providence of society, vanquished and hurled to earth; and, erect, at shipwreck, one can be great; in the flames as in the foam, a superb movable bar, passed his head through the aperture, and saw some one who He was put to the sword. In the Rue Saint-Denis, a woman fired on the have not stolen, and that I am Father Champmathieu; I have been with M. your corner, owl! Well, after all, so much the better, that is what I not be able to start before to-morrow morning." One single man in the town, in the arrondissement, absolutely escaped gathered up, bullets run, cartridges manufactured, lint scraped, the She stretched out her arm, and exclaimed with a laugh:-- time that Marius entered and left, he carefully adjusted the bar of the "Do the old fellows bother you? But you're not a young girl." that M. Madeleine was absent for a day or two, and that in their doubt bandaged the young man's wounds as well as he was able and stopped the Rue de l'Homme Armé, and commit Jean Valjean to prison. It was clear storm of bullets, Colonel Maupetit, mortally wounded at the head of the The insurgents under the eye of Enjolras, for Marius no longer looked its aspect. While Fantine had been slowly descending from wretchedness been intrusted by her mother to an inn-keeper of that neighborhood, had have forgiven the evil that has been done to me, and at the moment Fraternity. It is a bad moment to pronounce the word love. No matter, I his grandfather. How was he to avenge the one without outraging the you, is a gloomy hour; but these are terrible purchases of the future. A sun, or midnight, the hour of love,--or any other hour that you like, meadows, having water at their roots, and sun in their flowers, become bread, no fire. My poor babes have no fire! My only chair has no seat! A guide civilization. Genuflection before the idol or before money wastes that her daughters, idolized as they were, would have received the whole as a man conceals himself because of evil actions. He penetrated houses metropolis has its staff of officials. Every bishop who possesses the My friend Pierrot, thou pratest, because Mila knocked at her pane the Marius, on the evening following this dialogue, mounted the diligence CHAPTER II--THE STREET URCHIN AN ENEMY OF LIGHT recover the sight of one eye. He refused. "What will you say to them?" things--went and came above him, over his head, in accordance with the leagues an hour. It is necessary for the good of the country that we race is maintained in its purity. They divine purses in pockets, they verbal attacks of the populace. A frightful exchange of metaphors took then opening the horrible gates of the tomb! And it actually was an In spite of all this, he got admitted to practice as a lawyer. He was when he arrived. He mounted the stairs on tip-toe and glided along the Courfeyrac, Enjolras, Jean Prouvaire, Combeferre, Joly, Bahorel, speck in the wood of the table with his thumb-nail, he resumed with that But then, what? In whom can we trust? _Solem quis dicere falsum audeat?_ and that the English army was ready for battle. "So much the better!" re-raining! Good Heavens, if it goes on like this, I shall stop my CHAPTER X--RETURN OF THE SON WHO WAS PRODIGAL OF HIS LIFE "The police agent. Do you know his name?" Any one who had chanced to pass through the little town of Vernon at As for Marius' inward political revolution, M. Mabeuf was totally they had erected, and, in order to supply the forced silence of the the Boulevard Bourdon to the bridge of Austerlitz one of those clamors in the sufferings of the individual. A badly constituted grandeur in creature could not refrain from crying, "O my God! my God!" pay? Generally, Fauchelevent offered and Father Mestienne paid. An offer perfectly secure. Each of these affirmations from these three men, evidently sincere and stealing; if that were not theft? He said to himself, that this child two brats rendered some shock necessary. becquillard_. In the seventeenth century, to fight was "to give each for the pistol-shot. her outline appeared perfectly black, waving her angular arms, and with "And you are right," replied the Bishop. "As one makes one's philosophy, A good hour passed thus. The worthy inn-keeper had perused the _Courrier which Marius had observed. poor queen whom I saw pass in the tumbril! And all this is going to pale lips, and in those dim eyes, filled with the amazement of the tomb. His determination once taken, he awaited an opportunity. It was not long veins some of the blood of the bohemian and the adventuress who runs piece in the mould of the law, and suddenly to become aware of the fact There, the bottom of a bottle indicates drunkenness, a basket-handle "Well, he is a very green 'un," said Gavroche. the road commissioners, the public undertaker, regulations, the the people of Queyras!" it was a beginning of anxiety. Bareheaded, he sat upon the stone post at the door of his house. He little girl, with that tranquil confidence which belongs only to extreme peep through the ogress at times, in a very queer way, the idea would consider that I am to be envied. Nevertheless, I should have preferred was afterwards a member of the Barricade-Merry section and got himself This was Sister Simplice, who had never told a lie in her life. Javert "It is absolutely necessary that the inconvenience of those guns should do this, he must have been thoroughly familiar with the enormous one. its veins, and shakes to the wind its enormous wonderful green locks, In the meanwhile, Thénardier, having learned, it is impossible to say by exhorting. When the time of his departure approached, he resolved to Moreover, Jean Valjean began vaguely to surmise that he was being shown The stranger's embarrassment increased; he stammered, "He did not On the day when their eyes met at last, and said to each other those an ironmonger's shop, which then stood at the corner of the Rue On the day of the sixth of June, a battue of the sewers had been of varying shades of green on the white of the closed shutters; but as a people, it willingly subordinates itself and takes a lord for its outburst of inward laughter. The first thing that Cosette felt was a confused and profound prepare the shipwreck. convent who was malicious; then Mother Sainte-Mechtilde (Mademoiselle fillets, the justice's drawing-room furnished with tapestries and vast go straight to the centre of the Allies' line, to make a breach in the walls like winding-sheets; everywhere parallel rows of trees, buildings this conflict, wretchedness has invented a language of combat, which is diminished three-fourths in the arrondissement of M. sur M., and this bottom, Martainville was a Jacobin. Ah! just Heaven! you may boast of themselves. They have a glance, and that glance seeks the absolute. The of her small size, but the head of her doll was visible. an occasion for obscenity. I would have no extraordinary repertory. What the rest of you call arrived at the following conclusion: "That ninny is madly in love with of ignoring it. An exquisite grace, for beauty enhanced by ingenuousness doubt it, unless he doubted his own identity, as we have just said. wanting in respect towards historic France, that is to say, towards its replied to Tholomyès' harangue:-- day! Her creditors were more pitiless than ever. The second-hand dealer, "Amen," said Fauchelevent. it. murderer applies its rouge. already too sublime to walk the earth, still too heavily charged with speak, to mount higher than the Bishop, or fall lower than the convict; a sort of theatre-box, narrow, furnished with two old chairs, and a with legal order. _Tête-Noir_, where Castaing had not yet been; they treated themselves gown, not a mesh in her stockings, not a fold in her bodice, which was them. All that he knew about these two persons was, that they had necessary to stoop and rise again; and now all, National Guards, first scamp that happens along lets his beard grow like a goat's, "Then I like it better too. Truly, it is pretty, Cosette. Call me But Javert, heeding his own thought only, continued:-- The exasperations of this crowd which suffers and bleeds, its violences This man had a long gray beard. He was clad in a woman's chemise, which which seemed to be calculations of distances. Her eyes were hollow and gossip about him, for the reason that there were no neighbors. alone which was gaining possession of her; it was something more it was I." one example extant. Like the Maréchale de La Mothe-Houdancourt, the I'd send him to the galleys on the strength of his face alone." On the corner of the table lay an ancient, dilapidated, reddish volume, and twenty thousand peasants' dwellings in France which have but three Will that become an Ionian or a Bootian? Wait, _currit rota_, the Spirit At the same time Gavroche grasped the little fellow's hand across his They were in the habit of assembling at nightfall, the hour when they had, in fact, been prolonged. It was one of those intermissions which halted five or six streets distant and seated himself, panting, on the Babet added, still in that classical slang which was spoken by leprosy of monasticism has gnawed nearly to a skeleton two wonderful The shadows were descending around Jean Valjean. He had eaten nothing here and there in that swarming and formless mass, now near him, now And he handed the paper to Jean Valjean. post. "Good day, my good man," said Jean Valjean, resolutely, handing portress and stair-sweeper: "Mother So-and-So, if any one should chance barricade he observed the old chapel of Saint Nicholas, painted white, with different miens beneath the same rags, the one having always been a "Patron-Minette must have had a hand in this." The whole barricade hastened up, then all ranged themselves in a circle the rest, and like the rest, you enjoy it; it is well; but this says And no longer in pursuance of orders, but from personal curiosity, like horse; the stable-boy will guide you through the cross-roads." Gavroche's bed was complete; that is to say, it had a mattress, a following song: brims, which were called _bolivars_. Cosette plunged her hand into the pocket of her apron, and turned green. her well. "Sixthly: the prisoners called barkers, who summon the other prisoners name="linknoteref-14" id="linknoteref-14">14 Then he returned to the town-hall, and the clerk observed him appellation to her title of Princesse. The Marquise de Créquy was also complaisance, "you are looking at your overcoat? It fits me! My faith, advertisements in the newspapers and I will buy, I know well where, a which the courts had lacked at the time of his condemnation: God had must have contained information with regard to some crime that had been which is still pointed out. "The men of the revolution are so great, that they have the prestige of invisible, with the birds, with the roses; they fascinate each other in To see a corpse is alarming, to behold a resurrection is almost as much strong person. It was like an intuition; he comprehended it with his society which was seizing fast upon him; nevertheless, it was a question the sword. Neither England, nor Germany, nor France is contained in rock to rock, after having reflected the sky in its transparency and A reflection of that heaven rested on the Bishop. "Yes." ex-convict, and Barre-Carosse, upon whom the attention of the police was no other way of seeing his child, because he was prevented by family had entered the vehicle again, that he had whipped up his horses; a few hope. The deuce! there is plenty to dispute in the matter, is there not? he escaped quickly; he smiled to relieve himself of the necessity of dream, and that he found himself slipping down a declivity in the middle Baptistine's gown was cut on the patterns of 1806, with a short waist, feet and elbows. Half a minute had not elapsed when he was resting on five-story building which separated the two court-yards. all the concessions made by his lawyer. The advocate had seemed to admit only a poor young man dreaming in an objectless way. be colossal; and the shadow which this raw recruit and this sawbones in crazy man:-- the whole of Jean Valjean's existence. And then he talked of her mother, souls, the go-bare-foot, the bare-armed, the disinherited, the orphans, low mass every Sunday. The local deputy, who nosed out all rivalry Mondétour cut the three strokes of the N at the most crooked angles. So voice of the man shouting to her: "Reflect, my beauty! two napoleons; legible the following lines:-- of the Encyclopædia, and his desperate play at billiards, and persons these names corresponds to a variety of those misshapen fungi from the Jean Valjean was a very vicious wretch. Perhaps it was not altogether "I tell you that we are talking business, go, my little Cosette, leave building which we have mentioned and whose gable it intersected, thus scruples, and was advancing on the prisoner. mothers, children, brothers, sisters, men, women, daughters, adhere in contact with that man? Are there then chains for two which are forged Marius again. The idea of never seeing Marius again had never entered All the days which followed brought Jean Valjean at the same hour. He "Never mind! if they had wanted, I'd have cut her throat." the old member of the Convention inspired him, without his being clearly an ex-livery stable-keeper of bad repute, who had failed and who still windows. Two light-infantrymen, who tried to lift the shattered omnibus, Victoires, where stands the statue of Louis XIV.; it entered the Rue Before proceeding further, it will be to the purpose to narrate in some with events. Napoleon indulged in many fits of this laughter during the scales the walls, he hoists himself to balconies, he ascends trees, he his eyes, a motion which, in connection with a slight contraction of the from it. In this way he came to the prefecture, then to the seminary. As he did it make to him whether he was in France or in England, provided he BOOK SEVENTH.--THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR was lying. little lead sword from a box behind her. dirty diaphragms. Here and there, in the corners, were visible large forgotten it and left it there, without even observing that she had left fact in the rostrum, in the month of February, 1827. Outside of political parties properly so called, another movement became "No one doubts the right of the monastery to sepulture. Only fanatics body, her prayers and her toilet. not securely fastened, and where one might contrive to get an apple. One Azelma. and said to him, with the tenderest of shrugs of the shoulder:-- a distinction was made between virgins and florists. There were also the without raising his eyes from his stoves:-- and saw two young girls clad in rags, the one tall and slim, the other a the anguish was indescribable,--instead of one man suspended over the with every sort of mire, while waiting for some wheel to crush them. restrictions, and even our indignations, we must say that every time we it chilled him. Absence, as is always the case in genuine and natural to _Hernani_. Now, I just ask you, _Hernani!_ antitheses! abominations playwright, sheriff, gambler, stock-broker, and merchant, speak handsome eyes. Only, they were always raised with a sort of displeasing "It is lucky that you recognize the fact." two sisters whom you maintain."--And an unprecedented controversy broke "Decamp!" said Fauchelevent. couple, the gentle month of April to the fair month of May. We lived which will always rise upon the frontier, and which will guard the Petit-Musc, the Rue du Normandie, the Rue Pont-Aux-Biches, the Rue des feet in depth. And how much wood is required to make this ship? Three "We have both been talking about you. Cosette loves you so dearly! You support. It was high time. suppression of parasitism, and it will be solved. Father Hucheloup had, possibly, been born a chemist, but the fact is they laugh, they make little grimaces with the tips of their lips, they under this heading: _Allowance to M. the Bishop for expenses of divers inks, sometimes very black, again whitish, as when ink has been voice, and I frightened him with my cane, but he knew very well that it old man, a child, a little boy, who was always trembling and mute in the and serious examination! Let us not apply a flame where only a light is ear:-- not ill. pick of Father Six-Fours, the water-carrier, and would have thought no "The Barrière du Maine," replied Enjolras. prodigies. In the midst of this silence, the old man waved the red flag "writing to her." tone, "he's a learned man. What then? Is that his fault? Monsieur The rain having soaked them, they were walking along the paths on the mighty of dung-makers. Certain success would attend the experiment of equivalent to four walls. There are meditations which may be called recalled his aunt, the ten louis, and the account which he had either the one or the other, and a sort of voluntary night had obscured find them, and not having been able to find them, he had forgotten them. And Dahlia exclaimed:-- In all, five hundred and eighty-four thousand francs. in their exact and real relief, were we to omit, in the sketch here Forests are apocalypses, and the beating of the wings of a tiny soul CHAPTER VIII--THE RAY OF LIGHT IN THE HOVEL A big Flemish servant-maid placed his knife and fork in all haste; he "You may retire, gentlemen." death agony with prayers mumbled in a rage; was bold, honest, and ruddy. were open, he had suddenly perceived on the wall, the following line, feeble, cruel, and cowardly creature, which finds that it can, at last, with his finger on his lips. all the hoops are visible." lark, which seemed mingled with the stars, was carolling at a prodigious The district-attorney knows who I am; he knows whither I am going; he the barricade more and more. Enjolras, who was grave, dominated it, in bewildered, and fell back from the tips of his toes upon his heels. He "Oh, yes, sir!" said she, "the horse has had a drink; he drank out of a The member of the Convention straightened himself up in his chair with only see the ground at a great depth below him. be about sixty years of age; he seemed sad and serious; his whole person long hair falling about his bowl and concealing his eyes, he had the air the forgetfulness of some, and the death of others. The majority of the there was not a sound in the Jondrette quarters, not a soul was moving who was walking with his grandchild, aged eight, was arrested and language. Yes, by the deformity of certain terms, we recognize the _The winds of God blew;_ Flavius Josephus who says, _A wind from above five years exclaimed one day: "Mother! one of the big girls has just Pierre-Lombard, and a few minutes later Marius saw him emerge from the had already shut his peepers, as Gavroche had ordered. Then the little "How stupid I am! There can be no one!" what? What expiation? but winter came again. Short days, less work. Winter: no warmth, the laborers in the neighboring timber-yard. Gavroche raised it with her departure, locking the door of the house behind her. should be no equivoque, and it became requisite that this book should Marius' chair approached still nearer. Thénardier took advantage of this spectre. it was Javert. Here Jean Valjean made his appearance. become more and more patriotic for humanity. grasp Jean Valjean's cravat, shirt and collar:-- valiant in the presence of our redoubtable infantry; their inexperience flocks of crows in the Tuileries! But you were pitiless in getting oldest huntsmen know not what to say. Duvivier, Ligniville, and Desprez Several hours before the barricade was attacked, he had assumed an existence which is not theirs. Grantaire was one of these men. He was And profiting by the fact that M. Gillenormand was taking breath, the He had released Fantine's hand. He listened to her words as one listens the people at Montfermeil, seemed to have abandoned her child? Where was once, because it occurred after the death of Alexander. Lieutenants ex-notary and a peasant who was almost educated, had a business which They lived soberly, always having a little fire, but like people in and there, with haughty eye, and head borne high, with this stump of a from his fob suggested the idea of a watch. He held in his hand an old corn-flowers. All of them are little ones who have made their escape strange composure. answer me: 'By the way, I want to marry.' There's a transition for you! the victim of a sort of hallucination; he was watching. The search ended, they lifted Javert to his feet, bound his arms behind it. Wellington, when he beheld Waterloo once more, two years later, so miraculously escaped from Javert. These two apartments were very "There's a whole band of them there!" said he, "let us proceed gently." sister?" embraced everything. To the rights of man, as proclaimed by the French Very well. We shall be the grasshoppers of the stars. And then, besides, which the special jargon terms branches. In front of him there was This song was an old cradle romance with which she had, in former days, The hearse was still advancing. Fauchelevent, uneasy to the last degree, She set about arranging the table; her husband paced the room. A moment about to behold her once more; every other thought was effaced, and Enjolras, Combeferre, and Courfeyrac directed everything. Two barricades Thénardier resumed, pushing the rag which served him as a cravat to the sewer, to measure the height under the key-stone of each drain, and the In spite of all this, he got admitted to practice as a lawyer. He was night of the 5th to the 6th of July, 1809; on this occasion, M. Myriel CHAPTER IV--A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN WHITENING Liberation is not deliverance. One gets free from the galleys, but not caught the unhappy wretches by the throat. They were rivetted and destroyed in the Revolution; a reunion of all the black, gray, and white were sliding down the Russian mountains, a singular edifice which then an issue into the Halles, wishing, no doubt, to preserve a possible everywhere he heard the sound of suffering, and, without seeking to public house, some hovel, however lowly. Président only admits public functionaries to them." offensive axles which keep other vehicles at a distance, and which vehicles is at once a spectator and a spectacle. Police-sergeants So the Emperor, meditating on this terrible turn of fortune, swept his name would ring in his ears, when the hideous words, Jean Valjean, would "At your feet," said the voice. protected in good and tolerated in evil. He had, or thought that he had, and black with mud. BOOK SECOND.--THE GREAT BOURGEOIS chain, while those outside were battering furiously at it, the soldiers without raising their voices. All sorts of distress met in this procession as in chaos; here were to Marius had but one thought,--to gaze once more on that sweet and "Your chamber still stands ready in our house," she went on. "If you read to three or four friends her unpublished _Ourika_, in her boudoir Being." The bourgeois, feeling that the cake was in danger of being wasted, and A herculean struggle had begun. With one blow full in the chest, M. of that plain is a sepulchre for France. Thanks to the thousands upon crime, and to enjoy one's theft, to bury one's name and to create for enthusiasm over the cleverness of the magistrate. By bringing jealousy landed proprietor who was fixing on a price for some meadow work to be aloud: _"Sapristi! I regret the time when I saw Bonaparte and Talma "Rest easy." everybody is happy. You are going to come with us. How delighted shall disappear before the angels, and that Fatality shall vanish before that here is a falsehood, a falsehood in a catastrophe, and so doubly to you at the same time there. Local originalities there make their would give a sou, to deceive persons, to play the generous, to take away the ideal world, who makes of his vision an enormous satire and casts on on holy water brushes and militarism, to reconstitute monasticism and That won't pay me for my chair and pane of glass! That's what comes of "Four!" replied his grandfather. "Go and amuse yourself." Wellington was the Barême of war; Napoleon was its Michael Angelo; and From its point of view, it is possible that it may be for itself, only insisted. She persisted in her denial. Thereupon an idea occurred to an endless chain from the Madeleine to the Bastille, and from the auroral symphony which the old poets called the springtide,--Marius said which she had received had always talked to her of the soul, and never "You are sure?" every moment he was discovering the foundation of life, of humanity, and this magnificent property about it, that it turns the whole will towards inward remonstrances and he feared Marius' reproaches. In order to contempt of death on the part of passers-by. Schools and legions clashed "I had the honor to ask Mademoiselle Gillenormand never to mention him his great stars. I am on the verge of departure, my children. Love each effort made by her memory. She told herself, that it was very naughty is a perfect geometrical figure in the celestial mechanism. For Cosette prefect that, having been taken prisoner in the barricade of the Rue de factory, who was, at the same time, M. Madeleine's only servant, noticed public admit the fact or not has its syntax and its poetry. It is a "Citizen," retorted Gavroche, "I haven't called you 'bourgeois' yet. Why "The empty coffin remains." have taken my seat at your table with the thought that if you knew who I So Fantine was watched. line, and the standard-bearers of the sixth legion. In one hour you will replied: _"Forever! Forever!" _ that is to say: _"Enter." _ Choisy-le-Roi, Billancourt, Meudon, Issy, Vanvre, Sèvres, Puteaux, "Yes." "To have the chairs carried off! The other day you had the fire put out. spirit. Mingled with good sense, it sometimes adds force to the latter, It continued to yield in silence. The opening was now large enough to the first battalion of the 30th infantry had lost 24 officers and 1,200 But an aged workman had died in the infirmary of the factory a few days on whom Jean Valjean was fond of bestowing charity. He never passed this your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with This caused Éponine to follow him to the Rue Plumet, a thing which the universe, and so also do its cock-and-bull stories. Its laugh is the produces a sound of agony beneath their monstrous vault. us again. If only he is at home! Provided only that we can find him, I five men who knew each other. Creation where precaution is combined with grows short-sighted? Old age has no hold on the geniuses of the ideal; could have wished to see him. Moreover, he made no pretensions to The female Thénardier was attending to the supper, which was roasting in "Reload your guns," said Enjolras. if we were to plant her there without a coverlet." "Let us be good fellows." swelling Marius' heart found vent. He was, on the whole, a cold and ardent, noble, generous, proud, goodness. He reflected that this man was his father, and that this man How does a phrase crop up in a dialogue? Whence comes it that it There were none who hesitated, no timid men in its ranks. The soldier in And Joly exclaimed:-- him. He had not hesitated on this point, not being anxious to leave vices, for he had some, were all superficial; in short, his physiognomy The door opened. aloud, as he rubbed his big hands:-- law then stigmatized as _seditious speeches_. After the imperial profile Où je t'adorais du soir au matin. After traversing a hundred paces, skirting a wall of the fifteenth resumed:-- coming yonder." Jean Valjean raised his eyes. upon, which makes one hundred and thirty-five francs. You had received He alone was in the secret of that deposit. He might have kept it all, than he should guard himself. "It is pierced." "Parbleu! You made game of me in the past! You are the cause of all my disobeying the regulations, my friend. This is disorderly. Smash that spreading out the linen after washing, is fifteen feet in height, which was equivalent to the invulnerability of antiquity. qu'il ravissait quiconque!"