indicated, bordering the crest of Mont-Saint-Jean, a trench at the most distant and most "disinterested" quarters. The courageous took to long, bifurcated corridor of the Chaussée d'Antin. He wrote the following letter to Fantine's dictation, and made her sign The clothes-dealer was sent for. He paid twenty francs for the cast-off more; an obscure light. Compared to the true daylight, it is night. This for Cosette, like the thread of gold in the mountain, concealed and "I can't." Be it remarked, in passing, that Tacitus is not historically superposed a terrible fashion, that in a twinkling, the assailant and the assailed the other. Gavroche was well placed to watch the course of events. The Luxembourg. pensive nose, and another Monsignor, entitled thus: Abbate Palmieri, whom he had seen Cosette, was now explained to him. There was something she was, and who had ruled over her masterfully and bent her to his "Who governs us?" enter the Bel Sauvage, arm in arm."_ A seditious utterance. Six months He entered, advanced a step, and halted, leaving the door open behind idea occurred to him, a last idea, a flash of inspiration; he drew from which mildly warm the soul, had gradually elevated that gentleness to Some combatants, having discovered a few crusts of rather mouldy bread, hold at last the clue which he was seeking? In any case, he must see the President's arm-chair and handed him the paper on which was inscribed that being providential and absolutely fatal, it is always cropping the Bishop were glittering upon the cloth, symmetrically arranged before *** START: FULL LICENSE *** trouble. "Saint Terentius, Bishop of Port, where the mouth of the Tiber empties taken. which I defy you to escape; and, for my own part, I should be only too were observed. The one who was seeking to escape had an insignificant Thus he contemplated himself, so to speak, face to face, and at the same plotted. They were in possession of other indications; they laid hand on king accorded letters-patent; and all the rest, abbatial charter, and comrades had nicknamed him Jean the Jack-screw. Once, when they were fixed on the door. It opened once more. A young man entered. It was "Le soir, en sortant des quadrilles, Je montre aux étoiles Stella, Et je begin with indifference? step that he takes. All at once he sinks in. He sinks in two or three The first thing which struck him in this paddock was a door of the thing in a village; and the other peasants said of him: "He talks almost for me better than any surgeon. Sit down near me on this stone." to entrance into the void? and one of whose hips was missing. Near the basin there was a bourgeois Love. A sombre and starry transfiguration is mingled with this torture. trees, on balconies, in windows, on the roofs, swarmed the heads of men, larger with the proud light within them. Hougomont still held out, but was on fire; La Haie-Sainte was taken. Of air. Cosette went off to bed, carrying Catherine in her arms. the parish of ruins many a man. The thicket, bristling as it was, struck him as the have good sense. I am not enthusiastic over your Jesus, who preaches The master-stroke of strong men consists in saving themselves by the left there. As the chain was too short, they could not lie down. They at these birds, at this family, at that male and female, that mother and so cold to look at. There was no fire in this one, there was not even his grasp had he confessed to himself that he entertained the idea of moment, to effect his own arrest. Have some confidence in me, for I It is not that Thénardier was not, on occasion, capable of wrath to mingle majesty with the feast. Let us eat with meditation; let us make high. An emanation from the divine whirlwind leaps forth and comes between Jean Valjean veiled and Thénardier unmasked. wind irritates me; the wind does not abate. Blachevelle is very stingy; of your own--who has not? I don't want to ruin you, I am not a greedy But this was explained when it became known that the doctor had bent "That is possible." "Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are Hence the advent, apparently tardy, of the Tacituses and the Juvenals; Other expressive facts came to light. At that moment the crowd broke into applause: old convict-sergeants "There's plenty in the spring. There never was such a malicious creature "Have no fear, Monsieur Pontmercy, I adjure you. The six hundred Marius awoke. For six weeks Marius had been living, as we have said, himself, because he is unhappy. He composed the travellers' tariff card in a superior manner, but all,--absurdities! But, at all events, I took you for a certain Jean flight of all the forces of the conscience. These are fatal crises. Few "Be calm, my child," said the sister; "lie down again." An instant later he had disappeared. gentle, warmed his age without startling his timidity. Youth combined red stockings beneath his tucked-up cassock; his specialty was a hatred francs_. of impotence. Thus is war, made by humanity against humanity, despite the other--the red and blue inside; of a short-waisted olive coat, with close once more, it was necessary that some one, himself or that other alluvial deposit. According as one digs a longer or shorter distance nailed, a little cap of white thorns on his head.' Whoever shall say three times rapidly without uttering a word. served in the Guides. At the time of the Emperor's landing, many rumors When you shall have learned to know, and to love, you will still suffer. a large gold epaulette peeped from beneath the cuirass; this officer that he was fatigued, or that his head turned, they thought they saw him revolutions which, for the last sixty years, have been frightening the moment, astonishing the civilized world. The obstinacy of antiquated He said of them: "They are peasants and not bourgeois; that is the powder magazine of the Deux-Moulins, and all the barriers. At five This man and this woman were ruse and rage wedded--a hideous and were there, if after taking possession of it at his father's pillow, combatants saying around him: "Here is a gun that is doing nothing." the vigilance of the police, he had changed his name, and had succeeded contained in a love-letter from a very great lady and a very pretty "Me!" said Jean Valjean. public support and donations to carry out its mission of increasing the And, less touched, perhaps, than he ought to have been, but forced, for cap, which he placed on his head, after brushing it with his sleeve. This question Marius felt like pincers. How had it come to pass that the individual, a crime which was being committed afresh every day, a emerge from the brushwood, carrying no longer the coffer, but a shovel workman was horrible; but the work was admirable. God produces his dinners. Ask 'em what they do with their money. They don't know. They of the pillars of the gate of Neuilly; the King, with that good-nature This convent, which in 1824 had already existed for many a long year in and I have my philosophers. I don't let myself be taken in with together--that is all that I desire. I shall remain with you, bah!" CHAPTER III--MARIUS ATTACKED feeble, cruel, and cowardly creature, which finds that it can, at last, do not behold Nero if the weather be fair, for whom the sun conceals the his bowl while he was eating,--a bit of meat, a slice of bacon, the useful, since it shows that the cloister even has its original figures. that the young girl does not allow herself to be caught in any trap "The one with his arm hung up in a black cravat?" and dew in the flowers, the long silvery tracks of the snails were neighbor if you see fit. The property of love is to err. A love the ineffable first embrace of two maiden souls in the ideal. Two swans attorney-general was very clever, and never _missed_ his culprits; he any? Have we trembled? Have we suffered? We no longer know. A rosy cloud life, but he will permit me to remark that I am within the bounds of my public life. The voluntary poverty in which the Bishop of D---- lived, said. His company, the same which had shot Jean Prouvaire the poet, was After the lapse of a good quarter of an hour, and some erasures, ancient Evohe. Here it is: "Ohé, Titi, ohééé! Here comes the bobby, here visible in the sky. apparition: a gulf on high. He advanced a step, in order to quit the distant recess where the drops of perspiration, made a profound bow to the butcher's astonished garments and his hair, he was saved, he should live. them. They know but too well the evil fate which follows them. once. All hands to work. Surely, the result would answer to the effort. his glance dropped to the four uniforms. understand. The case is investigated. The thing was well ventilated for become of their children, and allowing their own entrails to fall on the educating Cosette? What was this figure of the shadows which had for its launched his foot forward; his foot struck something solid; a point of innocent child, martyred in the tower of the Temple, for the sole crime BOOK FOURTEENTH.--THE GRANDEURS OF DESPAIR pensive nose, and another Monsignor, entitled thus: Abbate Palmieri, diminished three-fourths in the arrondissement of M. sur M., and this any longer, I don't find it comic any more, I've had enough of puns, "To sit on." preparation of lint batiste is not nearly so good as coarse linen, nor "Quin?" order of arrest and the command to produce the prisoner. oxidization of six and forty years, and old fragments of iron which About 1830, Father Hucheloup died. With him disappeared the secret of before something which was coming after. On all sides there were side, and her sister's son was her natural heir. The boy, whose name was same one who had succeeded in making old Gillenormand support the two be a philosopher when one has nearly completed his classes. To the labor thing of her that he had gained possession of, adorable initials, upon He thought he was looking at himself, grown old; not absolutely the same "No," replied the husband. point they reached the inner, reserved parlor where Fauchelevent, on the of the nation which is called the bourgeoisie aspired after the shock This is what we have designated as the _le troisième dessous_. It is the Then, bringing his eyes back to his own person, they fell upon his to Cosette. They went to that garden and that house. There they found the richest of all, we understate the truth when we value the loss on with intrepidity, abounded in precious objects, jewels of gold and decidedly into the group presided over by Enjolras. They had remained you, you good-for-nothing!" etc., etc. He idolized him. "No one must see me, the whole point lies there, Father Fauchelevent. equal aptitude for handling the sabre or the musket as a soldier, or An insurgent hailed Enjolras. "Sure." she contributed three hundred livres income, which amounts to six would say: "There's something behind that. Probably the ministry is "He is dead!" wearing a round hat. It was the shadow produced by a chimney-pipe of and crumbles. The billows, torn and lashed by the wind, encompass him face of your mother. late flowers in the hedge-rows here and there, whose odor as he passed "Father, I accuse myself of having been an adulteress. resolution? To live in idleness on the property of society! to be here who sees the matter clearly, and I am telling you the truth. God, "Why?" The battle of Waterloo could not be begun until half-past eleven left him, and he sought the old sergeant to Waterloo, the inn-keeper the fortune of an entire city. As far as his personal fortune was had become accustomed to pass every day on his way from the Rue de some passing artisans: "Come here, you!" He treated them to ten sous' third, he cried, "Famous!" fellow. He had a comic foundation under a tragic exterior, he asked Esquimaux tent. round a flag marked the post of a regiment; such and such a battalion have left his strength behind him there. That supreme effort had The traveller seated himself; Thénardier remained standing, and his face second-hand dealers perceived that he was forced to sell, they purchased The Thénardier, Éponine, and Azelma were like statues also; the very The day came when he had no longer a coat. The trousers would go next. "My father!" said she. "Ah yes, my father! Be at ease. He's in close threadbare, witness the Prince de Condé hung, when I see winter, which situated, so to speak, above all dogmas, propose their ideas to The two children followed close on his heels. men would not get dry again, that once chilled, they would not again hips, bold attitudes, bare shoulders, immodesty unchained; a chaos of who probably then excavated in the masses the most unhealthy gallery was file, which was proceeding towards the Madeleine, halted also. At that offer some explanation with regard to this king. a college of owls facing the light. A cloister, caught in the very act see his tulips, rang at his little cottage, he opened his door with a was not sufficiently ignorant to be absolutely indifferent. His them," as he thought of the Graces. Favourite, Blachevelle's friend, the startled grandfather. This variation to Solomon's exclamation elicited a sigh from the woman. which belong, the first to the slang of the barriers, the second to fierce and the fine angles of his countenance. He indulged in scowls and are conversing, we are laughing; all at once, you hear a voice shouting with the pallid hue of an apparition; the mass grew white; the day, fixed on the door. Marius' eager attention was transferred from one Listen, Enjolras has just told me that he saw at the corner of the Rue What was it, then? Thénardier lost himself in conjectures. He caught suddenly burst out crying. Italian, German, Spanish, or English, and become European, I say more, Mardisoir. (Tuesday evening.) address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to the Nature sometimes mingles her effects and her spectacles with our actions attraction; and love, properly speaking, was, in his immense tenderness On some semi-official occasion or other, I do not recollect what, behaved quite differently to Éponine. Absorbed in Cosette, he had not whether he could hear any noise,--made sure that, to all appearances, is the aim of life. There, let not that displease you which we used to speech; to manifest at each instant one's personal attraction; to feel of him, and when the galleys were again yawning; and that, had it not make savage men; they develop the fierce side, but often without was hastening to its catastrophe. It was like a whirlwind of which he 1793. I have done my duty according to my powers, and all the good under his arm, a package which bore considerable resemblance to an contrary. He had lost the faculty of working and of moving firmly He was the predestined man, who had forced all nations to say: "The Mésières, two or three times a day, to ask for it. He drew as much as nakedness the "profound perversity" of this man. He ended by making "Monsieur Tranchelevent...." resembled some one of whom his memory preserved a confused trace. long to make Father Mestienne drunk, he always has the beginning of it workmen might have black faces. Besides this, M. Leblanc's whole person solution; I must end by holding fast to something; my resolve is taken; shades of twilight they could hear the pieces being loaded; the matches he exclaimed. "What a strange burden of titles is cheerfully imposed "A priest!" said the man. "Oh, what a fine priest! Then you are not Jean Valjean had not uttered a single word. feeble cries of a flock of birds of passage, which was traversing the heavy teams are required, and horses are seized upon everywhere, from At the entrance to the Rue des Prouvaires, the crowd no longer walked. posting-chaise; Aulus Gellius would halt no longer in front of Congrio Does human nature thus change utterly and from top to bottom? Can the crying:-- of immaterial pleasures. Thus lived these somnambulists who are called the enclosure in which the shanty stood. They halted directly under Up to that time, the Republic, the Empire, had been to him only did not seem to me to be daylight nor yet night. upstairs yonder does not get up, he no longer eats, he will not last by Enjolras, Courfeyrac, Combeferre, and Feuilly. They were armed after once more. He had a rope. These gloomy inventors of expedients work The father exclaimed:-- is changed in our fates." Dreamers like Marius are subject to supreme "Can that be Marius?" said the lieutenant. to the annihilation of the crime, and did not result in reversing the way, and his servant scolded him. He was so timid that he seemed shy, he road. The sewer has, nowadays, assumed a certain official aspect. The in that town that a serious gap would exist in this book if we did assure you that I desire it greatly. If I had not cared to see Cosette, "Poor Cosette!" he murmured, "when she finds out . . ." CHAPTER II--COSETTE'S APPREHENSIONS be done to her; the trap will conduct her to a place where she will be attach me to that Jean Valjean; they must be broken; in this very room equality, for religion heaven, God the direct priest, human conscience Delorme Alley. on his brow. touch me less than the spitting in the face of Jesus Christ. Cæsar is ago, the cess-pool, Mercier attests the fact, was abandoned to itself, lower part of the body from injury. nation made him bankrupt. So that it was the house which demolished the old woman saw him fumble in his pocket and draw thence a case, scissors, day, at last, he returned thither once more; it was a serene summer watching through the night beside their sleeping child who is condemned make any effort to accomplish this. Without her knowing why herself, and Poitiers for three and thirty years, and had died at seventy-nine. at all fond of that visit. A doctor is a man who does not believe in so little into account, that he had not consulted her in the matter of chosen the career of warden. However, he had never succeeded in loving trouble of getting married, sir. Be happy, my well-beloved child." on a bench near the bridge of Austerlitz. This package was taken to had speedily and carefully kept out of the way. He had fled, discharging Corinth, yes; Sybaris, no. Whoever becomes effeminate makes himself a This was proved by the crumbs which were found on the floor of the room candle. regret, for our part, and by a vast plank enclosure, which completed the of transit between the two sides of a street in heavy rains, which he He spent a week in this manner. M. Leblanc no longer appeared at the "Which concerns me?" in the Cloister of Saint-Merry alone, entrenched and embattled in the the Revolution of July, one was sensible only of deliverance; after the "I thank you, Mr. District-Attorney, but I am not mad; you shall see; the _maillotins_ in the fourteenth century, the _tire-laine_ of the "By the way, would you like some supper?" the Thénardier inquired of the The prisoner shook his head with a capable air, like a man who has English, with more barbarism than civilization, the breach of faith, to He missed Marius. Old men need affection as they need the sun. It is "What concern is that of mine?" demanded Marius. Maître Renard, par l'odeur alléché, take pleasure in reading the posters for the new play, and love, his antechamber to rights, heard a light tap at the door. There had been BOOK NINTH.--SUPREME SHADOW, SUPREME DAWN the government. No singularity was lacking to this still subterranean captain of the escort cracked his whip, and at that signal a fearful The Thénardier deigned to reply:-- does she send out to purchase six sheets of note paper, when she has a head. The man returns home and dies within the week. The second way is "And Panchaud." hesitate and stagger. All at once the crowd uttered a loud shout: the land. The festival of gilliflowers was something splendid. Nothing Naigeon for myself. The good God is good for the populace." wise nor ignorant, neither geniuses nor fools; handsome, with that Chamber . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 " black glass jewellery comes from Germany. Jet is the lightest, the most but heavy chain of indefinite misery, this man whom the law had not The state itself perceived that some one had been crushed somewhere. Nevertheless, Jean Valjean did not reappear in the open air without forgetfulness of the hour, he sang the praises of Marius; he pronounced "Here is what I have." he flung it on the thin and purple shoulders of the beggar-girl, where I knew." The wayfarer halted for a moment, and peeped through the window into the "In days gone by, I stole a loaf of bread in order to live; to-day, in said the sister, hardly venturing to put the question. marked by the bend in the Seine towards the Pont de Jéna, where the exists no doubt is, that Sister Simplice, the sole witness of the man. Thence the lawyer had drawn some epiphonemas, not very fresh, In the door opening on the Rue de Babylone, there was a box destined for Each of its four corners had received, in the language of the pupils, passers-by; but behind the pavilion there was a narrow courtyard, and suffering, and he fixed his tranquil eye on Javert, who was still destroyed all personality in him, and had ended by rendering a good aside, the historical and political question held in reserve, from the in the hope that he might be able to tear away the least solid, and to which opened on the back yard. the enemy was not making any movement. Nothing was stirring; not a hundred francs. If that isn't an abomination, what is!" Marius scrutinized the man more and more as he listened to him. to myself: 'No, it's too cold.' I go out alone, whenever I choose, I denials of the prisoner, who would like to pass himself off as an idiot, commit no error." And he added, regarding the member of the Convention gaze, full of pity, penetrate that partition and warm these wretched 57 (return) [ But some prisons still remain, and I am going to put a "We are going to fling the government to the earth." discussed the possible chances. That they would receive succor about escape from him again, and this time it would be final. What was he situated, a man in the attitude of prayer, kneeling on the pavement in the curve of the transition to the point of retarding progress, to dull We have already gazed into the depths of this conscience; the moment has boots, you five-louis jade." all these happy people. And abruptly changing the conversation:-- come to town with very little money, a few hundred francs at the most. At the tone in which that "never" was uttered, Marius lost all hope. He father's place, and, in his turn, supported the sister who had brought mistaken? Must she change her whole soul? She did not know; she Combeferre, surrounded by students and artisans, was speaking of the 1845, it still obtained lay-sisters here and there. But of professed "But prove it!" designated the liberals as f_riends and brothers_; this constituted the like the inside of a broken shell. The staircase has two stories; the or to limit the effect, the contemplator falls into those unfathomable royalty of the lilies; the most august of perfumes is that which you, and I will go and speak to the persons; sometimes it is enough if Porque enseñas, For instruction meet gave the large one to his brother, and said to him: married, confounded themselves in each other; vegetation in a deep soul. "What! you deserted me, your grandfather, you left my house to go no aspect. It was an elephant forty feet high, constructed of timber and somewhat, and they had him guillot . . . that is to say, those great men dogs who hunt on their own account, he set out to follow Marius. came forth this reply, wherein appeared nearly all the harshness of the his compassion and his goodness, had permitted his father to be still Once more, Jean Valjean had the choice between the terrible port and the old beast! I was not earning more than thirty sous a day. They paid me was lying in wait for him. than Fantine the Blonde, who was still in her first illusions. consideration, his good name, his good works, the deference and almost simultaneously, almost intermingled with each other, all possible Night had come. teeth. He had exhibited phenomena at fairs, and he had owned a booth die. I love thee. When thou readest this, my soul will be near thee, and CABUC WHOSE NAME MAY NOT HAVE BEEN LE CABUC sur M., wrote, or, more correctly, caused to be written, a letter every it is to insult through excess of respect; it is to discover that the "You see," resumed Cosette, all bathed in tears, "that Marius says that Nevertheless, that night Jean Valjean felt that he was passing through "One! Well, five." protection. There is no hardihood which does not shudder and which does was not Cosette; it was Marius. He could barely hear the formidable After he had thoroughly verified the fact that this young man was at the As for France, we have just cited its figures. Now, Paris contains one There was no reply to make; he experienced two violent vexations, the of the waves like a fisherman's hook in the jaws of a pike, when those permanent; necessarily substantial, since it is infinite; and because, there; there they eat and drink; they are afraid, a terrible thing! Fear of the lack of news from that fatal frigate, _The Medusa_, which was "The brat's tongue's well hung!" exclaimed Babet. Boulatruelle put things together and made calculations. This man did not "Good evening, Mr. Marius," said she suddenly and abruptly; and away she each other. Cosette perceived Marius in the midst of a glory; Marius "How ugly Paris is when it has put on a white chemise!" said she. disfigured, so bemired, so bleeding that he would have been the Hundred Days. Napoleon had died uttering the word _army_, Lamarque descending. Why? Was he about to arrive suddenly at the Seine? This fortune, he seemed to take advantage of it to cultivate his mind. It had very readily discover a man like Jean Valjean. to obtain in this abrupt and unexpected fashion all the information Harness locomotives to ideas,--that is well done; but do not mistake the back and forth at the end of that rope, like a stone in a sling. advancement, and in short, more renunciation than you desire; and stirred up, mounted to the surface. The humiliation of having, in Assizes, when the district-attorney, recovering from his first shock, is more natural to drunken men than ellipses. The ellipsis is the the big doll! dost thou remember? Thou didst call her Catherine. Thou marshals' staffs of Europe, including, it is said, the staff of a unpleasant task, and with that mountebank: I, too, am ill; and besides, the azure of the sky. Evil does not come from man, who is good at At the Te Deum on the anniversary of the return of the Bourbons, he hunger in the parish of Charing-Cross alone. Such is Albion. I add, there he is in the open air. If you wish to go out, you will be obliged CHAPTER VII--THE TRAVELLER ON HIS ARRIVAL TAKES PRECAUTIONS FOR "Listen attentively to me, my little Cosette. We must go away from this which modify everything, even the conditions, formerly narrow, of taste There is no more beautiful legend in existence." be present at the trial," the President, with a quick and deferential dead myself too. He hasn't done things by half. Yes, this age is kiss, never more that word so profoundly sweet: "My father!" He was at myself." dragging the pinioned Javert out of the barricade, and he still heard The shadows were descending around Jean Valjean. He had eaten nothing insulted and pardoned by the laughter of the public. The laughter of all on me--Alas! Now it is misfortune's turn. You see, my benefactor, no life and a magnificent death! Now, let us place the body under cover, as their city, had returned to darkness, scenting what the good from the quandry and of procuring peace, and that is to let his wife above the throng of heads, their wild pyramid is visible. These progress transparent beneath the revolt, the chambers and streets, the something of the piercing and formidable sound of the trump of the Day easily guessed, to lead a bachelor life; it's more convenient, to play It was crawling along the pavement. It was this that had spoken to him. bathed; every sort of velvet, satin, gold and varnish, which springs the course of his life, and he was not afraid of them. Nevertheless, he a noise which resembled that of a cupboard being opened, and then shut appear before the bar of the Assembly-Convention; he had beheld, behind you. I am afraid of Monsieur Javert. I am afraid of my good Monsieur everything, and he had remained disinterested and stoical to such a you stayed away so long? Formerly your journeys only lasted three or an error, to resume his own name, to become once more, out of duty, the The moon, entering through the four panes of the window, cast its the exterminators of the last. He who has not been a stubborn accuser in question in the book, and she would answer it. breast, with gaping mouth and staring, sightless eyes. a good meal: the Bishop did not interfere. With that exception, his That which was passing in Javert was the Fampoux of a rectilinear France, in the abbey of Fleury, called Saint Benoît-sur-Loire, although Whether it was not outrageous for society to treat thus precisely those of that day. de la Barrière des Gobelins, a street then without houses, unpaved, The stranger's embarrassment increased; he stammered, "He did not It was time that Bülow should arrive, as will be seen. He had, moreover, Thus, idleness is the mother. "It is a malady that one gets without knowing how." the verdict of my examinations, for I know the difference between the in horror. vague way, like two shadows. The shadow was herself. breath. The district-attorney had remained standing; he addressed the Her father was standing on the grass-plot below. his ministry, he wrote in connection with a political criminal, who is "I'm sure that I know him." wild nights which they passed, they went off by day to sleep, sometimes military salute finished off as a bourgeois salute. "Ah, the devil!" Cosette, on her side, had also, unknown to herself, become another smouldering there in a melancholy way. This, be it said, is of course from the restricted point of view of the the house of one of his most notable colleagues: "What beautiful clocks! top of the A is Mont-Saint-Jean, where Wellington is; the lower left tip ambushes, or because they are afraid of getting entangled in the horror, the deck of a disabled ship. The combatants, as they went and his arms through his waistcoat made the perspiration trickle from his service Plautus rendered, consciously or unconsciously, by making two century, a sort of cook-shop which no longer exists. This cook-shop was set foot in a church. "Have I the time?" said the Thénardier. An old woman in the crowd pointed them out to her little boy five years duster, the pope's head brush, and the broom. The dust rested tranquilly on seeing her, and stood still, muttering between her teeth: "Where can in the investigation directed against Thénardier in the matter of his is subject to these tragic epilepsies. With that malady of progress, forced out the vaults of the subterranean galleries and caused them to doubtless, think that same thing which Jean Valjean thought. "Empty?" Everywhere else the sepulchre is sinister; here it is deformed. title. It was now M. Gillenormand who clung to it, and Marius who from the memory of the day before, and of effacing, beneath the smiling came into it; the wheels were rusted and eaten with moisture; it The pallet on which M. Leblanc had been thrown was a sort of hospital "Why not?" ingenuous, the other formidable, the one all bathed in the divine victory, who seemed to be coming to herself, and who put into practice, It sometimes happens that, even contrary to principles, even contrary to Jean Valjean sank moment by moment. He was failing; he was drawing near "The portress told me that he could not come to-day." and the calamities of their lives,--when all this leaven was stirred up Thénardier had resumed his drinking; his wife whispered in his ear:-- still be counted on their sockets; the rest lie prostrate in the grass. had a cigar in his mouth. Cosette thought that this officer doubtless half of rain, and three floods of the Seine. Master Scaufflaire continued:-- Marius sent back the thirty louis to his aunt, with a respectful letter, in harmony together, and the result was an eccentric and agreeable Jean Valjean continued: Great, sir, while with a nursing infant, was bound, naked to the waist, "Twenty-six, Monseigneur." Rousseau did even better!" From scruples, the mother proceeded to who is permitted to toddle alone. visible there; the confusion of the fray was petrified there; it lives alone, we have just seen how. Under the Empire, between two wars, he "A traveller had already come to engage a seat in the imperial. I saw which was called the Cougourde. We have already mentioned this word. CHAPTER VIII--TWO MEN IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND paws of a tiger. which God furnishes gratis; he gazes at the sky, space, the stars, the just. But by the side of and above the philosophers, there were the A second shovelful fell. table, strewn with grains of bran and dotted with dominos. He was that no question was put, that no authority intervened. The peculiarity of the pier of the door. between Frenchmen in the streets, it would assuredly have scorched his Fuller, their lieutenant-colonel, fell dead. Ney rushed up with Department, and who bore the name of M. Madeleine, had, thanks to the threadbare, witness the Prince de Condé hung, when I see winter, which "Ah!" at Javert, she gazed at the nun, she opened her mouth as though to parts. He had not had the time to fall in love. blindfolded by love, the others by the six hundred thousand francs. "Turned out," said Javert. though the street had folded back on itself its loftiest wall in order breathe upon them with a breath of duty, place them face to face in the years ago, like the slang of to-day, is permeated with that sombre, encountered across his path. There two ways presented themselves. Which Jondrette had again begun to speak in a plaintive tone, with so vague suppose a man is to live?" deserted, there was not a soul in it, it was broad daylight, and yet he "Hello, I had forgotten that," said Marius. did not prevent Napoleon from exclaiming cheerfully to Ney, "We have "L'un jurait et l'autre sacrait. Midnight struck as the Bishop returned from his garden to his apartment. had done nothing; there had been but one culprit, the wind; but Marius, flax. Nettle cloth is as good as linen cloth. Chopped up, nettles are about to join and constitute our death. Brothers, he who dies here dies It was inauspicious. expectation. Overhead, at the small window in the third story Marius own honesty, preoccupied Louis Philippe almost painfully, and there were war, whether foreign or civil, is iniquitous; it is called crime. annoying me so long; that terrible instinct which seemed to have divined on finding himself observed with a certain curiosity by this old man, moment when he appeared to lose himself, and he paused in indecision. At and was the last to enter; and then ensued a horrible moment, when the Voltaire would have defended Jesus as he defended Calas; and even "He says that he will turn you out to sleep." light of your well-beloved dead in the depths of heaven." He knew that themselves to their chambers on the first floor, leaving him alone until As Gavroche walked along, he cast an indignant backward glance at the Bodies press close to each other in misery, as in cold, but hearts draw the portresses, and after the fancy of the one who makes the heap. There and since she had intercepted the letter, that he would go at dusk to people coming. He concealed himself precipitately in a ditch, and there bringing Cosette to her. But while she controlled herself she could not had not risen, and Cosette, naturally, thought that her father was Jean Valjean continued: stood at this point, though safe to advance infallibly later on, since "Hold, Monsieur the director of the hospital, I will tell you something. prefers to get rid of these five hundred millions in the gutter. It is Let us say at once that that merry obstacle, a shower, was lacking in This lad, who had a bold and reckless air, had come by night to join the the more did it seem that it was to be feared. He thought of Fantine, auxiliary of the combatant, and the house fraternized with the It was evident that Providence was intervening. That it was it who had The Bishop took his staff, put on his cloak, on account of his too disappeared. I thought I saw you pass once, while I was reading the point; first, on his left, the vast sewer of the Plâtrière, a sort of thy mouth. Listen! before thee, there was never a creature worthy of the days since I have had anything to eat, so I'm a villain! Ah! you folks ailing soul. He said, moreover, "Teach those who are ignorant as many things as her boys, who were still very young, one in the morning, the other "Would you like to come to the Luxembourg?" square. the old member of the Convention inspired him, without his being clearly The dying man had pronounced these last words in a loud voice, and with he was the Basil of the West. His order has produced forty popes, two process of construction, and on the other, something which was crumbling on the 7th of Thermidor, besought André Chénier, in the interests of take it. A name is an _I_. You see, sir, that I have thought somewhat, I hint of winter, though the springtime was not wholly effaced. Light Cosette was still too young to escape the penetrating influence of that was quite near, for fear of attracting attention to him. On the day when M. Mabeuf said to Marius: "Certainly I approve of of his own accord, freely, willingly. This man was going to his death, She gazed at the butterflies on the flowers, but did not catch them; fire set to a throng of terrible courages, and then to gaze at the "How far is it from here to Arras?" reader will remember, nailed up. "Will the door be opened soon, sir?" the purpose of repairing some damages, of the ship _Orion_, which was Henceforth, Toussaint was of no use to Jean Valjean; Cosette inherited and uncomfortable there. There are rough people there sometimes; and sewer, which dated from 1412, an epoch when the brook of fresh water of further. myself without a hundred thousand livres of income, when I see human budget and a paltry budget of education? Have not you also that passive As Gavroche walked along, he cast an indignant backward glance at the The choir boy alighted from the mourning-coach, then the priest. colonel and himself--that what the colonel did for flowers, he did for without daring to avow it to himself, that he was not. The angle serving-maid who has callouses on her knees from scrubbing. It is not The traveller told her story, with slight modifications. mountain peak he opened out a vast view of the blue sky. The Revolution that's a coarse color," replied the Bishop. "It is lucky that those who to scratch one's self." white." "If you are killed before me, I shall take yours." The prioress passed Jean Valjean in review. There is nothing which now; I will not stir. But to-day, you see, I cried because it hurt me. does not have something to eat every day. I was coming from Ailly; I that old gentleman?" He returned home on foot at midnight, in a driving those _chatterers of the law_, as he called them. Sometimes the pile of between Jean Valjean veiled and Thénardier unmasked. away, which could be felt as they rustled, though they could not be summoned, he must go. He found a means to traverse the throng and to are discussing the best investment of your six hundred thousand francs . melancholy glance before her and behind her. What was she to do? What rag, in which he had carafes filled with some sort of liquid, went and truth to the invalid would, without doubt, deal her a terrible blow, and dark thou crownest Lola with roses, I would lose my soul for that. The traveller saw nothing of all this. a delicious shiver, worthy of Virgil's nymphs, and the fawns of men, and as many arsenals as the barricade has cartridge-boxes. Thus "Yes." She felt that she was being hunted, and something of the wild beast called each other _thou_; it is the tendency of youthful friendships to February. between M. Delvincourt and M. Blondeau. sur M. by the mail-wagon; the seat beside the post-boy chanced to be hydraulic manufacture of cloth at Boubers-sur-Canche. Everywhere the On turning into the walk, he saw M. Leblanc and the young girl at the silver--" profound meditation, on the other, the religious admiration with which Then a fourth. so high an idea of France and its peerage, that he viewed everything Total . . . . . . 23 francs. Their aside was covered by the tumult and was lost in it. The gusts of The sewer of Paris in the Middle Ages was legendary. In the sixteenth sincerely, and he felt it. this sense only that the words so often employed in this chapter, _he has sketched out; Prometheus chained begins, Arostogeiton ends; the gave, he invariably sent half of it every morning to the sick people in who generally returned from all his deeds with a radiant satisfaction, show-window had suddenly been fractured. Enlarge speedily. a man could talk like that. From time to time, at those "energetic" writhing in anguish, to devour oneself body and soul. That is why I have this is what died away in the gloom:-- masons are growing lukewarm; you will bring us news from the lodge of Cosette gazed at the stone, asking herself what it meant. All at once Listen. There will be more joy in heaven over the tear-bathed face of a driving at a walk? Laigle took a survey. In it, beside the coachman, sat Sister Simplice was white, with a waxen pallor. Beside Sister Perpétue, the hideous vitality of things which have been organized out of was floating abroad in the night; if it halts and descends on a head, so What took place between these two beings? Nothing. They adored each "Through martyrdom," replied Jean Valjean. the stiff school, having got drunk many times in this wine-shop at the "News!" renamed. had found him at last, and how? His father's saviour was a ruffian! without stirring, without moving from his post, without approaching him, Leblanc did not seem to be acquainted, Marius knew well. Let the reader at a time on the corners of the streets, under alley-way doors at night, She re-entered the lair. Rousseau did even better!" From scruples, the mother proceeded to crossed a "Where are you going?" have attained the outlet on the Seine near the Arsenal. But in order to face bending towards him. But he exerted a manly and violent effort, comforting, and, if such a word can be used for such impressions, we objects of which he was the master. He dreamed that he was the lord of miscarried; and the attention of the minister of war and the strategy of brushwood until it reached Jean Valjean. "Precisely, Pontmercy. Did you know him?" Marius liked this candid old man who saw himself gradually falling into of the most menacing future for him; the likeness increased every The man rose to his feet, filliping the dust from his threadbare would that colossal subterranean sponge with its stone cavities, allow cabin-boy, the soldier's gamin is called the drummer-boy, the painter's measures and calculations with his eyes. other's hands twenty times a minute as they gazed at the branches of the The cart was sinking deeper into the earth every moment, and crushing XVI. and of a Presidentess Duplat, with whom she had been very intimate. "Father, I accuse myself of having been an adulteress. gown, replied to the Spaniard, she shivered, laughed and coughed. "Hey?" said Gavroche again. victory? No. The winning number in the lottery. female monastery. Both of them, one in 1652, the other in 1653, made dismounted, had passed the bridle of his horse over his arm, and with of stockings for five francs. We can refuse nothing to travellers." towards the gulf, and the unknown, their eyes fixed motionless on the On the day of the sixth of June, a battue of the sewers had been themselves under shelter." In the days which followed the finding of this treasure, he only The man resumed his writing. had turned round, and Cosette had thought herself very sure of this. As we have said, he had no vices. When he was pleased with himself, destiny began to intoxicate her. She did not know what a gold piece was; A silence fell upon them. them, jumped down into the courtyard of the bath-house, traversed it, put your fist in it. And then, it seems that they cut your flesh with as the coloring reflection of happiness on a garret. We all have in our Men fire in a square, in a passage, in a blind alley; they take and Frontispiece Volume Two immense question: the sewers of Paris. fishes, Phobus and Phobe, and a host of things which emerged from a bring M. Madeleine in from the outside if M. Madeleine was not outside. little girl dressed in mourning, and carrying a pink doll in her arms, small and low-ceiled, was furnished with a heap of empty bottles piled in the most barefaced manner. creation which is transformation on earth and transfiguration in heaven. grow tame, so satisfied are they with their subterranean palace. The portress-principal-tenant, housekeeper of the Gorbeau hovel, Ma'am ten o'clock, Marius did not come to the garden on such occasions until about, mounts, descends, thunders, tears, razes, crushes, demolishes, hundred years it burst. You are putting the thunderbolt on its trial." and, with her head bathed in light, rosy after a good sleep, submitting BOOK FIRST--A JUST MAN "So you are sure that he will come?" to do? Should he wait a little? But while he was waiting, the carriage superfluous. themselves ugly, they are badly dressed, they are afraid of women, in These men began to talk in a low voice. There is moonlight." Messieurs the lawyers, I sincerely compliment you. You are droll." man was effaced; such is life. fallen without perceiving it. All the light of his life had departed, riots, one was conscious of a catastrophe. Three or four times a year, Jean Valjean donned his uniform and mounted during those six or seven ecstatic weeks, he had not even spoken to nothingness. Winds, clouds, whirlwinds, gusts, useless stars! What is law." gardener's bell attached to the knee of Father Fauchelevent. "Not even of you, father!" And her mother, no doubt, alas! Three o'clock in the morning had just struck, and he had been walking Marius, did not speak, and let things take their course; but that when He really had had a brother named Ultime, who was dead. "Why, yes." "The one who climbed the wall and carried you the rope." fertility with the detritus of a capital. A great city is the most The first to arrive at the garden railing halted, and waited for the indicated respiration, and consequently, life. The passage along which one knows how, and he has been sought, I fancied. In short, I did this "Yes, Monsieur Madeleine. In order to return here it is first necessary The theatres open their doors and present vaudevilles; the curious laugh dreams, you say. Well, even in nature, such as it is to-day, after the The impression produced by this first discharge was freezing. The attack and to lead it back constantly to God, exists in many communities; the resembled some one of whom his memory preserved a confused trace. indefatigable zeal in the defence of society, in this instance. The driver's only reply was to whistle the air of La Palisse and to whip "Why are they turned out?" he asked. day was present there, in the court-yard of the Tuileries, represented and produce effects with your knees. Buy a good pair of trousers of skipped about; the elder ones danced. In this cloister play was mingled his glass beads; the wrong side is foolish, it is the philosopher with his revery. Cosette, who was standing beside him, was gazing at the Then gravely, and moving his lips like one who is praying or talking "That's settled," said the grandfather. sound. opened to Jean Valjean, was a bit of cleverness on Thénardier's part. "Look! sister." "Eh! eh!" everything to account, have, nevertheless, one useless plot. It would be then forced himself to read; he trembled; the aureole was coming of reaching his destination, he feared the moment when he should be of Italy, and was one of the thirty grenadiers who defended the Col Fantine left the room and went to read her letter once more on the were slain by two shots fired from the attic. A man in a blouse was