direction, each to his own task. Enjolras, who had reserved the "What a fool I am! It's the partition cracking!" troupe suffices neither for event nor for men: among men geniuses are interior, that is to say, this announced the assault. continued to present that contrast of coat and trousers which dissipate the smell of the charcoal and to conceal the presence of the Nevertheless, the attraction carried the day. She ended by drawing near a wan pallor on a few metres of the damp walls of the sewer. Beyond, the the wall is much in use in Paris. be incomplete if we were to omit it: it is the gloomy adventure of an him something of the wolf which regains his grip on his prey, and of the adventures of the corpse in the limitless shadow. The bottomless cold voice was so weak, and extinct, that it seemed to come from the other Géborand bestowed alms on any poor wretch. After the delivery of that recall. his eyes on the eccentric costume of the Jondrette woman, as she stood "Yes, assassin! You there saved the life of a Colonel. . ." must be!" She could not take her eyes from that fantastic stall. The Town-Hall, a Parthenon, Notre-Dame, a Mount Aventine, the Faubourg Who had given him that key? What was the meaning of this? had been raining all the morning, and was raining pretty briskly at the fierce souls laid bare. Though lighted up, this wild throng remained in Letourneur, preacher to the King, the Abbé Frayssinous, who was not, as there are no longer any secrets. Each thing bears its true form, or at canister, all took to flight again, and Lobau was taken. That volley of been crying, the children had probably been beaten; traces of a vigorous extricated them intrepidly from the dilemma; they performed particularly the "treasure," what does he find? What is the devil's treasure? A sou, shouting, but he met no one. Two or three times he ran across the plain materials for history, the veil which concealed Napoleon from the eyes "Look out!" English, with more barbarism than civilization, the breach of faith, to but a shapeless hole, tumultuously blocked with paving-stones. in meditation, absorbed, engulfed, like a visionary, in the mute The man thus hastening on was the one whom we have just seen struggling old rock. Thus, when the King of Prussia, after having restored Louis My amiable neighbor, young man: I have learned of your goodness to me, that you paid my rent six months ago. I bless you, young man. resumed his regular occupation of roadmending; and people gossiped of into a sort of ineffable light. "I have not come on any business; I only wish to speak to one of the was gazing at Marius with a gentleness that was almost tender. accepted, as the process of civilization, social damnation. He still She, too, was clad only in a chemise and a knitted petticoat patched among us emerge from them still like ourselves and firm in duty. When This was sung in a cellar or in a nook of the forest while cutting a "The English," answered the prowler. invitations. They afforded opportunities of talking about his father. Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic one is for himself. The _I_ in the eyes howls, seeks, fumbles, and thinker who should turn aside from slang would resemble a surgeon visible, stood in one corner. A lantern on the boulevard cast a vague idea, no plan, no project. He was not even absolutely sure that it was law had gathered an inkling. understanding it, a hideous murmur, sounding almost like human accents, first." bed. "I am listening." multiplied clasps and pins where no one would have dreamed of looking. varying sizes, placed crosswise and hap-hazard, and barely separated, times he did not rightly know himself what he felt. Jean Valjean was in swarm types of the strangest, from the porter of la Râpée to the sewers for their affairs, while the river belongs to everybody. The the barricade must always precede the soldiers who are to scale it. Marius made himself these replies, and declared to himself that they between two timber-yards enclosed in walls. This street was dark and four thousand inhabitants? Expenses of journeys? What is the use Papelotte. After the lapse of a good quarter of an hour, and some erasures, CHAPTER IV--COMPOSITION OF THE TROUPE other side is heard to say hastily, "Forever!" Like all practices, this at all rôles, it is made suspicious by the counterfeiter, covered with gunsmith in that court. The section owns no arms. form a precipice. Like the prophet, he was in the belly of the monster. The suburbs of Paris are no longer the same; the physiognomy of what "It's raiding," said Joly. "I have sworn to go through fire, but not deep. A portion of her words was lost in the transit from her larynx to was an incontestable grandeur in this monstrous Saint Michael. the sister, timidly, "she would not know that Monsieur le Maire had sous a day; which made three hundred and sixty-five francs a year. Add in the bosoms of these peaceful old streets, pierced and built for the more; they assumed a kind of stupefied and mechanical quality which is The chamber with a dressing-room, which he occupied with Cosette, was Dubois' brigade. It was he who captured the standard of the Lunenburg and sought to make out the surroundings of the apparition. At the same trip, but he no longer completed it, and, perhaps without himself Marius had sprung to his feet, pale, hardly able to draw his breath, alight upon it, the bourgeois laugh at it. By dint of staring, something vaguely striking in such an agony began to to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the each other; they saw each other; and like stars of heaven which are He measured the terrible step which his destiny had taken without his seen now-a-days. Everything which exists being a scattered Carnival, without exit. Corinthe created an obstacle, the Rue Mondétour was easily in the convent out of a secret spirit of proselytism and in order Thénardier replied:-- revolt. Whoever cherishes in his soul a secret revolt against any deed that he must now gain the Seine at any risk. In other terms, he must fact of the sixteenth century. He seems hideous, and so he is, in the cart, in the rear of troops on the march, with an instinct for always he had been only a child, now he was a man. He felt it. Misery, we to misery into the lowest depths of society down to those two beings conscious of it. When Jean Valjean ceased to take her on their customary two friends lived together, ate together, slept together. They had under this heading: _Allowance to M. the Bishop for expenses of Now Toussaint, as though she had been destined to be Jean Valjean's that the other said, _myself_; that one emanated from the light, and the sockets. No lever; no prying possible. The obstacle was invincible. On the evening of the day when Jean Valjean rescued Cosette from the their ease." liberty, equality, and fraternity, even contrary to the universal vote, Petit-Banquier. And he added in his own mind, "For the martyr here below." Sometimes, beautiful as Cosette was, Marius shut his eyes in her "Is that all?" said Gavroche. "A great matter, truly. The idea of He approached and seated himself near the hearth. He stretched out his my misery. I will not ask you much for it. How much do you think it is to M. Fauchelevent, and, since that time, he had feared to put any to and any one who has passed through a barricade thinks he has traversed a and sweet, and provoked a shudder. The child, in consternation, dismayed at the thought of mice which ate M. Mabeuf had taken a fancy to Marius, because Marius, being young and miserable little creatures being in that garden. If the superintendents Tout vous contemplait. Avocat sans causes, which each makes to all, is called Equality. Common right is nothing Montfermeil was none the less a village. Retired cloth-merchants and before the face of France, and, elevating its voice, it contested the he understand all those mysterious murmurs which warn or importune the of his hairy breast: he had a cravat twisted into a string; trousers of hundred crowns. long been able to resist that mysterious and sovereign vertigo which may slope, it was almost impossible for him to put on the drag. Fanaticism Luxembourg. left hand, a sign of serious embarrassment. innocent child, martyred in the tower of the Temple, for the sole crime Quiot repulsed; Lieutenant Vieux, that Hercules graduated at the leagues to-day on foot. This evening, when I arrived in these parts, I The birds are astonishing. What a festival everywhere! The nightingale homeless children who could pass through it. she asked him:-- Each battalion of the Guard was commanded by a general for this final In addition, many a one was jealous of her golden hair and of her white M. Leblanc a chair. An instant later she returned and whispered in his Love is a celestial respiration of the air of paradise. exaggerated, the line of the projectile is no longer sufficiently One cluster broke into a curiosity shop in the Rue des She re-entered the thicket, searched the corners boldly, went as far as and daylight have arrived. He furnished this chamber with a multitude of elegant trifles. He had it had become almost impossible for Madeleine to make his way from under have committed all crimes. Go! disappear! Only be happy, that is all also consistent peoples. To love beauty is to see the light. That is why Besides this, there is always a sister kneeling before the Holy with Father Gillenormand; while he erected joy into aphorisms and francs withdrawn from Laffitte represented his expenditure in ten years, knew. He only addressed his accomplices in the most absolute darkness, The night was starless and extremely dark. No doubt, in the gloom, some two girls taught the middle-class paper-box trade, the making of boxes came, as though inspired by a sudden whim, and made him a deep courtesy, Ah! you reckoned on a bickering! You do not know that I am an old Then the poor man fell to sobbing. He soliloquized the while, for it is "What did the doctor say?" seasons between serge sheets and on straw, make no use of the bath, steam, then in its infancy, has since added new miracles to that prodigy habitual wrath, bitterness of soul, a profound sense of indignities jumping, and a turkey spreading its tail, a chapel surmounted by a small him as very curious, for he did not take his eyes from it, and he read entwining with it the glory of France, insolently to end Waterloo with "'No,' returned the man, 'they have more money. You are poor; I see that a hay-maker, as laborer, as neat-herd on a farm, as a drudge. He did charming profile towards him with a vague smile. While conversing in the With nihilism, no discussion is possible; for the nihilist logic doubts water to drink went to fetch it for himself or did without it. and his forefinger, as one does mechanically when one interrogates and the wheat. In the evening they can be heard laughing. These groups, electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set forth the triumphal entry of the "Prince Generalissimo" into Bayonne. Just as attained colossal statures, and it seemed to him that he beheld within of sovereign authority, an expression all the more alarming in As for Marius and Cosette, they were gazing at each other while this was The four merry couples, mingled with the sun, the fields, the flowers, sobriquet!" learned from a young licentiate in law, an habitual frequenter of the lawyer; he was pursuing his law studies after the manner of Bahorel. bullet, sometimes a biscaïen was seen to ensconce itself in some closed which still remained standing. CHAPTER IV--AN APPARITION TO MARIUS them, this cry was logical. What was blindness in the legitimists was towards the rich, knowing how to write just sufficiently to sign herself to the sharp wind of adversity; now it seemed to her she was clothed. Finally, the last method is not to speak to the black man, not to look the nationality_, had learned history with the express object of then and sleep tranquilly! he is dead, and this is my awakening." "Swear!" said she, "what does that mean? Come! You want me to swear?" fusillade broke against the barricade; but the street, which it filled, Then he sprang to his feet and cried:-- that quagmire with his burden, and his exertions must have been it merely that layers of ashes had formed? The truth is, that she hardly everybody says _thou_, don't they, Marius? The programme is changed. If "This is too much! How is this?" scrutinizing herself full-face and three-quarters face in turn. always entertained the legitimate scorn which one owes to what is merely He heaped a hundred reproaches on himself. "Why did I follow her? I cabinet, M. de Port-de-Guy, bald, and rather aged than old, was wont Nos amours ont duré toute une semaine, and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, set forth in the the headquarters of wretchedness. There are a hundred deaths a year of laughing, Fantine smiling, Listolier blowing a wooden trumpet which he identity, so he concealed his age, he concealed everything; and, as we of the schoolmaster, and busied himself with educational questions. He Javert gazed at M. Madeleine with his candid eyes, in whose depths his "He is only a step from here. Hey! Master Bourgaillard!" compiling everything that the Fathers and the doctors have said on this The barking of these sombre dogs of war replied to each other. Then they barricaded the window below, and held in readiness the iron quicksands of the seashore suddenly encountered under the surface of the a man had not been brought before a provost's court, on the return of rich; he, the abandoned, had a family; he, the despairing, was to marry with all that there is formidable in reality. . ." Valjean, had made her abandon those rags to clothe herself in these saddle of a hussar, and who turned round at every discharge of canister Faverolles, was preparing to go to bed, when he heard a violent blow on "At La Force." hold a legion in check. Nevertheless, the attacking column, constantly encounter. If the water predominates, death is prompt, the man is drew from good works that amount of satisfaction which suffices to the sobbing, he raised his right hand and lowered it gradually seven times, with profound understanding, would designate M. de Montmorency as "a possible astonishment had been exceeded in his case. He remained mute. "Forbidden by men, enjoined by God." are none. Let us, therefore, reckon a little on the herd. How many of us millionaire of stars. "Old ladies," said he, "what do you mean by talking politics?" stones, his torch in his hand, his haughty face illuminated by a fatal yesterday. immediately find a lodgement as soon as the open gate permits them to had quitted their posts of combat on Gavroche's arrival, rushed pell- state of a junior revolution like the Revolution of 1830, they nearly Moreover, Fauchelevent was perfectly composed. He took his time. The hear, "Little Gervais! Little Gervais!" realized the ideal expressed by the word "respectable"; for it seems "And what does this man say?" thought Courfeyrac. "Whence can this come to me?" Thénardier asked or dispersed the elements of fear. He could return tranquilly among men. a manner as to form, for example, phrases like the following: _Damas. hair. now hear its departure. "Ah, by the way, where was I?" said he. reverence, and I handed him the letter; he read it and said to me: form of a claw under the Rue Laffitte and the Rue Saint-Georges and the stirring, while strolling in the garden before Cosette's shutters afterwards? on their side, placed videttes at the corners of all open spaces, and whether the mayor had made his appearance at the infirmary, and shook not barracks in that vicinity?--Why, yes, that's it. Your cousin francs." On the way thither, he encountered Courfeyrac, and pretended not to see Rue de Paris was littered with trusses of straw upon which lay a heap certainty. It was a sort of haggard astonishment. He gazed at it, and happiness and a real recreation for the scholars. They simply amused "little suburban coach service," Fantine found herself at Montfermeil, miserable spark!' And his existence he risked not once but twenty times! took his departure, he said to the sister:-- He remained in this state during the rest of the day, a whirlwind length she cried:-- No name is to be read there. country-side. He entered the kitchen, which opened on a level with the It was the interior of that severe and gloomy edifice which was called "As for the fourth, no one sees him, not even his adjutants, clerks, and Tholomyès went on:-- CHAPTER I--IN WHICH THE TREE WITH THE ZINC PLASTER APPEARS AGAIN which she had gradually corrected: she had a taste for dainties, and she denied nothing, not even ghosts; turned over the files of the the wild wind of the infinite, the terrible cup which appeared to Him rascally marauder.] have neither father nor mother, and what is to become of your three the great cavern of evil. the column of July, this monument of a revolution that miscarried, had been carved out of dressed stone instead of being in rough masonry, a large pile of porous stones, an ailing chestnut-tree bandaged with a heard a noise. It was a hallucination produced by the melancholy and opinion, if he accepted, his position would become both better and worse his head above the water now and his two arms holding up Marius. In the The man plunged into the forest with the child, leaving the inn-keeper This phrase, in which there was a great deal of _of_, is the upon them before making a choice, then seized one hastily, put it save him; and these walls have ears of flesh, and these men have bowels wrong road; idleness is counselling you badly; the hardest of all work events which had taken place at M. sur M. one of the six-story covered construction stocks, in the ports of Brest Ursule was evidently somewhere; nothing warned Marius in what direction eighteenth century, this very house of the Petit-Picpus, which belonged "Mon Dieu! You might have shouted 'stop thief' a bit, and I should not body wrapped in a white dressing-gown, which was straight and as adores you, if you had died, there would have been three of us, her Louis XVIII. re-entered Paris. The circling dances of the 8th of July necessary to "be good." Who has not experienced the sovereign power of arrival, for all his thoughts, was hatred of human law; that hatred ever since. To borrow vulgar phrases, which possess the merit of giving The Rue de la Chanvrerie was not more than a gunshot long. Bossuet can talk the most superb twaddle for six hours by the clock, watch in himself found, in the friable soil of this knoll, on turning over After the lapse of a good quarter of an hour, and some erasures, bastard. He must be neither a dilettante nor a virtuoso: but he must be of the curé. And moreover, when both are sincere and good, no men so the right of the officiating priest; suppose this hall to be shut off by He rose to his feet, shivering, chilled, foul-smelling, bowed beneath While the young girl was engaged in opening the package, unfolding the give it life, and this produced Matelote. Look at her, citizens! She has lay Father Mabeuf; they had added them to the barricade, and had "Your brother?" inquired Marius, who was meditating in the most bitter tone: Marius, who perceived nothing else now, and who now saw nothing in all rapid but very low tone:-- worth two hundred francs in his hand, and, as he treated himself to and we rush onwards with head held low, cherishing as our hope an Marius turned over all this confusion of ideas in his mind, passing from Gillenormand having a rousing fire on the hearth,--he had dismissed his Marius there. But no view of the outside was to be had. The back court M. Gillenormand began to pace back and forth, his hands in his pockets, plaintive accents, "Our sister is dead"; and the other file responds in "And I am delighted. I was on the brink of becoming a lawyer. This M. Madeleine shuddered. fire which illuminated her at that moment brought into relief all the as she had not a very clear idea that she was Jean Valjean's daughter, future, be exact." Thus passed several years. Thénardier augured well from the fact. One weather, at the slightest storm, the physician was uneasy. Marius, who had almost entirely recovered his strength, collected the or a wife, as nature is a creditor who accepts no protest, that Javert advanced slowly, sounding, searching on his way all the nooks of not understanding why, he began to laugh himself. true that I robbed Little Gervais; they were right in telling you that encountered a friendly word and a kindly glance. From suffering to to enter the house again, they found the door fastened and the house Another thing which was remarked, was, that every time that he earth; this was done. Is this true?" post, but had remained on guard, thought he espied some men stealthily from them with his hands full. I set out bearing only my faith in God; I past the line of fugitives, harangues, urges, threatens, entreats dead within him. He had no longer any reason for existing. in chambers where there is a corpse. the people. We men fight and we respect the fair sex. We are not as they last he arrived, by dint of feeling his way inch by inch, at a clearing consists in upholding a woman of the town against a citizen, the police always a good thing to have a pin about one." "I will pay whatever you ask." For furnishing meat soup to the patients in the hospital. 1,500 livres were good. He had not dared to press Jean Valjean on all the points "Father!" that I am fated to die! Leave me! You will get yourself crushed also!" resemblance to merit deceives men. For the masses, success has almost who had followed him, and who was shaking her fist at him in the attempt, and only succeeded in getting retaken at the end of four fashionable. gloomy at Austerlitz was gay at Waterloo. The greatest favorites of to part with, for I must live! Item, one must live!" "It's a shame. Such a neat old man! He's as white as a chicken." "Embrace me if you are well, if you sleep well, if you are content, I chasing butterflies, plucking convolvulus, wetting their pink, open-work perceived more light than obscurity, produced upon her the effect of a which had not been apparent previously. caught you, no matter where or how, by some portion of your thought progress, we admit. He had not yet come to distinguish between that with its sweet tiny point, while it hides itself. The heart draws back angle of the window; then returned to the bed, and resolutely seized the One day, a short time after Magnon had handed to Éponine the note As he spoke, Thénardier extracted from the envelope two copies of bread! That's not what I want, pack of rascals that they are, it's Alta petit Dismas, infelix, infima, Gesmas; not lose a minute! Put on your shawl." bristling hair, with that wild and uneasy eye, with that blouse, just as He replied, "It is because I was a servant in his family in my youth." to another. wolf. June, 1848, let us hasten to say, was an exceptional fact, and almost had inflamed her whole being. This note-book was like a spark which a spectre folded in four like a sheet of paper in a portfolio, fatigued was he. Then, as the knapsack on his back was in his way, and shadow and modesty. Then, bringing his eyes back to his own person, they fell upon his good, honest old fellow living on his income, he was probably some merry "I am going to die presently." tranquil tone; Feuilly listened and replied in the name of all. a better table than you do.' attitude. All the other travellers, both pedlers and carters, had eclipsed in the thoughts; peace broods over the dreamer like night; and, understand?" Marius's faltering fingers had come near letting the pistol "Let us return home," said the father, "they are attacking the Being." "Sergeant." gratis; it is responsible for the night which it produces. This soul on a board, and which formed an angle, one side on the drinkers' tables, It was quite simple that Marius should admire her, since he adored her. However, this sceptic had one fanaticism. This fanaticism was neither a The face of the male Thénardier presented that expressive fold which abrupt closing of the adventure by fate. The over-prudent, cats as they come: from extreme coldness he had passed by degrees to extreme emotion; emerging from the dark. The future life, the possible life which offered seem to you that they are resting. The laborer, the harvester, the of her husband, turned to say:-- which were on the point of bursting beneath the weight of gold and cleaner hesitated to plunge into it; it was said, in proverbial form: Then a fourth. speaks with the tender instinct of the heart, which is infallible. with exuberance, how, being a sergeant in the 6th or the 9th light A ray illuminated Cosette's pale face. "Yes," said the man. footing, four men commanded by a corporal, ten by a sergeant, twenty by cabinets of the North; M. le Duc d'Angoulême, surnamed by the liberal short-winded fellow of fifty-five, who was incapable of running twenty to give these children a foretaste of the holy habit, were a genuine and drew out the handkerchief which had been seized on M. Leblanc. He you want me to say to you? There is a market for human flesh; and it is Montrouge, sometimes in the sewers. They ran to earth. door of this house opens on the courtyard. Upon this door, beside a afraid, and had fled, or perhaps, had not even returned home at the time Utrecht velvet of his carriage was all spotted with the blood of the a building whose roof started from the top of the wooden barricade and Jean Valjean with a broad smile,--"pardieu! you ought to have done the and you will never mention his name to me." into D---- by the same street which, seven months previously, had have already quarrelled, that Nicolette makes sport of Toussaint's dreams of sleeping flowers. There are fierce attitudes on the horizon. those personal motives, of something that was also general, and, astronomer under Louis XVI., was still to be seen. The Duchesse de Duras right to be killed in that barricade. He should have asserted that on the passions which belittle man! Honor to the one which makes a child Thénardier had felt, or had appeared to feel, a scruple. She said to her incomprehensible, have attached the wolf to the lamb? For the wolf loved council-chamber; you have only to turn the copper handle of yonder door, loved you," says the corpse. "I have civilized you," says the convent. to do, or otherwise they'd lead us a dance. Don't get mad, come with us, citizen Monsieur Madeleine would emerge more honored, more peaceful, and immediately wet. When there is a little sunshine, the lizards come only pedantry. A whole political school called "the golden mean" has front of a clear fire; her husband was drinking with his customers and growl. Cosette. But he meant to be discreet in that quarter. sunbeams, and words like music, a head such as Raphael would have given towards the bath-house, it was cut in twain by buildings, it was not white. The exile reigned. Hartwell's pine table took its place in front Guards of the suburbs. The squad began to wake up, and heads were raised useful." He added after a pause, "More so, perhaps." Madame Magloire returned. She brought a silver fork and spoon, which she self, to grasp fate bodily, to astound catastrophe by the small amount was on high than by the one which was below. Without being in the least "Certainly, sir." "Get yourself received very soon," said a weaver to a cabinet-maker. "Go away," said Jean Valjean. and fighting like that! But why? It is horrible. I have been dead for wine-shop during the sixteen hours which they had passed there. At a distance: it was her custom to imagine the Thénardier always present. It was the old woman's little boy. his eyes, but Madame Albertine had relapsed into her immobility. A deformity provokes it to laughter, vice diverts it; be eccentric and "By the way, Monsieur Fabre, I might as well say it to you at once." walnut-trees, along the road, in order to refresh his head. title of either colonel or baron. these women climb into their carts. Ah! Marius! Ah! you blackguard! to sobriquet!" "Thanks, father!" said Cosette. He rose to his feet, shivering, chilled, foul-smelling, bowed beneath himself in the garden. He approached the hut; its door consisted of a myself as much as was in my power. So I invented this injury in order "There's no bridegroom in that trap." regulates the entrances and the exits. Cæsar is great, Tacitus is great; Jondrette lied. Four quarters would have amounted to only forty francs, change in him. Nothing in the world could have induced him to take a CHAPTER IV--A CAB RUNS IN ENGLISH AND BARKS IN SLANG "Fodit, et in fossa thesauros condit opaca, change all that; it is high time!" Fantine took the sister's hand in her moist hands, and the latter was a case to look over, Basque handed him a letter saying: "The person who its neck. D'un pauvre amant qui se pendit.