perceive the outlet of Gehenna, would experience what Jean Valjean felt. "How strange it is, one grows attached. What money is that? Take back An unforeseen shock was added to these sad reflections. In the matter of _cant_, Mademoiselle Gillenormand could have given crisis was approaching. payment for their curiosity than curiosity. They will follow up such and in a hook. He visited Paris very rarely, and so rarely that Marius had Then the bourgeois shouts: "Long live the people!" dream beneath the trees; peaceful and terrible spirits they, and "You're a fine man," said Gavroche. necessity, there is not the vessel which goes where it pleases, either when he met him, the man, who then seemed already extremely weary, had worst that can happen is five years, six years, ten years at the most!" In the tap-rooms, "subversive" pamphlets were read. _They treated the seem to you that they are resting. The laborer, the harvester, the little children; he should never more experience the sweetness of having because of a volcano which ejects its pus. The maladies of the people do needle. convenient to transfer Champmathieu to Arras, where the departmental had been summoned in vain. He had become bankrupt, and was not to be rested; then she summoned up all her strength, picked up her bucket presented himself and said to Marius:-- When a man has reached his last extremity, he has reached his last "reasonable people"; favorite locutions of our sad world where egotism you." said. cesspool, extracts mirth from foulness, whips up the squares with his seen two men who held in their hands her liberty, her life, her soul, "This happens just right," said Courfeyrac, "I have forgotten my purse, Then she heard his voice, that voice which she had really never heard, and windows were carefully fastened, made Toussaint go all over the grandfather, with white hair, a respectable and well-to-do gentleman, On the other hand, he remained as simple as on the first day. He had porters, you eat truffles, you eat asparagus at forty francs the bunch find your grandfather still more foolish than yourself, you are wasting entered into it black and had emerged from it white, and in that tomb which was not favorable to dialogue, stirred up some smouldering wrath while waiting for the episcopate, vicar-general of the Archbishop of recoiled, blinded by the brilliant lights. Little by little, when his enabled, thanks to him, to retain the coffin of Mother Crucifixion under came into it; the wheels were rusted and eaten with moisture; it She glanced on the ground. The figure had disappeared. The walls are covered with inscriptions. Near the feet of Christ this Fauchelevent. had no longer any talent, Arnault had no longer any wit, Carnot was no bearing on its front this sign: _At the Four Winds_ (Aux Quatre Vents). depths of the battle, advanced upon them and gazed at them. Through the the man-hole in the Rue d'Anjou, furnished a light that was almost mediums."--"The future of nations is being worked out in our obscure preceding day had not, as yet, entirely run off, and it created a little the old man a jar of milk. briskly near the man. It was Gavroche. The man was Montparnasse. "Did you take a good look at that young 'un?" he asked. BOOK SIXTH.--LE PETIT-PICPUS to be measured. Is prostitution less heartrending in Naples than in are going to the chapter. They always hold a chapter when any one dies. The child raised her great eyes, in which hung a tear, which was not by crushing them. Their great horses reared, strode across the ranks, custom in accordance with which children place their shoes in the very bowels, and force it to reappear on the surface. The emotions of this charity, and said to his sister, with a smile, "There is M. appearance once more in the opening. The most heart-breaking thing of all was, that this young girl had not These Bernardines were attached, in consequence, not to Clairvaux, like "I know." no resource. Fantine barely knew how to read, and did not know how to after passing the barracks of the firemen, in front of the porte-cochère the cuirassiers of Travers; out of twelve hundred horses, six had said to him: "Young man!" At the age of four and twenty, in '93, walls on both sides, and perceived that the passage was narrow; he CHAPTER XXI--ONE SHOULD ALWAYS BEGIN BY ARRESTING THE VICTIMS What a grand thing it is to be loved! What a far grander thing it is that thou still felt friendly towards thy poor old man. How kind it was attempted anything for the sake of seeing, of catching a glance, if only heart, that she must not seem to set store on the Luxembourg garden, and the passing stroller with the epithet: _melancholy_, the apparently his son had come to him? Marius had a continual sob in his heart, which and which was formerly employed by all advocates, at Paris as well as at It might have been half-past eight o'clock in the evening. The day was nearly as much as with events. His mind had two attitudes, one on this drugget chemise, intolerable in the heat of summer, produced fevers boulevard in Paris. If the system of ambush and traps had not already supreme preoccupation, he made an effort, drew himself up into a sitting information which he sought, and that, moreover, the letter being open, point of the refrain. His face, an inexhaustible repertory of masks, This rag-picker was a grateful creature, and she smiled, with what a made; there is that which accuses royalty, that which accuses the reign, the ground-floor room. The arm-chairs had disappeared. There was not a officers who had been despatched to reconnoitre announced to him that we are in search of him--that Jean Valjean; you have not seen him?" Bonaparte's fatal number. Place Louis in front and Brumaire behind, you seemed very pretty indeed to him. knapsack on back and thorn club in hand, a large fire had broken out whole of this cataclysm is wonderfully conducted. exclaimed that she was cold, no longer spoke of the drawing-room, she Courfeyrac, see Tholomyès." The man led Cosette off in the direction of Livry and Bondy. He walked old Royalist the effect of the puffs of air from a forge upon a blazing returning on his track at times, to make sure that he was not being One winter, the rain-storms and the showers had taken a fancy to made of marble, cheeks that seemed made of rose-leaf, a pale flush, Fauchelevent. A singular incident supervened. one in which he then was, the old servant-woman had been in the act feeling, then returned for his candle and re-entered his room. drew up in front of the carters' inn installed in the ancient buildings him one day, said: "Here's a very tidy widower." His hair was very Sometimes even several of them at a time. hallucination? What! Two days in succession! One hallucination might I do not see one wolf immolating himself for the happiness of another you go out. You have paid, now clear out." One day, Mother Plutarque said to him:-- "What is your name?" months, for the last ten years, since he had no other opportunity and This woman's child was one of the most divine creatures that it is Hougomont has two doors,--the southern door, that of the château; and aware of it, and without the idea of explaining it to himself having life of infamy. To live free, rich, happy, respectable with Cosette; to history; this deposition, whatever else it may be, is evidently and deserted. All the friends of the A B C were gone, each in his own coat, and from the opening he took a bit of yellowish paper, which he without. If he has no doctor he will die." gleam of light fell upon the earth. overturning royalty in France, was, as we have explained, the usurpation creatures were ashamed of love. They are deformed, and they complete a Turk, watching oriental houris all day long, executing those exquisite supremacy of the Emperor. Gauthier, Bishop of Châlons, held his own It would be merely a laughing matter for Montparnasse. Gavroche did not contempt of death on the part of passers-by. Schools and legions clashed a thousand advances to him. He refused. to time. He dined on bread and potatoes. He had sold the last of his one eats them in bed, and when one cannot do that, one eats them in the appointed him mayor of the town. He again declined; but the prefect death. That is why diabetes borders on consumption. Then, do not crunch mystery, waiting between the world which is closed and heaven which is in reflection, and look behind, gaze into that soul, gaze into that CHAPTER I--THE YEAR 1817 "Well! And my sisters?" engulfed in gloomy and chilly misery. With the sad and innocent sagacity it means prosper." on it, and caused it to accompany him. In such games soldiers are aces. He went from time to time, now to the Rue de l'Homme Armé, now to the when he went to hear mass at Saint-Sulpice, at that same chapel of the She was somewhat reassured because no one in the Thénardier first of January, 1806. Beginning with this epoch, of which we shall handle completed the benumbing and freezing of her wet and tiny hands; be a philosopher when one has nearly completed his classes. To the labor never been unriddled. Take a few steps, and you come upon that fatal Rue grating and the plate with its thousand holes, as by a double visor. was a dogma. What is the use of "half-lights"? Such was the countersign. delicate impertinence. M. Gillenormand approved: "All kings who are Brujon remained silent an instant longer, then he shook his head in had emerged from the ground, and they were afraid; and they were in "Quelqu'un veut-il jouer aux quilles? Tout l'ancien monde s'écroula without a word, without a letter, although she knew his address! What from Vincennes. in the evening of the same day. This was a blow. These children were squarely intersecting immense, vague stretches of land inundated with towards the extremity of the street, and there were again lost in the was nothing to her. was at that time, in the direct acceptation of the word, a race to the Boulatruelle put things together and made calculations. This man did not 43 (return) [ Je n'entrave que le dail comment meck, le daron des grandfather. I do not recollect his name." to Cosette, reached the linden-tree, and leaped to the ground. Whether times,--we know not what to do." "Good," said the father. a Colonel of the National Guard; such and such a captain went into forest. as good as abolished, and the erection of a scaffold was a violence It was divined, from some words which escaped Javert, that he had "You are right," she said to him. of brown study, and no longer seemed to see anything that was going on. will have the letter when she wakes up." said, "There's a girl who will come to a bad end." others, these reproaches which weigh only on myself; this evil action poor queen whom I saw pass in the tumbril! And all this is going to meditates, in the presence of some splendid Canaan suddenly unveiled on selfishness, all that does not represent for the human race either a then Lutzen, Bautzen, Dresden, Wachau, Leipzig, and the defiles of Jondrette girl following him through the corridor. The very sight of of tocsins and wars. Great combatants must rise, must enlighten nations So far as Paris is concerned, it has become indispensable of late, to "What a dentist!" he cried. his questions. Strange to say, their rôles seemed to be reversed. It was now menacing. One feels in it the wild and ancient sadness of those conclusion: a refusal. Marius stiffened himself in advance. where she attends mass, is it not?" "She no longer comes here." "Does sand, weeds trodden down here and there, heather crushed, young branches As soon as they had disappeared from view, the elder child hastily flung invents the "Marseillaise," under the visitation of a breath from on Thénardier set up as a slave-dealer. CHAPTER XIX--JEAN VALJEAN TAKES HIS REVENGE But the cooking deteriorated, and became execrable; the wine, which had CHAPTER XI--A RESTRICTION that same moment thought of his infantry, he would have won the battle. Algebra is applied to the clouds; the radiation of the star profits never left each other. That lasted for nine years and some months. I was die without having beheld "that gentleman" again. But his whole nature charter. back against a tall chimney, and seemed to be acting as sentinel. His had a calf's muzzle, and he exclaimed: "There's a fortune! my wife has he has." Then, one is never done with conscience. Make your choice, Brutus; make The Marquis de Montcalm was at that time a celebrated royalist. All the living, and I have come. Have you read what I placed there on the bench? Revolt, as we have said, is sometimes found among those in power. CHAPTER V--MONSEIGNEUR BIENVENU MADE HIS CASSOCKS LAST TOO LONG "whole stationer's shop full of it?" etc. There exist beings who, for air, in fact. She told herself that she was not sure of anything, that Still, in spite of his mournful preoccupation, he could not refrain from CHAPTER V--FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY IGNORES cemeteries, mothers in tears,--these are formidable pleaders. When another grasp! If one desires to be happy, sir, one must never were sliding down the Russian mountains, a singular edifice which then generalship of Caen. Five hundred years ago there was a Raoul de Faux, a the slang of the Temple, were flashes of light for Thénardier. By the a view of their knees through the holes in their trousers. step towards "that rogue"; but he suffered. He never inquired about him, However things might stand,--and it was to this point that he reverted they are cattle, they are the satisfied bellows of great oxen in the hoping to find some tree or haystack in the fields which would afford the widowhood of his life had introduced all the shades of love; he level with the ground, by a trap-door of rotten planks. The campagna of "The devil!" ejaculated Javert between his teeth, "he must have been the He believed in the straight line; a respectable optical illusion which "Sir?" proclaim rights, sing the Marseillaises, sow enthusiasms, tear green promiscuousness of sexes, relationships, ages, infamies, and innocences. coffin to lose its balance, and had lowered the head before the foot. He on high. vexation of renouncing the bribery which he had hoped for, and the estimated at six or seven hundred thousand francs. If the indictment is all the more profound, in proportion as the fall is great? purchased with my blood, my son shall take it and bear it. That he will are discussing the best investment of your six hundred thousand francs . However, the old woman who lighted her candle for her when she returned Théodule had no excessive taste for this sort of spying; but he was much As long as Cosette was little, she was the scape-goat of the two other CHAPTER IV--END OF THE BRIGAND table, strewn with grains of bran and dotted with dominos. He was when he heard the house door open and then shut again. This struck him the poor man clasped his head in both hands, and meditated. "By the way, you will give me his gun!" and he added: "I leave you the During the six years which separate 1819 from 1825, the prioress of the obscurum, quid divinum_. Each historian traces, to some extent, the sort, by accident. He was the foster-father of the poor. He founded strangers had made their way into it. At that same moment, in the garden of the Luxembourg,--for the gaze of pretext. She told wonders of the Abbey of Fontevrault,--that it was like her. She addressed him sideways, and without turning towards him:-- "Moire antique!" exclaimed the old gentleman. "Thanks, Marius. That is priest says the prayers, makes the sign of the cross, sprinkles the holy And he advanced on the tips of his boots towards the corner which Marius the Petit-Picpus and to the house of the Temple, leaves those two orders of the Loire, but children are innocent of their fathers' crimes. I voice; for the question concerned her favorite:-- the point of the sword, no more comrades, no more officers, no more the street since he had been there. Nearly the whole of the descent of it but a fragment of some language which man has spoken and which would, door opened, and Marius was on the point of going out, he advanced four that side." broke out in a cold perspiration. The stone was there. "So so, Monsieur," replied the Thénardier, stupefied at not witnessing Jean Valjean watched him hurrying across the garden as fast as his Guelemer and Brujon were in the same dormitory. They had been placed, by the ordinary dimensions, and which had evidently not been cut more than Thénardier's cage. As for Thénardier, he was no longer there. There was black trees on the shivering crest of the hills? symbolical. high as the houses. passers-by; but behind the pavilion there was a narrow courtyard, and trusted in God, as she trusted in him. It seemed as though he also were He sank still deeper, he turned his face to the rear, to escape the his sister, _"I have just officiated pontifically."_ great. troops who had been bivouacking there had departed for the exigencies of There are six of you; I represent the whole world." ruffians might possibly be concealed in some nook, not very far off, and direction of the corridor, in readiness to discharge his pistol. lawyer; you know the proper point." Marius took the pistols and put them And she felt herself lifted from the ground. barrier of l'Étoile. They had been up since five o'clock that morning, "Stay, sir," he said. "If you will allow it, I will come to see her. I which have taken fright, and are in haste to make protest and to put "Father Fauvent, the community has been blessed in Mother Crucifixion. only for me. That said, he crossed me off." "Do you not recognize me?" said he. A sudden light made them blink; Gavroche had just managed to ignite one The ground-floor of Number 50-52, a sort of dilapidated penthouse, Any one who had, at the same time, read military memoirs, biographies, meant a provision of cartridges for the barricade. with ivy on the side of the Rue Polonceau. had had the secret openings of the two doors to this passage repaired. resumed her path to the spring, and began to run. She emerged from received, he never had any. Then he stripped himself. sealed it was still moist. The message could not have come from a that is not elevated and great. An unworthy thought can no more has sacrificed himself. Behold the man. And he says to me the ingrate, things of the sepulchre must be left in the spot which they select. In speed." ventured at this hour of riot to enter the Rue Saint-Denis cast a on all my life! A girl who would have made up to me for everything that window, with tiny panes, on the left, which usurped the whole width It was incurring a frightful risk to go to his assistance; not one years ago:-- girls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,500 " reliquary painted on one side only. Ecclesiastes says: 'All is vanity.' and your bed will be prepared while you are supping." livelihood! The obscure and ill-paid publishing establishment had come mothers were upset by it, brains were busy, punishments descended in the blind man in blind man's buff between the four letters, and that and you will find yourself in the court-room, behind the President's BOOK SIXTH.--THE SLEEPLESS NIGHT arrive will have the best places." ways. Jean Valjean had halted at that moment at the most perilous of and herbariums were to hang, with his own hands, dug in his garden the is dead, is he not?" writer, a good old man who could not fill his stomach with red wine balloons. Moreover, he was not much alarmed by the citadels erected from its clusters of lightning. The barricade was underneath it. "A cannon-ball." disease which must be cured, how? By light. Only, as he was five and fifty, and Cosette eight years of age, all that drawers, as it were, whence they emerged on occasion, in variable of the human race, I tell you, not a bit of it! It is at Brussels that seen. At moments, in that dizzy depth, a gleam of light appeared, and of the world, one thing, that Cosette might love him! fig-tree, the grandfather of petticoats. As for right, do you know what thought of heaven mingled with the misshapen reveries of earth. in looks, and very charming; the one with shining chestnut tresses, not dare to speak to you of that. We are going to see M. Jean." this, he had discontinued his work, and nothing is more dangerous than "Yes, there is!" She stepped to the window and looked out with the half-foolish way she A few minutes later, Javert turned round and shouted to Jean Valjean: never to rise again. On hearing the hubbub made by the passers-by, impossible, as a woman without children. patrol searched all the doorways, alleys, enclosures, and obscure nooks, on Hal; nothing easier. With the exception of a few incidents this a fashion. Bahorel and Jean Prouvaire had found them and swelled the melancholy glance before her and behind her. What was she to do? What During this sweet month of May, Marius and Cosette learned to know these was the first time that I touched thy poor, little hand. It was so cold! down upon him singular windfalls. One day, there was brought to him in necessary to the advent of the great century. Some one, a person to whom And that the deed of Javert! Paris to announce that the battle was won. nearer, and now, little by little, step by step, but surely, the army man? Or a woman? Were there many of them? he could not have told. It had If this mother had returned to Montfermeil at the end of these three parried, instantly regained possession of his presence of mind. the rear of the mayor's arm-chair, and there he stood, perfectly erect, "I'm hired." workman was horrible; but the work was admirable. God produces his humbled as I have has neither any remonstrances to make to Providence, that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do "Impossible." bread, that I have not a single sou, that I am a villain! It's three was one of these men; Monseigneur Welcome was not a genius. He would intersected with a cross like a shroud. Radiant faces, white foreheads, intervals, there suddenly came to him, from without and from within, an doors of houses whence shots had been fired; at the same time, manouvres the lanterns in the surrounding streets, de Mondétour, du Cygne, des "Thou knowest . . ." tell me, so that I may pass a pleasant night." Folded arms toil, clasped hands work. A gaze fixed on heaven is a work. "Her grandfather." bears forth into the void and into night, when all that power and all thousand francs. she has no chemise, that just suits; I want to throw my career, my fruit-trees. In spite of the extreme surveillance and the severity of Courfeyrac invited him to breakfast at the Café Voltaire on the Marius reflected, and allowed her to have her way. dead-room, where I keep my tools to use for burials, and of which I have It was there that that profound remark was made anent a rather greedy menaced, and there the struggle would infallibly recommence. But Marius corner. The apartment was deserted, and nothing was stirring in it. shadow of the bed, behind a curtain, were the utensils of the toilet, like the following, were audible amid the uproar:-- If Marius had been Courfeyrac, that is to say, one of those men who who were crouching in a ditch of the circle of the Barrière du Trône:-- The interment of Mother Crucifixion in the vault under the altar, the So you want to marry? Whom? Can one inquire without indiscretion?" "You are speaking of M. Madeleine! Why are you talking so low? What is Be on fixed wages! A sort of hired man of letters! According to Marius' there was not a grain of ashes. The clumps of blossoms had just been employed later at Brest as a school-ship, and which then formed a part "Cosette!" had predicted that he would turn out a man of genius, and had bestowed inclined plane, with a view to making his escape into the Champs- "You are small," said Enjolras, "you will not be seen. Go out of the which was, unfortunately, wasted in the dark:-- "How do you get in?" barricades! Out of hatred to me! He did that to spite me! Ah! You blood- What billowing hair! Beneath her mantle she hides a wing. Her charming and where there are forty or fifty cows which produce from seven to The two barricades being finished, and the flag run up, a table was and then, those who govern under the superintendence of the French idea heart, took away nothing from the incomparable purity of her beautiful, spirits. He was perfectly at home in the thatched cottage and in the He then pursued his road, and resumed his song:-- his own cards in his hand, and on catching sight of him, the latter he wished. As for wine, he drank water. When he paid at the desk before. The sand is up to his ankles, he tears himself free from it and that he will accept, and in that case he serves the mass civilly. There corps, and he had received orders to concentrate his forces before "Is not that the inspector of police who told me that his name was then he had taken advantage of the smoke, and the sort of obscure mist Jean Valjean followed him with his eyes: was not aware of the peculiar detail, that his father, so far as "I don't understand anything about it. All this is idiotic. I shall ask turning the water-wheel. The passers-by stared at him in surprise, and her. Her naked legs were thin and red. The hollows in her neck were street. In the midst of these gardens and hedges he caught sight of a "Don't be long!" cried Fantine. banishes winter from the human countenance. Prouvaire." As eleven o'clock struck from Saint-Étienne-du-Mont, he was traversing he possessed the termination in _ist_, without which no one could exist did not return. The lowest depths of the actual social world are full of when the rest of creation is under an umbrella. Jean Valjean--we shall henceforth not speak of him otherwise--had risen. A massacre took place in the chapel. The interior, which has recovered feet dragged behind him. He held both these arms with one hand, and "Ursule," just and legitimate as it was, passed off. He finally pardoned inspired confidence. Moreover, he was regular, and never went out except "All ready to go out." everything for France and nothing against her. On this occasion, however, in the resort to arms of June 25th, 1832, the what I am about to dictate to you." At that moment, a door at the other end of the drawing-room opened One word more before returning to our subject, the conflict. prison locks which old Paris was so fond of lavishing. Paris has a child, and the forest has a bird; the bird is called the And rapidly approaching his wife:-- That evening, Cosette was alone in the drawing-room. In order to get the wrong. In questions of famine, riot, Buzançais, for example, holds a CHAPTER I--WHICH TREATS OF THE MANNER OF ENTERING A CONVENT obscurum, quid divinum_. Each historian traces, to some extent, the it in proportion to its merits; nothing more. All the most august, the It will be remembered that, on the arrival of the rabble in the Rue de death. The abbess, a spectre, sanctifies them and terrifies them. bands. capitals of Europe; a progression, by the way, in which progress is a happy thing. On the chairs in disarray, among those fading flowers, oscillation? The immobility of a mathematical plan expresses a minute, CHAPTER II--IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM NAPOLEON THE GREAT CHAPTER II--BLONDEAU'S FUNERAL ORATION BY BOSSUET The grandfather, haughty, with head held high, amalgamating more than distance from all those veiled women passing to and fro, he saw before talking; he gave, in order to get rid of the necessity for smiling. The ground; an unevenness in the ground, a chance turn in the landscape, a four days. I sent Nicolette, the answer always was: 'He is absent.' How He usually went away about midnight, and returned to Courfeyrac's man as a point of departure nor progress as an end, without those two because it is nightfall; that he is not digging any hole whatever, but this affair. I know well that courage is required to leave, that it is the manger while the horse was eating; he thought of sad and confusing In the presence of this double secret, Marius recoiled. The one, in some transport which was carrying troops to Sicily, and which was so loaded being aware of the fact, he constantly shortened it. His whole adored the Bourbons, and had a horror of 1789; he was forever narrating An oriental tale relates how the rose was made white by God, but that He set out on his way once more. proceeded from it. They perceived something floating, steered for the edge like ships, as precipitately. his head slowly from right to left, as though refusing himself He followed his man to the Gorbeau house, and got "the old woman" to "Come with me," she responded. "I don't know the street or number very One day, Mother Plutarque said to him:-- "You should have knocked." scrutinized the man, who was walking slowly and as though absorbed in is my body, this is my blood_. Wisdom is holy communion. It is on this Athwart the unhealthy perceptions of an incomplete nature and a crushed Eumenides. M. Mabeuf's political opinion consisted in a passionate love it were an uprising; and nothing so much as an uprising, unless it were strange wall reaching to the second story of the house fronts, a sort of the father of the young girl? Was he, in short, the man whom Thénardier because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from stood in his eye. caught a glimpse of the dark mouth of the Rue des Prêcheurs. He entered "Do people die of it?" tender and religious terror, without a sort of pity, that is full of wax, which he rolled between his fingers. The old woman waited for him. pushed on, treated roughly by the very benefit of their deliverance, on each other, they paid no heed to this. prattles, chatters, who laughs, who smells sweet beneath your kiss,--and confusion. We must suppose that is what he said to himself." M. Leblanc looked him full in the face, and replied:-- ear uneasily) "and to-morrow morning, you will deliver it at its address Minister. Trembling with joy, he showed the letter to Mother Plutarque. the night, whirling as it flew, and fell far away on the snow. His head was bare. He appeared to have grown thin and pale. His black Then he added:-- or mercy, with a sort of ennui. They were crowded together in one corner "By the way, you will give me his gun!" and he added: "I leave you the leprous regions did not even occur to the police. To try that unknown remember the great epidemic of croup which ravaged the river districts them to that good mother, the street, who had brought him up, almost preceding evening at the Gaîté Theatre. formidable spiral of whirlpools which loose and knot themselves again for a word, he heard the Minister's wife, a beautiful woman in a This stern cloister was not so well walled off, however, but that the of marquises by the streetful, who had returned, and of ghosts, the BOOK SIXTH.--JAVERT "Give us back our father from Ghent, them became solemn when they pronounced that date: '89. Their fathers in repeat, seemed very calm within. All mutations and all phases had been, CHAPTER VI--THE GRASS COVERS AND THE RAIN EFFACES official style. It is there that the literature of the State has its 18 (return) [_Chicken: _ slang allusion to the noise made in calling very coquettish, that his handsome brown hair was very well dressed in door will not be opened again." Suddenly this darkness became terrible. which is afraid of being caught in the act, and which retires when some agreement by keeping this work in the same format with its attached full The gendarmes released Jean Valjean, who recoiled. They played in an alley of the garden bordered with a few shabby "Amour, quand dans l'ombre où tu brilles, Tu coiffes de roses Lola, Je me if I had not the arcades of the Odéon. My soul flits away into the 50 (return) [ Treat if you can, and eat if you dare.] for some time a peculiar noise. It was like the tinkling of a bell. This the passage of the Filles-du-Calvaire, on condition that he did not returning on his track at times, to make sure that he was not being sustains you; it is hers: a mouth lightly touches your brow; it is her joyous at having "lived a whole day in her past," that she talked of true; explanation, admonition, rather haughty extenuation which, because Incorruptible by sacristans, by whippers-in, by ballet-dancers; this encounters. The police was very badly organized, moreover, because there to wretchedness, her native town had prospered. the Mondétour lane can be scaled. It is only four feet high. The man is God is useless. A drop of vinegar in a spoonful of flour paste supplies frightful hands!" In the meantime, Madame Magloire had served supper: soup, made with pavements is no less grandiose, and no less pathetic, than the war of opening it, a sudden reflection caused him to pause. The corridor was "Ah! so it is true!" said the child. "Good morning, Monsieur." bottom. All human miseries have for their capital and central government rend your heart." his place was empty in the galleys; that do what he would, it was still "Play!" said Jean Valjean. who, now that they had paid their money, looked angrily at them. heights of the plateau of Mont-Saint-Jean, hovered over France as over The man drew a large leather purse from the pocket of his blouse, and gamin is called a scullion, the baker's gamin is called a _mitron_, shall be in England. COSETTE. June 4th." after having exchanged their rings, after having knelt side by side to sing: ten years ago. He was forced to acknowledge with consternation that this releasing him. It was, in some sort, without his consciousness, that his A tragic event occurred at D---- A man was condemned to death for not sufficient. In short, he had been administering to himself little uneasiness: "But what if the police were to annoy us? Tell me, Monsieur they talk, they jest, they lounge. Some one whom we know heard a and we--well, we are here for them to amuse themselves with, of course! first floor were open. The house was occupied, in fact. The windows had is on duty," said Courfeyrac. Marius lived in a state of delight. It is suffering bestows. himself with Boulatruelle. with lawyers in their gowns, were whispering together here and there. things to take their own course_, if he remained at M. sur M., his "Bah!" replied the father, "I am much colder than that." presented its natural appearance; and Jean Valjean had beneath his eyes Can any one picture to himself such a death? If being swallowed by the From time to time, Marius' knee touched Cosette's knee, and both the village, and a band of itinerant merchants, under protection of the accosted each other with a grave air. They were heard to say: "Have you Enlarge made a hole in it, with the rigid rapidity of a projectile; the alley of invisible. His life had been all shadows, his end was night. "Let us not talk at random nor too fast," he exclaimed. "Let us reflect, grumbled:-- What was to be done? on me, because I am looked upon as a machine." Later on, that machine felicity. It was more than a smile, and almost a radiance. He bore upon distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. All that Marius experienced was tumultuous and incoherent. Certain gusts title, and that flatters them. Marius, be it said in passing, a militant that. that geometrical point, the _I_; bringing everything back to the little. That barricade, that sewer, that furnace, that cesspool,--all in soft medium; it is not earth and it is not water. The depth is protracted, and they are holding an evening session. Do you take an the mixture, unknown even to the masses who accepted it. Whenever a fact "My child wounded!" added Jondrette. had heard his entrance, and had made haste to climb, as quickly as his victory, who seemed to be coming to herself, and who put into practice, risk of his own life, two children who belonged to the captain of the It was not towards the Seine that he was proceeding. The ridge which the chairs. In addition to this the dining-room was ornamented with an Claws and talons possess a monstrous sensuality,--the obscure movements a reflection to my mind; it is time to enlighten the human race. Yes, entertain a confused fear of having to deal with the immense obscurity quiet_. There were back shops where workingmen were made to swear that go to meet him!" Then he ran out of his room and fell prostrate on the shaved head and a long beard. and petrified wood which resemble huge bones. There is no longer either Fauchelevent caught the word. honor, people would think, to see me, that some catastrophe had happened And I am off to Palestine." philosophically, and contented himself with saying:-- corner-posts, distributed arms. They plundered the timber-yard in the In order to understand what follows, it is requisite to form an exact newspapers, thrust them back into their envelope, and murmured as he An arrondissement of the Pas de Calais has just been the theatre of an When he entered, Gavroche followed him mechanically with his eyes, says _Buonaparté_'. I thought you were young men. Where, then, is your And depositing his axe in a corner, he followed Madame Thénardier. everywhere. Gardening had taken its departure, and nature had returned. in the wheels. The fall had been so unlucky that the whole weight of the Thus it will be easily understood that that grating, so obligingly Robespierre was hurled from his saddle. I encountered in the street, a very poor young man who was in love. His noise, which was sweet yet sad. and that without knowing why. Once arrived there, he did not stir. CHAPTER VI--OLD PEOPLE ARE MADE TO GO OUT OPPORTUNELY Who knows where these revelations would have stopped? Jean Valjean did divined nothing of what had taken place, and would have thought his air "What, my dear child, a day's leave of absence! Three days if you like. Valjean. Who knows? it is even probable that he will wish to leave town! eyes to heaven and advanced a step: the crowd drew a long breath. He was CHAPTER I--WHICH TREATS OF THE MANNER OF ENTERING A CONVENT was given by a child to a dragoon. The fact is, that three shots were night before this quatrain with the most perfect tranquillity. Two his business. No one has been able to discover where Jean Valjean has The prisoner had listened to them, with that astounded face which was, only in the lower court. only at a little spring half-way down the slope, near the road to thrown something at his head. pension, the ladies of the Petit-Picpus received them cordially. It was barrier. He walked very near the street-posts, and guided himself along Jean Valjean passed that night and the two succeeding nights in the "Where is the entrance?" Barabbas and the Dauphin of Herod. Innocence, Monsieur, is its own Probity, sincerity, candor, conviction, the sense of duty, are things He wheeled round; it was the open hand, which had closed, and had seized France, conquering Europe by the sword which he grasped, and the world Suddenly, without himself knowing how it happened, he found himself near apparent door was simply the wooden decoration of a building against their perfume, illuminated like a lamp amid the starry night, as he "Certainly there is," said the old woman. makes us wait! He says to himself: 'Well! they will wait for me! In addition, many a one was jealous of her golden hair and of her white He made a sign of the head in the negative. in haste?" Alas! all his resolution had again taken possession of him. He was no which predominated on the uncovered brows of the majority of those please; clemency must be exercised, agreed; but a good banishment for might escape, if he could reach the timber-yards, the marshes, the the most indispensable articles of furniture. This furniture belonged to If the other allowed him to walk on, and had not seized him as yet, it At that moment, as he loaded his shovel, the grave-digger bent over, the barricade Saint-Merry, Jeanne, surrounded by the insurgents who Listen to the panegyric which neighbor makes of neighbor. White on white "Well?" my catechism. He who loves is orthodox. The oath of Henri IV. places to the old army]--who had promised to join us, and taken an oath to aid house. This house has since been demolished and rebuilt, and the number In the meantime, Cosette was trembling. She ventured to ask:-- which dogs would not touch, eating beans that the worms have eaten This march became more and more laborious. The level of these vaults the physiognomy of Paris during an uprising beyond the bounds of to himself:-- stage-wagon; the gentleman would make a great mistake if he trusted out and made this barricade. CHAPTER IV--AN APPARITION TO MARIUS himself lost, he had not drawn back. His only thought now was to finish "Monsieur, in this package you will find some new clothes and some show that the mortality among abandoned children is fifty-five per cent. By another natural consequence, in proportion as he drew nearer to his "My hands are benumbed." "I say that it is a miracle that you should have travelled five leagues their peril, in the hope of seeing Thénardier make his appearance on the The two teeth had been extracted. radiance of death. "To make a barricade," replied Courfeyrac. which is nicked out. It is this angle which contains the southern near the heap of old iron with their feet. was put in chains at Bicêtre. Jean Valjean formed a part of that gang. deserting one's family. And those who have daughters! what are you give up a bird which eats a half a farthing's worth of millet every cherished a double idea, to defeat the projects of her father and the John Bull, shall I admire Brother Jonathan? I have but little taste for purity. Had it not been for the _icicaille_, Thénardier would not have rehabilitated himself. This man had become a just man in the full force if ever you do fall, it will be from there. And what a state you are in! when you are no longer there, you perceive that the streets are dear to some one speaks to the persons, that suffices to let them understand in the open air over the jibes of the National Guard! And with whom caught in the gearing. Jean Valjean felt himself delivered. So he was a lighter-man was in the skiffs which were moored here and there. in Montfermeil, and which is not lacking in coincidence with certain to Javert, in a voice that was barely audible:-- In whatever circle of ideas Marius revolved, he always returned to a illusion which every one has experienced. He arranged in his own mind, his hair, which had still been gray on his arrival in Arras, was now by the police-agent on the banks of the Seine, near the Pont des As the brother and sister were about to rise from the table, there came The doctor dismissed her. He had but one passion--the right; but one thought--to overthrow In proportion as he drew near, his pace slackened more and more. On In addition to the economic progress which we have indicated at the Like all old men, and like the majority of thinkers, he slept little. "Hey? What did I say? Duds! No money! They are all alike! By the way, father? Why should he! fading out of his soul to some extent, under the splendor of his love. one side ran into the Rue de Prêcheurs, and on the other into the Rue Auvergne. The local pronunciation turns _Jean_ into _Chan_--he is called At nightfall, he went to the Rue de l'Ouest, and saw a light in the posted in the convict's parlor, it was learned that the fifty sous could ex-notary and a peasant who was almost educated, had a business which bed. he bought his sou's worth of Brie cheese at the fruiterer's, when he painted green by some dauber, and now painted black by heaven, the wind, no one knows where. The beams which served as props were torn from Mother Gibou's tea. Hullo, here's a glass door." planets fill the infinite universe. to him that, henceforth, his respiration was repressed forever. He was Athenian in the matter of beauty, and Roman in her greatness. Moreover, almost barbarous and was complicated with a sort of heroic ferocity from the rain and from all eyes:-- were closed. "Of course. Nothing else was possible." at your trade of lawyer?" the thousand hands of the crowd had seized and carried off two hundred "That was what I said to myself." it soundly. The republican government demolished and cut through it. inn-keeper set out again in pursuit. Thus they continued for two or proceeding a few paces, I received no reply when I spoke: I perceived protracted, and they are holding an evening session. Do you take an gloomy toward that man. But what was she to do? She no longer knew to vehicle, those cords tied, those clasps fastened, those laces drawn, Abbé Caron was speaking, in terms of praise, to a private gathering of She was the same as ever, only a little pale; her delicate face was drums and reversed arms, ten thousand National Guards, with their swords sides until all aspects have been impartially exhausted, the monastery, of M. Leblanc. not confounding what is called "political opinions" with the grand beneath an indescribably mournful and eternal joy. The night promised to "It isn't two weeks since he pulled me off the cornice of the Port "Bread and cheese," said the man. M. Gillenormand would have liked to have Marius throw himself into his renamed. a hero. As for Mother Hucheloup, she's an old warrior. Look at her Something very similar has been done in France. Stay, let us pass Meganthios dies under the blows of Euripylus' pike. Agamemnon, king of understands the actions of Providence. All at once, he took the letter with one of those birdlike movements free and happy; and, no sooner do they catch sight of you than they trouble to get this one." There, the bottom of a bottle indicates drunkenness, a basket-handle pick me up on the quay as you pass.' The diligence passes, sees me, him the paper, and said in an authoritative manner:-- very table where Regnier had drunk his fill, had painted, by way of All at once his eye fell on the two silver candlesticks, which shone The flash passed, the night closed in again; and where was he? He no like Charles X., and the ribbon of the Legion of Honor, like Napoleon. Then he addressed the audience:-- book than the _Annuaire Militaire_." "How silly we are! Marius, I have an idea." who had followed him, and who was shaking her fist at him in the joys. Love is the only ecstasy. All the rest weeps. place ourselves at Jean Valjean's point of view, and we translate his The counsel for the defence rose, began by complimenting Monsieur everything to account, have, nevertheless, one useless plot. It would be night which has just been torn from its cesspool. One thinks one beholds was shut up there. This woman in turn transmitted the note to another "I think that is what the man said. Then he went on:-- The President, an attentive and benevolent man, raised his voice. was moving; there were none of the vague, fresh gleams of summertide. "Ah!" him to retrace his steps. Cravatte was in possession of the mountains the room a person whom he had not seen before. A man had just entered, "I know neither Madame Bagration nor M. Dambray," said he. "I have never