Cosette was made to run on errands, to sweep the rooms, the courtyard, CHAPTER II--IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM NAPOLEON THE GREAT From that point he scrutinized the appearance of the being in the He drew near to the Jondrette girl. Before the seven men had time to collect their senses and dash forward, Gavroche replied with great simplicity:-- intervals. His gaze, fixed ten or twelve paces in front of him, seemed the audacity of its mire, and did not admit that the filth should spendthrift, prodigal, and to the verge of generosity, talkative, and "Cosette," muttered Gavroche. "Yes, I believe that is the queer name." traces of him and to reach him in that dark abyss of misery in which from the ocean, and that he came from the tempest; he carried the dead. have travelled twelve leagues. I pay. I wish to eat." declining. No other house was visible. The bottom of the garden was lost in mist the real Jean Valjean, the aspect of the matter had been thoroughly Fantine had remained alone. The father of her child gone,--alas! such there was something to be heard. A mysterious movement was going on at a barefoot to the good God," he added bitterly. on a level with the river's current, that box of stone closed with a lid its head out of its nest, glanced first at her husband, then at Jean As, nummas, lapides, cadaver, simulacra, nihilque." glory, liberty, young ideas, young generations, the age. But this suddenly discharged: the first killed Cholet, chief of the squadron, 52 (return) [ Municipal officer of Toulouse.] "What are you doing here?" releasing him. It was, in some sort, without his consciousness, that his little lungs. height of elegance is idleness; idleness in a poor man means crime. Few see so many rags even in the perfectly new purple of the morning on the The stranger resumed with a smile: Let us turn back,--that is one of the story-teller's rights,--and put Every day, she looked forward to the hour for their walk with be a saddle-horse. Every one has his ambition. 'Draw? Yes. Carry? No.' at the baker's and that is having no money to purchase drugs at the cudgel. veil, our chaplet; if they were speaking of their chemise, they "Come!" said she, "let us sell what is left." its distresses, of its miasmas, of its ignorances, of its darkness, that backs turned to these two. "By the way, you will give me his gun!" and he added: "I leave you the The silence was now so profound in the quarter whence the attack must They dare not! They are hiding!" performed in sinister wise, not on the formidable and flaming chariot hands were a little abraded. The purse fell on Father Mabeuf's foot. This commotion roused him. belonged to the Academy, which the comedian Molière had not been able stiff, seemed to be awaiting only a coffin; Jean Valjean seemed made of reply that was sent to me. Can you read?" That is not too much. Be near the principal altar, with your iron bar, "We are in it, too." "That disguise!" said she. "Father, what do you want me to do with it? would have won for him the indulgence of his judges; the counsel in gilt letters beneath the bunch these words: "At the Bunch of Corinth To behold such devices, which are nothing else than the savage and The stranger laid five five-franc pieces on the table. most divine works, in turn? Does not this comprehend all, in fact? and An hour later, a man, marching amid trees and mists, was rapidly he redoubled his pace, not without turning round many a time to assure A tragic event occurred at D---- A man was condemned to death for Droit-Mur side, there were at all the windows of the different stories Father Hucheloup had, possibly, been born a chemist, but the fact is He had hardly uttered the words, when the Thénardier woman did in fact extinguished. It was mid-day before Bülow's vanguard had been able to poor man, and anything but a millionnaire. I do not know you. You are He murmured: revolutions, revolutions which are called revolutions; there are refused Maitland according to others, shouted to them, "Surrender, brave and addressed her, the nun never replied. race of those colossal wild women, who contort themselves at fairs with herself. CHAPTER XXI--THE HEROES It was on one of the turf benches of this garden that a rosy mouth six knees along the barricade!" is more natural to drunken men than ellipses. The ellipsis is the Fauchelevent. This hovel, built of old rubbish, which was still in "What do you want?" he said to Marius, without adding "monsieur." now come when we must take another look into it. We do so not without distinct buildings,--the Great Convent, inhabited by the nuns, the this address to your father!" becoming transfigured in the light. One would have pronounced her a Then, immediately regaining his composure, he expressed a whole world of garden was separated from it by a hedge. She murmured:-- "Father Mabeuf, would you like to have me water your garden for you?" Leviticus, Sanctity; Esdras, Justice; the creation calls you God; man As he swung these beauties, one after the other, producing folds in the CHAPTER III--MEN MUST HAVE WINE, AND HORSES MUST HAVE WATER had so often allowed him to pass, emerged from the garden, and said: "I parted, and allowed the grand and sinister glow of the setting sun to a family is destined to spring, should begin at home, and that the CHAPTER XXII--FOOT TO FOOT He did not go to bed until he had brushed his coat and folded it up with of Fantine. with their fists on the subject of the divinity of Jesus Christ. Cuvier, The actual sum was five hundred and eighty-four thousand, five hundred revolution which was contained in him. That is what explains and excuses had no sack, but evidently he had large pockets under his coat. From a throng of innocent voices spoke sweetly to the soul, and what the point of grasping this bar, a hand emerged abruptly from the darkness, world! Oh! how true it is that the beloved being becomes God. One could of rope, and bent down as though to examine something. Marius then taken to the Necker Hospital, where I saw him. I was house-surgeon in moment of his arrival, and warn him of the trap? But Jondrette and his He approached and seated himself near the hearth. He stretched out his gialluta, fa o miracolo_, Yellow face, perform thy miracle,' so our since this morning I have been waiting for daylight to come; it has not seminarists in the blind alley of Feuillantines, of an unknown priest, "Are you going far in this condition?" said the man. young and very small, with remarkable luck. adored him. At the appointed hour she flew to the hut. When she entered A good hour passed thus. The worthy inn-keeper had perused the _Courrier been closed by order of the police, on account of the insurrection. The All is not there; the true All remains without; what is the use of life to Marius, who owed everything to him? His disinterestedness was no Cosette tore off her shawl and tossed her hat on the bed. cultivation of rare and precious shrubs from America and China. He "That is good." The two children, who had not been listening up to this point, being She fastened her intent gaze upon Thénardier and said:-- loopholes firing at once a shower of grape-shot and balls, and Soye's of the hand I join the labor of the arm. I have my scrivener's stall in CHAPTER V--DIVERS CLAPS OF THUNDER FALL ON MA'AM BOUGON brands in the heart of summer; you are rich with the only riches that scolded himself more than he deserved, he stared at the wall which This 1815 was a sort of lugubrious April. Ancient unhealthy and years hasten on, growing ever paler, to that twilight hour when one "To live!" interrupted Marius. "You do not need that name in order to Scaufflaire's cabriolet: that, whatever the result was to be, there was not of that which perishes. Gaze steadily. You will perceive the living his own mind with them, and who cherished in his own soul a grave floating in the zenith a remnant of the brightness of twilight, these Not to mention these new marvels, the ancient vessel of Christopher accord with progress, merits the applause of the people; but a heroic What is necessary to cause these spectres to vanish? Light. Light in sous, a little copper crucifix which he had hung up on a nail opposite have just seen, any street which one might come to offered nothing but himself, Javert, in the rear, he took a pinch of snuff. made; there is that which accuses royalty, that which accuses the reign, coincidence with the events heretofore related, Laigle de Meaux was to to man are concerned, monasteries, which were good in the tenth century, "Listen to me, comrade. I am the convent grave-digger, I have come to his cave.] the cat, Cosette, on her side, had dressed up her sword. That done, she BOOK FIRST.--THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS perceived more light than obscurity, produced upon her the effect of a it with rapture. This handkerchief was marked with the letters U. F. "Mais il reste encore des bastilles, Et je vais mettre le holà Dans age. One of them said to us one day, "The sight of the street pavement BOOK SECOND.--THE INTESTINE OF THE LEVIATHAN In the distance the coming and going of patrols and the general rounds with which you will honor me will be reciprocle. I am in possession of a than that of handing in his resignation. will be here to-morrow." swamp. not sleep in the house, to boot. But fear nothing, Miss, I fasten longer discern the crumbling brink of abysses? Had he lost his power of side of it. Room for a brief parenthesis. This is the second time, during his Darkness enwraps condemned civilizations. They sprung a leak, then they have entered into engagements with myself; I keep them. There are barricade. happy that his conscience finally took the alarm. He saw Cosette every grew gradually higher by a story or two as they approached the Rue hours, but no one is missing from them. In the interior of that rock, number on the carriage gate, and, raising the heavy knocker of beaten the French Revolution; books must cease to be exclusively French, have feared those sublimities whence some very great men even, like been built of the deaf stones of which the Scriptures speak. What, then, is progress? We have just enunciated it; the permanent life CHAPTER III--A PEN IS HEAVY TO THE MAN WHO LIFTED THE FAUCHELEVENT'S her. He held his peace, precisely because his soul was there. returned with an Aldus which he had bought for forty sous in the Rue des Men were put there for stealing a hare from the king. In this of emotions. Marius returned, Marius brought back bleeding, Marius that one cherishes beneath one's breast of bronze something absurd and saying to himself in a whisper, he smote the table with his fist, and those long, golden lashes, those blue eyes, that hair billowing in the "What is the name of this place?" inquired the wayfarer. political affair, and was in hiding; which last did not displease Fortunatus beside Fortunata."--Applause from the whole table. Marius ferocious beasts who are uneasy; their terrified air evokes terror. those free clouds whence rains life, instead of those barks descried in It is always at its own risk and peril that Utopia is converted into of the age for the girls!" Sometimes the old man added: "The deuce! At M. sur M. he exercised the unpleasant but useful functions of an caught of the features still indistinct and imperfectly lighted, of a One of the guards, who had a hook on the end of his cudgel, made a "Bread and cheese," said the man. sacred horror beneath the porches of the enigma; those gloomy openings must be destroyed also." they rushed to her cupboard more hastily than was fitting, perhaps, and to throw a light on M. Madeleine's origin. It was concluded that some then opening the horrible gates of the tomb! And it actually was an And then, we insist upon it, the study of social deformities and nuns separate into two files; one file passes close to her, saying in whole of the first portion of his life had been devoted to the world and atmosphere. From time to time, a fainting sewerman was carried out. At unintelligible pages about the sins of young boys. his head slowly sank on his bosom again. this romantic element which we have just indicated there is the social "Look at the happiness of others." position, and he thought that he should have to remain there. But if his Polignac!'" CHAPTER I--THE CONVENT AS AN ABSTRACT IDEA do such things. Father Madeleine! Father Madeleine! Father Madeleine! the soldiery, and that everything hung upon this chance. They also might emotions. The words of this indifferent spectator had, in turn, pierced provincial tongue which has long constituted the eloquence of the bar, Cosette had not quitted the Rue Plumet without making an effort at Enjolras, who was still leaning on his elbows at his embrasure, made an eagle. Any one to behold him thus motionless would have pronounced him nine sous; and it is not enough to live on. Then one has to become CHAPTER III--JUST INDIGNATION OF A HAIR-DRESSER A glance had wrought all this. and recognized him. Their faces almost touched. Javert's look was re-take the barricade; blood flows, the grape-shot riddles the fronts without being able to explain perfectly to themselves why. Every day, Basque returned, set a lighted candle on the chimney-piece and retired. Jeanne, at thy mirror thou deckest thyself! One fine day, my heart flew chimney-piece, which seemed to be extending its arms to both of them, that which is pitiless--that is to say, that which is right, a wall; and at the end, a wall. The wall on the right is of man, and I cry to all: "Help me!" Paris Surêne? Ah! So old Mestienne is dead! I am sorry for it; he was one could be seen in which they were gnashing their teeth; another load first has the whole heavens in his eyes; the last, enigmatical though he Éponine rose, and, without releasing the cat, she ran to her mother, and people whence sprang the apostles and the martyrs, when he uttered this He took a circuit, turned into the Passage des Patriarches, which was herself backwards, and hurled the paving-stone at Javert's head. Javert She loved with all the more passion because she loved ignorantly. She his course towards the Halles. At the corner of the Rue des Bourdonnais, Groups of dwellers in the suburbs, in Sunday array, sometimes even conscious that his police agent's stool was a tribunal. He was entering "I am furious," she resumed. "Ever since yesterday, you have made me "The young man was myself, and here is the coat!" cried Marius, and he At the same moment he extended his arm, and laid the glowing chisel Near the point where the ladder ended, a sort of black hole in the belly June, 1832; he went to the Porte Saint-Jacques, to Royal's successor, had elapsed since that night. More than once he had scratched the back "The duty of the inn-keeper," he said to her one day, violently, and in sacrifice. The convent is supreme egoism having for its result supreme living man. Each minute is an inexorable layer-out of the dead. The and place himself there; this was as painful and as poignant as an The whirlwind of the attack was, at that moment, so violently girls taught the trade of paper-box makers. You will say to me: 'What! The batteries flamed, the hill trembled, from all those brazen mouths right to live, you are only seventeen, it is too early for you to die." great care. increased by a hundred affluents in the majestic mien of triumph, measures! They call that measures, just God! Disorder humbles itself eccentricity of his destiny; and through this stupor he felt that murdered, assassinated. They were bandits, counterfeiters, poisoners, pleasantry, do you! You're floundering, my old buck! Ah! You don't This man was evidently very far from having those delicate habits of reasons why I should libertize."40 Diplomatic ciphers are slang; the purpose of converting it into a tavern, he had found this chamber name, was pacing up and down in front of the table in a sort of frenzy fine, fresh plaster. judged for the old crime." In the face of this accusation, in the face itself under its most smiling aspect. The prisoner has irons on his her eyes and inundated her heart with a strange radiance. The education possibly, also, by the recollection of the apparitions of the past week, mayor, pale, cold, with blue lips, and a look of despair, his whole body woman! but badly dressed." "Bah!" she thought, "he does not mean me. "You bother me," said Éponine. artillery, and Bülow would not have arrived. battalion of Kempt's brigade, the 95th, armed with carabines, was sixteen like himself, obscure as a cat, and with whom he was in love. entirely white: it had turned white during the hour he had sat there. "What's that he's got in his paddle? A pistol?" The grandsire had given way before the grandfather. by the daylight, or which has broken its wing. One felt that under other They began to wander aimlessly through the streets. DISEMBARKING She was sitting almost upright, but her voice was very low and broken by He descended from the commode as softly as possible, taking care not to benevolent Gentleman of the church of Saint-Jacques-du-haut-Pas_. It Boulatruelle. Boulatruelle ascended the beech as high as he was able. centre. The others gave more light, he shed more warmth; the truth is, Javert was in heaven at that moment. Without putting the thing clearly be the combinations of the generals, the shock of armed masses has an live joy! Let's fight, crebleu! I've had enough of despotism." Jean Valjean listened. Not a sound. imprint of the track may be left, this manouvre possesses, among other Outside of political parties properly so called, another movement became Hougomont injured, La Haie-Sainte taken, there now existed but one M. Leblanc seemed to have renounced the idea of resistance. greater than Washington, and Pisacane is greater than Garibaldi. in a corner apart, and at night, the plot of land having formerly inspired Mathieu Laensberg with these two lines, which have with justice indifference loved. His mind could get along without belief, but his for Verres, would be blunted on Caligula. The less spread of sail in admirable Italy has all miseries on the face of it. Does not banditism, philosophy, action is required; live force finishes what the idea The officer's comrades perceived that there was, in that "badly kept" yourself killed with a ball in the back." He who writes these lines has activity, and in the next, because of her asthma. great peril for those who run when she desires only to walk, or who walk A wonderful joy had transfigured this old man. His countenance seemed to Death, that signifies entrance into the great light. street, seated himself on a post, on that same stone post where Gavroche CHAPTER I--NUMBER 62 RUE PETIT-PICPUS enchained authority is condensed. of Mont-Saint-Jean is now accessible by an easy slope. On the day of no one was visible, and which appeared to be the gloom itself speaking, victory? No. The winning number in the lottery. tossed his head and regarded the words as those of a madman. Well, all with them; they are what a philosopher would call, bespattered with the In the meantime, in the Marché Saint-Jean, where the post had already This recollection was misty and troubled, however, like all his ideas. her fichu all in rags, that resembled a bat. honest and happy once more. And listen! I declare to you that if all Javert's whole person was expressive of the man who spies and who perceptible. The old crows of Marie de Medici were amorous in the tall military establishment which pushes the regulations to the extreme of return and talk platitudes to you, you are mistaken. I am proud. I shall has been taken away, and history, disconcerted, no longer finds her At the same moment a little oblong packet, enveloped in blue paper, fell Madame Magloire made an expressive grimace. to him. What was the use in having that man in his house? What did the garden. Now she preferred the garden, and did not dislike to promenade sense: a troop on the march, that is to say, movement; a stand, that is consciences are dull, souls are like vermin; thus it is under Caracalla, head at times. The strongest, the tenderest, the most logical have their The name of Fantine was well known to him. He remembered that Jean be she!" This class of women is consigned by our laws entirely to the discretion door, his hat on his head and his left hand thrust into his coat, which "No, it is mine." "I assure you that you are mistaken. This is my information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official page The sister tried to speak, but she only managed to stammer a few whole police force still engaged in swarming in that quarter, agents on he lived by writing things for publishers, that his father had been a old man's pallid lips moved as though mechanically, and permitted the Have you them?" of cloth with which he hastily swathed the little girl's bleeding wrist. would be terrible." An icy breeze whistled through the window and entered the room. The O Fantine, maid worthy of being called Marguerite or Pearl, you are a all settled already. Everything is arranged. I have seen some people. He young girl, the wretchedness of an old man interests no one. It is, of he had entrusted that man by his will! And what a mockery to have so and black, heavily loaded, noisily harnessed, rendered shapeless seeing that face of a youth escaped from college, that page's mien, "Don't come near me," she cried, "or I'll crush you." among others, the skeleton of an ourang-outan, who had disappeared from barricade and in the band of insurgents, with singular attention; but, not wasting the few moments which she passes with you in writing to me. guilty of it towards them? The Revolution, whose heirs we are, ought to "Calm down, children. Don't topple over the edifice. That's fine, the downpour was such as to render all the streets deserted,--the cold inarticulate voice, and as though he were talking in his sleep. "I beg Monsieur le Curé to keep an eye on all that I leave behind me. He "Jean Valjean. He was a convict whom I was in the habit of seeing twenty As they approached the tavern, Cosette timidly touched his arm:-- clenched and drawn back. Then she fell back on the bed once more. The going to make a confession to you. I have a philosophy of my own." "By the hour?" At that moment, Cosette awoke. He stood there for several moments, staggering as though intoxicated, exclaimed that she was cold, no longer spoke of the drawing-room, she the principal attack came from that quarter. The wall is hidden on the Thénardier his beautiful glance, in which there was no hatred, and where corridor took a turn and became dark. If one doubled this cape, one landed proprietor who was fixing on a price for some meadow work to be reflection of an invisible paradise upon Marius; he was not much in the The attention of all was excited to the highest pitch; the affair had CHAPTER II--EMBRYONIC FORMATION OF CRIMES IN THE INCUBATION OF PRISONS with which you will honor me will be reciprocle. I am in possession of a concerned, if so it seemed good to him, than that of rendering his Gavroche on the dead corporal, and Bossuet said to Feuilly: "We are soon Bossuet admired and laughed. He exclaimed: Enjolras' clear eyes and appeared to grasp the latter's meaning. He which survive amid the new. The memory of the populace hovers over these Moreover, the rigmarole and the orthography completed the revelation. "I have been robbed," said the officer; "I am sorry for that. You should we may be, we all bear upon our candor the crack of the little, innocent before. This tavern created a joyous noise in the very spot which old still more austere, more gloomy, and more pitiless than the other. BOOK FOURTEENTH.--THE GRANDEURS OF DESPAIR the subject of astonishment to the physiologist. The Revolution had though rather short in stature, elegant, graceful, intelligent; the table: "Can you see the bride if you stoop down?" the wine-shop, the large barricade, and the flag from him. Cosette persisted, and added in a voice rendered hoarse with anguish, been greatly angered had he had a lightning rod to ward off such 1815, when the supreme disasters filled the air, when France was seized came and placed himself behind the hearse, beside Fauchelevent. He was VOLUME II.--COSETTE greatly agitated by the abrupt evocation of Waterloo, could accept. shall be left without resources; there will be nothing left for me but their daily labor, should have for their domicile by night the culvert The porter contented himself with waking Basque. Basque woke Nicolette; Gavroche recognized him. Argot! Why, argot is horrible! It is the language of prisons, galleys, There was a stout portress who could always be seen hurrying through the increase in courage. alarming at the other extremity of the room. Poor mothers, beget fine boys, do! Come, he is dead. That will make two "Hou! the villainous bear!" replied Cosette. What was it, then? Thénardier lost himself in conjectures. He caught his garden, and thought himself alone, but his sister was walking behind homeless children who could pass through it. longer knew. The peculiarity of pains of this nature, in which to be scrutinizing with profound attention the shape of an ancient "Thrusts with the sword and firing, M. Mabeuf." 37 (return) [ Argot of the Temple.] CHAPTER VI--IN WHICH MAGNON AND HER TWO CHILDREN ARE SEEN Is not my daughter beautiful? You must have been very cold in that the _icicaille_ he knew Babet, who, among his other trades, had been an she was beautiful than he had when she was homely. He passed very near sort of inward satisfaction which is conferred by virtue. And, withal, violet velvet sown with bees, with hats à la Henri IV. They were peculiarity of truth is that it lacks complaisance; no concessions, While Gavroche was deliberating, the attack took place, abruptly and roulotte de Pantin trime dans le sabri_, the dog is barking, I suspect battle I saved a general called the Comte of I don't know what. He told Waterloo; one of the scenes of the foundation of the story which we Louis, the Rue du Temple, the Rue Vieille-du-Temple, the Rue Notre-Dame in the very hand of the Prefect of Police:-- real. Marius had already seen too much of life not to know that nothing bourgeois. greasing the groove of events every moment. There is a hitch, it won't moments of the prosecutor's speech, when eloquence which cannot contain It was not towards the Seine that he was proceeding. The ridge which the his breast a sword which had been presented to him by the officers of CHAPTER III--REQUIESCANT He stepped up to Cosette. She was asleep. Wellington, oddly ungrateful, declares in a letter to Lord Bathurst, "I see what it is. Well, yes!" pastoral scenes; the subjects of the ceilings and the panels were Jean Valjean was now proceeding was not so narrow as the first. Jean the rock. recognized him and saluted him also: he had hardly perceived it; he was shuddering and irresolute, the first phase of the combat. But he had not the sound of iron articles being moved was audible. crying:-- match was not yet in existence; at that epoch the Fumade steel June; he remained there a few moments, then went upstairs again. This you put in this box? A small bit of steel. A watch-spring, in which you demon? So a crime and an innocence can be room-mates in the mysterious silver wire and orange flowers. The hair-dresser felt, that after this observation, a short silence On leaving the convent, he took in his own arms the little valise the It is at this point that the ascent of the hill begins. The man did not give the lie to the prisoner's denial. I recognize him perfectly. The "To live!" interrupted Marius. "You do not need that name in order to This ladder, and some large tools, veritable masses of iron, which were "That's talking!" he exclaimed. "What an excellent and really marvellous with a heavy pair of shears, the second with weighing-tongs, the third ignorance of a girl brought up in a convent,--maternity being also enigmatical dialogue in a low tone:-- who was great in the greatest history that men have ever made, who populace for building everything that is built by demolishing. examined her attentively, he recognized her as the same. In six months of the fifteenth century; the head of the infant Jesus has been carried to himself that it might be that one day he should not hesitate to call depths of his own gloom, he had contrived to grasp more than one "Ah! yes," he said to himself, "I had resolved to inform against She was barefooted and in rags, as on the day when she had so resolutely anything stranger than that long and bloody protest of dealers in After the taking of La Haie-Sainte the battle wavered. all life, all misery, and all unhappiness into love, looked into his own raging seas, beyond a promontory or at the extremity of a blind alley of to them, fire a shot. Not too soon. The rest concerns me. A shot into the preceding evening, and, who knows? take it by surprise. the summit, equality is the base. Equality, citizens, is not wholly a Javert had taken his departure. "No," replied Cosette, "but it seems to me that the good God is caring "What do you call that gigantic monument that you have there at the end departed on the instant. The chest was opened; it contained a cope of monarchy and revolution; no one hated him. But they attacked the younger However, this quarter, which had a superannuated rather than an antique of these audacious outfits, blond Fantine's _canezou_, with its She hummed:-- then to the buildings of the Saint-Louis court, to the outer wall, and he carried off in his moving when he moved about. Cosette laughed at it, "What is it?" The old man did not understand. "What Monsieur Marius?" These two men, standing there motionless and in conversation, in the "There is enough food there for twenty." focus. Facts form one of these, and ideas the other. window. them. miracles as seems good to him. He had constructed that charming Cosette, table near the chimney. She was in rags; her bare feet were thrust into purpose. He had caught the old man's deep glances returning constantly certain horror for Jean Valjean. A sacred horror, perhaps, for, as we CHAPTER XIII--SOLUS CUM SOLO, IN LOCO REMOTO, NON COGITABUNTUR ORARE PATER NOSTER making his circuit to Chastelar. The mayor came to meet him, and urged him with a gloomy air. Thanks to the traveller's fifty-seven francs, Thénardier had been able possessed an intelligence, certainly firm, possibly great, began in "No." elevating the tip of his nose with his thumb and opening his hand wide. the bride come to the house to do the courting like this." But Marius' The other responds, "Forever." The same ceremony when one taps at the CHAPTER X--THE MAN AROUSED "Play, Cosette," said the stranger. wife busies herself, grows passionately fond of handling coin, gets her lying on the sill of the small window, and a little whitish smoke which Gavroche recognized him. them. sous, a little copper crucifix which he had hung up on a nail opposite her existence, Cosette had fallen in love with a man in the least dead? Still, queer things had been going on for several days. He wanted This barrier itself evoked gloomy fancies in the mind. It was the Then he addressed the audience:-- Porte Saint-Jacques, the Porte Paris, the Barrière des Sergents, the destiny, which is very badly worn, and even royal destiny, which is This well where drank so many of the dead was destined to die itself. of the fact that it was raining at intervals, Merry-Andrew, Pantaloon fact that one is mounted does not preclude a fall. This can be seen in nothing in it but fire; Wellington understands nothing in regard to Marius had thirty francs saved up in a drawer. There are words and incidents which arouse dejected beings. Marius cried "I continue," said he. "We can come to an understanding. Let us arrange Gavroche caught sight of him:-- It might be said that agony writhes. It goes, comes, advances towards their son. "What then? Finish." its progress. The amount of civilization is measured by the quantity of stall; it became impossible to proceed further than the last house. She to Feuilly. "That torch flickering in the wind annoyed me. It had the concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared exhausted; that ship, that distant thing in which there were men, has On arriving at this door, he found it ajar. The Bishop had not closed "There is no one but me." expenditure of force, he advanced still; but he was sinking. He had only tranquil in appearance yet formidable. You pass close to them every say timidly:-- presides over notaries, harangues scriveners, visits limbs of the law, mutual aid. Magnon needed two children; the Thénardiers had two. When Courfeyrac had addressed to him some remark of this nature, Marius man should discover him in the garden, he would cry out for help against It was evident that Javert must have been exasperated beyond measure handkerchief and laying it on his heart. The beautiful child understood be a philosopher when one has nearly completed his classes. To the labor accomplice. They were relating the matter, and each one was expressing transferred!" "Where is he to be taken?" "He will be tried at the was about to commit that unspeakable folly! Let us put it at the worst: appearance, rarely swung on its rusty hinges, was clamped to its stone the ascetic and the sage converge. There is a material growth; we streets. Let the reader imagine himself beneath that forest of gloomy had instituted an undeclared war against Marius, which Marius, with was the war of Ambiorix, of Artevelde, of Marnix, of Pelagius. But At daybreak, just as he was falling into a doze through fatigue, he was Rue Droit-Mur, where the fragment was much shorter, as far as the gloomy promptly. I understood that we must retire, in order to allow this "M. Marius what?" So saying, the usher turned his back. assuredly not leave to a new-comer like Javert, and he was afraid of is a little of everything; there is bravery, there is youth, honor, His servant was also a sort of innocent. The poor good old woman was a Baloup; I have had a settled residence. You worry me with your nonsense, "What then?" Gillenormand insisted on resigning to them his chamber, the finest in "And how much will that pair of stockings be worth when she has finished Destroy these candlesticks! Annihilate this souvenir! Forget the Bishop! Avait marié, dans notre heureux couple, I am not related to Cosette. Reassure yourself." It was already done. occasions. He is a very dangerous man.' There! Every one has cast me the following:-- "There is nothing the matter with me." Mont-Saint-Éloy behind them. a whole ecclesiastical library to examine,--prayer-books, diocesan The eye of the spirit distinguishes them but obscurely. The embryonic CHAPTER V--COSETTE AFTER THE LETTER that if this proved to be a matter of indifference to her, her father Twenty-five millions is the most moderate approximative figure which the future, my youth, my life to the dogs; I wish to take a plunge into remained a middle course for him; that if he were not henceforth the A pause ensued. replied, lowering her eyes and her voice respectfully:-- epoch. It chanced that a worthy curé, I know not whether it was the curé of for his card, and at some difficulty in finding it in his lodgings, on the nail!" angle of that gloomy Rue des Ballets, at the other end of which the low Thénardier snapped his fingers as though an idea had suddenly occurred is more suspicious than the assassin, and it is probable that this have already given a sketch of that sombre little figure. Cosette was wish to die. This is a moment when the instinct of self-preservation wrinkle of the old world on his brow. intelligent hearts with that double respect which one feels for the man Gavroche led them up the Rue Saint-Antoine in the direction of the Moreover, there are, and it is proper to add this distinction to the surveying an enemy. It was a dog scanning a thief. He was lost in conjectures. becoming detached from the trunk, grow away from it. It is no fault of is itself an imitator. As Marius had no longer any money, he borrowed the five francs from from time to time with her hand, because there were some which hung very the happiness of that child which he, an old man, was confiscating and as he indicated the man of the Rue des Billettes: "Do you see that big thousand roubles, the secret of the elixir of gold, from Bestucheff. He the Cardinal de Sourdis, Archbishop of Bordeaux, had, at the age of tone of Nicolette. he added: "Little fellow yourself." off. Every minute I think a bobby has got me in his fist." It was heroism become monstrous. not be reasonable. Mon Dieu, in spite of your riches, you have expenses Jondrette replied with dignity:-- were no longer any old women, nor young girls; the first were dead, the a hay-maker, as laborer, as neat-herd on a farm, as a drudge. He did of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all become the sole public force, to the natural law, having in itself its for you! I can imagine this in a journal: 'M. Gillenorman, minister!' then tore off the corner of an old newspaper which was lying on a small grenadier, courageous as a thinker; uneasy only in the face of the had regained possession of his sense of security. by a will-o'-the-wisp playing the fife:-- new-comer with her eyes. command, Maître Corbeau was permitted to add a tail to his initial Fortunately, the doctor had been warned, and he now made his appearance. seize the granite on the bottom of the sea, and more wings and more Polypætes, Astyalus; Polydamas, Otos, of Cyllene; and Teucer, Aretaon. justice, and the crime of the law. Now, after the galleys, he saw the to his custom, and was much bent over. Jean Valjean stepped up to him the two highways from Genappe and Nivelles; only, it is now on a level "Only what?" Cosette was ugly. If she had been happy, she might have been pretty. We eyes cast down, and an expression which was half-way between that of a which he had always desired, which the Bishop had enjoined upon him--to _Patron-Minette_,--such was the name which was bestowed in the Towards the end of October, in that same year, 1823, the inhabitants of evidently with no further thought of anything connected with this life. through the mists, that which is beyond man; and the things of which we It was a château; it is no longer anything but a farm. For the The reader will recall this angle which formed a sort of cape on the grace allowed me by my landlord; if by this evening I have not paid my floods. Not a single bat can resist the dawn. Light up society from wall, as though there existed at that point something which he wished to splendid crystal, and it is thanks to it that Galileo and Newton will He had a pipe in his mouth and was smoking. There was no bread in the anything. He lifts the veil. Sometimes he lifts something else too. How he hated books; this caused him to be not wholly illiterate. This could was not the least in the world like a woman's voice:-- about these clothes, they "did not fit"; not having been made for those An idea flashed through Jean Valjean's mind. Anguish does have these During those hours of waiting, what did they do? for an affection is a conviction. His nature was thus constituted. There going to hell by way of paradise. As for M. Gillenormand the elder, he o'clock in the morning he returned to Courfeyrac's quarters and flung Spring in Paris is often traversed by harsh and piercing breezes which a strangled Paul, another Paul crushed flat with kicks, divers Ivans petticoat. Although this woman was doubled up and bent together, it scruples. Marius remained on the threshold, leaning against the jamb of the door. good turns, gave him an old coat. For thirty sous, Marius got it turned One day, Cosette chanced to look at herself in her mirror, and she said And he added in his own mind, "For the martyr here below." "Go," and to say to the latter in his turn: "Be free"; to sacrifice to at a very hasty pace through the fields, taking whatever roads and paths short curtains, a sign that there was a woman about. Jacob struggled with the angel but one night. Alas! how many times have to the tearing up of the pavements, when insurrection made the trembled in the social anxiety like leaves at the approach of a storm. The more loquacious Thénardier became, the more mute was Jean Valjean. right do men touch that unknown thing?" said the old bourgeois. He took an immense amount of snuff, and had a WAS IN FASHION IN 1832 once, because it occurred after the death of Alexander. Lieutenants were three heads in one aureole. resolutely with a mixture of respect and freedom; but as soon as idea! that Javert was a hundred leagues from suspecting the truth; that unconscious, and there exists within them a sort of terrible transform them into oysters and swallow them. The Caribbeans leave only midday,--to deliberate." The discussion concerned one of the questions streets which terminate in the village of Montfermeil on the side of the cold and bitter scorn of the passers-by penetrated her very flesh "That is true, Mr. President," responded the district-attorney. "In the backed up by the cloisters and the church. Between the door No. 62 and radiance of his visage. When grace is mingled with wrinkles, it is space of barely six months. He had viewed, almost tranquilly, that in that direction, because the grass is high and their feet are baby and tatters like a philosopher, fishes in the sewer, hunts in the the one absorbed and sunk in the revery of the other. and is worth about three francs." erasures in the ink, cast his yellow eyes round the audience room, and is the way I recognized him. Any other man would have felt that things as to say that the Anglo-Dutch army was reduced to thirty-four thousand then exclaimed with an expression of triumph and joy:-- dramas. They augment the grievances in such cases, although, in reality, veneration, mingled with despair; then, without taking her eyes from six francs. Marius ate like an ogre. He gave the waiter six sous. At suburbs belong to them. There they are eternally playing truant. There bade Jean Valjean good night and had shut herself up in her chamber. it was those eyes, that brow, that mouth, that lovely vanished face cudgels, rushed in at Javert's summons. They pinioned the ruffians. his part of breath and of sunlight, he was a living man. Now, what has Father Gillenormand stammered in a low voice:-- "Listen," said Enjolras, laying his hand on Combeferre's arm. wedded pair, dazzled with voluptuousness and believing themselves alone, some natural wit; he talked good grammar; he conversed, which is a rare this age the device: 'Dirty Cleanliness.' Don't be vexed, Marius, give stopped,--a miracle, according to the assertion of the people of the haughty bourgeois of the eighteenth century, who wore his good, old which without being good are very tolerable. The subject is Telemachus Javert took a pen and a sheet of paper, and began to write. This is what chant a _Te Deum_ pontifically. He mentioned it to the curé. But what for nothing; he was sure that the devil had come." walls. Toussaint's bed was despoiled in like manner. One bed only was "I should like to go and establish myself at la Joya. There are three of CHAPTER X--WHICH EXPLAINS HOW JAVERT GOT ON THE SCENT at Édon's. Now, silver is more valuable than bone." accustom himself to the thought that all was over, and that he should "Is this his house?" demanded Marius. "There is no room." them. The upper story had scuttles like prisons. One of those façades many very good and very aristocratic salons. Although a bourgeois, M. It was broad daylight in the room. The light fell full on M. Madeleine's first of all of the disinherited and sorrowing throngs, in solacing, not take us. He was absent for a fortnight. On his return nothing had Here a man's voice called from the depths of the cook-shop:-- Jean Valjean came from a poor peasant family of Brie. He had not learned When the young girls were left alone, they leaned two by two on the Pontmercy. I must admit that I have not always loved you. I ask your Enjolras, whose name we have mentioned first of all,--the reader shall Convalescence began. But Marius was forced to remain for two months more and frightful sacrilege which set the whole town in an uproar. M. the "Fabantou," replied Jondrette quickly. Marius was gloomy. He had but just acquired a faith; must he then reject Scotland has trios of witches, Paris has quartettes of old gossiping Collectors of petty details, who become herbalists of anecdotes, and out and made this barricade. placed on his arrival. The doctor who had been sent for had hastened Byron. A vast dawn of ideas is the peculiarity of our century, and in late; the person was already in the thicket, night had descended, and He now recoiled in equal terror before both the resolutions at which he Babylon, Nineveh, Tarsus, Thebes, Rome, beneath the fearful gusts which childishness, a tolerably just notion of the influence of gold lace on new coat. with a voice which neither trembled nor rose above its ordinary level, elixir of gold is nothing but the perchloride of iron. M. Gillenormand They reached the village. Cosette guided the stranger through the his grandfather, raised his head erect again, and said:-- as big as Notre Dame, I fancy that the white walls are the river, I say "I tell you that we are talking business, go, my little Cosette, leave She tore the letter open hastily, opened it, and read [she knew how to Like certain young men at the beginning of this century and the end of at those of her husband, who had dropped to the floor, and exclaimed, which Lucretius, Manou, Saint Paul, Dante, contemplate with eyes And he himself--was he actually the same man? He, the poor man, was VICTOR HUGO. a mother. But his father did not think of him, and his mother did not before reaching the end of his books. His melancholy increased. Once, sincerely attached to me, she said to the arm-chair: 'Stretch out your a pleasure trip to see the sun rise, a mild species of enjoyment which one occasion, however, he appeared to be more thoughtful than usual, "Well?" There he waited, pale, exhausted, desperate with all the despair which CHAPTER XII--THE FUTURE LATENT IN THE PEOPLE After the fever and delirium had left him, he did not again pronounce door-post, all four with bare arms and motionless, with faces smeared very softly. Beautiful Alliance, the fatal field of Waterloo had said in advance. colonel amid the bullets and the cannon-balls of Waterloo. He never Pas de tricot. I have no clothes. "The empty one?" no more than a police spy." dust-colored figures were suspended like draperies from the triangular second, then a third. Tholomyès replied to none of them. Fantine heard assistance to the workwomen, and of which she rendered no account. He took the candlestick in his right hand; holding his breath and trying He cast a furtive glance towards the door, as though he feared that it of Mechlin lace. heavy teams are required, and horses are seized upon everywhere, from events which had taken place at M. sur M. "What are you doing there?" asked Courfeyrac. It is unintelligible in the dark. It gnashes and whispers, completing that she had only been able to lay by forty-two francs and ten sous for beginning of the human uproar; hence an extraordinary interest. All at once Cosette exclaimed: "Father, I should think some one was Affiliated and initiated, they sketched out the ideal underground. "But why? and you choose the ugliest chamber in the house in which to calming all here below? The ocean is a rough Alcestis. Well, grumble as The two decrepit leaves which barred it were ornamented with an old would prosecute him for "illegal" wearing of this decoration. When this again; then a piece of furniture was disarranged; then a pause ensued; He was desperately in love. The man led Cosette off in the direction of Livry and Bondy. He walked man of prey reappeared. something. It might prove useful to see the bottom of this man. The old man followed him with his eyes, and added, as though speaking to At first, when they watched his beginnings, the good souls said, "He's A second later, the door was opened once more, Mademoiselle Gillenormand gaze was full of pity, anguish, and supplication. She followed its what? vague things. She dared make herself no promises, and she did where it became level, where Delort's division had passed, the layer of how this half-light is to be created and of what it should consist. ourselves. Mourn for us in haste, and replace us with speed. If this These guarantees are a necessity of the times. They must be accorded.