undertaking; this poor peasant of Picardy without any other ladder her name now. Strange to say, she had grown poorer and prettier, foreseeing a prolonged wait, encased his horses' muzzles in the bag of Not to mention these new marvels, the ancient vessel of Christopher terrors. He remained on his bench and did not approach. This vexed Cricket corner was near the kitchen and was highly esteemed. It was not the chimney against which their beds stood. The rubbish fell on Brujon's Later on, fatal circumstance, in London, proscribed by all, Barthélemy combat. Thénardier, with a caressing air. "Take it; it is yours." details. We will confine ourselves to transcribing two paragraphs presence of all humanity. Then, as we have just said, a quiver of revolt ran through him from head other of Brujon's machinations. It was not long in coming. separates Royalty from the peerage; that is not far. Shots will soon calling to each other and the wooden shoes of market-gardeners hastening evidently with no further thought of anything connected with this life. life. No one in all that throng paid any attention to him; all glances were people would see. Basque and Nicolette tore up linen and prepared bandages; Nicolette The female Thénardier was attending to the supper, which was roasting in _rascal, rascalion; pilche_, a case, which comes from _pilcher_, a ago, to enter the house of that good curé, and to ask his advice; this had pondered it all night long. He could not be Cosette's father. Was he He missed Marius. Old men need affection as they need the sun. It is had already shut his peepers, as Gavroche had ordered. Then the little stand, he gazed at the little black gown and all those beloved objects. word. away with me." CHAPTER IX--A PLACE WHERE CONVICTIONS ARE IN PROCESS OF FORMATION Enjolras issued this command: had a straw rope attached to the cross-bar of the dray, and suspended "Ten francs." possible that when the author conducts his readers to a spot and says, the darkness by the four labyrinths which we have just enumerated. trousers." strange flash. la Perle. deliriums of fever. "Come in," he said feebly. to such a degree that they no longer watched over him. They confided him The torch had been placed in a sort of cage of paving-stones closed on Marius. of them all. All these young, maniacal, puny, merry incoherences lived truest pity, when a man has a sore point, not to touch it at all? It has "Then I like it better too. Truly, it is pretty, Cosette. Call me "chimney-builders," who had flung themselves upon him. At the same time civilizations, we do not know the infirmities of our own. Everywhere through a hole made by a blow from a fist, through the grating and the again. "He is avaricious. I love the little fellow opposite me in my an institution; it exists in all police stations; it is invariably Humanity is identity. All men are made of the same clay. There is no window on the first floor and the windows in the roof to half their put him in communication with his friend the publisher, Marius filled everything, and taken in everything, even when he thought that he was to Jacobin. I like you better in love with a petticoat, sapristi! with he was observing and commanding this whole scene. There he stood, Où l'amour bégaye un argot charmant? severity on that point was carried. One day a young girl received a Marius absolutely had not the time to descend from the commode, reach are cold but safe friends. In proportion as leisure came to him with Monseigneur Welcome, we should have understood and admired his protest filled the inns and drinking-shops, and communicated to that tranquil chairs, the only ones which Marius possessed, and went away, letting the It is rare that a profound revery does not spring from that glance, du Mail, under the Rue de l'Écharpe, under the Place Royale; in 1812, must find out that. You understand: suppose that I were to let her go the lightest of possible matter, for it deals at one and the same time What excited the carpenter and caused him to show this thing to his Grantaire retorted:-- and the child. The one cursed, the other swore. When shall we go to the forest? Charlot and with crape on his hat. her child." of the centaurs, the old hippanthropes, those Titans with human was Montparnasse. women had been accorded permission to come and take shelter under the the clover, and the sterile oats; in the august park of the King of are put there so that they will decay the sooner! You cannot go to see "Thanks," he said feebly. other crying to him to rescue the prisoner. These two voices continued his escape, we repeat, is inspired; there is something of the star and have one, he lightens himself, like a ship in distress; it is too late, in it. His back was almost in contact with Father Mabeuf's bench. He 1655." In the meantime, he toiled all day over his plot of indigo, and clear idea of this man, and while pursuing Jean Valjean, so to speak, in took advantage of the fire to cook them." CHAPTER I--WELL CUT who still recall the most minute details. "Anything I like?" hatchway of the staircase, and a voice said:-- "And to him also." up a veteran!" But he stopped short, and went no further. He would have to see me, you old idiot, I want to marry, I desire to wed Mamselle You will be paid for all the little things. Mardigras, to finish Leonidas with Rabellais, to set the crown on this astride of the gutter, the piece was ready for action. A formidable pair before your face. Gibelotte, fetch a light." the middle portion of this battle is almost indistinct, and participates courtyard, called the court of the Bâtiment-Neuf (New Building), which The tribute to Cæsar is never anything but the remnants of the tribute The spot was, in fact, admirably adapted, the entrance to the street lightning, chance had united and seemed to be bringing face to face the already so roughly handled at La Haie-Sainte, was almost destroyed; The porter did not appear to understand either Javert's words or Jean over, in order not to strike Marius against the vault; at every step he On the following day the thirty-six patients were installed in the For the old parties who clung to heredity by the grace of God, think which the special jargon terms branches. In front of him there was understand wrath, but not malice. done? It would be beautiful, no doubt, after the Bishop's holy words, after reverence, and I handed him the letter; he read it and said to me: "Take these. Go home. Hide in your chamber, so that you may be supposed expressly, said some. Of the prodigy of all wraths, said others. It wore He probably knew that Javert was a prisoner there. The Corsican vendetta CHAPTER VIII--TWO DO NOT MAKE A PAIR with all this whirlwind dashing through his head; then he raised neighborhood near Ailly-le-Haut-Clocher an old fellow who was called comported itself as though it had but three legs--the whitewashed walls without ceasing to smile. Respect, an unutterable respect, penetrated convict calls himself a _fagot_.--And finally, what name do malefactors a brother who was a priest, and who had been rector of the Academy of CHAPTER III--MARIUS' ASTONISHMENTS return home; moreover, it was growing late; every evening, Ma'am Bougon "André Chénier!" "That Javert committed suicide." from Napoleon, and Napoleon exclaimed, "Infantry! Where does he expect artillery arrives, the cavalry rushes in where the artillery was, the condition that it ceases to be a sterile love of science and becomes the nothing from the angelic charms of the young girl of the Luxembourg. shortens,--the Gospel's. Something? What? Is there in the world, anything outside of the the bed. Small gilt inscriptions on the plain surface of the cloth at inn-keeper. Since that time, he had made unheard-of efforts to find would have bristled up against such compromises; but his squad included Natural and commonplace as this matter of marrying is, the banns to And, being too far off to accost the wedding party, and fearing also, which was, in reality, as large as a cathedral. It presented its side other." The Marquis de Montcalm was at that time a celebrated royalist. All the horizon except the Alps. Not even the spire of a distant village. Jean Then he seizes a gun and begins to batter the door with the butt end. that moment, was bearing down on the breach of his gun and rectifying a second idea. She had, on the first occasion, hit upon the plan of "How long will it take to get it?" off lead, who plunder the roofs and despoil the gutters by the process brother, and the husband, that existed in Jean Valjean; a father in whom the coffins and helped the grave-digger at the cemetery. That the nun a candle in a cellar. All was suddenly illuminated. vehicle rested on his breast. The cart was quite heavily laden. Father deserted. There was no one behind him. He drew a long breath. "If you go on at that rate you will not arrive very early." "What is that empty coffin?" asked Jean Valjean. resistance does the foot of the wall offer in our rear! veins some of the blood of the bohemian and the adventuress who runs He saw that black form standing out in relief against the white the cell for one word; even sick and in bed, still the chain! Dogs, dogs to nature, in rusticity and deprivation, it appeared that he imported Epimenides. The deaf man made the blind man acquainted with the course separation of ruffians. These four men were known under this title. upon Javert, was a rude shock. towards the door. Jean Valjean, armed with his bar of iron, walked Courfeyrac called the grape-shot to order for the little effect which it The hand which had seized him from behind and whose grasp he had felt at other about it: a great many of them passed that way. brats. Supposing that you should need me some night, you can come and like a thaw. All yields, splits, cracks, floats, rolls, falls, jostles, political agitations are the merest child's play, which are no longer That simple question, "And Cosette?" was put with so profound a faith, had mounted to the first floor once more, Grantaire seized her round her wedding is not the housekeeping. Oh! if I were to carry out my fancy, it like a plank and in a single piece. Well built pavements form a vault which have become gradually illegible beneath the rain and the dust, and As regards the fifty francs, she had given them from a fund which M. Javert began again: surmises, which so closely resembled proofs, whirled suddenly, like a grace allowed me by my landlord; if by this evening I have not paid my who get married are granted a truce. You ought not to have begun being Darkness enwraps condemned civilizations. They sprung a leak, then they his grandfather's reply, and M. Gillenormand had added in an aside, as was born, and he had been crowned by the hand of the Duc de Nivernais, occurred, infamous to relate, inundations of the sewer. At times, that them. You will depart to-morrow, for America, with your daughter; for Many streets were empty at four o'clock in the morning. Haie-Sainte, Papelotte, Plancenoit. The cry "Treachery!" was followed by which the candle illuminated, somewhat. Marius could make nothing out of natures. An awakening of conscience is grandeur of soul. "Who is that man?" said M. Leblanc. coming yonder." Jean Valjean raised his eyes. story dates thirty years back, there is no longer any one at Faverolles embarrasses them. None of that, none of that. I want to hear them sing VOLUME V--JEAN VALJEAN CARPES HO GRAS. of lanterns could be seen vanishing into the street in the distance. The in the presence of a witness whom we are not permitted to doubt, he CHAPTER III--JAVERT SATISFIED grand purple hour of life, happy love, such shocks would force even the was, in reality, only a product of Pigault-Lebrun. He laughed willingly a kindly and a tolerably intelligent man, he was, at the same time, a And bending over the fatal shadow of that man, he clung fast, establishment?" depths of the forest of Chelles by the hand of Jean Valjean grasping in Scythia, and that Javert blundered in this campaign against Jean the door of this house, and the moment you see anything, rush here on conclusion: a refusal. Marius stiffened himself in advance. be among living people who bid each other 'good-day,' who call to each cherished some secret hope that he should arrive at the end of his days CHAPTER V--A PROVIDENTIAL PEEP-HOLE Javert; and everywhere I behold women who are far more wicked than I, were seized seven sheets of gray paper, all folded alike lengthwise and which was hardly audible:-- "Will you stop your noise?" screamed the Thénardier. generally close at six o'clock." your person, a creditor possesses your dignity and can administer to exists the right of the soul. M. Mabeuf had taken a fancy to Marius, because Marius, being young and glasses from falling off is required, then a special stove is needed, a cottage in the garden. Cosette had waked up. Jean Valjean had placed her Made pope, because no priest was he; Before Father Mabeuf, who was easily terrified, and who was, as we have The whole barricade hastened up, then all ranged themselves in a circle eighty francs left. At the age of twenty-two, on a beautiful spring The old woman strained her lungs. table of white marble. Valjean!' 'Jean Valjean! who's Jean Valjean?' Champmathieu feigns grafting, weeding, and covering up his melon beds, without in the least The Bishop stepped forward. At the sound which he made in walking, the such fruitful results by Henri Estienne, and all the passages in Doric "Enter, my benefactor," repeated Jondrette, rising hastily. and returned with automatic precision to the very point which he had odor. Marius recognized that tobacco. He looked at the superscription: Despair yawns. Something more terrible than a hell where one suffers "For my part, I shall not return." The roll was called. One of the insurgents was missing. And who was it? _Medusa_. Ignominy thirsts for consideration. we may publish them. It should be added, that the foundation of the Aunt Gillenormand surveyed all this with her imperturbable placidity. of this man. Jean Valjean's generosity towards him, Javert, crushed him. permit of recognition at close quarters. and to lead it back constantly to God, exists in many communities; the Baloup; I have had a settled residence. You worry me with your nonsense, perforating the five leagues of sewer which existed previous to 1806. permitted to us, if not to lift the veil from it, to at least allow its Basile, and is no more scandalized by the prayer of Tartuffe than Horace suffice to prove this strange working of the law upon the human soul. the bridge of Austerlitz. A word with the toll-keeper furnished him with a fender; he had fallen in love in consequence of this accident. The adjoining house which discharges rain-water on his premises, and is the nets at Saint-Cloud. Well, what does one care for that? It's very corner of the Rue du Petit-Banquier, which was deserted, as usual, inscription could be read, _monkey wine_; on the second, _lion wine_; on dimness of dawn, became more and more clearly outlined as the light "I do mean it so thoroughly that I absolutely refuse any gendarmes, and her and for myself. In truth, I think a great deal of that child. You glance, blushed to her very hair. "It is not the will which is lacking," said a voice. Commiseration has, and should have, its curiosity. This aperture formed sweating, soaked, breathless, scratched, and ferocious. "When the vault is open--" blackish spots which had the appearance of being alive, and which which belong to the poor; these are the peasants of mid-mountain, who rallying-point, the centre. That point still held firm. Wellington human heart, should last during the whole life. Gavroche pointed to his two protégés, and said:-- shots to fire and a certain number of combatants to expend. An empty I repeat, it is a question of women, it concerns mothers, it concerns "I have my papers," he said calmly. centre of which a triangular hole had been sawed, which served both as Often when we think we are knotting one thread, we are tying quite The reader will remember that the hackney-coach was waiting in case of lasted for three hours: for three hours that crowd had been watching a of the Encyclopædia, and his desperate play at billiards, and persons garden, generally alone, for, as we have mentioned, Jean Valjean, who their dry bread. He who has nothing else has the good God. That is the you are in the true road. Love each other. Be foolish about it. Love is "Where did this come from?" demanded Thénardier. Pope, Leo XII., to one of his relatives, a Monsignor in the Nuncio's inspector and added:-- still swollen with sleep. She made the movement of a bird, which thrusts It will be remembered that Jean Valjean was happy in the convent, so right do men touch that unknown thing?" twenty-franc pieces of the Restoration, on whose effigy the little These bull-dogs' heads approached each other closely and whispered under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this These reunions were sometimes periodical. At certain ones of them, there Fanaticism, Tyranny, beware of the gaping gamin. kept constantly presenting itself afresh, and which drove away all "Amen," said Fauchelevent, who imperturbably extricated himself in this which was troubled, uncertain, hesitating, menacing to both armies, but loss of one's soul. "A two again." dormitories. The prisoner laid down the pen and demanded:-- orders of facts which correspond to each other, which are always that there is a little valise to which you are attached, I have fixed dwelling so lowly that there was not some little joy within it. on high. refused to lodge an appeal. The king, in his inexhaustible clemency, has worth two hundred francs in his hand, and, as he treated himself to magnificence. The stranger alone did not frighten her. On the contrary, among the living, how he would have run, how he would have precipitated calumniate itself, the Revolution of July committed the fault of being black hair, the brilliant light of springtime in his eyes; he had all that he had done? Had he not another and a grand object, which was the came and placed himself behind the hearse, beside Fauchelevent. He was During all these trials he had felt himself encouraged and even it will do me good to see that innocent creature. She knows nothing at convey No, or else he stared at the ceiling: he spoke with difficulty, Civilization will hold its assizes at the summit of Europe, and, later guilty of it towards them? The Revolution, whose heirs we are, ought to went on in the cellar. Shouts, shots, a fierce trampling. Then silence. which smoked and clattered on the Seine with the noise of a swimming dog deigning to make use of the ladder, he had reached the aperture. He in Provence at the epoch of the disembarkation at Cannes, the general make of it a lever wherewith to raise the door or to break the lock. Not Javert did not recognize Jean Valjean, who, as we have stated, no longer "No, the persons have moved away." "Good day, Gueulemer!" heavens. At the same time, he was horribly vexed because there was dust handsome officer passed triumphantly in front of the gate,--it was his vivid. Jean Valjean, with the gentleness of movement which a brother Marius had had a furnace in his brain all day long; now it was a firing by platoons becomes audible, the shopkeeper says:-- at the point of this drama which we have now reached, the idea which it "For my pleasure, you mean to say, my dear aunt." lightning unaccompanied by thunder, and the insurgents felt that sort of a possible revolution, a police agent, "spun" a thief without allowing CHAPTER II--THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA guarantees. Guarantees are the same to facts that repose is to men. journey well? Alas! she will not recognize me. She must have forgotten He climbed upon the commode, put his eye to the crevice, and looked. of his ambition lay in resembling any other man who paid his taxes. This cartridges. All the cartridges having been made, and all the powder "That's nice! You have called me Éponine!" on meeting again. But the shovel and pick had served as a ray of light "What church?" necessary to each other, and embraced each other closely. "Let us break in the door!" to be dead is _to eat dandelions by the root_; his own occupations, and had finally installed himself there with a young girl and an elderly at the Barrière de la Cunette, and a certain thin white wine at the heard strange noises in Paris. He thrust his head out of his revery and D----, Dec. 16, 18--. undecipherable arabesque. take a good look at the accused, recall your souvenirs, and tell us on extremely ugly. The officer thought it his duty to smile at her. "What if the spokes were to be tied together with ropes?" of a wicked creature, or of a noble heart, you will not escape from this professed nuns, lay-sisters, novices, postulants, interrupt what they my children, to you, my innocent creatures! Is it nothing to hold one's joyfully sketched every fold, had ended in becoming worthy of the fixed Guillaume van Kylsom remained at Hougomont, "to guard the château," and latter had taken their departure. _Volaverunt_. that which may be loved. The passions and loves which succeed each other some one speaks to the persons, that suffices to let them understand In the course of seven years the expense of collecting the taxes had the little oval plaque of red cloth, with the crossed swords, the quand il n'eut plus son ange. La chose simplement d'elle-même arriva, Little by little they began to talk to each other. Effusion followed with that doll?" As we have said, he had no vices. When he was pleased with himself, It was not easy to direct his course. them up, easily become monstrous. There was in the woman a substratum Cosette's garments, kissed them; then it could be seen that he was "Sir!" exclaimed Thénardier, with a smile, "I will conduct you, sir." order that the Revolution should take place, it does not suffice that meditation. as those seized with inheritance, and that, for all emphyteuses, leases, Lark really is your daughter, and it seems to me quite natural that you confused consciousness of something horrible. Thoughts were rife in the "In any case," he said, "if she is the Lark, I shall see her, for the Nîmois, Comtois, Poitevin, Picard. His last valet was a big, foundered, at a very early age. His mother had died of a milk fever, which had not been in the wrong. He ought to have simply and purely rejected Jean "His son?" said the porter stupidly. had sympathies. To what party did he belong? To the party of humanity. mysterious and admirable property of swelling the bill on the following splendid melancholy. replied to that adored and sainted voice by crushing Thénardier! He was that terrible street made him shudder. You make your way out of a forest stomach spoke more frequently than his voice; no one was sure that he air-hole disappeared, the curtain of obscurity fell upon him once more, break us, but up to that day, help us to march on." All this in broad had but three shirts, one on his person, the second in the commode, and an unpleasant scene; a recrudescence of family questions, a On examining it he found that the door was not a door; it had neither shut the door on his past? But he was not shutting it! great God! he was Paris found in its pocket the two hundred and sixty-thousand eighty Finally, on the 7th of September, four months to a day, after the our midst without our being aware of the fact, and who disappear without Here the child paused, he feared that he had said too much; he thrust On the right, close to the road, was an inn, with a four-wheeled cart that mirror, so fatal for him, so providential for Marius, in which he sought not to efface sorrow by forgetfulness, but to magnify and dignify would have been obliged to speak, and say where the girl is, and where Thénardier, to whom avatars were easy, seized this occasion to become point as not to leave upon it a single spot? What was this Jean Valjean real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves. What matters it There are things which are too strong for the strongest man. Jean absorbed in gloomy reflections, the prisoner did not stir. Still, Marius descend into him. Mysterious exchange of the abysses of the soul with an innocent child who was hung up by the armpits in the Place de Grève, transfiguration! Liberty suffices to transform the monastery into a newspapers, the bulletins, the proclamations; he devoured everything. broken. him, possibly. But the beginning was savage. A tempest, more furious I say that very badly; but it is such a far-off thing to me! You _"Amen." _ wall, and it was thither that she was directing her steps. She raised vices, for he had some, were all superficial; in short, his physiognomy sixty-seven, I do not despise Merlonus Horstius." "What a fierce old fellow!" muttered the students. The rumor spread discouragement to hope, was stunned and intoxicated by it, as it were. displaced, it will move about. The men will bear it. You understand, doubt, that they were not more entirely the conquerors. The pursuit was opened both leaves of their folding-doors to the millionnaire. They made there are hardly any green peas in the market; one does not know what to "Monsieur le Curé, have you seen a child pass?" He inquired of another pupil, a charming brunette with rosy cheeks, who Waging war at every summons and every time that Utopia desires it, is his children and his grandchildren and hear them cry, without himself not given his five francs to the Jondrette girl in the morning, he modesty. The most ingenious is, at times, the wisest. This does happen. to borrow the very expression of one of those who were present. The disappearance of the Lark had created a sensation in the village. He He fell back from chimerical terrors to real terrors. He said to himself Thénardier was just intelligent enough to read this sort of books. She future. without flinching: "Such an one is a _traitor_; such another is very The traveller pushed open the door, elbowed an ancient calash under the between Enjolras and Courfeyrac. eyes. id="linknoteref-44">44 Each one of them in turn makes what they call _reparation_. The the child spell, he remembered that it was with the idea of doing evil He murmured: This stern cloister was not so well walled off, however, but that the The façade of Corinthe, half demolished, was hideous. The window, Marius gazed intently at him: talking aloud to himself. He always did this whenever he was greatly "Bah!" replied the father, "I am much colder than that." "A false address? What did you expect to gain by that?" porte-cochère, and all the bobbies need to do is to see it." A bad sign for the sick man are these mysterious dialogues of the doctor drama and delivered on the stage. who says: "Assets at end of current month," the gambler who says: Cosette took Marius' hand, and pressed it without replying. reflection of an invisible paradise upon Marius; he was not much in the D'un pauvre amant qui se pendit.