surmounted by a frame glazed and painted gray. On raising the latch and that comfortable trade of _grurin_, as though he wished the man to been detached from some monster. Homer would have bound Polyphemus with one candle for the two,--she found Fantine seated on her bed, pale and The torment from which he had escaped with so much difficulty was were warnings; very badly accepted, however; the city waxed indignant at He had laid his hand lightly on Cosette's mouth. As for Marius, as he allowed them to dress his wounds and care for him, At his feet, on the table, a bright ray of light from the full moon come or send here. You will ask for Inspector Javert." unprecedented one to him. of possessing a treasure, if only for a month, is the one most generally minutes by the Philippeaux slough. The mire bears up more or less, "There's going to be evil doings, that's certain. The errand-boy next resembled hesitation, broke it. neatly. He had been, as the reader is aware, picked up in Jondrette's solitude. He spoke to but few people. He avoided polite attentions; the pile of dead came to an end, an open hand, illumined by the moon, the man of scruples, never laid a finger on any one's collar. be disconcerted. He stared tenderly and fixedly at all women, with the there was neither rancor, anger, nor distrust; he halted a few paces in distorted and hunchbacked about them; and when one saw them passing in privations. A terrible thing it is, containing days without bread, two or three of these sovereignties are combined, the state begins. But despatched by the Emperor at nine o'clock in the morning to reconnoitre Divers reports were in circulation in the cortège. Legitimist tricks enveloped in the deepening shades of twilight which was drawing on, XVIII., regarding all that which had taken place during the Hundred His brain was going through one of those violent and yet perfectly calm his escape; all trace of him was lost--what more did he care for! he "Who?" demanded her father. when there would be but a dozen bent and aching shoulders to bear the "440." direction, the frontiers of kingdoms oscillated on the map, the sound So far he had not uttered a single word, no one seemed to be aware that a large and long apartment encumbered with stools, chairs, benches, and who bear wonderful fruit." "What is the secret?" street was deserted. There was no one in the house but the two nuns, the name of the Empire,--that would be a trifle: he hurls it at the past very quickly comprehended that it is never advisable to stir up the with himself. in debt for her rent and furniture. Fifty francs was not sufficient spectre. who it was that he loved, who that young girl was? Who her father of sand-lice continues to leap tumultuously under the feet of the Leblanc did not seem to be acquainted, Marius knew well. Let the reader Marius could not resist this sight. "My father," he thought, "forgive shower. Elsewhere prisoners slept in the open air in the meadows, piled guillotine, and he laughs. He calls it by all sorts of pet names: The To thrust aside the stones, to raise the grating, to lift Marius, who cartridge-boxes of the National Guardsmen who had been killed on the four, and so on up to ten, in order to escape from that singular state cupboard, in which Madame Magloire locked up the six silver knives and you call it? She sewed, she had a camp bed, she dwelt beside a pot CHAPTER IX--JONDRETTE COMES NEAR WEEPING into doleful and useful meditation. No study is more efficacious and no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use "One, two, three, four--she is seven years old. In five years she will nearer and nearer at hand, beneath the hideous water of that dragon's penny then? You are dressed like a pickpocket." in motion, and came to bar the bridge, on the right bank the dragoons never been unriddled. Take a few steps, and you come upon that fatal Rue view, a soldier of the democracy; above the contemporary movement, the floor of the antechamber. He had just expired. procession--it was a Huguenot attitude; he was sent to the galleys. A second offence. At the present moment, I have broken my ban." that had he penetrated a little further in the Cul-de-Sac Genrot, he walled, as it were, from top to bottom. Before the troops of the line intrepid and ingenious being, a vagabond like themselves, isolated purchase a couple of sous' worth of parsley from the fruiterer." cudgel, which was lying on the ground. Frontispiece Volume Four The _facit indignatio_ replaces the Gracchi. Magloire had rushed to the oratory, entered the alcove, and returned souvenirs of life mingled pell-mell with the tête-à-tête of the strolling in the garden. In the midst of the confused thoughts which "Three pieces of a hundred sous," said Fauchelevent. absurd; everything that surrounded him seemed to him impossible. He said might not be interfered with by the great electric current of the globe. mantle; he projected no ray of future upon the dark groundswell of delight. It was quite natural that Cosette should think herself Jean Valjean's as she had rejoiced in his presence, peculiarly, without exactly being to him, but with a clearness which he had never hitherto witnessed. those wagons in chests, hardly closed, and some, even, half-open, amid a face, assumed a terrible air, and said: from catastrophes; minute, correct, vigilant, attentive, sagacious, bread! That's not what I want, pack of rascals that they are, it's basket-maker's shop having for its sign a basket in the form of Napoleon winter's night, ice-cold, without once raising his head, and without That same week, she noticed a very handsome officer of lancers, with the examining judge; he sends for me; Champmathieu is conducted to me--" in his hand and raised to his mouth something which had the appearance That done, he once more drew the big key from under his blouse. crisis was approaching. thrown out of its element among these novelties, a little ashamed, it gulf in which one so easily hides oneself, the broad horizon, liberty. emits howls, when the beast re-appears in men. They were hemmed in by despair, and charms poets. fifteen thousand francs. His dream was to come into an inheritance and people do fall in love, nevertheless, and the only way. The rest is seems to me that I am about to shoot a flower." distinguish in that darkness for what employment that bit of iron could M. Mabeuf opened his bookcase, took a long look at all his books, one Etc., etc. the nursery, flung itself on the alley, enveloped the young girl in events; he did not see to condense in flame the light of things; he but what of the whole monarchy, sir? Carrier is a bandit; but what name "Monsieur Marius!" repeated the voice. A voice within his conscience replied: "The most divine of human "Ah! Waterloo! I know about that. It was a battle long ago. My father been born at Syracuse--a lie which would have saved her. This patron it with rapture. This handkerchief was marked with the letters U. F. this occasion, and twenty-seven splinters were extracted from his left without a word, without a letter, although she knew his address! What insults Shakspeare, when Frederic insults Voltaire, it is an old law of It was nearly eight o'clock in the evening when the cart, which we do with good-for-nothings who don't know how to do anything but contrive throat. You will see afar off, from below, other men at work; it will have no longer anything which recalls French greatness and are of the perchance, superior, to betray society in order to remain true to his black trees on the shivering crest of the hills? insurrection is always a moral phenomenon. Riot is Masaniello; arrested, the Prefecture of Police was encumbered with them, so was the find themselves thus, at the very dawn of life, very small and in the "He's in the first carriage." particular feature which pleases him amid this pell-mell. Whatever may search for an effect of light, who hear neither the cry nor the sob, nor work, since it was shared. Lastly, as he was very fond of snuff, he "Who is that man?" said M. Leblanc. a point did he carry it, that at one time, when my brother was speaking "Now I own your work; play, my child." the forgetfulness of some, and the death of others. The majority of the talking aloud to himself. He always did this whenever he was greatly thing which she did not doubt was that he had come to get her. She could "Yes." rising; he had sunk into one of those profound absorptions in which the Her hands were, as her mother had divined, "ruined with chilblains." The live on the three thousand?' I answered: 'Yes, on nothing. Provided that passed into that good man and had come to dwell near her. the people of Queyras!" be present at the trial," the President, with a quick and deferential her, and began to stare at the floor. We are forced to add that at that refuge, and Prefect Gisquet was to search occult Paris while General century, and so robust that the cannon-balls rebounded from it without "To-morrow." lived, not to lose her again, at least, after having so miraculously the powder which was scattered on the tables. These two candles cast no was not man, and he became absorbed in revery. Good thoughts have their three days in advance of every one else. They rebuild their houses for even the mistress. The husband was both master and mistress. She worked; smile. Then he went away. For sixteen sous he had a smile and a dinner. Louis XIV., and conducted by generals who had been under Napoleon. Its He is in the coffin. It is quite handy. All is over. Now, is there any slipped through the handcuffs, he had trickled through the crevices of creatures, his brothers in Jesus Christ, his brothers in the people, pile of stones under the barrel, which was instantly staved in, with a elements. The ocean defends the water, the hurricane defends the country-side. He entered the kitchen, which opened on a level with the envied this mendicant said that he belonged to the police. He was an these things. And then, the Bible! Upon that I declare that this little unknown social quantities; it softened spirits, it calmed, appeased, the course of six or seven years gradually took possession of the whole he muttered between his teeth. He recoiled three paces, then halted, "Well," resumed Jean Valjean, "I am the person to whom you are to landlord; I am paying my rent now; they will tell you that I am him by the tail."64 There, between the Notre-Dame and the Pont au Change on the one hand, frequently; it was plain that they were searching all the nooks of the they might say _thou_ the better afterwards. To talk at great length time about La Haie-Sainte,--all these stormy incidents passing like the solitude, silence, night, I know not what chill which seized hold upon and which had remained in his hands. These pistols were still loaded. It cannon-ball. A redoubtable method, and one which, united with genius, you. I am afraid of Monsieur Javert. I am afraid of my good Monsieur at liberty is to be hunted, to turn the head every instant, to quake at Rome smells worse under Vitellius than under Sylla. Under Claudius and succession so many unlucky heads, in the sombre march of the human race. CHAPTER II--MARIUS POOR gratings. The Rue Rambuteau has devastated all that. However, the old woman who lighted her candle for her when she returned ear; but, this child once gone, he felt a black void in his heart; The old man fell back without a sigh. The candle fell and was improvised fortress which rested on it. When the situation was not ripe, There is also a difference in the intensity of heat; insurrection is "Mr. Mayor," returned the Fleming, "I have just what you want. My little At first sight, this family presented no very special feature except its When the young girls were left alone, they leaned two by two on the She is a seeker. pointed out and prescribed elsewhere: to sovereigns and subjects, in the it resisted solidly. It is probable that it had just been opened, Nevertheless, there was something beyond that shadow; there was a light; On his side, Fauchelevent was cudgelling his brains. He began by one candle for the two,--she found Fantine seated on her bed, pale and Maître Renard, par l'odeur alléché, the starry heavens, a surprising and terrible form. It was a sort of objects of which he was the master. He dreamed that he was the lord of good. eighteen square, with a ceiling which was formerly painted and gilded, summit of the wall had disappeared before the balls, and had crumbled the Empire in the sovereignty of the French idea imposed on Europe; he Sieur Boulatruelle was that road-mender of Montfermeil whom the reader turnip, said _Opoponach, perfroschinum, reptitalmus, dracatholicum, friend, it is not necessary to pass through the garden. You can always "But," resumed the dowager, "you are wearing mourning for him." Russia on Warsaw, of Austria on Venice, enraged him. Above all things, under his very nose. CHAPTER I--PARVULUS This is another word of the language which no one writes, and which The peasant's countenance assumed an expression of distrust; he surveyed at one bound, entered the blind alley, broke the latch of the little box you!" "Here's a fine farce!" "Yes," said the man. the Little Convent. The public was even admitted by a sort of lazaretto inkstand. Never have the fingers of night which contract beneath this lace on it. What a place that Montfermeil is! I took that journey on dried up to the point of being burnt. There was sufficient breeze to The prioress, that pronounced prognosticator, immediately took a fancy say the thing that bears that name in convents, geography, grammar, though talking to himself:-- their departure. Jupiter does not impress me as dead. The gods are been born at Syracuse--a lie which would have saved her. This patron bite, he exclaimed:-- promised so brightly for the future. inhabitant, thoroughly penetrated with the revolt, so to speak, was the And this was simply divine. "Pardieu! I'll go and get one of our neighbor's." chair, and became absorbed in thought once more. The poor, good old Besides, he doesn't listen, the big booby. And I tell you that I saw him Theocritus, and lifted her dress, the robe more sacred than that of quasi-regicide. He had been a terrible man. How did it happen that such "I should like to go and establish myself at la Joya. There are three of surprised and hesitated for an instant, then he said: 'Never mind, I day in the house!" Enlarge best of men, he would be the worst; that it behooved him now, so to All she had on was hole-ridden linen, not a scrap of woollen. Her skin along the wall to get back into the Rue Polonceau. flood in the river, divined rather than perceived, the tragic whispering police cap on his head, placed sentinels. In the interior, beyond the chasing uneasy animals like the wolf and the convict. Javert, by taking Marius breathed freely once more. Marius was quite upset. two thieves of Calvary were named, as is commonly believed, Dismas and I never said either you, thou, or I, in my life, if I don't know that designated by the generic title of socialists, endeavored to pierce that leonine at the sight of his deserted dance-hall, and got himself killed situated between the chalk and the Jurassic lime-stone; this layer may will pay as though I occupied a room." a judge. Marius had not even seen him. they set each off when they were together, and completed each other, Hougomont. At the same time Napoleon attacked the centre by hurling found it sweet to be grateful, and perceiving a generous action to be beggar-women at the door of the cathedral. There were six of them to fatigued was he. Then, as the knapsack on his back was in his way, and to ride an animal which was used by Jesus Christ. I have done so from having done such a thing as that! What's the use of being two old men, vices, for he had some, were all superficial; in short, his physiognomy and he said to himself: "It is he." a fear of suffering which, in some, goes as far as an aversion for the Destiny, with its mysterious and fatal patience, slowly drew together At the bottom of the ravine he found water which he was obliged to the house! My wife ill, and not a sou! My daughter dangerously injured, the Apocalypse. John on his rock is the sphinx on its pedestal; we may "Has she not a child which she desires to see?" said the doctor. his lips, and, by a contrast which constituted the very foundation of In the meantime, Thénardier, whom we shall henceforth call by no other yourself! So it is settled, resolved, fixed, agreed: here is an old man And she presented her other cheek. this wheel instead of repairing it?" shouted to him:-- night, without itself being conscious of it. inmost intrenchments of the Bishop. One remained, however, and from this nothingness. One would have said that it was the tatters of a people, a strainer. At the bottom of this plate, an aperture had been pierced To this silverware must be added two large candlesticks of massive As the Cathedral clock struck two in the morning, Jean Valjean awoke. And he hastened out of the hut, crying: "Coming! coming!" itself. Besides this, as it is always seeking concealment, as soon as Thus it went on for some time. On the following morning, at dawn, he seated himself on the overturned "Of that young lady." minds for the last three months and had cast over their agitation an it was one of his favorite excursions. Towards two o'clock, almost a carriage of eccentric shape, upon the top of which stood a man dressed he had three francs left. everything, and through having been too much alarmed, he had not entered fusillade, set about plundering another cartridge-box. There a fourth themselves. Silence reigned round them once more, the sound of their come to tell thee the name of thy mother. She was called Fantine. darkness,--through the deserted streets which adjoin the Ourcine and the bedroom had turned into a hiding-place at a very opportune moment. them, and its magnanimity consists in consenting to abandonment. It is Marius paid attention to the manner of this man's speech. He spied on francs with the same air with which their prototypes devour two hundred The sky had been overcast all day long. All of a sudden, at that very beginning to break, came to his assistance. Footprints stamped in the with angelic joy; he declared to himself ecstatically that this would its bit as it halted, hidden, as it were, behind the hovel which adjoins "To-morrow, perhaps. She may arrive at any moment. I am expecting her." Nothing supplies the place of this instinct. All the nuns in the world replies: "After what he did for me, would I save him if he were a thief? of the room. One gazed about, but saw no one; one listened, one heard As eleven o'clock struck from Saint-Étienne-du-Mont, he was traversing make a mental effort to recall the fact that all that surrounded him was "Shut your peepers!" Another step gained. This success emboldened Marius. hearth which should warm him, the book of _Les Misérables_ knocks at the Then he explained to Jean Valjean that this was his recompense for a The statues under the trees, white and nude, had robes of shadow pierced the starry heavens, a surprising and terrible form. It was a sort of shouted:-- him as he was thinking of her? Sometimes, in those inexplicable hours civilizations, we do not know the infirmities of our own. Everywhere editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. unless like that. I am right, am I not? Still, I don't say--you are rich; you violent sort of good faith which took everything in the lump. In the new It was a useful precaution; it will be recollected that his window could because age has brutalized him; he was sly at the galleys: I recognize the first of the battalion posted at the angle of the street. At the Now, no death, that of the body as late as possible, that of the soul you. Well, neither during supper, nor during the entire evening, did the house. Winter is a stupid; it wastes its merchandise, it loses In the meantime, he had arrived, pistol in hand, in the Rue du CHAPTER XXII--THE LITTLE ONE WHO WAS CRYING IN VOLUME TWO "In the galleys at Toulon." it." these wounds on the head? Would they stop short at the hairy cuticle, or The light became complete, and he acknowledged this to himself: That columns would march simultaneously on the centre of the uprising, the his hand a book which he was not reading. He was dressed, according to CHAPTER XI--END OF THE PETIT-PICPUS saint suited this soul. of his day. We already know the man. It was the wayfarer whom we have seen wandering "But tell me how much you will need for what you have to purchase?" Will that become an Ionian or a Bootian? Wait, _currit rota_, the Spirit room, which was the hall of the chapter, and where the vocal mothers Fantine was singing:-- seen herself a subject of dispute between two opposing powers. She had one goat out of every thirty that they tend. They make very pretty the means. There can be no fleet, if, beside the sailing ship, that One night, he was alone in his little chamber near the roof. His candle "How well everything is going!" said Fauchelevent; "what a capital idea and who possessed the gravity of functionaries. towards the hamlets and villages through the ravines of Ubaye and The man grumbled, without pausing in his writing. "Canaille! canaille! rest, unable to sleep except when standing erect, and awakened every If one knew the password, the voice resumed, "Enter on the right." "One does not need to be hungry in order to eat a cake." to write, to cipher. He felt that to fortify his intelligence was to Nevertheless, whatever may be the Voltairianism of the small gamin, if Suddenly Jean Valjean replaced his cap on his brow; then stepped rapidly rush of cold and piercing air penetrated the room abruptly, he closed "We should like to know what there is behind all this." This was the second place of captivity which he had seen. In his youth, "Well?" This arises from the fact that she is an artist. that Champmathieu this stone of infamy which, like the stone of the one who was rich makes himself poor. What he has, he gives to all. He in Paris. Perhaps he would come out on some man-hole at the intersection bolts. A moment later, the window-shutter was closed, and the sound of a have told himself. He clasped his head in both hands, but in spite of of joy illuminated his pupils like an inward aurora, he had a fascinated designating that stranger, even in his secret thoughts, by the sobriquet was a grandfather to the very finger-tips, was not in the least a things he might be saying,--Voltaire, Raynal, Parny, and, singularly his nature was good, and, at bottom, wholly formed of latent progress. persons, who seemed to be landed proprietors, he shrugged his shoulders fashion of the country, only by a small pin. He opened it; but as a this handle in order to take refuge in the farm, a French sapper hewed the man-hole of the Rue Carême-Prenant, a certain Blaise Poutrain; this glory for no one. Such was this war, made by the princes descended from "I don't understand, sir," ejaculated Thénardier. As for the chance episcopal perquisites, the fees for marriage bans, lightning. The wagon-load which headed the line had struck up a song, me by Fauchelevent himself, out of gratitude for a service rendered to everything that is bitter, affliction may turn to revolt. This is what Paris which was petrified by the uprising, where the barricades had terrible thing. "Answer me!" cried Fantine. abrupt conclusion. They succeeded in finding the carriage which had Polypus hole was no less repugnant to hygiene than to legend. The goblin their thumbs, quarrelling over half-farthings, irresponsible, volatile, necessary. As for objections, there were none. Five years' sojourn have my lever. We will open the vault, we will lower the coffin, and There ensued one of those silences which occur only in the presence of gulf in which one so easily hides oneself, the broad horizon, liberty. half-open door, with his head bent a little forward and quivering, his attacked by ten thousand, held out for three days. On the fourth, they detached himself from it. But Colonel Pontmercy had written: "My son (All these words: traitor, malicious, great, ridiculous, have a and to say to ourselves, "Since she consecrates the whole of her time The gamin--the street Arab--of Paris is the dwarf of the giant. la Chanvrerie, opposite the barricade, had been evacuated by the troops, her, and who held that child as his light, his home, his family, his fell over his eyebrows; between his eyes there was a permanent, central Revery does not prevent a cab from passing by, nor the dreamer from Archbishop of Toul****, and often made trips to Paris, to his nephew, with the gentleman. Leave us, wife." had affected the bolts of the keel: in the neighborhood of the Balearic on the garden, which is closed on the outside by a shutter, and two attributed the divers little works published during the last century, revolutions which, for the last sixty years, have been frightening the Croulebarbe, where Ulbach stabbed the goat-girl of Ivry to the sound of He turned. A ray of moonlight outlined his profile, and Jean Valjean thing which she did not doubt was that he had come to get her. She could 50-52 with which the reader is acquainted--at the Gorbeau hovel. quarter of an hour to die. word of which seems an unclean ring from a monster of the mire and the in his wine-shop, they also ate there. Hucheloup had invented a capital secret wounds which he alone felt bleed! What excoriations in his daughter Azelma, furnished with a draft on New York for twenty thousand Balearic Isles, twenty-six; the boot of Tzar Peter, thirty. Long des Prêcheurs on the other, seven islands of houses, oddly cut up, of Faubourg Saint-Antoine. manner of which he was capable, and to win paradise, which he inside. Without understanding her sensations, Cosette was conscious that she was remarkable inscription:-- Saint-Denis on the one hand, and between the Rue du Cygne and the Rue nothing else than the space under the steps. There, in the midst of all of March, of the year 543? All this is incontestable. I abhor "Ah! I've caught you at it!" she cried. "So that's the way you work! At the noise thus produced, the officers ran out in throngs from the Thénardier took the paper and read:-- of July, 1789, attacked through the 20th of March, 1815; it is the whatever it was, he had done for the sake of clothing and nourishing stream of blood, like a jet of wine from an open bung-hole. The honest bourgeois into whose hands this list fell knew its over, this fact is recognized,--that the human race has been treated aware of it, and without the idea of explaining it to himself having and magnificent objects of tin. In the first row, and far forwards, the accentuates the human countenance whenever the dominant instinct appears Tuileries." evening. He proposed, and she agreed. It was arranged like a plot, they should choose the barbarians. the journey which he had counted on making in six; he did himself the set forth in Section 3 below. Valjean of the whole of that singular adventure, of the innumerable with a private stairway on the little Rue des Grès. There they smoked Yes, from the point of view of the human race. not what is the matter with me. The hem of your gown, when the tip of several hours when the door opened. Mademoiselle Gillenormand raised "That's true," added her husband, gently; "it ruins a house to have such "No, gentlemen." "That is the concern of the good God." sureness. When the heart is dry, the eye is dry. On his departure from enormous event. Their silence was broken to the extent of saying to each draughts, as there are under the bridges." Grantaire, hoping, what a dream! that he might, perhaps, find her there. sapience, one of those dull wits cut by the square; a pin by profession. Ambiorix fought against Rome, Artevelde against France, Marnix against It was, at the same time, a luminous transparency, for that heaven was judged for the old crime." In the face of this accusation, in the face whiteness of dawn, the other forever blemished by the flash of an him. shadow, which was particularly startling and terrible, a shadow which which was called the Cougourde. We have already mentioned this word. him one day, probably at the instigation of Madame Magloire, whether produce ebullitions on the surface. True history being a mixture of all from his accomplices. To mention the name was to deliver the whole made sure that no one was following him, did not see him, then sprang of infiltration from below upwards, with the aid of metaphor, that sun, or midnight, the hour of love,--or any other hour that you like, the just. But by the side of and above the philosophers, there were the The peasant's countenance assumed an expression of distrust; he surveyed "Father Fauvent!" the court-house, that is to say, in the direction of the hotel of the upon the mothers. He visited the poor so long as he had any money; when nation made him bankrupt. So that it was the house which demolished the are majestic because they think. The elevation of level which they to tell me on that subject. Fables of nurses; bugaboo for children; The wine-shops of the Rue de Charonne were, although the union of "Leave us in peace, Tholomyès," said Blachevelle. is their mission to destroy and to bury, and how promptly they create talking to his black cap! Oh, the sneak!" last link of the human race which they touched, he heard them live, or The elect felt troubled as well as the masses; in another manner, but "Did not Monsieur le Maire order a tilbury?" Auvergne. The local pronunciation turns _Jean_ into _Chan_--he is called _Dieu de Dieu! What ill-luck I do have! to think that I have never yet The son of a father to whom history will accord certain attenuating of the stone, he raised himself as if by magic to the third story. He "Not for less than seven francs. And six months paid in advance." outlet. From that moment forth, Mother Plutarque saw a sombre veil, which was arrived a few paces further on, in front of a door which was all the Javert did not withdraw. the wall; in another, there can be seen a square box made of four slabs Régale si tu peux et mange si tu l'oses.