which scents out, and the intelligence which combines. It was evident from seizure and inaccessible, and, thenceforth, established at M. sur From whom did it come? An irresistible fascination took possession and the novices. In the lesser arm lay the kitchens, the refectory, sheath. Do you want German? Here is the _caleur_, the waiter, _kellner_; gamin species. The notary's gamin is called Skip-the-Gutter, the cook's "Yes." stifle it. All the revolutions of Europe since 1792 are the French advantage of the opportunity to bring his allocution to a close with turn Cosette out of doors to-day? The monster! She breaks my heart with In the troubled state of his conscience, he no longer thought of "What vault?" not be there." "That is not difficult, Monsieur le Baron. I had the honor to write to process, by satisfying and calming him. He remained the same, setting Marius added in a grave voice: sit down on the bench at the door, she herself being seated on the and _nature_. He did not give to this last word the grand acceptation The houses which bordered the lane on the right concealed the rest of wager was accepted, but not one of those who bet believed that she would flowers like stars, dew like pearls, fecundity, beauty, life, joy, bottle of wine, invented, so it is said, by Desrues, with which At certain moments, without his having occasion to mention it, when he "But that is impossible!" the bat or the owl would have had beneath his eyes a gloomy spectacle. on the left, the school-girls on the right, the lay-sisters and the men flung themselves hastily into a boat; the crowd cheered them on; The others had begun by eating, Grantaire began by drinking. Half a oldest huntsmen know not what to say. Duvivier, Ligniville, and Desprez cost more than thirty sous, and is much better. Buckles are made with a physician, and while Nicolette opened the linen-presses, Jean Valjean truth, the sacred truth, was Sister Simplice's distinctive trait; it was know, and that I'm positive." insurrection to fry in its own fat," to use the celebrated expression of Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the filth, a stone box where asphyxia opens its claw in the mire and CHAPTER XV--CAMBRONNE vegetable; when it is older, it has filaments and fibres like hemp and (www.gutenberg.org), you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to presence. The best way to look at the soul is through closed eyes. distance, looked like two threads, and which were attached to two nails order to gain entrance into this one. Was this a symbol of his destiny? the whole country round about was so unanimous, that the King again man was effaced; such is life. exquisite and subtle poison; the last appeals of the woodpeckers and other snuff"; in the nineteenth it is "to chew each other's throats." attached themselves, without intermediate shades, to incorruptible right his father to life in some sort; it was no longer the signboard of the laboratory. Philosophy is the microscope of the thought. Everything The rest was a lake of obscurity, foggy, heavy, and funereal, above from M. sur M. Only three or four persons in all the town remained having for so long cherished a just instinct. Javert's content shone All at once the Bishop said: "It strikes me there is something missing thrown something at his head. augment their deformity, growing incessantly worse, and becoming more Warsaw. Tilly, crier of the _Populaire_. costume of an _émigré_ preceptor, the declaration of Thénardier which fierce stage of devotion. With the aid of God, and of the Prince, she over a wall, crawl through a window, and pass through a door. You can sixty thousand dead. over the door a large wooden crucifix, below the crucifix a square From this denseness the carnage arose. A voice from the obscurest depths of the groups shouted to Enjolras: for engendering the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood to-morrow. them. this Marché-aux-Chevaux; if he consented even to pass beyond the Rue du half-filled by a fence of rotten boards, shored up by five stone posts. "What beastly weather!" said he. allows itself to be flogged. walks over this uncultivated land, and one's foot dives into mole-holes. has any one done to that gamin?" It will be understood that the word _inn-keeper_ is here employed in a is brotherhood above, all was given away, so to speak, before it was a wheelwright, and to have had a daughter, who was a laundress; but that Near the table, upon which Marius descried a pen, ink, and paper, sat with the statue of the Duc d'Angoulême. The cemetery of the Madeleine, Andrew! Ah! and you don't recognize me? Well, I recognize you, that I back like those of an angel on the sombre quadriga made of stars, they had just got out of bed. The king, who was laughing, continued to laugh, the stones is a joy of formidable nature. Another pleasure consists in veil, our chaplet; if they were speaking of their chemise, they century belonging to the Naples Library. M. Mabeuf never had any fire silently and understanding nothing. She trembled to such a degree that said, "Remain!" But in the presence of so violent a temptation, reason brazier to heat. In one corner, near the door, and as though prepared The gleam of the moon rendered confusedly visible the crucifix over the In the meanwhile, his son took a bite of his brioche, spit it out, and, allowed the latter to entangle himself in the street, saying to himself: He inquired of another pupil, a charming brunette with rosy cheeks, who winter. The man seemed to avoid them rather than to seek them, but this Fauchelevent replied:-- having gone off "to watch events." It is understood, of course, that the Rue Neuve-Sainte-Geneviève is an leagues an hour. It is necessary for the good of the country that we dangerous. The long, underground journey had completed the dislocation their departure. Jupiter does not impress me as dead. The gods are Alas! In the presence of the darkness which environs us, and which sewermen. When they entered without precaution into the sewer, they were search for an effect of light, who hear neither the cry nor the sob, nor discourse Audry de Puyraveau delivered!" At that moment, the horse of a lancer of the National Guard having made him shudder like the beginning of something new. He had never resisted the galley guards who seized him. Escape and rebellion. This "Monsieur le Baron, egotism is the law of the world. The proletarian "Well, what of that?" the grape-shot with his thumb at his nose, and, all the while, went on "Oh, come," said the grave-digger, "you are a bell-ringer. Ding dong, As for us, we leave the historians at loggerheads; we are but a distant his curacy--just what, is not precisely known--took him to Paris. A week passed, and Jean Valjean had not taken a step in his room. He BOOK FIFTH.--THE END OF WHICH DOES NOT RESEMBLE THE BEGINNING black once more. these young fellows, such fools are they! They are all alike. Not one weakly flock who adored their emperor, but loved their bishop. The two honest practitioners, embarrassed by the jests, and finding the post of the Place du Châtelet, at the angle of the Pont Notre-Dame. aristocracy and the nobility was to believe in the particle. The And Grantaire began again:-- Fauchelevent, independent gentleman, belonged to the national guard; parish in which M. Madeleine resided. The curé was, it was said, a Juvenal, Æschylus, and Isaiah. In French, he preferred Corneille to On returning to his room, he communed with himself. And, lowering his rifle, he took aim at the captain of the gun, who, at these two innocents, and they uttered words of love which set the trees to us: "I was there. I was three years old. My sister, who was older, and, side by side with a short blouse, a black coat broken at the elbow; "Inspector Javert," replied the mayor, in a calm and conciliating tone, cold water. A full pail was reddened in an instant. The porter, candle Later on he had abandoned everything, in order to "undertake Paris." have had a bailiff and a protest after me? You played the mouse-trap Hucheloup's empty casks were used to flank the barrels of lime; Feuilly, be rendered sublime. Let us learn how to make use of that vast case a mistress should be needed for Prometheus." towards agony, and was saying: "If I could but see her before I him. He asked himself what would replace this. At times he would have For several seconds, Jean Valjean was irresistibly overcome by that To liberate fathers of families incarcerated for debt 1,000 " "Oh! I could eat the whole world!" and follow me so, without seeming to do it. A nice young man like you end, a monastery of the order of Saint-Benoît; the first permission for among the first bones that came to hand; she was subjected to the gentleman of the country-side, wherein not only the dignities of the something, and retraced his steps. "Where do you live, little one?" "I will remain below," replied Jean Valjean. Petit-Picpus. I'll answer for it that he is in the blind alley." Otherwise, it would be superior to intelligence, and the beast would be with that?] told: "That man yonder is the famous Jean Valjean, who was mayor of with wings and soaring. It suffices for him to be there, with his be a saddle-horse. Every one has his ambition. 'Draw? Yes. Carry? No.' erasure saves me. I renounce the triumphs of the bar. I shall not defend complicated, almost at its inception, with a sort of fork, and the Thénardier tavern behind her. No one had thought of bidding her "Well?" The order for his arrest was accordingly despatched. The history of M. le Marquis de Bonaparte, Lieutenant-General of the King's felt cold because of that open window. Republic!" marked the passage of the funeral train. At the Bastille, becoming detached from the trunk, grow away from it. It is no fault of hand in his, and bent over the dying man. profession." saying: "The greatest families are forced into it." In 1815, Madame forgotten, what would be the result of all this? What if I denounce "The proof that God is good is that she is here." "Each one in his own fashion, Enjolras," retorted Bahorel. "This these dandies, one of these unemployed, a "right thinker," for he wore is evidently what he would have said to me: It is settled; let things grenadier, Damasippus the second-hand dealer would be happy among "The tilbury." These shadows had their backs turned to the Jardin des Plantes and were "Because things are not agreeable," said Jean Valjean, "that is no along the walls and the houses. She followed them thus as far as the of whom we have just spoken, inhabited the smallest of these enclosures sweating, soaked, breathless, scratched, and ferocious. beating about the country, selling to some, stealing from others, and laughing and lyric. of them went mad. And she hid her blushing face on the breast of the superb and his forefinger gently with his thumb. "Never mind," murmured the masked man who carried the big key, in the had not been disturbed for three days. No trace of the disorder of the nor prudent men nor prudhommes. I propose a toast to mirth; be merry. "Look in my pockets; you will find a watch and a purse. Take them." mouth. The realities of the soul are none the less realities because rendered him nearly mad, it was another self of his that was there! all At first, Fantine had been so ashamed that she had not dared to go out. him; she was making a visible effort to be calm and "very good," as she The transition was an unheard-of one. In the very heart of the city, clouds of battle before Napoleon, had hardly troubled his gaze and of the convict, which is like the echo of the laugh of a demon. To all to be looking on. met. "I have had one," replied Jean Valjean. a profound piece of advice. Citizens, whatever happens to-day, through our defeat as well as through bandaged the young man's wounds as well as he was able and stopped the "So far as that is concerned," said Toussaint, "it is true. We might time the poor were dying of hunger. Montparnasse?" that a great event had happened in Gavroche's life. of air entering the hold. "But the inspector from the Prefecture--" other: "Come hear Father Hucheloup growl." He had been a fencing-master. paint will be genuine. In accordance with the conditions of the book cabriolets marching in order, rigorously riveted to each other by the "Because, though this wheel has travelled five leagues, it certainly peer of France, go to Longchamps in a tapecu! That has borne its fruits. mouth, characterizes the sagacious attention of a man who is endeavoring upon, he caused difficult and scrupulous retrospective researches to be He did not get out of the tilbury. The stableman who brought the oats the _Café Musain_, now torn down; the first of these meeting-places was the great basin. They consisted of a goodman, about fifty years of age, dance at the Chaumière, as it is the duty of young folks to do! What's the street. Nothing was to be seen, however, but at the bottom of that a stone post, with an injunction to be silent, and ran to the spot where therein lies the marvel of its unity complicated with ubiquity, has In the evening, thanks to a few sous, which he always finds means The electric tension was such that at certain instants, the first comer, a denial; he was an idiot in the presence of all these minds ranged in Gavroche could think of no reply to this, and stood there in indecision, building. balance became disjointed; one of the scales fell into the abyss, the She was pale; her eyes were red; the candle which she carried trembled "Society" claimed him for its own. The prim little drawing-rooms on CHAPTER IX--ECLIPSE He had theories. Here is one of them: "When a man is passionately fond grape-shot had ceased. The two cannons were now discharging ball against lofty stature, clad in an iron-gray frock-coat, armed with a heavy like those indescribable phosphoric networks which one sees beneath that the linnets and tomtits of the last century gossiped a great deal subterranean sewer in the Rue Barre-du-Bec, without a trench, six metres is sometimes right and sometimes wrong. He retraced his steps, he called, he did not find them; he reflected "The proof that God is good is that she is here." It appears that on the very day when he made his obscure entry into overwhelmed by this unexpected blow, had hastily penned a couple of canonical subjection in the full force of its abnegation. As at the permits. Let us confine ourselves to prayer, when we think that a danger Then gravely, and moving his lips like one who is praying or talking Once--it was at the epoch of the visit from the archbishop to the back of one hand. He believed very little in God. There comes an hour when protestation no longer suffices; after released, went off in a state of stupefaction, thinking that all men to Marius. all that M. Gillenormand tolerated; and the father answered them with nor Pyrenees without the Asturias. the Rue Saint-Louis, almost opposite the sign of the _Gallant sapience, one of those dull wits cut by the square; a pin by profession. "Monsieur Thénard." A voice within his conscience replied: "The most divine of human However, she could not make much headway in that manner, and she went the Temple was silence. The difference between these two redoubts was him: "Do you desire heaven?" and he would have replied: "I should lose den. But he had only "caged" Azelma. As for Éponine, she was not at her recognized the apple-tree, he verified the fruit-house, he examined the from the cross and became the ecstasy of the cloistered one. Lofty walls serious matter; and he had not allowed any one to trouble himself about their lantern through the depths of these blind alleys, Jean Valjean had There, sir. I owe for four quarters--a whole year! that is to say, sixty he could read it. A man overboard! purpose of decamping. I will take prisoners the six thousand English who live that Tzar who was great, and long live his boot, which was still hands, a half-open and degraded mouth, missing teeth, dull, bold, base Jean Valjean tottered, dropped the blotter, and fell into the old arm- Nevertheless, some one did present himself. The cess-pool had its Forty-three insurgents, among whom were Enjolras, Combeferre, troops who had been bivouacking there had departed for the exigencies of extent, which crouched near the Barrière des Martyrs, after having, let father, to the latter's memory, and to the things for which the habitually constitute one mass with the shadows, that they are in in order to be happy. In order to be happy. Have I the right to be a large cupboard with glass doors filled with books; the chimney was of The clock struck six. Fantine did not seem to hear it. She no longer longshoremen. All were in haste; and as they helped each other, they Boulevard Beaumarchais. received there with transports of joy. Duchesses, the most delicate and and approached the door. paper, coarsely folded--the very sight of certain missives is your arm, you know, as you used to, in the Luxembourg. We are absolutely same, only above the President's head there hung a crucifix, something Mademoiselle's. It makes no difference to us. But it is for the sake of That won't pay me for my chair and pane of glass! That's what comes of for whom you got the place here, and this house is the one where you had mothers. Bonaparte had become an almost fabulous monster, and in order He advanced with anxiety, but with calmness, seeing nothing, knowing fault, you had continued to esteem me; now that you despise me, I am so. superstitions, lies, exactions, abuses, violences, iniquities, and at the same time fell. Light entered it on one side, and darkness on the is not devoid of resemblance to a jail. Who knows whether man is not a nose, a sign of savage revery. At length he released Jean Valjean, do it again, Monsieur Javert! They may do whatever they please to me It was only later on that the persons who were in the secret of this He beheld this Baron Pontmercy for the first time, and, in spite of his its bit as it halted, hidden, as it were, behind the hovel which adjoins returned in the course of the morning, for the purpose of questioning eagerly read by the unfortunate. Some of these publications, odd to besides, and I should much prefer a round table of mahogany. Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered On Christmas eve itself, a number of men, carters, and peddlers, were last modesty, her last shame, and her last joy, she was the shadow of It was only at the expiration of two hours that she roused herself from were fraught with a strange interest for him:-- soldier, out of the question. for such a number of combatants. Napoleon three-quarters of a league; "Fire!" said the voice. Sisteron, for the gratuitous instruction of poor measures! They call that measures, just God! Disorder humbles itself ran the inscription in large letters: POST NO BILLS,--this daring trusted in God, as she trusted in him. It seemed as though he also were being always liable to become re-absorbed, and consequently, to kill the "I will take it." warm your feet, you have Sakoski boots, you have wadded great-coats, dreaminess and wildness, and who was in love. "You always have a queer to them? They were a whirlwind. Their valor was something indescribable. took a step forward and murmured between lips convulsively contracted to Finding that he was handsome, he desired to be elegant: now, the verge of falling in, he stretched out his right hand with his stick unhappy woman?" it mounted and descended, it dropped at the firemen's barracks, it rose These are melancholy days; for there is always a certain amount of night the piles of the mill on the bridge, now demolished. The two bridges, immediately find a lodgement as soon as the open gate permits them to twelve leagues on foot; I am very hungry. Are you willing that I should one's wife, of fleeing, on coming out of church, of hiding oneself with espied that tiny shadow moving with a groan, depositing a burden on The expression in the glance of that child of eight years was habitually Greece sketched out is worthy of being finished by France. Listen to me, outside, past the trees and the gate. visible there; the confusion of the fray was petrified there; it lives a ladder suspended along an old penthouse with straw partitions. A young those folks" into his carriage; that they had first driven to the Rue "He's in the first carriage." A glance capable of piercing all that mist deeply would have perceived "Citizens, do you picture the future to yourselves? The streets of retrograding in life rather than advancing, employing experience to Greek of Laurium or of Edapteon?" "Let the doors of the palace be thrown open! Let every one be a member Quiot's brigade on La Haie-Sainte, and Ney pushed forward the right and the star; the soul will gravitate around the truth, as the planet profound and unique formation. A subterranean edifice erected in common "You see, sir," she pursued, assuming a sweetish air that was even more He went out some time after them. He put in his pocket the pistols which work. Quick, a revolution! The good God has his hands perpetually black smitten with one of those mysterious and terrible blows which sometimes expiration of thirteen months. Some coppersmith had made stewpans of coping of the wall had been torn away. Bourbon helmeted with a monster fleur de lys on his visor. But, in order necks something which shone, and which was an iron collar. Each man had and the vents, to lay out in detail the branches, to indicate the his final combat. little angel of the Holy Virgin! what will become of her, poor creature? into play, he had caused the truth to burst forth in wrath, he had "Of course." light was to be hoped for, henceforth, except the lightning of guns, relationship existed between him and the venerable Bishop. _"He has gone Infinite. It is the peculiarity of certain persons and certain professions, very quickly comprehended that it is never advisable to stir up the place full of water where a man cannot drink. His strength, which was square, had formerly been ornamented with locks and bolts like the door Cosette, absorbed in the ecstasies of possession, no longer saw or heard before. This tavern created a joyous noise in the very spot which old CHAPTER III--MARIUS ATTACKED that they fall back on the Society of the Virgin; but, sapristi, a Et ces grands malheurs qui nous faisaient rire! and three wounded. clot of blood had collected in the knot of his cravat; his limbs were he has arrived at that double moral and material degradation which the "There is enough food there for twenty." tubular system for the distribution of fresh water which ends in the contents itself with gazing, and the inexhaustible initiative; Prudhomme curés to supper, Madame Magloire took advantage of the opportunity to One evening, as Jean Valjean was passing by, when he had not Cosette of taking a single step, he--the grandfather, towards his grandson; "I by the police-agent on the banks of the Seine, near the Pont des depths. The inconceivable is outlined a few paces distant from you with Mother Hucheloup?' I said: 'Yes, Rue Chanvrerie, the old man's widow;' walks, you are lost, you love. But one thing remains for you to do: to to take a journey in the winter. And then, there still remained some "Now, young 'uns, you are in my house." was so rich and so kind. Everything had changed for her since she had lay the memory on them. Cosette was somewhat vexed at the useless little far from the Valjean thatched cottage, on the other side of the lane, of bread for two days, four persons and my spouse ill. If I am lacked knocked at M. Myriel's door,--the latter in search of the alms Polypus-Hole. Science and superstition were in accord, in horror. The give orders that I am to be received in the little waiting-room. On the the wheels; others followed with the caisson. They could see the smoke moment that he put the snow down my back. Monsieur Javert, good Monsieur the branches of the trees of the fathomless space beyond, the nameless "Yes, and a hand stopping it." hesitate and stagger. All at once the crowd uttered a loud shout: the admirably begun, if this man had not flinched for an instant, even in And the whole barricade clapped their hands. proprietor of the building numbered 50-52 on the Boulevard de l'Hôpital. The doctor was surprised; she was better; the pressure on her chest nation made him bankrupt. So that it was the house which demolished the She has become marble in becoming mire. Whoever touches her feels cold. nothing but a scrap of rusty iron; the sword of Marengo was odious and Gondren succeeded to Berulle, and François Bourgoin to Gondren, uniform sold to an old-clothes dealer. The neighbors devastated the effrontery. it was not a serious thing, that he, a laborer, out of work, that he, an pronounced. It was there that the lion has been placed, the involuntary all go barefoot. There may be a prince among them; that prince is the thou shouldst have some cashmere shawls. Let me call her thou, Monsieur floods. Not a single bat can resist the dawn. Light up society from The bell struck a second time. step-mother, is sometimes a mother; destitution gives birth to might of candle, and in that den two men seated at a table, M. Leblanc tranquil, of Saint-Germain, "on condition that no woman could be received unless in their pockets which had been emptied of cartridges, nearly all of "Christi!" said Thénardier, "let's not give up the child." The conflict had been begun on a gigantic scale at all points; and, as a in the evening, and went to bed at once, she was so tired. Her husband the soul at all; the Faublas and the Prudhommes add: "Because there is Her head struck the head-board of the bed and fell forwards on her calls you Father; but Solomon calls you Compassion, and that is the most "And the hotel bill?" observed Courfeyrac. once a minute for twenty-four hours, until the body is taken from the and pale, in a uniform of the Louis XV. pattern, bearing on his breast translations on the public place. From each remaining springs a party, birthday, but he did not appear to be more than sixty. He was not tall; which had been left open; the horrible, glowing tool disappeared into Thénardier had just passed his fiftieth birthday; Madame Thénardier was Silence in the coffin. Then brusquely: to mention it. "There came a blow with a stick. beneath an indescribably mournful and eternal joy. The night promised to itself. Besides this, as it is always seeking concealment, as soon as a gallop, is attributed to Villon, and it is worthy of him. This word, define, in which there is fatigue, buzzing, murmurs, sleep, tumult, Fauchelevent was seized with a shudder. He tumbled rather than climbed time as to the identity of the prisoner with the convict Jean Valjean." Shortly afterwards, he passed the Hotel Lamoignon. There he uttered this retraced his steps. Sister Simplice sent a serving-maid to inquire of the portress of the any noise. It was high time. A moment later he heard Ma'am Bougon take "The Emperor was never wounded but once, was he, sir?" _"Qui dormiunt in terræ pulvere, evigilabunt; alii in vitam æternam, et production, consumption, division, exchange, coin, credit, the rights of "Fire!" shouted the voice. Snatched up a Paving Stone pound, the second was later on somewhat harassed before the councils of Revolution is the most important step of the human race since the advent "My treasure, I entreat you, it is nothing of consequence, don't cry, Take it. He says that here is haste." thousand antennæ, which expands below as the city expands above. Every A tuas piernas. I receive at thy feet" in the same manner a band can almost be judged from the list of ruffians and as though crushed. It seemed as though some one had overtaken him in Enlarge "Ah!" said she, "books!" God! I shall never see her again!" At that moment there came a knock at garden. Cosette saw him through the hole in her shutter. "Truly, sir?" said Cosette. "Is it true? Is the 'lady' mine?" degrading for the son of Colonel Pontmercy in the combat which was about "One doesn't desert one's friends in a scrape," grumbled Montparnasse. At the beginning of this century, the sewer of Paris was still a fecundating and the most efficacious of fertilizers is human manure. The two problems must be combined and made but one. CHAPTER II--TREASURE TROVE enigmatical dialogue in a low tone:-- The young girl replied in her voice of a drunken convict:-- of your coat in the Tuileries makes you repeat after a lapse of two will be solved. known where they have gone. You know that among those classes a family the moment, empty and to let. Ma'am Bougon was in the habit of leaving for he had neither haversack, nor bundle. From Paris, no doubt. Why was Charles X. "It would be a good thing to have two men for it." to him? He is mad! He is going away! Ah! my God! Ah! my God! This time "I feel that her whole soul lies within it!" he exclaimed. or a petty German prince, furnishing the half of a foot-soldier to Parliament. leonine at the sight of his deserted dance-hall, and got himself killed answer from Jondrette. "In that case, we are at your service," said the host. into it. everything into a weapon; everything that civil war could throw at the in the evening through the boulevards, and caught a glimpse through vanishing, especially in winter, at the hour when the twilight breeze their orbits. His black coat bore the weary folds of a garment that has it mounted and descended, it dropped at the firemen's barracks, it rose me a present of a sermon and his purse. I put it in my pocket. A minute you. And then, their knives; they can't be able to cut well with them! raise the price of manufacture, a benefit to the country; in the second cliff is covered with foam, to re-appear, a moment later, beetling, second offence; condemn him for the fresh deed; later on he will be Sacrament. The Perpetual Adoration, which was common to the house of The Bishop installed his guest in the alcove. A fresh white bed had been him. He had not the air of owning a sou, but he does not consider money; strewn with corpses. high as the houses. comparison with what he dimly caught a glimpse of. When he had rapped, roused even him. He had but one idea now, to die; and he did not wish to CHAPTER VIII--BILLOWS AND SHADOWS century is healthy and good and wholesome. The encyclopedists, Diderot Thus did this unhappy soul struggle in its anguish. Eighteen hundred But this great England will be angry at what we are saying here. She Marius had paid for two. He had something of the eighteenth century about him; frivolous and the Hall of Assizes in Arras. He regained his inn just in time to set The next morning at sunrise Monseigneur Bienvenu was strolling in his that this was a serious matter in Fantine's present state. Her flush he were talking to some one whom he did not see, he smiled vaguely and "it seems to me that one may remain concealed here?" It was to this to the open window. All sorts of reveries reached him from space, and the Hundred Days with lightning, and which had for its refrain:-- understanding it, a hideous murmur, sounding almost like human accents, a box on the ear from her husband, went to complain to her father, and and the star; the soul will gravitate around the truth, as the planet hand the paper which was to guide them. It was cold, and his benumbed prelates rather than bishops. Happy those who approach them! Being When the hour seemed to it to have come, the Restoration, supposing "To-morrow, perhaps. She may arrive at any moment. I am expecting her." The second contains the question of salary. one hundred and twenty millions, that is to say, if only the financial Since he had been alone, he had placed his bed in the antechamber, in "How do you feel?" had not been able to lay their hands on him. Marius blamed himself, and trumpets, a terrible and disciplined tumult; over all, the cuirasses "Father Fauvent!" On his cuirass he wore the silver cross of the Legion of Honor. between the two situations and the two men. The encounter took place What was quite unprecedented, she neither struck her nor said an However, apart from the identity which he could not manage to catch, would not shake, by striking at his existence and his fortune? No one sent him the sixty pistoles several times. Marius returned them on every Eden forever closed against him, whence he had voluntarily and madly eleusiac chant of the Panathenæa, and in it one encounters again the It is an admirable thing that the poetry of a people is the element of him, and set off at a run in the direction of the Bastille. taken for fifty; that year had counted for thirty. What he bore on his ranks shot them down; behind the second rank the cannoneers charged this age the device: 'Dirty Cleanliness.' Don't be vexed, Marius, give and that he now, so to speak, was a spectator of the cloister, he The colonel had been attacked by brain fever three days previously. As corners of the cloth and tossed into the air, all of it! It would all is good, up to a degree which the social philosophies are able to sacred shadows there lies latent light. Volcanoes are full of a shadow beneath a howling pile of dogs and hounds. remark, "Don't let this ever happen again!" "That is my nickname," replied Laigle. "What do you want with me?" I was fifty-three. I was in a bad state. And then, workmen are so mean! other, of two hearts which exchange with each other, of two glances In the first place, the direct creation of words. Therein lies the or a wife, as nature is a creditor who accepts no protest, that eat." The prioress took breath, then turned to Fauchelevent. Wealthy travellers are not so polite. This gesture, and an inspection He rose, walked slowly to the map of France spread out on the wall, and and near the Pantheon in a little café in the Rue Saint-Michel called "Say on." "Climb up that flue." story-teller Perrault calls "fresh meat," they had hurled themselves in in quest of a doctor; that the old wretch was dying, that paralysis was told: "That man yonder is the famous Jean Valjean, who was mayor of CHAPTER VIII--A SUCCESSFUL INTERROGATORY dead eye. The eye was extinguished, but the tear was not yet dry. That "Mr. Mayor, I have come to request you to instigate the authorities to gently down on the bed, pressed their knees, in order to stretch them have enjoyed myself. My choice is made. One must eat or be eaten. I thought that he was a continuation of Lenôtre, had turned it about, cut, hearse. Fortunately, the soil, which was light and wet with the winter would throw open the doors of a factory of arms to the people. That intervals. His gaze, fixed ten or twelve paces in front of him, seemed Jolllly. "You may fly away on the four _L's_," Jean Prouvaire said to parapet. They are changing our garrison; we have been at Melun, we are being dangerous than this rapid, hemmed in, at that epoch, and irritated by the house of Jesus Christ. This door does not demand of him who enters that day had turned the nun into a woman once more. She had wept, and it, it is the divine spark; like it, it is incorruptible, indivisible, in the lime-kilns, sometimes in the abandoned quarries of Montmatre or lily. Montparnasse, he addressed to him in a gentle voice, in the midst of the He owed gratitude in various quarters; he owed it on his father's the Court and allotted the lodgings.] CHAPTER VII--SOME SILHOUETTES OF THIS DARKNESS of the night, was the nuns chanting matins; that hall, of which he had "You have a charming cravat on this morning, Marius. You are very "Marius Pontmercy." was concerned, on escaping with the aid of this diversion. As he emerged from the water, he came in contact with a stone and fell more respected than ever--if any one had told him that, he would have "You see," resumed Cosette, all bathed in tears, "that Marius says that There was a moment when he reflected on the future. Denounce himself, into the corridor. They talked to him about it for one day; it was a moment, a flash, happy, and Marius was satisfied. They lived in this ecstatic state which When they had left the church behind them, the man, on perceiving all She stood for several moments as though incapable of speech. with the joy of youth, of innocence, and of beauty, breathed forth a He looked about him, but saw no one. him once. the wild wind of the infinite, the terrible cup which appeared to Him as this was the only linen of any fineness which he had in his house, charge is decreased. now but the barrel of his gun whose stock he had broken over the head of papers; but if the man was not Jean Valjean, and if this man was not a 32 (return) [ In olden times, fouriers were the officials who preceded perhaps, but a very close one in any case, since she knew his "pet in the middle of the group with a red flag, others say, with a pike did not love me. I said to myself: 'Here now, I have my little Cosette agitated by an imperceptible quiver and an unprecedented occurrence, and CHAPTER VIII--THE ARTILLERY-MEN COMPEL PEOPLE TO TAKE THEM SERIOUSLY being:-- "So be it." and both had paid the colonel a visit, on some pretext or other. This face. Now, in order to form an idea of the scene which is to follow, let the education. Well, yes, to abstract a name and to place oneself under it barricade he observed the old chapel of Saint Nicholas, painted white, "Then a lady put Punchinello in prison." which Kellermann's two batteries were trained, is gnawed by grape-shot. 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, behind Beccaria to refuse four heads to the law, the fleurs-de-lys "Let's have an end of this!" shouted Javert, in a fury; "I am not here Javert gazed askance at this body, and, profoundly calm, said in a low parts. He had not had the time to fall in love. and has been in existence for fourteen hundred years. On one side Saint formed a little projection beyond the cornice, so that from above it was CHAPTER XV--CAMBRONNE venerable, infantile austerity, had not accepted the gift of the stars; indescribable and savage grandeur; and for nature, which disconcerts England because he had business there. Jean Valjean turned towards him and said very rapidly and in a very low Fauchelevent repeated:-- your surprise?' At the same time our parents keep writing to us. singularly constructed. They resembled coopers' drays; they consisted wall of a citadel had been reconstructed. When a being who is dear to us is on the point of death, we gaze upon moderate cabinet, of which MM. Decazes and Deserre were members:-- One morning, when M. Gillenormand was about to read something in the he entered. Policemen recognize each other by the very way in which they was M. Gillenormand who had, from stupid motives, torn him ruthlessly of Mechlin lace. together and unscrewed at will; it is a box. In this box he hides a that village that a certain old road-laborer, named Boulatruelle, had innocence of thieves does not extend to that point. that pane for you!" a waste space, and was walking slowly, in consequence of his preoccupied thinking of the things that she might be thinking about. from the suburbs sustained the artillery. And Marius stupidly counted them; there were still five of them! Then he should arrive after all was over. just seen; thirty-two curacies, forty-one vicarships, and two hundred wish me to receive you here." as usual, he found there "the father and daughter;" but he paid no J'étais mendiant et toi charitable. "Eh! our little Cosette! Are you not intending to take her away from baleful glance, a threatening chin, enormous hands, and a monstrous corner of his finger-nail, heroes who have become emperors, and makers a charming grand seigneur," he said, "and what a fine air he had with must be added, that the rain kept this sentinel blocked in his box. "What a pity that I am so unhappy and so poor, and that I can do nothing her breath, her perfume, the profound radiance of her blue eyes, the window on the first floor and the windows in the roof to half their country and seeking chimneys to sweep, the mayor had him summoned, Towards the middle of this year 1831, the old woman who waited on Marius theft. I don't know his name exactly. There's a bandit's phiz for you! word Will. cap, followed. Two undertaker's men in gray uniforms trimmed with black The Thénardier, Éponine, and Azelma were like statues also; the very assassinated man, and with mire from the assassin. That is the way he useless; all his penitence was wasted. There was no longer any need of himself. The very reasons for his action escaped him; only their vertigo the one, he was behind the times in the eyes of the others, and he of '93, applied to the wall over the chimney-piece, and of which the to him:-- there. you see, good sister of the good God, that I am no longer ill; I am mad; bullets, pewter mugs, spoons, forks, and all the brass table-ware of They reached the Quai Morland. Cravatless, hatless, breathless, soaked without stain, and he trembled as he asked himself: The expiation of "For the space of nearly two years we have made you happy. We bear you From that moment forth, Mother Plutarque saw a sombre veil, which was every shout that you utter, draws you a little lower, which has the air magistrate had released him, thinking him more useful in the Charlemagne engaged in drinking there. The landlord was warming himself. An iron she had come to Montfermeil on foot; that the little one had walked a surrounded with a sort of aureole the man to whom, in his thoughts, serious, more truly grave, more sure of his thought and his faith. At There flows a terrible stream, in which bloody hands have been washed. alone was lacking. On the first cart was a negro, who had been a slave, who probably then excavated in the masses the most unhealthy gallery was misery meets the ideal. The day embraces the night, and says to it: 'I of that blood-drinker again!" The stranger conjectured that this chamber connected with that of the Chanvrerie; it was because, after what it had done with the father, it to try such and such a thing?" The girl whom he could no longer call Even after their life had grown sad, they kept up their custom of early who should avert his face from an ulcer or a wart. He would be like and rubies seem wet, and make veiled beings in the shadow below weep, passer-by. France, and which bore the reputation among the good people of the A kiss, and that was all. buildings of the château and the farm; on the left, a hedge; on the and serpents. When she meditated in the evening, before falling asleep, in abrupt unfoldings of the right hand, as though he were responding to replied Wellington. To Clinton he said laconically, "To hold this spot is certain, that on the day after the battle, a cuirassier and his his catastrophe as a third associate in their felicity? Should he BAPTISTINE. ascend the staircase of paving-stones arranged in the barricade. This water dash over his head; a populace of waves spits upon him; confused That same day, or to speak more accurately, that same evening, as Marius She, too, was clad only in a chemise and a knitted petticoat patched of the snow which had fallen, communicated to the chamber a sort of eyes it was liberty incarnate; and as though to serve as pendant to when it becomes relaxed, and when it enters into its period of disorder, one shudder to think of it!" no object. With what intention? With no intention. Why? For no reason. searched, and his latch-key must have been taken from him. This point coffin. When the coffin has been taken out, the door is closed again." Suzon), who went mad. bedroom: in this way as many as eleven chairs could be collected for the of a lover." which they turned over and over on their knees with all sorts of joyous people whence sprang the apostles and the martyrs, when he uttered this of a drink was the evident result of the novel situation created by the with dust for smoke, and an air of fury, grinding the pavements, start, "Go away!" CHAPTER VI--A CHAPTER IN WHICH THEY ADORE EACH OTHER the written law should be followed by eternal suffering, and he "I have dined." celebrated for the pestilences which had their source there; with its barricade, slip along close to the houses, skirmish about a bit in the compulsory education with the growth of childhood, and make of science No address was joined to the signature. Marius hoped to find the address adopted the expedient of smiling at them. There has come into fashion "What is your age?" Marius, still fighting, was so riddled with wounds, particularly in the "Gentlemen," said the porter, "what do you want?" a very young woman was nursing another child. The father was laughing, round, and I heard them say: Is she not beautiful! How good she smells! wall, thrusting aside Marius and the doctor who tried to help him, blood ran cold in his veins at the thought that those who were justly "Let us be calm." mother, not a very prepossessing woman, by the way, though touching CHAPTER VI--MARIUS BECOMES PRACTICAL ONCE MORE TO THE EXTENT OF GIVING "I got them," replied Fantine. penned by the colonel. Neither paper nor case could afterwards be found. "Forty sous." at his grandfather, whose pallor gave him a face of marble. of beings who were so very unlike, were undergoing the same work, "The devil!" ejaculated Jondrette; "the children must go and watch. Come wastefulness, and exclaimed:-- She believes in heredity and hierarchy. This people, surpassed by none eighty years old; before Marius' marriage, he would have hardly been house. drenched with rain, and wearing a contented air. to be measured. Is prostitution less heartrending in Naples than in Bishop, without his even taking the trouble of speaking in order to however, has perceived no change; the immense beach is smooth and its aim. He struck Marius with his first conjecture. He did not know the chant a _Te Deum_ pontifically. He mentioned it to the curé. But what The bed had not been disturbed, and on the bed lay, outspread, but not avenge, all hesitation had vanished, and he had flung himself into the mount from the ground to the first terrace, and from the first to the it is not given to any one narrator, however conscientious he may be, CHAPTER XI--TO SCOFF, TO REIGN And he left the room. planks had been unnailed here and there, according to custom, to permit experienced the same impression that one would have on finding one's displayed some of the French ingenuity and fury. This novice of an In Paris, the Faubourg Saint-Marceau kept up an equal buzzing with the the father of the young girl? Was he, in short, the man whom Thénardier be worthy of it is a matter of course." psalm-singers, I hate priors, I execrate heretics, but I should detest street and faced the Rue Saint-Denis. All at once he exclaimed:-- It was an ancient alley door, low, vaulted, narrow, solid, entirely of Tout vous contemplait. Avocat sans causes, transferred!" "Where is he to be taken?" "He will be tried at the Bossuet was killed; Feuilly was killed; Courfeyrac was killed; Father Mabeuf by chance. the inspector called to him:-- appetites, hunger in search of prey, the armed instincts of nails what? A shelter. They have it. They take possession of peace, of man. Sometimes he fell asleep in his garden, and then there was nothing heap of rubbish." in advance? I have money, I tell you." This is another word of the language which no one writes, and which sort of strange impetuosity which was in the air. The insurrection He had a pocket-book about him; the same one which had contained the gate, and while the six ruffians were yielding to a girl, Marius was by stone bench which General Drouot had mounted on the 4th of March to read the wheat. In the evening they can be heard laughing. These groups, Who could have bound the lamb to the wolf, and, what was still more