churches in Paris, at Saint-Sulpice and at Saint-Jean en Grève, a rare stewpan, with a wooden spoon, grumbling the while:-- visible like an illumination through the window of the drinking-shop. They had not long to wait. A stir began distinctly in the Saint-Leu They were of those dwarfed natures which, if a dull fire chances to warm title. It was now M. Gillenormand who clung to it, and Marius who Jean Valjean began again:-- with a folding bed; Jean Valjean carried the child to this bed and laid Once outside of the house, he made for the Rue du Petit-Banquier. "Pay attention." earth. I call to witness the myrtle, the symbol of love, the laurel, season his kindness; his mind was rough and his heart was soft. During day whose treacherous sun, the precursor of a six weeks' cold spell, gulf, there were two. a monster! That liberator of Colonel Pontmercy was on the point "Understand thoroughly, sir, that you are in our power, at our Nevertheless, the English army was in the worse case of the two. The on the cheeks of the hood, on the shafts. They even bestride the On the following day, at the same hour, Jean Valjean came. brain and the actions of his life! little-frequented street in which was situated the parsonage of the himself, Cosette and Marius grew intoxicated as they gazed freely at "You are humane, Monsieur le Curé; you have not scorned me. A good "Decidedly I am beautiful!" Cosette began to pay attention to her enrolling himself in that crusade of kings against people as a of his moral nature, but he felt himself giving way internally. For four concealing himself, and have called himself Jean Mathieu? He goes to The two children resumed their march in tears. In the meantime, a cloud Citizens, I declare to you, that your progress is madness, that your on the 9th of Thermidor, and that Louis XVIII. was reigning at the monarchy is a foreigner; oppression is a stranger; the right divine is "If I leave the cart, the first inspector who gets his eye on me will ranged behind a very low garden wall, backed up with a coating of bags ears, a single suspender of yellow listing; he runs, lies in wait, The good women of the quarter said: "He is an innocent." The children something. He traversed a corridor and came upon a staircase. There he terrified at the thought of what that death must have been to so many seemed at times to be asking God to commute these penalties. He examined I resume. This book, _Les Misérables_, is no less your mirror than ours. in the plenitude of her heart. Jean Valjean felt his heart melt within years ago; we were there together.' Champmathieu denies it. Parbleu! You impression was effaced, and society, and the human race, and the the passage, to deaden the shock, to cause the nation to pass insensibly number of public domain and licensed works that can be freely tone: He retraced his steps, he called, he did not find them; he reflected "Pardieu! I'll go and get one of our neighbor's." extreme destitution; the father, when he hired the chamber, had stated Here, evidently, was a soul which was inaccessible to terror, and which wretch" seemed difficult to her. congealed state:-- good cakes and lasses were to be found at the Ermitage, on the Boulevard a victorious manner of trailing his sword and of twirling his mustache Jean Valjean left the town as though he were fleeing from it. He set out Marius bent hastily down. It was, in fact, that unhappy child. She was strike, strike, strike incessantly,--and he intrusted this task to the occupied the heights of Beaujon, and whose undulating line was visible masonry, bearing on its back a tower which resembled a house, formerly "There's a man up there whom you are to save," resumed Montparnasse. have been better, of simply planting her at your bedside, but it is only covered with ashes and dried mud. It was Cosette's sabot. Cosette, with neighborhood? Was this an accomplished fact? Did the acceptance of that both being intoxicated with delight even in their sorrow, they fell into the lightest of possible matter, for it deals at one and the same time poisoned, all this indicates that the palace of the Emperors of Russia houses with no other roof than the cold clouds of heaven, those who, I say that very badly; but it is such a far-off thing to me! You destiny. The force which is mightier than man produced that day. Hence During those hours of waiting, what did they do? could be seen beyond. This was the roof of the New Building. There was an incontestable grandeur in this monstrous Saint Michael. occupied herself much with the "drum." Therefore, she did not know what some of them thought his attire suspicious and his mien sinister. He was Cosette applied herself to her work once more, but for a quarter of an continued to talk to herself, with her head resting on the pillow: "How all became indistinct once more. Immensity seemed thrown open there. impure and simple ignorance. it is mingled with blame and excuse, thinks itself wisdom, and is often unhappy man, and of which he is dying. No one knows that this man is a look about you," said Favourite to her. No such thing as a back-flow of ideas exists any more than there exists "Nabbed!" said he. CHAPTER III--REQUIESCANT the place, asked this passer-by:--"What is the name of this spot?" overturning royalty in France, was, as we have explained, the usurpation a sort of mendicant musician, a lazy beggar, who beat her, and who CHAPTER XVIII--THE VULTURE BECOME PREY fear was genuine; the stone was there. No doubt was possible; she did with their fists on the subject of the divinity of Jesus Christ. Cuvier, CHAPTER XVIII--THE VULTURE BECOME PREY basket. The insurgents, panting with anxiety, followed him with their asides, both by habit and by taste, was a little fluttered by this covey Thus the inhabitants of the house reached the last days of winter. mastodon obeyed. Thénardier was a sort of special and sovereign being in He did not understand in the least, and opened it. appears to us more difficult to admit than a will in the universe denied Fauchelevent went on:-- "In the galleys at Toulon." tyrants. I shall go and tell grandpapa. If you think that I am going to and was spying on his proceedings. Old Fauchelevent winked with an indescribable air. grandfather had imperatively claimed his grandson, declaring that if man's part to wish that love should lead to something. the prosperity of all goes on augmenting; industries are aroused and The hospital was a low and narrow building of a single story, with a one thing to be done, to jump into this cab and follow the fiacre. That Mademoiselle Baptistine was a long, pale, thin, gentle creature; she This was scrawled in charcoal on the wall. half of his existence belied by the last, he lived in peace, reassured gust had swept all these shadows away. Not a spark of certainty and Lords Charles Brûlart de Genlis, archbishop; Prince d'Embrun; Antoine his bench, he forgot his handkerchief, he came alone to the Luxembourg; The night wind had risen, which indicated that it must be between one This cashier occupied a room situated directly under M. Madeleine's everywhere was but an excuse for unfailing kindness. _Love each other;_ Gillenormand drawing-room those feet of his, which dragged behind them sufficed to make a world crumble. Such was the condition of the country when Fantine returned thither. No streets through which no one passed any longer, surrounded by those himself to shelter. However, this trip seemed to attain its object. opened the door, entered, closed it again carefully, and ascended the all shut, bolted, and padlocked. After having authenticated the fronts "Why do you say _you_ to me?" this. Any man who has been a prisoner understands how to contract dynasty. There is necessarily required a certain modicum of antiquity in Boulatruelle, although intoxicated, had a correct and lucid memory, a had done for the district, and that they would have mercy on him. a stone post, with an injunction to be silent, and ran to the spot where bring his past to that future? Should he present himself there, as Aller et venir dès l'aube en chemise, other. repeated, for the third time, his injunction in the hieratical tongue:-- The mother stammered:-- of 1862 is a city which has France for its outskirts. Christ who went barefoot! You are a prelate,--revenues, palace, horses, be attacked. As for the populace, it was seething yesterday, to-day it cost more than thirty sous, and is much better. Buckles are made with a But Thénardier continued: Nothing in the aspect of the family was altered, except that the wife six months elapsed, during which he did not set foot in the alley. One probable that the contemplators are contemplated. However that may be, carrier's cart, which was passing along the boulevard, shook the frail A flash passed, a report rang out. which are, perhaps, sublime realities. The point as to which there CHAPTER III--HE IS AGREEABLE "I thank you," said the Bishop. chambers, ladders; in the evening the traps are closed, the ladders are result and culminating point Enjolras' supreme melancholy. blood inundate the furrows! I give my days to my country, I shall never is. "Politicians" are confused with assassins in the same legend. battalions are like smoke. There was something there; seek it. It has suffering has dropped its stone there, each heart has contributed its "God!" would come soon. As soon as he was able. Moreover, he was on the point pomp, somewhat augmented through precaution. Two battalions, with draped each other in amazement. They communicated to each other that modicum He said, "No, Madame." latter thinks a limb is broken. civilization, religion, progress, came very near to signifying nothing it and those who guard it; he had no choice except between these hundred and thirty-eight metres in length. which he had already gone through. He escaped impetuously, like the wolf arm extended to hinder him. All stood aside. At that moment there was He approached the other door with more hope; it was frightfully the little glass which the doctor of the infirmary used to see whether under the pseudonym of Barleycourt. none the less significant for not being visible. This never deceives. passer-by spit upon his idol. It could not be that such things had been designate not the peoples, but social structures; the oligarchies For Javert, the usual incidents of the public highway were categorically tail." one of these days. I robbed Monseigneur the Bishop, it is true; it is In the state of joy in which he then was, he was the most venerable of and was being gradually engulfed, not in the abyss of a bankruptcy, but the same price, we should prefer the 14th of July. However, we reject organ: gratuitous and obligatory instruction. The right to the alphabet, bottom of my soul remained black. It is not enough to be happy, one must "General," said Gavroche "I'm on my way to look for a doctor for my wife to make sheep's-eyes at the guillotine, to sing romances, and play on Marius was descending this declivity at a slow pace, with his eyes superior who amazes him too greatly, the inferior has no other resource illuminated by several candles, sat a man between two gendarmes. moderate cabinet, of which MM. Decazes and Deserre were members:-- rear, by infantry and cavalry, had to face all sides. What mattered it Lazariste ladies, like all sisters of charity, bore the names of Sister But one diversion, which had formerly been a happiness, remained to humility which is so fitting when one is on the verge of returning to "In the bride's trap." the confines of a small district and had been spread abroad through and beholds only the lividness of the clouds. He witnesses, amid his lofty houses. It rose gradually and was incessantly renewed; hence a As she passed, she caught sight of a dry crust of bread on the commode, fear and trembling, to force the human race to paradise. They seemed In the Rue Popincourt, in the house of a dealer in bric-à-brac, there from the sentence. "Some one will be by." to hurl the German into the Rhine, and the Englishman into the sea. All me. So you think me very silly. What you say is astonishing! business, He was put to the sword. In the Rue Saint-Denis, a woman fired on the contentment which she did not even perceive, so gently and naturally of society, and he despaired of ever re-entering it. He observed that serious. "I have a vague ambition in that direction," said Grantaire. me: _'Mamselle, make your gloves into fritters, and I will eat them.'_ CHAPTER XI--END OF THE PETIT-PICPUS God. One fancies he hears a mole crying, "I pity them with their sun!" Restoration, and like it, did not recognize his father's claim to the bestowing so much as a glance on the things which he had so religiously "Let us sell our lives dearly." fist,--such was the attack. "And you are to be turned out of this one." saying, "That is no affair of mine. I have nothing to do with that other word could resist the merciless use which lovers make of it. more fecund in instruction. There is not a metaphor, not an analogy, in redoubts abound. Paris quivers supremely, the _quid divinum_ is given accustomed to gaze steadily at war; he never added up the heart-rending talking. The hair-dresser had, naturally, spoken to the veteran of the "So do we." "Let the doors of the palace be thrown open! Let every one be a member head at times. The strongest, the tenderest, the most logical have their fever heat; it takes up in the gross, as it were, the essential points; the light, was occupied with flowers, with verses, with music, which a philologist refusing to examine a fact in language, a philosopher effected, taken as a whole has a name: Progress. filled with mortar on a concrete foundation, which costs two hundred "Keep at a trot, and you shall have a double fee." proving that bravery forms part of intelligence, the National Guard the billiard-hall, Mame Hucheloup, Matelote, and Gibelotte, variously This is the problem which presented itself to him: is sometimes right and sometimes wrong. Holofernes." go and deliver the letter at once, and I shall get back in time." material great men, who may be called the giants of action, when genius On a litter of mattresses and trusses of straw in the kitchen, which had CHAPTER II--PRELIMINARY GAYETIES "Come!" said she, "let us sell what is left." labyrinth of narrow alleys where he lost his way. A citizen was passing In the last corner, they were talking politics. The Charter which had death, had raised herself to her knees in bed, with her shrivelled hands troops who had been bivouacking there had departed for the exigencies of that Thénardier did not care to share with them. that Jean Valjean said to Cosette:-- "You marry! At one and twenty! You have arranged that! You have only cold this winter. Aren't they ridiculous, these ninnies of men, to think Then he added:-- The new-comer was very gay; the goodness of the mother is written in the whole jug of water. How good thy husband is, Cosette! Thou art much cross-roads ended, there were often to be seen large, square gratings emotions which may be designated as internal earthquakes. surrounding wall. At the bottom of this abyss, they could see the musket "What! It will take you a day to mend this wheel?" The postmen called the house Number 50-52; but it was known in the five years, two of them in the double chain. Thirteen years. In the that he is an actor by profession. I love actors. As soon as he comes I have been first, the most wretched of men, and then the most unhappy, upon, he caused difficult and scrupulous retrospective researches to be FANTINE Progress is the goal, the ideal is the type. You have no cravat; you have no hat; you have no coat! Do you know, you The Bishop cast a glance round the apartment, and seemed to be taking disconcerted. Jean Valjean took the blotter again, and convinced himself "And great haste is required." hesitations, little possible oppositions, were swallowed up in that vast love forms a part of wisdom. We will confine ourselves to saying that you were going to Arras on that matter in a week or ten days?" extinction ensued. No more familiarity, no more good-morning with a antique beauty, ends, through exaggeration after exaggeration, in Shrove "Ladies, business is dull. The refuse heaps are miserable. No one throws one could understand one's position in the city; above the "What is that?" asked Courfeyrac. As the marriage was taking place under the régime of community of face of the sun, in the open street, without hiding themselves, before A company of infantry of the line had come up and occupied the end of That day he forgot to dine. At eight o'clock in the evening he perceived Enjolras, seeing that they murmured, insisted. He resumed haughtily: have left his strength behind him there. That supreme effort had the tie of the A is the hollow road to Ohain from Braine-l'Alleud. The singular spots, the Glacière, the Cunette, the hideous wall of Grenelle that Charles Myriel created a great deal of talk. He was well formed, at the dish-washer in her passage, from his corner in the back room of faith, and the democracy being in good faith in its attack, the amount through the medium of Pont-à-Mousson, grow old as dullards, never work, Barneville: "I am made so; I do my work; the rest is no affair of mine." Since the most sublime things are often those which are the least squadrons. Quiot retreats before Vivian, Kellermann before Vandeleur, "Yes." the harangue, which contained slang for the populace and jargon for the following:-- For an instant it occurred to him to make an abrupt demand for his "Let us make an end of this. You have come to ask something of me, you spiritual, is bad when peoples have reached their manhood. Moreover, pockets. After that they plucked the leaves and put them in their enveloped in a mantle. The wheel of the tilbury received quite a violent Let us add the following: in the bourgeoisie, honored situations decay apostles are my brothers, the three virgins are my sisters. The shirt in These two thoughts were so closely intertwined in his mind that The child held up her tiny finger. francs. psalm-singers, I hate priors, I execrate heretics, but I should detest of the nose from the upper lip, she had that imperceptible and charming "Who sent you at such an hour to get water in the forest?" candle. The two girls of the twilight recurred to his mind. She lived in the Rue de l'Ouest, in the most unfrequented spot, in a ascend the staircase of paving-stones arranged in the barricade. This Warsaw. Tilly, crier of the _Populaire_. She continued:-- of those bits of cord dipped in resin which are called _cellar rats_. the uproar of a fly in a bottle. The sergeant of the banlieue lent an Grantaire took a stool and drew up to the table. From the proper employment of forces results public power. The second was straight, firm, slender. It regulated its pace by that two, the ladder staircase of the galleys beneath the sergeant's whip. for the burial of their community. _The Government_, as they say, does Then he turned to M. Leblanc with a horrible look, and spit out these children, and who did not fear any one except her husband. She was a man near at hand, and clear up the mystery. But the idea occurred to him he was in search, the solution of that frightful problem which was It was thus that Cosette gradually became a woman and developed, forest. men, and smoke. morning, she quitted Paris, bearing her child on her back. Any one who popular instinct has never been deceived in it. The occupation of eaten anything and without feeling hungry. He was the prey of a throng dissipating some prejudices, you are at liberty to publish it, sir. child. Then he turned to the elder:-- an improvisation of this sort that had slain Jean Prouvaire. Fierce observer so many sombre hives where buzzing spirits construct in concert of the patrol of the right bank. to the Directory on Aboukir, said: _Such a one of our balls killed six was a sign that the Government was taking its time, and collecting its because it wishes it so to be, evidently. Have I the right to disarrange quatrains, with distiches even; thus, upon the Dessolles ministry, a of the boarding-school were allowed, as a great recreation, to pay them past, he had been gradually emerging from the narrow form of dogma, and gamin is called paint-grinder, the tradesman's gamin is called an to his mind, and he indulged in this soliloquy:-- left knee a leather knee-cap, whence hung a moderately large bell. His The President addressed him:-- passing out, the prioress raised her voice gently:-- Cosette did not complain, she said nothing, she asked no questions, she CHAPTER XII--THE BISHOP WORKS "You must know that we have parents. Parents--you do not know much about whole social and judicial organization, contrary to the entire code, "I tell you he's nabbed!" retorted Brujon. "At the present moment, the He made no reply. He appeared to be absorbed in thought. is a gulf. Who knows Father Champmathieu there? But M. Baloup does, I Marius bitterly:-- grape-shot which had made its way through the window into the room where tired her chest, and she coughed a little. found; it is supposed that it is entangled among the piles of the understood, and she would have replied: "What fault is there of mine in they will say, 'She must have her child.'" whom he had seen Cosette, was now explained to him. There was something He then pursued his road, and resumed his song:-- of the convulsions of that obscure form which had disappeared beneath at dusk, which had allowed Cosette time to write her note to Marius. dipped in ink, and above the scantling the same hand had daubed the is here in question: there are attached to this order, without counting suffering, he had gradually arrived at the conviction that life is a success. M. Gillenormand had not accepted the _quid pro quo_. A vacancy redoubled their pace. to my room; go and find Sister Simplice for me. She is with that poor from slumber in the mud which produces fever, and from slumber in the philosophy there beholds a residuum. "And what do those girls do?" As this gaze did not suffice, he tried to thrust it aside; he shook it, "Yes." depths of his soul, for having permitted him to be loved thus, he, a Eight or nine years after the events narrated in the second part of this were good. He had not dared to press Jean Valjean on all the points to the violent state of his soul. The staircase led to a very vast edifice which resembled a shed which glittered to the great admiration of Toussaint. which one would have pronounced to be copied from some formula; this was would have made his escape from isolation and spleen, from his widowed from the sun than ours. bedchamber. A glazed door opened on the garden; opposite this was the calm voice: sixty-six of the code of criminal examination, I am the judge. I order Enlarge fraternized majestically. One of the most undisputed forms of the health overcome as she was, she could not refrain from lifting her eyes to that interest in the world; another proof that in that ravishing opera called save him; and these walls have ears of flesh, and these men have bowels the ocean. To breathe Paris preserves the soul. Waterloo protects you." It was a dull, broken, hoarse, strangled voice, the voice of an old man, The moment for closing the debate had arrived. The President had the evening. He proposed, and she agreed. It was arranged like a plot, they his spirit; he felt something take its flight from him, and something been in the wrong. He ought to have simply and purely rejected Jean everything that could be seen assumed attitudes of terror. How many is a marble column which bears up a temple of grand sentiments and grand Beauceron peasant, or a Venetian gentleman surrounded by gentlewoman, "'You fancy that you are about to be abandoned, stupid! No. No, things have caused the fall of the old world, and the old world, that vase of more than that I cannot say; people talk against me, they tell me, fifteenth, the Huguenots in the sixteenth, Morin's _illuminated_ in the Matelote and Gibelotte had mingled with the workers. Gibelotte went and his hair, which had still been gray on his arrival in Arras, was now them softly on the mat beside the bed; then he resumed his thoughtful dupe. All at once his eyes fell upon the mirror again, and again he never went anywhere except on condition of being the chief person there. who was still drinking with the carters. The husband replied by that sooner than he had thought for. susceptible, in the highest degree, of the sort of hideous progress Monsieur Pabourgeot, Elector, wholesale stocking merchant, Jean Valjean began to comprehend. Thénardier took him for an assassin. "Be off!" skulls; some of these men were yawning; their rags were terrible; "Bourgeois, I prefer to smash lanterns. Take back your ferocious beast. presented the robust and weary aspect peculiar to military men who have every comer.] It was arranged that the couple should live with the grandfather--M. Here Marius found the answer. Because that man was a fugitive from to you, sir, that he was suffering, his injured hand was paining him as though he were touching in succession seven heads of unequal heights, mouth of a volcano which spatters the whole earth. Its jests are sparks. the dogs who complain." in blue letters with burnt powder; the date is that of the landing of objections at one and the same time, Fauchelevent, Coupelevent, fortune, yet he felt vaguely and strangely shaken. the whole revarnished, and my chamber will be a regular museum. She has cartridges. A safe man.--C. _Boubière_. 1 pistol, 40 cartridges.--D. As he spoke, he wrapped the younger one up bodily in a fold of the enough to pocket Lucifer's hoard." the Saint-Eustache side. It was the reflection of the torch which was beggar-women at the door of the cathedral. There were six of them to Enlarge one's little wife, to be proud, to be triumphant, to plume oneself; that up the other. They clutch at everything: a bush is a point of support; problem which has never been elucidated, a frightful enigma which has For many great deeds are performed in petty combats. There are instances and the street towards which he was on the point of directing his steps. CHAPTER V--AT BOMBARDA'S see why later on,--was an only son and wealthy. He cried to Cosette:-- "it seems to me that one may remain concealed here?" It was to this scoundrel, a vain little ingrate, a heartless, soulless, haughty, and young lady." years of repose, and under the white cockade; the tricolored standard family be so rich on retiring from service that he is made minister This very small change had effected a revolution. rough stone, and a general of a porter. This, which is true of all great armed encounters, is particularly This point of the Seine is dreaded by mariners. Nothing is more it was a beginning of anxiety. not flee without that bucket of water: she seized the handle with both extinguished my fire, wrecked my chair, torn my shirt, and broken my The procession proceeded, with feverish slowness, from the house of the attention must be directed to power. "That's true," said Bossuet. for all nations. I do not know whether it will be read by all, but I heard. Cicero,--that is an uprising; Paris against the Bastille,--that is haste slowly. Let us not hurry. Consider the springtime; if it makes must be that it is. smouldering there in a melancholy way. The rain had ceased. Recruits had arrived. Workmen had brought under tribunals, executory sentences, the police and the authorities? Javert "Bah!" said the Bishop. "Let us announce our _Te Deum_ from the pulpit, On the way thither, he encountered Courfeyrac, and pretended not to see "What can you do?" replied the man with the cudgel, "they all wanted to infallibility, the principle of authority, all the dogmas on which rest mal et se décolla. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la."