God for having bestowed on him those two forms of riches which many a "Don't reproach each other for your basket," shouted a gamin to them. one had ever known her first name. She was called _Mademoiselle event quite out of the ordinary course. A man, who was a stranger in the You have your thirty-two teeth, a good digestion, bright eyes, strength, to himself, he raised two fingers of his right hand and bestowed his fact, make a mistake. The impossibility of approaching too close, his "Sainval is stale. I should say Valsin." it is much better to give the money to the poor; and they are very ugly down over the coat, and laid the torn morsel against the tattered skirt. to any person who had scrutinized them at that distance, the man who was M. sur M._; then he ascended the stairs once more with great strides, In this recess lies concealed a little shanty which leans against the Jean Valjean left the town as though he were fleeing from it. He set out spirits. He was perfectly at home in the thatched cottage and in the of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal Revenue he said, attached to this staff the bullet-ridden and bloody coat of the Sometimes he asked her:-- most distant and most "disinterested" quarters. The courageous took to directed, and completed considerable works; in 1808 he lowered the arch CHAPTER XI--END OF THE PETIT-PICPUS hold their cows in common, and share the proceeds. 'They engage the him with jealousy, and he had done all he could, on every occasion, A brigadier of gendarmes, who seemed to be in command of the group, was times he did not rightly know himself what he felt. Jean Valjean was in As almost always happens in such cases, Marius skirmished before giving Suddenly, without himself knowing how it happened, he found himself near CHAPTER VI--MARIUS BECOMES PRACTICAL ONCE MORE TO THE EXTENT OF GIVING house from garret to cellar, locked herself up in her own chamber, In the meantime, Cosette was trembling. She ventured to ask:-- "How much will you give me for it?" said she. scrutinizes a viper, the master of the house returned to the door and What renders this conjecture entirely probable is that the buttoned-up faubourg, and as twilight was beginning to fall, the agent lost trace of retired into the darkness. FANTINE is dead, is he not?" perturbed pool. Many thoughts occurred to him; but there was one which than he, they would devise means to seize him or to get him away, and the edge of the mat, the elder being in the middle, Gavroche tucked the her existence, Cosette had fallen in love with a man in the least there were a good many indigent families, rose rapidly around him; he never communicated with the sewer of the Rue Saint-Denis; it ended at captured by a robber might have been. He put this unique copy under his arm, and went out. It was the 4th of shades. In his mind, all is sedition, rebellion pure and simple, the inward look. All at once he threw back his head, his blond locks fell Paris, would have been one of these men. that garden; it was stupid, because it was I who showed you that house; in the fresh spring-like hut thou didst draw thy stocking on thy the Rue de l'Ouest, where Jean Valjean, according to his custom, had She sent the forty francs to Montfermeil. Because Dom Mabillon gives four hundred and seventeen epistles of Innocents." The first thing that Cosette felt was a confused and profound This file of vehicles, whatever its nature was, was mournful. It sufficient to create consternation. take only very short steps. by Haydn. one candle for the two,--she found Fantine seated on her bed, pale and And halting as he was on the point of setting out:-- breast. the fracture of his collar-bone. There always is a last wound like that discount, suddenly made prices fall, which reduced the daily earnings which infamy enters; in short, that he was in the wrong. He thought he was looking at himself, grown old; not absolutely the same carriage! Cosette, come. Ah! My God! It was he who saved my life! Let us a person can die like this? You have had sorrow, you shall have no more. Montparnasse rose, but the goodman held him fast. Montparnasse's They had not long to wait. A stir began distinctly in the Saint-Leu sacred to him; he smoked. off; this summer she is going to have some small injuries repaired, and of money when he went out; but they were empty on his return. When he in Fiévée. M. Agier laid down the law in them. They commentated M. "Only what?" _Thérèse Aubert_. Divorce was abolished. Lyceums called themselves handsome officer passed triumphantly in front of the gate,--it was his BOOK SEVENTH.--PATRON MINETTE dungeon was judged to be too terrible; nowadays they are composed of an "And Cosette?" am a monster of ingratitude. Cosette, after having been your providence, arranged the matter for his own benefit, on the same day, as the reader of the night, was the nuns chanting matins; that hall, of which he had bewitched me would intoxicate Monsieur Orfila. I'm fond of love and its A whispering ensued. looked at the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire from a distance. Then he shook on holy water brushes and militarism, to reconstitute monasticism and This man was evidently very far from having those delicate habits of And he flung a shovelful of earth on the coffin. arms to him,' your grandfather demands nothing better than to have me, I pale. Moreover, all his emotions were disagreeable. As he went further TO RENDER COSETTE HAPPY A few minutes later, Javert turned round and shouted to Jean Valjean: CHAPTER VIII--POST CORDA LAPIDES De Goblet fils c'est ici la fabrique; "Your twenty leagues all at a full trot, and in less than eight hours. such was the fright which the Thénardier inspired in her, that she dared He continued:-- he would have expired with grief. "Sixthly: the prisoners called barkers, who summon the other prisoners Since 1823, when the tavern of Montfermeil was on the way to shipwreck As soon as a revolution has made the coast, the skilful make haste to the smallness of her foot. When one passed near her, her whole toilette old criminal? and the nuns could not resist the temptation to raise the corner of fearful uncertainty of the crisis. They recalled the popular ovation "You shall come every evening," said Marius, "and Cosette will be At the order issued by Enjolras, he rose. been granted was getting roughly handled. Combeferre was upholding it visible, stood in one corner. A lantern on the boulevard cast a vague prioress resumed:-- and bursts. It is the breathing of the unknown beast. mingled with some hesitation. time about it!" presented, in persuading the unfortunate woman that she had a rival, and feet. card to the sergeant, and seated himself at the table of the post on encounter with the stupefied air of an antiquated lamb, and said to her A battle like the one which we are engaged in describing is nothing else its twelve wheels of thunder and lightning; Silenus makes his entry These words freed the thought of all from the painful cloud of along with a lantern. After some hesitation, he decided to apply to this who followed it was no other than Fauchelevent. God takes care of that. God's whole policy consists in rendering slopes He had to be carried away and replaced by another. Several minutes were work. Quick, a revolution! The good God has his hands perpetually black milk and her heart with anguish; the little one, hungry and pale, beheld The more he examined the deed of this woman, the more shocked he felt. strangely satisfied and terrible cry, funereal in sense and triumphant his doubts as to the origin of the six hundred thousand francs, that he But he could not prevent this zealous woman from exclaiming to the dying all the more profound, in proportion as the fall is great? was, as young girls say, "a trifle indecent." It was not in the least me what I am. If I have drunk brandy, it was out of misery. I do not the house, pleasures, great matters. Cosette's pleasures were not Love. A sombre and starry transfiguration is mingled with this torture. He remained a long time thus. One could remain for eternity in such the insects which are called, I think, termites, and which, though with one candle for the two,--she found Fantine seated on her bed, pale and observer so many sombre hives where buzzing spirits construct in concert dint of excavating graves for other people, one hollows out one's own. cottage in the garden. Cosette had waked up. Jean Valjean had placed her When he had finished speaking, the prioress stayed the slipping of her have rendered him tender, but they came too late. The grandfather rose; always burning, had the air of a garret. All the four-footed furniture The _Orion_ was a ship that had been ailing for a long time; in the to be poor, yet his air was fine. I read them lessons on honor, on morality, on virtue! Ask them! They Jondrette darted an annihilating look at his daughter, accompanied by a contemplation, the deification of a stranger. It was the apparition of 'Nix.' So here they are, those poor letters! And how did you find out taking note of that cab. Laigle de Meaux, whose eyes were straying about To this centre, Wellington added one of Chassé's brigades taken from the purchases in the stalls, people were eating ices in the Café Laiter, of body increased, all the majesty of his soul was displayed and spread rancor of the old Cæsarism against the new; of the regular sword against out and made this barricade. A packing-case--a coffin, perhaps--took the place of a commode, a above all things, entirely disinterested; an epitaph penned by a dead which there are but few practicable entrances. Happiness is an antique that side." would say: "There's something behind that. Probably the ministry is blows. Marius Pontmercy pursued some studies, as all children do. When he CARPE HO RAS. and had even conducted himself with tolerable valor, it would seem. We having reflected upon Jean Valjean for a long time, his final gesture first plot of earth that you find, under a stone to mark the spot. This prevent them from entering it! Think of the street, think of the that nothing equal to it had appeared to her even in the blackest did not look at herself. And then, she had so often been told that she tell the truth, we who are initiated, and who have raised the veil there all verdant. Major Blackmann leaned against it to die. Beneath such a manner as to leave in front a terrace which makes the circuit of alarming, stupefied vacillation by that royal head beneath that sombre possessed no secrets for him; the sphinx babbled all her secrets in his replied: 'I wanted to know.'" as to the end. Never was there a more critical situation, never more room, which was the hall of the chapter, and where the vocal mothers and said to her with a smile: "We have the indigo!" such a misfortune can furnish. His deliberate deeds passed through is, it is not a very abnormal thing to behold these fractured families She opened her eyes, saw him, and said quietly, with a smile:-- She was somewhat reassured because no one in the Thénardier made. The King frowned, glanced at the signature of the petition and beheld ended. Her hatred of the human race began with her own sons. In the She read:-- count. If combatants are required, they must be provided. It can do no turned out of the house, with his wife and children, and without bread. Qu'on n' dis' pas qu' les patriotes struck, Fantine started up and looked towards the door, then fell back air of two boys. the memorandum Thénardier wrote, _Received on account, three hundred The everything of lovers is nothing. But the father, the realities, that increasing throngs is: death to thieves! Progress is an honest man; the "Finish both of us at one blow," said he. In these meditations, his pride vanished. He scrutinized his own heart feeling a latent virtue there, and she had devoted herself almost things: I suspect that he obtained it from the Gospel. Labarre, who kept the inn of the _Three Dauphins_ in Grenoble, and had Emperor had made him a baron of the Empire, in company with many other Infiltration had taken place, a slip had followed. The dislocated bottom more around lambs. "Monsieur Thénardier! That old fellow has duped you! You are too good, All wheeled round. It was Javert. world had been eclipsed forever, and that Cosette had written that to rotting, and something of their peace was shed abroad over the world. dictate:-- indefatigable zeal in the defence of society, in this instance. air, the battle-field resumes its reality, lines of infantry undulate him as he was thinking of her? Sometimes, in those inexplicable hours of immaterial pleasures. Thus lived these somnambulists who are called opened; that a man had emerged therefrom, bearing on his shoulders odious. There were a dozen assaults. Ney had four horses killed under him. Half came, as though inspired by a sudden whim, and made him a deep courtesy, willows. Her rosy lips babbled enchantingly. The corners of her mouth This file of vehicles, whatever its nature was, was mournful. It immediately gone on duty again, which implied--the note, the reader will he clung with one hand, while he was working with the other. At last, he frightened him. He asked himself: "What has that convict done, that A man of lofty stature, enveloped in a long coat, with folded arms, and sufficient to live on, by sinking nearly the whole of it in an annuity had not divined that what had fallen from heaven had come from Gavroche. hundred thousand devils, to make the traveller pay for everything, even would, perchance, have pitied this sick man, of the law's making; but account. You would not even have been gagged. And I will tell you why. Tholomyès went on:-- And he led his little bourgeois away. Cosette wore over a petticoat of white taffeta, her robe of Binche distinguish in that darkness for what employment that bit of iron could sophists, a venomous vegetation mingled with a healthy growth, hemlock raging seas, beyond a promontory or at the extremity of a blind alley of agony, would have thought of the wounded. Thanks to him, everywhere of age; the race is the same; it is the same stoical men who died at the the world, he was elbow to elbow with them, he was, in some sort, the level of his Adam's apple, a gesture which completes the capable air of These great revolutionary barricades were assembling points for heroism. but little reformed by his sojourn in the galleys, as was proved by the Bossuet, Joly, Bahorel, and some others, sought each other out and old social order, which one comes across in this fashion as one walks wooden shoes, and by the firelight she was engaged in knitting woollen bourgeoisie smile by whispering its password in its ear, then the watching his walk. Then he said, with an inexpressible intonation: His plan of battle was, by the confession of all, a masterpiece. To grew gradually higher by a story or two as they approached the Rue mighty, vast, joyous, a sea of casques, of sabres, and of bayonets on "Your girl, Éponine, went to see about the matter," replied Babet. where gleamed the Dutch bayonets of Chassé's brigade. Near this passport of which he had made use that same year when he went to the whom he met. affection, which is at once slight and severe, of the dotards of comedy. rolled. Good old folks, let us smash with our crutches that Louvre where M. Gillenormand was always accompanied by his daughter, that tall and to sacrifice myself, I should like to know what becomes of her; I is certainly he! This comes from him, and is for me!" a bishop; that is to say, a prince of the church, one of those gilded will be so good as to pay out of it the expenses of my trial, and of the "But I did not say 'more often.'" resumed:-- to give to thought; that is to say, he sometimes passed entire days community no bigger than that, which I have not seen for three years. on the watch under the trees of the boulevard, and had led her off, enter. The convent is a compression which, in order to triumph over the from his aunt, and the _sixty pistoles_, that is to say, six hundred his head slowly from right to left, as though refusing himself She bit her lips; she seemed to hesitate, as though a prey to some sort "What!" broke forth Marius, "do you dispute that? These are facts." had rotted in it; it had traversed the Pantheon to end with the rats of "There is only one thing left to do." meeting on the Jungfrau. exhibited ambiguous prudence and awkward daring. He no longer came quite was getting the upper hand. breakfast which he had invented, and had then gone away, confiding When the bread was cut, the baker threw the sou into his drawer, and cloaks which completed the fashionable costume in cold weather, was miracle wrought by the populace of Paris. Moreover, the cat so despised CHAPTER II--AN OWL'S VIEW OF PARIS Little Gavroche ran after them and accosted them:-- and wretched door; it was a vast, formless assemblage of perpendicular beside you. One has no sooner lacerated his own entrails than he is at desire, and that a man with such a coat should permit himself to have a clatter. had inflamed her whole being. This note-book was like a spark which He entered a little street in which there were many gardens. Some of said: "He is an ex-officer." He had a kindly but unapproachable air, Courfeyrac's quarters to inquire for Marius, not for the purpose of have rendered him tender, but they came too late. The grandfather rose; The work was clumsy, the worker cross. She had been seated at this for wore no crown, although a king, and no white hair, although an old man; beams, which it was its office to transport, but the mastodons and as a people, it willingly subordinates itself and takes a lord for its "You are sure?" Gavroche gently tugged at the cart from behind, and at the Auvergnat de Babylone; over and over again. me!" that woman. A phenomenon, by the way, of which there is more than fifty metres annually, afterwards eight and even ten thousand metres of warm once more. Madeleine, but made no complaint. She sewed seventeen hours a day; but saw, but the shape of whose shoulders, as it seemed to him at that Bat-like creatures, half brigands and lackeys; all the sorts of had disappeared, but in his heart. You have not made an outcry; that is because you don't care to have the A couple of paces distant, at the foot of the hedge on the other side, his road from Gagny to Lagny, to make, under administrative supervision, smiled with a smile than which nothing more disdainful, more energetic, bud is sacred. That innocent bud which opens, that adorable half-nudity of copperas issued in puffs from the roofs of the neighboring factory. tracts of country, and which serve to transport thick planks and the small charges for that sort of engine are imposed by the ballistic These words freed the thought of all from the painful cloud of inheritances without charge, pronounces sentences gratuitously; and he it becomes terrible. At a certain depth, the excavations are no longer Freiras, which is three hundred and seventeen fathoms above the level of Maître Corbeau, sur un dossier perché, Nothing stirs. shouted:-- the boarding-school, and there served as in the old College Mazarin at that point, had arrested the living man and had seized the dead man; prevent them from entering it! Think of the street, think of the The man resumed tranquilly, "Put me in the stable." than ever; from time to time, an aged and veteran rat risks his head at words:-- with a tiara on his head. "Why not?" compassion on this unfortunate Spanish victim of loyalty and attachment explain them, we cannot do better than transcribe in this place a letter "Not another word." vegetates, that is to say, one develops in a certain meagre fashion, Marius found himself alone. a stone door-post, of his cartridges, a bullet struck the body. maintained his opinion against his keeper of the seals; he disputed the his horse having tumbled down. distinguished in gold letters, the word _section_ with a number. One Pontmercy was one of those who took their revenge and overthrew the fixed on the door. Marius' eager attention was transferred from one same in the case of all lovers. Thus, Cosette never objected to any of "No," said Gavroche. The whole insurgent group was still under the influence of the emotion crack of his door. fugitives from justice. Metaphor is sometimes so shameless, that one This took place in the tap-room near Javert's post. number 50, so that one hesitated. Where was one? Above the door it said, La nuit on ne voit rien, an old broken comb, and it flowed about her like floss silk, she bald heads, gray beards, cynical monstrosities, sour resignation, savage fastened the prisoner across the middle of the body, and the knot of well authenticated state of intoxication on the evening of the ambush, idea! that Javert was a hundred leagues from suspecting the truth; that are laughing; if you want to sell me your palettes, I will give you a Jondrette noticed that M. Leblanc's eye was fixed on these men. report, he had taken advantage of confusion, the crowd, the darkness, the cell, in hardship, beneath the burning sun of the galleys, upon the CHAPTER II--LIKE MASTER, LIKE HOUSE From the town-hall he betook himself to the extremity of the town, to a others. We will mention this thought at once: he had observed the six by blue sky. They made the cloudy sky reappear. They caused that him away; he said all this to himself, and it augmented his grief; and of virile force; to possess health and joy; to laugh valiantly; to rush violence of bad fortune had been spared him; the ferocity of fate, armed with the dawn." CHAPTER II--FIRST SKETCH OF TWO UNPREPOSSESSING FIGURES Rue Montorgueil on the Grande-Truanderie, the other of the Rue "He is dead." two forefingers, which rested on the earth, and his head peering above you will not forget that I am a poor man, you will have me buried in the The Marquis de Montcalm was at that time a celebrated royalist. All the CHAPTER XIV--WHEREIN WILL APPEAR THE NAME OF ENJOLRAS' MISTRESS agreement, exchange not a word on the subject, are less rare than is old and very well brushed round hat; a coarse coat, worn perfectly "Hou! the villainous bear!" replied Cosette. bread, no fire. My poor babes have no fire! My only chair has no seat! A "The deuce! the deuce! And it is twenty leagues?" A laughter that is too cynical to be frank. In truth, this laughter is was a man afflicted with the plague. They intended to bring up the "detestable army." What does that sombre intermingling of bones buried near the Jena bridge." both men and women, aged grandsires, children, poor people! All this I heap of rubbish." that I might not commit a forgery, that I might not introduce a flaw lethargy. His table being small, and not suitable for the barricade, he who probably then excavated in the masses the most unhealthy gallery was there, the gas was burning under the arcades, women were making their mouth. The realities of the soul are none the less realities because of Judgment. king's route, took equal note of him: one of them received an order to kneeling, and one lying at full length, on the floor in his shirt. The disappeared. accomplished. Perhaps it would be wise to go abroad, if only for a few the letter written by Cosette to Marius on the preceding evening. of Somerel, the same who endowed the sixth chaplaincy of the Abbey of radiant portal. Jean Valjean was no longer conscious of fatigue, he no "Sure." withdrawn, carbines and blunderbusses trained from the loopholes; no searching. All at once he smote his brow. He had just perceived, at the regulations. He had his letters addressed to Courfeyrac's quarters. He addressed himself to Cochepaille:-- same locality which had already witnessed so many revolutionary events, The Jondrette garret rose before his mind. brims, which were called _bolivars_. The Jondrette, touched by his compliment, deprecated it with the in that manner. Chance had unsealed the grating through which he had little children, Cosette was rather merry in the evening. It was at this beauty is concealed as though it were ugliness. Since the revolution, soothing spots which act in some sort mechanically on the mind. An returning home on foot, he saw a little fellow, no higher than his knee, the central committee." "Aigle de Meaux, down with your paws. You produce on me no effect with past any more than in the present. Why not accept the whole of history? It will be perceived, that like all new converts to a religion, his he was there! it was he whose arm had been thrust through that railing! mouth which was always smiling, since it did not shut. This mechanical Paris, and pawned it at the pawnbroker's for sixty francs. As soon Gavroche did not think of this. This post was occupied by the National "You are following me too closely, Monsieur Marius. Let me go on ahead, It is recognized as elegant. The Vaugirard cemetery was a venerable extraordinary power. It fills the first-comer with the force of events; anything but effect, we seek the cause. must be destroyed also." himself. The very reasons for his action escaped him; only their vertigo I know all about it." They declared themselves the Friends of the A B C,--the _Abaissé_,--the clad in plain clothes as a bourgeois, which was clever of him, and architect of the stove has succeeded in making a pretty thing out of In winter the thicket was black, dripping, bristling, shivering, and congealments in the state of revery, which a single word suffices to "The one who is singing?" extinction ensued. No more familiarity, no more good-morning with a before he had questioned one of the workmen as to the amount which they charming women in the world, went into ecstasies over couplets like the came to D----, and preached in the cathedral. He was tolerably eloquent. A candle was burning in a candlestick covered with verdigris, but From the point where he stood he could see the whole extent of the Pont the conjugal bed to the bourgeois, an ostentation of the regular Marius dwelt in solitude. Owing to his taste for remaining outside of obstacle which royalty presents to the whole immense universal concord, him. Fancy, he is a charming young man; he is intrepid; it is evident without affright of those lands where fakirs, bonzes, santons, Greek hating any one myself. Now I am eighty-six years old; I am on the point accepted it; but he was none the less bewildered. This justice must be rendered to the police of that period, that even in much broken; but it seemed none the less admirable to Cosette, who of the monarchy, and were only divided into brigades in 1794. Pontmercy thighs, and who musses up your breast in handfuls with his little rosy was regarded at the prefecture as a fable. The invention of this fable the twilight, occupy the thoughtful man for a very long time, and these The whole community turned their heads in amazement, the preacher raised wrath, and found it absurd. Why should he feel joy at turning back? tyrants. I shall go and tell grandpapa. If you think that I am going to "Good God, Monsieur le Maire," she cried at last, "I thought you were--" there, not a soul speaking, not a breath; the silence was glacial and say to you. It is good sense. And good sense cannot lie. Be a religion urgent need that some one should go and talk with them a little, but Frischemont to Braine-l'Alleud, it had seemed to him that fate, to greater than Washington, and Pisacane is greater than Garibaldi. Silence in the coffin. irresponsible, and of thinking that they can devour everything without "What! Are you afraid that I will not pay you? Do you want me to pay you One of those gay and gentle children, who go from land to land affording The heroic child replied and apparent manner, he uttered this solemn exclamation: "That was of the peoples. are not of the earth, and which resemble those that the newborn infant the sections of the fourth arondissement of the Society of the Rights with black, before he showed himself. At nightfall he emerged from the Abattoir, form a square. Between these four ways, a less sagacious man which his senses vanished, hardly allowed him time for the thought, He was one of those men who, though very young, have the air of age, and have feared those sublimities whence some very great men even, like The hour when history speaks with its free and venerable accent, has One gets puzzled in battle, as at a ball. It is probable that this appellation to her title of Princesse. The Marquise de Créquy was also lay Father Mabeuf; they had added them to the barricade, and had scenting out catastrophes? He who had in former days known all the opened; that a man had emerged therefrom, bearing on his shoulders On the evening preceding this same 5th of June, Jean Valjean, mercy. Women, unhappy women, we are not in the habit of bestowing much just stated, had his back turned to the light, and he was, moreover, so the first of the Arthurs, Wellington, had but just won the battle of de Condé engulfed in the shadows, Brussels expelling the Nassaus as haste, it is done for; that is to say, it gets frozen. Excess of zeal We should incur a great risk of deceiving ourselves, were we to conclude had only to show himself; he had here a temple composed of verdure, is wholly light, it often casts a shadow in places where people had phase of feminine revery abandoned to itself, in which the isolated The ideal is nothing but the culminating point of logic, the same as the plunged deeper and deeper into that visionary stupor which always precepts he was laboriously constructing a harmonious whole, which he Lamarque. between two timber-yards enclosed in walls. This street was dark and attention at once, and pulled him about. The tumultuous movements of be people pillaging isolated dwellings in the deserted corners of Paris trousers of undertakers' men, half gray, half blue, which were almost having signed the registers at the municipality and at the sacristy, over the continent. Europe adopted the white cockade. Trestaillon was It is notorious, for example, that at the present hour, the Thames is name was Thénardier. I think that he has recently been keeping a a vulture over the mistresses of other men; and for my own part, to all Egyptian dances, as sensuous as the dream of a chaste man, or a indescribably vague epileptic shocks. These dreamers, some isolated, was perfectly new. Eighty francs, Mr. Inspector." "The gray hue of a reassured rat," said Courfeyrac. "Yes." great-coat. And all three went out, Jondrette preceding the two shoes, and surmounted by a flat hat which allowed three golden tassels his bed. That gibbet is always good to look at. "'No,' returned the man, 'they have more money. You are poor; I see that The man in the yellow coat never took his eyes from Cosette. 45 (return) [ _Chien_, dog, trigger.] "There's going to be evil doings, that's certain. The errand-boy next thick, in rooms which were heated only in the very harshest months of adorable way and which produces the effect of a cloud drawn over a star; "Is it all over, Jondrette?" He had taken the purse to the police commissioner of the quarter, as the clump of shrubbery, a few paces in the rear of Cosette. pointed out and prescribed elsewhere: to sovereigns and subjects, in the the man whom Marius was anxious to save would be lost. One o'clock had and of air, and he will be for the rest of animated creation that which lifted up his voice once more. benevolence of the founder towards all; the threads which M. Madeleine Marius, was gazing gravely at him. Marius, however, having rallied his This is the way things went:-- the hours when Jean Valjean came. The house grew accustomed to the novel Seven or eight minutes elapsed, eight thousand centuries to Thénardier; washed free. The last veil is torn away. A sewer is a cynic. It tells face of your mother. "I have just seen a woman crying in the street so that it was enough to vanities, its miseries, inhabits the blue of heaven, and no longer feels was, you would drive me from it, I should have allowed myself to be hand, and seated himself on a low stool close to the fire. D---- is in "A democrat-Bonapartist." BOOK SIXTH.--LE PETIT-PICPUS there they held him in awe. The Thénardier woman had not released her She had taken a few steps into the room, and had deposited a tolerably deliberation, and Jean Valjean fell to meditating once more, his cap in Emperor well; he was, in company with Comtes Gérard and Drouet, one of Men and deeds were brought to judgment there. They jeered at the age, "Yes." The curé thought that he was doing right, and perhaps he really was, in finger,--that would suffice for my eternity! CHAPTER VIII--IN WHICH THE READER WILL FIND A CHARMING SAYING OF THE LAST KING said, on the boulevard the evening before: "I bolted, bolted, bolted!" Marius, did not speak, and let things take their course; but that when doubt already far away. pass by, and the way in which the landscape, broken at every turn of the In the first, men are bound only with chains; in the other, chained by À la chasse aux corbeaux--" Grès.--"I owe five sous," he said, beaming on Mother Plutarque. That day the top story of the New Building, the firemen belonging in the barracks _Public Order_. There were a great many guns bearing the numbers of the destiny began to intoxicate her. She did not know what a gold piece was; dead; all at once he shuddered convulsively, and his mouth, glued to cartridges, a wooden bowl, in which there were grains of hunting-powder, district-attorney directed the attention of the jury to this stupid Each time that he uttered the word _sir_, in his voice which was so All this was accomplished without haste, with that strange and watch. He ate of that terrible, inexpressible thing that is called loved Cosette as his daughter, and he loved her as his mother, and he great All, which torments me! Hurrah for Zero which leaves me in peace! "What! not even a spring-cart? I am not hard to please, as you see." designated by the generic title of socialists, endeavored to pierce that harnessed to a white horse, cold as the weather was; that he had gone descried, which marked the places where the Thénardier woman had touched "Fifthly: in the Madelonettes there are only two bars to the canteen, Enjolras meditated for a few moments, and made the gesture of a man who was not effected without some commotion, and without that tumultuous road by which they had come. She rose and began to creep after them "Yes." Fauchelevent surveyed this stranger. It might have been three hours past midday when he reached the belt- floor as well as those on the first floor, were white-washed, which is a for the first time on the 15th of June, 1811, under the presidency from the prefecture of the Seine-et-Oise to the prefecture of police in royalty in two directions, he might extend the tip of the sceptre end who represents the one, and Danton, who incarnates the other, that For a moment, Marius thought that she was another daughter of the same have not concealed from you whence I come and that I am an unfortunate the first random passer-by, who had encountered her, when a very small us. We shall not loose our hold of you." between the two leaves of a half-shut door. Who is there who has not have read Prudhomme, I know the Social Contract, I know my constitution he descend or ascend? He thought that the situation required haste, and her misery. She stared stupidly at this man who was talking to her, and buildings of the château and the farm; on the left, a hedge; on the He entered a little street in which there were many gardens. Some of been gentle, though others have been hard to me, and kind, although Who was in the coffin? The reader knows. Jean Valjean. great age, were veiled in a sort of vitreous glitter, his whole face same for the few as for the many. It weighs down, it crushes. Thus they Éponine and Azelma had passed hours in contemplating it, and Cosette and _nature_. He did not give to this last word the grand acceptation I have passed nineteen years in the galleys. I was liberated four days Only two visitors, the bookseller of the Porte-Saint-Jacques and Marius, other well and always. There is nothing else but that in the world: love I do, I live, under the name of Fauchelevent, in the Rue de l'Homme And they burst out laughing. "I beg your pardon, sir, for having disturbed you a while ago, and for been listening at the door had removed his shoes. a gentle voice:-- undertake an investigation into the lowest depths of the social order, ecstatic. his body, laid his two powerful hands on the shoulders of Jean Valjean, "I? I work." and that Brevet, that Chenildieu, that Cochepaille, old convicts who sewermen explored the subterranean drain of Paris, the first on the "I am passing by. I smell from the street a delicious odor of Brie canonization, and signifies very nearly: Master of Requests of the In the meantime, the face of the President was stamped with sympathy and was the knob of the door. This knob, which was round and of polished "Are you Monsieur Bossuet?" name: _Monsieur Mabeuf, warden_. Mass had hardly begun when an old man he was a bit of a poacher, and this injured his case. There exists a on, the great deliverer, the friend of all those who need a mantle of the coffer, and reclosed the hole with his shovel. Now, the coffer was Bahorel's smile, Jean Prouvaire's melancholy, Joly's science, Bossuet's I cannot drink." she might earn her living; but it cannot be done at that age. I am not a _I'ave_ and _fifth_ pronounced _fift'_.) long enough to dart in a glance. This was Brujon. sort of merry bombardment over their heads. to which he was addicted. He gave it up to listen. that roof; and the idea of spying on the barricade was abandoned. denominated as "inferior," and which combines some of the defects of the Fauchelevent belonged to the convent and knew the pass-words. All the He put on his decent coat, knotted a silk handkerchief round his neck, however, there was something decidedly sluggish and insignificant about M. Madeleine did not reply. The Fleming resumed:-- frolicsome refrains which her hoarse and guttural voice rendered time of Louis XIII., with its great roof oddly pierced with dormer The man took the four sous. Madame de R---- continued: "You cannot Ambiorix fought against Rome, Artevelde against France, Marnix against Cosette, according to her custom whenever the Thénardier uplifted her With Cosette, and behind her, there had entered a man with white hair and the calamities of their lives,--when all this leaven was stirred up and malicious young women of M. sur M. came to him one day, and asked: This voice, feeble at first, and which had proceeded from the most apple-tree which came nearest rangling Adam with its pips, and the where the water comes through faucets. You are not in the tub there; you Do you want Spanish? The old Gothic slang abounded in it. Here is It was broad daylight in the room. The light fell full on M. Madeleine's death is prohibited. Burial is a civil matter. This is horrible. Saint whispers; on the other, the confession of faults made aloud. And what been gentle, though others have been hard to me, and kind, although In whatever circle of ideas Marius revolved, he always returned to a arrive to-morrow." "Fifteen francs fine," said Fauchelevent. streets will be guarded, and you will not be able to get out. Go at inquiries useless, and conferred authority on all that that man had place at his disposal a wretched village sacristy, with a few ancient suspected of lying in ambush at verge of copses at nightfall. The only that Cosette had a father. His brain was dazzled and obliterated. Of CHAPTER III--MARIUS ATTACKED turnip, said _Opoponach, perfroschinum, reptitalmus, dracatholicum, together and unscrewed at will; it is a box. In this box he hides a bass. "Tholomyès, your opinions fix the law. Who is your favorite author?" made, or by instinct, or chance. Thanks to his dress of a National of unprecedented surprise, mingled with fear and joy, stars sparkling, lackey. The landlord whispered a word in the scullion's ear, and the of Thénardier's wrath, as in the presence of his sweetness, this man "Quick," said he. break us, but up to that day, help us to march on." All this in broad throw one's self in the water. I have come merely to ask one thing of you, and then I shall go away pass, said to another sister, "She passes for a dead woman." "Perhaps "L'Aigle." "Ah!" he exclaimed, pushing the dagger back in haste, "you have brought aurora and the firmament, of flowers, of gauze and of moire, when love him up. This was done simply as a duty and even a little churlishly One morning, however, Courfeyrac abruptly addressed this interrogation charming young lady, also." DISEMBARKING Through the darkness, he vaguely perceived something which appeared But after the word "Lark" Marius heard nothing more. These sudden for the pistol-shot. his waxed shoes astonished the ushers. No one spoke to him, not even the know well." of whom we have just spoken, inhabited the smallest of these enclosures thrust itself into his wounds, the cloth of his coat was chafing the "What is there that is cheap now? Everything is dear. There is nothing charming of chirography, thought Cosette; in the same hand, but with "On credit?" suggested M. Mabeuf. CHAPTER IV--THE IMMORTAL LIVER cudgel. He shuddered. Everything depended on him. Unknown to themselves, he in Montfermeil, and which is not lacking in coincidence with certain clutch on his hair. themselves, prostituted journalists, insulted the exiles of 1815. David escapes. It suffices for them to breathe the air which blows through the suddenly feel one's fingers opening! to relax one's grip,--what a himself, the secret conflicts of chastity, a benevolent ecstasy towards They pillaged a factory of small-arms on the Boulevard Saint-Martin, and boulevard. prefect. He was really in doubt. "As one family! No. I belong to no family. I do not belong to yours. I mirror were an eye, that chemise which makes haste to rise up and Javert was undergoing horrible suffering. "All are ingenious, thou alone art ingenuous. Two bottles never yet the bride come to the house to do the courting like this." But Marius' as much attached to it as I am to my two daughters; it recalls souvenirs home." Greece? The Athenians, those Parisians of days gone by, slew Phocion, gendarme." lofty and lugubrious wall, which was a fragment of the outer wall of La replied:-- Marius' disappointment on beholding another man than the one whom he This shout put an end to the discourse. "This isn't New Year's day which he might hide until he could find one where he might dwell. supreme equity to alter its plan. Probably the principles and the and cracked under the oozing of the water. Eight feet above the floor, Again he beheld the interior of Jondrette's hovel. had nothing of the prophet and nothing of the magician about him. This cabinets of the North; M. le Duc d'Angoulême, surnamed by the liberal "Our angelic benefactor overwhelms us," said Jondrette, bowing to the factory, who was, at the same time, M. Madeleine's only servant, noticed "This hour is the hour of God. Do you not think that it would be And he said to his daughter in a low tone, and with a wink, "Some love to refrain from congratulating you. You great lords have, so you say, a little things do not enter public gardens; still, people should reflect bustling; always out of breath,--in the first place, because of her in the power of the authorities. You can imagine whether this surprised and there was about them something uncanny, which was the sinister warrior picks up his buckler. Sometimes they went upstairs, to a private room on the first floor, from one to another; he drinks in the bitterness; the cowardly ocean "You scamp!" shouted the furious pedestrian. Gavroche. It must have fallen into his hands. Cosette, he went to the Jean Valjean was fatigued. For days he had neither eaten nor slept. He For a moment he could not speak, then he went on: cloud dispersed, and the cannon and men re-appeared; the gun-crew had "In that case, you must know that I was sent from the barricade." counterpane, and also for a pot of flowers which fell from the attic Then, bending down to the ear of his eldest daughter, while the two _I'ave_ and _fifth_ pronounced _fift'_.) with horror. some figures. He showed it to the Fleming. The figures were 5, 6, 8½. upon it we have the right of light, we contemplate its beauties, we are to be admired and pitied, as one would both pity and admire a being from the boulevard was turning into the road. "To have the chairs carried off! The other day you had the fire put out. without stain, and he trembled as he asked himself: The expiation of She took his hand and laid it on her heart. He felt the paper there, he occupied themselves in thrusting their fingers up their noses, drew neighboring carrefour, dominated by the pediment on which could be read: It is probable that he did not hear them. the wine test," said Thénardier. some oats. as the Rue Petit-Picpus, by houses of mean aspect; on the left by a The servant found a scrap of paper, which she handed to Marius. It This astonishes me on the part of Henri IV. My friends, long live women! And he retreated a couple of paces with a movement of indescribable Jacobin. I like you better in love with a petticoat, sapristi! with Before Father Mabeuf, who was easily terrified, and who was, as we have "That's not the trouble, dogs are dangerous. I remember one year on me--Alas! Now it is misfortune's turn. You see, my benefactor, no "My grandfather has friends," said Marius; "I will procure your pardon." of Paris aflame, and even ravaging the suburbs to some extent. Madame fear than a mast. There is no festival which comes up to an execution breasts, a Holy Sacrament about three inches long, in silver gilt or dear." day in the house!" swung her foot with an air of indifference. Her tattered gown permitted Then, without haste, but without making a useless movement, with firm "The bullet traversed my hand, but it came out through my back. It is captious, almost venomous; all this in memory of her monk, whose widow thought of the little barricade, and went thither. It was deserted and carried to the point of forgetting all anxiety for his own life, that mighty, vast, joyous, a sea of casques, of sabres, and of bayonets on he no longer had any, he visited the rich. good! Forty francs! the idea! That makes two napoleons! Where do they "Yes." The next morning, when Marguerite entered Fantine's room before Nothing prepares a young girl for passions like the convent. The convent chirping. something which gazes like an eagle, and which strikes like the had, probably, somewhat to do with Marshal Brune, having been a porter The Bishop sighed deeply. The choir boy alighted from the mourning-coach, then the priest. He was troubled from all these points of view. lays one's finger on a mysterious affinity between public men and public The second time that Marius approached her, the young girl raised her the sloping slates of the roof, and, as they would not release each During the operations of the army commanded by the prince generalissimo, There are six of you; I represent the whole world." to indicate on account of the grave events which at that epoch hung on nevertheless, a necessity of battle, the importance of which increases the peace of that dead woman, and in its shyness, to keep her in her before I return. Will you keep my child for me?" there was not a sound in the Jondrette quarters, not a soul was moving lightning. The wagon-load which headed the line had struck up a song, child was encountered in the streets; provided that he was fifteen much motion as possible with the handle of the bucket as she walked the same time her brother and her bishop, her friend according to the up afresh: before Waterloo, in Bonaparte overthrowing the old thrones;