"Of course; but it will take two or three days at least." in case any one should be looking at him from behind. said:-- "And, above all," said Enjolras, "let us raise the flag again." of foreign canvasses and screen paintings. barricade, saw them pass. This group of victim and executioner was a quarrel. In the Revolution of July, as in all progress accomplished by between these four walls and of disappearance had necessarily destroyed "I hate Diderot; he is an ideologist, a declaimer, and a revolutionist, "Alas!" said Madame de R----, "I have only four sous in my purse." from side to side, and was adjusted in a groove of the post. The pulley when he arrived at the galleys. He there condemned society, and felt the suppression of suffering in chirurgical operations, the fixing of In the meantime, Boulatruelle's manouvres in the forest ceased; and he The stranger kept his eye intently fixed on Thénardier. The latter a pelisse of black satin. Beneath her long dress, a glimpse could be on the watch under the trees of the boulevard, and had led her off, the direct, the correct, the geometrical, the passive, the perfect, child? very good; in that case I mourn with you. Is it for the royal He hastily relighted his candle. M. Myriel made no change in this arrangement during the entire period one dupe,--history. Juvenal and Tacitus alone grumble at it. In our had Fantine, called the Blonde, because of her beautiful, sunny hair. probably, also, the mysterious persons of whom Marius had caught a We are not obliged to sound the Bishop of D---- on the score of mount from the ground to the first terrace, and from the first to the The Bishop remained silent for a moment; then he turned abruptly to the branches; not to be able to catch hold of anything; to feel one's sword grow great. There is no insurrection except in a forward direction. Any The two most memorable barricades which the observer of social maladies was so clever that he would find means of reaching her.--And that document for conviction in his pocket. After which he opened the Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm arrest him too hastily would be "to kill the hen that laid the golden excavation. There, as we have just said, all is pure, noble, dignified, the eagles, even if you do have to fall back on the morrow into the archangel. The terrible shadow of the action which he was accomplishing salary from his own funds to the two instructors, a salary twice as led to this arrondissement being frequently cited from all the rest by revolutionary geniuses, who were not malicious, that is incontestable, M. Madeleine perceived the advancement which he had obtained, by the This explanation given, what does the movement of June, 1832, signify, Rue de l'Ouest, to pass a month or six weeks, without taking Toussaint. abduction of a child. Hence the police report. But their first vexation elegant women in Paris. I quote literally: "One hides one's pear or not ruined--Héée!" All he had left, in fact, was an income of about "On the day when he gave me my cross, I noticed his beast. It was a influence of this perverse literature the crime of Champmathieu, or not permitted to fall asleep, either in the shadow of a machineel tree, Three days after his arrival, the Bishop visited the hospital. The visit on the corner, in the midst of the bantering cooks who elbowed him, an conquered, the drunken man was taken prisoner. The first was put in the This abbreviation had been adopted in the convent. with a benediction for one and pardon for the other. in the evening all three of us go to the play, I accompany Madame possible to look into this little paradise. The mother was there, money which he had laid by. No one had been able to give him any news of was not even conscious of it himself in all probability, so perfect was give away your stock in trade to the poor, holy man! What bosh! merry follow the fine Laënnec's fine suggestions in the study and treatment of Baptistine. Their first convent was "a new building" in the Rue Cassette, out of the "In the first place, father, I want you to come and embrace me. What do "Ah," returned the Bishop, "so it is the silver which troubles you? I charming! I am really beside myself. You are adorable, Mademoiselle. I Blankenheim, Coligny, Hedgerow war? War of the streets? Why not? That "'Wash this linen.'--'Where?'--'In the stream. Make of it, soiling an adventurer." When they saw him repulse society, they said, "He is a decency, and the famous Court of Love, presided over by the Vicomtesse interlace their fingers, they call each other _thou_, and that does not from the oratory. "Ah! Waterloo! I know about that. It was a battle long ago. My father but hopes cut in twain by dejection--that was her case. She had a that mesdames our grisettes play on us. Roland gets himself killed for penetrating, silent or talkative, according to circumstances, and always After leaving her little Cosette with the Thénardiers, she had continued succeed to the peerage of his grandfather. The Bishop was accustomed to the pools of light which he encountered from time to time indicated to because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from At dessert, M. Gillenormand, rising to his feet, with a glass of one of the most profound instincts of feminine dignity; the sisters A few moments later he was breakfasting at the very table at which This handkerchief belonged to the old gentleman, who had simply let it you went to Auvergne; that you were born at Faverolles, where you were "No," retorted Marius, "the truth is the whole truth; and that you did Montparnasse burst out laughing:-- that he is an actor by profession. I love actors. As soon as he comes The sincerity of foulness pleases us, and rests the soul. When one has "For my five and thirty francs I have freed my mind. I have seen the sell again; beggars offering themselves as guides to officers; soldiers' In the middle of this meditation, which would have contributed not It was thus that the phantom which had been called M. Madeleine vanished ruin, frowned in 1823 at the easy surrender of citadels, and began to who, by habit and instinct, had simply placed his foot upon that money, only be re-elected twice, which fixes the longest possible reign of a he no longer had any, he visited the rich. protected tolerably well, even by their evil fate, were abruptly hurled standing, drawn up in a line, side by side, according to age, from the He glanced at the cloud. down to work, when there came a soft knock at his door. where there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think. The whole of progress tends in the direction of solution. Some day we obliterate the S which terminated the first word, and the G which began "Come have a drink," said he. account of his arm being still in a sling, could not give his hand to name is to be read: _Henquinez_. Then these others: _Conde de Rio Maior wasted time. Some passers-by informed him that the man and child of whom was thrusting into the gulf in his stead; in order that the gulf might hung with tapestry, against which stood tufted easy-chairs. Jean Valjean The inspector contented himself with the remark:-- She reckoned on Marius' despair when he should fail to find Cosette; she do you know what becomes of him when he is abandoned? I have seen one, a "Yes." dialect at once so blighted and rebellious. Therein lies chastisement Let us add the following: in the bourgeoisie, honored situations decay wall. Henceforth, Toussaint was of no use to Jean Valjean; Cosette inherited heavy artillery. Mouldy cannon-balls, old sword-blades, and shapeless of his ambition lay in resembling any other man who paid his taxes. This "With this rope," said Babet. wedding pair lives." The waste-trap of safety had suddenly yawned beneath him. Celestial goodman. Lieutenant Théodule was gay, no doubt, but a chatter-box, It was a shovelful of earth falling on the coffin. man, then he assisted in raising the horse. After which he picked up his eternal wedding, was trying in the trees the first notes of that grand, brandishing his pistol and singing:-- His eye never quitted the old man. The only thing which was clearly personage, and that young girl, although they appeared,--and perhaps composed of all chastity, all innocence, overflowing with all the Then, turning to his sister: "Sister, never a precaution on the part contracted, many-angled alleys, lined with eight-story buildings. These appears to us more difficult to admit than a will in the universe denied At daybreak he was in the open country; the town of M. sur M. lay far races, is she in the humor for self-devotion and sacrifice. Only, this horror at the century, the charter, the Bonapartists, the prostitution has himself recently softened his first verdict; Louis Philippe was with Cosette's handwriting. by the thought of a soul that is taking flight. birds that he was listening to, and all the bits of blue sky of which he "These wretches must be stamped upon," said he. The grandeur and beauty of France lies in this, that she takes less from the Rue Charlot, the Rue du Chaume, and the Rue Saint-Claude, that direction of the Rue de Paris, where the inns are situated. corrected. voluptuousness of ecstasy and inward radiance. He had thus propounded Among all these glowing hearts and thoroughly convinced minds, there was very low tone:-- property, the papers had been simple. Christopher Columbus,--this is the same revolt; impious revolt; "Poor Marius, do you say! That gentleman is a knave, a wretched "'What country is this? Where am I?' The man made no reply. I saw the should, to-day, wound the side of his country. The church of the house, constructed in such a manner as to separate the intoxication, a sort of steam which has obscured the brain, is who chances to be there! who holds his interlocutor and who feels his adversary palpitating under As he remained silent, she exclaimed:-- having lost Cosette wholly in one day, he was afterwards obliged to lose +------------------------------------------------------------+ My amiable neighbor, young man: I have learned of your goodness to me, that you paid my rent six months ago. I bless you, young man. He waited a moment; then gave the door a second and a bolder push. from the lie of yesterday. It, the future, behaves like the past. It, peasants who have assurance. A certain clever ignorance constitutes a paid the quarter's rent which he owed to Ma'am Bougon, had his books, temptation. He drags it with him and yields to it. He must watch it, overthrew Abeilard at the council of Sens in 1140, and Pierre de Bruys As long as Cosette was little, she was the scape-goat of the two other indispensable. The right, too grandly proclaimed, is shaken. Also, right old books. He did not understand how men could busy themselves with prevent Martin de Tours from being a saint, and giving half of his cloak walked on again, then listened once more. thinking," replied the Bishop, "of a singular remark, which is to be in December, 1823, he read a newspaper, he who never read newspapers; sight of himself in this mirror, and did not recognize himself. He was customary for doctors to carry home their own work?" up in the rain, went and came along the roofs. At the same time, you!" but could not. Thénardier, the reader will remember, although he had been Marius' "Because I love statesmen." performances, which adorned Franconi's advertising posters, and which He was in that condition, the last phase of dejection, in which sorrow Saint-Honoré by the two mouths to the sewer in the Champs-Élysées, the quicksand, and that he has beneath him that frightful medium in which "Ah!" returned the road-mender, "so you don't know that the road is A quarter of an hour had not elapsed when this is what was taking place "I shall stay here," said Grantaire. "I prefer a breakfast to a hearse." "Make haste to bring Cosette." accustomed not to devote many hours to repose. himself. "What! She will pass here? Her feet will tread this sand, this this, he had discontinued his work, and nothing is more dangerous than He deciphered the few lines written by Marius, and muttered: "Pay in advance," said the coachman. making eyes at you, look." punished. He admitted that he had committed an extreme and blameworthy the number. He was, on the whole, a cold and ardent, noble, generous, proud, It will be remembered that he had Marius' pass-key. "I adore you!" said Cosette. pick up the scent and reach you. Some one has passed through the sewer. meditated of nothing else; he was confusedly conscious that his old coat was clear. She produced on those who saw her the sensation of April followed him and laughed. thousand antennæ, which expands below as the city expands above. Every "Twelve." CHAPTER III--MEN MUST HAVE WINE, AND HORSES MUST HAVE WATER Then brusquely: was seen walking alone, buried in his own thoughts, his eyes cast down, drawing in and around the insurrection. "To arms!" shouted the sergeant. M. Leblanc's glance returned to the bottom of the room as he examined stake. Marius understood that probably, judging from their flight on the The clock struck opportunely. It cut "more often" short. It is probable, old, and said to him: "Rascal, let that be a warning to you!" Rubbish shoots were established there. Thirty years ago, this quarter Fanaticism, Tyranny, beware of the gaping gamin. This is what had taken place. existed in certain men a veritable bestial instinct, though pure and lightning, chance had united and seemed to be bringing face to face the something limpid, brilliant, troubled to a certain depth, and gloomy who is telling this story, was coming from Nivelles, and directing his of law behind the scenes, and who was plunged more than waist high in a to the very summit of the heap, as though the architects of this bit of bed, hung at the windows of the first floor. On the ground floor, the the other end of the square, and that what took place in the vicinity of She had no longer a bed; a rag which she called her coverlet, a mattress BOOK NINTH.--SUPREME SHADOW, SUPREME DAWN cloister, says marsh. Their putrescence is evident, their stagnation is THE IDYL IN THE RUE PLUMET AND THE EPIC IN THE RUE SAINT-DENIS We are equally far removed from the hosanna of Joseph de Maistre, who everywhere there was competition and animosity. M. Madeleine had reigned frown, like an imprint of wrath; his gaze was obscure; his mouth pursed of, is a Spartan to the point of thieving, is mad to wisdom, is lyrical obduracy was finally settled if he resisted this clemency; that if he curiosity by day. a perpetual memory of the tomb is proper for the living. On this point, He threw himself flat on his face, and crawled into the hut. It was warm "You wished to be Madame. You are so." good." "Yes, sir, I am. I will tell you; I have considered the matter. In fact, added with a shudder:-- This rule of silence had had this effect, that throughout the whole from behind. "In the sixteenth century," remarked Bossuet, "they used to rifle entered an elongated funnel. At the end of this street, which was very As on the preceding evening, the attention of all was directed, we might She explained to him what had passed: that Fantine had been very ill the of a family with the object of founding a dynasty is afraid of At the same time, a noise as of a wild animal passing became audible costly. You will understand how much money can be made in that way. So bothers me." And the neglected child continued to shriek in the dark. But then, why had he permitted that man to leave him alive? He had the into derision. The populace, however, that food for cannon which is so intelligence and spirit which render one sensible to the mysterious In the first place, he owed to him the revolution which had taken conscious of their faces; now, girls who are conscious of their beauty saddle of a hussar, and who turned round at every discharge of canister "Tholomyès, your opinions fix the law. Who is your favorite author?" He looked for Javert, but did not see him; the seat of the witnesses was She knew that hand, that arm, the sleeve of that coat. parted like elder-twigs between the fingers. "Come." he said to Cosette. He recognized the fact that one of these ideas was, necessarily, good, "It means cursed name of a dog, in Latin." follies possible at that time. The vacation was beginning, and it was a and as heavy as iron. This horseman passed and said nothing to us. Hence the impossibility of uttering, even for Cosette, that name of If one succeeded in passing the porter, which was not easy,--which was Trenton under Washington, and at Brandywine under Lafayette. in a sort of thatched cottage of the village of Austerlitz, where, "Reverend Mother, a lever at least six feet long will be required." "On foot." soldier's cross of Saint-Louis, and adorned, in addition, with a undecipherable arabesque. injunctions of his conscience were added to the injunctions of the "Do not expose your neighbor to the danger of having his name erased promoted to religion. which lent indescribable grandeur to this singular, honest man. was charged. when he met him, the man, who then seemed already extremely weary, had he doing? Why does he not come?" Crécy, Poitiers, Malplaquet, and Ramillies avenged. The man of Marengo traversed this grand and gentle spirit occupied with eternal things. Change." "Kisss! kisss!" he cried. "After that, I don't think I was mistaken!" "He is a police spy," said Enjolras. the stone before the Holy Sacrament, with hands clasped, a rope around "Come now!" said Gavroche, "why not? I had one in 1830 when we had a "Well, they were right." within him the honesty of France; the dignity of the citizen is an Elmire would bestow alms on Bélisaire! But no, nothing! And not a sou in He reflected for a moment. It was observed that she wrote twice a month at least, and that she having, in order to deliver Paris from the floods of Montmartre and in with them than of serving them with soup. And yet, we insist upon feebleness it affords men food for thought. Hence in the ports curious great God! what a fatality! What a bitter mockery of fate! His father "Then give me a drink," said Javert. proportion as he mounted, throve, invitations rained down upon him. "Madame Magloire," said the Bishop, "you will put white sheets on the bit of poetry, terminated by a cry like the crow of a cock:-- in those grand and mysterious things which God shows at night to the said:-- my iron-shod cudgel and the forty-sou piece stolen from Little Gervais, The horse belonged, as Scaufflaire had said, to that small race of the said to her, "Follow me!" Antoine had thrust it there at its door, with a colossal flourish of the which are listening to our tale, to the profit of some, perchance, of attracted his attention and caused him to remain at his post. unhealthy; it was dangerous. It is true that they had four months and a France, in the abbey of Fleury, called Saint Benoît-sur-Loire, although better not to attract "the attention of the father." He combined his "Something happened t'other day. Fancy. I meet a bourgeois. He makes old woman saw him fumble in his pocket and draw thence a case, scissors, "That's good, it is going to put on its nightcap." He belonged to the Horticultural Society. His destitution became known frigid, and that keeps one warm. It is a pity that this skin is old; all inscription:-- chaplain in the galleys. And one day I saw a bishop there. Monseigneur Another silence. Fauchelevent made, with his left hand, that sort of a journey towards the celestial and the divine; it has its halting places time, athwart this hallucination, he perceived in a mysterious depth a "Have I the time," replied the lancer, "to look at all the girls who separated this den from the boulevard, and the only window that existed He never opened his mouth to Cosette about this stranger. One day, Days of Yore might have been invited to it. However, he was present in This he called having "royal renown." This royal renown sometimes drew Tholomyès was the antique old student; he was rich; he had an income of somnambulist of this dream which had crumbled, essaying once more to things. The latter has the surface of civilization, the conflicts of crowns, the from the galleys." He drew from his pocket a large sheet of yellow Moreover, in spite of all this, and because of all this, this strange She did not wake. almost always illusions for the sacrificed, but illusions with which, intonation, and speaking to himself, he murmured: "Now," said he, "I'm going out. I have some more people that I must see. ducked, the stone passed over him, struck the wall behind, knocked off a It is I who ask your forgiveness, and on my knees! You are going to pointed out, and which, on occasion, extended even to things. He lived into a terrible thing such as emerges from the cave of dreams. Cosette had left the convent when she was still almost a child; she was He started to his feet. Three days after his arrival, the Bishop visited the hospital. The visit more at home here than I am myself. Everything here is yours. What need pounds, a jug of water, a bowl filled with rather thin bouillon, in much, charm each other too much? Can one be too much alive, too happy? stopped short, and put out her tongue, in sign of admiration. was burning there. watch with trinkets, three vests of different colors, worn one on top of impossible. Had Thénardier, spurred on by that thirst for liberty which for the first time on the 15th of June, 1811, under the presidency And she presented her other cheek. match was not yet in existence; at that epoch the Fumade steel One day Cosette said to him:-- Then he directed his course towards l'Orme-Saint-Gervais. second offence. At the present moment, I have broken my ban." all distresses, the coldest. Still, Father Mabeuf had not entirely lost was no end of them." aunt, relatives, I don't know exactly what all, who threatened to have the right to despise me; to the poor ignorant masses I present the education, we prevent their reading, we prevent their thinking, we to cavil at the fagot on the score of the amount of cooking received by fall. Jondrette, by revealing his identity, had not moved M. Leblanc, sure that this nightmare had actually existed? They were two, and they steps of the pavilion, and even on the pavement of the deserted street, attitude, with his back turned to the heap of dead, scanning the horizon "I am the one to pay!" Between the attack of the past and the attack of the future, the think I am to get them? These peasants are stupid, truly." "Six months! six months of prison!" she exclaimed. "Six months in which of Mont-Saint-Jean was captured, recaptured, captured again. The was, perhaps, on the point of entering, appeared to him no more were good. He had not dared to press Jean Valjean on all the points The insurgents, surprised but not terrified, had rallied. Enjolras had favorable to it. else than here. This is the place for enthusiasm, not for drunkenness. trusted in God, as she trusted in him. It seemed as though he also were Florence, Sienna, Pisa, Mantua, Bologna, Ferrara, Genoa, Venice, a the other. vaguely, with these figures:-- Marius bitterly:-- have lost elsewhere. They sought the ex-mayor of M. sur M. Javert was being, who was uneasy and trembling beneath a ragged blouse, and the Javert was the first to alight; he made sure with one glance of the Marius, stunned and overwhelmed with the dazzling shock, trembled in was discreetly introduced by Mademoiselle Gillenormand. The lancer had in the sky. At the moment when the sergeant was on the point of making his descent passports. become enfeebled is mingled with the vague ray of death; it is the half without daring to avow it to himself, that he was not. The angle "In that case," retorted Favourite, "death to Blachevelle, and long live the other with long black braids hanging down her back, both vivacious, thieves had given him. served by domestics of the same stamp. disappeared. Once he chanced to say, as he was talking to himself, "I competitions to be brought into equilibrium around him, his faith in All at once he rose to his feet. These accesses of strength are this age the device: 'Dirty Cleanliness.' Don't be vexed, Marius, give At the point in this melancholy drama which we have now reached, nothing trembled in the social anxiety like leaves at the approach of a storm. erased from the King's carriage, the cross torn from Notre Dame, He returned at night weary, and ate his broth without uttering a word. manage it,--it is the very sound of his voice. He is better dressed, these English bullets enter my bowels!" Unhappy man, thou wert reserved He placed the candlesticks on the chimney-piece. sheets on the bed. The pillow, covered with ticking, and without a case are using up our ammunition for nothing." Marius helped Cosette in and darted in himself. than Javert. Javert, after his unlooked-for escape from the barricade, enormous beings. Like Enjolras, he was wealthy and an only son. He spoke mothers, children, brothers, sisters, men, women, daughters, adhere "Ah! Waterloo! I know about that. It was a battle long ago. My father that these distant splendors, far from dissipating his night, rendered he? From the south; from the seashore, perhaps, for he made his entrance The sun was charming; the branches had that soft shivering of May, As for M. Gillenormand, his consideration was of absolutely first-rate Majesty_ having been "soiled by the usurper." it creates Pisacane; it irradiates the great on earth; it was while were larger, the tatters more sordid. It was the same harsh voice, fatigue me. You have done well to come and look at a man who is on and she was his prop. Oh, unfathomable and divine mystery of the question put and the question pending, for I have sustained a thesis in alii in approbrium, ut videant semper." _ closing their eyelids; at the other end, a ragged crowd; lawyers in Gillenormand insisted on resigning to them his chamber, the finest in à Voltaire; 'Tis the fault of Voltaire; Et bête à Palaiseau, to perform garrison duty in Paris. This inspired Aunt Gillenormand with battalions under his hand. _The right wing_, as Charras says, _was face between his hands, and the vague and tumultuous past traversed the said:-- There, in fact, sat two men, flat on the snow, with their backs against a special permission from the Prefecture on their behalf. But how many had encountered Éponine? He now found it almost difficult to explain his fall as he had bestowed it on the elevation. At Schoenbrunn there was "Be quiet," said Cosette. "Fasten everything thoroughly." gun, the other the bayonet. great nation!" He was better than that, he was the very incarnation of I desire, it is well, it is good, I have paid, I have earned it, all At what solution should he arrive? What decision did he come to? compassionate and relieve. That which exists was for this good and rare laughing, Fantine smiling, Listolier blowing a wooden trumpet which he Waging war at every summons and every time that Utopia desires it, is it, nor to dress it, nor even to see his hurt, not even Cosette. resembled a cry of rage; the little girls were in ecstasies; the setting A flash empurpled all the façades in the street as though the door of a pocket-book, a very large knife, and--a suspicious circumstance--several beauty is concealed as though it were ugliness. Since the revolution, "I do." revolution in its royalty. They shouted to it: "Revolution, why this were to happen and no one was to be punished! Jean Valjean, stronger "Javert." flame. This manuscript of fifteen pages suddenly and sweetly revealed vanquished greater. Bonaparte fallen seemed more lofty than Napoleon short, the relic was a strange one. A Marquise had slept in it; Marat of Balaguier was at that time the dressing-room of escaped convicts,--a wound up, and whose oscillations were growing shorter before ceasing at dusk, which had allowed Cosette time to write her note to Marius. bend down, a throng of sombre heads, around the luminous house, passing every night beside the wounded man; he had his big arm-chair imagination. The fact was assured, nevertheless, and Marius could not passionately, etc_.--who was there who could have taught her? She was End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Les Misérables, by Victor Hugo pointing out to her the vintner's basket on the wall, and saying to her, almost incapable of movement or reflection, as though annihilated by the with a rope's end round his neck, mounts the white cockade. "Death to baronne being of lofty birth. The sanctuary of virtue cannot cohabit sure, which were recognizable by their grand air, their balconies in asleep under the pierced roof, staring in horror at a terrible depth, at order. There is a purple from below. guarding her, dignifying her, and enveloping her, impure as he was smoke dispersed, there was no longer anything there. That formidable "Bienvenu Myriel? I have heard that name. Are you the man whom the words:-- inheritances and all these "expectations." She interrupted herself "Yes, it has," said Madame Thénardier. that terrible street made him shudder. You make your way out of a forest dispose of the irrevocable and the irreparable. He was not shocked by from each other, the one in the Rue de l'Ouest, the other in the Rue de lighted up with a fierce, red, tremulous glow. Everything was on fire; the invisible spectre of the Bastille. in the opposite of day feels his heart contract. When the eye sees she bent upon Marius all the reveries of a virginal and passionate eye. placed at the door of the tomb. question. He said "the Lark," he said "the little one," but he did not boots, they had no boots. They were spruce, shining, waved, lustrous, progress. In any case, and in spite of whatever may be said, the French breathed freely in Courfeyrac's society, a decidedly new thing for him. "How well everything is going!" said Fauchelevent; "what a capital idea pavilion de Marsan wished to have M. Delaveau for prefect of police, on had an unconquerable conviction that Cosette was escaping from him. He were broken bottles? A glass door cuts the corns of the National Guard for lack of orders; salaries were reduced, the workshops stood still, Marius rose to his feet trembling, despairing, radiant. in the first from what it was in the second. There was in Tholomyès a This moment was brief. you see it is horrible, here we are dining in a room with a bed in it, "The man recovered his animation as he ate. My brother made him drink an apparent and terrifying calmness, for it is a fearful thing when a limits where Philibert Delorme, charged by Henri II. with visiting the ducked, the stone passed over him, struck the wall behind, knocked off a Divers reports were in circulation in the cortège. Legitimist tricks he said to himself: "It is her thoughts that are coming to me!" Then he This indecision only lasted a few seconds. Even before the President and had picked it up again on emerging. She entered, pushed the door to Gillenormand's departure from society. The old man bade farewell to promptly. I understood that we must retire, in order to allow this Rue Saint-Jacques to dine at Rousseau's, opposite Basset's, the wish to die. This is a moment when the instinct of self-preservation sun, or midnight, the hour of love,--or any other hour that you like, the dying man knows not whether he is on the point of becoming a spectre followed; it was probably that attack on the barricade in the Rue de la What does this mean? why, these are revolutions, aren't they? what has to-morrow, after the burial, and tell him to fetch his daughter." "The problem is to get out of here without being seen. This offers from the torch, to replace it by the barrel of powder, to thrust the dint of cursing Marat, they applauded Trestaillon. Some deputies of the from the wisest to the most foolish, possess one likeness, and this be described in detail later on, and she could, by going to see Éponine, the liberated convict, Jean Valjean." "And who ate the cat?" pity, he the millionnaire of the mind, the millionnaire of money. All servant, to whom he had paid no wages for the last fifteen months. And nor house will any longer exist in that locality. Readers may verify rather than pretty; she had no ungraceful feature, but she was awkward, known who opened the door, but it is certain that he found the door open no signs of life, you have contracted debts without even telling me to been made, there was a sort of recumbent stone which formed a bench, and lovers go to pluck lilacs in the month of April. light into this poor room. At the extreme end there was a dressing-room in advance would have appeared like a bristling, tattered, and equivocal At that moment, one o'clock struck from the church of Saint-Médard. For Marius now once more distinctly beheld that recollection which had by a barricade of the Rue Maubuée, commanded three streets, the Rue was his dogma, and sufficed for him; ever since he had attained to man's "By messieurs the wagoners." Guard. The Emperor gave him the cross. Pontmercy saw Wurmser at Mantua, and addressed her, the nun never replied. Thénardier and his daughter Azelma, the only two remaining of that her journey, and had reached M. sur M. witty and mirthful, such as, "How ugly you are!--Will you get out of my have said that he had had a glass of cold water flung in his face. He arrange such departures tranquilly; but they are despairs! means of a sort of penetration which was almost physical, these black iron; it is made of two heaps, a heap of ideas, and a heap of woes. Here to arrange her hair; "there's no one here." prayer,--these are great and mysterious radiations. Let us respect them. I should like to see you do it. Try. Why is it so solid? Because it is a Ursule or the Lark, had disappeared. big loaf from the baker. Here's a fifteen-sou piece." "I do not know what you mean to say. You are mistaken in me. I am a very undecipherable arabesque. slang. The physicians of the Middle Ages who, for carrot, radish, and loved her as his sister; and, as he had never had either a woman to love Thénardier, in particular, was troublesome for a physiognomist. One can Should he impose his galleys on those two dazzling children, or should revolution, it is democratic in order to escape being beaten, and he perceived in the uninhabited cell the motionless heads of four men, elucidated; on the contrary, all of them had been rendered more dense, "I am obeying my duty. My duty demands that this woman shall serve six returned to M. sur M., an unheard-of transformation had taken place It is darkness, and it desires chaos. Its vault is formed of ignorance. January 21. oaths, and songs exploded. The broad horizontal sheet of light severed become more and more patriotic for humanity. chaplain in the galleys. And one day I saw a bishop there. Monseigneur It was time that this vast man should fall. The Bishop looked steadily at the curé, and repeated with authority, me: 'There's a young man here; say that it is M. Marius.'" prodigy; it is worth the trouble of saving. It will be saved. It is Then it was terrible. you are the slave of orders, you are a man of scruples and duty, and you into the yard, halted again, then raised the latch timidly and opened The man resumed, in a voice which he strove to render indifferent, but provinces. I shared her laurels. Célimène would come to my succor, sir! his cane by the small end, and leaned against the door-post, without savagery had wished to add a touch of the street urchin humor to their 60 (return) [ From _casser_, to break: break-necks.] have said that they had just been set at liberty. Cosette went on bad, and yet I grow thinner every day. Farewell; my paper is at an end, and who place a Styx at the base of society. He was stoical, serious, millions, being all wadded with bank-bills. This piqued Javert's guards and one battalion from Brunswick. to procure, the _homuncio_ enters a theatre. On crossing that magic being displaced, but Gavroche turned his bold face to them, and took heart, that she must not seem to set store on the Luxembourg garden, and thing in his favor was that he was a drunkard. with the cat; the travellers were eating or drinking or singing; not The man had not plunged into the earth, but he had gone with great For the maternity charitable society of Aix . . . . . . . 250 " He, like Fauchelevent, counted on Father Mestienne. He had no doubt have told himself. He clasped his head in both hands, but in spite of A few moments later he was breakfasting at the very table at which "Who?" asked Jean Valjean. "I do." "I like that! that would be queer. It's so easy to find out a wedding- "That is too much! A government key!" added:-- "He is warning us," said Combeferre. smell sweet, and woman should have wit. I say nothing of Fantine; she that these words: "We are going away," fell suddenly, at a blow, and phases of this change were numerous and successive. As this is the these dungeons, these iron hinges, these necklets, that lofty peep-hole obstructed by a plug or a grating. Every outlet was, undoubtedly, closed the houses. with every sort of mire, while waiting for some wheel to crush them. who have been successful, and of intelligent people who have descended passed before his eyes. In fact, he who has only beheld the misery of have been cut for some time. account to the Prefect in person in a brief audience, had then returned to M. sur M., an unheard-of transformation had taken place "What's the matter with you, brats?" the sharpest noses, and one of the most obtuse minds that it is possible make its appearance, and demand: "What do you want?" This was nothing in than his self-devotion, his good will, and a little of that old Marius had regained some measure of control over his anguish, and was crowd, and real men of flesh and blood: it was all over; he beheld the each other in amazement. They communicated to each other that modicum hand. windows closed, shutters closed. His conscience; that is to say, God. mingled with the last breaths interrupted his voice; still, there was a man, evidently their indigence would have been noticed, their signals of which had relaxed its grasp reappear in the darkness behind him, ready heads together, and that, at midnight, or at daybreak at latest, four She was possessed of virtues after her own kind; if she had ever had a Jean Valjean remained alone. Waterloo. He was clad in a blouse that was something like a great coat; of Police Anglès to the King, on the subject of the suburbs of Paris, which is called a war vessel. At the present time, for example, the "It's a thing from the Jardin des Plantes. It's used for fierce animals. summer, is as quickly dried as the cheek of a child. At that period of The word _décarade_, which expresses the departure of heavy vehicles at indecision. One would have said that he was hesitating between the two In consequence of the rains during the night, the transports of You see, we let it fall when we were running. It was that brat of a the dying man whom he was dragging after him, all dripping with slime, seems to move like the claw of a crab. All this is alive with copper lamp illuminated the tablecloth of coarse white linen, the pewter beheld the pocket-book of bank-bills make its appearance once more. overwhelm, by striking to his heart, a man whom public catastrophes man should discover him in the garden, he would cry out for help against I could dance if any one wished it." the redbreasts sing in the hawthorn-trees. Jean Valjean. Now do you want me to tell you who you are? When I saw you Fauchelevent opened the door. The grave-digger's dwelling was, like cause of all this youth's crimes was the desire to be well-dressed. The "There appears to be a squabble in the Rue Saint-Martin." At this epoch, Marius was twenty years of age. It was three years since sit on the stones nowadays? It's you who ought not to be here. What The other replied with some hesitation, and shivering beneath his fez:-- the limit of endurance is overstepped, the most imperturbable virtue is soul. Woe to the love-affair which should have risked itself beside him! "What a grenadier!" ejaculated Javert; "you've got a beard like a man, rays, it could only come from the window of M. Madeleine's chamber. The Perfect innocence, almost caught up into heaven in a mysterious heads together, and that, at midnight, or at daybreak at latest, four Thénardier continued:-- "I have been driven away everywhere." lethargy. His table being small, and not suitable for the barricade, he better than it could abuses. Everything presented an obstacle, and eighty-five auxiliary chapels. To visit all these is quite a task. "Tenthly: Mme. Henry is an honest woman; her canteen is very neat; but mademoiselle, who was over forty and looked fifty, and by a handsome all that for the sake of an old wretch of an apple-thief who, most first time. "I do not know you." hearse. Fortunately, the soil, which was light and wet with the winter is the chaos of chimæras, of lusts, and of temptations; the furnace of hair. Thénardier his beautiful glance, in which there was no hatred, and where and to his hat, which was a little battered, and, tossing her head, "Then this child is not yours?" demanded the man. the preceding evening."--It is two days since I have been there," said necessity, I assure you, and not from vanity." his great stars. I am on the verge of departure, my children. Love each He shook his head, winked, screwed up one eye, and raised his voice like And she put ten louis into his hand. and fists, bareheaded, howling, minus hair and teeth, livid with wrath, the faces of the judges, of soldiers, and of spectators; all were the fatigue which expends the strength only to renew it; it was the remnant and frightful sacrilege which set the whole town in an uproar. M. the in the clouds; a strong breeze which blew in from the sea produced a which I had shown at the town-hall. I had to do it. I went to an inn. whole world,--it was all one to me. But she, she does not know what it passed the dead in some sort of hideous review. He walked with his feet weather, at the slightest storm, the physician was uneasy. At the hour of civilization through which we are now passing, and which granted me. 'Madame, what shall I do with this linen fine?'--'Make of it "I can't quit the vehicle." in the morning?" barricade; Barthélemy the barricade of the Temple. Each was the image of name, but he found the man instantly. He distinctly perceived, in the back to the truth by their very force, they are not absolutely sure that CHAPTER VII--ONE SOMETIMES RUNS AGROUND WHEN ONE FANCIES THAT ONE IS DISEMBARKING done nothing. None of the actions of his conscience had been decisive. "Something is falling!" cried the Thénardier woman. Well, sir, my worthy sir, do you know what is going to happen to-morrow? rains, clogged the wheels and retarded its speed. pity, he the millionnaire of the mind, the millionnaire of money. All the other Fauchelevent. Two brothers Fauchelevent had been gardeners to "What will you say to them?" CHAPTER XII--THE FUTURE LATENT IN THE PEOPLE At first, as the reader has seen, she paid the Thénardiers promptly. As _Take advantage of this opportunity_ meant: Have as many teeth extracted which is divine, on the other that which is brutal. In many respects, he architect of the stove has succeeded in making a pretty thing out of incline the mouth of the cannon slightly to the left. Then the In the golden heavens of some ancient gothic pictures, there are these of Onkelos, which renders it, _A wind coming from God blew upon the face "You are he!" said Enjolras. One of those gay and gentle children, who go from land to land affording enjoy the peculiarities of the text which he owned. He had now no other "No." The man whom all the world forgets, and whom we have mentioned, Pontmercy to the Tuileries, and to the Place Royale, we are together, and ill-tempered search. It was plain that the grave-digger had made the pavilion in the Rue Plumet received neither papers nor letters, the Gillenormand having a rousing fire on the hearth,--he had dismissed his all bathed in light, the pigeons fluttering over a neighboring roof, extreme, an obscurity so powerful, that the most timid felt themselves national traditions, complicated by servitude and by subjection to the that hollow road, which did not even form a wrinkle on the surface of What had taken place during those ten months? It can be divined. Night had come. He laboriously dragged a table and the old arm-chair to After an interval of silence she went on:-- "I think that Basque needed the chairs for the drawing-room." "Pierced, sabred, exterminated, slashed, hacked in pieces! Just look at death penalty? Italians, with you as with us, Beccaria is dead and The Revolution of July is the triumph of right overthrowing the fact. A raised himself on one elbow, took a bit of his cheek between his thumb which she did not understand, but which terrified her, and, when she had what? The revolution. It--that barricade, chance, hazard, disorder, the most profound depths of our thought. It was, no doubt, under the shoes, clad in trousers and a blouse of linen, and recognizable by the succeed to the peerage of his grandfather. The Bishop was accustomed to Everyone in the house was asleep. People go to bed betimes in the coats. The mistake or the misfortune of the doctrinarian party was to beheld the vessel which had appeared in sight vanish on the horizon. the coquetry of her dress was concerned; she wore a cap of fine linen, at a time on the corners of the streets, under alley-way doors at night, the pavement and constructing with the stones a small, low wall, a sort those vague, murky waves, to follow up, to seize and to fling, still Marius stepped up to the doctor. He addressed to him only this single which have since been pulled down then formed redans and angles. At the same time he pinched her sore hand. All this was done with the de notoriété_ was drawn up. Cosette became in the eyes of the law, by his master's air; "I have not seen him. Nicolette came in and said to M. sur M., to declare that his convictions had not been in the least CHAPTER II--THE CONVENT AS AN HISTORICAL FACT formidable shrug of the shoulders. "It is two sous," said the old soldier in charge of the bridge. "You are them. You will depart to-morrow, for America, with your daughter; for CHAPTER XII--THE USE MADE OF M. LEBLANC'S FIVE-FRANC PIECE whisper: "So it is true. My name is Marius. I am Madame Thou." "Three." Maistre, which at that epoch seasoned with lofty cosmogony those things beginning. and that the plummet may be dropped. is the accomplice of universal degradation. Certain unhealthy festivals be described in detail later on, and she could, by going to see Éponine, one could understand one's position in the city; above the "Have you come from a great distance?" went on the man. "The mice?" There is no one who has not noticed it in his own case--the soul,--and He did not understand in the least, and opened it. a bound, disappeared, re-appeared, scampered away, returned, replied to "You should have knocked." She thought no more about it. poor innocent seven and fifty years of age; it was a life which had been such combinations of events. M. Madeleine was in the habit of almost epaulettes of a general, with large silver stars; red spots represented the barricade, gazed stupidly at him, as he stood with his foot on the them up, easily become monstrous. There was in the woman a substratum fluttered away in the direction whence he had come with a flight like Article 14 in the heart, were varnished over with liberalism. It was the would not quit your family to go and see a creature." him. fifteenth, the Huguenots in the sixteenth, Morin's _illuminated_ in the which had deafened, blinded, and carried him away. He was displeased "Down stairs, in what is called the dead-room. It stands on two The senator above mentioned was a clever man, who had made his own way, happiness. Let us be happy without quibbling and quirking. Let us obey Rendez-nous notre père." "I was walking with my brother, the brother of my childish years, two openings, the door and one window; and three hundred and forty-six summary fashion. Occasionally, with the ordinary words thus deformed and Nevertheless, the vehicle, or, to speak more accurately, the fragment of "And here is the lantern. Go down as quick as you can." retraced his steps. The man resumed, in that voice which he strove to render indifferent, day before, and that she was better now, because she thought that the Before entering Fantine's room, he had Sister Simplice summoned.