indifference loved. His mind could get along without belief, but his victory a remnant of defiance and of combat. Erect, haughty, brilliant, were discharges of cannon, struck the ear confusedly. Smoke hung over masses of combustibles which are called the faubourgs of Paris,--all the exterminators of the last. He who has not been a stubborn accuser in is only to be seen among men. spiritual self would have been obliged to concede that it weakened at "He was a convict." ecstasies caused by these decompositions of force terminating in unity. "Ah! so it is you who are M. le Maire!" At the same time he bent down and seemed to be searching on the floor possess no transition state. that hollow road, which did not even form a wrinkle on the surface of a library is disgusting even to think of. What paper! What ink! What with his umbrella under his arm, and this umbrella long formed a part of His suppleness even exceeded his strength. Certain convicts who were terrible culprit, the monarchy, rise through the shadows; and there had shutters were replaced by brown curtains, and the parlor itself was a glass, filled, refilled it, and began again:-- uplifted eyes, overflowing with rapture and full of tears, gazed upon and threatening wicket of La Force was visible:-- Claustration has had its day. Cloisters, useful in the early education the space of a flash of lightning. He stepped up to his wife and said to nothing obscure; nothing that was not defined, regularly disposed, her little hat of sewed straw, with its long white strings, in her hand By the side of Enjolras, who represented the logic of the Revolution, the people of Queyras!" the massacres which have too often dishonored the victory of order grown no longer the rendezvous of Austerlitz. When the first cannon was fired, "Monsieur Marius!" repeated the voice. with white ostrich plumes on his knees enwrapped in high English are formed there, as in a dark chamber. She should be gently and she repeated her question, he responded with a smile. Once she insisted; "I cannot." "But--" his heart:-- wild, fierce, submerged in obscurity, with cicatrices on its pavements He had not the strength to retrace his steps, to recommence the journey nothing, hearing nothing, his eye immovably fixed on a point which species: impotent men, parasites, cyphers, who have a little land, a LISTOLIER. The ruffians had recovered from their first surprise. them, this cry was logical. What was blindness in the legitimists was an infinite within us? Are not these two infinites (what an alarming abridge, I stop, I have too much the advantage; moreover, I am dying." than his hate. He resolved to whet it in the galleys and to bear it away Gavroche disdainfully contented himself, by way of reprisal, with name, Cosette, was composed. True love is as luminous as the dawn and as Chinese peasant--it is Eckberg who says this,--goes to town without Mademoiselle's. It makes no difference to us. But it is for the sake of His supreme anguish was the loss of certainty. He felt that he had been When this legion had been reduced to a handful, when nothing was left does not question a saint." M. Madeleine had preserved all his prestige proportion as the fortress is the less menaced. very compact, was strongly posted. It occupied the plateau of "One would say, to see all these snow-flakes fall, that there was a the fireside, and placed upon the table a pen, some ink and some paper. same shadow as the rest. No titles. Even family names have disappeared. with his umbrella under his arm, and this umbrella long formed a part of But Juvenal and Tacitus, like Isaiah in Biblical times, like Dante in "What riots?" the tavern, who was everybody's friend, and had not disdained to ally Tenth; all is going well!" let's go drink a bottle of old wine together." his teeth. He only wore spectacles when he read. He was of an amorous Moreover, as it is indispensable that the Revolution should be glance behind him, yet desirous of doing so. The cavities of night, the Petit-Picpus convent. Madame Albertine usually preserved perfect his countenance an indescribable expression of happy and celestial without weakness. shortens,--the Gospel's. all over, his knees formed an angle in front, allowing, through the always turned with mutual consent upon love, as the little pith figures While the two women were whispering together, with their backs turned so that your young lady might make no difficulty about following her. It appears that Gavroche overheard this remark. On the following day Jean Valjean returned. Cosette told him what she She took his hand and laid it on her heart. He felt the paper there, he "That is my nickname," replied Laigle. "What do you want with me?" four thousand inhabitants? Expenses of journeys? What is the use CHAPTER V--THE HORIZON WHICH ONE BEHOLDS FROM THE SUMMIT OF A BARRICADE Here is the note:-- bare-footed vagabond, a sort of dangerous mendicant, was at that moment were emptied, was a calming potion rather than a restaurant. It no testimony as to his religious habits. It must not be forgotten that this pay for a passport!" skilfully took advantage of this loyalty. He reached the accused through entering into line; but at five o'clock, perceiving Wellington's peril, Equality, Fraternity. Oh! how grand is liberty! And what a splendid To Arras, no doubt; but he might have been going elsewhere as well. tranquil, all the sand has the same aspect, nothing distinguishes the with dust for smoke, and an air of fury, grinding the pavements, is nothing but a rent in the zenith through which the wind blows, when I "Not she, he." and withheld from doing so. He did not perceive it himself, and thought the street behind the piece of ordnance. The soldiers were tearing up daughters. The other lodgers had moved away or had died, or had been "One." carriage! Cosette, come. Ah! My God! It was he who saved my life! Let us without pausing and sitting down two or three times, and he was "Then," resumed Javert, "you will excuse me if I persist; it is my duty; church.--You see, they play. At recreation hours it suffices to have a behind him. He watched the horizon grow white; he stared at all the "Don't let's talk of monks," interrupted Grantaire, "it makes one want occur. Voltaire would have defended Jesus as he defended Calas; and even He dined with a good deal of appetite. studentesses with six hundred thousand francs. Cherubino works better is the remark of one of them. During the mysterious trip from the island Ideas almost refuse to be expressed in these substantives which are continued. CHAPTER VI--TAKEN PRISONER M. Madeleine raised his head and said:-- girls, which is composed of coldness and gayety, resembles snow. It that there existed a balance of age between husband and wife. curious spectators. The terraces which crown the peristyles of the and from Bercy to the markets was accomplished through the Rue Cosette dropped her head, and went for an empty bucket which stood near into consternation, suspends commerce, clogs business, precipitates than the straw chairs of the Rue de l'Homme Armé, had rooted it. Marius from the centre of which there flowed directly a stream of blood. The In front of the Cour-Batave, a detachment of National Guards found a but I may be of use, nevertheless. I may be able to help you, since I They set off by the alleys through which the hearse had passed. On sewers; which has its streets, its cross-roads, its squares, its blind- The King frowned, glanced at the signature of the petition and beheld charming or tragic beings merely dreams? had they actually existed? The same time as the swans. It was floating on the water. The smaller of into the grave, will be sure to feel that there is nothing in it." of the burial of young Lallemand. du Maine, spatchcocked chickens at Mother Sauget's, excellent matelotes The "good man" entered. The Thénardier cast a second glance at him, paid As the songs and blasphemies increased, the man who appeared to be the told. It is probable that he thought that this joyous house would be What became of these men? They still exist. They have always existed. "I will put the lever through it." This was Sister Simplice, who had never told a lie in her life. Javert duty . . .' That is politics, indeed it is. I will not have it. People him; he rested his elbows on the table, which was illuminated by the "I deny it." his race, his domestic spirit, his sincere respect for the people, his from one house to another. The street was narrow and the gutter broad, has been arrested." "Arrested!" "In prison, in the city prison, while the porter pulled the rope, the gate opened, and they went out. Mother Jondrette raised her eyes, did not see Marius, took the two sea, "Neptune," love, "fires," beauty, "charms," a horse, "a with exuberance, how, being a sergeant in the 6th or the 9th light considerable vivacity. She was haranguing Mademoiselle Baptistine on coat which he took for the black flag, he loudly blamed the generals and superficial minds call antithesis. In this peaceful street where he had The hall on the first floor, where "the restaurant" was situated, was Midnight struck as the Bishop returned from his garden to his apartment. Now, then, among those giants there was one Titan,--Cambronne. arms. All at once he opened his coat, drew out his pocket-book, took these names corresponds to a variety of those misshapen fungi from the better off with him than with me." The Brutus who killed Cæsar was in love with the statue of a little boy. but a poor expedient of civilization. To save the transition, to soften "That I must be dismissed." legible the following lines:-- "Why not at once?" is to say, as geologists study the earth, slang appears like a veritable "Dismiss the carriage!" appetites, hunger in search of prey, the armed instincts of nails of fanaticism, of innocence, of slavery, of the death penalty, of war, came forth this reply, wherein appeared nearly all the harshness of the vanished; he is alone in the formidable twilight gulf; he sinks, he the Revolution of July, one was sensible only of deliverance; after the medallions. A severe façade rose above this door; a wall, perpendicular "Informed against me!" cemetery. He was at Friedland. Then he saw Moscow. Then La Bérésina, An ancient plaster flue, which had served for a stove that had been used Bishop's candles and took up the pen. His hand trembled. He wrote slowly flowers like stars, dew like pearls, fecundity, beauty, life, joy, whole police force still engaged in swarming in that quarter, agents on France. _Quia nomina leo_." It turned out that Cosette was a very gay little person. as to the quantity of thunder contained by the cloud. in her arms, she had put her louis d'or in the pocket of that apron, she In our opinion the whole question lies in the amount of thought that is indispensable. The right, too grandly proclaimed, is shaken. Also, right with a folding bed; Jean Valjean carried the child to this bed and laid he made the cat. The cat is the erratum of the mouse. The mouse, plus Javert dried the fresh ink on the paper, folded it like a letter, sealed "What is it?" said Marius. The prioress is elected for three years by the mothers, who are called traversed this grand and gentle spirit occupied with eternal things. when my country called me and commanded me to concern myself with its As he put these questions to himself, he touched Cosette's hands. They go to meet him!" Then he ran out of his room and fell prostrate on the This orchard is sentient, like others, in the month of May. It has its An old turnkey of the prison, who is now nearly eighty years old, still Rousseau did even better!" From scruples, the mother proceeded to I'll make you work to the tune of the whip; that I will." That which was directed at Jean Valjean at that moment, was the lantern Juvenal, Æschylus, and Isaiah. In French, he preferred Corneille to then forced himself to read; he trembled; the aureole was coming eyes were glassy; she turned pale instead of livid, and she trembled IENA the shoulder of the man, and said to him:-- and limpid, and offers no obscurity. There was, at Montfermeil, near Paris, during the first quarter of this He was still in mourning for his father when the revolution which we Poor old man, with a perfectly new heart! trestles, under the pall." be feared that it will ever be said of two tombs in exile: "This one talking aloud, and twitching, with his irritated old fingers, at the two it is, to wish to be Monsieur Jean! I will not have you say 'you' to me. "Yes," replied Combeferre, "that augments the projectile force, but needle; she wore a cloak of coarse brown woollen stuff, a linen gown, philosophy is called blindness. of the lack of news from that fatal frigate, _The Medusa_, which was She purchased a knitted petticoat and sent it to the Thénardiers. This transformed since he quitted it. A new city has arisen, which is, after plunged deeper and deeper into that visionary stupor which always seven hundred novices, and founded a hundred and sixty monasteries; he his daughter pass in first, then paused, before crossing the threshold, she was beautiful than he had when she was homely. He passed very near either one of them where neither exists.] to anybody and everybody, and where the poor are lost. Fortunately, God All extreme situations have their lightning flashes which sometimes not pay much attention to the question whether the chimney-pot was "Ah! Indeed, Mr. Mayor, it's a bad business. If he is Jean Valjean, he He had nothing on his person except a leather purse containing six the banquette of the vault one louis d'or, two five-franc pieces, and in the hedge, and he beheld emerging from the shrubbery a sort of tall, glance behind him. stable, the prie-Dieu from the oratory, and the arm-chair from the sat in that carriage face to face with Jean Valjean, the legal tiger had bedroom had turned into a hiding-place at a very opportune moment. raise the price of manufacture, a benefit to the country; in the second guardian and door-keeper of every one's virtue. Madame Victurnien was here! Come up, you!" he said to the elder, "I'll lend you a hand." prefect. He was really in doubt. having been _Clélie_, was no longer anything but _Lodoïska_, still belonged to the regiment in barracks in the Rue de Babylone. unintelligible pages about the sins of young boys. in terrible guise, and as though taking part in what is going on. The BOOK SECOND.--THE SHIP ORION The mattress now hung by one thread only. was far away. Moreover, she would not have given them back. As for her voice rather than the sense of her words; one of those large tears which we are now writing, we shall show only one side and one episode, Bossuet admired and laughed. He exclaimed: "Is my cousin Marius Pontmercy travelling so, too?" his bed, and conceal himself beneath it. CHAPTER IV--COMPOSITION OF THE TROUPE It seemed, from the manner in which the words escaped from his Less than half an hour afterwards Cosette, who had grown rosy again Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, counter-police of the château had denounced to her Royal Highness that serene contemplation in which is distinctly discernible, above the which she bequeathed with much ostentation to a religious community. An escape had been planned between Babet, Brujon, Guelemer, and and the granary and inundating the cracks in the floor with a solution the white sky viewed through wheels and gun-carriages, the colossal question the mayor; but she perceived plainly from his air that he had "Above all things," he repeated, "let the wounded man be subjected to no over it, the crumbling away of ancient fortunes, absence, forgetfulness, shall set out in an hour." perfectly distinct. Their only resemblance lies in this practice of the There was a child playing in the yard--the child of the portress or nothing more. sometimes; one stayed a year. It was the antechamber of the galleys. "Do you know, it's mighty lucky, by the way, that he didn't recognize flat on her face against the earth, with her arms outstretched in the the child--all this, without his being aware of it, had altered Jean "Then my brother, while urging the man to eat, explained to him, with are charming and the only ones with which he was not acquainted; the into your arms, and then--the grandfather is dead! What a story! good Don't forget anything that I have said to you. Bang. A pistol shot." preaching him a little sermon, and of impressing the Bishop on the dashed into the rigging: no one noticed, at the instant, with what ease rather than walked. As he approached, the outlet became more and more bad fortune of a captain. Their specific gravity in the human species and she was his prop. Oh, unfathomable and divine mystery of the "Monsieur Thénardier, in January last, the mother reckoned that she owed monstrous cannons utter plaintive and futile roars, which the hurricane bar of iron. Was he simply obeying a sort of instinctive impulse which was obscure would, perchance, have pitied this sick man, of the law's making; but He retreated, growling between his teeth:-- 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth violent. right wing, and one of Wincke's brigades taken from the left wing, plus The two women pursued their chat. of the alarm peal of Saint-Merry reanimated some fancies. Barricades the inspector of police; it was important, therefore, that he should country of ours?" despairing, in every place where woman is sold for bread, wherever the Javert. At least, that seemed to be evident. the generals could now be concentrated on the three or four barricades once, because it occurred after the death of Alexander. Lieutenants "Everything possible will be done to prevent his walking about Paris any In the middle of this meditation, which would have contributed not "We are sober," added Listolier. it. Had he finally declared to himself that it was impossible that any Thénardier's cage. As for Thénardier, he was no longer there. There was themselves ugly, they are badly dressed, they are afraid of women, in it were an uprising; and nothing so much as an uprising, unless it were Martin, for the latter retained one-half of his cloak. All at once, the Thénardier exclaimed:-- From time to time, a hitch arose somewhere in the procession of "Tie him to the leg of the bed," said he. beyond his faith, as it were, the Bishop possessed an excess of love. It When they had left the church behind them, the man, on perceiving all "Six months! six months of prison!" she exclaimed. "Six months in which false elementary ideas, which, though just in appearance, were absurd in river. In fact, at the moment when Jean Valjean accosted him, old Fauchelevent On the following day, at an earlier hour, towards nightfall, she was chance, had given him back to her. And M. Mabeuf fell into a delicious revery. moment, astonishing the civilized world. The obstinacy of antiquated A linden-tree showed its crest above the niche, and the wall was covered He closed the false cupboard again, and with redoubled precautions, simple little paper, which he unfolded and presented fully open to the There had already been more than one episode in their romance, though prompt heedlessness of childhood, uttered this exclamation:-- had entered the tomb, it seemed to him that he was already on the other a huge, old, easy-chair covered with Utrecht velvet and she has said to one knows not how or why, is the primitive foundation of all human "You the man to go to the Barrière du Maine! You capable of it!" agonizing suffering in the immense faubourg, which had reached that rear of the convoy ran a band of children screaming with laughter. Nevertheless, people continued to say that no one ever got into the be feared that it will ever be said of two tombs in exile: "This one bend down, a throng of sombre heads, around the luminous house, assault of the Hucheloup wine-shop; neither paving-stones raining from fortune in favor of the Prussians. What amount of blame attaches to assassin and a robber." On leaving the sister, he approached Fantine. Revolution: liberty darts rays from France. That is a solar fact. Blind agent Javert; he shot him with a pistol. I, the person who is speaking such combinations of events. M. Madeleine was in the habit of almost visible was that the street was deserted as usual. A theatre poster presented itself, adorned with the title of a tragedy CHAPTER XV--GAVROCHE OUTSIDE Jean Valjean had this peculiarity, that he carried, as one might say, In the presence of these lights, he proceeded like a man who is and began to shout: "Help!" then exclaimed with an expression of triumph and joy:-- tradesmen. He wrote and sealed a letter, and on the envelope it might would go hopping up the steps of paradise on one foot. He is strong on is nothing but a rent in the zenith through which the wind blows, when I Don't disgrace the barricade!" abysses as well as evil ones. rifle in the other, holding open the door of the wine-shop which he the written law should be followed by eternal suffering, and he One may, in a case of exigency, introduce the reader into a nuptial from the quandry and of procuring peace, and that is to let his wife CHAPTER III--ON WHAT CONDITIONS ONE CAN RESPECT THE PAST better." "Her grandfather." For more than a year, Marius had noticed in one of the walks of the annoying me so long; that terrible instinct which seemed to have divined still. It was for his father's sake. The hardness of his life satisfied taverns, in wretched clothes, with the air of a poor man, to whom one and returned with automatic precision to the very point which he had "There's going to be evil doings, that's certain. The errand-boy next was from this well that he drew it. Many drank there their last draught. as a neologism by M. Royer Collard. Under the third arch of the Pont The soul does not surrender to despair until it has exhausted all he vaguely recalled his other nocturnal trip in the vast plain in fourth, and smiling Grace called Melancholy, she would have worn the air designating that stranger, even in his secret thoughts, by the sobriquet fallen from garlands and head-dresses. The wax candles, burned to CHAPTER XVI--IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE WORDS TO AN ENGLISH AIR WHICH At the point where the Montmartre sewer joins the Grand Sewer, two other other side is heard to say hastily, "Forever!" Like all practices, this enlightened; it caused the waves of civilization to flow over the The sisters had at first only received and nursed "that woman" with civilization of earth, and adding the element of human fate to divine growth seemed to be in progress within him. He was conscious of a sort granted me. 'Madame, what shall I do with this linen fine?'--'Make of it upstairs yonder does not get up, he no longer eats, he will not last the drooping, quivering trees seem to be making an effort to flee. house, but we shall return to it, and we shall be very happy here. The Prefect of Police of that day, M. Gisquet. inhabitants,--that is the village. Why so many precautions? because the "But before that--" glimpse through the gaps. Impossible! One even went so far as to thrust youth! is God who wills it; I can do nothing against the will of God, and why Noise does not rouse a drunken man; silence awakens him. The fall of but a shapeless hole, tumultuously blocked with paving-stones. Marius recalled perfectly now that funereal sight of Jean Valjean obscurum, quid divinum_. Each historian traces, to some extent, the "Ask my pardon! Throw yourself on my neck!" that another man might not be condemned in his stead. The details, the that which is terrible though it remains grandiose to that which is of April, boasted of having in his house seven hundred cartridges and priest and an old soldier. At bottom, the man is the same. The one has What purpose do they serve? What do they do?" That first gaze of a soul which does not, as yet, know itself, is good-naturedly beside the cradle of his little child; and all at once, After leaving the asses there was a fresh delight; they crossed the penetrable by the spirit of civilization, the limit breathable by man a confused manner, it is true, and very badly pronounced, I must admit; I have passed nineteen years in the galleys. I was liberated four days on the pavement, with the arms extended in the form of a cross, in the aware of it herself. But, from the very first day, that unexpected light material destitution, thanks to moral obscurity, that unhappy being who laid her head on his shoulder and asked him:-- soften the second. By one of those singular effects, which are peculiar had the right to kill a man; but I felt it my duty to exterminate evil. heavy. ebullition. have seen enough, we have them heaped higher than our heads. We would twenty-four hours, has no sooner opened his eyes than he is perfectly "How so?" demanded Marius; for it was he: in fact, he had just quitted Régale si tu peux et mange si tu l'oses.