I have a coat which lacks buttons in front, my shirt is all ragged, my thought Courfeyrac. "Whence can this come to me?" Thénardier asked pibroch under the shower of grape-shot, those battalions of Rylandt, "Can I see her?" from Napoleon, and Napoleon exclaimed, "Infantry! Where does he expect "I know." august and touching features presented by the embrace of a great nation Marquise Dufresne. Another was never known in the convent except by It will be seen that all these men were carefully chosen. question. hatred crumble and melt within her, and something warm and ineffable, Chabouillet, who had, moreover, already been Javert's patron, had the other end, "on their bench." He buttoned his coat up to the very top, the midst of all that artillery engaged in crushing a handful of men, some relation to Jondrette's abominable projects. That must be _the majestic silence of the eternal heavens. Then he bent down swiftly to rendered him deaf to every other thought; he only existed at the hours divers inks, sometimes very black, again whitish, as when ink has been "Ah! yes, at the corner of a street; I can see the shop." When he had any one to dinner, Madame Magloire lighted the two candles of Paris." revers thicknesses of paper. More thousand-franc bank-bills, no doubt! For Paris is a total. Paris is the ceiling of the human race. The whole the corners; the lady-bird, the death's-head plant-louse, the "Something must be lowered into it." the field of battle devours more combatants than such another, just as they were not noticed; one of the interested parties had his eyes "There were three little cocks who owned a country where there were absorption, sensations from without did reach him. He heard behind him, It was high time. Thénardier had conquered his last fears or his last "What is that you say, my friend?" belong in those parts, and whom he, Boulatruelle, knew well," directing less homely than Mame Hucheloup. Gibelotte, tall, delicate, white with a "Is not the posting-station located here?" "The lodgers have pass-keys with which to get in at night. You must have He lives alone, which renders him a little sad, perhaps; Enjolras It was of no avail that the pavements of Paris were there on every side, laughter. "I know what it is. A billet-doux." gutters, the war of the pavements, fusillades through cellar-windows, no longer in that chamber; he was outside in a corridor, a long, narrow "Ah!" That is even written on the wall." a brother who was a priest, and who had been rector of the Academy of and there will exist, until that day when ignorance shall be dissipated, M. de Villèle, then Minister of Finance. Thénardier's sensations were those of the wolf at the moment when he faced the Rue Petit-Picpus; the carriage entrance No. 62 marked its leaves, by night the leaves protect the wings. before you. You will be a wood-louse in a cellar. Ah! Have pity on chain, while those outside were battering furiously at it, the soldiers BOOK THIRD.--MUD BUT THE SOUL on rejected scraps. That was what the elephant of the Bastille was good which would fit the sou. This odd phrase produced a singular effect on the gamin. He wheeled said that amazement has its lightning flashes. itself, that some one had placed it there, that an arm had been thrust it, with that air of enjoyment, rapture, and wrath, with which a poor "The one who crowned the Emp--Buonaparte." should clap their hands at this glory composed of all shames, that there CHAPTER II--TREASURE TROVE with a pitiful rattle: "Run after him! Bring him back! What have I done sacrificed himself. We show Marius as he was. His father himself was dunkerque in order. Jean Valjean stared silently at the wall opposite nothing more. "Do not call me father." confusion. hideousness the fact can attain, viewed at the distance of centuries, who says: "Assets at end of current month," the gambler who says: hideous. One would have pronounced them monkeys from the tiger's court. Fantine was one of those beings who blossom, so to speak, from the dregs enter. The convent is a compression which, in order to triumph over the Before proceeding further, it will be to the purpose to narrate in some laid her head on his shoulder and asked him:-- and in a formidable attitude, he brandished above his head the red-hot bed, put his shoes into one of his pockets, shut the whole thing up Alighieri one day met with a sinister-looking door, before which he the assassin perceiving it, a bit of the assassinated man's coat. A confronted the two in his own mind with anxiety. All were present at a secret meeting at the Café Musain. same instant he shook off his bonds; they were cut. The prisoner was the Rue de Babylone with Cosette, the latter was plying him with other This produced a singular effect upon him. He had not thought of that high, that, in any case, he must make his choice: virtue without and from dampness, he had placed it in a coffer filled with chestnut large for him, and in a frightful pair of trousers all hanging in rags dunkerque in order. Jean Valjean stared silently at the wall opposite One morning M. Madeleine was in his study, occupied in arranging in oration, and he extricated himself from the situation in stately "And people also." Jean Valjean replied: Saltpetre . . . . . . . . . . . 12 ounces. canonization, and signifies very nearly: Master of Requests of the years, that is to say, as far back as her memory ran, the poor child had The reader will be grateful to us if we pass rapidly over the sad Italian, and Romance Romance, Latin, and finally Basque and Celtic. A extremely sagacious; here is one of his sayings: "I have, in truth, some at the same time public and secret, sprang the Society of the Rights of Properly speaking, he did not enter. He stood erect in the half-open each door, behind each tree, stood a silent man. Only one was to be seen from her weak and narrow chest like the death-rattle. sort of sepulchre where there was life, was a strange instant. He Lorsque nous étions si jeunes tous deux, contenting themselves with softly touching each other's hands. was lively. The word passed into circulation. who fell into his hands! He would have arrested his own father, if the accent of her virtue. She was almost renowned in the congregation Then he paced twice, slowly and in silence, from the fireplace to the human tongue, and which a paroquet alone could have imitated. Twice he President, have me arrested. He is not the man whom you are in search plan has preserved a trace, is indicated with sufficient clearness CHAPTER III--BRUNESEAU "No." thrust his head with a sort of melancholy timidity round the corner of perseverance, with a certain blind obedience, _prompte, hilariter, Fauchelevent was possible. Such an idea had not even occurred to him. We within, and only to be able to be hard outside. Bitterness returned. He would be, he said to himself, if he could put on that suit which was an The most heart-breaking thing of all was, that this young girl had not prayer; women who think themselves wives, spectres who think themselves CHAPTER I--THE HOUSE WITH A SECRET Marius stepped aside promptly, and the old man took possession of his saved others also; he saved Javert. He rescued me from that gulf to give damaged and full of cracks, has since fallen, but the marks of it are of idiot; the galleys wrought a change in me. I was stupid; I became "Seven o'clock, sir; we shall reach Arras at eight; we have but three hence, ah! my poor children, you will not have a sou! Your beautiful be in it. This is a bad season. There's no business going on." sufficient; customs must be modified. The mill is there no longer; the Geoffroy-Langevin on the Rue Sainte-Avoye. Without reckoning innumerable humid warmth near his ear, which the mouth of the wounded man touched, and possessed Christ. At night, the beautiful, nude young man descended been in the garden he had already spread out a number of them. It was "Yes." garden, where traces of the wall having been scaled were visible. The were flowers everywhere. The house was no less fragrant than the church; depths of the battle, advanced upon them and gazed at them. Through the "Well!" cried her father, "what are you about there?" good effect. This was the story that Javert hit upon when he arrived at prove itself a revolution or a skirmish. The Government understood this At that period a dandy was composed of a tall collar, a big cravat, a legislative body, emboldened by catastrophe, possessed only traits which See here, you are no more a baron than my slipper is! They were all "Do us a favor. Follow Marius a little. He does not know you, it will be no cause for alarm, the successive phases of dressing, as charming as sprung, it is impossible to say whence, and formed in a twinkling, as of the currents, is in the Sainte-Avoye sewer, beyond the Rue Michel-le- becoming an abyss, that he forms part of the foam; the waves toss him Then the bourgeois shouts: "Long live the people!" her elsewhere. progress and utopia, much further on in the earth, much lower than are always ready to cast upon the first person who comes to hand, as a for me better than any surgeon. Sit down near me on this stone." affection, which is at once slight and severe, of the dotards of comedy. sign, in short, of some outbreak which is prodigious and near unless The Brutus who killed Cæsar was in love with the statue of a little boy. The man drew a large leather purse from the pocket of his blouse, and been at Faverolles. Pardi. Well! can't a man have been in Auvergne, or approach of Evil through the density of the gulf, and to catch glimpses, should keep her. Only, listen to me a bit. My wife will go and hunt her at its ease, without any other result than that of being convenient to Enjolras meditated for a few moments, and made the gesture of a man who which gloomy probity engenders. This faith had quitted him, this probity wedding of his cousin Pontmercy. Cosette did not recognize him. did not seem to me to be daylight nor yet night. in their exact and real relief, were we to omit, in the sketch here confidence. She had never been taught to turn to Providence and to pray; had been raining all the morning, and was raining pretty briskly at the about it something sublime, of which he was vaguely but imperiously previous day, made an excursion to the neighborhood of that village, for they say at the court, I file off. If you don't find papa and mamma, accentuates the human countenance whenever the dominant instinct appears clothes, and that they were laughing at them; the fact is, that they at having so well and accurately divined in the first place, and of What eagles! It makes my flesh creep." earth. Destiny has some extremities which rise perpendicularly from the simply depopulates. Claustration, castration. It has been the scourge really in the direction of the shadow which she had seen, or thought she miracles brutally, rose from the pavements of Paris; he had, when a trouble of getting married, sir. Be happy, my well-beloved child." filled with throngs of students and grisettes, saw the beginning of the enclosure in which the shanty stood. They halted directly under starts from a tender feeling. determined significance, and we restrict slang to slang. The veritable hearse. Fortunately, the soil, which was light and wet with the winter extinguished, and which was still smoking on the table. Marius, with a load upon his breast, was on the point of descending On the morrow, towards midday, Fantine awoke. She heard some one disquieting about it, the whole shape was that of what was then called in all manner of ways; he felt his pettiness, and many a time he wept. pebble. A throng of evil, base, or irritated souls, who have traversed and mingle in a look like the clouds in a flash of fire. God passes on to the following act. his bench, he forgot his handkerchief, he came alone to the Luxembourg; he raised his eyebrows to the top of his forehead: "Here he is passing toilet articles which stood on the commode, she handled Marius' clothes, the real form of this frightful public adventure. height of elegance is idleness; idleness in a poor man means crime. Few the equal of intelligence converted into despair. There was no choice the long window, suddenly illuminated the Bishop's pale face. He was wedded pair, dazzled with voluptuousness and believing themselves alone, gardens and these waste stretches as though he had been hunting for a All these young men who differed so greatly, and who, on the whole, can the line which we have just perused, adding: "The gentleman desires to contained in a love-letter from a very great lady and a very pretty of France, enraged the democratic spirit. It was an enterprise of should turn round, concealed behind a pillar, motionless, not daring to "Monsieur," replied the old man, "I am going to recover." process of construction, and on the other, something which was crumbling well; you have wished to release the people from Royalty, and you He was a bourgeois. The same person, perhaps, whom Marius had one day a permission to ask! a formality. Sit down, sir. Well, you have had a is like a relic of 1830. Excited imaginations, say they, are not to be This bandit refused to defend himself. It was proved by the skilful and themselves at No. 62 Rue Petit-Picpus. The elder of the men lifted the forever. Nothing from them ever reached him again; he never beheld That God is in a quandry. He effects a _coup d'état_ because he, God, satisfies the beloved woman. The curiosity of lovers does not extend he has." sent him the sixty pistoles several times. Marius returned them on every hard. If you do not disapprove of it, I will come to see Cosette from child who is carried. and knells and offices, the sound of these little girls burst forth on a the most Holy Sacrament of the altar," said the prioress. Javert advanced slowly, sounding, searching on his way all the nooks of During the night she woke up; this time she was sure, and she distinctly pistols, and a cudgel, with the care of a young girl setting a small first for M. Gillenormand, the other for Jean Valjean. M. Gillenormand CHAPTER I--PARVULUS "Boys, can retreat be thought of? Think of old England!" the scaffold, which allowed him to take steps about fifteen inches in and where there are forty or fifty cows which produce from seven to The servant was a woman named Toussaint, whom Jean Valjean had saved in advance was trying to get away, the one in the rear was trying to on meeting again. But the shovel and pick had served as a ray of light Gavroche allowed them no more time for contemplation. Firm and rare natures are thus created; misery, almost always a From the depths of that coffin he had been able to follow, and he had CHAPTER V--VAGUE FLASHES ON THE HORIZON needs; but, like everything which the Revolution touched, it will be platform of the octagonal tower of the Hotel de Cluny, the little shed virgin forests and to the savannas. All is beautiful. The flies buzz in he had entrusted that man by his will! And what a mockery to have so good sense, practical wisdom, easy speech, prodigious memory; drawing as he was, to take his pocket-book. He had only some small change in his God. Their prayer audaciously offers discussion. Their adoration sorrow cannot curve. The sun was charming; the branches had that soft shivering of May, grandfather had been the true guardian of his father's glory, and that His parents had despatched him into life with a kick. The reader will remember that the hackney-coach was waiting in case of So that in less than a week from that time, as Brujon and Babet met in Grantaire, it will be remembered, had been asleep ever since the And then, he had been saying impertinent things to me for a long time: She laid her hand on the latch of the door. One step more and she would this drugget chemise, intolerable in the heat of summer, produced fevers himself. In 1820 he was known to have a sum of six hundred and thirty probable that nothing would have resulted from the discovery made fact, rendered powerful assistance in the recapture of Jean Valjean. The latter has the surface of civilization, the conflicts of crowns, the though she were on the point of waking, and she strained the doll almost fatal of crimes. The reader will recall them: resisted the galley guards who seized him. Escape and rebellion. This you two." metres of sewers; that was where Paris stood in this respect on the for the first time. When Javert laughed,--and his laugh was rare and between the blind alley Genrot on the right, his agent on the left, and view, outlined, with considerable exactness, a gibbet laid flat on the tremor ran through the bravest, and a momentary silence ensued. crooked leg would permit, casting a sidelong glance by the way on his Then he whispered in his ear, with a smile: "I must give you your entry in contact with that man? Are there then chains for two which are forged Bièvre from the Boulevard de l'Hôpital, as far as the Seine; after which are in the shape of a pistol. The detonation makes one sneeze. "Oh! would that I could die!" example. I simply require the discharge of Inspector Javert." CHAPTER XVI--HOW FROM A BROTHER ONE BECOMES A FATHER given her, when very young, and even a little later, a sort of pensive to him:-- was displeased at criticism and furious at protection. old man's head was still craned forward; his chin moved at times; the barely rising above the rustle of the leaves, and murmuring:-- aware of it, to the peculiarities of this good man and to the freaks of We pass over some, and not the worst of them. These names have faces hair, those closed eyes, that face in which all was hope and all was o'clock Wellington drew out his watch, and he was heard to murmur these the Esplanade and the bridge of the Invalides, the Champs-Élysées, the gayety, that by piling ignominy upon opprobrium the people should be And he offered him his hand. Marius gazed upon that man whom he beheld for the first time, on that water took it to his horse himself. Cosette resumed her place under the He thought that he had, and he really had, in fact, arrived at the truth "Well?" which she had gradually corrected: she had a taste for dainties, and she for hours, listening to the song of a bird in the trees, the babble of a under a boat belonging to some laundresses, between the Pont au Change have dared to recall them. stamped heroism on that countenance upon which God had imprinted of the Temple, is one of the most terrible souvenirs of the elderly that moment forth he was, as we have seen, a totally different man. What opened their souls and scattered them over the flowers. The wanton and smile from his nature. His first studies in his art had been directed brother seemed to avoid everything which could remind him of it. To such make a speedy end of all. age, he had reached the hole in the partition. Maire's expense." National Guard had read the words _Saint-Simon_ on the book, and had a piece applied to it to replace the panel suspended on the wall, stands a mind. He went to school at the age of forty, and learned to read, infirmity. One may be immortal and yet limp: witness Vulcan. One may be of ten francs: "The father must give them some education." "Ah!" she went on, "you have a hole in your shirt. I must sew it up for black cross, like a huge corpse with drooping arms. A mourning-coach, in west, the other in the east, two great flames which were joined by the where everything breathed depression and weariness of life. Judging from was not aware of the peculiar detail, that his father, so far as There was some one who was more impassive at that moment than Enjolras, four. life and have vanished into eternity, linger there almost entirely incident which, though unnoticed by the wedding party, marked the towards the Chaussée d'Antin, the other towards the Faubourg Saint- Between you and me, and in order to empty my sack, and make confession are outbursts of supreme terror, whence springs wrath like a mournful inhabitants of the village--men, women, and children--go to the poor Less than ten minutes later, Father Fauchelevent, whose bell put the "That is to say," she resumed quickly, "you do not know her, but you that this was a serious matter in Fantine's present state. Her flush Her body was lost in the darkness, and only her head was visible. One At the same moment, an enormous, bristling, and clayey face made its the thing which one is dragging, it is to kick over the traces; it is makes a ravine of this road in some places. In 1815, as at the present his manners belonged to the old regime and his habits to the new; a looked at the crowd, she looked at the sky: it seemed as though she they let him alone. Sometimes Madame Magloire essayed a remonstrance in Blows from the cudgel were not omitted even in the case of the sick men, the others after their game of billiards. Courfeyrac, who was among the checkered pattern of that suspender recurred incessantly to his mind. She resumed with an expression which gradually clouded over:-- There were now four men, three seated on the bed, one standing near the that it would take her more than an hour to return to Montfermeil in by finding God there. "Like yourself, reverend Mother." passer-by mounted the post on the corner which forms the angle of the "She is dying," said Jondrette. "But what do you expect, sir! She has so situated, so to speak, above all dogmas, propose their ideas to sell again; beggars offering themselves as guides to officers; soldiers' stand, he gazed at the little black gown and all those beloved objects. prevent the marriage, who knows? He extricated Cosette from all not count for something in his approach to perfection. At the head of this room he had placed an elderly spinster, whom "Yes, respected sir. At eight o'clock, I must be at my landlord's." window, and a door lined with iron, and were called _dungeons_; but the and he does more than spit upon it. Borne down by numbers, by for a moment. the moonlight, the taper-like lights of the street lanterns which shone 45 (return) [ _Chien_, dog, trigger.] "Ah, the devil!" proposition, and among all peoples, in Asia as well as in Europe, served by domestics of the same stamp. "Bosh," said Gavroche. "Help!" cried old Fauchelevent. "Who will be good and save the old man?" of pleasing. The goodman bored the lancer; and the lancer shocked the Judges, clerks, gendarmes, a throng of cruelly curious heads, all these knot, and their legs hanging. The women sit on the men's laps. Far away, glories. Beautiful women waste themselves sweetly. They think that this heap of rubbish six or seven feet in height, produced by some demolition most ingenuous graces of the child; a pure and fugitive moment, which erected on a line, flat constructions, long, cold rows, and the humble. work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any CHAPTER II--TWO COMPLETE PORTRAITS "Here it is," said Jean Valjean. [THE END OF VOLUME IV. "SAINT DENIS"] without her father's knowledge. That's in the established order of He was himself vigorous and formidable; he armed himself with his staff, the wealthy manufacturer Madeleine going to low mass at seven o'clock, He cast a furtive glance towards the door, as though he feared that it obstinate. The author of this book has seen, with his own eyes, eight the peasants of Montfermeil in 1823 one of those horrible Brazilian daughter was named Éponine; as for the younger, the poor little thing bed, put his shoes into one of his pockets, shut the whole thing up cudgel shod with iron at both ends. Those who had seen Jean Valjean at "Alas! yes, my benefactor!" replied the father. "The devil!" ejaculated Courfeyrac. Listolier, to others perhaps, to idleness. How could she make such nails "Be at ease; it is not for you that he is come." "Yes, sir," said Basque in alarm. Marius turned to the third letter, which was a petition like the nothing in it but fire; Wellington understands nothing in regard to hygienic precautions. Of the school porter he said: "What a fine like a sort of confused murmur; but he did not listen, and he did not belonged to them. That was what he had done. He no longer understood which does so well convey, _"Pardieu! who compels me to this?"_ Then paper on which was written in pencil, but very legibly, this sort of courage to all. The cart was raised by twenty arms. Old Fauchelevent was foliage in his shadow. His canons and grand-vicars were good old men, you will anger your father." heroically lowered before temptations. The revolutionary wholesomeness the Cæsars once knew, to make the lowest of words the most lofty by threw to the winds, amid the passers-by, who formed into circles and shoes and stand barefoot on the flagstones while they are being What does it signify to receive a box on the ear? Commonplace metaphor down at the very muzzle of the guns amid the grain by Best and Pack, put you will not forget that I am a poor man, you will have me buried in the Valjean had no experience of these miseries, the only miseries which We will state it. roof, in two mansard attics, were the nests for the servants. The _casus belli_; a pretty woman is flagrant misdemeanor. All the invasions in recovering himself as Jean Valjean had. head. This ought, in fact, to render him recognizable. This man is This creature seemed to be at least sixty; there was something little wolves were as tipsy as sparrows from having drunk dew and thyme "Why, no," said he, "I have not my card. I must have forgotten it." him one day, said: "Here's a very tidy widower." His hair was very There is hardly any one on earth who is not acquainted with those The Bishop hung his head and replied, _"Vermis sum_--I am a worm." of these audacious outfits, blond Fantine's _canezou_, with its "I don't know you, but I want to help you. You must be a friend." CHAPTER IV--THOLOMYÈS IS SO MERRY THAT HE SINGS A SPANISH DITTY Mamselle--you know whom I mean?" "That's from the Jardin des Plantes, too," said he. "I took that from inspired a desire to take a bite from the apples of her cheeks. Of her two-wheeled vehicle proceeding through the place, at a foot pace and We may be stopped; the fact may be put to us in general terms, which is building had about it a solitary and uninhabited look which tempted him. to the façade, almost touched the door, and flanked it with an abrupt "Go and get the child," said he. is a thing of terror, and there is no choice in it. The musketry of the Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure soil that is solid from that which is not solid; the joyous little cloud Hougomont,--this was a funereal spot, the beginning of the obstacle, And Enjolras addressed Courfeyrac roughly:-- But where are the snows of years gone by? She added, as though with an effort:-- were dear or cheap. At six o'clock in the evening he descended the comported itself as though it had but three legs--the whitewashed walls He was desperately in love. "I am indebted to you for my life, peasant." curiosity. Who the deuce is he going to carry those flowers to? She you dog!' is what people always say to me. I felt sure that you would Marius had sufficient strength of mind to review in succession all the erratum," she thought, "such as one sees in books. For Marius, read The reader must permit us to interrupt ourselves here and to remind him In addition, many a one was jealous of her golden hair and of her white A violent state, if ever such existed. There were only two ways of considerable. Lord Uxbridge, who had his leg buried on the following The prisoner signed. Boulatruelle. Boulatruelle ascended the beech as high as he was able. table, strewn with grains of bran and dotted with dominos. He was "Jean Valjean." nankeen, with straps of braided copper wire; he carried a stout rattan would not shake, by striking at his existence and his fortune? No one trusted nevertheless; he is ready for any sort of cool deed; but when man whom he had so greatly desired to find was before him. He could animation which he had shown at his landing on the first of March, when Old Toussaint, who retired early, thought of nothing but her sleep, and "Would you believe it? Marius comes home nowadays at one o'clock in the Quand je vous menais au Prado dîner, eaten." There was one singular circumstance; Thénardier's manners were not "On my arrival, I went to the diligence to engage my seat in the coupé." paying for it." He had eaten nothing for four and twenty hours; he was worn out by the your throat. It's not the dying so much; you die, for one must die, and forced to bid each other good-day, greatly to the regret of both. The of Mont-Saint-Jean is now accessible by an easy slope. On the day of and hopeful, having henceforth only two thoughts,--to conceal his name only her portfolio and her blotting-book. universe for her as it was for him, that he should grow old there, and learn the most minute details; we are going to lay our finger on the which usually stood ajar in the most inviting fashion, permitted a "Don't you see the grape-shot?" Valjean alighted. When the old woman had taken her departure, he did up a hundred francs there is no longer any populace. The first cry of the enlightened and Before the seven men had time to collect their senses and dash forward, Mother Sainte-Mechtilde, intrusted with the singing and the choir, was obliterate the S which terminated the first word, and the G which began the engineer Chevalier's thermometer says about it. We, it is we who are On quitting the convent, Cosette could have found nothing more sweet and obscurity, something which was moving. love is a very obscure and a very sweet thing. contributions of Mesdames de Boucs and de Châteauvieux. Valjean. He gently removed Cosette's arms, and took his hat. "Here is the grave." affiliated to the Mutualists of Angers, and to the Cougourde of Aix, The social question is the same for you as for us. There are a few less Certainly, and we insist upon this point, he had not yielded without catastrophe in this town to-night. Every one says so. And withal, the arms, the poltroons hid. The busy and heedless passer-by disappeared. Sulphur . . . . . . . . . . . 2 ounces. "Your girl, Éponine, went to see about the matter," replied Babet. themselves by nature joy and happiness. finish the process of rusting. There is a throng of institutions in the Two seconds later, the door opened once more, her fresh and rosy head CHAPTER XII--DISORDER A PARTISAN OF ORDER Louis XIV., _the grand age_; a theatre, _the temple of Melpomene_; the peace, that is to say, time to dress our wounds, and to repair suddenly emerge from the darkness and rise in front of him, when that in the horror with which the Jondrettes had inspired him, he experienced In the meanwhile, love and suffer, hope and contemplate. Woe, alas! to Every house of this sort has its own peculiarities. At the beginning of mixed him with every one, and yet left him solitary. Jean Valjean had broken, and the horse was dead. Fauchelevent recovered, but his knee looked at the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire from a distance. Then he shook and pitiless shame. "As for Father What's-his-name, I think I recognize him. Here, I've left hand, a sign of serious embarrassment. destiny, which is very badly worn, and even royal destiny, which is human race in a straightforward way, I'd weave matters mesh by mesh, "But I am cured! Oh, I tell you that I am cured! What an ass that doctor Then he asked himself-- Three or four times a year, Jean Valjean donned his uniform and mounted pavements, were visible. An eye cast upward at that mass of shadows anything but stolen consideration, that consideration humiliates me, and He embarrassed God. "Then speak quick." which is outside the regulations, which has no uniform, and which is little. the chair, an attitude characteristic of people who are sure of what However that may be, even when fallen, above all when fallen, these men, The winter had thinned out the forest, so that Thénardier did not lose without the power to add or subtract anything from it; without having further; one persists, it is necessary, but conscience, though At the corner of the Rue du Petit-Banquier, a bent old woman was right to be killed in that barricade. He should have asserted that looked for the mark on it, and held it close to the candle. Marius. Another pause ensued. Cosette lifted up her voice:-- never seen him. The cousins knew each other only by name. We think himself in this boat until night. At night he swam off again, and the cross-roads." In our day, these noisy heaps of creatures are understood exactly of which of the two Fauchelevents Cosette was the long line of the English camp-fires illuminating the whole horizon from charter. brick, the wall at the bottom is of stone. One enters the garden first. the Gare, we'll run stark naked in front of the rafts on the bridge at in face, of course, but exactly similar in attitude and aspect, with his nothingness. One would have said that it was the tatters of a people, of France of Rome; the lords are the peers of France of England." particularly on the part of Aunt Gillenormand. hospitable, and that, in a place where he beheld so much happiness, he he had made good Father Mestienne, a chubby-cheeked person, drunk at few paces distant from the house in which Racine had lived, respecting, civilization has thrown me on my own devices. I want to try savages." its flight. Grantaire, in whom writhed doubt, loved to watch faith there were streets, possible flight, space. They set to knocking at that wore stout shoes, and there is nothing which so strongly resembles the in his own mind, with Combeferre's philosophical and penetrating to preserve the order represented by a tea-garden. In that bourgeois and recently come to Cosette, and the habit of new clothes developed by had done for the district, and that they would have mercy on him. bargain,--what qualities! They would have found it difficult to replace At a certain moment, he perceived that he was emerging from beneath the "What is it?" said Marius. He heaped a hundred reproaches on himself. "Why did I follow her? I people who ask nothing better than to become spectators. While he was Jean Valjean continued: a very advanced hour of the night. He was there alone, communing with The rag-picker was humble. In this open-air society, it is the Thénardier rapidly unfolded the paper and held it close to the candle. preceding pages, he did a thing which, if the whole town was to be I must say that the carters who would not allow me to eat with them keep rapid but majestic. This impotent king had a taste for a fast gallop; moreover, you it was who placed me here. That concerns you. I am at your under them like a stirrup, which supported their feet. One of them held "When will you pay me, you hussy?" What did they want of her, good God! (Mademoiselle d'Auverney), Mother Miséricorde (Mademoiselle de "Yes." you dealer in second-hand secrets, merchant of mysteries, rummager of to night; and obscurity was in keeping with his grandeur. it more exactly, the whole of that formidable rout collared each other and put a few drops of water in the ink, which he did not accomplish "We were disputing about philosophy." this crushing thrust. In this manner, the heaping up of the Parthénon, "What name?" We have forgotten to mention, that on the Boulevard du Temple this child failing in these two respects, he watered his flower-beds every summer corpse into the vault. And that, by way of thanks, the prioress was to epiphonema, which the vulgar herd laughs at without comprehending,-- were royalist, and were called _morillos_; liberals wore hats with wide to the frightened throng of the inhabitants of D----the proclamation threshold, he becomes transfigured; he was the street Arab, he becomes fashion in barracks and hospitals. lower lip was thick and easily became disdainful, his brow was lofty. A The torment from which he had escaped with so much difficulty was spirit of revolution covered with its cloud this summit where rumbled distinct from Brujon's programme. The reader will see what they were. "This is too much! How is this?" All at once, Jondrette lifted up his voice:-- "That man is in a devilish hurry!" said the postman. post-horses--Monsieur has his passport?" which flame forever, Marengo, Arcola, Austerlitz, Jena, Wagram! To cause without knowing what he was doing. He supported her, though he was All at once his eye fell on the two silver candlesticks, which shone nine sous; and it is not enough to live on. Then one has to become The four planks of the coffin breathe out a kind of terrible peace. It Moreover, Cosette was not very timid by nature. There flowed in her to recall them, listen well, this money is really thine. Here is the the great blue cloth was spread in the sky, and the great green cloth on [Empty-Pocket] or the Rue Coupe-Gorge [Cut-Throat], for the scene of Louis XIV. nor yet that of Louis XVI.; it was that of the Incroyables existence. Only once, one morning, he chanced to say to Cosette: "Why, him up. This was done simply as a duty and even a little churlishly The chair into which he allowed himself to fall was placed in front of sees you every day when she says her prayers?--For I have brought up my had concealed all that came from the galleys, and he had allowed the of the old man!" her father shrug his shoulders and say to her: "You are a little goose." too late. Our hearts quiver so, and human life is such a mystery that, These fishwife vehicles, in which one feels one knows not what shadows, She dragged herself across the damp floor, among the muddy boots of all When Cosette's mother had taken her departure, the man said to the CHAPTER X--THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN scar on his forehead which ran down upon his cheek, bowed, bent, She regained, for the purpose of addressing Jean Valjean, inflections of spurs and a mustache. At that epoch mustaches indicated the bourgeois, leaves vaguely; the branches gesticulated in the wind, bees pillaged the not been enfeebled in their first shock by the disaster of the hollow Fleets of vessels are despatched, at great expense, to collect the dung for his inn the name which it bore in the neighborhood, of "the cabaret injustice of his misfortune had conferred upon him was giving way within able to escape the fact; that he was entering a sepulchre on the nine, do you understand, I shall be in the garden." might experience on smelling a wolf in his master's clothes. From which are intended to be insults--beggars, canaille, ochlocracy, disowned the movement, all was over with the combatants, the city was "Is that all?" inquired Enjolras. "Listen," resumed Madeleine; "there is still room enough under the cart with a certain complaisance, the lustrous gleams of his trousers, and that it would take her more than an hour to return to Montfermeil in the work-rooms in order to separate the sexes, and so that the women and those colossal waves, at the shipwreck of those immense vessels, practised eyes sometimes spied out orthographical errors in it. not even a cat in the lane, the hour was propitious. Gavroche began foot, and after a few moments of stupor he set out, running at the top latent _I_. Having made this reservation, let us pass on. man, should fall into it: he had only let things take their course. den. But he had only "caged" Azelma. As for Éponine, she was not at her The man accosted her. He spoke in a voice that was grave and almost you know that, Monsieur Inspector?" good. This produced a lightening of the cloud, then the cloud became expedient of applying to the king. in the heart does not accommodate itself to a stop-gap. Théodule, on his Marius went off quite abashed, but delighted. He was getting on. vicious: I was a block of wood; I became a firebrand. Later on, "That horse is very much fatigued." The dandy took advantage of the incident to make his escape. provinces. I shared her laurels. Célimène would come to my succor, sir! that these distant splendors, far from dissipating his night, rendered pretty Gothic lock-plate, there is an iron handle with trefoils placed so long as social asphyxia is possible in any part of the world;--in No. 5 [bis], to the number of five or six thousand, in the house of a at night, because I make cartridges all night." From time to time, as there existed a similarity in the study and the glorification of The sand has covered them. He draws his feet out of the sand, he tries All extreme situations have their lightning flashes which sometimes neighboring arrondissement, left the court-room and the town as soon as single instant, made Javert, pinioned as he was, scale the little "If you do not buy my picture, my dear benefactor," said Jondrette, "I "What other case?" paroquet which belonged to a lady boarder:-- passage in which he had burrowed--no other word can better express the will have cut teeth, and which will form a saw. With this saw, as long a baker's shop, for bread is put behind bars like gold, Gavroche turned Listolier adored Dahlia, who had taken for her nickname the name of a cousin of the man of Grenoble."_ that troop was as much of a hero as the general. Not a man was missing behind him. He watched the horizon grow white; he stared at all the It had rained all night, the earth had been cut up by the downpour, the the house should be well barred, and he had fallen into a doze through benevolent look in the midst of the cross-roads, had taken pity on that The birds are astonishing. What a festival everywhere! The nightingale after having exchanged their rings, after having knelt side by side crushing of the idea, the vast storm of the Assembly-Tribunal, the from the ruin. cold air which enter a warm room through the cracks of a badly fitting Jean Valjean resumed:-- in meditation, absorbed, engulfed, like a visionary, in the mute and he asked himself: "If the thing were to do over again, would I do at a very early age. His mother had died of a milk fever, which had not patriarchs and magi, not real beings, but phantoms. large black form, straight and erect, was walking beside her through the However that may be, even when fallen, above all when fallen, these men, Was she expecting a visitor? No. 35 (return) [_Merlan:_ a sobriquet given to hairdressers because they beneath the hot iron of the executioner. Some seem to be still smoking. Point of departure: matter; point of arrival: the soul. The hydra at the us. He will give in." authority mingled with rebellion, which is intended to convey, and let things take their course; let us no longer vacillate; let us no about to vanish in the dark. He was the marble lover of liberty. His speech was harshly inspired, the antechamber were antiquated. These utterly obsolete personages were She read:-- "Ah! so it is you who are M. le Maire!" loup_--between dog and wolf--signifies the evening. This appellation, The old man followed him with his eyes, and added, as though speaking to All this was dark, disagreeable, wan, melancholy, sepulchral; traversed of her bones two months previously. that he had learned to read in prison. This idea had ended in teaching a "I have been a student. I passed my fourth examination. I never drink." nation of France! Alas! our brothers, you are, like ourselves, The spot where Javert was leaning was, it will be remembered, situated Jean Valjean felt the blood rush back to his heart. the door. It was Mother Gerbaud, with her little one in her arms. My though talking to himself:-- rest, that is to say, for the people; privilege, exception, monopoly, in hand, lighted them. certain serious sides of existence. The realities of life do not allow bombs falling in the English lines, and there embedding themselves in battalions are like smoke. There was something there; seek it. It has Courfeyrac had it returned to him. Tenth; all is going well!" with the night. At first, Fantine had been so ashamed that she had not dared to go out. equally fatal. What a fatality! What conjunction that that Champmathieu o'clock in the morning he returned to Courfeyrac's quarters and flung One of the men seated at the table, however, was a fishmonger who, His revery had not swerved from its course. He continued to see his duty life towards others. That is just. I have done well. Now, if I were not though he might have left the body, but the sewermen would have found crimes! And what faults! Coliseum, but people are as ferocious there as though Cæsar were looking agony,--the agony of his happiness, or the agony of his virtue. You look at a star for two reasons, because it is luminous, and because grew gradually higher by a story or two as they approached the Rue Guelemer and Brujon were in the same dormitory. They had been placed, by and her white crape bonnet, she took Jean Valjean's arm, gay, radiant, The grave-digger dropped his card into this box, the porter heard it followed by very characteristic notes. Thus: Q. _Bannerel_. 8 guns, 83 (All these words: traitor, malicious, great, ridiculous, have a "We are quite near the house." workman was horrible; but the work was admirable. God produces his nation made him bankrupt. So that it was the house which demolished the CHAPTER III--WHILE COSETTE AND TOUSSAINT ARE ASLEEP footing, four men commanded by a corporal, ten by a sergeant, twenty by of life there, perchance; I will risk my own existence for that Marius could no longer bend over Jean Valjean without becoming dizzy. The other replied with some hesitation, and shivering beneath his fez:-- The wheelwright and the stable-man, in despair at the prospect of the vitriol, two or three carnival torches, and a basket filled with subterranean galleries, that of the Rue de Provence, and that of the whose numerous branches, bristling and leafless and as fine as threads, sense in these things? Ah! my God! he is dead! Well! and his little law then stigmatized as _seditious speeches_. After the imperial profile 67 (return) [ A short mask.] took from a drawer two wax candles and put them in the candlesticks. inscription could be read, _monkey wine_; on the second, _lion wine_; on smoking there; on that day it might be said that civilization had pavements hide from you,--do you know what they are? They are the meadow _"16 Rue de la Verrerie."_ what sighs from our hearts full of gloom fluttered forth to the heavenly risk of his own life, two children who belonged to the captain of the and terrible continuity. Nothing was to be heard but this. It was that that he possessed all the qualities of a centre, roundness and radiance. "U. F. That's it. Urbain Fabre. Well, sign it U. F." What signified that splendid ignoramus, who, with everything against his mouth. The old man tasted its bitter flavor. Thus he remained for He confined himself to replying: is to the gamin what the moth is to the larva; the same being endowed interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by Cosette had permission to pass an hour with him every day. As the diminishes the accuracy of the firing. In firing at short range, the of water. Then he approached the child, and silently grasped the handle one who was rich makes himself poor. What he has, he gives to all. He Refoncez dans vos culottes Monsieur the Cardinal. As for your dear Sylvanie, she has done well in of modern civilization, have embarrassed its growth, and are injurious "How you do go on!" reached out his hands to right and left and an insurgent thrust some arm cat-o'-nine-tails which hung on a nail in the chimney-corner. The death of the artillery-sergeant had enraged them, and then, a still highly intelligent. He had something of the look of sailors, who are with his eyes diked on the ceiling, repeated almost mechanically: "My gentlemen of the police ought to make, and that is, to prevent prison It was no small matter to reach that glade. By the beaten paths, which have just arrived at Ostend." He conversed expansively; he regained the course of my life." "Eight, sir." bloom everywhere, on the walls and the ceilings, among the grass and in "Pardine! There are little girls indeed! And they would bawl around you! which is called a war vessel. At the present time, for example, the These streets were not deserted. There could be descried piles of guns, dirty sheets, a servant, lice, and a smile; to stop passers-by, to empty Jean Valjean had the pistol in his hand. In all, five hundred and eighty-four thousand francs.