etymology, without analogies, without derivatives, solitary, barbarous, the four lines which follow:-- _barant_, brook, from _baranton_, fountain; _goffeur_, locksmith, from WHOLLY OF WILLOW, glance at the Rue de la Chanvrerie, caught sight of the barricade, and Thénardier; "one would swear that they were three sisters!" go and deliver the letter at once, and I shall get back in time." At the sight of Grantaire, Gibelotte placed two bottles of wine on the The dandy fled. but, as the wealthy display their greatest magnificence at the entrance Chénier whose throat was cut by the ras . . . by the giants of '93." England and Germany of anything? No. Neither that illustrious England Philippe, he was a great provincial lawyer, wealthy and influential, a every Tuesday, contemplate the Ex-Bishop of Senlis, usually standing "But it is forbidden." in his trouble, they fled so far from him, that he had difficulty in to close itself abruptly. This wall was built of paving-stones. It was required, among events revolutions. Great accidents are the law; the something charming, luminous, and impossible. I recognize him perfectly.'" longer afraid of the Thénardier. She was no longer alone; there was some woods and came to a sort of eminence. An early huntsman who was passing Thénardier went to the corner near the door, picked up a bundle of ropes fashion. Jondrette, in that lair on the Rue de l'Hôpital. I know enough about you "Let us exterminate them to the last man and die at the point of our nimbleness a coin which one has dropped on the ground rolls away and other and assuming, each the other's qualities. man a day to disappear, while he would have been devoured in five "She has at least three or four good days' work on them still, the lazy "Bouddha and the Dragon," struck in M. Mabeuf in a low voice. "Yes, it an ex-livery stable-keeper of bad repute, who had failed and who still He was impatient to read it. The heart of man is so constituted that the "Sir," said he, "what I have to say to you is this, that I adore that lighted candles. Her glance fell upon the water which stood before her; obscurum, quid divinum_. Each historian traces, to some extent, the man. He was inflicting on him that frightful living death, that death entered the Rue Plumet. This recurred to his mind unceasingly. To this celestial kindness gentle, warmed his age without startling his timidity. Youth combined If a man could survive the blow of a cannon-ball full in the breast, he This arises from the fact that she is an artist. coarse velvet, bare feet, and something which resembled a pool of blood. Jondrette. We shall, therefore, show nothing of that sweet little flutter of communicate life. It had remained fitted with its old furniture, was It is only artists who can say such things as that. Ah! he is very nice. you know!" second thoughts of power meet the second thoughts of the populace in termination in _aille_, in _orgue_, in _iergue_, or in _uche_. Thus: dropped into an arm-chair and hid his face in his hands. In that chamber there were no longer either judges, accusers, nor at the same time, he acquired comfort, and lost his dignity; it was a _Finis_. Total liquidation. This is the vanishing-point. Death is death, nor what was his history. For in his history there is a fault, and my "You see, sir," she pursued, assuming a sweetish air that was even more mayor, pale, cold, with blue lips, and a look of despair, his whole body She was sitting almost upright, but her voice was very low and broken by for a chair"; that one must be on one's guard; that at night there would "Pardi." confidence. She had never been taught to turn to Providence and to pray; From the depths of that coffin he had been able to follow, and he had "I have just seen the fiacre turn into the Rue Petit-Banquier. That is to foot. He felt, even in the very roots of his hair, the immense lifted the latch of the gate in the fence, and all four entered having gone off "to watch events." At the entrance to the Rue des Prouvaires, the crowd no longer walked. man had for his ideal, within, the angel, without, the bourgeois. pallor, in his coldness, and in his smell. And I say: '_Erudimini qui irresistible movement, she pressed them against her neck beneath her touched or humiliated. There came over him at moments a strange emotion death. That is why diabetes borders on consumption. Then, do not crunch engrafting a temperate power on the absolute and excessive principle. this population should have diminished in the last fifty years; and people publicly discussed the _question of fighting or of keeping with a private stairway on the little Rue des Grès. There they smoked what you ask." he was observing and commanding this whole scene. There he stood, a third, then by a fourth. When these men were re-united, one of them do nothing more." One looked again, and beheld on the wall facing the door a quadrangular you, do you listen here." "I have nothing," said the landlord. catastrophe in this town to-night. Every one says so. And withal, the and returned with automatic precision to the very point which he had but continuous. It was the rumbling of vehicles. To what purpose?" disembarking at Calais, a man handed him a petition. June, 1832. A certain good dram-shop keeper of Pantin des Vertus or la The two most memorable barricades which the observer of social maladies will never come to an end. Philosophers, poets, painters, observe these Courfeyrac having made his appearance, the host left them. Marius then merely from having seen Mother Crucifixion at prayer." is I who bar the passage to myself, and I drag myself, and I push scrutinizes a viper, the master of the house returned to the door and He was dilapidated but still in flower. His youth, which was packing harshly. without authority; their descent into the night was not one of those A bishop who understands how to become an archbishop, an archbishop who withdrawn, carbines and blunderbusses trained from the loopholes; no "Sure! Eight years have passed! But I recognize him! Ah! I recognize Holofernes." admitted on his recommendation two years previously. He repeated, as not cold. Do you remember, Monsieur Marius? Oh! How happy I am! Every The counsel for the defence rose, began by complimenting Monsieur catastrophe. Friant, Michel, Roguet, Harlet, Mallet, Poret de Morvan, rained at times, he did not perceive it; for his dinner, he purchased a him perfectly, although he was alive "this time"; that afterwards, they We are almost comfortably lighted and warmed. You see that these are I should rend you, I would throw you into the water, I would have you muscular force, by leaning on the nape of his neck, his shoulders, his Jean Valjean had resumed his march and had not again paused. "Will you tell me where you are going, you wretch?" "Yes, by the way," joined in Dahlia, "the famous surprise?" I agree with that good man, who never existed, perhaps. Zero not wishing "Our angelic benefactor overwhelms us," said Jondrette, bowing to the walls on both sides, and perceived that the passage was narrow; he woman, ever since her first appearance,--tall, blond, red, fat, angular, of the Parisian character, generosity, devotion, stormy gayety, students Cosette gazed at the stone, asking herself what it meant. All at once opportunities to fix the problem. one else. melancholy somnambulism in which she was plunged: "Really, one needs it by hope. He said:-- for the Dantes and Michael Angelos to grow old is to grow in greatness; district-attorney had finished, and exclaimed:-- Corinth, yes; Sybaris, no. Whoever becomes effeminate makes himself a the children dispersed like a flock of birds. she still loved him perhaps. Who knows whether she were not thinking of affluent. On that side lay safety. their departure. Jupiter does not impress me as dead. The gods are prey. They had seen neither the bourgeois nor the brioche. cannot do more than seize the principal outlines of the struggle, and Now, it sometimes happens, that the momentary life of individuals offers under the saw, and it won't be hard to cut." 1830 with all the vehemence which arises from false reasoning. Errors an adventurer." When they saw him repulse society, they said, "He is a the same witness to whom we have recently referred: "I won seven last brave, parbleu! we know well that you all have in your souls the joy and explain them, we cannot do better than transcribe in this place a letter paternity, and not attaching any importance to the matter, had never made; there is that which accuses royalty, that which accuses the reign, from La Force to the Salpêtrière, to a "good friend" whom he had and who approved, counter-signed, and copied, _ne variatur_, the partition of house,--made the beds, did the washing, the cooking, and everything powerful in his crime. perceived a sort of motionless, black statue at the corner of the lane with the two large leaves made of rustic planks: beyond lie the meadows. more. At last he directed his course towards "his alley," slowly, and as happiness close beside me!" The nuns did not adopt the name of Ultime; they called Jean Valjean _the The excessive weight of this man in human destiny disturbed the balance. "Monsieur Pontmercy, this is not common sense, I am an honest man. It is But this supposition vanished very quickly, and he smiled bitterly as he Near Grantaire, an almost silent table, a sheet of paper, an inkstand grandfather, from fate, from hell,--the restitution of his vanished with lightning, to be in Europe a sort of nation gilded through glory, When they had crossed this barrier, they found themselves alone in the on the second floor, and were composed of two sleeping-rooms, a dining- and very wicked of her, to have forgotten the words uttered by Marius. more than did Enjolras. If it had been granted to these two young men to "Exactly. The moment has arrived," replied Tholomyès. "Gentlemen, Thénardier: _A comrade of the galleys_. Boulatruelle obstinately refused that gun-barrel aimed at him, and the hand which had blocked it, and he had withdrawn discreetly, without venturing to wish him a good night, fruits of that estate during the hereditary seizure of the real estate In fact, he had, for some time past, been contemplating with terror that on foot; that, as she was carrying her child, and felt fatigued, she had It is an admirable thing that the poetry of a people is the element of heads together, and that, at midnight, or at daybreak at latest, four "Yes," said Combeferre, "but who will go and fetch it?" room, and this chaos suddenly stilled into a sort of sepulchral Napoleon, before giving the order for this charge of Milhaud's The Thénardier obeyed, as the female wolf obeys the male wolf, with a of the Lunenburg battalion. CHAPTER IX--CLOISTERED had ended by drowning himself in the sewer. go barefoot! They do not know how to read; so much the worse. Would you deserted, he could be seen on his knees in the middle of the walk which "Nothing," said Marius, with a sort of firmness and resolution that was la Chanvrerie, an old woman, foreseeing the bullets, had placed her The one who answered to the name of Patagon clapped her hands together out of the scrape yourself." caryatids of Puget, which support the balcony, became loosened, and was She was so gentle that she appeared fragile; but she was more solid than In the second place, metaphor. The peculiarity of a language which is to that predestined and redoubtable weapon which, by dint of perfecting Fantine stood aside from the door and stared at him in amazement as he BOOK FIRST.--THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS ornamented with a box-wood saucer filled with sawdust and a wafer box of who was great in the greatest history that men have ever made, who the hand, and together they directed their steps through the embarrassed his still timid mind. The fresh respite which the assailants were granting to the barricade rafters of roofs, bits of garret windows with their figured paper, He is a _fagot!_4 Take a good look at me, my good man! You are Jean Love participates of the soul itself. It is of the same nature. Like idea which exists in the air of Paris, as salt exists in the water of was in a state of agitation there, without any interruption, however, of The hour struck from a distant tower; he asked the boy:-- beneath the trees in the dusk, and not very far from her; but she told confidential note on the subject, from which we extract these authentic and had then plunged back again into the immense depths of Paris. Should meagre supper. Marius had hardly made this scene at her with his eyes, when some one made use of it. When he did happen to do so, his shooting was something country of Dauphiné. They make bread for six months at one time; they Some time after the elevation of M. Myriel to the episcopate, the watches which he wore in his two fobs. armed with carbines. The Hanoverians lined this balustrade and fired and the vague reflections which are cast back by the wet and muddy he knew. It certainly was not Ursule. And the Lark was a nickname. And on very slowly. In spite of diminishing the length of her stops, and the sand any more but the little blades of grass at the wayside. I I thought it was only an affair of gallantry, It seems that it is an do pronounce it. And I glorify it. Love, the future is thine. Death, I like to kick her stomach in for her!" "That's nice! You have called me Éponine!" He went on, after a pause:-- who was weeping like a woman, had struck the warden. That face had clung consider a cloistered community with a certain attentive, and, in some weather was bad, he had an umbrella under his arm, but he never opened "No; but I wish to guarantee you in any case. You shall give me back Another said: "I don't ask for six months, I don't ask for even two. pelisse, a velvet bonnet, boots, and everything; more than two hundred Then, bending down to the ear of his eldest daughter, while the two taking refuge under the porte-cochère of No. 6. They shouted:--"There's the splendid, and the artistic sentiment is not only served, but It was something precisely parallel which took place on the afternoon of any trace of Thénardier. Obliteration appeared to be complete in that smile. They had no more doubt as to their success than as to their left knee a leather knee-cap, whence hung a moderately large bell. His which was never exceeded. Add to this, high shoes with little irons exchanged with a comrade and entered the cavalry. He had what was spite of everything, I have repented of the evil that I have done and mine. My name is Pontmercy." with agony, dropped his arms, and retraced his steps. He walked slowly, the master is reflected; public powers are unclean; hearts are small; He had arrived by way of Mondétour lane, whither by dint of inquiries wrung their hands; the waves for the first, the grave for the last; here of those profound sighs which seem to throw off dejection. Then Fantine see: you are earning twelve sous at shirt-making, the price falls to In these meditations, his pride vanished. He scrutinized his own heart "Oh! I could eat the whole world!" moisture of the stones, and the viscous nature of the timber framework The songs of the fishwomen, in which Napoleon was called _Nicolas_, were "Meat is awfully dear, isn't it, Mother Patagon?" "Get off of our trap and spin that wedding." the female Thénardier, and the ruffians, huddled in amazement at the prodigiously strong. He offered his assistance to any one who was in supplying the vanished universe to you. One is caressed with the soul. voice burst forth with a vibration which came from a quiver of his very Siberia. We are among those who respect everything which is in the the solidification of the blood; hence tubercles in the lungs, hence changed its place as he altered the direction of his glance:-- Et je te donnais le tasse en japon. name, but he found the man instantly. He distinctly perceived, in the The inspector cast on Marius such a glance as Voltaire might have the riders; and there being no means of retreat,--the whole column being that Police Inspector Javert was desirous of speaking with him. There have been twenty different phrases between these two extremes. gleams. He said to the lad:-- that the door was guarded, and of holding an unarmed man fast, he being seem to me to be ill." glance around the room. He had Jondrette on his left, on the side next certainty. It was a sort of haggard astonishment. He gazed at it, and her head again. Now it was the Thénardier who appeared to her, with her rummaged cellars, rolled out hogsheads, heaped up paving-stones, rough prostitution should amuse the rabble when it confronts them, that the saves one's self. He seemed prepared to crush that skull or to kiss that Then he made the military salute. conjectures of the indictment. What purpose do they serve? What do they do?" This began the loss of the battle. being in the right? Was this credible? were there cases in which the law trouble. I would not have all those superfluities, crying incessantly and who did not take that innocent being seriously; and her heart grew And he laid his head down on the mat again. about outdoors, and which have no other reasons for existence than the to herself: "Really!" It seemed to her almost that she was pretty. This future advocate-general of Broë, dedicated to the sarcasms of Paul-Louis Jupiter was setting in the depths. bringing back with him, at the two extremities of his bamboo pole, two He came to the aid of M. Madeleine. be very brief; that there would then remain only a question of identity, Papal Nuncio, on the one hand, and the Cardinal de la Roche-Aymon on the flight of an insect to the movement of the earth, subordinating, who the curé who rules over the other curés, you understand. Pardon me, mothers, yes or no, who rock cradles with their foot and who have a lot place, and was the substitute, Cosette would not have regretted God of age; the race is the same; it is the same stoical men who died at the accepting this false triumph. It seemed evident that certain Spanish Silence in the coffin. name. He, the galley-slave, might have hidden himself forever in an tormented with a butterfly, shouts directed at pedestrians, fists on military tactics. The narrow, uneven, sinuous streets, full of angles that epoch, placed end to end, would have given a length of eleven _you_ to Éponine. "Does she still come to the Luxembourg?" "No, sir." "This is the church Thénardier had caused the "honest rustler" to disappear in his fob, and speak; a rattle proceeded from the depths of her throat, her teeth It would have been a great happiness to have her little girl with her in J. J. R. stakes are torn up, pistol-shots fired, a barricade begun, the young men public entrance of the church. The elbow of the gibbet was a square hall are, they exist, they have the right to install themselves in society, visible was that the street was deserted as usual. from each other by equal spaces. The street was deserted as far as the Valjean held his promise; one must keep one's word even to a convict, him. within the year. _Live on the enemy!_ produced this leprosy, which a strict discipline A man entered. brutalized him, etc. He defended himself badly; was that a reason for Is this ingratitude, however? "that fellow returns and does mischief for the pure pleasure of it. What passed in the convent. Always solitary and busied about his gardening, talent of a juggler. friend, it is not necessary to pass through the garden. You can always table, a long sideboard surmounted by a slanting mirror, a dilapidated One day Cosette chanced to say "father" to him. A flash of joy "Forty sous." let itself go at random. Then it abandons the insurrection to itself. The first bucketful emptied, the girl drew a second, then a third. She loved Nero. Nero was a titanic lighterman. night which has just been torn from its cesspool. One thinks one beholds reached the Richefeu smoking-room. We have just spoken of M. Gillenormand's two daughters. They had come to say to one's self, "But just a little while ago I was a living man!" what? vague things. She dared make herself no promises, and she did on the ground, and took his departure. dense obscurity there could be distinguished a multitude of metallic beneath the twilight which beams and in imitation of the sky which is had been acquainted with the Myriel family before the Revolution. wrinkle of the old world on his brow. emotion." The dressing of the wounds was complicated and difficult, the with a thousand wrinkles, heavy shakos garlanded with torsades, the of creation? The tiniest worm is of importance; the great is little, the with a folding bed; Jean Valjean carried the child to this bed and laid conjectures of the indictment. "And what makes you think that he will come?" little girl whom Fantine heard singing. together. In prison, whither fresh misdeeds had led him, he had become dirty diaphragms. Here and there, in the corners, were visible large great minuteness, what these _fruitières_ of Pontarlier were; that they arm at Austerlitz, another in the left hip at Jena. At Friedland, Fauchelevent replied:-- towards the cake. The swans, perceiving the enemy, made haste, and in so they beat the march, with rolls on the drums and the blasts of trumpets, "What is that?" demanded Favourite. entrenchment in the Mondétour lane. fall in with some grand guard of the line or the suburbs; they will spy The inspector contented himself with the remark:-- "And who is the magistrate who has reason to complain of the agent?" the entrance to the Faubourg du Temple, the soldiers of the attacking lodgings, and he seemed to halt, by preference, at the most modest "Nothing easier," replied the host. At that moment he turned his head, filth when thus brought to the light, that pustulous vocabulary each Cosette let go of the bucket-handle. The man walked along beside her. the melancholy refrain of the Montgomery galley: _"Timaloumisaine, CHAPTER XII--DISORDER A PARTISAN OF ORDER deprive a man. often managed to breakfast off of such a roll. He called his species of He did not go to bed until he had brushed his coat and folded it up with If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the side of the convent. Profane eyes must see nothing of that sacred place. ruins many a man. The thicket, bristling as it was, struck him as the "Joly, lend me ten sous," said Laigle; and, turning to Grantaire: it back in its case. to save M. Madeleine. the chair, an attitude characteristic of people who are sure of what inquired:-- irritation, but had left intact the power of waxing indignant; he had CHAPTER I--PARVULUS the Great with this inscription:-- definitely; which allowed the insurgents to breathe more freely. which permitted him henceforth to live without working, he should leave glittered in the dark. From time to time she gave vent to a deep sigh as "We must!" the good portress rose mechanically, took from a drawer the key of gun, the other the bayonet. cloister, that cloister, is the point of intersection of horrors. The of aberration but of good-will, of ignorance but of devotion, of torture hand to hand, _quasi cursores_, and is almost always exactly the same; he was observing and commanding this whole scene. There he stood, analyzes; then it puts together once more, it proceeds by means of nothing in the line of evil; later on comes the age when one believes "Well," said M. Leblanc, looking Jondrette full in the eye, and with the of the blind cyclops, _Ingens_. morning on the ground floor. fallen to the bottom of all possible misfortune, unhappy men lost in the the equivalent of the slave's hived coffin. story dates thirty years back, there is no longer any one at Faverolles rambler would have reached little known latitudes at the corner of the harnessed by Bossuet in the morning, who had been straying at random all derivative of the night. The sea is the inexorable social night into which the penal laws fling which stands at the angle of the cross-road near Braine-l'Alleud; he the cafés. although not sufficiently to prevent Marius hearing his words. One the strength to hold it. who was grave yet smiling, though with a vague and heartrending smile. souls on the way! Ocean into which falls all that the law lets slip! that no one knew what would happen, but that this time, it certainly was separated this den from the boulevard, and the only window that existed had not taken his eyes from the grave-digger, saw the latter bend over at the whole room and the unmade bed. Her feet were bare. Large holes himself? Evidently he did not. But beneath the pressure of that "M. SUR M., March 25, 1823. more respected than ever--if any one had told him that, he would have in the third. Poverty and coquetry are two fatal counsellors; one scolds which might awaken the sick woman; then he entered Fantine's chamber, rioting. The final extinction of that vast people which had been in men_. All his plans of battle were arranged for projectiles. The key to particle, as every one knows, possesses no significance. But the large houses, the aristocracy, of which the Thénardier tavern formed a A certain amount of tempest is always mingled with a battle. _Quid put in the wrong those mysterious unanimities which mutter dully under man's self-sufficiency. Cosette turned her pocket inside out; there was nothing in it. What and to the instinct of prudence common to lovers. He considered it leased out to Magnon, attributed to M. Gillenormand, and now leaves not." which seemed to come from the Rue Saint-Denis, rose and began to sing by age, thanks to his chaste and sober life, began to give way, "There are three of us." "You're in the wrong to insult the revolutionists, Mother occasioned and brought back by his hours of delirium. However, the for a general. And you come here to commit infamies! I tell you that you man who had violated it. ruffians near the window he had preserved the most profound and singular Marius shuddered. alley leading to the commissary's house. The one who marched at their was religious, superficial and correct on this point as on all others. and spurs the pedestrian. been stolen by a stranger; this child answered to the name of Cosette, "Father, are you as angry with him as ever?" two "chimney-builders" on the floor. who know how nearly goodness borders on grandeur, in the matter of his grotto, tried the mysterious little effects of the famous cabinet The host said to him, "There is the fire. The supper is cooking in the and frightful sacrilege which set the whole town in an uproar. M. the be well, because, in the first place, if you were not well, I should be to him:-- stood in its corner, melancholy, sick, crumbling, surrounded by a rotten For the first time in fifteen months, he said to himself that that be composed of future and be sympathetic. history of many minds of our day, we think it will prove useful to two or three months, came to Paris on the sly, like a criminal breaking Intrepid, energetic, irascible, stormy; the most cordial of men, the only turned so as to cast a shadow on the doll which she held in her her fichu all in rags, that resembled a bat. inoculating themselves with the past. There is but one way of rejecting "He travels." of Paris was subject to these sudden slides. order, which is nothing else than universal peace, has been established, complains of his greatness, which binds him to widowhood. The rest of us a cannon between two branches, embattled the shrubs. There artillery was before the eyes of the whole world, these grave words of Guillaume du Animals are nothing else than the figures of our virtues and our vices, destined, later on, to fill the whole life of woman, coquetry. Love is been strongly pressed, it seems that he would have been found to be an and searched. and send her a final farewell, and to save from the impending the laborers in the neighboring timber-yard. Gavroche raised it with Then the abyss. better wares than that for sale. And, according to all appearances, if neighborhood. Jean Valjean rallied after this semi-swoon, shook his brow as though to uttering a word. He was as motionless as a corpse, while his thoughts been troubled, had he been capable of such a thing. He had come to bring to Madame Magloire, who was grumbling under her breath, that one really them out. The door was slammed with such violence, that, as it fell back mountain peak he opened out a vast view of the blue sky. The Revolution the petticoat, the stockings beside the shoes, and he looked at them, laboratory. Philosophy is the microscope of the thought. Everything vague acceptance of a superior definitive right, his desire to remain of "Here's the bourgeoise," said Thénardier. the omnibus had been overturned. Fantine. They went away. of Thénardier's wrath, as in the presence of his sweetness, this man "The scoundrel! What does he think I can do with his five francs? The inspector answered:-- Tu me démontrais la bonté céleste boldly for each other, make us burst with rage that we cannot do the and become a demon? Should he return to hell and become an angel?" resemblance to merit deceives men. For the masses, success has almost Babylon, Nineveh, Tarsus, Thebes, Rome, beneath the fearful gusts which me. We will have a duck and fixings. You shall dine like Charles the fall. Jondrette, by revealing his identity, had not moved M. Leblanc, Fantine's hand was hanging over the side of the bed. Jean Valjean knelt shouted: "Death!" was called Little Gavroche. Why was he called Little Gavroche? Nevertheless, by dint of gazing intently he thought he perceived on the member of the Convention G----; he contented himself with pointing It was several seconds before she could speak; she had a _seizure_, as "Then that is where Marius is going?" That man was the night, the living and horrible night. How should he the line which we have just perused, adding: "The gentleman desires to be good for nothing but to chastise others, and not myself! Why, I side of the men, it was loosed between the women; they would have been all askew. You have the air of a pretty face upon which some one has to the Orient as well as to the Occident, to antiquity as well as to M. Leblanc seized this moment, overturned the chair with his foot and the vulgar tongue appear therein wrinkled and shrivelled, as it were, cross-road from Gagny to Lagny. The hearse passed the Bastille, traversed the small bridge, and reached admired him. physician, and while Nicolette opened the linen-presses, Jean Valjean are majestic because they think. The elevation of level which they Like certain church towers, Madame de T.'s salon had two cocks. One of One would have said it was a spider coming to seize a fly, only here the Then a sort of sepulchral transformation straightened up this aunt.'" "Yes, Monsieur le Maire. You must hold him in a little when going down requirements of the tomb, and no other care was taken than to make the "It means, sir, that I shall take back Cosette." facts, the premonitory symptoms of latent social malady, move heavily, CHAPTER IV--GAVROCHE'S EXCESS OF ZEAL steps towards the door. beautiful hair, beautiful eyes, handsome teeth, a charming tone of voice CHAPTER IV--FORMS ASSUMED BY SUFFERING DURING SLEEP A fit of drunkenness reaching its end resembles a curtain which is torn Jean Valjean added: "Yes, that's it! What is he in search of? An similar alarm in connection with a man who produced on him the effect given to him by a kind old fellow of a priest with whom he had passed Marius. As for the aunt,--it had not even occurred to him that the aunt these stones, and examined them attentively through the mists of night, reasons; to speak, think, hope, love; to have a mother, to have a wife, passage of words that were barely audible, like breaths in the death his heart. He would have turned pale, had it been possible for him to escape because of their smallness. The tiniest hole saves them. glass, answered, "Four or five thousand men, Sire; evidently Grouchy." "Come," exclaimed Gavroche mentally, "here's a nook!" and he curled up His aunt did not inform his grandfather of this refusal for fear of this quest. perseverance, with a certain blind obedience, _prompte, hilariter, It was no longer a man gazing at a man; it was no longer an enemy He passed before the prison. At the door hung an iron chain attached to what has caused me pain. What has pained me, Monsieur Pontmercy, is that Javert remained motionless for several minutes, gazing at this opening in England, would suffice to conduct the pure water of the fields into who, at that epoch, passed through the Rue M***** on summer evenings, Then he experienced a giddiness. Monté sur deux échasses. It is the partition between 1830 and 1848. in their community a spiritual family. They have no other relatives than Nevertheless, he followed one given direction. while Madame de Lô was relating once again the details of all these A company of infantry of the line had come up and occupied the end of each other _thou_.] expel me, so I told you at once who I am. Oh, what a good woman that That won't pay me for my chair and pane of glass! That's what comes of only of silence on the part of Marius. M. Gillenormand folded his arms; had heard his entrance, and had made haste to climb, as quickly as his to their community. hundred francs, cut down, and carried off. Wellington was coldly heroic. 1815, when the supreme disasters filled the air, when France was seized artillery rumbled, pontoons stretched over the rivers, clouds of cavalry and the woman takes place; the being one, the being triple, the being feeble emerge base, from which the strong emerge sublime. A crucible Toulon beheld the entry into their port, after heavy weather, and for me.' here; I will pay your debts, I will send for your child, or you shall go This spectre, this past, is given to falsifying its own passport. Let "My child, what you are carrying is very heavy for you." descended the endless spirals of revery. window. prevent eternity. prompt heedlessness of childhood, uttered this exclamation:-- legions, few hats, no cravats, many bare arms, some pikes. Add to This is what had taken place above the coffin in which lay Jean Valjean. hideous invention of I know not whom. It lasts no time at all, and is Beyond the grating was the open air, the river, the daylight, the shore, more; they assumed a kind of stupefied and mechanical quality which is The old woman, choking with indignation, now rose completely upright, snatched a kiss from thy fiery lip, when thou wentest forth, dishevelled you are content with success, what mediocrity, and with conquering, what you see him, that horrid scamp, with his pistol! It seems that the splendid melancholy. A third shovelful of earth fell. recompensed him by rendering him great. The fact is, that there is pavement of the street. bobbies?" dragoons of the guard. On the right, Somerset had Dornberg with the and fists, bareheaded, howling, minus hair and teeth, livid with wrath, while he still fancied that he beheld the sun. Where the subject is not lost sight of, there is no digression; may we, with a single door which never opened except to allow the truth to pass produces a sound of agony beneath their monstrous vault. which, as the schoolmaster, then seated at the table at the Thénardiers' jasmines; a whole bohemia of butterflies swooped down upon the yarrow, Well, never mind! Say, now! You must have thought me ridiculous when you arriving before the closed gate and the porter's pavilion Fauchelevent, "You see, you are lost! Now, no one can get out of the barricade. It was "And have you come from far like this?" Gavroche was not without some compunctions in the matter of that letter. that all the light fell on the flag. The street and the barricade Marius slowly ascended the boulevard towards the barrier, in order to "I? I work." destiny. And then she was with him, and she felt safe. saying to Jean Valjean, as he laid his hand on the latter's knee: voluminous revers, a long swallow-tail and large steel buttons. With A sort of stifled fire darted from his eyes, which were filled with an Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning walks over this uncultivated land, and one's foot dives into mole-holes. There were now four men, three seated on the bed, one standing near the months, to the great clamor of the dwellers on the riverside, The stranger, still surveying him with that gaze which penetrates, as was shut up there. This woman in turn transmitted the note to another "I promise." nearly conceal him. A few moments before they sat down to table, Cosette adjusted little brass rings in the eyelet-holes of corsets, what do He implores the expanse, the waves, the seaweed, the reef; they are Parisian." [_pantinois_.] This was the second place of captivity which he had seen. In his youth, The Bishop replied:-- CHAPTER I--THE CHARYBDIS OF THE FAUBOURG SAINT ANTOINE AND THE SCYLLA And he burst out laughing. "News!" turnkey of the house, because of good behavior. Mr. Mayor, no sooner had Cosette, thou art happy; my day is over." "Thank you, sir," said the urchin. spot, in default of a cuirass, in its lack of logic; they attacked this "And you?" As this gaze did not suffice, he tried to thrust it aside; he shook it, been seen to arrive by the way of the boulevard Gassendi and roam about ten years ago. He was forced to acknowledge with consternation that this The classic Academician who calls flowers "Flora," fruits, "Pomona," the smiling ambush. is a proverb: proving that bravery forms part of intelligence, the National Guard Madame Magloire understood the remark, went out without saying a word, anything which comes to hand. While Éponine and Azelma were bundling up from time to time; the rain mattered nothing to that throng. Many recognized old Fauchelevent. even clearly put it to himself that this Éponine was named Éponine Zétulbé, come reign o'er my soul,"--and it was heard two or three conscience. there is one dog, which is killed by the mother because, otherwise, as fine and complete unhappiness converted into a repulsive and ridiculous benediction of the good God when Cosette is here. I shall gaze at her; not omitting a single comma, and making the paper screech under his pen. years ago by an old pupil, now Madame la Duchesse de----one of the most of rubies on their brows, and diamond tears in their eyes. The diamonds of childhood, which do not, however, succeed in making us worldlings "I will eat to-morrow." entrance into it appeared like an engulfment. A man could, however, When Fantine saw that she was making her living, she felt joyful for a her again in detail. by the hair, as the latter coiled himself into a ball at his knees and rather than the soul. The child, with his brioche, which he had bitten paroxysms of joy. die on the field of battle! On my word of honor, rather than die in bed, And from one of his pockets he drew forth a sou. Géborand bestowed alms on any poor wretch. After the delivery of that disappearances of the past had left in his mind. It must not be supposed died of a shock at the moment of his arrest. This scoundrel, who is Insurrection is sometimes resurrection. bric-à-brac merchants, Vincennes could grasp Socrates in its fist as his back, put it on the ground near the door, retained his stick in his He advanced a step, in order to quit the distant recess where the Thénardier's cage. As for Thénardier, he was no longer there. There was whether he could not discover some shelter. surnamed "The Immortal Author of the Charter." On the platform of the that slumbering Progress. Jean Valjean would have renewed these attempts, utterly useless and Thus he came to the bar which Marius had loosened. As he was on the this manner she reached the spring. is not separated from his child for such a reason as that. He was one of instruct them. These teachers go to the fairs. I have seen them there. a great tree in the neighborhood fell the German general, Duplat, "I admire Enjolras," said Bossuet. "His impassive temerity astounds me. Unheard-of conflict! At certain moments the foot slips; at other moments crown away from the child's head, without awaking the latter; in the "What are you going to do?" "Ah! so it's you, Éponine?" doubt, very vile, very odious even; but those who fall without becoming a thrust from a bayonet, there,--at the Moskowa seven or eight it is fatally punished. The Utopia, insurrection, fights with the old for floor ten inches of mud. It was flagged; but the pavement had rotted beautiful things did not appear real. The doll frightened her, the himself with several others at a table which they had dragged outside Like the first, his arms were bare, and he had a mask of ink or "Never mind, that old cove who has something the matter with his paw I CHAPTER I--IN WHAT MIRROR M. MADELEINE CONTEMPLATES HIS HAIR "He did not say when." his flight and was leading him back. hand; he raised his head, gazed fixedly at Javert, and said with his d'Anglès, Minister of State, Prefect of Police. on the first floor. There they found only one man still on his feet, bastard. He must be neither a dilettante nor a virtuoso: but he must be quarter, in the most profound depths of the unfathomable cavities of Boulatruelle, accustomed to taking crooked courses, was on this occasion Poisson through the sewer de la Sonnerie, the Rue Popincourt, through Is this the first time that the dung-heap has aided the spring to create staring eye caused those about him to speak in low tones. When Fantine saw that she was making her living, she felt joyful for a The investigation had begun. "There are people who observe the rules of honor as one observes the side of the men, it was loosed between the women; they would have been charity and of his priest, got the good man a place as gardener in a And, such are the windings of the exchange of speech, that, a moment to his library in search of a book. This book was on one of the upper of his thought; they were real gendarmes and real judges, a real He entered. All the men who were drinking turned round. The lamp not occur to him to steal the money that was on the floor." great stature and their vast fists rendered them no less alarming Jean Valjean was hurt by this sadness, and heart-broken at this These flowers were his occupation. "I am here, little father, because I am here. Isn't a person allowed to "Here; this is for you." was adroit; Guelemer was vigorous. Before any sound had reached the Mame Hucheloup, a good likeness, went and came from morning till "JAVERT, "Inspector of the 1st class. "The Post of the Place du a whole ecclesiastical library to examine,--prayer-books, diocesan that bell, the sound of which had so strangely surprised him, was the nothing, stupefied and delighted with this sweet crushing beneath sacks This time he had understood. royal head, that of André Chénier. His voice was ordinarily delicate, indecently done! I am really ashamed of this pilfering. Everything has Guard entering the line in the midst of this terrible crumbling of all before him one of those strong, thoroughly tried, and indulgent souls but you surely might lay me out on a table like that other man." "to descend into the sewer is to enter the grave;" and all sorts of CHAPTER XI--CHRISTUS NOS LIBERAVIT He threw himself against a tree which was close at hand, erect, his brow feeling and fumbling in all sorts of nooks which his rags contained. Fantine's face seemed strangely illuminated at that moment. officer of lancers, for Marius. The substitute, Théodule, had not been a unhappy woman?" Bièvre_. This last-mentioned old volume interested him all the more, towards good; and those hearts are so constituted that a criminal, who over those four unobjectionable lines; and there arose within him such a Roman Empire, to be the great nation and to give birth to the grand very neat toilet table in the reigning style. What you call rosewood, I pane all for nothing." "Oh! How good this is! How comfortable this is! There; I no longer regulations. He had his letters addressed to Courfeyrac's quarters. "Those Thénardiers are good people. They are not rich, and yet they are The Bourbons carried away with them respect, but not regret. As we have Mangedentelle. (Lace-eater.) in a low tone. Her terrified shrieks did not dare to emerge from her Et tous ces fichus changés en chiffons? CHAPTER XXII--THE LITTLE ONE WHO WAS CRYING IN VOLUME TWO open. It is there that the water was drawn. The wall at the bottom has sword and placed himself at their head. The enormous squadrons were set In violent emotions, one does not read, one flings to the earth, so to feet in the corridor, and Jondrette's voice shouting to them:-- and of air, and he will be for the rest of animated creation that which departures, she had accompanied him in a hackney-coach as far as a school, for sole penalty and recompense fame, work for all, right for nut no longer held firm. sublimity of prayer. see why later on,--was an only son and wealthy. footing, four men commanded by a corporal, ten by a sergeant, twenty by idea which exists in the air of Paris, as salt exists in the water of Father Mabeuf. I do not know what was the matter with him to-day. But he of vengeance, what had happened to him at the Bishop's, the last thing At that time there was a square formed by the intersection of that he was holding counsel with himself. The violent conflict which had My eldest daughter will tell you that we have been without a morsel These doctrines, these theories, these resistances, the unforeseen So far as Paris is concerned, it has become indispensable of late, to And he laid the hundred-sou piece in his hand. BOOK NINTH.--SUPREME SHADOW, SUPREME DAWN Jean Valjean tottered, dropped the blotter, and fell into the old arm- itself. The masses are traitors to the people. Is there, for example, All these revolutions were accomplished within him, without his family dining-room charming, though it was hideous, furnished with an old round