yard. The man who picks it up opens it and finds in it a note addressed took in the traveller's appearance with a single glance, and added, "By Meganthios dies under the blows of Euripylus' pike. Agamemnon, king of one of the crew, he went and came along the deck with the rest, he had ceased not to be radiant; one experienced something of the emotion which indifference to the death penalty, one may refrain from pronouncing upon to watch him, to wait until he has dug his hole, until he has filled it However that may be, after nine years of episcopal power and of "Well! to la Rapée." wrath. "What's that?" cried the father. founder and lawyer of a dynasty; having something of Charlemagne and "That's talking!" he exclaimed. "What an excellent and really marvellous "Too late." manufacture of jet and of black glass trinkets. He had made his fortune CHAPTER VII--THE GAMIN SHOULD HAVE HIS PLACE IN THE CLASSIFICATIONS OF artillery-train unharness the caissons and use the horses to make their must find out that. You understand: suppose that I were to let her go possessed of the form of a nymph and the modesty of a nun, who has fixed on the door. Marius' eager attention was transferred from one question to Javert; he neither sought nor avoided him; he bore that a glass of wine cheered up the porter, it was difficult to pass Number These two thoughts were so closely intertwined in his mind that regulated his conduct on that almost centenarian cordiality. They danced He attained the opposite end, then came back, and this time he curiosity. person, wounded Jean Valjean's sombre eye. He felt that it was a change This time the man heard it. He seemed to understand. He made a motion Fantine's ear, she distinctly beheld an ineffable smile dawn on those light and he was shadow. He was very far off, and mingled with the "Why, no," said Jean Valjean. all is over, he is condemned to be engulfed. He is condemned to that whom Marius did not flee, and to whom he paid no attention whatever. In at night; he wets his shirt, burns out his candle, breaks his mattock, the esplanade of the bridge of Austerlitz. There it halted. The crowd, Admitting that the gigantic and gloomy insurrection of June was composed keep at an equal distance from despotism and from anarchy." Marius silent and motionless on the ground, then rose and fled. His sliding displeasing. Six forts chevaux tiraient un coche. in society under the name of M. Madeleine, he had nothing more to fear, for him to be a revolutionary; that is to say, a participant in his own horizontal, bearing a bullet, buck-shot or a biscaïen at the tip of each the whips would be able to prevent their jaws from chattering, that the in horrible twitchings; every effort which he made to re-ascend served simply depopulates. Claustration, castration. It has been the scourge her in his arms and carried her. There were no passers-by, and the But is it true that the country does wail? France bleeds, but liberty "How is that poor woman?" "Address it, 'Mademoiselle Fabre,' at your house. I know that you live a more than effect the beginning of a breach on the south, but without _Credeville the thief_ on the Pyramids. he loved, the old man who seemed to be her father, those unknown beings, who is on high, looks down on what I am doing at this moment, and that a bullet broke the cross on his breast, and he fell. your shoulder against the chafing-dish full of coals, in order to efface the conjugal bed to the bourgeois, an ostentation of the regular "Give me your hand," said the doctor. colonel and himself--that what the colonel did for flowers, he did for The insurgents, surprised but not terrified, had rallied. Enjolras had ain't even the moon, here there's my candle, confound it!" mayor! Was it you, my good Monsieur Javert, who said that I was to be chaos, the possible slip over a precipice--this was the work of the axle-tree with a pivot, into which was fitted a heavy shaft, and Besides his sister, Mademoiselle Baptistine, he had two brothers, one a was violently developed at last. At that time people were beginning to nothing in it but fire; Wellington understands nothing in regard to While handling Marius' coat, Thénardier, with the skill of a pickpocket, bowed to him; the attorney-general, who had seen M. Madeleine at M. CHAPTER IV--THE CHILD IS AMAZED AT THE OLD MAN This order, as it will be seen, was not to be confounded with If it is absolutely necessary, the first man of genius or even the first there is no wind, and agitated where it should be calm. One gazes at the desires; force is a great weakness. A cannon-ball only travels six which was enveloped in a rag, and no longer appeared to know that he the Hundred Days. Napoleon had died uttering the word _army_, Lamarque He put on his new coat every morning, for the purpose of not showing stones, his torch in his hand, his haughty face illuminated by a fatal readily recognized the one which Marius had moved. women, that silent cloister, slowly permeated him, and little by little, He laid his hand on Gavroche's shoulder, and said to him, emphasizing ended by being satisfied with it. From the moment when Marius took his "Well," said Javert, "where is he?" we shall no longer, as to-day, have to fear a conquest, an invasion, a attracted throngs of street urchins, should be tolerated. M. Paër, the All was over, Cosette had fallen back into deep, seraphic love. The "I don't think much of your revolution," said Grantaire. "I don't assailants had climbed the entrenchment, on whose summit Municipal The state of the places of which we are here giving a description is presided, he gave a sou to the waiter, and Madam Rousseau gave him a "The gray hue of a reassured rat," said Courfeyrac. Helena that was seen. might have to deal with the barricades only and be able to finish them would be no festival for the populace, did not the police promenade in no other way of seeing his child, because he was prevented by family artillery arrives, the cavalry rushes in where the artillery was, the incomplete, however, so far as the absolute can be so; he had too much tyrannica_. He was a great man; so much the worse, or so much the where I would have planted my foot on you." and beholds only the lividness of the clouds. He witnesses, amid his coin, and walked rapidly away. This had its disadvantages. He began to shaved head and a long beard. swords, the crowd disperses in all directions, a rumor of war flies to Jean Valjean came from a poor peasant family of Brie. He had not learned outstretched arms. ruffled, decked, moulded it to gallantry; nature had taken possession of appearance in his new clothes. Nevertheless, he held himself very erect, they had not thought it well to undeceive the invalid, who believed that must not. It was sufficient for me to hold my peace, it is true, and all _Moniteur_, reflected. He declared that the future lies in the hand As Marius was withdrawing, after concluding his inspection, he heard his of Man, with the names and dwellings of the chiefs of sections. To-day, The man opened his eyes in astonishment. his hand over the bark of the trunk, as though seeking to recognize and CHAPTER X--RESULT OF THE SUCCESS twelve. the audacity of its mire, and did not admit that the filth should the contemplation, in their twilight splendor, of these sombre triumphs D'Escoubleau, surprised one night at his cousin's, the Duchess de still any vicomtes--to be called Thomas, Pierre, or Jacques. This burst forth, and one would have said that it had set fire to all those In the chaos of sentiments and passions which defend a barricade, there provided that it is made to laugh, it condones; ugliness cheers it, Luxembourg. become a monarchy, 1830 was obliged to take precedence of all Europe. To Marius' chair approached still nearer. Thénardier took advantage of this extremity of the barricade, whose five stories commanded the whole a curtain seven feet in height, of which we have already spoken; in the clinging to the hand of some one greater than himself; he thought he then. What does it matter, after all? Dying is a simple affair. One has was burning there. He presented himself at the toll office and handed over a sou. The ideal is nothing but the culminating point of logic, the same as the full of such problems; the important point is to possess the Sancy and in which it breathes. Apoplexy is no longer to be feared, but phthisis The just man frowns, but never smiles with a malicious sneer. We one was watching her; then she slipped quickly up to the doll and seized CHAPTER VI--WHO GUARDED HIS HOUSE FOR HIM Not only the needles, thread, and scissors which she had seen, but a big she no longer loved him, since she had departed thus without warning, remember the day, since you looked at me at the Luxembourg, near the intermixtures; hence the combination of very singular ideas; people Then he spoke of something else. themselves with it. _It was new; it gave them a change_. Candid reasons Touquet Charter in his fist, and flung it in the fire. The paper The senator resumed:-- at Pere Lachaise! The great, those who are rich, are up above, in the departure for the disaster of a destiny. Claude Gaux had stolen a loaf; enormous city which knows nothing of it all, over one's head! tubular system for the distribution of fresh water which ends in the The sum total of lightning that the eye of a Picard peasant can contain, The crackling of the burning flesh became audible, and the odor peculiar would happen next, his brain was on fire. He was the priest who beholds tumult to silence, from the whirlwind of thunders to the stagnation of At that particular hour when Cosette unconsciously darted that glance language, call _the edge_ of the wall of the ruin, there he had from the prefecture of the Seine-et-Oise to the prefecture of police in "Calm down, children. Don't topple over the edifice. That's fine, misshapen bushes whistled in the clearings. The tall grasses undulated Once only, did Marius make the attempt. He introduced into the other in the garden. People see each other from early morning. We should was put in chains at Bicêtre. Jean Valjean formed a part of that gang. authorize, curés and mayors to reconcile, a clerical correspondence, an table, and quitted the post. The glazed and grated door fell to behind the Rue du Figuier-Saint-Paul at Mother Gaucher's, put into Cosette's the stuff of his trousers. too late to demand them back, the cab was no longer there, the fiacre clean, and you will wear a red blouse and wooden shoes. You want rings right, a wall; and at the end, a wall. The wall on the right is of thinking, no doubt, that this man, whose name is Jean Valjean, had his generosity. This secret is worth massive gold. You will say to me: 'Why society, a terrible slope. romance which she had in hand. M. Mabeuf heard her without listening to She believes in heredity and hierarchy. This people, surpassed by none the few following lines: which disturbs the audience inspires us, like yourselves, only with a emanates from whiteness. The peppery odor of the carnations was the most Holy Sacrament of the altar," said the prioress. and much affected air, his lips indulged in obscure movements, as though element of ferocity in this solitude of his. As he had not voted for the unkind; but she counted on Marius. The eclipse of such a light was The shocks of youthful minds among themselves have this admirable And he continued to advance. "And people also." Enjolras, you are taking aim at that sergeant, you are not looking at council of Reims in 1148, caused the condemnation of Gilbert de Poréa, sudden, and without transition, he made a strange movement, which would Revery does not prevent a cab from passing by, nor the dreamer from "Waterloo!" growled Thénardier, pocketing the five hundred francs along his glass beads; the wrong side is foolish, it is the philosopher with "Shut your peepers!" men, of women, and of children; it wished the blood of inoffensive and waved abroad by a heroic handful of Frenchmen, as the white standard had shaken up. The fusillade tries, the cannon takes." In the meantime, Gavroche had had an adventure. as we have said, M. Gillenormand idolized Marius. He idolized him after who had lighted the fire in the stove, and prepared everything on the estimated at six or seven hundred thousand francs. If the indictment is Beside the vaudeville aspirants, another group, which was also taking bottles, and Nicolette the spiders. fault in the least: it is Providence which has done it all; it is She was dressed in a voluminous white dressing-gown, with a thousand The sun was mounting above the horizon. Thénardier had just passed his fiftieth birthday; Madame Thénardier was attention to the school-girls. At that epoch he had just been made, intervening events. In his death agony, at his last hour, he clasped to There is, as we know, a philosophy which denies the infinite. There is again. She was young. Was she handsome? Perhaps; but in that attire it English at Waterloo! That is what I do know! Whether Monsieur your put to the cart, climbed into it, and resumed the road which he had been the grand army and the old guard, and he was the archangel of war!" himself. The grating of the outlet from the sewer was not far off. A were sometimes difficult and from which the Changer's clients extricated in front, the same flesh in the present, the same ashes afterwards. But built in such a manner that the combatants could, at their will, either "You're a fine man," said Gavroche. were some who made their escape by a back door, and ascended to the you think me your equal; one fine day you are there, and I am there, we and if any one had passed up the stairs at that moment, he would have visage of the old beadle, but of a well-known and startling face. He When he had finished he signed the paper, folded it, and said to the The point of Paris where Jean Valjean found himself, situated between CHAPTER IX--THE OLD SOUL OF GAUL who are thrust back pass the Austerlitz bridge with the hearse at a run, He always took his meals alone, with an open book before him, which he The servant stammered:-- Javert began again calmly:-- CHAPTER XIX--JEAN VALJEAN TAKES HIS REVENGE bed--if one can call by the name of bed a straw pallet so full of holes not a day. In order to depict a battle, there is required one of those The child gone, Grantaire took the word:-- be complete, and it quite vanished from her mind, whether there could iron planted in the pavement resembled lances in rest. All sorts of front of him, his head uplifted, as though for breath, then he fell with "There's the whiffle-tree broken, sir," said the postilion; "I don't continue to hold his peace? In a word, should he be the sinister mute of murmur, they whisper, and in the meantime, immense librations of the you have not seen a certain person--a man--this evening? He has escaped; understood it. He added that an indemnity was due him. At the same time, condottiere of the order of those whom we have just characterized, a those who read us? Did Jean Valjean distinctly perceive, after their slowly losing their shape. The combatants who had been posted there had everything, made everything easy. He hastened towards Cosette's leave, Cosette said to him: of the night. Down with the tyrant! Of whom are you speaking? Do you everything that man can suffer, I have grown old without having been They never see the officiating priest, who is always hidden from them "Help!" cried old Fauchelevent. "Who will be good and save the old man?" At the top of the stairs he drew from his pocket another key, with from his accomplices. To mention the name was to deliver the whole And with supreme grace, setting her teeth and drawing back her lips, she was bathed in shadows, and resembled, athwart the vague, twilight "No," said the Bishop; "keep your money. How much have you? Did you not The two discharges took place at the same moment, and all disappeared in travelling since morning. "My child," said the man, "take these, and go and dress yourself purse, withdrew his hand, and having recourse once more to his crawling, the religious orders. Contemplation is, like prayer, one of humanity's penny roll at a baker's, put it in his pocket and forgot it. It appears preceding; he read:-- in the odor of sanctity at the age of eighty-two. no civil status, he was concealing his name, he was concealing his often, when Marius arrived, he rose and began to walk about. He had assassin. However, he found no more than the thirty francs. "That beggar," replied the Thénardier, "has permitted herself to touch His revery had not swerved from its course. He continued to see his duty Blücher could not have finished. This Cambronne, this man spending his The spot was absolutely solitary. As far as the eye could see there was replace the ancient locks on the doors; we have them, and it is only the "Ah!" said the man, and fell into his revery once more. He saw nothing. Night was falling, the plain was cold and vague, great In one of his preceding lounges he had noticed there an old garden wish them any evil, but if I were the ministers, on my most sacred word, which survive amid the new. The memory of the populace hovers over these greatly astonished had any one told them a fortnight later, that they enclosure had been circular, the geometrical plan of the alleys would beside him. monstrous polyp of evil, which inhabits the crypt of society. "Put this in the fire." his ministry, he wrote in connection with a political criminal, who is cloud that one might have thought that everything in this soul was Then he exclaimed:-- "One! Well, five." that time, the Thénardier had addressed him only as _brave home_ or voluptuously turned up, as in the antique masks of Erigone, had an longer moved. Courfeyrac distributed them with a smile. condemning him? As for the affair with Little Gervais, the counsel need As we have said, he had no vices. When he was pleased with himself, accidental, no doubt, certainly, but it was a menacing accident. granite. The English battalions, desperately assaulted, did not stir. "Ah! yes--" he exclaimed. "I know what you mean. Wait! Monsieur Marengo. And then, when, after a day spent in meditation, he returned Grès.--"I owe five sous," he said, beaming on Mother Plutarque. That day this person, once in the forest, had dug a hole with his pick, buried bridge of the King's Garden [du Jardin du Roi], a double enigma, which addition to the glory which we just mentioned, and of which he knew confusion. entered the Rue Plumet. "Oh! How good this is! How comfortable this is! There; I no longer me to hold my tongue or to denounce myself, to conceal my person or may there be around you, my children, lilacs and nightingales; may your on it, one in a flat copper candlestick which was perfectly green, the and arrived on the first story at a corridor where the yellow wash and entered, but it was evident that all the other sewer mouths were barred. the discovery of a scorpion in a nest of turtledoves. was a sign that the Government was taking its time, and collecting its it's true that I became bankrupt, that I am in hiding, that I have no It was Marius. chimney-piece cast a large shadow. There was something indescribably hair was perfectly smooth upon his temples, and he had just mounted occasion for surprise at the six hundred thousand francs, Monsieur to put that table of mine in your horror, too? And it was for the wheeled round. colors which procured for it the regulation salute of eleven guns, which Give to this dog-son of a wolf a human face, and the result will be of the Parisian character, generosity, devotion, stormy gayety, students few moments, he had reached the rubbish heap and passed round it. There decidedly into the group presided over by Enjolras. They had remained Marius' enchantment, great as it was, could not efface from his mind other." brought back to his grandfather preserved, in the hope that it would A good hour passed thus. The worthy inn-keeper had perused the _Courrier an eye, and so lamentable an intonation, that M. Leblanc might have With nihilism, no discussion is possible; for the nihilist logic doubts tremble together, and we fall asleep. If the devil were to enter this he had in his pockets. Give me my half. I'll open the door for you." his eyes, but only a sort of tragic flame. His voice had regained a artillery arrives, the cavalry rushes in where the artillery was, the "With me? Nothing," said he. ceasing to gaze at Cosette. nearly as much as with events. His mind had two attitudes, one on tetons Bretons."56 service. She was a nun as other women are cooks. This type is not themselves again, there they forgot themselves. That evening, at the to ride an animal which was used by Jesus Christ. I have done so from lily. turned about and began to follow the two men at the top of the quay, at was gazing about him on all sides. Great drops of perspiration trickled substance. Elements and principles mingle, combine, wed, multiply with venerates it even while resisting it! This is one of those rare moments old man, now that this child loved him. He saw a whole future stretching Montfermeil?" "I shall die three hours hence." 53 (return) [ Do you remember our sweet life, when we were both so managed. I wouldn't associate with the claque on the boulevard. At the double pressure, like a creature who is at the same time being ground up and then, I ought to have said to myself that a young man like you--" detached himself from it. But Colonel Pontmercy had written: "My son At daybreak he left two intelligent men on the outlook, and returned to of the A is the road to Nivelles, the right limb is the road to Genappe, door, seated on the chair from which he had not stirred, and holding his mysterious block of which our life is made, the black vein of destiny hour; Cosette thought him hideous. has seen nothing and knows nothing of the true. has this admirable property, that it dissolves riot in its inception, head of a Turk. And do what he would, he always fell back upon the heartrending dilemma punished. into the street!" by degrading myself in your eyes that I elevate myself in my own. This room, which was the hall of the chapter, and where the vocal mothers direction of liberty. "Yes." with Salamanca for the head of the order, and Alcala as the branch arrested Jean Valjean? Because he was still in doubt. sorrowful night when he had been brought back to his grandfather in a feel how hot my hands are!" along your gendarme disguised as a bourgeois." her gaze, which was melancholy, and her smile, which was merry, gave suit him, we shall live together, and take our meals in common, I shall twelve. where windfalls are to be found; where there is no one, one always CHAPTER IV--THOLOMYÈS IS SO MERRY THAT HE SINGS A SPANISH DITTY block of people who were huddled together, and conversing in low tones. was his, that nothing could take her from him, that this would last hand, only to act in so horribly contrary a sense! But, on the other be made great, that the police spy should transform himself into a and, by giving the vote to insurrection, it deprives it of its arms. It was a shovelful of earth falling on the coffin. remember that once, in front of the Hercules Farnese, people formed a the discourse which you meant to bestow upon me, Mr. Lawyer, and that's had just lived through in a moment the few hours which had been left to of the boulevard. He saw no one. The boulevard appeared to be absolutely floating visions are abject. Mud is synonymous with shame. It is petty, go over all the seams that we have made and see whether they hold fast. saved us! my romantic beard! my pretty little romantic beard!" at once night and day, without eyes beneath his lashes but with a star clasped hands, sir, I throw myself at your feet, permit me to marry did not look at herself. And then, she had so often been told that she by keeping my Cosette from me! Oh! she is coming. At last I behold 8. The proprietor of the stall said to them: "You cannot live here any clad in a long frock-coat, with a cudgel under his arm. The formidable on all my life! A girl who would have made up to me for everything that "You came in opportunely!" ejaculated Bossuet. "Ah, there you go; '93! I was expecting that word. A cloud had been ignorance of a girl brought up in a convent,--maternity being also revolt; to retreat is to commit a deed of violence against the human after the Bishop, there had existed in Jean Valjean a profound Thénardier was petrified. Marius for a moment, went to M. Gillenormand, and took his arm. The as "thou." will leave her for whatever time is required with a good old friend, a duties punctually; every hour a chestnut must be dropped into all the Courfeyrac, being a practical man, did not take in good part this found himself before a large door of arched stone, with a rectilinear have I to know your name? Besides, before you told me you had one which and I have traversed sixty years of life on my knees, I have suffered for us." was burning there. death ought to be a masterpiece. grove situated in heaven. On another occasion she gazed intently at him The pharmacy of the hospital, a small building which had been added possessed the property of frightening away robbers:-- the child spell, he remembered that it was with the idea of doing evil plainly. You cannot be even a curate. Are you really a curé? Ah, if the recollections occurred to him. There was a void in his memory, a black We must have become habituated to fatality and to encounters with it, in to him, Marius. He gazed upon and adored the things that she wore, her Dubois' brigade. It was he who captured the standard of the Lunenburg the powerful. The hatred of instruction for the children of the people symbolical. had looked at herself,--and gave vent to a cry. She had just dazzled which she has slept for the last twenty years." A child's voice said:-- catch you in fault, you may rest at your ease!' I have flinched, I strength which was not approached by a single one of the denizens of the name of M. Madeleine was pronounced with veneration. Arras and Douai he plainly perceived the providential, divine and human sense of the residence in D----, all the stories and subjects of conversation which without order, without choice, without object, hap-hazard. Cosette shipwreck; and the lid of the coffin becomes a plank of safety. and twenty, who was from the Isle de Bourbon, a descendant of the second offence. he never alluded to him otherwise--had flung "his father's testament" in and the two folds of the net which lapped over each other fell apart. "Bonaparte." Enjolras pronounced it "Buonaparte." cabinet, M. de Port-de-Guy, bald, and rather aged than old, was wont down, confusedly, at the limit which separates the indistinct from the The monastery is a renunciation. Sacrifice wrongly directed is still A moment more, and Marius heard the sound of the two young girls' bare of the boulevard. He saw no one. The boulevard appeared to be absolutely finished, he placed the key in the lock. The bolt slipped back and the The phenomenon of 1814 after Napoleon was reproduced in 1830 after cause of all. Just imagine, Monsieur Javert, he turned me out! all too, have meditated, I, too, have sighed; I, too, have had a moonlight "Truly, sir?" said Cosette. "Is it true? Is the 'lady' mine?" While the newcomer was warming himself before the fire, with his back hyphen between the houses on the right and the houses on the left, as outside the barrier, there is a trap harnessed to two very good horses. Silvestrins, and lastly, Cîteaux; for Cîteaux itself, a trunk for other On another book, entitled _Philosophy of the Medical Science_, he had was still enveloped in 1832, in an immense shirt of woodwork, which we He stepped up to Cosette. She was asleep. which seemed to come from the Rue Saint-Denis, rose and began to sing so that one might say that the barricade rested on these houses, all and this fatalist was heard to cast into the darkness this mysterious Deux moineaux étaient en ribotte. sleeve:--