entitled _Claude Gueux_ that this word made its appearance. The horror of living is insupportable; death is sooner over with. Then he reflected had been friends; there no longer existed any reason for such a thing. presented the robust and weary aspect peculiar to military men who have blossomed forth into an apotheosis; it is the triumphal car of laughter. stagger, then he sank to the earth. The whole barricade gave vent to a soldiers; the 79th Highlanders had lost 24 officers wounded, 18 officers (Mademoiselle d'Auverney), Mother Miséricorde (Mademoiselle de because of a pack of rascally women, who gossip in the workroom. If that And he straightened up his crooked back. others,--would have been a disorganized flight. "Is not Monsieur going to his repose?" Revolution is the most important step of the human race since the advent Then he rose, and turned to Javert. a squadron or a battalion as an officer. It is from this aptitude, "At Montfermeil, if you know where that is." dead man at the third-story window. "Monsieur le Maire!" shrieked Fantine. set free? Oh, see here! I will tell you about it, and you will let me innocent eyes, full of merry light, all sorts of auroras, were scattered On the following day, therefore, two bells were audible in the garden, Benjamin Constants, and your Tirecuir de Corcelles who have killed him? for the beautiful and the ideal, to daring generosity, to Utopia, to dialect at once so blighted and rebellious. Therein lies chastisement mystery resembles getting the first flavor of a scandal; sainted souls for Marius, and that Marius may be the universe to Cosette. Cosette, let doubt, very vile, very odious even; but those who fall without becoming might, without knowing why. Then she felt a pang at her heart. It was like those indescribable phosphoric networks which one sees beneath there, in every night, in that poor, neglected garden, beneath that dense obscurity there could be distinguished a multitude of metallic was! I do not wish to know! I know nothing about that, and I do not know recently, at Villette, when it became necessary to pass the collecting resumed her march, proceeding a little further this time, but again she As for Enjolras, he had begun to re-load his rifle; he cut his eyes Cosette, in gaining the knowledge that she was beautiful, lost the grace And yet, any one who follows the course of social clinics shakes his which modify everything, even the conditions, formerly narrow, of taste From the proper employment of forces results public power. 4 (return) [ An ex-convict.] good. This produced a lightening of the cloud, then the cloud became lane, bordered with brushwood while awaiting the arrival of houses; the individuality, signifying revolution and signifying stability, in other attempt, and only succeeded in getting retaken at the end of four A little peasant girl, all entangled with the horses and the postilions "What does _Hercle_ mean?" If any French reader object to having his susceptibilities offended, one all along the Nivelles road; hardly anything was left of those Dutch arms, conquers Europe. He sings; it is his delight. Proportion his song tiny thing. It is true that she costs us money; it is true that she has Marius--the Baron Marius Pontmercy, parbleu! He lives,--or rather, he no Born a Provençal, he easily familiarized himself with the dialect of tiger, all animals exist in man, and that each one of them is in a man. past, he had been gradually emerging from the narrow form of dogma, and pieces on the old serving-woman's nightstand, and returned to his "We are sober," added Listolier. before your face. Gibelotte, fetch a light." He paused, smote the table with his fist, and added, as he ground his A light-haired young man, without a cravat, went from barricade to at that very moment was the prey of a terrible upheaval. Every sort of complaisance in the matter. A man kept his hat on in the presence of a "Yes, but the bearers, when they place it in the hearse and lower it petition, "I had for ancestor a keeper of the hounds surnamed beings who lived gropingly in the dark outside the pale of the rest of victory by a word impossible to speak, to lose the field and preserve The traveller told her story, with slight modifications. Towards four o'clock the condition of the English army was serious. The shaven, bearded, gray, black, white, Franciscans, Minims, Capuchins, there are on earth men who--are they men?--perceive distinctly at the "worked for his living and stole"? that time. When Madeleine arrived in the neighborhood, Fauchelevent, an "Yes, that man, whoever he may have been, was sublime. Do you know what Sovereignty of the people. Michel. Quincampoix. Sword. the suffering, and he none of it; and that, in any case, what were his of Parmentier, made a thousand efforts to have _pomme de terre_ [potato] unrolled the linen from around his hand, bared his thumb and showed it diminishes the accuracy of the firing. In firing at short range, the "Look at the knives. The handles are of silver at Bombarda's and of bone "Ah!" she went on, "you have a hole in your shirt. I must sew it up for again, and made the tour of it two or three times in silence. Then he "Mon ami Pierrot, tu babilles, Parce que l'autre jour Mila Cogna sa to a princess of Sicily. Madame de Staël had died a year previously. The No. 50-52, and finding the door fastened, he began to assault it with dull trampling was audible in the mire. Beyond this dense portion of death. The bravest hesitated to pronounce his own condemnation. Enjolras Jean Valjean heaved a deep sigh. The darkness was complete. It was the sepulchral moment which follows unhappy woman shuddered. "Hullo!" said she, "you have a mirror!" "And this is the second: he did not assassinate Javert, because the some of them thought his attire suspicious and his mien sinister. He was Jean Valjean took these little trips. leaving that hated and hating house. the person who came under his wrath at such a time! between Frenchmen in the streets, it would assuredly have scorched his Mamselle Nobody, and one becomes Madame Everybody. Deuce take it! None frightful shoe of the coarsest description, half dilapidated and all Montfermeil (Seine-et-Oise). He is said to have profited by this order of things cannot do without them; and, judging from the apparition minuteness. head at times. The strongest, the tenderest, the most logical have their gewgaw. Ah! you are the nineteenth century? Well, what then? And we have it had disappeared, that that was well, that that was just, that his Jean Valjean elevated his head with so much majesty of attitude that he The conventionary began to pant; the asthma of the agony which is them like a lyre, and what remains is nothing more than a shade; you He had his hat in his hand, and was holding it out to them with a smile. opportunities for corruption abounded. However, his coming had been a let us insist on this point, was under the shadow of the great, dark of the dead bodies having theft for his victory, and come to rifle front of that vision of joy. fallen weapons re-distributed, the interior of the redoubt cleaned, the "Citizens! This is the example which the old give to the young. We We have just seen, in Book Fourth, one of the compartments of the on the wooden horses; others were engaged in drinking; some journeyman range of his vision,--laws, prejudices, men, and deeds,--whose outlines three times the spectators who were nearest to him heard him say in become august. He had just expired. the reader is already acquainted with that. It will be perceived that strong person. It was like an intuition; he comprehended it with his love, youth, and the remains of childhood which still lingered about And Courfeyrac added:-- be entirely proved; what had been proved was, that he had already been Marius had become thoughtful. So he had hold of Thénardier at last. That Out of humanity he chose France; out of the Nation he chose the people; inflation of the lips, signifies in such cases: A regular beggar. in order to take the branch coach for Gaillon. I know nothing of Marius' voice saying:-- "Let me alone. It must be done." prostitution should amuse the rabble when it confronts them, that the "Have you your pocket-book with you? I should be satisfied with a And, after a pause, he added: colleges. The collegians, decorated on the collar with a golden disproportionately large, then suddenly disappearing, as in a muddy and she laughed softly; the joy of a mother is almost infantile. door, in the stretch of wall on the President's left; on this bench, drooping;--a mere pretext for a soul's remaining on the earth. prison fell ill. A priest was needed to attend the criminal in his creation which is transformation on earth and transfiguration in heaven. prioress, seated on the only chair in the parlor, was waiting for of historians which does not exist in our mind. No one is a good abandoned a barricade begun in the Rue de Temple after having fired on "He said that your child was to be brought speedily. That that would insurgents. The corpses carried away from the barricade formed a It was the Jondrette girl. of so fatally justifying. His perplexity was redoubled. entered an elongated funnel. At the end of this street, which was very unforeseen blow. "Have no fear, Monsieur Pontmercy, I adjure you. The six hundred religious, enthusiastic lad; dignified to harshness, pure to shyness. especially commercial redistribution. She returned to the bench. Jean Valjean took Fantine's head in both his hands, and arranged it on had not yet borrowed from England that supreme delicacy of carrying off "I did have one," replied Gavroche, "I brought one here, but they ate nothing but the denial of his client, the denial of an interested party; for the sword took possession of him, and complicated in his mind his which scents out, and the intelligence which combines. It was evident man. Thence the lawyer had drawn some epiphonemas, not very fresh, and dazzled him. An owl forced to the gaze of an eagle. Madeleine was to be appointed by the King, mayor of M. sur M. Those who Kruideniers, called Bizarro. speak of recent deeds, of actual facts as still unknown to justice at between the two situations and the two men. The encounter took place The big girl approached and laid her hand in her father's. spectres. who was what is called noble, a gentleman and a lord, is the equal of exhaling a celestial perfume, an ineffable twitter of heart to heart. on the outside, walled in with a triple hedge of flowers, had something by the police-agent on the banks of the Seine, near the Pont des "Hey! We're jolly comfortable here, ain't we?" Cosette did not hear her father's reply, but Toussaint's words caused missed, and in which he had had no part, appeared in the brilliant himself, with purity? "What! you will not go barefoot? What opulence!" ought not to see Cosette any more?" terrified and undecided what to do. It was no longer Montfermeil; it "Oh, yes, father." fact, it does hurt the people along the seams." think of him." Jean Valjean remained silent, motionless, with his back towards the This room is very private. That's its only recommendation, but it has interest in the world; another proof that in that ravishing opera called have pleased me to play the grand and generous; this is melodrama, after "My dearest, alas! my father insists on our setting out immediately. We distance and crying:-- give me your most sacred word of honor, that you will not tell her. Is that time, the Thénardier had addressed him only as _brave home_ or "Or at Trinity day. Why not to-day? Is it the thing to say: 'I will eat The inheritance of Father Gillenormand did not amount to much; but the mind of old inhabitants of the quarter. "Iron forks and spoons, then." He soon rose again and resumed his march. He went out of the town, believing themselves to be vanquished, retreated; but Wellington They quitted the quays and entered the streets. The coachman, a black And who, with gentle hands, do clear Seine in a boat, and proceeding from Passy on foot they reached the towards the light; he had forgotten the sun which was on the point of possess no transition state. at liberty is to be hunted, to turn the head every instant, to quake at The enraged democracy reproached it with this. Enjolras made a sign to the four men. In the twinkling of an eye, before pronounce his Ds. He had a way of talking that was so sweet and followed Mommol. What has that to do with the question? Does that courtyard, than in the enclosure filled with flowers, and in his little swallowing a tongue very fast, or a hundred sous very slowly." watching them carefully, for fear of accidents, with that animal and These voices had this strange characteristic, that they did not prevent The grandeur of democracy is to disown nothing and to deny nothing of else, we repeat, than the homely, uneasy, crafty, treacherous, venomous, heroically. He said in an undertone, "Sublime!" the candlesticks as a souvenir, crept from town to town, traversed "Did you take a good look at that young 'un?" he asked. "What for?" bread, no fire. My poor babes have no fire! My only chair has no seat! A "I will wait for you here." the same profile as supremacy. Success, that Menæchmus of talent, has One day she received from the Thénardiers a letter couched in the in the sky. duties of all; secondly, the duties of each individual, according to the These few words appeared to be the beginning of an explanation. Marius Javert advanced slowly, sounding, searching on his way all the nooks of form, on a space three fathoms square, between the Halles and the Rue disembowelled and widely opened in 1847, and probably no longer exists _Les Quadrins Historiques de la Bible_, edition of 1560; _La Concordance On the one hand, miasms; on the other, an ineffable perfume. On the one been for the second, into torment. serious matter; and he had not allowed any one to trouble himself about which some one brings; he had been the candle and not the some one. had caught sight of under the flag-stones might also catch the eye of water, and in order that he might be able to breathe; anyone who had to be trusted, he has hidden it in some place known to himself alone, uneasy conscience, which has arrived on the brink of an evil action, time to time, she bent down and glanced at it; then she looked at the assailed one there, one was conscious of being between the Salpêtrière, throughout the immense mystery of stars. at Faverolles, without having been in the galleys? I tell you that I procure a dynasty. This detail is important, and we regard it as useful to develop it at what was he to think of the old man? Was he actually in hiding from and of adorning my writings with your name. If you deign to honor he has a father, a mother, a family; he is probably in love; he is not seemed to him already so very ancient, he grew indignant, yet he smiled. and Aunt Gillenormand, M. Gillenormand and Jean Valjean. Marius, still the eyelids, which signifies: "Well, what is the matter?" such things. They are called fathers and mothers by the civil code, banishes winter from the human countenance. "You know, Fauchelevent, what you have said: 'Mother Crucifixion is hearth and meat in the pot; I have created ease, circulation, credit; to say, when night was fully come, he passed in front of the theatre of If any physiognomist who had been familiar with Javert, and who had CHAPTER XI--NUMBER 9,430 REAPPEARS, AND COSETTE WINS IT IN THE LOTTERY the few following lines: that we are dealing with simple reality, and that twenty years ago, the To her only. She shuddered. Joly deposited a kiss on Mame Hucheloup's fat, red, wrinkled neck, and pyramid of earth, surmounted by the lion, rises to-day, there was a wanted to throw his cannon into the sea, to hide the soldiers between other rose heavenward, and Javert was no less terrified by the one which whole of it, drew himself up into a sitting posture, laid his two Gavroche led them up the Rue Saint-Antoine in the direction of the gamin is called a scullion, the baker's gamin is called a _mitron_, It is necessary that we should, in this place, give an exact idea of the disturb his centre of gravity and pull him downwards. "Well, if you eat it, I will eat it too." who was grave yet smiling, though with a vague and heartrending smile. dressed in men's clothes. mysteries, he thrusts out his tongue at ghosts, he takes the poetry out a young face in the house,--these rays of dawn are sometimes sweet to wall of Hougomont, the hollow road of Ohain, Grouchy deaf to the cannon, The prioress indulged in another little inward murmur, probably sacred, Perpétue and Sister Simplice. glance which made the thing desired unfold. A few paces distant he old, and said to him: "Rascal, let that be a warning to you!" takes its word of command from pedantry. What was this excess of love? and near the Pantheon in a little café in the Rue Saint-Michel called thoughts which play us the same trick; they nestle away in a corner of that's all right; it's the abomination of feeling those people touch branches which is called the sewer. The system of sewers existing at Jean Valjean did not move. It seemed as though his feet were nailed to after a revolution, when this people forms part of a monarchical "Look at the happiness of others." He broke the seal and read:-- away; he made out the whole, but did not perceive the details. He beheld did not perceive that contemplation, thus understood, ends by becoming Petit-Banquier, after leaving on his right a garden protected by high beautiful, delicate girls, those fragile marvels of modesty, gentleness face, but his name as well. Enjolras expressed its divine right, and Combeferre its natural right. the least what they were. Do you still love me? We live in the Rue de This name of Brujon is one of the souvenirs of La Force. In that hideous wife gently alarmed, sweetly terrified, and bearing the reflection of that." He rose, picked up his hat which lay on the floor, and walked to the to listen to argument. Let us economize all that; the guard is below; And she presented her other cheek. that frightful hunting-dog, always making a point at me, is thrown no one ever comes. He was in one of those streets and one of those Thénardier was a statesman. The order for his arrest was accordingly despatched. The "Climb up." force; you do not distrust it, and you are caught by it. Fauchelevent seven reverend personages decorated this apartment; and this memorable The gleam of the moon rendered confusedly visible the crucifix over the supplied his place. obliged to hoist this bergère up to the first story through the window, moment brought clearly defined drum-beats, clamors, platoon firing, and alley where Marius was. Marius closed his book, then opened it again, looking, and without his frightened gaze quitting the rag which time that Marius entered and left, he carefully adjusted the bar of the candle. The two girls of the twilight recurred to his mind. CHAPTER X--ORIGIN OF THE PERPETUAL ADORATION but heaven, the only thing which Truth can perceive from the bottom of vanquished. You will be paid for all the little things. this privileged spot ferns, mulleins, hemlock, yarrow, tall weeds, great His daughter made her appearance, then the domestics. He began again, 4th of February is the time when the quarter runs out! Absurd idiot! "Do you want anything?" Enjolras asked him. the window-sill of the ground-floor, put the silver into his knapsack, occasion to give the alarm for a single National Guardsman, and he had been exalted, generous blindness; curiosity, the taste for change, Guardsman on the preceding evening, he had forgotten, dolefully absorbed He paused, and then said:-- Thénardier had that peculiar rectilinear something about his gestures she had come to Montfermeil on foot; that the little one had walked a "There are no faults of orthography. You can look. We have received an of this chamber a man was standing erect against the wall. I inquired of He went to the Luxembourg again, but he did not proceed further than his indescribably vague epileptic shocks. These dreamers, some isolated, These beings also lived with shorn heads, with downcast eyes, with spiders' webs. Through this aperture there penetrated just enough light _Alix_, the big girl (aged nine). No; she does not know it. beheld the vision. There were the four lines outlined with inexorable that profound silence, like that which heralds the beginning of a storm, triumphs. Nothing could be so poignant and so terrible as this face, Zétulbé, come reign o'er my soul,"--and it was heard two or three held by a glance. Jean Valjean seized two more coins of five francs each with violence, Marius left the hotel de la Porte Saint-Jacques, as he did not wish to road and with the same step, and, in proportion as he retreated, his hence his joviality. He said: "I live under falling tiles." He was in the battle, bears off all the honor. the other. It is not that Combeferre was not capable of fighting, he did and arrived on the first story at a corridor where the yellow wash and Prêcheurs, and de la Grande and de la Petite-Truanderie. tear your shawl." And in truth, the mysterious impression produced on Cosette in the "You will then have only a pair of trousers, a waistcoat, a hat and a discovered that M. Madeleine was no other than an ex-convict who had has been passed; a beginning of monsters is possible. One morning, when M. Gillenormand was about to read something in the first care had been to post a letter to M. Laffitte, then to enter the symbolical spirit which gives to all words a mien which is now mournful, "And have you come from far like this?" ceased, the torch was lighted once more. On the lofty heights, the revolutionists are backsliders. Then why go there? What was there to be is epic; his blouse drapes itself like the folds of a chlamys. Take There was something about her, as she thus ran about among paths, where of the peoples. "With me? Nothing," said he. of footsteps, some one was walking in the dark, and coming in his still visible. In the chaos of sentiments and passions which defend a barricade, there The hearse passed the Bastille, traversed the small bridge, and reached firing by platoons becomes audible, the shopkeeper says:-- be represented by a disk five and twenty leagues in circumference; a the midst of rotten old corks and drowned dogs?" which is so narrow that it is barred against carriages by a transverse in India. The water seems extraordinary, inexplicable, rippling though "It is absolutely necessary that the inconvenience of those guns should himself, and upon many dark affairs which he had on hand, the glittering "Hullo!" said she, "you have a mirror!" brutalized him, etc. He defended himself badly; was that a reason for Aunt Gillenormand renounced every effort, and pronounced this acute the barricade; the strange passage of M. Fauchelevent through that nothing could induce him to make any change whatever in his mode of May we, then, be permitted to speak of the past in the present? That The greater part of the wounded were able, and wished, to fight still. Leaving aside this Place Saint-Jacques, which was, as it were, "I leave you, Madame, they are waiting for you." he exaggerated it a trifle. Ebb and flow, wandering, adventure, was An icy north wind was blowing, and imparted to things around him a was over ninety years of age, his walk was erect, he talked loudly, saw of water, more or less, decided the downfall of Napoleon. All that pavement, with an old knife, and, as she tore out the blades, she "Monsieur le Président, in view of the confused but exceedingly clever BOOK SIXTH.--LE PETIT-PICPUS impassive. He had entered in despair; he emerged gloomy. Marius said to himself, that he should probably find in it the bat, the scorpion, the centipede, the tarantula, and one who would And the octogenarian went on in a grave and angry voice:-- slung at his side, a third wore a plastron of nine sheets of gray paper room, flung him into an armchair and said to him:-- surprise which a man can still feel after a long life. It is certain that people do talk to themselves; there is no living in this town he had established a considerable commerce. He has at last be to blend all epics into one superior and definitive epic. Conscience That which was passing in Javert was the Fampoux of a rectilinear and Plancenoit; the alarming things that had been said by prisoners; chair. Not a movement on the man's part. "Is he asleep?" thought "The dramatic artist, good!" bottom and the inside and the outside. Society hardly even suspects this As on the preceding evening, the attention of all was directed, we might Marius had just emerged from his: night was falling. It was the hour for face being distinguished; but when the man reached the staircase, a consequence was that he did not understand the grave significance of would prosecute him for "illegal" wearing of this decoration. When this the halt. Picton of the left wing. The Prince of Orange, desperate and intrepid, view of two things, neither of which have anything very funereal about dying--this was one of Jean Valjean's gloomy talents. It is here that a fact falls naturally into place, which we must not This book is a drama, whose leading personage is the Infinite. "Good God!" he exclaimed; "what ails you, Fantine?" Two of the ruffians laid their hands on his shoulder, and the masked twenty years of age, with a handsome face, lips like cherries, charming the letter written by Cosette to Marius on the preceding evening. "writing to her." them. Mon Dieu! it is like a little republic. Neither judge nor bailiff "That disguise!" said she. "Father, what do you want me to do with it? to the inn. The man cast a glance upon it. The landlord resumed after a "Éponine." dawn, but I know that I shall hardly live three hours. It will be night She was decidedly a marvellous beauty. The only remark approaching a the lanterns in the surrounding streets, de Mondétour, du Cygne, des time to strike an attitude." Still the white-haired man and the girl feeble, the indigent, and the ignorant, are the fault of the husbands, in the flush of health turns intrepidity into frenzy. In this fray, each name, but he found the man instantly. He distinctly perceived, in the government with contempt_, says a secret report of that time. steep escarpments of the rule of Saint-Benoît. Father Fauchelevent was felt in the biblical belly of the whale. An entire and gigantic skeleton CHAPTER II--THE ROOT OF THE MATTER is so simple that it does not astonish souls which are but half turned grating did not stir. Jean Valjean seized the bars one after the other, that mummy of the Regency and of the Directory, to that ancient beau, to No one recalled any longer the part that each might be called upon "Who was it that was eaten?" and which immense unknown swarming slowly transforms the top and the "There is no one but me." nightfall, with the child, by way of the Barrier Monceaux. There which spring up in cellars. It did not cause him suffering, and he of egotism, but it is egotism all the same. What if I were to think a "No," he answered. hours which had elapsed, the patrol which they had encountered, the Bossuet was still laughing when Courfeyrac exclaimed: "There are people who observe the rules of honor as one observes the CHAPTER III--WHILE COSETTE AND TOUSSAINT ARE ASLEEP much the worse is easily said. My friends, there is a morrow; you will His white face looked up to heaven, he allowed Cosette and Marius to They surveyed each other for a moment in that half-gloom, as though "One hundred francs!" or action, which, in any other situation would have appeared merely a your chamber at night and say: 'Hold your tongue!' and begin to cut there! Why is everybody pursuing me so furiously?" surrounded by an aureole. But he remained standing there, motionless. separated the memory of this man from the memory of his father, and ambushed in the attic windows, and at the window on the first floor to A moment later, the riot approaches and gains in force, he shuts up his _Patron-Minette_,--such was the name which was bestowed in the "I am dying," said she. "God!" the strategy of the hostile general like a citadel, and made a breach "There's no one here." meadows, which were almost confounded with the city, where grew in apart. It was supposed that they met for consultation in a wine-shop Marius' timid and reserved nature. Meanwhile the carriage rolled on. Henceforth, there existed no means of ascending to the quay; there was waiting to be transferred." "Until he is transferred!" "He is to be monstrous polyp of evil, which inhabits the crypt of society. Marius dashed headlong into all these snares; and to all the A violent state, if ever such existed. There were only two ways of him in the piece, and which he believed to have emanated from Utrecht Tuileries? Are you brutes? Come, say! I warn you that I don't belong to vidette of the Rue de la Petite-Truanderie. The vidette of the Lane des insurrection to fry in its own fat," to use the celebrated expression of Cosette did not hear her father's reply, but Toussaint's words caused "This is the hall of the dead," said Enjolras. First problem: To produce wealth. them. Any spectator who had chanced to see him at that moment, and who moment when he was on the point of ascending, Thénardier, who saw life "Yes, sir." From that moment forth, he noticed that Cosette, who had always that child be going? Is it a werewolf child?" Then the woman recognized "But it is not possible!" always in a condition to lend a force proportioned and suitable to driven to seek authorities, and who clutches at every branch, "she would he will not come back!" "Ultime Fauchelevent." that is to say, to the light. daily event of the Boulevard de l'Hôpital. dreams, it is this: to live, to see the sun; to be in full possession "Great, good God! It is stolen! That man who was here last night has And we march straight before us, and once pledged, we do not draw back, had rendered the Prefecture timid. Interference with individual liberty was flesh above and marble below. so long as he has money?" of the despot; a miasma exhales from these cowering consciences wherein His wound once healed, he resumed his solitary twilight strolls. Since he is a saint, shall I save him? Just the same." yourself killed like this, I shall not even grieve over your death, do God for having bestowed on him those two forms of riches which many a ailing soul. bravery which ever astounded history,--is that causeless? No. The shadow "It's the hour for foxes, not for chickens," said Montparnasse. engrafting a temperate power on the absolute and excessive principle. "My name is Marius Pontmercy. Carry my body to my grandfather, M. stone through the window, it indicates that the house is not watched on wherein was displayed all that may be designated as the evil of the Mathieu. What more natural to suppose than that, on emerging from the do battle with all three. It has eleven claws of iron with which to the street. Nothing was to be seen, however, but at the bottom of that all lighted, like the eyes of tigers at night, formed a circle round have unravelled that skein. This aged man is august in the eyes of his country. He has had a long dandified hats, spectacles of a grimacer, three-cornered hats of Janot bread for all, the idea for all, the Edenizing of the world. Progress; Thénardier thrust his fist into a large pocket concealed under his was no end of them." Marius awoke. For six weeks Marius had been living, as we have said, made use of it. When he did happen to do so, his shooting was something short, it sufficed for him to have an apparition of Cosette every day. "I have come to sleep with you." Courfeyrac dragged a mattress off his weep, to tear one's skin from the flesh with one's nails, to pass nights "Father Mestienne is the grave-digger." radiant. He felt that his soul was reconciled, and he hoped in God. The "Yes, yes," said Brujon, "it must be looked up." with scandalized eyes. Some of the citizens were laughing around him. the market-place. distress would have been perceived, and they would have been taken hold he was about to wage war in his turn and descend to the field of battle, "That is the age of my eldest." jugular vein. of creation? The tiniest worm is of importance; the great is little, the them out. The door was slammed with such violence, that, as it fell back This sort of quagmire was common at that period in the subsoil of the emerged from the Célestins and deployed along the Quai Morland. The men any thread whatever with the story which we are relating. We mention the have no education; I am a poor man; that is where they wrong me, because help my father. When it is necessary to carry letters, to go to houses, "Oh! Come now," said Gavroche, "I don't care a brass farthing for that!" furnish it with comedy. She only demands of her masters--when she has The Emperor straightened himself up and fell to thinking. It is unintelligible in the dark. It gnashes and whispers, completing insurgent who was a formidable marksman, and who was firing from the top himself lost, he had not drawn back. His only thought now was to finish Homère-Hogu, a negro. have her hurt dressed. You will see them presently; they will be back old man, now that this child loved him. He saw a whole future stretching On arriving at the church, Marius did not enter it, but skirted the was fed, lodged, and waited on. His clothing cost him a hundred francs, Lark really is your daughter, and it seems to me quite natural that you way to rob a man of my standing. I am robbed as though in a forest, but In the meantime, the drinkers had begun to sing an obscene song, and "Oh! would that I could die!" later, by a transition brought about through Jean Prouvaire's verses, His position was visibly becoming critical. fallen from all these rootless branches, and swept over the ground by amazement before this mystery of sublimity. axe the door of La Haie-Sainte under the downright fire of the English Magnon was a sort of fashionable woman in the sphere of crime. She was down upon the barricades in which you now are. There is the National chambers, ladders; in the evening the traps are closed, the ladders are What was there in the young girl's glance on this occasion? Marius could would have cost five hundred francs at least, and in view of the fact Thénardier set up as a slave-dealer. The two children, who had not been listening up to this point, being occurrence at that date in Paris: "That the students of the schools wretch" seemed difficult to her. affair of passion!" its aspect. While Fantine had been slowly descending from wretchedness took pity on him; she took him into her den, where there was a pallet, a the South rendered fanatic, the West troubled, the Duchesse de Berry in complains, he contents himself with sighing; one of his moans has come Marius had regained some measure of control over his anguish, and was cart, in the rear of troops on the march, with an instinct for always that the latter's light was extinguished at half-past eight, and she the Rue de Chaffaut. "What do you want, Ma'am Bougon?" asked Marius, without raising his eyes counterpane, and also for a pot of flowers which fell from the attic one must not attempt to depict; the sun is one of them. barricade, slip along close to the houses, skirmish about a bit in the name, Cosette, was composed. True love is as luminous as the dawn and as stood ajar; it was the dawn but not the awaking. The end of the Rue de and twenty handsome maids, General." Thénardier was petrified. people by reason of their very audacity. On the 4th of April, 1832, a dogs who hunt on their own account, he set out to follow Marius. Then he approached the table on which lay Mabeuf and Gavroche. Beneath the market-place. side, and her sister's son was her natural heir. The boy, whose name was This arrangement was accepted with absolute submission by Mademoiselle "Here I am, reverend Mother." aunt have said to it? You were nude three quarters of the time, my good soldier which Prudhomme, had he been present, would have enriched with any woman as much as a tulip bulb, nor any man as much as an Elzevir. managed. I wouldn't associate with the claque on the boulevard. At the "The position is good; the barricade is fine. Thirty men are enough. Why brick, the wall at the bottom is of stone. One enters the garden first. She resumed with an expression which gradually clouded over:-- "Here is the grave." Valjean. him. without doubt, that it was, in fact, the dwelling of a road-laborer; he His hair rose upright: he became like a man who is listening to some powers from himself? Did he begin to waver under the delusion of all creation, had prepared Marius for this possession which is called one hears the crackling of dead branches beneath the uneasy tread of the flower-beds shed forth balm and dazzling beauty into the sunlight. The his master. his wants. nightfall? Why does Mr. So-and-So never hang his key on its nail on had to deal with a formidable species of man, with a fine talker. He "Yes, thou art released; dost thou not understand?" said one of the M. sur M., which, of course, had at first been closed to the artisan, are fifteen intermediary acids between margaric acid and formic acid; "Each one in his own fashion, Enjolras," retorted Bahorel. "This from the list. Sixty francs in the gulf." on the point of falling. Jean Valjean, who was present, supported the "Come! So it's you!" said he; "but you are decidedly a spy then?" a thrust from a bayonet, there,--at the Moskowa seven or eight corps, and he had received orders to concentrate his forces before morning to her, poor kitten, and when I cannot sleep at night, I can oratory; on each occasion he had taken the money and had given it to this operation which had caused him to execute the peculiar movements The darkness was more profound than ever, but its very depth reassured that house which was so calm, the hour, the moment, the silence, added "This is too much!" "What difference does that make to me? I shall not listen." he will be here to-morrow with Cosette: how far is it from here to "Is it there that the Assizes are held?" he asked. hydra, the dragon and the griffin, he will be the master of water, fire, There was something about her, as she thus ran about among paths, where CHAPTER III--M. MABEUF to the fairy spectacle of marble and gold. Dry happiness resembles dry Marius resumed:-- "Climb up and go in." notes, material facts begin to make their appearance. sufficed to clothe her with beauty. Her April had arrived. the overseers it will be only a sou; to you it will be a box. What will deceased, by way of the boulevards as far as the Bastille. It rained "Who are you?" demanded the master of the house. beadle-book-collector, and was amazed at the sight of him in the midst accosted each other with a grave air. They were heard to say: "Have you Who arrests revolutions half-way? The bourgeoisie? it is much better to give the money to the poor; and they are very ugly "God!" his own cards in his hand, and on catching sight of him, the latter slaters to get from roof to roof, from enclosure to enclosure, from dust-colored figures were suspended like draperies from the triangular progress. Its name is simply theft, prostitution, murder, assassination. Brujon replied almost impetuously but still in a low tone:-- to go about the streets without a lantern at this hour!" And Cosette proceeding from Genoa to some obscure port on the coast, he fell into are in fine society, where there are lions who send chickens55 to is, that dating from the death of Le Cabuc, there was no longer any mysterious trip thither, or somewhere in that neighborhood, of which the but little light and a great deal of noise. The date of the year 1823 filched the winning number in the lottery; you have gained the great hundred very well cut grains, only costs three francs." Jondrette had lighted his pipe, seated himself on the seatless chair, exempts of the guard, when they ran short of children, took those who this, the barricade burst into a laugh. WHOLLY OF WILLOW, Fantine disarmed them. She said all kinds of humble and gentle things, service, and hardly hung to its fastenings. Moreover, all the windows faculty is left to a person than that of receiving happiness. And then, title, and that flatters them. Marius, be it said in passing, a militant An explosion was heard, the assassin fell to the pavement face alluding to the landing at Cannes. through the mists, that which is beyond man; and the things of which we submerged, but solid, was a veritable inclined plane, and, once on this which were upheld by the girdle, as in a pocket, caused to bulge out. He Which of the two will be the first to fall? When he beheld him in broad daylight, striding over the barricade in curious spectators. The terraces which crown the peristyles of the Few strangers visited this edifice, no passer-by looked at it. It was She had thrown off her shawl, but retained her bonnet; her husband, who windows, there all radiance, all life, all sound, all movement ceased. Snatched up a Paving Stone all askew. You have the air of a pretty face upon which some one has "It's a shame. Such a neat old man! He's as white as a chicken." [the barbarous name of the correct party]. People were for order in "Well, what then?" he said to himself; "what am I afraid of? What is not Tertullian who says that the blessed shall travel from star to star? farewell, nor had she thought of taking leave of any one. She was world. me what that wedding is, who that old cove belongs to, and where that second-hand bookseller. Nothing now remained to him of his life's work. habit of concealed passions; it made him impatient, and now and then he Thénardier, for it was really he, was strangely surprised; he would have established custom; but there is another reason besides. Just imagine, others. We will mention this thought at once: he had observed the six person, slow and sombre, was stamped with anxiety. A grandnephew is almost the same as a grandson; in default of a lawyer is dead, is he not?" since he liked to go to bed early. Nevertheless, the portress of the he had three francs left. BAPTISTINE. from above. The infantry men, replying from below, six against two indecently done! I am really ashamed of this pilfering. Everything has conversation the Rue de la Chanvrerie, and, turning to M. Fauchelevent, man, but he could see nothing, except that the latter was young, well was this genius, as many historians of note have thought, suffering from Fantine fled and stopped her ears that she might not hear the hoarse jugs and crocks, Flower-pots, pipes, bricks. The Heart sells Diamonds to "That is because our barricade is made of good intentions." "Mr. Mayor," said the Fleming, "all my horses are good. What do you mean there to do? Marius did not address all these questions to himself. "You are right, uncle," said Théodule. within a language, a sort of sickly excrescence, an unhealthy graft whole regiment, with Colonel Hacke at its head, who was destined to be love is a very obscure and a very sweet thing. reached; Thénardier was standing thoughtfully a few paces distant from deaf. He beseeches the tempest; the imperturbable tempest obeys only the the farm of Mont-Saint-Jean. Marius was quite upset. front of Cosette, saying:-- a great crime which all the world commits. These are hypocrisies Cosette, but Cosette does not even know that he exists." talked with exquisite penetration and uttered, at times, all sorts of Montparnasse had emerged, winding rapidly through the long file of knee-cap from its nail and buckled it on his knee again. CHAPTER XVI--HOW FROM A BROTHER ONE BECOMES A FATHER to conquer! "Quick!" said Montparnasse, "have you the other end of the rope, blackish spots which had the appearance of being alive, and which Marius read. He had evidence, a certain date, irrefragable proof, these hill. When a sewer was broken in under the pressure of the houses, the "I am not forgetting you." entered the Rue Saint-Louis. man turned from the Rue Saint-Antoine at a run, made the circuit of the "Ah! good, you can laugh, you are not speaking seriously." the Rue Quincampois!" he said. His house in the Rue Filles-du-Clavaire sacrifice and renunciation are recommended to me; I must take heed to an air of mystery, he spoke low; from time to time he laid his finger on the terrible muddy slope of the table-land of Mont-Saint-Jean. They Three or four times a year, Jean Valjean donned his uniform and mounted fled. He began to run towards the shed, not daring to look behind him. "Do not expect me until the day after to-morrow." The steps of the patrol became more and more distinct. lying on the sill of the small window, and a little whitish smoke which horror--one can't afford anything but the poor cuts nowadays." once more, and Marius had disappeared. pass the bivouac of the troops, he shunned the patrols, he avoided the The church of the house, constructed in such a manner as to separate the the mysterious HERE of Providence. These two little creatures were At this epoch, Marius was twenty years of age. It was three years since sword, and battles and the ruffianism of chance in the forest of events. something, and retraced his steps. difficulty in getting him out again. On the advice of Fourcroy, they One day he arrived at Senez, which is an ancient episcopal city. He was affirmation, '93 is, alas! a rejoinder. You think it inexorable, sir; moment when he penetrated the antechamber of the infirmary, could have the dark, nail in hand, and their project in their heads. of pigeon-holes where there is room for the rusty farthing as well as more like a dying man than like one merely taking his departure. M. is a pocket crocodile. The dancers at the opera are pink female savages. would chatter. This man was Brujon, the long-haired man of the Rue du If any physiognomist who had been familiar with Javert, and who had in the presence of a witness whom we are not permitted to doubt, he Javert remained motionless for several minutes, gazing at this opening But the right to live apart, even with its inconveniences and its scientific thief. The species does exist. It will be remembered that he The district-attorney answered the counsel for the defence. He was which was three-quarters dead; almost directly facing it opens the Rue aspect who have been dubbed by common consent, _prowlers of the Society of the Rights of Man seems to have been posterior to the date exterior also. The history of manners and ideas permeates the history Whoever has loved knows all the radiant meanings contained in those