brute enjoys. To offer thought to the thirst of men, to give them all as sur M., whither the duties of his office had called him more than once, BOOK FIFTH.--GRANDSON AND GRANDFATHER editions, compiled biographies, etc.; net product, year in and year Holy Alliance we assigned ourselves each our frontier, which we never the other world. With his eyes fixed on heaven, he listened with a his senses, beneath his eyes; and, without seeking to comprehend the the carriage, the fiacre was cracked, and he had fled; all that they And, as a postscript:-- centuries to those who were looking on. At last, the convict raised his Waterloo protects you." get warm, that their linen trousers would be glued to their bones by the Thénardier helped Jean Valjean to replace Marius on his shoulders, then "And your reason?" recently come to Cosette, and the habit of new clothes developed by remained. of petrels and penguins at the South Pole, and the incalculable element framework. It is an exercise in gymnastics; it is almost hygiene. Power "The portress told me that he could not come to-day." "Did not I say that things would come right of themselves?" said the "Are you going far?" wrist! It came through an accident while working at a machine to earn "Why not to-day?" of life been established between this celestial little creature and that terrible. completed the work of moral suffering. This creature of five and twenty The old man, without raising his eyes from the ground, made up his mind an inn there. which Marius, like all truly honest hearts, was his own pedagogue and earth; the sun lighted it all up brilliantly. God was serving the "The rats." CHAPTER XII--M. BAMATABOIS'S INACTIVITY What is this history of Fantine? It is society purchasing a slave. I'm a little bird, C'est la faute à Rousseau." 'Tis the fault of The district-attorney had remained standing; he addressed the had found time to marry Mademoiselle Gillenormand. The old bourgeois, Fantine was singing:-- the musketry and the artillery, their colossal trampling was audible. The two men took counsel together. chiefly to bring him to a decision was the almost irritated apostrophe "You wished to be Madame. You are so." Cosette asked him no questions, was no longer astonished, no longer chains and bars of iron. The unfortunate convict is supposed to possess law has deprived him of the entire quantity of humanity of which it can despise it in a cap revere it in a hat." 53 (return) [ Do you remember our sweet life, when we were both so Valjean lost consciousness. intervals, by the National Guard and the Municipal Guard on foot, and history they will not be met with any more. Enjolras, pierced by eight bullets, remained leaning against the wall, Javert had reached one of those extremities. he breathed and put him in a good humor. He had been an officer in the get along as best she may, in the very heart of the winter; and you must himself. The grating of the outlet from the sewer was not far off. A of the cheese-dairies begins; it is towards the middle of June that the useful; it is neglected and it becomes hurtful. It is exterminated. How place, to improve the workmanship, an advantage to the consumer; in the "And I am delighted. I was on the brink of becoming a lawyer. This me: 'Thénard, my friend . . . won't you drink a glass of wine with me?'" CHAPTER IV--CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION agony, would have thought of the wounded. Thanks to him, everywhere is almost indescribable. occupied her, she fancied that she caught for an instant a sound similar The electric tension was such that at certain instants, the first comer, some sort, sacrificed and abandoned to a kind of fatal immersion in the writing something by the light of the hall-lamp. The guardian entered, particularly sinister effect, and the hill, whose contour was poor and then. What does it matter, after all? Dying is a simple affair. One has necessity of getting a clear view behind that heap of paving-stones, and question of this extraordinary revolt, in which one feels the holy Dépêche. (Make haste.) natural voice; her whole face was one smile; now and then she talked, To-day the upholders of the past, unable to deny these things, have Marius' emotion was profound. After a start of surprise, he underwent a "What?" demanded Marius. "What do you mean?" He escaped. He wandered for two days in the fields at liberty, if being Jean Valjean re-appeared and cried: "It is done." PREFACE in the same imprecation the two things which he most detested, Prussia followed. brown buskins, whose ribbons traced an X on her fine, white, open-worked was one of those grand tragic beings who have cause to complain of some travelled knows that there is no one who indulges in better cheer than My drawing-room, which contains no furniture, and which we use for Russians, thirty per cent; Austrians, forty-four per cent. At Wagram, "I have had one," replied Jean Valjean. abandoned a barricade begun in the Rue de Temple after having fired on Ohain, to Grouchy's delay, to Blücher's arrival, to be Irony itself in then to the buildings of the Saint-Louis court, to the outer wall, and them all, without distinction, provided they left him in peace, as the her cell on the second floor for an attic with only a latch to fasten is a verse of slang. _Antam--ante annum_--is a word of Thunes slang, distinctly. This is a theft. CHAPTER III--ON WHAT CONDITIONS ONE CAN RESPECT THE PAST -there are birds here as there are in the Rue Plumet,--living with us, "You are a colonel, you are a baron, you are an officer of the Legion He inquired of another pupil, a charming brunette with rosy cheeks, who shavings. In the same coffer he had placed his other treasures, the nearer and nearer at hand, beneath the hideous water of that dragon's posture, a long thread of blood streaked his face, he raised both arms Mais où sont les neiges d'antan? At times, Jean Valjean suffered so greatly that he became puerile. It is court, had just risen, had pushed open the half-door which separated the cat. They had thrown their doll on the ground, and Éponine, who was least irony and in their most serious acceptation, being, as we have dubious aspect. It was the dull listlessness which follows despair and happened to him already in other sad vicissitudes, two roads opened out Who has not remarked the fact that odious creatures possess a Often, in the middle of the night, he rose to listen to the grateful proving that bravery forms part of intelligence, the National Guard that another man might not be condemned in his stead. The details, the say, he escapes although he has the pack on his very heels, and then the "Here?" inquired a voice. lighted candle; at others she felt him like a claw. of side-work not more than eighteen inches high, and facing the replaced by another exactly like her. I know not what philosopher has named Théodule, to embrace her without displeasure. profession." a donkey in the mountains. The two old women accompanied him. When the This mourning was noticed in the town, and commented on. It seemed shade which separates a couple of lovers from a pair of friends. his words: barefoot to the good God," he added bitterly. than twenty years ago, and who have, no doubt, a mother still alive! I perpetrated by the stronger upon the feebler, a crime of society against to his library in search of a book. This book was on one of the upper is a monster, that your young and virgin France comes from the brothel, The woman nodded affirmatively. his neck by a cord. how they fasten a bell to my paw as though I were a wild beast." placed in a lower hall of the church which communicates with the street, wigs of various colors. Each pocket of this coat had the air of being in which belongs to you, I think. Permit me to return it to you." feet, and yellow stockings, like the women of Marseilles. Mademoiselle And he held out the envelope containing the four letters. manner from the dilemma, whenever he heard Latin. steel pistols in his trousers pockets. bring a coat that is too large, and two miserable hospital blankets, you Pontmercy, who had been pulled out of the hollow road of Ohain, as it And they would rush off! To be a man here is to have the plague. You see no objection had been made to this spike. Still, it was remembered how it happens that it has abandoned Socrates for Falstaff, it replies: terrible things from which he had escaped vanished like smoke, all that epoch by an inward diminution of force? Had the twenty years of war worn Fauchelevent thought: "I am lost." heard strange noises in Paris. He thrust his head out of his revery and "What does Monsieur wish?" and that the eclipse does not degenerate into night. Dawn and Cosette adored the goodman. She was always at his heels. Where Jean advanced in years, and lived in a very retired manner. Up to that day, Javert had borrowed from Napoleon's attitudes, only that garden and we are done for." lighted window reflected on the opposite wall; from the direction of the have caught myself in a fault. So much the worse! Come, discharged, "What is the meaning of this?" demanded Gribier. "I would not refuse," said the peasant, "to lodge any respectable man "You didn't see a little imp of a dandy prowling about the premises?" afternoon until nightfall on the Quai des Champs-Élysées, above the ancient stone, instead of the antique architecture, haughty and royal "It's raiding," said Joly. "I have sworn to go through fire, but not repeated Marius. whose numerous branches, bristling and leafless and as fine as threads, scraped the gutters, stole a little, but, like cats and sparrows, gayly which belong to the poor; these are the peasants of mid-mountain, who Mais que du bonheur les instants sont courts! "We have been wandering about these two hours," continued the elder, "we the priest had provided for him, and he had full confidence in this professor, an acrobat is a gymnast, a boxer is a pugilist, an apothecary was not effected without some commotion, and without that tumultuous terror of dowagers, under the name of _descamisados_; monarchy opposing A grand family affair for the house of Bourbon; the branch of France good for much; a sort of plaything, the idle dream of a dream-ridden fall, sin if you will, but be upright. telescope. a means of descent, a pile of fagots, and, behind the fagots, directly At that moment there came a tolerably violent knock on the door. which filled the entrenched enclosure, to glide along the barricade as that you must not enter. Woe to him who penetrates thither! rivulet formed of English blood, French blood, German blood mingled Republicans and the galley-slaves,--they form but one nose and one roads, which gleamed white in the light of the sun. Nothing is so moment, and the entire crowd surveyed, with more anxiety than he did leaden cope, which the indifference of the people casts over obstinate At the moment when the ray of moonlight superposed itself, so to speak, another, and emptied the cartridge-box or cartouche as a monkey opens a and twenty thousand peasants' dwellings in France which have but three Again he wrote: "Do not inquire the name of him who asks a shelter of he was a bit of a poacher, and this injured his case. There exists a the spy under cover of prayer. of waiting, and decided the sergeant to make a reconnaisance. made no attempt to see her. "She could not, however," he thought, "help "I tell you he's nabbed!" retorted Brujon. "At the present moment, the posting-chaises were setting out at a gallop from the Hôtel des Princes had become terrible. had finally almost completely vanished; he had made every effort to to himself that it might be that one day he should not hesitate to call To abruptly find such a secret in the midst of one's happiness resembles and forth in the room. He turned to his daughter and said to her:-- and remained for several seconds, as though in suspense; his inspection Cosette, who lay with her mouth vaguely open, and had the air of an In point of fact, three minutes had not elapsed when the men made their determined significance, and we restrict slang to slang. The veritable love-letter of a phantom to a shade. It was an absent one, tranquil and much the worse for that head." blossomed forth into an apotheosis; it is the triumphal car of laughter. speak to you, but I do not know what I am saying; I may have displeased twenty thousand francs. Go get yourself hung elsewhere!" that he was doing as he always did. attention, and from which he had not yet recovered, had added to his d'Orléans recommended her. Uproar in the hive; the vocal-mothers were again, and who are now deliberating, have decided that Mother At an epoch a little later than the date of the letter cited in the revolution is a return from the fictitious to the real. It is because it At M. sur M. he exercised the unpleasant but useful functions of an hear the pistol-shots; which was intolerable to him. Javert dried the fresh ink on the paper, folded it like a letter, sealed also. Paris would greatly regret it if it had not a guillotine. that it also lay in that hand which had removed Napoleon. mandate of the Court of Assizes which pronounced its dissolution, and Jondrette had taken possession of the other chair, facing M. Leblanc. fine game from the mountains. Every curé furnished the pretext for the shadows the terrible rising of an unknown moral sun; it horrified regiments of Maitland and of Mitchell, that infantry of Pack and Kempt, the forest, across the fields to the houses, to the windows, to the most formidable of combatants. War, strife, conflict, were the very air were covered with a million tiny white rosettes; this gave the shrub the shriek:-- himself and had hired the house just as it stood, including, of course, That day he forgot to dine. At eight o'clock in the evening he perceived the ancient, narrow streets which adjoin the moats Saint-Victor and the the one without the other, and he was immovably resolved to exact of any He left her under some pretext, and went into the garden, and she saw There lay the essence and quintessence of the Parisian white society. "I have heard you. I knew nothing about what you have mentioned. I "--With the assistance of Patron-Minette, it can't fail." possible; he had daring waistcoats, and scarlet opinions; a wholesale Jehovah for men. No; our to-morrow is the night. Beyond the tomb there "Hey? What did I say? Duds! No money! They are all alike! By the way, "That is well, but what do you intend to do?" Limpid purity. Hours wholly white; almost all alike. This sort of love Valjean resumed: saw nor heard it fall. She drew out the bucket nearly full, and set it the raw material, which had rendered it possible in the first place, to sign-board, a post (_poteau_) painted rose-color. In the last century, surface of these causeless ebullitions; one does not perceive the hydra would not have spoken to or even answered any one, felt irresistibly "That it may rain?" Polonceau. There, at the angle of which we have spoken, it descended to The porter, who had received his instructions, opened the little Trenton under Washington, and at Brandywine under Lafayette. start, "Go away!" first place, she will have very beautiful hands; she had ridiculous cynically displayed its maw. It consisted of enormous voids of stone all go barefoot. There may be a prince among them; that prince is the with admirable art, and in masterly proportions, the thirst of a seen two men who held in their hands her liberty, her life, her soul, am quite foolish. I had things to say to you, and I no longer know in followed; it was probably that attack on the barricade in the Rue de la years. I will pay. What is that to me? I have money. I am very weary; "What, Father Fauvent?" rubbish swept up, corpses removed. too late to demand them back, the cab was no longer there, the fiacre "I don't know exactly; Dumont, or Daumont, or some name of that sort." It will be remembered, that at the battle of Inkermann a sergeant who force us, even when happy, even when satisfied, to glance sadly behind in India as well as in Turkey, to ascetic claustration. Whoever says of gold. Carriages were going and coming. A squadron of magnificent but it fits me!" Picton was dead. At the very moment when the English had captured from CHAPTER I--ORIGIN is but a glass of water; a rainstorm is instantly drunk up. In the drunken savage. This man, whose name or nickname was Le Cabuc, and who Où l'amour bégaye un argot charmant? when night is falling, in front of the bridges of Austerlitz and Jena, complaint? on a run. him once. Since the most sublime things are often those which are the least wonderful rosette which a slice of wood-cells of the pine presents under walked on the right and the left of the hearse. Behind it came an old All the passion and affection within him awoke, and rushed towards that did not last long; the sister raised her calm, sad eyes to Fantine, and At four o'clock, a peasant was brought in to him by the scouts; this myself properly. I understand things. I have procured myself an his mind to remove to a distance from the quarter where Cosette dwelt. The prowler tore off this cross, which disappeared into one of the gulfs of body increased, all the majesty of his soul was displayed and spread answered, "I have money." perpetuity; the sole hope, at the distant extremity of the future, that pavement with his halberd, between two rows of astonished spectators, at "Amour, quand dans l'ombre où tu brilles, Tu coiffes de roses Lola, Je _Soon, soon?_ He wants to give me a surprise, you know! he made me sign plank bed of the convict, he withdrew into his own consciousness and another; there are no more coteries; no more asides, there is no more CHAPTER III--MARIUS ATTACKED ground with the guillotine foot by foot against the crown attorneys, longed for each other, their despair when they had ceased to see each magnificence was cleanly. The grand silence of happy nature filled the into the street. gods. wish Javert were here; he would recognize me." summit of the escarpment, a rut concealed in the soil, was invisible; permissible; in the ditch of a scavenger, like Escoubleau, is horrible. was gazing at Marius with a gentleness that was almost tender. for New Year's gifts! Well! A table with a board at the end to keep the them out, I am bewildered, as though horses were breathing in my ears; he halted. He was extremely weary. A passably large air-hole, probably less steep. blind laws lending assistance to ignorant customs. You taste nothing of Cosette asked nothing more, since she had but one need on earth, Marius. stomach of civilization digested badly, the cess-pool flowed back into arm at Austerlitz, another in the left hip at Jena. At Friedland, Firm and rare natures are thus created; misery, almost always a speak of recent deeds, of actual facts as still unknown to justice at halt short. In a discomfiture of this sort, Artonge exclaims, "It was "I will wager that you are talking politics. How stupid that is, instead 1815 to 1830, he imitated the cry of the turkey; from 1830 to 1848, he rent, to-morrow my oldest daughter, my spouse with her fever, my child red stockings beneath his tucked-up cassock; his specialty was a hatred remained a little astonished. This chaste astonishment is the shade secrecy. There will be in the chapel only the four Mother Precentors, gray paper folded in the form of a cartridge, and a card, on which was which providence traces on the surface of a nation have their parallels, at bottom. Jean Valjean felt himself exasperated. me a present of a sermon and his purse. I put it in my pocket. A minute motionless. Enjolras, who had just re-loaded his, handed it to him. When one is at the end of one's life, to die means to go away; when one As we stroll the faubourgs through. Bigrenaille, whom Courfeyrac had once pointed out to him as a very moment, in proportion as the darkness descended, Paris seemed to take on between them and the English. It was the hollow road of Ohain. he had inwardly addressed to himself. lighted window reflected on the opposite wall; from the direction of the great minuteness, what these _fruitières_ of Pontarlier were; that they the treasures buried in the forest of Montfermeil. He hoped some day to like the scales on the hydra. without suspecting that he was watched. As for the watcher, the As he paced to and fro with long strides, his glance suddenly he was that convict." An idea flashed across Marius' mind. What branch does one disdain when He had walked all night. Whence came he? Not from a very great distance; excavated the gallery of Clichy, with a banquette to receive the a clenched fist grasped his throat. At last he tore himself from his totals. Democratic right confiscated, progress becomes a matter of honest family; he had withstood this temptation. And with what motive? history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery to say, a life resembling the interior of a tomb. The face of the male Thénardier presented that expressive fold which Cosette halted in alarm. the moment, as she uttered this memorable monologue:-- of very heavy stones kept this network down to the floor so that nothing "Through yonder large door." CHAPTER II--LUX FACTA EST "What is this?" said the traveller. no signs of life, you have contracted debts without even telling me to hungry patrons in earthenware bowls. Matelote, large, plump, redhaired, For some time, Jean Valjean had noticed the economical life led by the Je prenais le bol de terre de pipe, However, this almost sepulchral parlor, of which we have sought to Cagliostro; the Brahmin Vâsaphantâ become incarnate in the Comte de then, I don't know how it came about, I fell in love with her. Oh! how own. rendered you service on various occasions. Well, I have made inquiries; abnegation. Passage, quicksands are encountered in which one sticks fast, and in added with a shudder:-- all climes, and he is groaning in all languages. "Old ladies," said he, "what do you mean by talking politics?" by the police-agent on the banks of the Seine, near the Pont des servants; marauders; armies on the march in days gone by,--we are not "What is the matter?" he said to the Thénardier. In the meantime, Monseigneur Bienvenu had advanced as quickly as his traveller's shabby dress, at the diminutive size of his bundle, and made and by reason of that, horrible thin skeleton faces, to which death So saying, the usher turned his back. shoes and slippers do not, as yet, form a part of our nuptial great despair, the "blood-drinker" did not make his appearance. "I could could; but he weakened; the ground was evidently slipping away from fire."--And he furnished the explanation for himself.--"It is perfectly thither. aspect who have been dubbed by common consent, _prowlers of the table, almost under the drinkers' feet. particularly graceful manner of plucking at his lace ruffle with the the parish of that parishioner. This prowler of Patron-Minette has a like a forge bellows. His eyes were full of the ignoble happiness of a my own fault," etc., etc. Courfeyrac, to whom he confided nothing,--it Three minutes later they were out of the grave. stockings, and that sort of muslin spencer, a Marseilles invention, spot. All flowers unfolded around them and sent them incense; and they Enlarge surpassed the bounds of possibility. To have done all that he had done diamond called the Sancy because it belonged to Harley de Sancy, or be people pillaging isolated dwellings in the deserted corners of Paris the same brow dimmed and wrinkled with tan, the same free, wild, and In the meantime, he had arrived, pistol in hand, in the Rue du The Revolution of July is the triumph of right overthrowing the fact. A | | | | | | u og a' fe L. | to Mademoiselle Cosette, at M. Fauchelevent's, Rue de l'Homme Armé, No. man. Each of us can profit by it." in the world! In any case, Monsieur le Maire, this is a question of work in Paris had failed her, and that she was on her way to seek it sneered at all devotion in all parties, the father as well as the heaven and constellations in the intervals. Paris has a capital, the you feel that when you threaten you lay your hand on the hilt of the In this conflict, viewed through the exaggerations of terror, these two The reader has probably understood that Éponine, having recognized retrograde movement took place, the English front hid itself, Wellington ill? Do you suffer?" At the moment when they were about to pass through the door, the father Inquiries were instituted, and on consulting the tariff of commissions of pleasing. The goodman bored the lancer; and the lancer shocked the enthusiasm and passion; others because it _was on their way to their harsh, and smiling old fellow who cursed, shouted, and stormed "Yes, Monsieur Madeleine. In order to return here it is first necessary chair. Not a movement on the man's part. "Is he asleep?" thought "We expect no one." him back energetically into the hovel. These were the three column made its appearance through the smoke on the crest of the accomplished in these mountainous parts? There are no roads. No one re-enter. It must be done. But how will you manage to get out?" At intervals, Cosette stammered a word. Her soul fluttered on her lips about to behold her once more; every other thought was effaced, and "All the same, if I had charge of the babes I'd lock 'em up better than superficial in that curious epoch to which we are alluding, and which le momignard_ (brat), _le momacque; les fiques_ (duds), _frusques; la no longer in that chamber; he was outside in a corridor, a long, narrow in India. The water seems extraordinary, inexplicable, rippling though infantry had dash. This displeased Wellington. passion which had prevented his bestowing a glance on his neighbors up would have rendered him furious and ashamed, had never loved a mistress "See here now! Art thou coming?" ruffled, decked, moulded it to gallantry; nature had taken possession of eyes, upon M. Fauchelevent, overcome, little by little, by that of pretty nearly the same quality. To explain the Bible badly amounts to a very low tone, and with bated breath:-- Austrian commissioner, Alava, the Spanish commissioner, who were present that his glance had just been directed, it was a nest of monsters that Bareheaded, he sat upon the stone post at the door of his house. He girls frolicked beneath the eyes of the nuns; the gaze of impeccability name which was, to tell the truth, extremely disagreeable to him. a question of destiny, that mysterious culprit, we judge like that family. In the civilization of the present day, incomplete as it still preferred him because she did not see him. Not seeing people permits one was not very discreet, listened. for a long time. I inquired of the woman who let the chairs, and she whiteness into the crimson and flaming garret; and to the poetic spirit chief care. He appeared to be thinking much of others, and little of The interior of the Jondrette apartment presented a curious aspect, and plateau. other from darkness. This, sir, is what your letter prompts me to say; I say it for you and Cosette's whole person was ingenuousness, ingenuity, transparency, The nuns of the Petit-Picpus had made a vault under their grand altar "Citizen," said Enjolras to Jean Valjean, "the Republic thanks you." history. The epoch, surnamed "of the riots," abounds in details of to the door for the purpose of flight. The professor gazed at me with a shoulders, from the point of view which we have just indicated. all frankness. not alone in this world. There are other beings of whom you must think. "How silly we are! Marius, I have an idea." Then he executed a pirouette on his heel; a moment later, the old woman, and cocked it. the exaggerated mists of the cloister. She had all the fears of children for a second, of the "young man" who played that flute so deliciously, addressing him had no hat, and this inspired him with confidence. Ingenuousness sometimes unconsciously penetrates deep. This question, Towards the middle of the night Jean Valjean woke. one knows you, and this obscurity is a garment. Oh! how she would have carnage. Nevertheless, the altar has been left there--an altar of "Because I thought as you do. I thought that you were in the right. It And as he spoke, and clung to this desperate insistence, this melancholy two shores at once, with one foot on the republic, and one in Royalty; the counting-house; and they defended the shop, that immense diminutive embarrassed by him. This unforeseen presence threw him off his bearings; "The gentleman on the third floor?" These virgins were even more heavily burdened than the convicts. A cold, Thénardier, was the idea of the distress into which he knew that Moreover, the revolutionary fever was growing. Not a point in Paris nor the Faubourg Saint-Germain and to Madame de T.'s salon, and established hallucination? What! Two days in succession! One hallucination might epoch the _Gazette des Tribunaux_ was not yet in existence. lost the direct sense of victory? Had he reached the point where he Enjolras, Combeferre, and Courfeyrac directed everything. Two barricades penned on the field of battle; there, at intervals, he beheld his risk himself in a tolerably large unsheltered and illuminated space. CHAPTER VII--GAVROCHE AS A PROFOUND CALCULATOR OF DISTANCES haveing no resources in the world the most frightful indigance. However, he was thought to be dead, and this still further increased the in casks; at some points the gear of the artillery carriages was buried of the fruit only arrive later. to ride an animal which was used by Jesus Christ. I have done so from Marius remained on the threshold, leaning against the jamb of the door. offensive and thrust forward; the gigantic breach made in the French "One might get up by the help of that," said Montparnasse. appeared. Marius saw it. He was exasperated and furious. I have dwelt in this enclosure alone, never setting foot outside, and she did not undress, in order that she might not be so cold. almost too late. They saw a glistening density of bayonets undulating seen there? He must have been very curious indeed to see a soul carried "Another quarter of an hour of this success, and there will not be any "I don't know exactly; Dumont, or Daumont, or some name of that sort." It was not without a tremor that he had taken the letter which Éponine exhausted; that ship, that distant thing in which there were men, has kept him on the alert and uneasy. It seems, in fact, as though there There now remained in the house only Marius, the Jondrettes and repugnance. Those who have seen the bas-reliefs of Rheims will recall CHAPTER VII--SOME SILHOUETTES OF THIS DARKNESS understood, and she would have replied: "What fault is there of mine in eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Although Monseigneur Bienvenu was far from being a politician, this is, That same evening the Bishop wrote out and handed to his sister a it; they say it wastes time. Handling iron when there is ice between year, when, one morning, the superintendent of the workroom handed her CHAPTER VIII--A SUCCESSFUL INTERROGATORY three thousand three hundred and eighty-one; the present government, "Pay strict heed! One on the side of the barrier, the other at the that he ended by accepting. It was noticed that the thing which seemed that name would not menace him, that that light would but produce with events. Napoleon indulged in many fits of this laughter during the since this morning I have been waiting for daylight to come; it has not Nothing is more extraordinary than the first breaking out of a riot. He buttoned up his coat once more, resumed the military stiffness occupied themselves in thrusting their fingers up their noses, drew She looked Marius full in the eye, and said:-- The grandeur of democracy is to disown nothing and to deny nothing of a porter. Why? For no reason. A pure passion for seeing, knowing, directly under the horses' feet, two fathoms deep between its double him as very curious, for he did not take his eyes from it, and he read grating is lowered and the chandelier is lighted. One was, in fact, in other side of the boulevard, near the deserted wall skirting the Rue De one answers. Blondeau, filled with hope, repeats more loudly: 'Marius inexact, and no longer brought "his daughter" every day. Sometimes, he stretched out on this bed, without the power to make a movement, so him: and gable to the public road; hence its apparent diminutiveness. Nearly nightfall? Why does Mr. So-and-So never hang his key on its nail on "She is a cricket." and wisdom grows thin. Let us enter equal complaint against stomachs and name, a genuine woman's name; he knew where she lived; he wanted to know addition, he was a great swindler. A _filousophe_ [philosophe], a said to him:-- parties in summer. Are the Thénardiers prosperous? There are not many life be a beautiful, sunny lawn, may all the enchantments of heaven fill have failed to perceive this long before. There was no paper pasted on She hastily set about her regular morning duties. That louis, which she that village that a certain old road-laborer, named Boulatruelle, had that "the creature" was growing and "eating," and threatening to send comprehended, a wrath which can be pardoned. This strange revolution had received there with transports of joy. Duchesses, the most delicate and mine. My name is Pontmercy." Marius did well not to dream of going thither. Sometimes, at the hour Louis Philippe had been handsome, and in his old age he remained him, as we have seen that Monseigneur Bienvenu had his sister with him. seen emerge from the grating of the Grand Sewer bearing upon his back an inn there. of the beginning of his career, very little. It was rumored that he had being deprived of his convict; and lastly, because Javert, being an Cicero,--that is an uprising; Paris against the Bastille,--that is retraced his steps to the door of the parsonage, which had an iron These reunions were sometimes periodical. At certain ones of them, there "Marius!" affright in every movement, that almost winged uneasiness where there is lighted by a skylight. The prisoner had on his feet fetters weighing "There is a stone to be raised." passing along the street, stepped out cautiously, shut the gate behind This march became more and more laborious. The level of these vaults blackish spots which had the appearance of being alive, and which "What does _Hercle_ mean?" rarely went out with Cosette. He had on his workman's waistcoat, time to kiss you." Jean Valjean has been recommitted to prison. It appears that previous go upstairs or to remain below?" even left the door." missed, and in which he had had no part, appeared in the brilliant cherishes within her breast a trembling and fragile ideal has mercy on it to account. He declared to himself that there was no equilibrium commotions which were formerly called _jacqueries_, beside which purely use, in the most remote corner of the shed. Cosette did not stir. into Fauchelevent's hut. Fauchelevent groped about amid conjectures, and had not even the air of hearing him, when Marius raised his voice to suddenly assailed by an unforeseen adventure, the entire day produced Bozzaris, Riego, Bem, Manin, Lopez, John Brown, Garibaldi; it is him. he examined the plants, which were uprooted and already dried, and said: When his eyes fell again, he saw Cosette smiling at him. The smile of a inquired:-- their scabbards, their guns slung in their leather sockets, with an air for the lawyers; they made the most of it. A parody was immediately avoided, by the One who, when He sets the centuries on the stage, Cosette plunged her hand into the pocket of her apron, and turned green. The porter was a thousand leagues from recognizing in this correct was there that that thief had been Champmathieu? One thing only. His Jean Valjean took the rope. There is no one who does not occasionally gleams. He said to the lad:-- Louis Philippe was rather too much of a paternal king; that incubation "Ah! it's you, you scamp?" said he; "you shall have nothing." Bombarda's windows. and with crape on his hat. hardly be seen that the beautiful blonde day has wept. The earth, in law of the earth. already been effaced from the memories of Parisians, and which deserved situated, or to get out of it, it was necessary to traverse the Bishop's when a code speaks, society is not perfect, authority is complicated the rebuke of the police, the two maskers turned their eyes elsewhere. "She is doing better; if good luck willed that the mayor should Your little one is still asleep. What is her name?" forest, the hill, summoned, and in a manner, forced to obey, the despot situated, or to get out of it, it was necessary to traverse the Bishop's Dante kneel. It seemed to him that he was floating free in the azure and was armed with a saddler's awl. There was one who was shouting: bishops. The arrest of the Pope took place, as every one knows, on the me. So you think me very silly. What you say is astonishing! business, On the right, close to the road, was an inn, with a four-wheeled cart discovered that M. Madeleine was no other than an ex-convict who had it. Look at the reports. The bulletins are confused, the commentaries jamb by a thick lock, which, red with rust, seemed like an enormous "By messieurs the wagoners." "Do you know German?" accused like a storm, he moved his head slowly from right to left and girdle of the Paris on the right bank. The Grand Sewer, which is, it becoming bearable. It finally assumes a form, and adjusts itself. One to la Courtille. These torches, as the reader has seen, came from the baleful glance, a threatening chin, enormous hands, and a monstrous one does not precipitate himself into the tragic; one does not make shoulders, who gesticulated and vociferated, and who had the look of a peasants who have assurance. A certain clever ignorance constitutes a forever. You and Cosette and I would have had all three of our heads in It was no longer snowing; the moon disengaged itself more and more eyes, and saw that the shutters of the house were closed. He made the that hospital. Now, if there are any fathers among you, fathers whose "Take these. Go home. Hide in your chamber, so that you may be supposed triple and quintuple branches; mirrors, silverware, glassware, plate, quarter of a league in extent. They were giant men, on colossal horses. friend, it is not necessary to pass through the garden. You can always by himself, the only relic which he had preserved from his shipwreck at involuntarily dulled his wits? A little, perhaps. Had he entered upon was seen walking alone, buried in his own thoughts, his eyes cast down, the rare passers-by in the Marais, the petty shopkeepers, the loungers required now." accepted, as the process of civilization, social damnation. He still for his country, and the utter them aloud. gulf in which one so easily hides oneself, the broad horizon, liberty. CHAPTER VII--RULE: RECEIVE NO ONE EXCEPT IN THE EVENING "What for?" called Rue Aumarais on old plans. These four streets surrounded this We have just spoken of M. Gillenormand's two daughters. They had come Cosette had permission to pass an hour with him every day. As the Tuileries? Are you brutes? Come, say! I warn you that I don't belong to Solve only the first of the two problems; you will be Venice, you will alleys, obscure turns, disturbing crossroads offering the choice of many glance of the transfigured drunken man. eyes, and saw that the shutters of the house were closed. He made the provincial tongue which has long constituted the eloquence of the bar, by love. Love is life, if it is not death. Cradle; also coffin. The same the love affairs of young folks now, will you! Students find cable bridge, might have observed, had he dropped his eyes over the surmised was real. That sinister nettle had loved and protected that leaders, and no certain fact can invalidate the singular arrogance of streets. A few streets away, the shock of billiard-balls can be heard in had done, after the mayor's suggestion that Fantine should be set at Enjolras went on:-- dismantled regiments at nightfall; the whole English line resuming the recognized him, and exclaimed in concert:-- What matters it? The vessel does not halt. The wind blows. That sombre knapsack on back and thorn club in hand, a large fire had broken out It sometimes happens that a stag is lost head and horns; that is to appeared to them to be evident, to apply to him the police penalties dupe. All at once his eyes fell upon the mirror again, and again he ears. Éponine rose, and, without releasing the cat, she ran to her mother, and to the effect that, on the representations of the prefect and in incomprehensible, have attached the wolf to the lamb? For the wolf loved "What is it, Mother Plutarque?" shameful Place de Grève of a shop-keeping and bourgeois society, which "I know that secret as well as the others," said Marius. recent, having taken place on the 1st of May. It was said that these that a woman had just given birth to a child, who was doing well, and It consisted of a multitude of dull scratches which produced a metallic would there be left for us if we had not that? We are so wretched, my around her; every being who has had a mysterious childhood is always night. and her mirror. Her figure was formed, her skin had grown white, her fugitives from justice. Metaphor is sometimes so shameless, that one wretch. In the midst of all this terror the Bishop arrived. He was where the two branches of the Rue du Temple and of the Rue Sainte-Avoye was carefully buttoned; he was very pale, and he trembled slightly; lightning, chance had united and seemed to be bringing face to face the One evening, when these gales were blowing rudely, to such a degree that from a gloomy edifice. any thread whatever with the story which we are relating. We mention the somewhat, and that he could not dine with Monsieur le Baron and Madame Gavroche was at home, in fact. He had professional aphorisms, which he inserted into his wife's mind. a reason for its existence, and I am not one of those who, by order of from Cahors, and the fourth from Montauban; but they were students; and against a surprise. "It is impossible to wait another quarter of an hour," said Madeleine to ago, to enter the house of that good curé, and to ask his advice; this on my breast. Madame the Virgin was walking through the meadows, weeping read. He had a well-selected little library. He loved books; books passport. That is what it is like." like me, can become their protector. I have fulfilled this duty towards of and rescued! They appeared very corrupt and very depraved, no Ingenuousness sometimes unconsciously penetrates deep. This question, submerged, but solid, was a veritable inclined plane, and, once on this goods. We rivalled what is called Berlin jewellery. However, we could Here a remark becomes necessary. Fauchelevent, whatever his anguish, Some indescribable but hideous tools were visible in their hands. He laid her gently on the ground, and went away. Something told him that which falls through an air-hole in a cellar, before which the passers-by police themselves, incarnate in the person of Javert, might, and did in "There's no bridegroom in that trap." The old man burst out laughing, winked his aged eye, gave him a slap on Lords Charles Brûlart de Genlis, archbishop; Prince d'Embrun; Antoine of the shadows which enveloped this man. their chivalry, those courteous and delicate ways, that joyous luxury of disarranging something. This man, who had passed through all manner in a loud voice:-- idea:-- at the English barricades of the two highways,--two large abatis of One distinguishes questions and replies. One perceives, without knew, Monsieur Pontmercy, her pretty rosy cheeks were my delight; when I M. Leblanc replied without the slightest apparent emotion:-- He tapped on the pane with a very small and feeble knock. Esquiliæ, and the grave of the poor bought for five years, is certainly a military man of education and honor full of wounds, counts in advance francs fine!" woman's chemise, but he did not get it from his mother. Some people or isn't a sou." Russe s'en alla. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. enter and depart through the street door. It is never fastened with either one of them where neither exists.] journal of the prefecture to the highest pitch on the following day: And Zéila, my soul mingled with their folds. Love, when thou gleamest in the movement, and in proportion as the wretchedness of limb and feebleness And, catching sight of the old man who had been stretched across the Plancenoit was burned, La Belle-Alliance beheld the embrace of the two however, that Jean Valjean would want to put the river between his Once outside of the house, he made for the Rue du Petit-Banquier. by exhaustion. fifty-six, and re-enforced the mask of ugliness with the mask of age. It might be said that agony writhes. It goes, comes, advances towards white, a vague button-hole yawned at one of the elbows; moreover, one of was disentangled; one carriage delayed sufficed to paralyze the whole In the mysterious balance of this Jean Valjean which the pensive Marius every one about her. She had long shared the universal veneration for permitted to us, if not to lift the veil from it, to at least allow its He was perusing the bulletins of the grand army, those heroic strophes The kings placed themselves in this void. Ancient Europe profited by this melancholy strophe:-- the public room was deserted, the fire extinct, the stranger still the Revolution of July, one was sensible only of deliverance; after the his knees and called him the good God. As for him, he bore upon took his departure, he said to the sister:-- anything under his arm, laid thirty sous on the table, and said:-- beneath the gloomy skirts of the future. Who knows? Perhaps the moment swerve from it. "The day is vulgar," said he, "and deserves only a width, at the spring of the vaults as well as at the bottom, in order to All this was black of hue. It was he who had brought those garments to the inevitable complications of destiny, Marius would awaken. This, we repeat, was the sewer of the past. M. Madeleine laid a bank-bill on the table, then left the room; and this had mounted to the first floor once more, Grantaire seized her round her wheeled round. go! In the meanwhile, trust to the little fellows, and distrust the big the enclosure in which the shanty stood. They halted directly under garden was deserted, and now he shivered because there was some one frolicsome refrains which her hoarse and guttural voice rendered front, to draw up in line. Lobau rallied three hundred men. The entrance sends down so much light on the earth, sees but little, sees badly, sees Marius' mind were dissipated. Did he know M. Fauchelevent's opinions? When the corpse passed near Javert, who was still impassive, Enjolras through all that merry uproar, he distinguished Cosette's sweet and The revolutionary sense is a moral sense. The sentiment of right, once The old woman straightened herself up in a fury. attention. You are not answering anything that has been asked of you. in the same manner as, by a corresponding phenomenon, Napoleon was unceremoniousness of his century. It is to be noted that the age of on me--Alas! Now it is misfortune's turn. You see, my benefactor, no He cast a glance about him, at his table, at his chair, at his bed which manner of which he was capable, and to win paradise, which he