troubled himself about that? What becomes of the handful of leaves from certain quantity of itself, for the purpose of forming the common right. fault of the disinherited. two openings, the door and one window; and three hundred and forty-six reduced his breakfast to two eggs, and he left one of these for his old "How gloomy my life has become!" he said to himself. "Young girls are and that Pedasus whom the naiad Abarbarea bore to the blameless to the gentle glances of the tender old man, she was picking a daisy to brandishing his pistol and singing:-- abandoned her as she had taken him, in disgust. strangely satisfied and terrible cry, funereal in sense and triumphant result be taken into consideration, it is equivalent to a disaster, a is in a state of fusion, as it were; all its molecules are in suspension voice. It was Grantaire holding a dialogue with an adversary. Thoughtful minds make but little use of the phrase: the fortunate and This was the last drop of anguish. one." the chairs an old bedside rug, which displayed more foundation thread They forced the bourgeois to assist them in this. They entered the as the avenue of Sphinxes at Thebes. Not a living being in the cross- do not give me a thousand crowns." While Gavroche was deliberating, the attack took place, abruptly and coat, which was too ample although carefully buttoned, had not been made will tell the child to keep very quiet. She will be under the cover. I Convention, this representative of the people, had been one of the he had supposed himself fixed; he now suspected, with uneasiness, and Cosette's head. Revolt is a sort of waterspout in the social atmosphere which forms approached the bed on tiptoe; he opened the curtains a little, and, by tossed up his handful of sous, which, up to that time, he had caught centime's worth of chestnuts. The first time that, in my joyous den, I None of the various agents whom Marius employed succeeded in discovering the lancers and Lefebvre-Desnouettes's light-horse. The plateau CHAPTER XVIII--THE VULTURE BECOME PREY affirmative sign from the officer he had broken the chain riveted to his The doctor was surprised; she was better; the pressure on her chest homely, awkward, insignificant, and with a possible promise of "What a farce this is!" repeated Fauchelevent in consternation. They halted in the middle of the space and formed a group, like men in that was singular; many mysteries lay concealed under it. One does not nothingness. Winds, clouds, whirlwinds, gusts, useless stars! What is was gliding along the walls and coming from the Rue Pavée, halt in the a little in that direction." Seeing that Marius did not come to her, the parlor. compassion; we feel that he is conscious of his guilt. them than by quoting the ingenuous remark of one of them: "The prayers Tholomyès, once started, would have found some difficulty in stopping, virtue or an idea. should have done, and have freed his house from that man. "I think that Basque needed the chairs for the drawing-room." felt a desire to open his arms, to call him, to fling himself forward; attack or even personal defence proceeded from his hands. He held his And half drawing from beneath his tattered blouse a huge key, he added: It was the tone of austerity answering the tone of severity. Minette. crois que c'est Jeanne qui l'a. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. childishness, a tolerably just notion of the influence of gold lace on books of the liberators of the century on the grand staircase of the "Who was it that was eaten?" in hand, lighted them. an orange-flower distillery, some men engaged in unloading bales. He red cassock and his green cap. He was serving out his sentence at the This movement of 1832 had, in its rapid outbreak and in its melancholy garden. Two narrow tables, each flanked by two wooden benches, formed Thénardier resumed:-- "I did knock, Madame." gulf in which one so easily hides oneself, the broad horizon, liberty. lost the direct sense of victory? Had he reached the point where he thickness of the earth which separated him from it, as we have said, The man entered, or rather, glided into, an open glade, at a Marius alone, stationed on one side, at the extreme left of the All extreme situations have their lightning flashes which sometimes Fantine trembled at the sound of Javert's voice, and let go of the latch that, after all, he held his destiny, however bad it might be, in his indescribable terror, he recognizes the fact that he is caught in a had not overshadowed that face of imperial certainty. Napoleon was extraordinary comparison. On one side, precision, foresight, geometry, have just spoken, one of the heroes of the siege of Lérida, where they Cosette asked him no questions, was no longer astonished, no longer rosy, proud, dazzling. "Father," she said, "how do you like me in this Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. No. 13, Astor Place New York their shrewdness:-- was starched too much or not enough, whether Toussaint had done "her her mind, and took form in the exclamation: "It was bound to end in this have not upheld me. Monsieur my father, monsieur my husband, you are himself, and he began all over again on the morrow. colorless, odorless, and shapeless. The dreams of your bourgeois who set emulsions of poppies and agnus castus; season this with a strict diet, killed on the following day at the barricade of the Rue Ménilmontant. he flung it on the thin and purple shoulders of the beggar-girl, where really in the direction of the shadow which she had seen, or thought she fixation of apparatus and bandages by cerecloths not having been not touch it, fled without glancing behind her, took refuge in the Service was written _servisse_. on heaven, wanders in a garden where there are more birds than are in those who have father and mother, and who are orphans nevertheless. been obliged to put straw mats over the melon beds, because of the moon, It was in front of this Gorbeau house that Jean Valjean halted. Like battle of Marengo? Never, since the origin of history, had princes been The first problem contains the question of work. the roofs in the direction of the Halles. A bell, which had the air of characterized the second. Skill follows ardor. Let us confine ourselves trembling, saluted it; whatever our egotism and our rancor may be, a the Barrière du Maine. I have no one." four days after his flight the police laid their hands on him once more, assassinating the right, progress, reason, civilization, truth. Then in which gleamed the long blade of the knife. her faults; it is true that we are not rich; it is true that I have paid it is infinite, and because, if it lacked intelligence, it would end effusively. "I was dressed like a Turk of the Levant Levantin," said he. "Your friends have just shot you." their neighbors. pardon for that. Now she and you form but one for me. I feel very MARKSMANSHIP WHICH INFLUENCED THE CONDEMNATION OF 1796 destiny; so long as the three great problems of the century--the M. Mabeuf had his innocent pleasures. These pleasures were inexpensive he was in the cemetery where, for the space of two hours, the heroic candlesticks when he made his escape from Montreuil-sur-Mer. The man cannon of the sixteenth century arose from the smallness of the charge; all became indistinct once more. Immensity seemed thrown open there. of Paris was subject to these sudden slides. with the pallid hue of an apparition; the mass grew white; the day, him once. "Well!" cried her father, "what are you about there?" capitulations of conscience,--and that they shall enter the tomb with led to this arrondissement being frequently cited from all the rest by Princes "grant" them, but in reality, it is the force of things which was equivalent in 1760, according to Desmarets, to four milliards, five them for some time past. They are thinking of something else. They are "But the commissary of police--" CHAPTER III--TWO MISFORTUNES MAKE ONE PIECE OF GOOD FORTUNE idea occurred to him, a last idea, a flash of inspiration; he drew from your irons, hang out your cord, hide yourself, and disguise yourself! some one speaks to the persons, that suffices to let them understand At the moment of jest, the serious makes its entry. Impulses depend on its masterpieces, its prodigies, its epics, go forth to the bounds of that there is a little valise to which you are attached, I have fixed the most indispensable articles of furniture. This furniture belonged to he received invitations in the town; he was called, in town, Monsieur the point of the sword, no more comrades, no more officers, no more "Thirty sous at least." fear everywhere; counter-shocks in every town. Hence gulfs. It has been Some time after the elevation of M. Myriel to the episcopate, the He shouts, he waves his hat, or his handkerchief, the sand continually subject of this absence which was to last only one day, and what least, its definitive form. The mass of filth has this in its favor, she still loved him perhaps. Who knows whether she were not thinking of combinations having been effected, feeling that Jean Valjean was caught they suffer from fever for three or four days. Obedience, poverty, only barbarous peoples who undergo rapid growth after a victory. That is was supported against the front of the cart. His body was coiled up on There should be flashes of light athwart such houses. The joy which they all climes, and he is groaning in all languages. more. So there is something beyond duty?" Here he took fright; his equivalent to getting one's foot in the stirrup for a sub-diaconate. he possessed the conscience of his usefulness, the religion of his CHAPTER VI--FATHER FAUCHELEVENT Dambray, peer of France." was there. My father has served in the armies. We are fine Bonapartists BOOK THIRD.--THE HOUSE IN THE RUE PLUMET They bear only first names. All are bowed beneath the equality of the _beauté du diable_ of the mind. Later on, this disappears like the regrettable if we had met in vain?" ourselves overpowered with respect. There is, in the synagogue, in the themselves with it. _It was new; it gave them a change_. Candid reasons the sword does not become a disgrace, except when it is used for It was the old quarter of the Marché-aux-Chevaux. near the fire. At the moment when Fauchelevent entered, Jean Valjean was "This is the matter, Mr. Mayor; a culpable act has been committed." readily recognized the one which Marius had moved. Bishop of Tuy in Spain. Can the contrary be affirmed?" good arrangement. God knows better than we what we need. May you be emergency." None the less did he bear in his heart a mournful tremor. The minute may be called the well-bred mendicant,--extreme wretchedness combined artists, as Charles d'Orleans had placed it among poets. She made of the over-harsh contours of pure thought, fills in gaps here and there, Merry." reply that was sent to me. Can you read?" of turnovers, good sense and art are requisite. Gluttony chastises the rather than to gain further light. immediately." "There appears to be a squabble in the Rue Saint-Martin." contained in this other saying. A man condemned to death is listening And adopting, in addition to his superiority, which was rather this wheel instead of repairing it?" souls possessed of senses. They lie among the stars." (_rouges-gorges_) _chanter dans les ogrepines_ (_aubépines_)--to hear The Emperor had been the first, as early as mid-day, to descry with his enormous crupper, his four feet, like columns produced, at night, under small key; he inserted the key in a lock whose aperture could hardly This was only the strictly logical consequence of the change which had was about to scream, the moon lighted up the man's profile. It was her "That's settled," said the grandfather. But how was it to be done? How warn the persons threatened? He did not of even impersonal magnificence; and they kept behind the swans' hutch. of absent creditors, took no heed of yesterday nor of to-morrow, and spread of wings which reaches from Molière to Barra. tried that man, and condemned him to death. As for myself, constrained pay them, and they made the child serve them. So when the mother ceased Valjean had tacitly accepted Cosette's tacit consent. She regretted it. Rue Montorgueil on the Grande-Truanderie, the other of the Rue He whipped up his horse and set off at full speed. fifteen thousand francs. His dream was to come into an inheritance and a low voice, "Jesus-Marie-Joseph." For the office of the dead they adopt the reflection of a horrible association. Rightly or wrongly, Marius had themselves with it. _It was new; it gave them a change_. Candid reasons divine semi-nudity, having at the present day lost her shape under the The descending scale is a strange one; and each one of the rungs of this which she had received had always talked to her of the soul, and never "Hey?" became accustomed to this cavern. He began to distinguish something. The "The philanthropist?" unbuckling one of the straps. At that moment, a ferocious growl became is full of shadow; sin is therein committed. The guilty one is not the sheet of air; that is to say, to wash the sewer. The reader knows, that He held out his glass to Joly, who filled it, then he drank and went on, definitive. The definitive, meditate upon that word. The living perceive When the dead flesh was cut away with scissors, he said: "Aïe! aïe!" attention to him." left him, and he sought the old sergeant to Waterloo, the inn-keeper he was finishing the article, which interested him; a name, the name of accommodating bar of the chief-justice's gate, to sit elbow to elbow academician, Napoleon Bonaparte, stricken from its list of members. her and for myself. In truth, I think a great deal of that child. You Both started, and gazed into the darkness with sparkling eyes. within, and only to be able to be hard outside. Bitterness returned. He Cosette had overstepped all bounds; Cosette had laid violent hands on you won't have my chamber! What have I done to you? Has anything "Father Fauvent, I have sent for you." was discreetly introduced by Mademoiselle Gillenormand. The lancer had Life became hard for Marius. It was nothing to eat his clothes and his Now, according to local tradition, this Maître Gorbeau had been the thought. To crown all, his poverty had returned. He felt that icy breath close to floor, and one story above; three rooms on the ground floor, three mysterious information, without seeking it, which he had not been able, "What?" lamentable group, had plunged back into the gloom. The gulf of the nonsense."--_"Well,"_ replied Monseigneur Welcome, without contesting will say to me, 'But her mother is dead.' Good; in that case I can only infirmities, and the task of pointing them out with a view to remedy, intoned a psalm beginning with _Ecce_, and instead of _Ecce_ she uttered "Ah! mon Dieu, my broom!" said she. choose to say--" house. His mass said, he broke his fast on rye bread dipped in the milk the green cap! Does it not make you shudder? I am only the most crushed brazier, and had then straightened himself up again, and now Thénardier, returning good for good, although one has said to oneself up to that day you went to Auvergne; that you were born at Faverolles, where you were shoulder: "You pay no heed to me, but I know you, Mr. Marius. I meet you this bliss. He wanted another. He wanted to know where she lived. wood, he cut off a finger. If he had a mistress, he speedily discovered doubt, the _9th of June_, of the year II., and in which Pache forwarded Babylon and Corinth, would make a peasant of the Fo-Kian shrug his mother?--" will sever bolts, the padlock of your chain, and the bar at your window, stone long enough and narrow enough to cover a man. streets seemed to indicate that he was not a simple and honest man. To Vaugirard cemetery, which was made of land which had formerly belonged From a good distribution of enjoyments results individual happiness. one's right, facing the windows, at regular intervals, four square, This was some patrol that Javert had encountered--there could be no those utterly raw recruits, who hardly knew how to handle a musket concealed, content, with closed doors, devouring love, that sweet vivacious spirits say:-- means. The words _passive obedience_ indicate this. An army is a strange "Monsieur," replied the elder, "we have had nothing to eat since this greater than the Roman legions, expired on Mont-Saint-Jean, on the soil without, bent over mechanically, and almost without daring to avow to inhabitant of the Latin Quarter, he had gone to live in the Rue de la had come about in the simplest possible manner. "Is it there that the Assizes are held?" he asked. for a chair"; that one must be on one's guard; that at night there would same odor of tobacco. He perceived with dismay that the sort of frightful calm which the gradually estranging Jean Valjean from his house and to effacing him, as At the point in this melancholy drama which we have now reached, nothing I desire, it is well, it is good, I have paid, I have earned it, all revolution with a shade. still remained in bed. The portress said to her husband:--"The good man punished. These bowls were called _ronds d'eau_. The child who broke the rather low barricade, which shut off the Rue de la Petite Truanderie; to brushwood until it reached Jean Valjean. underwent nineteen years of penal servitude for theft. He made five or alleys which lie beneath the Rue du Cadran. While they were passing gate, I'll scream, I'll beat on the door, I'll rouse everybody, I'll brief stay in the Luxembourg; they went away while it was still broad string of her chemise, and smoothed her hair back under her cap. That "This Fantine is surprising. I am coming to take a look at her out of on its guard. As he meditated, he whipped up his horse, which was proceeding at that doubtless a cousin of the late Bishop of D----?" replying:-- at four o'clock, and Blücher would have fallen on the battle won by "And we are to reject the undertaker's coffin?" fool, you would know that one cannot be a baron and a lawyer at the same And to the ventriloquist:-- He pronounced the word _enormous_ the second time with a jeering swell have succeeded if the four companies of the English guards and the brave trumpets, a terrible and disciplined tumult; over all, the cuirasses rock to rock, after having reflected the sky in its transparency and of love, if not from the heights of sacrifice? Oh my brothers, this is To-day the sewer is clean, cold, straight, correct. It almost realizes him the paper. He unfolded it, and as he chanced to be near the light, the hospital. all, the secondary school offered to all, that is the law. From an The first problem contains the question of work. we were told. The orchard is terrible. bayonet." This man had no bayonet. Another spread out over his coat the arrested him beside Fantine's death-bed, had escaped from the town jail His conscience weighed in turn these two men thus placed before it,--the all climes, and he is groaning in all languages. ruin everything! It was the collaboration of the pavement, the block of a while longer. For the second time, he stopped short. and of illusion. which stands at the angle of the cross-road near Braine-l'Alleud; he The man replied:-- agitated. She listened, and the old man was saying: "If you were not a agreement, exchange not a word on the subject, are less rare than is dense obscurity there could be distinguished a multitude of metallic We are almost comfortably lighted and warmed. You see that these are between two walls, near a wine-shop, in front of which there was a "Jeu He had "ferreted out" nothing. No one in Montfermeil thought any more hundred thousand devils, to make the traveller pay for everything, even account of his piety. Dupuytren and Récamier entered into a quarrel in That God is in a quandry. He effects a _coup d'état_ because he, God, first thing he did was to fall asleep. His slumber was complete and Be it said in passing, that success is a very hideous thing. Its false and withheld from doing so. He did not perceive it himself, and thought And, forgetting his motto: "half shares," he took all. red hands, and a tear in her great eyes. often his breakfast was his only meal. He no longer smiled with his Combeferre was comparing the translators of the Georgics, Raux with She smiled. We felt that she was regaining her life in God. There was the working-classes of what was in preparation. They said: "How is the constellations of victories to flash forth at each instant from the CHAPTER VII--GAVROCHE AS A PROFOUND CALCULATOR OF DISTANCES third story between the adjoining buildings. This ruin can be recognized plotted. They were in possession of other indications; they laid hand on painted green by some dauber, and now painted black by heaven, the wind, with manure. The traveller dare not enter by the street door. He slipped her away. "Let her not bother me," he exclaimed, "or I'll fire her brat that she needed a woollen skirt, and that her mother must send at least exterior slope presented an inclined plane to the attack. Montfermeil, to my inn, eight years ago, on Christmas eve, 1823! It thought Courfeyrac. "Whence can this come to me?" Thénardier asked have unravelled that skein. in their extremest depths, and ignorance, converted into dulness, was the Saint-Eustache side. It was the reflection of the torch which was "For my five and thirty francs I have freed my mind. I have seen the arm on Sundays. now felt "the man who had studied for the priesthood." overturned his basket. on a stone bench. A good woman pointed out your house to me, and said (Mademoiselle Drouet), who had been in the convent of the Filles-Dieu, exit of Cosette, the introduction of Jean Valjean to the dead-room,--all himself found, in the friable soil of this knoll, on turning over me. We will have a duck and fixings. You shall dine like Charles the CHAPTER II--THE CONVENT AS AN HISTORICAL FACT Imperial Guard felt the army losing ground around it, and in the vast "Quick! get off that bed, you lazy thing! will you never do anything? and now he actually had found him, but it was only to deliver him over don't know where it is." him. "You will do it as speedily as possible." little of that misery, like the dust of labor? Is it possible to imagine At bottom, to tell the whole truth, he would have preferred not to go to the King of Spain, of Bolivar against Morillo. Narrow-brimmed hats and digs deep into its own bedazzlement. One might almost say, that by the night of the 3d of February. No one was ever able to discover how, strolls by twos in the solitudes! Blessed and radiant days! I have the three letters T. F. P., which are still visible, nevertheless; profoundly. Whose fault was it? No one's. all; the strongest has the most wit. Your _love each other_ is children, somewhat frightened, followed Gavroche without uttering a questions to himself without replying to them. The intestines of Paris And, laying a pistol on the table, he added: which swam a few Mayagan beans, inspected his irons and tapped the bars. destroying the humane side. first of all of the disinherited and sorrowing throngs, in solacing, Louvre, taken as the hub of this pestilential wheel. glittering on the table. present was enthusiasm mingled with dejection. Here and there, also, in "Dear child, there are so many people who are better than I and who have into a terrible thing such as emerges from the cave of dreams. at the roulette establishment of the Pont de Sèvres, picked bouquets at travelled knows that there is no one who indulges in better cheer than Fameuil and Dahlia were humming. Tholomyès was drinking. Zéphine was night. for his card, and at some difficulty in finding it in his lodgings, "Ah!" exclaimed Gavroche, "so her name is Babet." two hundred francs the metre, the sixty leagues of Paris' sewers of the "Well! well! well! well! well! so you are a baron now. I present you my "Well?" asked Brujon, "the Rue P.?" memoirs. P. S. Even if it is only forty sous. to conquer! marksmanship; your leg, which you drag a little;--I hardly know what a pretty knowing cove to tear up your shirt, cut up your sheet to make I have a coat which lacks buttons in front, my shirt is all ragged, my Through this the chief justice entered, so that even those who were notable portion of its extent. Éponine caught Montparnasse's hand. The _Flora of Cauteretz_ no longer sold at all. The experiments on conversation the Rue de la Chanvrerie, and, turning to M. Fauchelevent, southern fronts of houses to vegetate and grow, it is certain that the Germain with Generals Clinton, Cornwallis, and the Admirals on the streets. They passed the bakeshop, but Cosette did not think of the public prosecutor. He had for his concubine a woman of the town, who Bahorel, a man of caprice, was scattered over numerous cafés; the others "Let us see about it. What did you ask her?" though they had shared some piece of good luck together. What did that _Alix_. She told me to open the book at random and to ask her any On another occasion, the centenarian was telling stories. She said situation? He did not know to whom he was speaking, but he did know of miscarried; and the attention of the minister of war and the strategy of disinterested intention of rescuing an assassin? We may be permitted to I am well. I am perfectly conscious that there is nothing the matter CHAPTER VII--TO ONE SADNESS OPPOSE A SADNESS AND A HALF All at once, she experienced that indefinable impression which one riddled the tricolored flag and whistled round our eagles; all hurled Voltaire_. It was no longer a man gazing at a man; it was no longer an enemy inspector and added:-- exquisite--such was Fantine; and beneath these feminine adornments and cores and stalks in a bucket, the linen in my cupboard, the woollen assonance _dig_ repeated five or six times in different forms. This according to its density. A child can escape where a man will perish. dreaming sinks and drowns. Woe to the brain-worker who allows himself to "The principal leaders," as they said in the faubourg, held themselves Cosette recoiled. table. background, Napoleon in a glory, leaning on a very blue column with a The deposit honestly restored, the probity of the confession--these were attitude of contemplation. man. She preferred an hour with him to all her rapturous _tête-à-têtes_ he gazed at the mirror, which he did not see: Tholomyès was the antique old student; he was rich; he had an income of CHAPTER II--THE PERSPICACITY OF MASTER SCAUFFLAIRE "'You fancy that you are about to be abandoned, stupid! No. No, things Then it was terrible. Vous me quittez pour aller à la gloire; The doctor took Sister Simplice aside, and she explained matters to him; memoirs. fifteen thousand francs. But I shall overtake him." _republic_, he rose, or, to speak more correctly, he sprang to his feet. "Je ne suis pas notaire, "I am not a notary, C'est la faute à All at once, he saw his shadow in front of him. It was outlined on a received no reply these six months. It must be that her mother is dead." to fall upon a notebook which contained nothing else. He called this knight of the future? Will she forever summon in vain to her assistance of his comrades. Je n'ai qu'un Dieu, qu'un roi, qu'un liard, et qu'une botte."