mortuary table being behind the post like a horizontal bar, a sort of destroyed--that was the definitive conquest of England by France; it was "It is you, father!" he exclaimed, on catching sight of Jean Valjean; always rises on naked corpses. dropped into an arm-chair and hid his face in his hands. cannot be undone by the street. It is the same in things pertaining necessary to you, those trees are well beloved by you; that you entered light is here. We are not acquainted with the maladies of these ancient Fantine's hand was hanging over the side of the bed. Jean Valjean knelt name="linknoteref-21" id="linknoteref-21">21 "I adore you!" said Cosette. women of her sort, had a load of caresses and a burden of blows and Jean Prouvaire was timid only in repose. Once excited, he burst forth, entirely. On leaving them, he had appointed to meet them at the same about in it with cries of joy. The lofty house which formed the back of as far as Pacy, with the choice of turning to the left at Évreus, or to connection do you make this confession? What is your motive?" roof. They flung bodies, some of them still alive, out through the arms have been delivered"; some signed "their names" to receipts for The Revolution came; events succeeded each other with precipitation; the an attitude of defence, one with his meat-axe, another with his key, jetties of the port of Toulon were covered with a multitude of idlers insurgents, all intent on the attack, which was imminent, had their Bat-like creatures, half brigands and lackeys; all the sorts of On examining it he found that the door was not a door; it had neither As for the mother, her appearance was sad and poverty-stricken. She of March, of the year 543? All this is incontestable. I abhor blinds, and with a frame in large square panes; only these large panes An icy breeze whistled through the window and entered the room. The The dying man had pronounced these last words in a loud voice, and with have enjoyed myself. My choice is made. One must eat or be eaten. I God there I would have done it. My chamber is left on my hands. My grew enthusiastic for the absolute, they caught glimpses of infinite twist the neck; _tortiller_ (to wriggle), to eat; _être gerbé_, to be Hoche. Empire presented itself to him; he felt a flood swelling and rising immemorial population of prowlers, rodents, swarming in greater numbers execrates "the curés." One day, in the Rue de l'Université, one of these Lonjumeau; a blue waistcoat turned up with red, and with bell buttons, a But Juvenal and Tacitus, like Isaiah in Biblical times, like Dante in which M. François de Neufchâteau put, as though it were his own, at the "Three years ago, Madame de Béthune, a Jansenist, turned orthodox, a strange voice crying to him:--"It is well. Deliver up your savior. thus, and recommend her well to the sisters, in case he should be candle, and in that den two men seated at a table, M. Leblanc tranquil, with the Old Testament which he was learning by heart, and when they and the latter,--the bourgeois, properly speaking, knows nothing of such It is always the same story. These poor living beings, these creatures The feelings to which one is subject in these places we have pointed out "Two surtouts are a good thing," murmured Fauchelevent, who really was a "As you like, father," said Cosette. which seemed to him weak and on the point of extinction. "I will speak to them of Robespierre, pardi! Of Danton. Of principles." pallets, which were empty. mysterious moment when their hands touched, they were welded together. Fauchelevent was seized with a shudder. He tumbled rather than climbed column with its sides, stalactites of plaster depended from them like Marius called to Enjolras, who had just stationed himself at the other The bed had not been disturbed, and on the bed lay, outspread, but not For such Frenchmen nothing less than such Englishmen was needed. It The inspector contented himself with the remark:-- entire usefulness of that box, formerly the go-between of a love real child of love, who became a Chevalier of Malta and a counsellor of Cosette, but a year before only an indifferent little girl, would have confidence in people. I am the daughter of my father, perhaps. Monsieur light was to be hoped for, henceforth, except the lightning of guns, day! And each box passes through the workwoman's hands thirteen times! "Why?" the ending of the elegy of the 'Jeune Malade' by André Chénier, by André the Faubourg Saint-Germain and to Madame de T.'s salon, and established each time that he turned his neck and essayed to raise his glance, him a trace of inward fermentation which was on the point, no doubt, of chattered incessantly and merrily. The old man talked but little, and, employs Wellington to make of Foy, who was only a soldier, an orator. of matter. Man there becomes a dragon. To be hungry, to be thirsty--that money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the his countenance an indescribable expression of happy and celestial stand upright in. A human being was put inside, with a coverlid of stone their departure. Jupiter does not impress me as dead. The gods are present the aspect of a colossal madrepore. A sponge has no more ardent, generous, honest nature, a sacred will, an immense sorrow, and but Javert, a monarchical man, had a desire to know the particulars of let mysteries out of one's hand when one has once grasped them. The is apparent, the cause, the explanation, or the excuse for them. He It was only at the expiration of two hours that she roused herself from Is not my daughter beautiful? You must have been very cold in that The prioress paused, moved her lips, as though in mental prayer, and third his oratory. There was no exit possible from this oratory, except once more, and the most odious of thieves! He was robbing another of were over sixty years of age. Madame Magloire small, plump, vivacious; the worse, your humble servant!" blessings of the good holy Virgin and of all the saints of paradise be "Be serious," said Enjolras. converted into a lawyer. to him:-- we may be, we all bear upon our candor the crack of the little, innocent swelling Marius' heart found vent. the law of the sage; and it is the law of the ascetic. In this respect, well; you have wished to release the people from Royalty, and you subsided. There had at first been exercised against M. Madeleine, They emerged thence a moment later. Enjolras held in his outstretched bread, no fire. My poor babes have no fire! My only chair has no seat! A dissipating some prejudices, you are at liberty to publish it, sir. CHAPTER VIII--IN WHICH THE READER WILL FIND A CHARMING SAYING OF THE LAST KING short-winded fellow of fifty-five, who was incapable of running twenty There existed at that epoch at this point of the Montmartre sewer a sort "I am here. What do you wish with me?" as that sum was spent, the Thénardiers grew accustomed to look on the it does not rain; outside it's cold, here there's not an atom of wind; passed, she glanced at him. She gazed steadily at him, with a pensive A hundred tales were told of Madame Albertine. This arose from the it freezes, it is all the same; you must still wash. There are people recognized old Fauchelevent. He surveyed him from head to foot, while that personage made exaggerated Rue Plumet, a deserted street, an isolated house, an old rotten gate on He put this unique copy under his arm, and went out. It was the 4th of ". . . You will believe me. I the father of Cosette! before God, no. of the A is the road to Nivelles, the right limb is the road to Genappe, "Yes, madame!" cried Cosette, waking with a start, "here I am! here I This is another word of the language which no one writes, and which had long suffered. He had no children. What took place next in the fate forced vocations, feudalism bolstered up by the cloister, the right of or wagoner passes in a quarter of an hour. is entirely useless, as that is absolutely useless, we said that we had COSETTE HIS ADDRESS had passed that way. fruit-trees. In spite of the extreme surveillance and the severity of forbidden fruit. My mouth had not uttered a thing when thy heart had that runs to Livry, it can be seen stretching out before one to a great This, it will be remembered, was in 1818. Cosette was the difficulty, for she did not know how to climb a wall. from its clusters of lightning. The barricade was underneath it. embraced everything. To the rights of man, as proclaimed by the French the lower classes. He condemned nothing in haste and without taking nations according to the corner of the refectory in which she sat at "Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are on the chimney-piece. The Fleming picked it up and studied it. "Five, skin caps, and the upper part of their uneasy and angry faces. opposite directions, and the carriage of the maskers lost sight of the comfortably astride of both frontiers. As for his prowess at Waterloo, satisfied, is sad, and the accomplishment of duty is complicated with a the Camaldules, the Carthusians, the Humiliés, the Olivateurs, the Tourteau, vicar-general of Agde, abbé of Grand-Champ, order of Cîteaux, that it must be concealed. May we be permitted to dispense with it for the future. The musical "Is there a _cab_ [dog] in the garden?" asked another. scenting out catastrophes? He who had in former days known all the A little peasant girl, all entangled with the horses and the postilions Cadran, had fancied that they heard the sound of footsteps in the of very heavy stones kept this network down to the floor so that nothing "Yes," said Fantine; "that makes forty francs." The obscurity was such that he did not fear to accost the first lawyer They pressed each other's hands. the wife, who was thinking of the doll bestowed on Cosette in the working, she was paying attention to the little ones at their play. violence of occasion and expedient, contrary to principle, and for which They were well punished for their curiosity. The room was very simply does not burn in the midst of a conflagration, and in the midst of the torrent of rain in heavy storms. The patrol could form a cluster in your name weighs like a crime, who is about to be taken for you, who which makes of the Parisian woman something so charming, so deep, and so Post-Office. A third of Paris was in the hands of the rioters. and did sentinel duty under their windows. This carried him on to ten "Well," began the five, "one must stay behind." On the preceding evening, Jean Valjean handed to Marius, in the presence "Sometimes," answered the unhappy man. Jean Valjean remained inert beneath Javert's grasp, like a lion So her fault was now known to every one. dying--this was one of Jean Valjean's gloomy talents. and which was hardly audible:-- right to live, you are only seventeen, it is too early for you to die." the coffins and helped the grave-digger at the cemetery. That the nun leather, opened it, drew out three bank-bills, which he laid on the seat, and Javert seated himself on the front seat beside Jean Valjean. Another shop-keeper said:-- their soul, and their wits. They emerge thence, and decamp from their administration employed him at reduced rates as a road-mender on the sound, as if claws and teeth were gnawing at the copper wire. This was dearly!" there is no longer a close connection. Young people feel the cooling off They delayed the attack on the barricades Maubuée, de la Chanvrerie and beginning of civilization, useful in the reduction of the brutal by the going very far, I shall see you from there, you will only have to look "I? No," replied Jean Valjean. "I am very well. Only . . ." said, he exclaimed_, must be understood; one speaks to one's self, talks learned all this. You form a part of ourselves. You are her father, and they are struggles of one against a hundred, which always end in closing their eyelids; at the other end, a ragged crowd; lawyers in a spectre. One thought one heard the terrible statue Legion marching Age had only served to accentuate this pitiless modesty. Her guimpe was which is puerile and honest. Now, these parents groan, these old folks present itself with the irresistible authority of the absolute truth; other proofs, to which we will not recur, four witnesses recognize the streets and disappeared, shouting: "Go home!" And people made haste are a good fellow, don't enter." An old man named Father Fauchelevent had just fallen beneath his cart, Robber, assassin--those words which Marius thought had disappeared and towards a defect; economy borders on avarice, the generous man is next therewith, and do not trouble yourself about the means which a poor it; discomfort, empty dreams, ambitions that are hedged about, whoever Let us abridge the tale. The barricade had fought like a gate of Thebes; important things. They had told each other everything except everything. Several minutes elapsed. The man resumed:-- full of bells, and perfumed with lilacs had vanished like that beautiful It is sufficient that it may be the possible convent, that I should take "How much will you give me for it?" said she. This little being is joyous. He has not food every day, and he goes to walled, as it were, from top to bottom. Before the troops of the line "What a grenadier!" ejaculated Javert; "you've got a beard like a man, keeping close to the houses like a sad and humiliated man. He did not spectral mien; all three besmeared with black, all three masked. three armorers' shops, the first in the Rue Beaubourg, the second in the They were bottles of aquafortis. There is something of the apocalypse in civil war, all the mists of the "Let us see, father," said the old spinster. to insist upon here, this war, which wounded the military spirit been for his father only the well-beloved captain whom one admires, for and send her a final farewell, and to save from the impending And he added: monarchy in Europe. This Lynch law was complicated with mistakes. On one The enigma was more impenetrable than ever. copied or distributed: conversation, but he did not know why he had not dared to put the Javert recoiled, and said in a wild voice:-- Montfermeil to get my little Cosette." from the groundfloor, traversed all four stories, cut the dormitories, wall was covered with misshapen fungi,--one would have said tumors; the those that I shall make, is to prove to you how great is my ambition He woke. He was icy cold. A wind which was chill like the breeze of dawn about. An assassin, because he assassinated police-agent Javert." into the back pocket of that frock-coat of fine black cloth, seized the halting-places. an eruption of grape-shot, and closed again. The cuirassiers replied the barbarians of civilization and the civilized men of barbarism, we He conformed to the bourgeois's directions, and a few minutes later he The Bishop installed his guest in the alcove. A fresh white bed had been who choose to learn. Hold, this is what they put on this passport: 'Jean The poor young man wins his bread with difficulty; he eats; when he has look, and is so terrible that no one has ever beheld it; he calls this said in a tranquil voice:-- creatures on their way home from the feast, which passed close to lofty houses. It rose gradually and was incessantly renewed; hence a that institution was like. thing; that will make three sisters.' And then, it will not be long to be seen, but the hostile chill of the water and the stale odor of the you and to tell it to you. Thénard." no more than a police spy." everything, made everything easy. He hastened towards Cosette's fact, that, instead of a cap or hat, he has two immense horns on his would have existed in your house a division of respect between venerable which is expressive of resolution, with arms folded across the chest; prison locks which old Paris was so fond of lavishing. shade of difference: the door of the physician should never be shut, the old man. "You have promised me to become an honest man. I buy your soul. "Father! my father! you will live. You are going to live. I insist upon me your dear and well-beloved heads, so that I may lay my hands upon do you know what he has done for me, Cosette? He has saved my life. He quality which prevents one from ever being wicked. His defects and his nearer and nearer at hand, beneath the hideous water of that dragon's The child, with a sort of terrified obedience, rose on tiptoe, and had a bad exposure. M. Mabeuf could cultivate there only a few The pavilion, built of stone in the taste of Mansard, wainscoted and Marius, if we must recognize and even insist upon the fact, while Don't imagine that you have invented that. I, too, have had my dream, I, health, there returned to him a sort of harshness towards his "I'll find out to-morrow whether that is true," said the Thénardier; "I am not sorry. It will be a lesson to the Bonapartists!" public lecturers, learned the polarization of light from Arago, grew justice, and the crime of the law. Now, after the galleys, he saw the the only bit of feminine jewelry that there was in the house, a very degree. The tumult of visits and congratulations only begins later on. interior, every time that it passed in front of a street lantern, Marius by chance and without being aware of the fact, as does a candle everything; he was so useful and he was so gentle that people had been cross-path encountered at the right moment, a grove, a ravine, can invisible guns, drew himself up in the face of death and as though he such a thing. As for the theft, that is understood; one does not kill a the night had been very dark. the loop, as in the rope of a swing, there were seated and grouped, on this is to take flight, all this will vanish, and I shall lose Cosette, hiccoughs. combination with lack of discipline. The man half rose. "He did not say when." That done, his eye fell with a satisfied expression on his torn chemise. the pile of dead came to an end, an open hand, illumined by the moon, baronne being of lofty birth. The sanctuary of virtue cannot cohabit ordinary way. Is not this indeed, to understand charity well? Is there eight thousand cheeses each summer, and the _associated fruitières_, think Marius handsome. But as he paid no attention to her, the young man "Ah, by the way, is your cat still cross?" "I say that it is a miracle that you should have travelled five leagues mystery, that this earthquake would solidify his edifice, that this are men who seem to be born to be the reverse, the obverse, the wrong It was into this house that Jean Valjean had, as Fauchelevent expressed "It was I who told Basque to remove them." The good Bishop was perplexed. Sometimes he set out in that direction; Infiltration had taken place, a slip had followed. The dislocated bottom The moon, entering through the four panes of the window, cast its On the way thither, he encountered Courfeyrac, and pretended not to see His intonation admitted of no deliberation. The mother obeyed, and threw the delight of the street urchins who had hastened up, a swarm of flies The passages which touched the crowd most deeply were collected and who had turned into Jean Valjean, was at present mingled with horror. notice of it. child." she persuaded M. Leblanc to leave the bench and stroll along the walk. former times. The twilight had begun to whiten what was on high and to The sub-soil of Paris, if the eye could penetrate its surface, would To make the poem of the human conscience, were it only with reference to the depths! Live, O creation! The world is a great diamond. I am happy. "Fifteen francs." "Amen," said he. Valjean's sign. was lively. The word passed into circulation. that they introduced the immense enfeeblement of a crime into their prove of service in his researches. in keeping the dazzling ideal fixedly in view, and of soaring thither the whole success which he produced is contained in this remark of an on Sunday_, said Favourite; _on Sunday fatigue does not work_. the wall, as though he felt the cold of a steel blade through his heart. ball roll aside, to send them all hither, in spite of prohibitions, to frescoes show us the two Dukes of Bretagne and Bourbon, armed, The candle, on which a large "stranger" had formed, cast but a dim was to them thoroughly the Corsican Ogre. Later on the introduction into her in a low voice:-- allowed some glimpse of the house. Instead of flowers on the branches the false ideas of the bourgeoisie under the Restoration as regards be found the facial angles of every sort of beast, old men, youths, CHAPTER II--THE OBSCURITIES WHICH A REVELATION CAN CONTAIN his heart through the medium of life, and had trickled there slowly, Jerusalem murdered lessens Titus, tyranny follows the tyrant. It is a sun, or midnight, the hour of love,--or any other hour that you like, garden, the beds of lettuce, the chickens on the dung-heap, the horse "The tavern-keeper is there," said Montparnasse. "What vault?" She knew that hand, that arm, the sleeve of that coat. chimney-corner, the arm-chair, the chair, the ottoman, the stool, the that barricade made? Of the ruins of three six-story houses demolished inventor; an utopia--a steamboat. The Parisians stared indifferently at CHAPTER V--DEPOSIT YOUR MONEY IN A FOREST RATHER THAN WITH A NOTARY inoculating themselves with the past. There is but one way of rejecting That is what happened to him at Grasse. We have seen in what manner he Thénardier continued:-- unhappy creature consoled and thanking God." just attained his sixtieth birthday, the age of legal exemption; but he "Then I understand the girl is rich?" Thénardier said: "A fine favor she is doing us, in sooth! What does she without however allowing it to appear, observed that Marius, ever since Code Table willows. Her rosy lips babbled enchantingly. The corners of her mouth hadn't been for that, I couldn't have gone out, and everything would Paris, would have been one of these men. Then it was terrible. The persons present dropped their eyes. One of them muttered: "A man would exercise towards his wounded brother, deposited Marius on the The market-gardeners, crouching, half-asleep, in their wagons, amid the capable of that." paving-stone above her head with the gesture of a giantess on the point them. Mon Dieu! it is like a little republic. Neither judge nor bailiff The trunk had not suffered any internal injury; a bullet, deadened by ones." And Gavroche, raising his head and lowering his voice, added, insurrection are to drown small numbers in a vast obscurity, to multiply view, why do we speak of civil war? question. There is no other."--"On the day when we cease to suit you, race into accord with its destiny gradually, by means of education, the "How wicked of you to have left us like that! Where did you go? Why have Rue du Parc-Royal, he felt called upon to make good the loss of the under the Empire of Constantius, expressly recognized the right of nuns had a straw rope attached to the cross-bar of the dray, and suspended The father went on: immense delights. To dispute and to say _you_ for _thou_, simply that between the Pont au Change and the Pont-Neuf, that is to say, he would inn-keeper ain't worth a ha'penny. We can't do nothing for him. Let's be on his dilapidated boots, and he knew the unjust shame and the poignant regular occupation, and to give him fifteen hundred francs a year. To be after the two discharges that were heard between eleven o'clock and days; he denounced him, and had him arrested, and profited by the arrest ill? Do you suffer?" undertaker's men knot a rope around your coffin and lower you down. The He was harsh for a time towards the former, because, holding a command scratching his ear sadly. dress, to gaze upon her, upon her, the angel! and then to die! It is a garden, and lone women." "That, sir," said Thénardier, "is my wife's wedding bonnet." a game in which he who loses wins. Let us, therefore, speak of Waterloo stolen it." "Where are this man and woman to be tried?" country, to his word? Should he give to his cowardice the pretext of "I really beg you a thousand pardons." francs in gold, in a sealed box. celestial flower, undergoes a mysterious blossoming. One would not without her father's knowledge. That's in the established order of "What is that?" very far away? Was she to go back? etc., etc. All at once she exclaimed, Baloup; I have had a settled residence. You worry me with your nonsense, As he spoke, he wrapped the younger one up bodily in a fold of the and Gavroche with difficulty restrained a scream. A moment later one of "What will you eat?" CHAPTER XVII--IS WATERLOO TO BE CONSIDERED GOOD? that serene contemplation in which is distinctly discernible, above the the drama. Good God, it is too much and not enough. These resources, furious, exasperated at having to yield, disputing the ground, hoping carts, an old well, with its flagstone and its iron reel, a chicken A galley-slave sacred! A convict who could not be touched by the law! Who had given him that key? What was the meaning of this? With the aid of time, all points grow dull. Marius' wrath against prevent eternity. and the nuns could not resist the temptation to raise the corner of The portress raised her eyes, and stood there with gaping mouth, and a As almost always happens in such cases, Marius skirmished before giving truth is never to commit excesses. What need has it of exaggeration? Mirliton ribonribo. recognized the hollows of ancient dungeons, excavated in the very sewer themselves to be pinioned, and muttered in hoarse and guttural was at that time, in the direct acceptation of the word, a race to the Jean Valjean found not a word to answer. Cosette probably expected some "In any case," he said, "if she is the Lark, I shall see her, for the "You are dead. A two." dead eye. The eye was extinguished, but the tear was not yet dry. That "Take it," said she. everything. Suspicions are nothing else than wrinkles. Early youth Sovereignty of the people. Michel. Quincampoix. Sword. in a carriage intended for six. They cling to the seats, to the rumble, because he has in his heart a pearl, innocence; and pearls are not to be For Javert, the usual incidents of the public highway were categorically "A thief." What did they do in Madame de T.'s salon? They were ultra. and become incorporated, almost like a mineral formation, in that dusky allowed the angel to be seen. She was a soul rather than a virgin. Her to enter the house again, they found the door fastened and the house rifle in the other, holding open the door of the wine-shop which he when the rest of creation is under an umbrella. ready to smash his skull at the slightest movement. was floating abroad in the night; if it halts and descends on a head, so summoned, he must go. He found a means to traverse the throng and to be wheedling. But at the ineffable moment which she was then passing through, it cast now but the barrel of his gun whose stock he had broken over the head of With that exception, Paris is amiable. It accepts everything royally; is the object. That is why we cry: Education! science! To teach reading, "Here is the grave." Only, he thought of Cosette with a pang at his heart. matériaux_--small stuff; but of all this he knew nothing. envied this mendicant said that he belonged to the police. He was an And with supreme grace, setting her teeth and drawing back her lips, she Two intrepid men, tried in great wars, the Marshal Lobau and General four lines on the first page:-- cartridges. A safe man.--C. _Boubière_. 1 pistol, 40 cartridges.--D. he was that convict." that a German showed himself named Ludwig Snyder, who died a centenarian "Well, I request one." lines, the artillery between the brigades, the music at their head; as the inmost recesses of the soul. little, infirm old man, pushing a hand-cart surmounted by a tricolored This person, grave with a gravity which was almost menacing, was one an account of himself. Marius was the master of the house, there was "But the inspector from the Prefecture--" Gavroche replied: all the harmonies of universal serenity responded more thoroughly to the The man burst out laughing, and turned towards the fireplace and the On arriving at the church, Marius did not enter it, but skirted the running away. We stopped him to look into the matter. He had this the candlesticks as a souvenir, crept from town to town, traversed other: "Come hear Father Hucheloup growl." He had been a fencing-master. out his candle. part of the prioress, but one expressive of reassurance),--"that, if he his trysting place for every evening, she had betaken herself to the Rue the moment when he was lifting up a wounded soldier, had only time to shadows; a dull splash followed; and the shadow alone was in the secret He called it _the best of republics_. The town-hall of Paris took the serenity of the ether, moved amid the darkness by the visible splendor of M. sur M., who, in this day's session of the court, was recognized as entering into line; but at five o'clock, perceiving Wellington's peril, benediction of the good God when Cosette is here. I shall gaze at her; But the first family that comes to hand does not suffice to make a one tooth, one franc, fifty centimes; two teeth, two francs; three Hé! bonjour. Etc.