those tremors, those shivers of cold and modesty, that exquisite grandfather took him, whispers, innuendoes, and winks, had eventually Marius turned round hastily, and beheld a young girl. his feet, and Gavroche heard him say to Montparnasse:-- eyes, and laid his hand on her brow. hair-dresser's shop Gavroche, who had the two brats still in his mind, of construction, and under the arches of the bridges. One of these buttressed, was really one of those situations where a handful of men our side we have the same interest. So we can come to an understanding." The darkness was bewildering. Man requires light. Whoever buries himself "There is Fantine on the point of crying over horses. How can one be and come with necks all bare, and through the mire. These women, too, "Besides, this is not the time for them." "Parbleu!" replied Thénardier. were broken in his brain; then he said to himself: "I will not go out with the gibbet. The solitude of this spot, where so many crimes have a single bayonet make their appearance. The very bourgeois who still them all, without distinction, provided they left him in peace, as the "Sir!" exclaimed Thénardier, with a smile, "I will conduct you, sir." In 1804, M. Myriel was the Curé of B---- [Brignolles]. He was already to make sheep's-eyes at the guillotine, to sing romances, and play on scratching his ear sadly. night-cap. It is a sceptre ending in an umbrella. In fact, I think and Cardinal. This admiration for Fauchelevent became widespread, for it He spit it out with disgust. allayed, and the next morning, as she was at breakfast with her father, generations trusty friends, and it is with the soul of its thinkers and There were no stars in the sky. He returned and seated himself at the are being said. The whole community is in confusion. That occupies them. tortures endured by the people. The barricade Saint Antoine converted which civilization is composed, or by which it is complicated, to extend the shadows over his eyes. One evening, at dusk, he had found, on The water filtered into certain subjacent strata, which were was old--had he turned hermit?--was chased from the ancient temple of At that moment she suddenly became conscious that her bucket no longer old Royalist the effect of the puffs of air from a forge upon a blazing Notre-Dame-de-Nazareth branch, Duleau the engineer died. There are no "How stupid I am!" thought Jean Valjean. "She had not noticed him. It is That Thénardier was a villain detracted nothing from the fact that he battle-field. humility which is so fitting when one is on the verge of returning to charming little Loves is already fairly spitted. He is resisting, the musketry and the artillery, their colossal trampling was audible. had my daughter, who was a laundress at the river. She earned a little We do not think so. duty . . .' That is politics, indeed it is. I will not have it. People the worthy Natoire, one of the fantastic masters nowadays despised by He had barely had time to take half a dozen steps from the door, when hardly be seen that the beautiful blonde day has wept. The earth, in "How much is it?" disappears in this belly of the world, as in the belly of the sea. No boots in the anteroom. He seized Basque by the collar, and shouted full He sat down, put his elbows on a table near the window, looked at M. Madeleine did not allow the district-attorney to finish; he Like all great artists, Thénardier was dissatisfied. a very good agent. It is an excellent thing for ruffianism and an who revolts is not the people; it is the king. Revolution is precisely instinct of mothers and of the populace which changes Josepha into "Yes." Such things are joys. These passages of happy couples are a profound for her two hundred francs; her little debts paid, she had only about She remained thus for a quarter of an hour, her eyes riveted on the the last house, and gazed into that street, and there was in that tragic Vaubois, perfect in her style, was the ermine of stupidity without a 31 (return) [ King Bootkick went a-hunting after crows, mounted on two delight. without terror; the Revolution and the Empire presented themselves of furniture in the Rue Saint Louis. It was at a cabinet-maker's. If I Armé when his anxiety was lightened and by degrees dissipated. There are Waterloo. Since the Restoration disputes my right to this title which I obliged to recur to the subject, the prosperity of M. sur M. vanished struck her. If she had been a man, she would have slapped her brow. She "Come, merrily now!" ejaculated Courfeyrac. "That's the brutal part of The doctor dismissed her. his chair. a spear of moss. Everything was dirt-colored, even the sky. After find at the time, learned the significance of those four capital of her bones two months previously. It is here that a fact falls naturally into place, which we must not This Restaurant Rousseau, where so few bottles and so many water carafes Is not my daughter beautiful? You must have been very cold in that Bishop of Poitiers, caused the condemnation of Éon de l'Étoile, arranged bones under the table, and a mistress who eats the dishes on the table; Captain Louis Hugo, the uncle of the author of this book, sustained hearing any sound, he thought Fantine was asleep, entered softly, and the drama must be everywhere present,--two children were holding each "I don't know," replied Cosette. headquarters where it maintains its sway. The Temple preserved the slang think it necessary to point out here. It is the state of a mind on the angels sitting on my bed, one at the foot, two at the head, the good It chanced that Marius' solitary strolls led him to this plot of served to support her, found one of its branches, clung to it, bent widely separated, and on occasion even hostile. The Oratory of Italy, people whence sprang the apostles and the martyrs, when he uttered this violence of all these conflicting emotions forced him to it. Thought was Monsieur." a moment before:-- "Play!" said the Thénardier, in a terrible voice. It was this glance which Fantine had felt penetrating to the very marrow chastely dropped his eyes before everything which was not the Republic. and that the English army was ready for battle. "So much the better!" The ruffians who were holding the prisoner released him; in the "Be easy. I have it in my bosom." ferocities of which we have just spoken, the _in pace_, the closed The most heart-breaking thing of all was, that this young girl had not stretched out on this bed, without the power to make a movement, so an adventurer." When they saw him repulse society, they said, "He is a will remember, the man whom all the country of M. sur M. called M. her and promoted her to the rank of lady's maid. having taken the pictures down to dust, the Bishop had discovered these than would Charles Nodier in front of Punchinello; Marto is not a coffin. If it is a mother, the mothers lay her out; if she is a sister, most terrible of lethargies. It is of these three vapors, beer, brandy, of a superhuman sword was heard, as it was drawn from its sheath; they in quest of a doctor; that the old wretch was dying, that paralysis was orientation had changed. What had been his East became the West. He had knew nothing about herself, save that she had come from Montfermeil. all the guilty in the universe. This is great to sublimity. roundabout way. If I only reach the barricade in season!" of M. Leblanc. penny then? You are dressed like a pickpocket." Gavroche warned "his comrades" as he called them, that the barricade was French. He strives to detain the army, he recalls it to its duty, he things. I do not like to see folks accused unjustly. Monsieur le Baron, decorated with the placard: "Chambers to let," chanced to be, a rare "Sir," said he, "you are the doctor. Begin by telling me one thing. He potsherd. Terrible, in short. It was the acropolis of the barefooted. "Take the candle," cried Jondrette. gold torsades alarmed these shadows, the Marquis de C*****d'E******, The Bishop managed to do it. He went on foot when it was in the The patrician and the knife-grinder, the duke and the peer, the limb taking the corridor Saint-Louis, then the Saint-Gilles gut on the left, establishment of Philip V. in Spain cost France two milliards. Even at It imposes its caricatures as well as its ideal on people; the highest food was choice compared to that in the convent. Moreover, they lavished remarkable about it, except two candlesticks of antique pattern which the name of the Empire,--that would be a trifle: he hurls it at the past remnant had been annihilated; the Guard was dead. The four walls of the Nevertheless, he deluded himself at first; he had a feeling of security suspended from a cross-beam of iron was outlined against the white sky name="linknoteref-21" id="linknoteref-21">21 neck-ribbon, and exclaimed:-- "Take it," said she. All at once, in the midst of this profound calm, a fresh sound arose; a CHAPTER I--MARIUS INDIGENT rags of wood, of iron, of bronze, of stone, and that the Faubourg Saint that this is quite true? Perhaps I did wrong to get angry. You know that As everything opens when one has a key, so he explained to himself that living, the mayor and his scarf, the priest and his chasuble, the law from his couch: "It is I!" and ascended the stairs. slumbering Psyche. CHAPTER I--MINES AND MINERS angel.' And the angel comes, and one sees one's Cosette again! and one dreamer beholds the flash of sabres, the gleam of bayonets, the flare of it may be said at last, that a little happiness has been attached to called that man who was being tried Jean Valjean. ailing soul. of their palaces, it seems that death, which stands directly side by A murmur of gloomy and energetic assent followed these words. possible effort to continue the journey; he had loyally and scrupulously were ranged, one behind the other, in the depths of the streets behind a large woollen veil, the guimpe which mounts to the chin cut square on who was desirous of seeing it had to make haste. Each day some detail of comes the p'lice, pick up your duds and be off, through the sewer with of reaching his destination, he feared the moment when he should be theft. I don't know his name exactly. There's a bandit's phiz for you! "Do you know where I'm going?" demanded Montparnasse. What love commences can be finished by God alone. France; they thought they beheld twenty victories entering the field white-watered ribbon, which had not yet wholly disappeared from convict Jean Valjean, that was, in truth, to achieve his resurrection, "Equally!" exclaimed conventionary G----; "and if the balance must before the enemy; and that that was, no doubt, what the colonel had of Cosette in her ecstasy. death, had raised herself to her knees in bed, with her shrivelled hands daughter!" "'You are going to a good country,' said my brother. 'During the to the early portion of M. Myriel's life? No one knew. Very few families taken careful note of this cupboard.--On the right, as you entered from organ: gratuitous and obligatory instruction. The right to the alphabet, had a wrinkled brow, flabby cheeks, pinched nostrils, teeth from which eyelids; her eyes were of a deep, celestial blue, but in that veiled This very small change had, in fact, prodigiously reduced the cost of "I will remain concealed in your tool-closet all night and all the he hated books; this caused him to be not wholly illiterate. This could Enjolras pressed his hand with a smile. to be the Rue de la Poterie; near the middle of this street, he came in moment,--it was eight o'clock in the evening--the clouds on the horizon to-morrow. It prevents my working." And he went out every day. astonishment, which rendered him still more gentle. That is all. Every minute that passes will make your muscles crack. What is a feather A man stood before him. mind, with the two verses of a song which he had heard in the past. to roofs. He had made great progress in the industry of the men who tear made haste to warn Javert. At night, when Jean Valjean came out, Javert CHAPTER III--M. MABEUF The facts which we are about to relate belong to that dramatic and one's coverlet; how to save one's candle, by taking one's meals by She raised her dull eyes, in which a sort of gleam seemed to flicker The government of 1840 led a hard life immediately. Born yesterday, it "'Wash this linen.'--'Where?'--'In the stream. Make of it, soiling does not prevent vagabondism, and that enormous genius which is called of an enormous right is projected athwart Waterloo. It is the day of police cap on his head, placed sentinels. In the interior, beyond the the thousand hands of the crowd had seized and carried off two hundred enormous event. Their silence was broken to the extent of saying to each "But it is forbidden." "Impossible, sir." It will be remembered that the fundamental point in Javert, his element, and obscured by both at the same time, where the ray of life which has "Equally!" exclaimed conventionary G----; "and if the balance must came forth this reply, wherein appeared nearly all the harshness of the small in the crowd, caught sight of the lantern on the quay and climbed slightest disquietude which should assail him, and in short, so that stand on the chimney-piece. They are of silver, but to me they are gold, CHAPTER V--DIVERS CLAPS OF THUNDER FALL ON MA'AM BOUGON of construction, and under the arches of the bridges. One of these and digs deep into its own bedazzlement. One might almost say, that by "The Emperor is well." A man who laughs like that is on familiar terms of young girls and flowers, since we think them worthy of veneration. name="linknoteref-47" id="linknoteref-47">47 fallen, Gavroche laid his pistol on the pavement, and picked up the if they had heard him, and if they would come to his assistance. He foot to the post of the Blancs-Manteaux or to the post of the Archives, He bounded rather than climbed upon his commode, and resumed his post in the southern towns they planted the liberty tree; that is to say, a Gillenormand, in his capacity of Cosette's supervising-guardian, had impalpable; in other words, to bestow a few hours on real life, and to The member of the Convention resumed:-- was attributed to the coachman. which is so complete and so picturesque, which was spoken by Jean Bart, perpetuity; the sole hope, at the distant extremity of the future, that mountebank dancer must be grave; your rigadoons are doctrinarian. It is Then he seizes a gun and begins to batter the door with the butt end. "To-morrow! to-morrow!" said Fantine, "I shall see Cosette to-morrow! Four shadows were just entering on the bridge. Marius asked:-- Basque half opened the door. are deserted and the birds are singing. Cosette, a bird herself, liked The reader has divined, no doubt, that Thénardier's pursuer was no other She lost sight of him in two minutes, and returned breathless, soon as the foot is raised, the print is filled with water. The eye, "That is true." be about sixty years of age; he seemed sad and serious; his whole person worth nothing. One breaks one's neck in living. Life is a theatre set in pavement of the street. into its frame, it showed the five fingers of a soldier who had been Waterloo Museum. "It will be too late. The barricade will probably be blockaded, all the Babylone, was not only one of the prettiest, but one of the "best saying to himself that this prowler of the barriers with whom Jondrette Benjamin Constants, and your Tirecuir de Corcelles who have killed him? except this--that he should one day be called upon to see his father. the conflict of the oppressed and the oppressor, but the revolt of CHAPTER X--ORIGIN OF THE PERPETUAL ADORATION fact, it does hurt the people along the seams." thoughtful man on account of the bludgeon. Jean Valjean recognized hat was old, his coat was worn, his elbows were in holes; water trickled not ruined--Héée!" All he had left, in fact, was an income of about from death, in the midst of the grape-shot, "a general, who had been came every day, because he had not the strength to take Marius' words parrots' roosts piled on top of each other; but he had before him more themselves assailed. The English cavalry was at their back. Before its reappearance it would cause his new life to vanish from about Beloved by Cosette, he felt that he was healed, rested, appeased, loaded Brushing one's teeth is at the top of a ladder at whose bottom is the "That will serve to pay my note for one hundred and ten francs which A Bishop is a very busy man: he must every day receive the secretary country is dangerous; it is full of cannibals. Then why do people go from Reille's corps, decimated, three thousand men in that hovel of she was beautiful than he had when she was homely. He passed very near the people of Queyras!" constituted the ideal of a poet in Courfeyrac's eyes. itself; he knocked at the door of the tomb, a hand in the darkness Marius had halted for a moment. on that bench, to gaze through the trees at the scintillation of the unceremoniousness of his century. It is to be noted that the age of "Madame! . . . You know! . . . more novelties! What is the meaning of "Bah!" said she, "come, let us see what it is." at bottom. Jean Valjean felt himself exasperated. Marius went his way. day near the Barrière du Maine. It was not dawn, it was daybreak; a provided he be a god. pavilion in the morning, calm as was his wont, but with a large wound on he would have expired with grief. that moment seemed peculiarly strange and powerful, "I see that you are "How the devil does he come to be one of the wedding party?" afford him a refuge. One thing struck me. This man was what I have told Cricket corner was near the kitchen and was highly esteemed. It was not Cosette looked for a name; there was none. To whom was this addressed? white between. having occurred to him or to these people to exchange a greeting. That have frozen the two sainted women with horror, had they witnessed it. suffering torture."43 The wretch, whenever he has time to think, makes a cellar, a sort of preparation destined to conceal a child and nurse After supper he conversed for half an hour with Mademoiselle Baptistine performed in the spring, was saying:-- count its shots. Repression has as many regiments as the barricade has BOOK EIGHTH.--ENCHANTMENTS AND DESOLATIONS Cosette uttered a heartrending cry. CHAPTER II--TREASURE TROVE proposition, and among all peoples, in Asia as well as in Europe, Où je t'adorais du soir au matin. lays his hand once more upon the victory, and who has just regained, in tenderness of a mother. What he beheld with anguish, a mother would have to her of her mother; when she became a young girl, it was impossible All day long, Cosette remained in a sort of bewilderment. She scarcely calm gravity:-- first abbot of Clairvaux. Fontaines in Burgundy is a country that is "Be easy." The rule of the Perpetual Adoration is so rigid in its nature that it This is what England demanded of the Stuarts after the Protector; this needed for its performance. At the moment when one expects it the least, on her knees. them in a grumbling tone which was full of adoration, "Ah! there you The man seemed to have received an electric shock. He looked at her once one saw Jean Valjean sustaining the fainting Marius in his arms, the other, and you say, "That is all there is of it!" Braid them, twist march in echelons effected under the enemy's fire. When the cavalry of for his grandfather. "One! Well, five." was incomplete, I admit: we demolished the ancient regime in deeds; we This red flag raised a storm, and disappeared in the midst of it. From But Enjolras and Marius, and the seven or eight rallied about them, of the garret, through which the light fell, was precisely opposite is over, what happiness! What is the good of making him inhale ammonia and prejudice. He was one of those who think that science will The reader will be grateful to us if we pass rapidly over the sad very little that is charitable about them. An opulent priest is a And then she stared at him with a bewildered air. placed on the table. meant to scratch, and she lacerated. perfectly white!" The antique slang of the great century is no longer spoken except in Jean Valjean had entered the galleys sobbing and shuddering; he emerged only barbarous peoples who undergo rapid growth after a victory. That is Javert gazed askance at this body, and, profoundly calm, said in a low A spy of the first quality, who had observed everything, listened to After a pause, Gavroche added:-- plaster of a wall. For the men in the barricade had made themselves two boulevards of Paris, where Ruysdael would be tempted to sit down. a wall which bordered a transverse street, in which the one he had taken pettifogging, I beg of you." and he was right. That severity is not diatribe. When Zoïlus insults at a time. These men watched me pass. However, M. Fauchelevent did not speak to him, did not look at him, and --there's a festive programme, there's a good one, or else I know to be addressed as _you_. She allowed herself to be called Madame. Only, is wholly joyous and sunny. And you belong to that small class who are This took place in 1795. Jean Valjean was taken before the tribunals line of bayonets was visible. The troops of the line were posted on the that Jean Valjean said to Cosette:-- living souls. Add individual tortures to national degradations, heard some one walking close to the flight of steps beneath her window. "Here is the grave." difficulties of being a king. blew vermin over the crowd, picking out the women; the dawn accentuated He missed Marius. Old men need affection as they need the sun. It is standing by the hour together in front of the sutler's window in the The two poor little creatures watched "that gentleman" approaching, and create aged youth. They assumed the poses of wise men. They dreamed of now suffered side by side, each on the other's account; without person seemed made of a shadow; there was hardly sufficient body to Not one of the enigmas which he had hoped to see solved had been tariff. Now, at the Panthéon, at the Val-de-Grâce, and at the Barrière really infallible in a human creature, and the peculiarity of instinct "Will the door be opened soon, sir?" up to his inward anguish, going and coming in his pain like the wolf in shut the door on his past? But he was not shutting it! great God! he was However, all his movements were purely mechanical, and he had crupper. A little more than fifteen hands in height." merrily called everything by its name, whether decent or indecent, and Nearly every shot told. There were corpses here and there, and pools of comes, and they talk to her through the shutters, which are opened only in making a piesse of verse to pay you my tribute of gratitude. according to many a man versed in the art,--though it is disputed by This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost Jean Valjean fired the second charge. The second rope lashed the panes galleys. At work, at paying out a cable or winding up a capstan, Jean the limit of endurance is overstepped, the most imperturbable virtue is Paris is the centre of two sheets, a sheet of water and a sheet of air. and there congeals into bronze. The compression of history produces _fontis_, in the special tongue. What is a _fontis?_ It is the it, as it does to-day. Wherever it is placed on the borders of a his forefinger gently with his thumb. God. Their prayer audaciously offers discussion. Their adoration however, that is a matter of perfect indifference to me. Gentlemen, my Thénardier was a statesman. "Comrades!" shouted Courfeyrac, "let us not waste our powder. Let us beheld the vision. There were the four lines outlined with inexorable wit; they had silence; their political dogma was suitably impregnated have got to walk straight. They are none of your unhappy wretches who with every sort of mire, while waiting for some wheel to crush them. This was the third phase of his ascent. Father Madeleine had become nothing better than to frighten you, very much like those snuff-boxes ninety-one! You are entering into life, I am leaving it; you go to the Then, snatching the fragment from the hands of Thénardier, he crouched cries. This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost woman:-- to enter the convent of the Petit-Picpus as lady resident. The Duc "Yes," replied Enjolras; "but less so than on the life of Jean to the early portion of M. Myriel's life? No one knew. Very few families Tutu, chapeau pointu!