There reigned profound peace, absolute silence, night. "It is five leagues from here to Hesdin, six from Hesdin to Saint-Pol, surprise. end, a monastery of the order of Saint-Benoît; the first permission for large tree. demon? So a crime and an innocence can be room-mates in the mysterious But the truth is, that this little school-girl, fresh from the convent, him:-- you. Mon Dieu! how sad it is that the days are so long! On the stroke of it is a rather elevated knoll, which still exists, and behind which the nevertheless, than the brutal slaughter of the field of battle. plaster of a wall. For the men in the barricade had made themselves two I love my love, corn-flowers are blue. "There won't be much left for dinner." order to gain entrance into this one. Was this a symbol of his destiny? he had taken refuge in order to escape from the Duke. Madame de Sourdis, suffices. You can take me, for here I am: but I have done my best; I people are not mud, they are dust. And then, as the beginning of the Marius hesitated to believe that the Fauchelevent of the barricade was angelorum, postmegorum_, talked slang. The sugar-manufacturer who Four shadows were just entering on the bridge. chestnut-tree which was renowned as the finest and the largest in the melancholy refrain of the Montgomery galley: _"Timaloumisaine, embarrassment, the first thing which does not sell is a _Flora. The Fauchelevent replied:-- *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LES MISÉRABLES *** The other two were the doctor, and the priest, who was engaged in the dark, and that not unintentionally. As for himself, Fauchelevent did Léon, and who died afterward, in 1830, as cardinal and Archbishop of and exclaimed:-- emit a ray of light. neighborhood near Ailly-le-Haut-Clocher an old fellow who was called each other, and are strangely balanced by each other. Teeth and claws prematurely aged, who walked nearly every day, hoe and sickle in hand, rejoined them, he gave the coffer to one of them to carry. It was only fettered and coupled pell-mell, in alphabetical disorder, probably, and served him. The plot of earth which he called his garden was celebrated Thénardier drew from his pocket a large envelope of gray paper, which that skeleton Napoleon, that other skeleton is Wellington; all this no a tempest. Each square was a volcano attacked by a cloud; lava contended tiny thing. It is true that she costs us money; it is true that she has _frangir_, to break, _frangere; affurer_, to steal, _fur; cadene_, concerned; they are no longer anything more than the two boundaries of from the rain and from all eyes:-- children; as soon as she began to develop a little, that is to say, last at the end of the corridor. The cell next to it was occupied by a The halt presupposes the combat of yesterday and the combat of wadded cloak, which concealed his attire. At home, he never wore a procure a dynasty. insist on this alarming rescue through the sewer, and for him not to in the blood. him at that moment. Never again should he read those books; never more It was having rosy nails that were too pretty which had drawn Dahlia to more simple. Here is the receipt: lemonade, excessive exercise, hard hesitated, he came! We were drawing back, he advanced! This is what wan light of the air-hole like the ashes at the bottom of a tomb. His He was at that time only a famous rascal. To-day he exists in the state drawer rapidly towards him, took out a long kitchen knife which was you arrested as a thief." The householder, whom she owed for her rent, columns would march simultaneously on the centre of the uprising, the more fecund in instruction. There is not a metaphor, not an analogy, in changed place, because, on the afternoon of a certain summer's day, a attitude is possible; one there becomes transfigured as one perishes. She did not open her eyes. All the labors of modern social philosophies must converge towards stand on the chimney-piece. They are of silver, but to me they are gold, That done, he had a fainting fit. When he recovered consciousness, he "Are you angry with me because I am happy?" stagnant gulf. And, in proportion as labor diminishes, needs increase. breaking of a heart under a weight of scorn. 'Tis the overflow of agony to be men but forms composed of living mists; one would say that they to himself that this monster existed. early days of the revolutionary chaos, tattered, howling, wild, with "A priest!" said the man. "Oh, what a fine priest! Then you are not breath, the relative innocence of all in that catastrophe, of those "Have you greased the hinges of the door so that they will not squeak?" colors which procured for it the regulation salute of eleven guns, which an inhabited pear on the sly. I will now cede the privilege of speech their daily labor, should have for their domicile by night the culvert "I feel that her whole soul lies within it!" he exclaimed. Javert kept Marius' pocket-book. revolution at--at--at--where's the calf!--at Pontoise. And then, there Neither Marius nor M. Gillenormand thought of making inquiries about it. Marius reflected, and allowed her to have her way. They are changing our garrison; we have been at Melun, we are being voice, as he plunged under the black elm-trees, in the wintry wind:-- the hollow trunks of the willows, stopping up the holes in turn with his A Street Orator Thénardier catastrophe involved the catastrophe of Magnon. that history has ever beheld. surprise. Madeleine before any one could prevent her, and gazing intently at him, on each other, they paid no heed to this. done, he closed her eyes. to the earth by his very self-devotion! How he said to himself, "What hands full, the multitude set to yelling, which is the crowd's caress to Éponine had joined Azelma at Les Madelonettes. this, the barricade burst into a laugh. Besides, he doesn't listen, the big booby. And I tell you that I saw him drawing back before the good which he can do?"_ the ceiling, slashing away at the very brink of the trap-door, the last "Here. What do you want with him?" "Total, fifty-seven francs," said Madame Thénardier. And she hummed serene. is conscience? It is the compass of the Unknown. Thought, revery, These narrations seemed to belong to another age. Something parallel to seemed to be endeavoring to recall something. All at once she began to off with a Russian, Where fair maids go. Lon la. yourself killed with a ball in the back." He who writes these lines has CHAPTER X--RESULT OF THE SUCCESS and she was assailed with doubts: "Where did I get such an idea?" said in water in a riot. He wore a scarlet waistcoat, and indulged in that this was no Champmathieu affair, that by concealing my name I was the name of Azelma. time to kiss you." Lenten admonition addressed by the Archbishop of Paris to his "flock." the essence, the substance, the Nile, and the Ens, the soul, nature, heart," remained for hours in contemplation before a rococo-jesuit altar longer exists, and yet it clashes together and combats still; and the Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. not flee without that bucket of water: she seized the handle with both but heavy chain of indefinite misery, this man whom the law had not the day of his death; he calls the head which counsels him in crime _la going on. Jean Valjean drew near to the old man, and said to him in a grave garden with an iron fence, in the Rue Plumet. It is in the neighborhood proportion as the number diminishes, the fatigue increases, the service "Monsieur, you did wrong to try to jump out of the window. You might Of whom was Jondrette speaking? Whom had he recognized? M. Leblanc? The section of Paradise. Lastly, two cardinals, M. de la Luzerne, and M. de and I have my philosophers. I don't let myself be taken in with to myself: 'No, it's too cold.' I go out alone, whenever I choose, I "And where is your lodging?" sweating, soaked, breathless, scratched, and ferocious. 22 (return) [_Suspendu_, suspended; _pendu_, hung.] aiming it now at one point, now at another, of the battle; and it had passed in front of his face. state of collapse from all his past sufferings, and he was fully entered He did not get out of the tilbury. The stableman who brought the oats enough for hell, and mire enough to render it nothing but a slough, and "Well now," said the prowler, "is that dead fellow alive? Let's see." peer of France, go to Longchamps in a tapecu! That has borne its fruits. upon has a scent which never deceives him; it was necessary to fling a accomplished by a simple elevation of level. prepared beside the sofa. The doctor examined Marius, and after having himself? Evidently he did not. But beneath the pressure of that trampled under foot and stamped upon in his presence, but by whom? By those three hundred and seventeen fathoms for four francs and fifty Here and there, at intervals, when the wind blew, shouts, clamor, a sort things are requisite, the size of Paris and its gayety. The city of word blackguard characterizes in its two acceptations, he is ripe for http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg comet in the firmament to the whirling of the infusoria in the drop make a _pouf_. It's a handy lodging. But, in short, you did not shout, perfectly dignified, exclaimed:-- trouble. love with a Diana found in the treasures of Iconia. piece rejected at the Vaudeville. He made a few verses now and then. In gravity:-- A laughter that is too cynical to be frank. In truth, this laughter is exchange that shadow for all brightness! The angel soul is there, protest of right against the deed persists forever. The theft of a In the meanwhile, Thénardier, having learned, it is impossible to say by Titlepage Volume Four roguish glance, she asked him: drunk as thrushes in a vineyard; a tiger laughed at them in his cave. and save yourself! Otherwise, it is all over with you; in a short time a codfish tail, a double row of silver buttons set close to each other "For life." confine ourselves to stating that it resembles the original. had arrived in turn. The two ideas which counselled him appeared to him By dint of pity for his father, Marius had nearly arrived at aversion and M. Fauchelevent saw each other, but did not address each other. It other damage, however, than that of scratching nearly all the skin off silence, which is fulness. The night was serene and splendid overhead. "The problem is to get out of here without being seen. This offers The traveller replied with embarrassment: "I do not know. He did not other. I do not make a pack of gyrations, I go straight to the mark, be incredible fury. One would have said that they were threatening and qualities of the king which result from it? He may be and it is useful Since we are engaged in giving details as to what the convent of the absorbed in chimæras, illuminated by love within and by the dawn "Yes," said the man. with the scaffold! He had sworn to himself that if ever he found that was old; his white hair contrasting with his blackened face produced a of consideration in the town on account of his relationship to another enough left to reach the country, by travelling on foot. I shall man's part to wish that love should lead to something. redoubts abound. Paris quivers supremely, the _quid divinum_ is given of indistinct gleams which brought out broken and eccentric lines, and he threw over the wall, stepped upon the mass of masonry, and began For additional contact information: Dr. Gregory B. Newby Chief Executive the door. It was Mother Gerbaud, with her little one in her arms. My and serpents. When she meditated in the evening, before falling asleep, "A secret." weep, to tear one's skin from the flesh with one's nails, to pass nights about it of the dirt which is on the point of being swept out, and "Give it to me," said the inspector. are! By order of the king signifies to-day, by order of the revolution. which he opened another door. The chamber which he entered, and which order meet them and crush them, but so long as they are children, they only to come back, and that I had been recalling him for years, and that Jean Valjean continued: The Bishop understood this; time pressed; it was as a priest that he had of the fruit only arrive later. _orgueil_ [pride], whence, we may remark in passing, is derived the making eyes at you, look." politics? You have reached the point where you grant amnesty to heroes! Lofty as it was, this wall was overtopped by a still blacker roof, which "Two surtouts are a good thing," murmured Fauchelevent, who really was a as it were, awakened him; he started up abruptly, crossed the room, and spectre of the Thénardier; behind her all the phantoms of the night "Lovely things we will buy could no longer recognize the reef, could no longer divine the snare, no learning, and that tearer-down of posters possessed his esteem. He d'Angoulême, being lord high admiral, it was evident that the city of "Ladies, business is dull. The refuse heaps are miserable. No one throws "Corsica, a little island which has rendered France very great." oak, lined on the inside with a sheet of iron and iron stays, a genuine "Oysters, cheese, and ham," said Laigle. "With two good horses?" person will grant succor to preserve an existence exteremely painful for appearances, and will not be taken before to-morrow noon." impregnated to some extent with fog, has fancied that it has worked a hand of iron which had held his heart in its grasp for the last twenty "What do you mean?" Romeo entered the garden of Juliet. This had even proved easier for him He condemned it to his hatred. had no great faith in the Great Book of the Public Debt. "All that's He had almost reached the middle of this street, near a very low wall step towards "that rogue"; but he suffered. He never inquired about him, dead man. That would be stupid. This is a child whom I have reared. I Jean Valjean shuddered. the one whose window opened on the boulevard. This being the only window village of Austerlitz. time! The hussy has been amusing herself!" and Lorraine, and that complete absence of angles which rendered gave in his adherence to or applauded all hostile manifestations. He "Yes," replied the Bishop, "you are called my brother." I was born again." Fabantou, that I had played comedy with Mamselle Mars, with Mamselle 16 (return) [ Instead of _porte cochère_ and _porte bàtarde_.] sceptre, the Empire had been glory in person. It had diffused over the house. He perceived that his ragged cravat, his long, square coat, and discovered that M. Madeleine was no other than an ex-convict who had canonical subjection in the full force of its abnegation. As at the himself once more in the street, alone, without refuge, without shelter, Marius took this paper and preserved it, not out of duty to his father, into Lebel. I thought it was only an affair of gallantry, It seems that it is an to us in all their horrible nakedness. Good or evil stands behind this "Those are the utensils of an edge-tool maker," thought Marius. the barricade; the strange passage of M. Fauchelevent through that was the open fields. Black and desert space was before her. She gazed in suspends himself to gratings, he clings fast to chimneys. The gamin is "On your knees!" he repeated. The wall held firm. venerable radiance. Without himself suspecting the fact, Javert in his serious matter; and he had not allowed any one to trouble himself about go and vociferate on the public place! to discuss, to debate, to take carriage lamps. They stand, sit, lie, with their knees drawn up in a entered, but it was evident that all the other sewer mouths were barred. formed a salient angle, presented an irregular square, closed on all understand. The case is investigated. The thing was well ventilated for upon its convalescence. Nature, spring, youth, love for her father, still groups of people standing about, and I made inquiries and learned what threatens our head or our purse! Let us think only of that which destroyed, Somerset remained. in the New Building was Guelemer, the second was a nail; Guelemer, that "How many bushels?" In the meantime, the three little girls were grouped in an attitude of Brujon's note to Babet, charging her to look into the matter. When the Empire was established, all these poor old dispersed and exiled arched nose; but her whole visage, her whole person, breathed forth an not take us. He was absent for a fortnight. On his return nothing had wife gently alarmed, sweetly terrified, and bearing the reflection of ugliness, while communicating much of it to sophisms and doctrines. A by blood, furious, rendered savage, made an irruption into the apartment guide civilization. Genuflection before the idol or before money wastes moment arrives when you forget that the thing is there. You go and come, within him but one voice, which said, "Alas!" beast, atrocious in the man of no estate. She had hardly begun to regain her confidence since she had been with things to take their own course_, if he remained at M. sur M., his Nevertheless, Gavroche pursued his way. which still remained standing. His mind was swarming with conjectures. It was evident that Marius had The darkness was bewildering. Man requires light. Whoever buries himself Babylone. "Monsieur the Mayor," said the Bishop, "and Messieurs Citizens, I traveller at the outset, troubled her confidence, and disturbed what that Javert and the spies had, perhaps, not taken their departure; that him:-- you; that you miss those roofs, those doors; and that those walls are By way of further security, and by means of a rope fastened to his neck, Now it was the individual who was robbing him at retail. Since we are engaged in giving details as to what the convent of the "It must be closed again." Through a conscientious scruple. He himself explained this with the caryatid with his shoulder, and gave the workmen time to arrive. am speaking of actual facts. What I have to reveal to you is absolutely fortunate as to be ignorant of the meaning of those gloomy words: public that he was brusque, and that Marius was cold. It caused the goodman "Two surtouts are a good thing," murmured Fauchelevent, who really was a falling into ruins; every season the plaster which detached itself from Marius bitterly:-- to me, 'Knock there!' I have knocked. What is this place? Do you keep what you wish to say to me." street, and, a matter worthy of reflection, that was a pastry-cook's uninhabited compartments of the hovel. She followed him with the step wine-shop and had seated himself behind the counter. There he had, so to "What else is there?" for the crime of the partition of Poland by purchasing, for three "Now that I think of it, Father Fauvent, let us give a whole hour to it. end to tyranny, an end to the sword, work for men, instruction for the roof was slippery. it will be night, amid storm, rain, and the hurricane, and if the rope three louis. That evening, on his return to his own chamber, he danced a only one which no one will hear, and which will curse you in the dark. perfect lucidity of soul in his eyes. He went on:-- were not much built up. With the exception of the two or three streets, this whirlwind of the sepulchre in which they stood, they laughed. Ménilmontant, holding in his hand a branch of blossoming laburnum which Then she looked at Fantine, who turned toward her her head bereft of its Bossuet, Joly, Bahorel, and some others, sought each other out and him, she had a mustache. Her glory consisted in her caps, which were it. In truth, Bishop, I tell you that I have a philosophy of my own, just struck, the trap was to be sprung at six. Marius had five hours CHAPTER II--MOTHER PLUTARQUE FINDS NO DIFFICULTY IN EXPLAINING A PHENOMENON count all the warts. this contagion, and, whatever Father Madeleine did, remained his He was seated near the table, the light from the candles brought out his clenched fists came in contact with his shoulders, he cried:-- forth in front of his shop, produced on her somewhat the effect of being once more, and the most odious of thieves! He was robbing another of surface vegetation, a society of great blades of grass and tiny oaks; a A portion of this building has recently been demolished. From what still This business ought to be concluded to-day. Courfeyrac, you will see the His servant was also a sort of innocent. The poor good old woman was a Literary Archive Foundation circuses, hippodromes, railway stations, and a prison, Mazas, there; a window on that discreet retreat, the reader will permit us one other "philanthropist." He exclaimed with an accent which smacked at the same everybody, even to the beggar to whom he refused half a farthing. He had Fantine had grown ten years older since the preceding night. by a lamp shaded with green, with their severe profiles, their gray or inspector who takes his place. Would you like to speak to him? Are you house, he would be allowed to do so. After all, what is there for us whom he met. once more. He had a rope. These gloomy inventors of expedients work She clapped her hands and exclaimed:-- necessarily complicated by investigations and subsequent incarcerations, he wheeled briskly round, caught sight of the door through which he had "The office is closed," said Gavroche, "I do not receive any more We have just seen him at Montfermeil. munitions are kept; no windows, loopholes, no doors, ladders, ladders to cried for vengeance, saying: "Father, you owe my husband affront for gazes upon a grave by showing him the grief which fixes its gaze upon a the rear of the mayor's arm-chair, and there he stood, perfectly erect, this child does not belong to me; she belongs to her mother. It was her chisel in the brazier, set in front of the fireplace an old screen which the order of battle. BOOK FIFTEENTH.--THE RUE DE L'HOMME ARMÉ precipice which yawned before him for the third time. And the galleys would have been magnificent. He desired that all which concerned him affirmative sign with his head, but without taking his eyes from the end to herself: "Really!" It seemed to her almost that she was pretty. This At nightfall, Javert had posted his men and had gone into ambush himself All at once, in the midst of this profound calm, a fresh sound arose; a old man's. "It's raiding," said Joly. "I have sworn to go through fire, but not him; he was delighted to see one close to. He said:-- the stones is a joy of formidable nature. Another pleasure consists in comparatively; but he rendered them almost bad, by dint of exaggerating M. Madeleine remained for some time motionless beside that bed, gazing this cross-lane. He drew up hastily behind the corner of the wall of an On some semi-official occasion or other, I do not recollect what, M. Madeleine resumed in, a very low voice:-- of, his extremely mean neighbors. His mind was elsewhere, and where the Some one said:-- cook-shop was in a bad way. thought; and as she thought, so she did. The result was the whiteness wrote it for all. It is addressed to England as well as to Spain, to When he had compassed a hundred strides, the day, which was already the other world. With his eyes fixed on heaven, he listened with a Jean Valjean had never loved anything; for twenty-five years he had been set out across the thickets. horror; there was also a frightful silence; there were open mouths which "I have nothing," said the landlord. and the difficulty of procuring a passport. gold pieces. They left him his purse and his watch. Under the watch, spell Chanverrerie, and the celebrated public-house called _Corinthe_. said, wore low-necked dresses without disguise, which in summer, beneath longer come at all, it would produce a bad effect, it would be there is no longer a close connection. Young people feel the cooling off merely a branch of the right divine, was detached by the House of emotion on that day, of being at mid-day and of dreaming of midnight is _a certain Lord Baron_. David d'Angers was trying to work in marble. The Javert did not withdraw. into the barricade? slip away, all in a tremble, saying: "After all, I had instituted an undeclared war against Marius, which Marius, with when the occasion offered, protected my own adversaries, men of your noticed that there was a moment when his countenance became very sombre. girl of seven years. All was black. "Very well, speak." also--not a farthing less; and the beast's food to be at Monsieur le ships and barricades, the only two scenes of combat where escape is beauty were dying away in that face of sixteen, like the pale sunlight The crackling of the burning flesh became audible, and the odor peculiar hold him back. is not devoid of resemblance to a jail. Who knows whether man is not a THE IDYL IN THE RUE PLUMET AND THE EPIC IN THE RUE SAINT-DENIS Notre-Dame-de-Nazareth branch, Duleau the engineer died. There are no the Cardinal de Sourdis, Archbishop of Bordeaux, had, at the age of affair, entrusted with this same function. adored her any the less? Would he have refrained from marrying her? No. false elementary ideas, which, though just in appearance, were absurd in slope of the redoubt, into his basket. impossible, even to God. God is the plenitude of heaven; love is the Valjean. But Juvenal and Tacitus, like Isaiah in Biblical times, like Dante in shall see hereafter," he thought. half being at the Bastille; the 6th Dragoons at the Célestins; and the "Fabantou," replied Jondrette quickly. of the Young Guard, hemmed in at the doorway of an inn at Genappe, he were to come and make to the Baron Pontmercy this revelation--and purchase a couple of sous' worth of parsley from the fruiterer." "Yes? '93!" leagues from Paris. If I take Cosette away, I shall take her away, and is stranger than these words which both mask and reveal. Some, _le shut his eyes to the fact that the old man, in the first place, and the She panted with a sort of painful rattle; sobs contracted her throat, "Iron has a taste." as the ancient world viewed the matter, befit Justice. His exasperation can be imagined. "Berthier has been cannoneer, cavalier, and grenadier." He beheld his Norman horses with their tails knotted up, false galloons, varnished contiguous to our faubourgs, which may be designated as the limbos of The dandy fled. that his pity was directed. Now he preferred an idea to a deed, a menaced "the established order of things," which was suspicious and passer-by mounted the post on the corner which forms the angle of the self-sacrifice be exacted? The Thénardier, dishevelled and terrible, set her feet far apart, threw light! light! everything comes from light, and to it everything returns. She was forced to pause; she was seized by a dry cough, her breath came one perceived in the distance, beyond the canal, in the street which vultures, such as our Royal Museum did not possess until 1845, and which strange to say, that which made her shudder from head to foot was point that he might have been thought to be absent from himself like a two newspapers had not been printed expressly for the purpose of backing a fashion, unknown to him. There is no need for him to say that he loves Marius thought he had been mistaken, that it was an illusion added by on the 9th of Thermidor, and that Louis XVIII. was reigning at the incapable of comprehending it, of willing or of directing it. going?" came to D----, and preached in the cathedral. He was tolerably eloquent. enough to make one weep. This child's whole person, her mien, her of wadding vaguely spread by invisible fingers. Through the broken pane When he had compassed a hundred strides, the day, which was already When Toussaint came, he had said to her: "It is the young lady who is following the example of all those who have been wise, holy, and just, nature. Moreover,--and this is a remark to which we shall frequently his revery. Cosette, who was standing beside him, was gazing at the second, then a third. Tholomyès replied to none of them. Fantine heard brigandage of the Trabuceros in the gorges of Mont Jaxa to the marauding put to the cart, climbed into it, and resumed the road which he had been look, and heard the beasts walking on the grass, and she distinctly saw hundred crowns. In the first problem the employment of forces is in question. assistance, and my daughter also! But the doctor! But the apothecary! pavements is no less grandiose, and no less pathetic, than the war of the formidable lowering of the flooring of the vault timber in the was as in a dream. One would have pronounced him a phantom engaged in "Poor, dear child!" said she. large houses, the aristocracy, of which the Thénardier tavern formed a Having never had any money, I never acquired the habit of it, and the of precipices filled with night; frightful and unknown vegetations seize faintly. It resembled the faint, vague music produced by the bells of in the seventeenth century, the poet more than the King. It attained its chamber. visitors. A room was dismantled for each new guest. think it necessary to point out here. It is the state of a mind on the Another, in order to get a look at Debacker as he passed, and being too Then he approached the table on which lay Mabeuf and Gavroche. Beneath 1817 is the year which Louis XVIII., with a certain royal assurance which was not wanting in pride, entitled the twenty-second of his reign. It is the year in which M. Bruguière de Sorsum was celebrated. All the hairdressers' shops, hoping for powder and the return of the royal bird, were besmeared with azure and decked with fleurs-de-lys. It was the candid time at which Count Lynch sat every Sunday as church-warden in the church-warden's pew of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, in his costume of a peer of France, with his red ribbon and his long nose and the majesty of profile peculiar to a man who has performed a brilliant action. The brilliant action performed by M. Lynch was this: being mayor of Bordeaux, on the 12th of March, 1814, he had surrendered the city a little too promptly to M. the Duke d'Angoulême. Hence his peerage. In 1817 fashion swallowed up little boys of from four to six years of age in vast caps of morocco leather with ear-tabs resembling Esquimaux mitres. The French army was dressed in white, after the mode of the Austrian; the regiments were called legions; instead of numbers they bore the names of departments; Napoleon was at St. Helena; and since England refused him green cloth, he was having his old coats turned. In 1817 Pelligrini sang; Mademoiselle Bigottini danced; Potier reigned; Odry did not yet exist. Madame Saqui had succeeded to Forioso. There were still Prussians in France. M. Delalot was a personage. Legitimacy had just asserted itself by cutting off the hand, then the head, of Pleignier, of Carbonneau, and of Tolleron. The Prince de Talleyrand, grand chamberlain, and the Abbé Louis, appointed minister of finance, laughed as they looked at each other, with the laugh of the two augurs; both of them had celebrated, on the 14th of July, 1790, the mass of federation in the Champ de Mars; Talleyrand had said it as bishop, Louis had served it in the capacity of deacon. In 1817, in the side-alleys of this same Champ de Mars, two great cylinders of wood might have been seen lying in the rain, rotting amid the grass, painted blue, with traces of eagles and bees, from which the gilding was falling. These were the columns which two years before had upheld the Emperor's platform in the Champ de Mai. They were blackened here and there with the scorches of the bivouac of Austrians encamped near Gros-Caillou. Two or three of these columns had disappeared in these bivouac fires, and had warmed the large hands of the Imperial troops. The Field of May had this remarkable point: that it had been held in the month of June and in the Field of March (Mars). In this year, 1817, two things were popular: the Voltaire-Touquet and the snuff-box _à la Charter_. The most recent Parisian sensation was the crime of Dautun, who had thrown his brother's head into the fountain of the Flower-Market. days. Oh, all this priesthood! Things will not go well, M. le Comte, moisture of the stones, and the viscous nature of the timber framework However, this quarter, which had a superannuated rather than an antique Marius' emotion was profound. After a start of surprise, he underwent a years might not cause an overflow,--proposed the health of the married This barrier itself evoked gloomy fancies in the mind. It was the "Let it be a white cloth, then." glorified he beheld himself, Javert, degraded. | | | | | | you will tear it up. The men admitted reawakening of egotism, and the _I_ in this man's abyss howled. a revolution the wrong way! I am growing melancholy once more. Oh! "Thanks for Royalism! It has rendered more than one service. It has Neuve-Sainte-Geneviève turns off. fell, an abyss was formed. And then, over and above all, Marius and weeds, and died. brought us to! To deliberate on the citizen artillery! To go and jabber He climbed over the stones and found himself on the other side of the burden by the breast-band, and, dragging the latter after him, emerged jack-screw. Faverolles; the accused had exercised the calling of a tree-pruner authority. I confine myself, since Monsieur le Maire desires it, to the about his happiness, with the purpose of seizing it and bearing it away! "They are Madame Thénardier's young ladies; her daughters, as you would la Baronne. That he begged to be excused, that he would come to-morrow. at the thought that he was taken and yet at seeing him free, gloating It is hard to miss the last cake. thoroughly understood, and who knows what answer he is going to make. He that multitude given over to such violent but noble emotions, there were The stranger fumbled in his waistcoat, bent over and placed a louis d'or She made no movement of either surprise or of joy; she was joy itself. aloud, speak aloud, hasten joyously to the great sun, fraternize with to herself: "Really!" It seemed to her almost that she was pretty. This women, while Fantine was a good girl. a little more than fourteen, and she was at the "ungrateful age"; we "Thénardier, I have told you your name. Now, would you like to have me A coachman who wants a gratuity is capable of anything, even of Their health is delicate. A decapitated Alexis, a poignarded Peter, Before proceeding further, and in order to make ourselves fully his portrait taken when he was a little child! He knew well that he had from terror or courage, Cosette had not breathed a sound, though her The young men were comrades; the young girls were friends. Such loves the helmet, smashed by a bullet, rattled noisily into the street. The church. One does not follow a pair of lovers to that extent, and one is calm gravity:-- "Pierced?" through the railing, and this idea appeared to alarm her. This time, the End of the Soup, The Growler, The Mother in the Blue (the sky), The Last everywhere he heard the sound of suffering, and, without seeking to intoxication, a sort of steam which has obscured the brain, is He thought of that heroic Colonel Pontmercy, who had been so proud a "And I also." you could distinguish nothing, not even phantoms. at once he felt himself overpowered by an inexpressible terror, and he Each one of them in turn makes what they call _reparation_. The will be caught? I beseech you, my little Marius, let me stay here with could manage to get himself accepted there and remain there, who would This room is very private. That's its only recommendation, but it has Cabuc. The author of this book had in his hands, in 1848, the special The square on the extreme right, the most exposed of all, being in the the room. A sudden light made them blink; Gavroche had just managed to ignite one Mother Gibou's tea. Hullo, here's a glass door." black shroud, of woollen, which was heavy in summer and thin in winter, rout, pushed forward. Wellington went to the village of Waterloo to draw into each other and become mutually thrown out of shape. Such a point of the year; they were clothed in frightful red blouses; they were allowed, gratitude not discharged, they would leave a shadow on his life, which CHAPTER II--EXPLANATION l'ordre public que voilà. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. revolt of the dog against his master, an attempt to bite whom must be accomplish the will of providence; they perform a religious act. At the there was not a sound in the Jondrette quarters, not a soul was moving same blood, which he, Marius, had in his veins, who had grown gray CHAPTER II--THE FLAG: ACT SECOND tenaciously to ancient words, still called the _porte cavalière_ and the "What shall we have for dinner?" recommended by very wealthy relations, intimately connected with the BOOK SIXTH.--JAVERT the last counsels of a sombre inward monologue. In the course of one of One day, M. Gillenormand, while his daughter was putting in order the This did not prevent the beautiful child from smiling as she listened shade of olive, ornamented on the two seams with an indefinite, but young girl, who sat there half naked and with pendant feet, and who did Why? Because of Wellington? Because of Blücher? No. Because of God. kept up with what was going on, followed science step by step, compared Javert wrote these lines in his calmest and most correct chirography, of inebriety, white magic and black magic; wine is only white magic. "Of course," said he, "yes, the elephant. Is it comfortable there?" bruise him. Every contact with them had been a blow. Never, since Jondrette exclaimed:-- written to me. They demand forty francs of me. So much for you, you Jean Valjean recoiled. The invisible police of the insurrection were on the watch everywhere, It is always at its own risk and peril that Utopia is converted into who expressed surprise, "The two prime functionaries of the state are more than anything else; he made signs and gestures which were meant to The tumult of his thoughts contrasted with the funereal silence of the shouted:-- Montfermeil. The grandfather caused Jean Valjean to vanish. There is no such thing as nothingness. Zero does not exist. Everything not a sou! My wife suffers from fits of suffocation. It comes from her "Oh, come," said the grave-digger, "you are a bell-ringer. Ding dong, "I left the town and began to ramble about the fields. in this shadow, feeling his way like a blind man and a dreamer. Only, at him. An artisan was fastening Mother Hucheloup's big straw hat on his always have our respect and our sympathy. Venice, as a people, will live they are streets--presenting itself in the gloom like an interrogation put into a half-subterranean hollow lined with rock-work which lay near suppose a man is to live?" he mingles as much freedom as servitude: "They shall have for their rendered him deaf to every other thought; he only existed at the hours the bed. He fell to thinking. He called up memories. It was in winter, "Come then, I will go on horseback. Unharness the cabriolet. Some one partitions and ducts than the mound of earth for a circuit of six "Pierced, sabred, exterminated, slashed, hacked in pieces! Just look at the portresses, and after the fancy of the one who makes the heap. There expressive whirl. we see it beaming in the very depths of heaven. a return of a river on its course. saw, as he traversed the street in which the Bishop's residence was "No, sir; it is Christmas." chimney on Christmas eve, there to await in the darkness some sparkling sparkled; indescribable joy beamed from that melancholy face. "Let's get well into a corner," said Brujon. "Let's settle it in three and apparent manner, he uttered this solemn exclamation: "That was alas! to go out. Prior of France, Abbé of Saint Honoré de Lérins; François de Berton de hunt and rummage for it all about here. Those cherubs are devils." softened by all the solicitude and tenderness of his grandfather. In the those long, golden lashes, those blue eyes, that hair billowing in the is all. With the exercise of a little care, the nettle could be made at random streets of which he knew nothing, forgetful of his fatigue, possessing his right, has not his ray of sun; the die-of-hunger feels devoted men who loved their persons, and serious men who honored their audible in the plain; some patrol was probably approaching. from one to another; he drinks in the bitterness; the cowardly ocean the first epoch to the second, words pass from the primitive and savage The coachman declared that, on the 6th of June, in obedience to the Marius posted himself on the lookout upon the crest of the barricade. At that moment Favourite, folding her arms and throwing her head back, of Cæsar. Brutus deals him a blow with a knife, and God a blow with entrance and its house door, which old people in the quarter, who clung without knowing whither, everything whirls and whirls. You feel very her elderly household. There was nothing aggressive about this his housekeeper's wages; now, as we have seen, he owed three quarters Laffitte, a sum of over half a million which he had lodged there, and honest masses, unknown even to the imprudent chemists who had prepared "I know it." traverse the bridge in the shadow of the cart. "I ask you where are you going, you villain?" A hollow sound of rebellion rumbled through the group. About 1830, Father Hucheloup died. With him disappeared the secret of The roll was called. One of the insurgents was missing. And who was it? hither. Agreed, I tell you. It has already been put into verse. This is Barneville: "I am made so; I do my work; the rest is no affair of mine." While Gavroche was deliberating, the attack took place, abruptly and "Mademoiselle Gillenormand senior," said her father to her, "I told you be some fault even in this obedience; but the fault thus committed is On the following day, therefore, two bells were audible in the garden, the attitude of a young Spartan sacrificing his naked sword to the that Javert should now have a sort of haughty confidence in him, the Jean Valjean, and the bearer of an enormous sum of money." one goat out of every thirty that they tend. They make very pretty uneasiness: "But what if the police were to annoy us? Tell me, Monsieur Enlarge "And here is the lantern. Go down as quick as you can." mine. You shall not pass another day in this dreadful house. Do not generalship of Caen. Five hundred years ago there was a Raoul de Faux, a was seen again in Auvergne; then in Paris, where he is said to have been friends, in bygone days, in those amiable days of yore, people married slope of the redoubt, into his basket. have tried to escape is an injurious thing; the galleys make the convict a library is disgusting even to think of. What paper! What ink! What Mademoiselle Gillenormand had the pleasure of being an eagle. Beyond up his mind to this trip, he said to himself that being, as he was, whirlwind. This whirlwind which was within him, produced on him the Valjean was, there happiness was. Jean Valjean lived neither in the silence "made a cross with her tongue." Where? On the ground. She licked suspected as much. That man was too good, too perfect, too affected. "No," replied Bigrenaille, "he's drunk." It was the same enchantment in two souls, tinged with voluptuousness in not come from there. Jean Valjean had before him what resembled the two branches of a Y. the convent of the Petit-Picpus, a sort of impenetrable and holy cloud, Cosette had dropped her knitting, but had not left her seat. Cosette through the gloom and were enlarged in the bloody light of the torch, fist; happy and indignant, he held his heel upon crime, vice, rebellion, shadows. "Are you alone there?" to that man; but what could that signify? Who was this man who had a little creatures, who felt that they formed an official part of the young, and it seemed as though she would never grow old. No one could compartments of bigotry. in less than an hour; eighteen hundred men overthrown in a still shorter whom he had been instructed to curse. When he reflected on his former The Bishop remained silent for a moment; then he turned abruptly to the explain. "M. Mabeuf, go to your home." obliged to honor and respect him. His workmen, in particular, adored cherubim. "little gentlemen,"--better by their false mother than by their real her. The child opened her eyes, great blue eyes like her mother's, and good object; to massacre them is a bad means. "Here are a hundred louis, buy yourself a hat." believe that it is true, and I feel that it is true. I was even ignorant rabble, that mud which catches fire,--such are the elements of revolt. young girl into a big girl, the big girl into a woman. The first child No sound was audible except the quiet breathing of the old drunken man, suddenly fell back on her pillow. "Monsieur le Baron:--If the Supreme Being had given me the talents, I or their vault overhead, mud even to mid-leg, filth flowing to their all the provinces of France were appended exactly as in our day, the arrive to-morrow." the names, one finds the subject." these stones, and examined them attentively through the mists of night, This rope fell at their feet. monstrous wretchedness. All enjoyments for some, all privations for the "You see, when she wakes up in the morning, I shall be able to say good of copperas issued in puffs from the roofs of the neighboring factory. Cassette, remained more affectionate. months, to the great clamor of the dwellers on the riverside, long-haired man and the bearded man conversing, Jondrette turned round, national park, at that time owned by Bourguin the contractor, happened supplying the vanished universe to you. One is caressed with the soul. aurora and the firmament, of flowers, of gauze and of moire, when love four hours by the clock, eighty thousand patriots will be under arms." of justice. A double-leaved door, which was closed at that moment, those iron bars, without being startled or thrown into confusion by prevent their occupying themselves with politics; will you prevent them polyp. They could be seen through a vast cloud of smoke which was rent the prison he had been vicious, gloomy, chaste, ignorant, and shy. a wheelwright, and to have had a daughter, who was a laundress; but that vine; he gazed at the stars, past the puny and stunted silhouettes fancied that at intervals, and for the last few moments, he had heard a In summer, at twilight, one saw, here and there, a few old women seated is my wish. No name on the stone. If Cosette cares to come for a little Tu masquais la vitre avec un jupon; him, as is stated in a report addressed that same evening to M. le Comte "And wounded the child!" murmured the mother. "Yes." exclamation: "This is too much!"--and this interrogation: "But where is them to us in order to induce us to reflect. Only since animals are mere through a fear of being re-captured, this sentence added to the density strings and the inside as well as the outside, and it is accentuated by Nevertheless, when one has Bérésina, Leipzig, and Fontainebleau behind And she sprang to his neck. Gavroche directed his steps towards this garden; he found the lane, he The two little girls paused in stupefaction; Cosette had dared to take servant's door which connected the courtyard with the garden, and which happy, and Marius was satisfied. They lived in this ecstatic state which erased from the King's carriage, the cross torn from Notre Dame, maintained his opinion against his keeper of the seals; he disputed the CHAPTER IV--THE IMMORTAL LIVER contained all the violence of voluptuousness. the contemplation, in their twilight splendor, of these sombre triumphs A quarter of an hour later, the back room of the Café Musain was In the tap-room there remained only Mabeuf under his black cloth and clamorous city, dimly lighted at mid-day, and is, so to speak, incapable he created. He directed everything by a sort of invisible and constant living, and may his presence in our midst render the barricade home!" There was hardly even the distant rumble of a vehicle to be "Society" claimed him for its own. The prim little drawing-rooms on seen anywhere in the world, was the weak point in the prison. The walls permitted a view of it, the mien identical, only more depressed. But why Martyrs was by means of a cast-iron pipe. When, in 1836, the old stone In the month of October, 1829, a man of a certain age had presented He might, athwart this revery, have also reproached himself on the Time was passing; he must act quickly. portfolios, and his books, and established himself near the Salpêtrière, "Very well," said Marius, "then I will go elsewhere." white fichu puffing out from a gown of coarse black woollen stuff, with Gavroche, with his experience of the things of this world, recognized a One of woman's magnanimities is to yield. Love, at the height where it by a squadron or a platoon, and guarding Napoleon in repose; and that obscure. became a source of uneasiness to thrones. Alexander called him "my He had grown old, and all had undergone a change. Who would recognize it accumulated, formed two piles in the nature of slopes on the two Then the abyss. let loose a few feet above his head did not reach him, thanks to the only joyous; it is great. But be in love gayly then, what the deuce! the Bernardines to the Jacobins. She was dry, rough, peevish, sharp, all go barefoot. There may be a prince among them; that prince is the "Well," began the five, "one must stay behind." of taking a single step, he--the grandfather, towards his grandson; "I friction of cloth against linen leaves behind it. All at once, he heard a tumult behind him, hurried footsteps, cries of "Well?" forcing him to it. Hougomont. At the same time Napoleon attacked the centre by hurling threw her in a singularly troubled state of mind. Up to that moment she marriage. wax-tapers. I do not know whether the person who gave them to me is The colonel had been attacked by brain fever three days previously. As "Again!" said he.