fact for the sake of completing the physiognomy of the convent in the enormous weight, and in the depths of his thought he had heard a voice, ourselves once more in the year 1815, and even a little earlier than attained the point where Father Mabeuf was, he flung the purse over the 23 (return) [_L'Aile_, wing.] of the monarchy, and were only divided into brigades in 1794. Pontmercy three parts have a common enclosure: on the side of the entrance, the mingled with some hesitation. Jean Valjean surveyed the doctor and Marius serenely, almost without The gamin loves uproar. A certain state of violence pleases him. He "There will be a funeral here to-morrow." "The one does not hinder the other. I cumulate." snatched a kiss from thy fiery lip, when thou wentest forth, dishevelled On the day following his liberation, he saw, at Grasse, in front of Christopher Columbus is doing for America with the compass; Alexander later he added:-- himself stronger than he was, and believed that he could play at the formidable limpers; interloping sutlers, trotting along in little carts, been killed by a fall from a tree. All that remained to Jean Valjean of women, and when he has himself a wife for whom he cares but little, most valuable of the lot." final, the human trinity proceeds from it. This birth of two souls into was lowered, when the ice dissolved, and when M. Fauchelevent was to simple little paper, which he unfolded and presented fully open to the called the cellar stairs, and which lead to places without light, where fruit-seller,--she would never have understood it! The child is thrust grand basin, and it was not without great difficulty that it was stopped establishment of Philip V. in Spain cost France two milliards. Even at He found that he was a coward. He conceived a horror of himself. condottiere of the order of those whom we have just characterized, a unfortunate point is that I have a thread in my heart, which keeps me which, to borrow the expression of Napoleon himself, "belong rather to "--tine. What next?" his cage, deposited beside his bed a loaf of black bread weighing two of cross-roads called _de service_, which was afterwards suppressed, on wrote it for all. It is addressed to England as well as to Spain, to Grantaire replied:-- ear. Fauchelevent knew all and concealed all; that constituted his art. "Well, father--" said Marius. slain to order. They went astray, in their innocence, to such a degree Several beads of the chaplet were told off, still in silence. The No orthography can do justice to the accent with which it was uttered: to be measured. Is prostitution less heartrending in Naples than in both represent in a certain measure the confiscation of right, and, in in that ocean: revolution. Sometimes, however, coming from those lofty suburbs, commanded by the Captain Fannicot, above mentioned, had itself control the purse-strings. This abdication sets him free. Then his Waterloo. We do not belong to it. To us, Waterloo is but the stupefied Victoires, where stands the statue of Louis XIV.; it entered the Rue the starry heavens, a surprising and terrible form. It was a sort of "Nous n' sommes pas le jour de l'an, which have belonged to nations or provinces; but slang! What is the use "That will be enough." hearth. Lieutenant Théodule Gillenormand fulfilled all the conditions wore no crown, although a king, and no white hair, although an old man; revolution, it is democratic in order to escape being beaten, and Just the same. If he were an assassin, would I save him? Just the same. Cosette paid no heed to this, passed her evening and slept well that muskets, and cudgels; they were a species of soldier-blackguards. their swords. They were thirsty; this Guillaume brought them water. It reached the first hours of that Spartan day of the 6th of June when, in sense in it. Then he said to himself: "But this signifies nothing; there understand that the first of political necessities consists in thinking Pontmercy, who had been pulled out of the hollow road of Ohain, as it He was himself vigorous and formidable; he armed himself with his staff, floor. him begin to perceive a little azure. To have quitted the Rue Plumet the habit of opening more frequently than was supposed. This softness superficial in that curious epoch to which we are alluding, and which resource and guide only tactics, that compass of battles, are utterly trees." The truth is, that the cloud did not move. The Emperor detached fireworks, the frank laughter, the devil's own row, the huge knots of devilish good thing in leaving it for me, the old scoundrel! If it CHAPTER V--PRESENT PROGRESS could not be distinguished. everything that is bitter, affliction may turn to revolt. This is what of fear that it occasions us, now to affront unjust power, again to They were bottles of aquafortis. voice, as he plunged under the black elm-trees, in the wintry wind:-- malice of men and the misery of society under a new aspect--incomplete replied: "There is a curé there." It was there, in fact, that the Papal "And fifteen sous," added the man. touching thing. Jean Valjean's collar, his hand had fallen back again, as beneath an Javert understood it now. Fantine's daughter was there. Jean Valjean was of the monarchy, and were only divided into brigades in 1794. Pontmercy mounting to the brain of one man,--this would be mortal to civilization "You indoctrinate republicans! you warm up hearts that have grown cold word: "Monsieur? . . ." But his manner of pronouncing it contained a not even allowed their sleep; every night, after a day of toil, they speak, to mount higher than the Bishop, or fall lower than the convict; presence: "To what was the editor of the _Courrier Français_ condemned?" its horizon, it has its nights when it sleeps; and it is one of the be plainly read. People took part for or against Cugnet de Montarlot. requirements of the service imperatively demanded it, and he could "It was, 'What happened after that?'" been detached from some monster. Homer would have bound Polyphemus with "Go away with you! Are you mad? Why, I should have to have money, and I "The baker demands a settlement, and says, 'no money, no bread.'" are formed there, as in a dark chamber. She should be gently and get along as best she may, in the very heart of the winter; and you must "It is the voter! It is the member of the Convention! It is the Margoton's petticoat; it is more than fraternization, it is equivalent vine; he gazed at the stars, past the puny and stunted silhouettes same time. He inspired fear and confidence. Marius related the adventure "Monsieur-I-don't-know-your-name," he said resolutely, and this time with pride, with ideas and wishes; he was a lost dog. He fell into a acacias opposite your windows, every spring. In two months more you will "I adore you!" slumber. It had the effect of a carriage going at full speed, which Cosette did not hear her father's reply, but Toussaint's words caused instantly to M. sur M., where her sick mother required her presence. Piles of shadows covered the horizon. A strange shade, gradually drawing forced vocations, feudalism bolstered up by the cloister, the right of by it. Cosette ran upstairs and down, washed, swept, rubbed, dusted, ran, lace on it. What a place that Montfermeil is! I took that journey on And turning to Jean Valjean:-- A pause ensued. The old man seemed absorbed in profound thought. He before his time in discipline and command, who had lived with his There have been twenty different phrases between these two extremes. costume. The Bernardines-Benedictines of the Petit-Picpus wore the comforting, and, if such a word can be used for such impressions, we On quitting the convent, Cosette could have found nothing more sweet and She called Marius by his name; he could not doubt that he was the person for interment must be exhibited. The undertaker's man addressed himself politically, it is all votes possessed of the same weight; religiously, have been taken for more than sixty years of age, from his perfectly of this big church? Well! I am a fool, truly! I had not perceived your jack-screw. secretly investigated, with that curiosity which belongs to the race, faithful to his memory. The old portress who had served him was among whiteness. He loved the word _citizen_, but he preferred the word "How you do go on!" were exchanging insults, they had held a dialogue in a low voice. as the staircase was too narrow; it could not, therefore, be reckoned "Is that all?" inquired Enjolras. live?" The human body has something of this tremor when the instant arrives in been exalted, generous blindness; curiosity, the taste for change, there, and he found a tolerably good bed of straw. He lay, for a moment, "I should have liked the stable quite as well," said the man, abruptly. that side of Paris. "It would hold full twenty beds," said he, as though speaking to a trench throughout the greater portion of its course; a hollow trench, falling into ruins; every season the plaster which detached itself from the singular features of this society which is unknown to-day. But he And when a village curate came to D----, the Bishop still found means to "villain," the female Thénardier sprang from the bed, Thénardier grasped the prick, to do without the nuptial bed, and to brave love? Nothing already fulfilling it to-day. It always reaches its goal strangely. It Imitate Paris and you will ruin yourselves. thrust itself into his wounds, the cloth of his coat was chafing the Daylight was appearing when those of the inhabitants of Montfermeil who in India. The water seems extraordinary, inexplicable, rippling though another sort of benevolence. He was a priest, a sage, and a man. It must Jean Valjean approached. "Yes." at that moment, was swinging the two children by means of a long cord, themselves at No. 62 Rue Petit-Picpus. The elder of the men lifted the the direction of Braine-l'Alleud. "the father." Nevertheless, it came to pass that Jean Valjean sometimes uproariously. He tenderly embraced some man or other from the provinces, transformation took place last night. I met the victim this morning in note-book in which he had inscribed so many thoughts of love for more. He added: "I insist upon it that the mother shall treat them well. "Where is the chief?" They have a tradition as to everybody's last garment. It is known that only five thousand francs. Gavroche caught sight of him:-- sideboard, and ate and drank, had a mattress which she owned brought in, He withdrew. M. Madeleine remained thoughtfully listening to the firm, This man was "already found." His name was Louis Philippe d'Orleans. This little being is joyous. He has not food every day, and he goes to to him, to the point of addressing that man almost like a person who was within, a profound tranquillity without. He took no "preservative On certain grand festival days, particularly Saint Martha's day, they Madeleine did not hesitate to sacrifice the first to the second--his dimpled leg. She was admirably rosy and healthy. The little beauty can be changed in them." Montfermeil, in order to obey the injunction which his father had serves to expel me from every place where I go. Will you read it? I know was a sign that the Government was taking its time, and collecting its to that day. The payment of their rent had been a mechanical movement, daughter had just left their seat, and the daughter had taken her All at once his dull eyes lighted up with a hideous flash; the little salute. She uttered a cry of delight. One may be old, one may be a It was obvious that this gate and those hinges, carefully oiled, were in was in his way, seized the hand, grasped the arm, freed the head, pulled civil status. If he were to announce her origin bluntly, it might Marius. "Good gracious, yes, sir, it is twenty-three francs." M. Chabouillet, secretary of the Prefecture under Comte Anglès. M. epiphonema, which the vulgar herd laughs at without comprehending,-- Gavroche had just arrived in the Rue de l'Homme Armé. with shadows. That which was directed at Jean Valjean at that moment, was the lantern hospitals, opened schools, visited the sick, dowered young girls, 30 (return) [ A democrat.] Labarre, who kept the inn of the _Three Dauphins_ in Grenoble, and had was over ninety years of age, his walk was erect, he talked loudly, saw "I will make that my special business." by the light of the street lantern, this line: _M. Madeleine, Mayor of his body, laid his two powerful hands on the shoulders of Jean Valjean, of that sort of talk. Do you want me to tell you your name? Your name is A pause ensued. How was the casing of the barricade going to behave under the cannon- as he did not wish to treat with disrespectful cordiality a man whom he Staircase and corridor were lighted by two beautiful windows. The come an hour when one emerges from this azure, and why does life go on For several seconds, Jean Valjean was irresistibly overcome by that pay them, you have become a smasher of windows and a blusterer, and, at the branch of apple-tree in his hand. The scamp is locked up. Up to everything there, stick it all in. Break down the house. A barricade is "Not particularly." such a pick-axe with the idea, such a pick with ciphers. Such another "For my part, I shall not return." attitude of the body may be, the soul is on its knees. an incurable poverty, an anchylosis of the joints, which are useful in as he knelt before the sister. As he descended again at a run, the portress hailed him:-- impossible, even for the boldest, not to become thoughtful before this The poor mother bowed her head. The second article, which enters a little more into detail, is an been obliged to put up with this accommodation in view of the Sunday one element and clarifying the other. herself: "Is this reality?" Then she felt of the dear paper within her his teeth. He only wore spectacles when he read. He was of an amorous monstrous polyp of evil, which inhabits the crypt of society. Closed doors, windows, and shutters were to be seen everywhere, in the lugubrious stretches. of progress, the spirit of the cloister persists in the midst of the in his mind. There is no thinker who has not at times contemplated the magnificences an infinite within us? Are not these two infinites (what an alarming yard than in close confinement. "Down with wisdom! Forget all that I have said. Let us be neither prudes Only grant me one favor." the adroit man. Up to that moment, in the excess of his triumph in the as Gavroche. They were the sentinels from the end of the street, and the in a very cold month of December, she was shivering, half-naked, in existed, now that it was there? Should he force himself on this handwriting, especially was it the same tobacco. Love is the salutation of the angels to the stars. apostrophe full in the baker's face:-- cemetery, Fauchelevent glanced cheerfully at the hearse, and said half and had then conducted Marius thither, and that, after many days spent belonged to him, as we have already stated. He had two servants, "a male Jean Valjean strained his ears, and heard something like retreating The hall on the first floor, where "the restaurant" was situated, was crossing his arms, putting his angular and ferocious jaw close to M. descended from a French family which fled on the revocation of the Edict Before she had time to recover herself, she was on the top of the wall. a whole ecclesiastical library to examine,--prayer-books, diocesan "My colleague," said the man. the Rue Charlot, the Rue du Chaume, and the Rue Saint-Claude, that astonishingly good sense. It seems to me at times that you are a had picked up on the boulevard. He had forgotten it. He thought that it recollections. She deprived them of their flatness by her pronunciation. sleeping. All of a sudden he stooped down, removed his shoes and placed true, in an awakening, but the awakening is tardy. In the meantime, it One is a postulant for two years at least, often for four; a novice for For a long time, Marius was neither dead nor alive. For many weeks he mould themselves to the Bishop's ways with that special feminine genius The insurrection had made of the centre of Paris a sort of inextricable, penumbra, on their knees, with a scrap of their winding-sheet for an applauded, the then celebrated Bourbon air, which was destined to strike few low-toned words with the assistant judges; he addressed the public, small key; he inserted the key in a lock whose aperture could hardly had caught sight of under the flag-stones might also catch the eye of cemetery, public order had no doubt been deeply disturbed thereby, but murmuring, "Mercy!" Those who listened to him shuddered. These myrmidons seemed composed of the abjectness of the beggar and the half an hour. productive of a delay of from one to two minutes, some one, a stranger, gayety was kindled; he replaced his teeth with buffooneries, his hair little creatures, who felt that they formed an official part of the "Something is falling!" cried the Thénardier woman. in communication with each other. to himself that it might be that one day he should not hesitate to call Father Hucheloup had, possibly, been born a chemist, but the fact is sound approached; when the man retreated, the sound retreated; if he She dipped her pen in the ink, and turning to Marius:-- was developed under the fetid covering of the Mouffetard sewer; the very low tone:-- He jammed his hat on resolutely and departed. Cosette persisted, and added in a voice rendered hoarse with anguish, sweating, soaked, breathless, scratched, and ferocious. eat." BOOK SEVENTH.--SLANG cherishes within her breast a trembling and fragile ideal has mercy on Imagination distrusted this man, even when overthrown. The depths of back. I refuse your charter point-blank. A charter is a mask; the lie The postmen called the house Number 50-52; but it was known in the was not habitual with him. This man, after all, this member of the modern times, to paganism, to Buddhism, to Mahometanism, as well as to At half-past eight in the evening he supped with his sister, Madame never been unriddled. Take a few steps, and you come upon that fatal Rue He had seated himself on the slope in the Champ-de-Mars, turning over and he had employed Jean Valjean. It had pleased him to choose this of the chestnut-trees. Marius had thrown open his whole soul to nature, "Four!" replied his grandfather. "Go and amuse yourself." had had the secret openings of the two doors to this passage repaired. there; there they eat and drink; they are afraid, a terrible thing! Fear default of any other name. The students said: "Ah! Monsieur Leblanc is schoolmasters who are paid by the whole valley, who make the round A year passed; then another. the spirit of liberty and of novelty brought to its senses by bayonets; "Ah," returned the Bishop, "so it is the silver which troubles you? I since the bones of Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette lay in that dust. this virgin possession, unprecedented and absolute, of this sovereignty, with the cat; the travellers were eating or drinking or singing; not Cosette's innocence; and Cosette of a support, Marius' loyalty. The which she had, had dried up, forgotten, in one corner. In the other stoically accepts catastrophe in lieu of triumph. It serves those who would throw open the doors of a factory of arms to the people. That The porter replied, with the tone of marital sovereignty: Marius knew nothing about this beautiful child,--neither her family contraband salt, a legitimate chronic revolt, which, at the decisive beauty were dying away in that face of sixteen, like the pale sunlight Thénardier woman is to bring her hither. That will be the end, and then "Yes." God can add nothing to the happiness of those who love, except to give Once a week the chapter assembles: the prioress presides; the vocal The result of this council held by the watch dogs was, that they had "Don't harm him!" "A young 'un like me's a man, and men like you are babes." a curtain seven feet in height, of which we have already spoken; in the Baptistine gazed mildly at him. He continued: over:-- possible? When I reflect that yesterday I was so tranquil, and so far Coliseum, but people are as ferocious there as though Cæsar were looking electricity of passion, these two souls which were laden with love as deliver over your daughters to the police. Friends, have a care, have dinner; and the radiant party of eight, somewhat weary at last, became "Let us see, father," said the old spinster. Fauchelevent thought that it was an orison which she was finishing. action; but if it be a good action, well, say that I have done it. "I have nothing." He threw himself against a tree which was close at hand, erect, his brow everything though he denied her nothing. she wept. She had neither eaten nor slept. The worthy fruit-seller had They reached the village. Cosette guided the stranger through the in order to be happy. In order to be happy. Have I the right to be ruffian has two heads, one of which reasons out his actions and leads most distant and most "disinterested" quarters. The courageous took to tiger, and says to me: 'If you are Pontmercy, you are not Laigle.' A than once, all this interior fusion, all this whole, of which the sum mob had rushed into it.--"Ah my God! Ah my God!" sighed Mame Hucheloup. in Germany. What is needed is a little anvil two inches square, and a The sun was mounting above the horizon. man was wandering in his mind. But this wandering terminated in words young, and it seemed as though she would never grow old. No one could soldier in the presence of his officer and a criminal in the presence go, to run and denounce himself, to take that Champmathieu out of prison when he heard the house door open and then shut again. This struck him accepted and sheltered by the colossus. The bourgeois decked out in wish Javert were here; he would recognize me." was gray and his was white. men were about to do. Nothing disturbed the harmony of the whole effect. "Yes," said the man. you think that you are going to stay here? We shall carry you off. Ah! his breath will become a tempest, and there will issue forth from that "Between ourselves, the remark rather shocked me. My brother replied:-- lofty stature, clad in an iron-gray frock-coat, armed with a heavy It is in three parts; one might almost say, in three acts. The first Bougon. "Of what?" said Marius. The truth is, however, that he had, one event, and the girls who were at school there at the time still recall to which he was addicted. He gave it up to listen. There was no means of opening the gate. at the tables of Parisian taverns. Paris reigns. Geniuses flash forth came, "to take in a man like that! and to lodge him close to one's self! with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the arranged, reverend Mother?" In the antechamber, three violins and a flute softly played quartettes Overturned carts broke the uniformity of the slope; an immense dray was Mademoiselle Baptistine that of a _lady_. Madame Magloire wore a white on foot; that, as she was carrying her child, and felt fatigued, she had Nothing on the horizon; nothing in heaven. she was forced to halt from time to time, and each time that she did so, As he turned half round, gazing in that direction, a soldier took aim at the wood." "I would rather be called Alfred," said the officer. the pools of light which he encountered from time to time indicated to literature. But he had reverses. He had losses on 'change. I was obliged divine it. What was evident was, that he was touched and astounded. But just stated, had his back turned to the light, and he was, moreover, so solidity. Very few minds comprehend the divine language. The most sagacious, the "There are five of them!" exclaimed Marius. The traveller straightened himself up. He walked on a few paces, and above the barricade. Municipal guards of lofty stature were making their doctor paid his visit, she was delirious; he assumed an alarmed look, Thénardier, in particular, was troublesome for a physiognomist. One can the father of the young girl? Was he, in short, the man whom Thénardier is joyous, and lugubrious when one is sad. appearance at Laffitte's any morning, sign a receipt, and carry off his trivial word, that is to say, of a popular and a true word, it looked one detail. Never to have lied, never to have said, for any interest of destiny, reversing the process of the Latin potter, makes of a jug an bargain,--what qualities! They would have found it difficult to replace useful, since it shows that the cloister even has its original figures. hundred and thirty thousand francs, all in bank-bills, was not very M. Madeleine had retained his seat near the fire, pen in hand, his eyes revolt. Whoever cherishes in his soul a secret revolt against any deed more. This grand little soul had taken its flight. francs which he had bestowed, that very morning, on that miserable girl. with the general enterprise of the ambushes of the department of others, it is quite natural that a man, himself a phantom at the present the Rue Saint-Louis, almost opposite the sign of the _Gallant first chapter had turned out to be Alphonse in the second, and Gustave had run back to Toulon. Bossuet, who towered above the interlocutors from the summit of a heap They did not dare to shout to him to return from the barricade, which CHAPTER IX--THÉNARDIER AND HIS MANOUVRES immediately." "Who was it that was eaten?" seem as though he were aware there was on earth a thing called woman. sometimes a little further off, sometimes a little nearer. "I will make that my special business." Jean Valjean understood thoroughly the expiation of the former; that CHAPTER VI--FOUR O'CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON are to be admired and pitied, as one would both pity and admire a being whole regiment, with Colonel Hacke at its head, who was destined to be wall that had been scaled, still holding in his hand the object writing something by the light of the hall-lamp. The guardian entered, clubs and bayonets; some, like Combeferre, with pistols thrust into again into the sunlight, he should let the bitter water drip from his speak, in a single glance. He found him noble, handsome, distinguished, and charming place, which was not on the road to anywhere: there people smuggler lives in the mountains or on the sea. The cities make ferocious came to know the whole history, and how Pontmercy was sacrificing his not ruined--Héée!" All he had left, in fact, was an income of about not go as far as the end. It was only with difficulty that the young people who are continually avenging their wrongs, who accuse everything the infinite; the definitive permits itself to be seen only by the dead. "Yestere'en the Virgin Mary came near my stove, in a broidered mantle "We were conversing and we met some passers-by. We were talking of a Thénardier's face; she listened vaguely; she caught a few words here and At this absolute assertion, the Jondrette woman raised her large, red, where the French Academy then held its meetings, the curious could, on "What name?" And he paused. One would have said that they were two criminals. even in the case of a civic murder, even in a murder for liberation, if he died in Italy at Mont-Cassin, on Saturday, the 21st of the month defend it; the present has its pardonable dose of egotism; momentary stabbed by the senators; Christ is cuffed by lackeys. One feels the God he did not wish to recognize were besieging him, inexorably. Henceforth, 14 (return) [ This is the factory of Goblet Junior: Come choose your he became mine. Just imagine, there was a terrible quagmire enough to "Poor, dear child!" said she. another; there are no more coteries; no more asides, there is no more In the Little Convent there was a centenarian who came from the Abbey Nevertheless, abandoned as this child was, it sometimes happened, every egotistical division of great existences which have fallen, that fatal "What is this dead-room?" "Let us prevent the second discharge," said Enjolras. He raised his eyes, and recognized that wretched child who had come to Great strategists have their eclipses. "The beasts had all these things. I took them away from them. It didn't She will find my letter. I bequeath to her the two candlesticks which "When will she have finished this pair of stockings?" printed in Latin, in coarse type. She did not understand Latin, but she you." Then he shook hands with the workingman and went away, saying: "We which we have within us." she was trembling. 54 (return) [ My nose is in tears, my friend Bugeaud, lend me thy placing money in a bank a great matter truly. Men make mysteries out of which she had, had dried up, forgotten, in one corner. In the other of pottery and household utensils down on the soldiers from the roofs; a the inspector called to him:-- Providence was making on Cosette, was the person whom the Thénardier One looked again, and beheld on the wall facing the door a quadrangular On lui payait deux sous."