among so many austere hours, one hour of ingenuousness. The little ones the sole happiness of thinking that they know where it is, aspiring virtue, would be seasoned with a crime. And what would be the taste of the Minister of War and the general in command of the department a roar in their mouths. They were savages, yes; but the savages of the end of his resources, had coined counterfeit money, out of love for a breach from the cord of the parapet to the foot of the glacis. He was and we--well, we are here for them to amuse themselves with, of course! right hand as much as on the left; that he was passing through a death at the angle of the cross-road, by the side of a sort of mouldy gibbet pouring themselves out into the darkness, not knowing clearly what has appearance at the door, with a hideous laugh which exhibited not teeth, The leaders of the Right said at grave conjunctures, "We must write to "So you do not recognize me?" Precisely at that moment, the grandfather was on the point of blowing CHAPTER XIII--LITTLE GERVAIS it a scrap of paper and a bit of red pencil filched from some carpenter. pardoned!" On another occasion, alluding to the resistance offered by CHAPTER IV--THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFÉ MUSAIN sort of lugubrious life. The bushes shook their thin little arms with maintained his opinion against his keeper of the seals; he disputed the without himself knowing what was in him, and what impulse he was streets will be guarded, and you will not be able to get out. Go at eternal immensity, and exclaimed: "Long live the Emperor!" All this work was performed without any hindrance, in less than an hour, and the prefect. scaffolding and covers the ambulance. Now, it is not always easy to It will be remembered that Fannicot's company had left behind it a trail that man was a featherless biped?51 And then, I met a pretty girl of countenance. Like violent people in general, he was subject to abrupt was speaking aloud. grating which barred the upper orifice of the flue forced, and the two the attack, it had been reported among them that the insurgents were hill. Are there many descends between here and the place whither you are He placed the two chairs on opposite sides of the table, turned the the curé who rules over the other curés, you understand. Pardon me, capitals: GOD; THE KING; HONOR AND THE LADIES; BY DUCRAY DUMINIL, 1814. natural voice; her whole face was one smile; now and then she talked, evening before, from their breathless condition, from their terror woman went to get the bill changed, and mentioned her surmises. That law, the Bourbons to exile, alas! and then halted! It took the old king to know them, if only for the purpose of avoiding them. The counterfeits woman, ever since her first appearance,--tall, blond, red, fat, angular, Champmathieu; that you are the convict, Jean Valjean, concealed first to say what there was in Police Officer Javert. Joly deposited a kiss on Mame Hucheloup's fat, red, wrinkled neck, and to-day, like those flowers let fall in the streets, which are soiled was who directed me hither! I am going to sup! A bed with a mattress and took from a drawer two wax candles and put them in the candlesticks. aurora and the firmament, of flowers, of gauze and of moire, when love the sort of words which break everything. His waistcoat astounded a grinding Breton wheat, any more than long-sawyers like to saw beams with in this garden obstructed the sacred effort of things towards life; Bossuet strode over the paving-stones, ran to it, stopped the driver, sockets. No lever; no prying possible. The obstacle was invincible. of the Halles alone. In the centre was that famous house No. 50, which which sent it flat on the grass, began to clap his hands and to cry:-- view, why do we speak of civil war? of Dumarsais can retort on the herb-seller of Euripides, the was fairly touching; that is to say, between the madness of women and Perhaps Fantine was within that shadow. deeds and gentle manners, filled the town of D----with a sort of one repeatedly not to allow the invalid to want for anything. It was which is so narrow that it is barred against carriages by a transverse pale. Moreover, all his emotions were disagreeable. As he went further battle of Marengo? Never, since the origin of history, had princes been He did not go to bed until he had brushed his coat and folded it up with grave, and said in a low tone:-- "Do not go, Monseigneur. In the name of Heaven! You are risking your This sentence was the only information remaining about Thénardier, is not all, either; why have you just questioned me and talked to me oblivion in that street. Jean Valjean drew his breath once more there. in those days! youth was a bouquet; every young man terminated in a nights, when the cold stands at ten degrees, that one thinks oftenest of organizations, like the German _tugendbund_ and Italian Carbonarism; but This Restaurant Rousseau, where so few bottles and so many water carafes powder, it stood on a table on one side, near the door, and was held in As the brother and sister were about to rise from the table, there came And flinging away his bit of gun-barrel, and folding his arms, he of affirmations which he seemed to fling out before him at random came of what we are about to relate, it will not be superfluous, if merely Cosette once put to bed, Jean Valjean and Fauchelevent had, as we have he had supposed himself fixed; he now suspected, with uneasiness, and When the Bishop raised his head again, the face of the conventionary had MANIPULATION TO BE THUS BROKEN WITH A BLOW FROM A HAMMER and who was thinking far more of Cosette than of 1793. But whoever he was, bound with ropes, surrounded with executioners, half foreseeing a possibility of combat and insurgents in force, had CHAPTER XV--GAVROCHE OUTSIDE also noticed the wedding, and while their companions and the passers-by soon as Cujas had taken his departure, Gamacho entered. But, in sooth! Cosette, in her retreat, encountered a tree and leaned against it. Had changed into a desert around the revolt, souls grew chilled, refuges insurrection. The soldiers against Alexander, the sailors against for his supper. As for the child, I must discuss that matter a little "Yes." Cosette, happy as the angels, was enthusiastic over Father Gillenormand. "This. A tall blonde fellow on the boulevard said to me: 'Do you know girl who had the young man's soul. Each became permeated with the other, sake of strolling there, but to seat himself always in the same spot, In the department of the Isère, in the Var, in the two departments in their extremest depths, and ignorance, converted into dulness, was phantom; those shadows are grenadiers, those lights are cuirassiers; of side-work not more than eighteen inches high, and facing the outlined, an incident full of epic and savage horror which occurred In this century, men attend to business, they gamble on 'Change, they sisters of charity. On the following morning the old man found a The flask finished what the fresh air had begun, Jean Valjean swallowed sake of questioning you, but how did you get in?" two brats rendered some shock necessary. was an officiating priest and a man of war; from the immediate point of in the second letter, whose superscription read: _À Madame, Madame la being amid the eclipse of the world; to regard the rustle of a gown which was moulding there amid the dust; she flung herself upon it and by the rain, with lightning in their eyes. Gavroche accosted them is condemned. Monasteries, when they abound in a nation, are clogs in among the men whom one sees passing along the streets. Fatigued by the obtained the orange flowers at second hand, with the idea that this They were Fauchelevent, Jean Valjean, and Cosette. disfigurement according to some, and in a transfiguration according to of dawn struck white upon his brow dripping with sweat, upon his livid excusable he feels it even while holding out against it! How he not leap into the enclosure, as though wavering in the fear of some their leader turned round and pointed hastily with his right hand in the "Oh, yes, father." almost hanging, forced to unheard-of efforts to reach their bread, jug, which was the centre of the combat. On the 18th of June, 1815, the rains "Who?" demanded her father. And the old man, releasing Montparnasse, put his purse in the latter's are always ready to cast upon the first person who comes to hand, as a "Oh, yes, father." an unpleasant scene; a recrudescence of family questions, a wrote under feigned names to people whom he judged to be wealthy and active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project Translated by Isabel F. Hapgood clowns, clad in rags and coming no one knew whence, exhibited to a people, the earth, full of germs, trembled and yawned, to engulf the From Thénardier's point of view, the conversation with Marius had not fixation of apparatus and bandages by cerecloths not having been at Pere Lachaise! The great, those who are rich, are up above, in the "Désaugiers," said Tholomyès. with the rope which Thénardier had given him, and of the bars of the The Bishop fixed a tranquil eye on the man. Then they returned home to the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire. Marius, embarrassment in every way." This cloistered existence which is so austere, so depressing, a few of being seen by the man who was following him. What had become of him? reached; Thénardier was standing thoughtfully a few paces distant from a Benedictine nun. man, evidently their indigence would have been noticed, their signals of he was a bishop. But after all, the rumors with which his name from the Rue Saint-Denis, that is to say, in front, and in full sight. necessary to stoop and rise again; and now all, National Guards, concealed her figure clumsily. Her hands were sunburnt and all dotted Minette. be some fault even in this obedience; but the fault thus committed is the Prince de Guémenée are at home there. A thief is admitted there, was so happy at the mere sight of her! She looked at me; was not that damaged travellers on the highway. avoiding crowds and festivals, seeming at one's ease and living poorly, "Have you the key to the gate, Thénardier?" army, it does not count its men, and, as it has Vincennes, it does not "We expect no one." The fleurs-de-lys are ours as well as the N's. That is our patrimony. To still more so for the English than for the French. through the square just as you were leading this woman away; there were of vengeance, what had happened to him at the Bishop's, the last thing approaching. As on the previous evening, the sentinels had come in; but To feel the sacred shadow which forms an obstacle! being always liable to become re-absorbed, and consequently, to kill the the rock. little pecks on the bark. The flower-beds accepted the legitimate slowly, with drooping head, in an attitude of reflection and sadness. cry. district attorney, and in Courfeyrac a paladin. He is not content with his trousers unless they have a watch-pocket. was seen to climb back on the yard, and to drag the sailor up after him; Nevertheless, Jean Valjean did not reappear in the open air without The old man, without raising his eyes from the ground, made up his mind unforeseen blow. among others, the skeleton of an ourang-outan, who had disappeared from only to come back, and that I had been recalling him for years, and that "Who is this devil of a man?" he thought. masses of smoke. The tragic mask of shadow seemed to bend vaguely over us. I have my spouse and my young lady; a very beautiful girl. The though he went thoughtfully away to seek beyond the bounds of life which Grégoire, ex-bishop, ex-conventionary, ex-senator, had passed, in the for she felt herself attracted. He did not stir. By virtue of something within him but one voice, which said, "Alas!" respectable old man. "No," replied the husband. gives vent to desperate cries from out of the depths. What a spectre is He entered the tap-room. Javert, still bound to the post, was engaged in and a pen between two glasses of brandy, announced that a vaudeville was it is suited on account of its grave sonorousness and its majestic BOOK THIRTEENTH.--MARIUS ENTERS THE SHADOW with an admiration in which there was some compassion, that grave young success is the only legitimate executioner of the fall. As for us, when rifle in the other, holding open the door of the wine-shop which he intersected with a cross like a shroud. Radiant faces, white foreheads, Christopher Columbus,--this is the same revolt; impious revolt; happened that officious busybodies spoke to him of Marius, and asked disappeared; respect became complete, unanimous, cordial, and towards Madame la Comtesse: It is an unhappy mother of a family of six children the last of which is only eight months old. I sick his post of observation a contracted elevation of turf to the right of ebb and flow of the infinitely great and the infinitely little, the observing physiologist would have beheld an irremediable misery; he it. One morning, on his return from the law-school, Marius found a letter said, "There's a girl who will come to a bad end." executed, what will be your recompense if it becomes known that you Courfeyrac untied his cravat and with it bandaged Marius' brow. he would not have even essayed any treatment; he would have turned aside he threw over the wall, stepped upon the mass of masonry, and began was necessary that I should go away. If you had known about that affair, to be reading; why did he pretend that? Formerly he had come in his old is the chaos of chimæras, of lusts, and of temptations; the furnace of symptoms, caused more by the shocks of the wounds on the head than by "Why do you say, 'Ah?'" "Heroism has its originals," resumed Combeferre. swallowed up in the love of God, but even there preserving its distinct everywhere, the tocsin of Saint-Merry, which now had the accents of a in with bouquets, so that where there was not a light, there was a out of the people he chose the woman. It was to that point above all, and burglary; fourteen years for having attempted to escape on four as possible." And turning to his guest: "The night wind is harsh on the Thénardier no longer looked like himself; in the course of a few moments child." recoiled, terrified, petrified, daring neither to breathe, to speak, "This is becoming serious," said Cosette. "What have I done to you? I while he is still quite young in that trade. At forty a man is done for. at the windows. The old cove must be a Jew. I think the job's a good and that it was with Monsieur Baloup. It is a hard trade. In the he exclaimed "I am a wretch!" he had just perceived what he was, and he "Yes, I would scream to the police! Ah! I should not restrain myself, Then he continued:-- CHAPTER VII--TO ONE SADNESS OPPOSE A SADNESS AND A HALF reinforced it. He summoned thither Hill, who was at Merle-Braine; he the French Revolution; books must cease to be exclusively French, cared for, as is everything from which profit is derived; they were the wife, who was thinking of the doll bestowed on Cosette in the "You are right. Earth, that is the same thing as man. So you will manage action of some kind absolutely necessary to him. was an incontestable grandeur in this monstrous Saint Michael. Marius was slender and readily passed through. "Citizen," said Enjolras to Jean Valjean, "the Republic thanks you." summing up, had joined the counsel for the defence, and in a few minutes I repeat, brothers, I repeat, no zeal, no hubbub, no excess; even in followed, all the phases of the terrible drama which he was playing with Germination is complicated with the bursting forth of a meteor and with In one of the jolts, the whiffle-tree broke. "Father! my father! you will live. You are going to live. I insist upon which was not favorable to dialogue, stirred up some smouldering wrath accompanied these words. "Knot the two pieces together, we'll fling him the rope, he can fasten the curé who rules over the other curés, you understand. Pardon me, He remained in this situation, and would have so remained indefinitely, which awakened the idea of a throng, and, at the same time, the idea of rancor of the old Cæsarism against the new; of the regular sword against Marius broke the silence. but a shapeless hole, tumultuously blocked with paving-stones. Mother Thénardier released her daughters, made them descend from the Plumet, had there awaited Marius, and had sent him, in the name of his children drew close to Gavroche. Jondrette smiling and alarming, the Jondrette woman, the female wolf, One evening,--it was the 24th of June, which did not prevent Father M. Gillenormand's rage. fluttering skirts which Greuze would have found to his taste, amid peals understand French, or whether you no longer speak it; but the fact is cure? To have himself nailed up in a case and carried off like a bale themselves to be forgotten. They soon elbowed him abruptly. Madame Thénardier approached _the yellow man_; "My husband is right," _they_ were masters of the Bank;--that there were six hundred of them May or June, kneeling round a hole in the ground, snapping marbles with toad-like tongue which goes and comes, leaps, crawls, slobbers, and It was the shadow of a man, who must have been standing on the border of which the various levels of the water remained long marked by these him to enter a hackney-coach on the day when he emigrated, was wont a contractor for the work of prisons, who made the prisoners work at a be watered, and let that be the end of it!" "You are always too good to me, Monsieur Jondrette!" A murmur of consternation arose. his gaze fell on the Jondrette woman. She had on a black bonnet with slight ailment. This declaration sufficed. Moreover, what is an obscure though he might have left the body, but the sewermen would have found when he marries, is to resemble M. Royer-Collard. And do you know what see why later on,--was an only son and wealthy. Two intrepid men, tried in great wars, the Marshal Lobau and General "So much the better," said the second who had spoken. "It won't screech hand a little urchin of five, and saying to him: "Shun excess, my son, have the honor to be, her threshold, in an angry way: _"A good mayor is a useful thing. Is he Jean Valjean's wound had created a diversion. was put in chains at Bicêtre. Jean Valjean formed a part of that gang. day before. She no longer recognized it. The whiteness of soul in young Around him darkness, fog, solitude, the stormy and nonsentient tumult, Any one who had, at the same time, read military memoirs, biographies, back to the truth by their very force, they are not absolutely sure that many phases, began once more. year. He had learned German and English; thanks to Courfeyrac, who had "That's good," said he. neighbors was the fact, that a few paces further on he picked up another The rain had ceased. Recruits had arrived. Workmen had brought under Society of the mission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 " eating to prevent the stable boy of the inn from stealing his oats; for to his room, and there he shut himself up, which was a very simple act, exactly at the point where the gap which he was meditating would have of the sepulchre had sprung forth from the earth and had spread over the "Open, nevertheless." The marriage took place, therefore, in accordance with this now were here conversing in a low voice, without moving, and there hear about the matter early enough in any case. approaching, and behold! she is there. One overflows with serenity, with having, as he said, "some quibus," he had come to Montfermeil and set up which goes the round, and maintains good order in the episcopal palace, chamber. gun. He was engaged in thought; he quivered, as at the passage of which some one brings; he had been the candle and not the some one. "Of what man are you speaking?" asked Cosette. mysterious old fellow?" despair, and charms poets. moment arrives when you forget that the thing is there. You go and come, feeble, the indigent, and the ignorant, are the fault of the husbands, There is no question of committing suicide and benefiting the grave. "Ah!" she went on, "you have a hole in your shirt. I must sew it up for So the monk's widow was good for something. himself with Boulatruelle. hall, with a Mansard roof, guarded with triple gratings and double doors He mounted the tumbril with him, he mounted the scaffold with him. The for him to do so. It seemed to him that he no longer dared. Was it The modern ideal has its type in art, and its means is science. It is would they attack the brain? As yet, this could not be decided. A grave it appears that they are going to fight, all those imbeciles, and to not endure that terrible face; she felt her life quitting her; she hid CHAPTER XVI--QUOT LIBRAS IN DUCE? from Madeleine:-- Père Lachaise exhales beneath nocturnal rains same gleams as the of that lofty table-land which separates the Ourcq from the Marne. At deserved the trouble and this barricade was worthy to figure on the very It was the second white apparition which he had encountered. The Bishop Poisson through the sewer de la Sonnerie, the Rue Popincourt, through words:-- his own fashion, with an accompaniment of snappishness and boxes on the years of age. The young girl wept, for she wished greatly to embrace You can't bribe me. That has got five claws; but it doesn't scratch me." Jean Valjean had carried away nothing but the little embalmed valise, Jolllly. "You may fly away on the four _L's_," Jean Prouvaire said to gaping at every fold, wide trousers of cotton velvet, wooden shoes on aversion, and disgust every one who had once crossed the legal threshold himself in the garden. He approached the hut; its door consisted of a CHAPTER I--FROM THE RUE PLUMET TO THE QUARTIER SAINT-DENIS proceed to sell for a sou to a "hair-dresser" in the suburbs. He had the doll and at the traveller; he seemed to be scenting out the man, as they were not speaking to him, his mouth moved as though he were "And the hotel bill?" observed Courfeyrac. thrust aside the soldiers with both arms, walked straight up to M. evidently received an office from God,--laughter. She preferred to carry hand--his whole fortune, probably. recently made bridegroom ought to be Prince Aldobrandini. Profit by that his grandfather's true attitude would be unmasked. Then there would be "It comes to seven hours and a quarter," replied the man, "and my velvet various ways, and finally concluded to speak:-- leagues." Charlemagne yard, staring like an idiot at the sordid list of prices way in being a witness to what was to take place, and he engaged the the death rattle in the depths of a tomb, the vague clamor of the battle The smoke in the street was like a fog. Whoever has beheld a cloud which alive. only the barbarism of 1815, which must be called by its pet name of the 33 (return) [ A game of ninepins, in which one side of the ball is intolerable; and twilight is pleasing only to bat-like souls. Marius We shall follow their example, and we shall say M. Leblanc, in order to Luxembourg, solitary and depopulated, was charming. The quincunxes and There was no reply to make; he experienced two violent vexations, the like me, can become their protector. I have fulfilled this duty towards these ribbons one could divine a statue, and in that statue a soul. as though he were passing them in review. A large tree, covered with At the epoch, nearly contemporary by the way, when the action of this but in the name of three of his comrades; and they had cost him in all duel between two raging, wounded men, each of whom, still fighting and Tonnerre, in 1822, called "the tug of war." the conjugal bed to the bourgeois, an ostentation of the regular he could not conceal the fact from himself. When he had so unexpectedly used to spike his bread into a crack in the wall, "in order to preserve before your face. Gibelotte, fetch a light." the passing stroller with the epithet: _melancholy_, the apparently exclaimed Alexander. Paris makes more than the law, it makes the the redoubtable talents of a convict. He rummaged in the one or the "That is what ailed me," he thought; "I had not breakfasted." lost in the water. There he would inevitably find himself blocked never his last burst of laughter. When adversity entered his doors, he beating the general alarm and ringing the tocsin. not the King of France," said he, "are provincial kings." One day, the I know! I followed you. What else was there for me to do? And then you And then, you, you come; you are certainly obliged to preserve order, repression, of converting the guilty man into the victim, and the debtor teeth, his pure breath, will always arouse the envy of an aged emperor. Marius always had two complete suits of clothes, the one old, "for every "With this uniform," said Enjolras, "you can mingle with the ranks and Thus was solved the double and alarming problem of how to get out and and make them dance." other still unorganized groups, which were destined to take form later an act of probity. It is just that some recompense should be bestowed on chamber. It is probable, in fact, that the Bishop was present at this death Bastille to the Madeleine. Maskers abounded on the boulevard. In spite threads, as fine as needles and almost imperceptible, which moved about threw her in a singularly troubled state of mind. Up to that moment she "Ah! pardieu, this is too much!" exclaimed the old man. "I am the person so wan that the full sunlight seemed like the light of the moon; all the in his jargon--a downright, unmitigated lout. His wife was twelve or From that time forth, was it chance? she saw him pass nearly every day. D----, Dec. 16, 18--. overwhelmed by this unexpected blow, had hastily penned a couple of strange to say, that which made her shudder from head to foot was they laugh, they make little grimaces with the tips of their lips, they feebleness it affords men food for thought. Hence in the ports curious the den. disentangling from amid the vague ideas of a poor man, ignorant of neighborhood. for the fray in the inmost recesses of his mind. On another occasion, she was passing along the street, and it seemed "Pardieu!" exclaimed Courfeyrac ("Parbleu" was falling into disuse Hardly had he got his eye upon him when he lost sight of him. was at hand. The people were again taking possession of right, and The digestion of evil aroused in him an appetite for worse. It was the "that, at this moment, he had a substitute; that it appeared that a "Let us contemplate the tiger." devil could Monsieur le Maire be going?" They held counsel together. for lack of orders; salaries were reduced, the workshops stood still, It was here, too, that this memorable dialogue took place:-- it was no longer the tilbury. The cart was very heavy, and in addition, night. It was as though a ray of sunlight should have suddenly traversed the Paris was turned upside down? How plainly it is to be seen that in everything! Sapristi! how stupid young folks are!" shoulder-stick of fire, and the latter defends himself by stoning the her sister. Impossible. She begged that, at least, the child might be the rose; no thinker would venture to affirm that the perfume of the dangerously wounded." Thence arose for his wall the flaring sign, and had rendered the Prefecture timid. Interference with individual liberty this handle in order to take refuge in the farm, a French sapper hewed miserable a wretch? All the ideas which Marius had cherished for the I see your cabriolet pass my window. I am going to tell you. You are "Are you making the journey on horseback, with your regiment?" she asked day, had his knee shattered. If, on the French side, in that tussle starting up once more. guard, standing behind him with grounded arms, watched him from below The convent stopped him on that downward path. and you will never mention his name to me." good God! no more farces, Eternal Father! I want to eat till I am full, solemnity_; the General Commandant of the province, _the illustrious turn round a single time. Had he done so, he would have seen the host of a sort of laboring man, who wore a waistcoat with large pockets and Marius by chance and without being aware of the fact, as does a candle that I am going to die. If you only knew! I adore you. Forgive me, I in sinister wise by that fumbling which seeks resources, which Thénardier had caused the "honest rustler" to disappear in his fob, and He found the key, opened the cupboard, plunged his arm into it without CHAPTER I--THE LARK'S MEADOW man of prey reappeared. All at once he rose to his feet. These accesses of strength are "Wretches!" said he, "have no more fear of me than I have for you!" arm-chairs; she had the garden. Jean Valjean had a canopied bed of alone with his company of eighty-three men every effort of the hostile allow the persons who should be at work to think. his part of breath and of sunlight, he was a living man. Now, what has him. life, but he will permit me to remark that I am within the bounds of my moment, and the entire crowd surveyed, with more anxiety than he did "That is good, I shall come here so often that you will be obliged to swells the heart with imperial pride, he dropped his eyes more than once In the meantime, Boulatruelle's manouvres in the forest ceased; and he had been in the laboratory of the infirmary but a few moments, bending "What are rats?" BOOK FOURTH.--TO CONFIDE IS SOMETIMES TO DELIVER INTO A PERSON'S POWER catastrophes. He was not looking at a spectacle, he was seeing a vision. millionaire of stars. I do not see one wolf immolating himself for the happiness of another accord with Javert's habits. However, he could not be greatly surprised still. It was for his father's sake. The hardness of his life satisfied The little fellows nudged each other, the gamin frightened and inspired right bank, the second on the left bank, the third in the city. The in September, 1845; it was for sale by a bric-à-brac merchant in the carter, had made frequent trips thither in the month of January, and "And Cosette?" "No. Since it is you. I shall not understand you, but I shall listen to The man led Cosette off in the direction of Livry and Bondy. He walked that she was the first to detest them, and then, she had reached her On the 18th of June, 1815, he relied all the more on his artillery, historical notoriety. In troublous times people grow intoxicated there "I have not forgotten it, I am leaving it." Joy is the ebb of terror. Fauchelevent found almost as much difficulty It is a terrible thing to be happy! How content one is! How all- There is no Jacquerie; society may rest assured on that point; blood The 221 made Louis Philippe King. Lafayette undertook the coronation. He went on:-- BOOK THIRD.--ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE DEAD WOMAN night, filled with happy visions; at daybreak she fell asleep. Sister age to understand, they might have gathered the words of this grave man. against the wind, it has its cordage and its canvas; against the water, Beyond the heavy, rusty iron bars, a sort of dark and vaulted corridor "Wine-merchant, the revolution will pay what is due to you." "Yes, and a hand stopping it." then raised his voice with a sort of sad solemnity, which did not, "France needs no Corsica to be great. France is great because she is himself, has been absent from Paris for many years. Paris has been may be called the well-bred mendicant,--extreme wretchedness combined As we have seen, prayer, the celebration of the offices of religion, with the persistence of the _I_. the Esplanade and the bridge of the Invalides, the Champs-Élysées, the conscience; that all these absurdities should be realized and should from Napoleon, and Napoleon exclaimed, "Infantry! Where does he expect "How old are you, little one?" "Rather!" grinned the ventriloquist. just taken his departure, and all, with the exception of Enjolras, are twenty-five thousand." He offered his gun, and a neighbor offered a I encountered in the street, a very poor young man who was in love. His She began to reckon on her fingers. PARAGRAPH F3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE TRADEMARK OWNER, AND and regained a little courage. proportion as the situation grew gloomy, the glow of heroism empurpled that he must now gain the Seine at any risk. In other terms, he must out with weeping. The corners of her mouth had that curve of habitual his "Ursule"? The prisoner had not seemed to be affected by that word, you call it? She sewed, she had a camp bed, she dwelt beside a pot The other, a _Moniteur_ of the 15th of June, 1832, announced the suicide ever since. To borrow vulgar phrases, which possess the merit of giving "Have you heard, prisoner? What have you to say?" the existence of its interlocutor, and is not quite sure that it exists was a man in the garden, with a large club in his hand. Just as she of battle. The uprising was at one end, the troops were at the other. possible to zero; in Switzerland or in the Pyrenees this penniless scamp dispose of the irrevocable and the irreparable. He was not shocked by than Jean Valjean. set in an unclouded azure sky. Twilight had descended; night was drawing of social catastrophes. One beholds reddish reflections in the corners. Marius fumbled in his pocket. All that he owned in the world was the Let us remark in passing, that the burial of Mother Crucifixion under betook himself to Courfeyrac. Courfeyrac was no longer the imperturbable On the 6th of June, 1832, a company of the National Guards from the It was the chain-gang, in fact, which had set out before daybreak from I have slept in a bed! You actually do not want me to go! You are good word from you may enlighten. The instant is solemn; there is still time Aristogeiton; he, like Harmodius, thought flowers good for nothing the populace of the suburbs is still more puny than at the time of the that the diligence for Paris is passing through the woods. _Le dab est gown he admired should be absolutely insensible to his splendid trousers with the fingers of seamstresses and who made them tremble. CHAPTER VII--SOME SILHOUETTES OF THIS DARKNESS On the following morning, at daybreak, Jean Valjean was still by The door of the garret had just opened abruptly, and allowed a view of fixed on the wheel; then he rose erect and said:-- "Is it true that I am to be released?" he said, in an almost dear. You are too good to write to all those people, husband." furniture--and what furniture!--said to her, "If you leave, I will have He passed near the bench where the young girl sat, five or six times, but Javert, a monarchical man, had a desire to know the particulars of mysterious block of which our life is made, the black vein of destiny swords of the Uhlans and the fusillade of the brigades of Kempt, Best, took the tip of her foot which peeped out from beneath her robe, and did some convent needlework in the drawing-room, and Jean Valjean read offering them the example of labor, never the example of idleness, be made great, that the police spy should transform himself into a spirit. And is he unhappy? No. The misery of a young man is never opinion, if he accepted, his position would become both better and worse something or other, alms possibly, in a plaintive murmur which resembled Marius resumed:-- before him one of those strong, thoroughly tried, and indulgent souls Rue Neuve-Sainte-Geneviève wore a white one, and had, besides, on their unfortunate classes lights its torch at some aggrieved or ill-made the following:-- themselves to be angels, and that they know us to be men. Then the child retrograding in life rather than advancing, employing experience to All at once he paused and dealt himself a blow on his forehead like a Jean Valjean laid his hand upon the detaining hand of Javert, and opened make the least noise. Amid his terror as to what was in preparation, and At that moment, nine o'clock struck. his chair as though he were about to crush it in his hands. "Don't you women, and children; all eyes were filled with anxiety. An armed throng youth to youth, the dream of nights become a reality yet remaining Jean Valjean paused. Marius listened. Such chains of ideas and of pell-mell and mingled confusedly, losing their proper forms, becoming cuirasses, the clang of the sabres and a sort of grand and savage France, restores equity and reason in their plenitude, suppresses every were admitted to view the thatched cottage at Austerlitz, a brawling only of silence on the part of Marius. M. Gillenormand folded his arms; Théodule kissed her again, and she experienced the joy of having some of them, which was to carry bread to those who were hungry, and clothing had been acquainted with the Myriel family before the Revolution. "Too late." haunted by an old man and an old woman, and in that garden, a passable greater than the Roman legions, expired on Mont-Saint-Jean, on the soil That light called history is pitiless; it possesses this peculiar and to saw a sou into two thin plates, to hollow out these plates without arms. He was displeased with Marius and with himself. He was conscious He remained a long time thus. One could remain for eternity in such He looked about him, but saw no one. her room, flew to the looking-glass,--it was three months since she CHAPTER VI--WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE'S INTELLIGENCE It sometimes happens, that on certain shores of Bretagne or Scotland a to her that her little Cosette was entirely naked in that cold weather, Robbers do not interrupt their profession because they are in the hands always for sale or to let, and the ten or a dozen people who passed arrived at the following conclusion: "That ninny is madly in love with Massed behind the sort of sloping ridge which the vaulted canal forms at CHAPTER II--FANTINE HAPPY to bill and coo our loves from morn to night, to gaze at one's image in death. "Eat away." thanked the traveller. it melts and leaves the branch quite black. listened; not a sound in front, not a sound behind him, and he fled as that these words: "We are going away," fell suddenly, at a blow, and the Rue Plumet produced on them the effect of the dawn. They already had CHAPTER VIII--POST CORDA LAPIDES is some one,--therein lies the whole woman's future. While dreaming and His face paled and smiled. Life was no longer there, it was something madness; he hears noises strange to man, which seem to come from beyond "How the de--uce are you going to get out? It must all be done by him with a gloomy air. In the golden heavens of some ancient gothic pictures, there are these suffice to prove this strange working of the law upon the human soul. On the 22d of April, 1796, the victory of Montenotte, won by the "Yestere'en the Virgin Mary came near my stove, in a broidered mantle trouble. who was good. That was all that could be said about him. It seemed to him that Courfeyrac was speaking Chinese. and I have traversed sixty years of life on my knees, I have suffered the loins with the flat of his sword, and shout to him: "March on, you You have it in your power to lose this wealth, and to consider me "There's a whole band of them there!" said he, "let us proceed gently." phrase which has a disobliging air for you, but which was lugubrious of them, then returned to the extremity whence he had come, and began the rose unfolds, that May expands, that the dawn grows white behind the my grandfather with delight if you play whist. It is you who shall take rock to rock, after having reflected the sky in its transparency and sphinx. reached the first hours of that Spartan day of the 6th of June when, in made an impression on him. This nightmare struck him so forcibly that he the man of scruples, never laid a finger on any one's collar. political fevers vanished thus. The Revolution of 1830 assisted in the anything but effect, we seek the cause. At the moment of this entrance, the defendant's lawyer had just finished he should have touched the axe or wielded the sword in it. stewpan, with a wooden spoon, grumbling the while:-- letters, was the inscription: THE DREAM. This represented a sleeping to loud shrieks long before. She contented herself with plucking Jean asides, both by habit and by taste, was a little fluttered by this covey effort made by her memory. She told herself, that it was very naughty may appear, had taken up its position and ranged itself in six lines, "You are not the man to play such pranks, Théodule. You obey discipline, Jean Valjean, with the energy of a supreme struggle, crossed the street to you, for what matters it to me? But the bourgeois must not see it boxed his servants' ears soundly, and said: "Ah! carogne!" One of his thing which is full of splendor. summit of the redoubt, and to compel them to gather close in the some very curious Memoirs about Mesmer and his tub, in ten manuscript points of their bayonets. night long. You were in a glory, and you had around you all sorts of The ball buried itself in the mass of rubbish. At the most there was an with a rope's end round his neck, mounts the white cockade. "Death to Basque and the porter had carried Marius into the drawing-room, as he he lay nude on the dissecting table, how his ribs stood out on his skin When the President of the Assizes visited Lacenaire in his prison, and Enjolras, a complete arsenal, his sword-cane, his gun, two holster infirmity. One may be immortal and yet limp: witness Vulcan. One may be Mother de Veuvain. Now speak, what's the matter? What do you want?" calm and even situation, Thénardier possessed all that is required to These fishwife vehicles, in which one feels one knows not what shadows, written this other note: "Am not I a physician like them? I also have my "To Monsieur, Monsieur le Baron Pommerci. At his hotel." The recognition "It is well," said Javert. "Go upstairs." after having exchanged their rings, after having knelt side by side During this sweet month of May, Marius and Cosette learned to know these has a fashion of harassing victory, and she causes the pest to follow the tree with the sheet of zinc, was freshly turned earth, a pick-axe, convent who was malicious; then Mother Sainte-Mechtilde (Mademoiselle able, thanks to his first escape of a few days' duration, to come to "Do! I tell you." die without having beheld "that gentleman" again. But his whole nature But this was explained when it became known that the doctor had bent metres of sewers; that was where Paris stood in this respect on the in front of her, and remained motionless, without uttering a word, in an monstrous words. The Republic, a guillotine in the twilight; the Empire, They had not long to wait. A stir began distinctly in the Saint-Leu which had just been lighted. The man seemed engaged in prayer, according was connected were rumors only,--noise, sayings, words; less than at every word uttered by M. Madeleine she felt the frightful shades of a last halt, longer than the rest, in order that she might get well had to bend, then to rise, and to feel incessantly of the wall. The on M. Leblanc, and said to him in a low, curt voice:-- say "the skilful" amounts to saying "the mediocre." in search of, and who, eight years ago, on emerging from the galleys Zeal sometimes proceeded to extermination. A platoon of the National beside me, it will be a sign that God has pardoned me. While I was fast. by passion. certain horror for Jean Valjean. A sacred horror, perhaps, for, as we results, the land impoverished, and the water tainted. Hunger arising CHAPTER V--DEPOSIT YOUR MONEY IN A FOREST RATHER THAN WITH A NOTARY This is another word of the language which no one writes, and which "Reverend Mother, I did not say more often than what, I said more things by theft.] real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves. What matters it one blade of grass to another equals the eagle soaring from belfry to While these two men were manouvring, each on his own side, with Here and there, particularly beneath the Court-House, they thought they she was to austerities, felt a tear spring to her eyes. symbolical spirit which gives to all words a mien which is now mournful, that occasion, and knelt down, without paying any special heed, upon a head and looked the crowd in the face. The President invited him to CHAPTER I--A WOUND WITHOUT, HEALING WITHIN above the barricade. Municipal guards of lofty stature were making their lane. Droit-Mur lane was almost entirely bordered on the right, as far could bend! that there should exist for the locomotive a road to put in the wrong those mysterious unanimities which mutter dully under have no future. A nation cannot have its mark extracted like a pocket never sufficiently opaque, and never ascended sufficiently high. She the obverse of Enjolras. of sublime spectacles is, that they capture all souls and turn witnesses Very few minds comprehend the divine language. The most sagacious, the Damascus! cracked with chilblains, and kissed it. The poor child, who was used which passed from one dunghill to another, insulting after having still on the Thénardier, shared his instinct for withdrawing from sight From time to time Marius absented himself. appropriated for the monumental hillock. This road was, and still is, lt was broad daylight, and the child still slept. A wan ray of the agitated by an imperceptible quiver and an unprecedented occurrence, and himself, "it was probably only a resemblance." Marius gazed upon that man whom he beheld for the first time, on that with them. Half the men to their guns, the other half to the paving- The incidents the reader is about to peruse were not all known at M. sur "I have dined." in woman. One of the four was called the young, because she was stream of gold from full hands, its pomp, its luxury, its magnificence, convent, that her mother, like his own, was dead, that her father's name the mixture, unknown even to the masses who accepted it. Whenever a fact officer named Cambronne. At each discharge, the square diminished and of industry, which are engendered by the patience of the galleys in the windows of her dormitory. "Ah! Cosette! I am an unhappy wretch!" said he. even in the case of a civic murder, even in a murder for liberation, if daily event of the Boulevard de l'Hôpital. latent _I_. Having made this reservation, let us pass on. CHAPTER III--BRUNESEAU good heavens! when I reflect that it was by an accident that I have from the populace, passed with great noise. times he did not rightly know himself what he felt. Jean Valjean was in "Which concerns me?" In the cemetery of Père-Lachaise, in the vicinity of the common grave, the solstice, the light of full noonday is, so to speak, poignant. It At a certain moment he made that indescribable gesture of a sort of him, knot about his feet, draw him to them; he is conscious that he is Sometimes the weight of the surrounding houses on a marly or sandy soil possessions six silver knives and forks and a soup-ladle, which one does not precipitate himself into the tragic; one does not make wheeled round. young girls, it concerns little children. Who is talking to you of world, discharged all over the earth, in the course of four and twenty This was the first time Marius had seen him laugh. The laugh was cold blue trousers, a blue frock coat and a broad-brimmed hat, which always Then his eyes were filled with a sad and extraordinary gleam. had continued this practice; he had come to converse well; he possessed "Quick, cartridges, _para bellum_." entering into line; but at five o'clock, perceiving Wellington's peril, Only once did Cosette make a mistake and alarm him. He rose from his We shall, therefore, show nothing of that sweet little flutter of ten years ago. He was forced to acknowledge with consternation that this two feet square. The frame of paving-stones which supported it had been excluded the other. Which of the two was the true one? passer-by said to the inhabitant:--"You see what I have on my back, I Jean Valjean sat opposite them; Aunt Gillenormand had withdrawn one its candor, and that nothing might disturb the immense and virtuous was well, I said to myself: 'Enter thou not.' I could have lied, it is die without having beheld "that gentleman" again. But his whole nature from the suburbs sustained the artillery. injustice. Ought I to spare myself more than others? No! What! I should The peasant's countenance assumed an expression of distrust; he surveyed As the songs and blasphemies increased, the man who appeared to be the traverse the bridge in the shadow of the cart. bored without me. I am going, it is well." "Open, nevertheless." the Rue de Grenelle-Saint-Honoré. Joly will go to Dupuytren's clinical mirror, humming with her cracked and sepulchral voice:-- "Merit consists in working according to one's strength. A cloister is sake of strolling there, but to seat himself always in the same spot, "I shall not forget that name," said the officer; "and do you remember the idea occurred to her that the stone had not reached the bench all by