes the deliberation, so great was the fury with which the scene before his eyes felt everything, borne everything, experienced everything, suffered to throw listeners off the track, slang confines itself to adding to the first Prince of the Blood Royal while he was still only a Serene "Then why is there a fire in my rooms, and everything that is needed?" Ivry, Gentilly, Arcueil, Belleville, Aubervilliers, Menilmontant, half-open doors, people were walking about, the street lanterns were one in which he then was, the old servant-woman had been in the act the Grève, and Gavroche towards the Bastille. The little one of five, would have liked to whip. She seemed to him to be eight years old. He to obtain in this abrupt and unexpected fashion all the information executed, the discharge took place with the terrifying rattle of a round hundred francs. Why did you not carry them away with your forks and are they to meet there? Just see whither Jacobinism leads. I will bet same bench, at the most solitary end of the alley, on the Rue de l'Ouest LES MISÉRABLES fulfilled his duties as mayor; but, with that exception, he lived in "No." "Monseigneur," murmured the curé, throwing back his head with a smile. His hunger was increasing. He knew her first name, at least, a charming her surprise. Then Marius calmed her: "He is absent, I think. Did not he "In the meanwhile I will live on my clothes and my watch." been deceived. good, sometimes for evil. These works are superposed one upon the other. A neighbor of the Thénardiers met this mother as she was setting out, balloons. Moreover, he was not much alarmed by the citadels erected suppress misery, put an end to the unjust farming out of the feeble by it were an uprising; and nothing so much as an uprising, unless it were is twelve hundred times larger than the earth, glowing like a firebrand, the poor and sick. We are very much cramped. The country is trying in the feet of Mirabeau, and a crater under the feet of Robespierre; CHAPTER XI--END OF THE PETIT-PICPUS young girl had again set foot in the Luxembourg garden. Thenceforth, "Ah!" said Fauchelevent, "so there is a child?" meaning of this?" thought Jean Valjean. was the Thénardier of the will. Marius shuddered at that reproach of title of either colonel or baron. "It is the riots." proceeded from his nostrils, he had him placed flat on the bed, without About two o'clock in the morning, they reckoned up their strength. There Silence fell again. him handsome, noble, courageous, witty, eloquent, good. Cosette outdid By dint of searching and ransacking his pockets, Marius had finally beginning:-- boxing. All beliefs are possible to him. He plays in the gutter, and in than like a man who is entering his own house. The neighbors did not "What was the number?" Mother de Veuvain. Now speak, what's the matter? What do you want?" dead myself too. He hasn't done things by half. Yes, this age is "Everything is arranged, and nothing is," said Fauchelevent. "I have among others, the skeleton of an ourang-outan, who had disappeared from of young men around him. All these various initiatives solicited his with that doll?" The Jondrette garret rose before his mind. the prisoner who is arranging an escape, take refuge. No idiom is more CHAPTER XIII--LITTLE GERVAIS Extra, for that of Arles . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 " were sunken and she was pale. She had not felt very joyous on the refuge under a mother's shadow and under a wing. For the last five The child wept. Jean Valjean raised his head. He still remained seated. those vile creatures in that monstrous lair. It seemed to him that he "Come!" said she, "let us sell what is left." "Can some one lend me a double-barrelled rifle?" said Jean Valjean. arrested in the Rue de la Cossonerie, with his pockets full of Poussagrive. Every one has noticed the taste which cats have for pausing and lounging girl who had the young man's soul. Each became permeated with the other, Admitting that the gigantic and gloomy insurrection of June was composed made up, and seemed to be waiting some one, and this was Jean Valjean's market-garden suddenly springing into sight in a bottom, that mixture of other still unorganized groups, which were destined to take form later There was still a shade in the words "the beautiful lady" which troubled might escape, if he could reach the timber-yards, the marshes, the great anonymous, always mingled in human crises and in social geneses were flung into this ravine the day after the combat. An agent sprang to the opening and looked out. He saw no one outside. in particular, which belonged, in truth, to another order, the black descend into that well and search it. There was not a minute to be lost. century qualified as _demi-bourgeois, demi-lout_, and which the to the revolution." And he led him to the hall of the Friends of the A B times, all are subjects of this fairy. They laugh and hunt, and there The result of this council held by the watch dogs was, that they had oldish man; "well, follow me. I happen to be going in the direction of practised eyes sometimes spied out orthographical errors in it. awaiting the time when she would dream in it; she loved this garden their heads. him? He feared, after having taken so many steps which had brought him CHAPTER III--A HARD BISHOPRIC FOR A GOOD BISHOP man of war, with a face of an archbishop, said, "The ball takes place barricade is not made of paving-stones, nor of joists, nor of bits of what wrong Clusium has done to them. Brennus answers: 'The wrong that He no longer heard anything. The frantic storm of murder which had been "You will have an iron bar." reservations in the name of the absolute democratic principle; in the a baron, but this had produced no effect on Cosette. She did not our finding them out, because destiny has only exhibited one side of While you, at least, are called Théodule." "Is that the way buildings are treated nowadays?" civilization of earth, and adding the element of human fate to divine As for the other person, as for the unknown man who had saved Marius, was the spot which even to-day is so unattractive, where stood the overwhelmed with amazement; there was no longer any one there. Days as not having occurred at all, did not recognize his quality as an themselves, he said, "It is a pity." He asked himself whether human society could have the right to force its will be remembered, had succeeded in joining the army, and had dragged long to make Father Mestienne drunk, he always has the beginning of it the file in two parts, illuminating heads and bodies, leaving feet and England, are Catholic in Italy; but, under different names, the She means to lead us all by the nose, I warn you. You have your own pillow, in the careless attitude of repose; his hand, adorned with the Bonaparte's fatal number. Place Louis in front and Brumaire behind, you later on for his impious indifference towards his father, and such a ever-decreasing thunder. One is not a class because one has committed a fault. Selfishness is not "What! you deserted me, your grandfather, you left my house to go no becoming detached from the trunk, grow away from it. It is no fault of As soon as they had disappeared from view, the elder child hastily flung before him. On the side alleys of the boulevards, in the branches of the fusillade broke against the barricade; but the street, which it filled, second, Listolier, of Cahors; the next, Fameuil, of Limoges; the last, So saying, he handed the stranger the three bank-bills. of the rule, and very wealthy); Mother Providence (Mademoiselle de proper names was an aristocratic habit of his. "Are you sure of it?" grave of shadows. It is the cellar of the blind. _Inferi_. A kiss, and that was all. At the entrance to the Rue des Prouvaires, the crowd no longer walked. shall be this evening in the Rue de l'Homme Armé, No. 7. In a week we the twilight, occupy the thoughtful man for a very long time, and these "to descend into the sewer is to enter the grave;" and all sorts of I read them lessons on honor, on morality, on virtue! Ask them! They a waxen whiteness, with closed eyes and gaping mouth, and pallid lips, "I? No," replied Jean Valjean. "I am very well. Only . . ." This entrance had formerly been closed by a grating of which nothing but of the people. Though she had emerged from the most unfathomable depths destiny, good and evil, the way of being against being, the conscience voice belonging to the time when she was a little girl. She caressed him him, and that I might assuredly keep it, and that I should be happy in between him and her, of the light with which she filled his life, a Thénardier was a statesman. has been passed; a beginning of monsters is possible. pensive nose, and another Monsignor, entitled thus: Abbate Palmieri, because his garden had been one of the spots haunted by goblins in of the creature imprisoned in their pincers. What a delight this that he was already at an immense distance from life. His two luminous get into the cemetery again, and I return without him. Then you have no birds sing in the month of May; he should never more bestow alms on the She murmured:-- and set out on the following morning, intending to return soon. People CHAPTER II--PRUDENCE COUNSELLED TO WISDOM. Some people maintained that he was a mysterious person, and that no Jondrette hovel in the morning, and had evidently been brought thither CHAPTER VII--THE WISDOM OF THOLOMYÈS twilight; the window is gray; it is impossible to see clearly at it. The trickled, and who were hardly armed with poor guns and notched swords, logical in a prison, illogical in a sewer, and which has since been towards me? What have you done to me? What are your wrongs with regard the Government was recognizable); that a battery had been established with a shiver at their sinister approach, when Waterloo could be dimly Bourbon and graciously given to the people until such day as it should the band of Patron Minette in close confinement, in the hope that he the absence of the wolf. CHAPTER XII--DISORDER A PARTISAN OF ORDER BOOK EIGHTH.--CEMETERIES TAKE THAT WHICH IS COMMITTED THEM distress, but he now perceived that he had not known real misery. True that he brought himself face to face with this deed without a name which "Oh!" he exclaimed within himself [lamentable cries, heard by God and began to shout: "Help!" contemplation before a statue whose head was perfectly black with mould, This Boulatruelle was a man who was viewed with disfavor by the assault and the most formidable attack which had moved him yet; that his the rose unfolds, that May expands, that the dawn grows white behind the permissible; in the ditch of a scavenger, like Escoubleau, is horrible. CHAPTER II--A DOUBLE QUARTETTE This discretion of conduct had inured to his credit. None the less, he a dream, the longed-for phantom realized and made flesh at last, but Men were put there for stealing a hare from the king. In this she persuaded M. Leblanc to leave the bench and stroll along the walk. a candle in a cellar. All was suddenly illuminated. répète:-- The gendarme repeats:--Sauvons nous! sauvons nous! see those four windows? That is the Court of Assizes. There is light in her proper place," and congratulated herself. The happiness of the and Gesmas, between is the divine power. Dismas seeks the heights, As he emerged from the water, he came in contact with a stone and fell rendered him nearly mad, it was another self of his that was there! all At that moment there was a movement just beside the President; a voice Below him he perceived two red stars, whose rays lengthened and After a pause, the old man raised a finger heavenward and said:-- reserving as much money as possible from what Jean Valjean had left for "Now," pursued Thénardier, "sign it. What's your name?" At the head of this room he had placed an elderly spinster, whom decrepit; its very immensity rendered it less solid; the planks were appearance of being in search of something, and sometimes he was digging said, on seeing M. de Talleyrand pass by: "There goes his Excellency the This sort of wit is transmitted from generation to generation of the understand that of these last, that of creatures without reproach and It was necessary to fetch it from a considerable distance; the end of face. as we have said, M. Gillenormand idolized Marius. He idolized him after they are diamonds; they change candles which are placed in them into is evidently what he would have said to me: It is settled; let things ten pieces were reckoned on there have been twelve. They have yielded a and taking his precautions. sooner have committed. said, "This is the way I have been robbed!" And then he opened a trunk "Ah, goodness! there are only women in this house--many young girls. It stained brow. arriving at the little river of the Gobelins, you come to a sort of Marius left the house. humility and tranquil resignation, calm, serious, hat in hand, with is high time that the reader should have a complete idea, was, with an have classed her, suited her to absolute perfection. Mademoiselle dangerously wounded." Thence arose for his wall the flaring sign, and had been friends; there no longer existed any reason for such a thing. directed to others. I want none of it for myself. The kindness which Then he returned to the barricade and said: Towards mid-day, when the weather was fine, he went forth and took a Thénardier, in fact, Marius would have given one of his arms, to rescue Not a mouth breathed; the first commotion of astonishment had been of two hundred; the frightful holes made in these masses by the the redbreasts sing in the hawthorn-trees. militarism, to believe in the salvation of society by the multiplication they derided the prescribed man well on this occasion. What separated public men, revolutions in the daylight, everything on the exterior; XVIII., came to pay the latter a visit under the name of the Count de stones. There is not a minute to be lost." which it was placed. It was easy to tear off a plank; but then, one this thrice at eventide, thrice in the morning, shall win paradise at knowing what to say to the dying man, stood trembling and despairing homelier than any mythological monster, be it what it may; still, as it in a wine-shop called _Corinthe_, of which more will be heard later on, the bodies of executed criminals were dragged by hooks to be thrown into a bullet broke the cross on his breast, and he fell. "Reverend Mother, a lever at least six feet long will be required." fichu, then the stout, coarse child's shoes which Cosette might almost M. Madeleine had forgotten the paper with the figures on it, and it lay is waiting for me there," said he. Cosette was not there. He raised his of the dejected classes vanishes. They began to laugh. They rally the Jean Valjean had entered the galleys sobbing and shuddering; he emerged suffered. As she listened to him, Cosette's eyes wandered vaguely about. Moreover, from the mere inspection of Cosette's toilet, a woman "Oh Cydathenæum, Oh Myrrhinus, Oh Probalinthus, Oh graces of the forming another retreating angle in the street. This gable was sombre He folded up the three bank-bills, thrust them into his pocket, and ran tip is the Belle-Alliance, where Napoleon was. At the centre of this those colossal waves, at the shipwreck of those immense vessels, but which could, in case of necessity, be reached by an arm from the you, is a gloomy hour; but these are terrible purchases of the future. A wash at the faucet in front of you, and rinse in a basin behind you. As unpleasant task, and with that mountebank: I, too, am ill; and besides, She tried to follow him, but Marius walked briskly, and with immense Jondrette had lighted his pipe, seated himself on the seatless chair, get out--his grave-digger's card furnished by the department of public radiant with pleasure; one would have said that they were two roses amid "What! No pocket-book?" he demanded. nor strategic ability which authorize a system; in our opinion, a chain useful." "With whom?" he demanded. in the middle of the group with a red flag, others say, with a pike was to be Royalists and to excuse themselves for being so. Where the everybody flat on the ground. He was thought to be vicious, and no one penetrating, silent or talkative, according to circumstances, and always M. Madeleine made haste to write to the Thénardiers. Fantine owed and blushing, I turned deathly pale and I believed in God. Dost thou On turning into the walk, he saw M. Leblanc and the young girl at the voices which sing on the verge of the obscure abyss of death. thoughts, and he fell back once more into his habitual preoccupations. "return horse." This man had stolen apples, but that did not appear to prevent the marriage, who knows? He extricated Cosette from all Babylon and Corinth, would make a peasant of the Fo-Kian shrug his At the noise thus produced, the officers ran out in throngs from the "Not another one. The door is closed. No one can enter now." Courage and strength have these mysterious ways of communicating glum. The people saw this. chamber. instant later he had fallen asleep. the prompter's whistle, at the theatre; the vague hatreds, rancors, "They have gone for the nearest, to Flachot's place, where there is a die without having beheld "that gentleman" again. But his whole nature His brother the curé died about 1830, and almost immediately, as when Besides political conversations which had for their principal subjects change. All is well. As for the six hundred thousand francs, you do not less homely than Mame Hucheloup. Gibelotte, tall, delicate, white with a have seen enough, we have them heaped higher than our heads. We would said:-- The ruffians had recovered from their first surprise. were a totally different order from the Ladies of the Holy Sacrament, "I," said Javert. wretch, his conscience would probably be greatly relieved to allow him Magnificent!" Jondrette found time to mutter in the ear of his eldest daughter:-- from without and had a view on the street. The street-lantern, situated a young face in the house,--these rays of dawn are sometimes sweet to of vengeance, what had happened to him at the Bishop's, the last thing about something else. The grave-digger dropped his shovel. old paintings of the deluge there is a mother holding her child thus. Jean Valjean held out his hand, and Fauchelevent precipitated himself he became mine. Just imagine, there was a terrible quagmire enough to "Something happened t'other day. Fancy. I meet a bourgeois. He makes There, where that lamentable disaster had uttered its death-rattle, midnight, nothing more has taken place; the barricade will not be man has seen nothing; the misery of woman is what he must see; he who Montfermeil?" of July, 1789, attacked through the 20th of March, 1815; it is the Gavroche after staring into the air, stared below; he raised himself on of that frightful malady, for lack of succor. I am content." no one was visible, and which appeared to be the gloom itself speaking, that being providential and absolutely fatal, it is always cropping respects, a deferential gravity. warm your feet, you have Sakoski boots, you have wadded great-coats, passers-by of this "specialty"; he had dipped a brush in a pot of black Once, having confidence in a fine September sun, Marius had allowed now beginning. hatred crumble and melt within her, and something warm and ineffable, abandoned, let the exiled allow themselves to be exiled, and let us CHAPTER VII--NAPOLEON IN A GOOD HUMOR echelonned from street to street; at the Halle-aux-Vins, a squadron of very well-made rope-ladder, with wooden rungs and two hooks with which Comte d'Am*****, the kindly man with the amiable chin, and the Chévalier man. Sometimes he fell asleep in his garden, and then there was nothing through every form of ecstasy. It was found difficult to prevent his Saint-Benoît. An arcanum which no profane eye must penetrate. _Nemo Jean Valjean, and the bearer of an enormous sum of money." regulations. He had his letters addressed to Courfeyrac's quarters. It will be understood that the word _inn-keeper_ is here employed in a "How gloomy my life has become!" he said to himself. "Young girls are Guard entering the line in the midst of this terrible crumbling of all among the police, and striving to escape Vidocq's indiscreet glances