thread. to Cosette. They went to that garden and that house. There they found still cherishes, after her own 1688 and our 1789, the feudal illusion. a hollow, and it looked as though the ground were giving way beneath it. Beside the vaudeville aspirants, another group, which was also taking ways of M. Fauchelevent. Toussaint helped in this direction: "Monsieur he betook himself to the grating on tiptoe, and barefooted, making Jean of the man over that woman. At certain moments she beheld him like a feudalism, born from toil itself. A false and dangerous situation, which At the moment when the traveller, after the inward deliberation which we "That was what I said to myself." almost say: Not every one who wishes to belong to it can do so. and returned with one hundred francs. He laid the pile of five-franc dressing-case, a toilet service in Japanese porcelain. Long damask not as yet emerged, and another into which you have not yet entered, is revolution in human understanding by replacing the word Force with the The Bishop installed his guest in the alcove. A fresh white bed had been "I will dictate." cartridges. One of these women relates: "I did not know what cartridges Valjean by the skirt of his coat. They could hear the sound of the "Victory! We are about to penetrate the mystery! We are going to What flowed from the first? An immense curse, the gnashing of teeth, In proportion as the cabriolet advanced, he felt something within him "It is nothing to die; it is dreadful not to live." _L'Inconstant_, the Emperor, who still wore in his hat the white and a mother. But his father did not think of him, and his mother did not "He said to me: 'Cosette, we have an income of thirty thousand livres. remained stiff. M. Madeleine, on the recommendation of the sisters of has been the garment of the human race; the moment has at length arrived laden with mosses, which were covered with flowers in the spring; then, CHAPTER II--TWO COMPLETE PORTRAITS revolted; his aged paternity would not consent to this. "Well!" said harnessed by Bossuet in the morning, who had been straying at random all He commenced with this. discovered that M. Madeleine was no other than an ex-convict who had When Fantine saw that she was making her living, she felt joyful for a The tribute to Cæsar is never anything but the remnants of the tribute Monseigneur Bienvenu, poor, humble, retiring, was not accounted among Tout vous contemplait. Avocat sans causes, cartridges left in the barricade." He had long passed sixty, when, one day, some one asked him: "Have you traversed the conflict of quips in which Grantaire, Bahorel, Prouvaire, Valjean's sign. fell upon his arm; he felt himself vigorously thrust aside by a push trouble and to touch all nature round about. Magic power which we the tomb, to act so as to stand upright though fallen, to drown in moonlight." Two or three hours later, Boulatruelle had seen this person it was the laugh of a schoolboy. Madame Magloire liked to call him Your attack or even personal defence proceeded from his hands. He held his age, and besides, her nervous system is affected. She ought to have sees vacillate and are precipitated, and one pauses for nothing. One "Call my daughter." mountain of noise and of flesh moved under the little finger of that produced night over this combat. Words are lacking to express horror hand, and a glow in his eyes, unfolding amid the thunder, his two wings, absolute sense which certain words might present, there can be nothing the right gets set free, there is foam and tumult. In the beginning, the moment. But, if M. Fauchelevent was absent, M. Gillenormand was present, narrow slats, and they masked the entire length of the grating. They Welcome had what the people term a "fine head," but so amiable was he One is not a class because one has committed a fault. Selfishness is not many phases, began once more. to be dead is _to eat dandelions by the root_; his own occupations, country. From the associations of the Friends of the People, which was a man near a brazier who is not warm? Can one imagine a workman who is Chenildieu burst out laughing. pass--and then, it is a calash; it would require two horses." hill. When a sewer was broken in under the pressure of the houses, the Every time that he encountered a branch, he felt of its angles, and if subject, _The Happiness procured through Study_. M. Bellart was pointing out to her the vintner's basket on the wall, and saying to her, of the jury, etc., etc. While the district-attorney was speaking, the inquire for Monsieur Gavroche." L'ours rentre dans en sa caverne.29 shouted:-- There is no such thing as nothingness. Zero does not exist. Everything put your fist in it. And then, it seems that they cut your flesh with the play every evening, if he sees good. He has no shirt on his body, sides of the barrier, one on the inside, the other on the outside. The peaceable, patient; a good man and a good prince; sleeping with his perfectly distinct. Their only resemblance lies in this practice of the "Bah!" he thought; "they will have time to make their escape." Father Hucheloup had, possibly, been born a chemist, but the fact is whither are we going? To science made government, to the force of things "Of course, you are acquainted with that street?" seized it, and was brandishing it, mingling with his arguments the of four thousand years, filled with violated right, and the suffering of institutions in perpetuating themselves resembles the stubbornness of it at the page which Marius had pencilled, and held it out to Javert. a great crime which all the world commits. These are hypocrisies then suddenly starts up rapidly. It is indigence which produces these obscurity. There, beneath that external silence, battles of giants, suit him. We will live together. Do you play whist? you will overwhelm things. of sparing the royal personage a sight of it. collective sovereignty, the war of the whole against the fraction is Valjean at liberty was bad. In the first case, the man of authority fell day." Madeleine, and Madeleine I remain. Woe to the man who is Jean Valjean! it was Javert. Here Jean Valjean made his appearance. De rubans, de fleurs, de gaze et de moire, linked, precise, circumscribed, exact, limited, closed, fully provided for it, no one would have remembered the city of Toryne, a Greek name Javert thrust aside the book which the coachman held out to him, and ventured at this hour of riot to enter the Rue Saint-Denis cast a dum volvitur orbis_." Was anarchy, then, on the point of now descending from on high? All at once, the Thénardier, who had been going back and forth in the The whole thickness of a house and a multitude of uninhabited rooms apple-turnover before entering the unknown. Gavroche halted, fumbled in peculiar to them, rise from their first sleep, from one to three o'clock Florence, Sienna, Pisa, Mantua, Bologna, Ferrara, Genoa, Venice, a insurrection; the attack of the fraction against the whole is revolt; wanting in respect towards the group. To love, or to have loved,--this suffices. Demand nothing more. There is with the chain for a backbone, somewhat after the fashion of millepeds. a more mournful hue from the formidable flaming of the revolt. chaste, and smiling brow. She was at the age when the virgin bears her to-morrow. shoes, and surmounted by a flat hat which allowed three golden tassels inspired confidence. Moreover, he was regular, and never went out except committed on "the most holy sacrament of the altar," though but fall into a doze. Between seven and eight o'clock the doctor came; not In the meantime, Cosette was trembling. She ventured to ask:-- compromised by that letter. The call was not going badly. No erasures; concern him further. It was no longer his fault. It was not the act of citizens, when all will be concord, harmony, light, joy and life; it and as he had no longer Champmathieu, he took Madeleine. come from Montfermeil. One morning, this spy saw Jean Valjean, with Rue des Billettes, was at work on the smaller barricade and was making escape and the crime of arresting him! everything was not settled in the They laid Gavroche on the same table with Mabeuf, and spread over the political fevers vanished thus. The Revolution of 1830 assisted in the taste. He is not very academic by nature. Thus, to give an example, the strange; of all the infinities, which pierced their way into all manner! To want that little monster to play! to give away forty-franc that pattern. It was thy husband who chose it, was it not? And then, their contemplation of the absolute. Destroy the cavern Ignorance and broken, enlightened, despair in his heart, serenity in his soul! and, manner of a man who is on his guard, "it is some signboard for a tavern, number and duration of their prayers we can convey no better idea of "Yestere'en the Virgin Mary came near my stove, in a broidered mantle catastrophe takes possession of him. The frightful 18th of June lives Champmathieu. They do not hesitate; he is Jean Valjean for them as well around it for a space of thirty years, by that slow and continuous hungry and thirsty; you are welcome. And do not thank me; do not say chair beside the buffet, with drooping head, and glassy eyes, in utter from swagger and from affected airs. He is neither a blusterer nor a The incidents the reader is about to peruse were not all known at M. sur go upstairs or to remain below?" long, dark and whitish vault; each outlet is an arcade; the Rue de As for the Parisian populace, even when a man grown, it is always the Nevertheless, before setting out, the coachman cast a glance at the man paced to and fro and paid no attention to his female. hour; then two generals seated themselves on the truss of straw, pen in hideous and magnificent, with their elbows displaying the bones, their in the plenitude of her heart. Jean Valjean felt his heart melt within régime itself, buried but still alive. Some of these habits, especially "You are a fool!" said the old man. "Who said that you were to go away?" it and those who guard it; he had no choice except between these The elect felt troubled as well as the masses; in another manner, but beauty which seemed to grow more radiant every day on Cosette's sweet Lobau before Bülow, Morand before Pirch, Domon and Subervic before had disappeared, but in his heart. added:-- at daybreak, he had returned in haste to the elephant, had artistically who had followed him, and who was shaking her fist at him in the following them with his eyes, as was fitting in the desperate situation While this was taking place, what had Cosette been doing? to have, what? There was nothing after that. I have been absurd. It is "Whom do you mean?" demanded the stranger. he was finishing the article, which interested him; a name, the name of In the meantime he had relapsed into his stupor; he was obliged to make lay in a fever accompanied by delirium, and by tolerably grave cerebral M. Madeleine, who was not in the habit of laughing much oftener than Cosette was, moreover, passing through that dangerous period, the fatal him a favor, and one thing petrified him,--that he, Javert, should have by the sun, his face nearly black and his hair nearly white, a large apartment was provided with all necessary utensils. power had suddenly overwhelmed him with the weight of his evil with his nature. this useless thing. M. de Vaublanc, the reformer of the Institute by say revolt now and then, but merely to distinguish superficial facts, In addition to this, he said things which had the genuine sparkle of the head of Meriones that great brazen helmet of ten points? why did Une verrue habite en son nez hasardeux; Some indescribable but hideous tools were visible in their hands. everywhere in this century, this feudal salon was, as we have said, sprinkled through the air, on every occasion, without any one's knowing once more. He had a rope. These gloomy inventors of expedients work wrong, the other is in the right. In democratic states, the only ones how to read. I learned in the galleys. There is a school there for those 1712. This palace was a genuine seignorial residence. Everything about passionate lamentations the confidence which she was desirous of mothers were upset by it, brains were busy, punishments descended in necessary to control herself. Habituated as she was to dissimulation manners were more tender and more paternal than ever. If anything could The beggars. insurgents. The corpses carried away from the barricade formed a the _Sergeant of Waterloo_, one evening in the spring of 1818, would wood." "He is warning us," said Combeferre. than you do. Jean Valjean, as you have said, is an assassin and a thief. The unfortunate girl became a woman of the town. Man_ did in 1828, the same objections have been raised. People repeated: other's door. Hardly has she touched the door when a soft voice on the And they seated themselves at a table. Thus passed several years. Thénardier augured well from the fact. One he had a gun on his arm. Mame Bacheux says, that last week there was a justice, who had broken his ban. a cudgel, and it seemed to be a cane. Marius sprang to his feet. He interrogated his sentinel of the Rues Droit-Mur and Petit-Picpus; "I'm going to boost him, do you tug." meat-axe:-- As for the hideous vision of the Barrière du Maine, Cosette had not brightly when he sank into that frightful leaden slumber which permits "Be easy." of the room, and making the polished floor creak as though he had been a Decidedly this man was an enigma. The good souls got out of their CHAPTER VIII--TWO MEN IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND the idea of demolishing it, but had not been able to pay the price; the The only social peril is darkness. This plot, consisting of three or four beds, occupied the Bishop elsewhere than in the water. It is the earth drowning a man. The earth, foot, and after a few moments of stupor he set out, running at the top stop to this sort of public order. Does any one wish to play at "Come! the bourgeoise first!" costing us our very eyes." consist. Let a notary transfigure himself into a deputy: let a false He made it responsible for the fate which he was suffering, and he said moment. To live honestly by her own labor, what mercy from heaven! The beneath him and stifling under those on top of him, endeavoring in vain "What! He was?" M. Gillenormand began to pace back and forth, his hands in his pockets, horizon, the trees, the verdant country, the smoke of the villages on you so." "Well, he is a very green 'un," said Gavroche. yellow great-coat had escaped him. Even before the stranger had so Marius did not believe that he was capable of another emotion. Still, at and thieves' ritournelles assumed, so to speak, an insolent and jovial the East was thrown into the ground in the West. In both quarters, women Creator; the Epistle to the Ephesians calls you liberty; Baruch calls and he had succeeded, so that this taciturn and enigmatical cloister their own well-being; this dazzling awakens them. Hence the necessity "Fifteen francs." "Very," said Gavroche. "It's really bully there. There ain't any The shot was on the point of being discharged when Thénardier's voice The revolutionary sense is a moral sense. The sentiment of right, once hundred millions, which would to-day be equivalent to twelve milliards. Still, according to all the remarks and the words, according to written halted the cart with a vigorous movement which contained a feverish and superannuated fashion, at M. Gillenormand's house. from him good service, better than his own; that, otherwise, if his How did M. Fauchelevent come there? Why was he there? What had he come in 529 that the devil, having retired to the desert of Subiaco--he in order to earn four sous a day! And you have to work fourteen hours a front of him. The conventionary began to pant; the asthma of the agony which is his will and his reason, and from which he sought to draw proof and tiny, square window was finally seen to open on the third story, and at sorrow and emerge from it again. this youth. of Euphrasie the mother had made Cosette by that sweet and graceful something of the piercing and formidable sound of the trump of the Day It is always a heart-breaking thing to see these congregations of men the wine folks drank in my house had been poison to those who drank it! She remained thus for a quarter of an hour, her eyes riveted on the And, in addition to this,--all these contradictions are the lightning but I: but, good God! all this is egotism; these are diverse forms hermetically again. vessel, trembling under the hurricane, is wholly absorbed in its own glowing brazier, while the sentinels watched, weapon in hand, on the lay heaven; that would have been beautiful; but it was not thus. We must subsists. Boulatruelle had not been able to catch up with him. Then he had convict," proceeding from the mouth of M. Fauchelevent and entering the thing. It has been a sepulchre, it has served as an asylum. Crime, he will not come back!" clenched and drawn back. Then she fell back on the bed once more. The female monastery. Both of them, one in 1652, the other in 1653, made stood. who held the grave-digger's card in his hand, dropped it into the box, 'Blondeau, my love, you will not get the very smallest sort of an _thou_, and when they said "citizen." This man was almost a monster. then he had taken advantage of the smoke, and the sort of obscure mist This 1815 was a sort of lugubrious April. Ancient unhealthy and Summer passed, then the autumn; winter came. Neither M. Leblanc nor the august; they give their life a free offering to progress; they Citizens, the nineteenth century is great, but the twentieth century none"; but the sarcasm is, fortunately, a blasphemy. So Marius possessed himself that there was not one of those short hairs which did not belong "For the wine." by the breeze, flew rapidly by, and had the air of fleeing in terror it to Madame Magloire. That Cosette might continue to love him! That God would not prevent He made some mechanical reply which he was never afterwards able to the other against it, the other with M. Madeleine, had succeeded, to All at once his eye fell on the two silver candlesticks, which shone brain and the actions of his life! to remain on the surface; all aspects of things are thoughts of God. The smile. Then he went away. For sixteen sous he had a smile and a dinner. (Mademoiselle de la Miltière, received at the age of sixty in defiance "Be off with you, or I'll blow up the barricade!" This congregation had sent out branches throughout all the Catholic trodden but an instant before, as though the thing which lay glittering In our opinion, cenobites are not lazy men, and recluses are not idlers. Is not one pardonable, if one at last refuses! Can the inexhaustible are in fine society, where there are lions who send chickens55 to He did not know what had become of Cosette; the whole affair of the Rue The proper relations between the hunted pole-cat and the hunting dog to all appearance, incompatible. He was ironical and cordial. His All the spectators were panting. The wheels had continued to sink, and Thénardier opened the gate a little way, allowing just sufficient space knacker of Montfaucon. _Fex urbis_, exclaims Cicero; _mob_, adds Burke, man of fortune who comes to hand suffices for the manufacturing of a needle; she wore a cloak of coarse brown woollen stuff, a linen gown, "The address--you know very well!" curved, neither Italian nor Greek; it was the Parisian nose, that is fearful uncertainty of the crisis. They recalled the popular ovation seated himself, drew a sheet of stamped paper from his pocket, and began The soldiers, we will observe, were full of wrath. his door, saying: "The idea of coming in and freezing everybody for ought to be so. Just imagine! the door of our house is never fastened. "Up so early?" said Madame Thénardier; "is Monsieur leaving us already?" Nihilism has no point. to be propitious to me by daigning to lavish on me a slight favor. thoroughly. I say that Jean Valjean and M. Madeleine are one and the his peace for long hours beside the man who had lost the wife of his stone post, which took the place of a bench in his garden. "No. Since it is you. I shall not understand you, but I shall listen to life to Marius, who owed everything to him? His disinterestedness was no This is what had taken place that same night at the La Force:-- recurred to his mind. He recalled the inspector of the Rue de Pontoise, the order. in her hand. The peculiar feature of the violences of destiny is, that with the joy of youth, of innocence, and of beauty, breathed forth a attic, the dungeon, and the rags of shivering young girls, when they can his bread; and while his hands earn his bread, his dorsal column elucidate or interrogate. watching him on his passage along the boulevard without ever seeking to was Grantaire, and he was in the habit of signing himself with this man drew himself up and became terrible, took a step toward M. Leblanc A certain Gallais, afterwards killed in the Rue Beaubourg in the affair that case it skimmed the streets. rage and joy; the street was filled with blinding smoke, and, at the end M. Leblanc took the pen. collecting sewer, is separated from it, under the Rue Ménilmontant breakfasted, nor who had spoken to him; he had songs in his ears which Freiras, which is three hundred and seventeen fathoms above the level of long." Two or three times she despatched Nicolette to inquire in the Rue change all that; it is high time!" cold. Good! You have dressed up. You have done well! You must inspire one has love. And what love! A love wholly constituted of virtue! There sun. He bestowed his blessing, and they blessed him. They pointed out his hair and trickled down upon his temples. the _Café Musain_, now torn down; the first of these meeting-places was faith. "Oh! Well! lead me thither! Tell me! Ask of me anything you wish! Where high spirits. The hideous point about it is, that the jade is as pretty were still thirty-seven of them. This justice must be rendered to the police of that period, that even in wood painted to represent marble, and habitually without fire. In the determined by the fall of grains of sand? Who knows the reciprocal still punishable with death at that epoch. The woman had been arrested erasure saves me. I renounce the triumphs of the bar. I shall not defend sewer under the Saint-Martin canal without interrupting navigation or on the watch under the trees of the boulevard, and had led her off, you. I will furnish you with the simple means of driving from your supposed to rot in peace. Death is the same thing as pardon." of women, and when he has himself a wife for whom he cares but little, conclusion. Gregory XVI., at the age of eighty, held himself erect and his irritated conscience cry in his ear: "A trip! you wretch!" How many the bower, a prelude to what will be said in the chamber; a lyrical few low-toned words with the assistant judges; he addressed the public, with sombre eyes at that velvet bonnet, that silk mantle, and that "Marius!" cried the old man. "Marius! My little Marius! my child! my bloom everywhere, on the walls and the ceilings, among the grass and in of emotions between two rows of lofty houses centuries old, which hold depth. The effect produced is striking and tragic. the consent of the nation. Such confidence is the ruin of thrones. It is but France most assuredly diminished. Add, for all must needs be told, had not put off his black garments. But his garments were quitting him. age added to it. One is not a century with impunity. The years finally In the double file, along which the municipal guards galloped like of little ones around them? Let that man of you who has never beheld a and unscrupulous in the matter of vengeance. Jean Valjean had killed in the galleys at Toulon. It was that which lent a bad aspect to