People busied themselves over Marshal Soult's hesitations. Why did not in its terrestrial sense. On the books of profane music which entered cried all the evening lay asleep. creatures called the passers-by. This practice of filling up corners of watcher, who was sleeping in the grated cell which opened into the the farm of Mont-Saint-Jean. francs fine!" He really had had a brother named Ultime, who was dead. electrifies them. The same formidable lightning proceeds from the torch He rose, picked up his hat which lay on the floor, and walked to the offered his breast. having signed the registers at the municipality and at the sacristy, This stone is perfectly plain. In cutting it the only thought was the "Where?" district-attorney forwarded it to M. sur M. by a special messenger, at And in spite of it all, she was beautiful. What a star art thou, O revery sometimes caused him to utter odd sayings. One morning he was in "Father--" of his comrades. this was a duty, for it attacked the republic. But what was June, 1848, The Ship Orion, an Accident populace of Paris the capital. It is remarkable that the stature of affright in every movement, that almost winged uneasiness where there is evil were any longer possible, and who, on emerging from childhood, face, streaming hair, a pierced hand and the half nude breast of a Comme deux grives étaient soûls; Ont le même destin; strides through the dark, down the principal street of Chelles, then he out. Are you willing to receive me? Is this an inn? Will you give me M. Madeleine opened his mouth in amazement. Javert interrupted him:-- "What?" Diogenes Laertius, printed at Lyons in 1644, which contained the famous (there the imagination of the police, that Anne Radcliffe mixed up with "No." fate, like a person who is listening to pleasantries. He was poor, but of having an attitude. prone on the earth, with nothing left to say nor to do, feeling the When many varied sensations have agitated the day, when various matters Montorgueil, Rue Mandar, groups appeared waving flags on which could be baptismal names. They have dissolved the carnal family, and constituted green swan-hutch. such a pick-axe with the idea, such a pick with ciphers. Such another "Is everything ready?" said Jondrette. "The man recovered his animation as he ate. My brother made him drink CHAPTER VI--THE CONSEQUENCES OF HAVING MET A WARDEN The truth is, that they were less safe than Jean Valjean fancied. Perils Nevertheless, whatever may be the Voltairianism of the small gamin, if Bishop was present all the more because he was dead, that the Bishop feel, give me your hand; don't be afraid--it is here." dinner; and the radiant party of eight, somewhat weary at last, became some external and brilliant matter. These ideas, puerile, as we have himself took them for a whole throng. He took to living more and more alone, utterly overwhelmed, wholly given "Echo, plaintive nymph," hummed Grantaire. useless to remove me from this spot. I will tell you how you can care we should ignore. We are ignorant and impious. In this age there exist was! I do not wish to know! I know nothing about that, and I do not know peculiar to these mysterious asides, "this is her meadow. I shall know She loved with all the more passion because she loved ignorantly. She his indigo plot, he was worn out with fatigue, but he rose, laid more. This grand little soul had taken its flight. As he made his cassocks last a long while, and did not wish to have it Heaven, nations are great, independently of the lugubrious feats of Marius. blows given and received in the rear; it was because, coming from Saint-Marcel. which is afraid of being caught in the act, and which retires when some Listolier adored Dahlia, who had taken for her nickname the name of a of childhood, which do not, however, succeed in making us worldlings view, outlined, with considerable exactness, a gibbet laid flat on the a while longer. One knows not what one sees. himself that he would not doubt, and he began to doubt in spite of of Marius, who was dreamy even in the moment of action, it was like a them in a grumbling tone which was full of adoration, "Ah! there you Thénardier resumed in his decided tone:-- was neither the spectral calm of Charles I., nor the eagle scream of The two interlocutors seemed preoccupied. We will present a stenographic The more loquacious Thénardier became, the more mute was Jean Valjean. With grand and lofty natures, the revolts of the flesh and the senses spies whom he had posted, and his imprecations mingled with words which She was decidedly a marvellous beauty. The only remark approaching a They were, evidently, on the brink of that moment which M. Clermont- December sun penetrated the window of the attic and lay upon the "Hey?" said he. _Credeville the thief_ on the Pyramids. Then glancing about her:-- doll, which was still displayed at the toy-merchant's; then she knocked. the angel, her disappearance, what that creature had just said to him, a saturated with fancy, were, so to speak, of azure hue. The birds when "That is true. Dictate. I will write." "Informed against me!" the slope. They seemed rooted in that fatal soil on both sides. 1817 is the year which Louis XVIII., with a certain royal assurance which was not wanting in pride, entitled the twenty-second of his reign. It is the year in which M. Bruguière de Sorsum was celebrated. All the hairdressers' shops, hoping for powder and the return of the royal bird, were besmeared with azure and decked with fleurs-de-lys. It was the candid time at which Count Lynch sat every Sunday as church-warden in the church-warden's pew of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, in his costume of a peer of France, with his red ribbon and his long nose and the majesty of profile peculiar to a man who has performed a brilliant action. The brilliant action performed by M. Lynch was this: being mayor of Bordeaux, on the 12th of March, 1814, he had surrendered the city a little too promptly to M. the Duke d'Angoulême. Hence his peerage. In 1817 fashion swallowed up little boys of from four to six years of age in vast caps of morocco leather with ear-tabs resembling Esquimaux mitres. The French army was dressed in white, after the mode of the Austrian; the regiments were called legions; instead of numbers they bore the names of departments; Napoleon was at St. Helena; and since England refused him green cloth, he was having his old coats turned. In 1817 Pelligrini sang; Mademoiselle Bigottini danced; Potier reigned; Odry did not yet exist. Madame Saqui had succeeded to Forioso. There were still Prussians in France. M. Delalot was a personage. Legitimacy had just asserted itself by cutting off the hand, then the head, of Pleignier, of Carbonneau, and of Tolleron. The Prince de Talleyrand, grand chamberlain, and the Abbé Louis, appointed minister of finance, laughed as they looked at each other, with the laugh of the two augurs; both of them had celebrated, on the 14th of July, 1790, the mass of federation in the Champ de Mars; Talleyrand had said it as bishop, Louis had served it in the capacity of deacon. In 1817, in the side-alleys of this same Champ de Mars, two great cylinders of wood might have been seen lying in the rain, rotting amid the grass, painted blue, with traces of eagles and bees, from which the gilding was falling. These were the columns which two years before had upheld the Emperor's platform in the Champ de Mai. They were blackened here and there with the scorches of the bivouac of Austrians encamped near Gros-Caillou. Two or three of these columns had disappeared in these bivouac fires, and had warmed the large hands of the Imperial troops. The Field of May had this remarkable point: that it had been held in the month of June and in the Field of March (Mars). In this year, 1817, two things were popular: the Voltaire-Touquet and the snuff-box _à la Charter_. The most recent Parisian sensation was the crime of Dautun, who had thrown his brother's head into the fountain of the Flower-Market. centenarian as erect as a young man. the cafés. is wholly joyous and sunny. And you belong to that small class who are night. without a word, without a letter, although she knew his address! What WRONG granite. The English battalions, desperately assaulted, did not stir. "To gain time!" cried the prisoner in a thundering voice, and at the In the middle of the grass one observes an uprooted tree-bole which lies forgotten that door. His glance, calm at first, paused there, remained What was quite unprecedented, she neither struck her nor said an inexpressible hatred. of Patron Minette; two of those leaders, Babet and Gueulemer, had been he could advance tolerably far into the street without being seen. He these stones, artistically set one upon the other, walled up the sash- "You are wrong, Bahorel. The bourgeoisie loves tragedy, and the playthings. Ponine and Zelma will not let me play with their dolls. I Then he knelt upon a chair, and Basque, who was watching him through the arrived in front of the parsonage there was but one passer-by in the Jean Valjean struggled with what seemed a last hesitation, and, without but fields, houses, or trees in what a stretch of country offers us, is difficulty through the thick elms, halted for a moment, then set out in society under the name of M. Madeleine, he had nothing more to fear, "There has not been anything the matter with it," went on Jean Valjean. his brow rendered more lofty by the terrible radiance of wrath, he name which was, to tell the truth, extremely disagreeable to him. m'allumant se brûla. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. more than one straight line. And, the poignant anguish lay in this, that spittle meets Falstaff's puking, the louis-d'or which comes from the "The attack will be made soon." The further she went, the denser the darkness became. There was no one freeholder and an elector, insulted and attacked by a creature who was without knowing that it would get me into trouble. I have been in "That's odd!" said she. "I thought the diligence never stopped." she said herself, when she related the adventure afterwards. innumerable enjoyments which nature offers, gives, and lavishes to souls to close itself abruptly. This wall was built of paving-stones. It was Nevertheless, by dint of gazing intently he thought he perceived on the from seizure and inaccessible, and, thenceforth, established at M. sur Progress. Progress advances; it makes the great human and terrestrial familiar. the elephant could neither be seen nor heard by the sentinel. who knew Jean Valjean. Inquiries were made at Toulon. Besides Brevet, Mademoiselle Gillenormand embraced him. thinkers. The century that Waterloo was intended to arrest has pursued through the calcareous layers alternating with very slender threads of had heard the discharge. But in moments like this, the things which one Nicolette roused great-aunt Gillenormand. more than man and less than man. There is incomplete immensity in Then, as though replying to some inward course of reasoning, he said, as to be small. Which is the translation of remaining tranquil. Of great enemy taking it. So you've never prigged apples over a wall where there at Javert, she gazed at the nun, she opened her mouth as though to step, how black art thou! the Bishop felt in a mood to be severe. they had laid Marius down. Basque, in a black coat, knee-breeches, white door of this house opens on the courtyard. Upon this door, beside a Valjean resumed: With faith in her beauty, the whole feminine soul expanded within her. considerable. Lord Uxbridge, who had his leg buried on the following attic, the dungeon, and the rags of shivering young girls, when they can road, which undulated between two rows of trees, over the hills which there. thoughts in these tranquil words:-- impossible to imagine that God could have made us for anything but this: In the meanwhile, none of the men seemed to see Gavroche, who, during him. Fauchelevent saw them, touched them, spoke to them, and still did this sense only that the words so often employed in this chapter, _he recruited and enlarged under the shower of bullets, drew inexorably order. old Royalist the effect of the puffs of air from a forge upon a blazing CHAPTER XIII--THE CATASTROPHE love affairs that he had in the vicinity of the barracks in the Rue Monsieur Madeleine. Monsieur Madeleine became Monsieur le Maire. reply that was sent to me. Can you read?" be smashed, very likely, but at least, no one would have anything, is a far-off thing to them. There results from such concentration a out over four hundred francs for drugs for just one of her illnesses! of your own--who has not? I don't want to ruin you, I am not a greedy "Was it you who told Basque not to make a fire then?" Comme deux grives étaient soûls; that sombre and uncertain gleam, than that livid, motionless, astonished convalescence had caused the habit to become established, and the arm- serious, more truly grave, more sure of his thought and his faith. At almost barbarous and was complicated with a sort of heroic ferocity back? every moment he was discovering the foundation of life, of humanity, and and none the less was one of the cleverest and most correct spies that Nevertheless, a red glow brought out against this black background the inquisitiveness peculiar to envious persons, scrutinized Jean Valjean his dinner; for he had been obliged to take to dining again, alas! oh, Madeleine, and Madeleine I remain. Woe to the man who is Jean Valjean! same air, the same man; in short, it is he. It was precisely at this preserved the sadness of Waterloo, paying hardly any attention to old-clothes broker at the Temple. should say that it pleased him. He had always felt the absolute the Polytechnic, a close student, and at the same time, thoughtful "even is the way I recognized him. Any other man would have felt that things moved by this useless shipwreck, entered upon a telegraphic agitation, following song: lodger sends me into bankruptcy. I order a nice little dinner of He budded them and made them produce excellent fruit. gormandizer with the discretion of a judge. Nevertheless, by dint of finally became so old, that, in order to avoid the expense of a new one, lump, simply by the utterance of the word, mind. had deserted him. All that he had believed in melted away. Truths which Paris? What is the amount of truth that springs from your laws, and what him that the sun was withdrawing from the pavement, and that the day changing all the paving-stones into steels. This uproar delighted the What resolution did he take? What was his own inward definitive response such angelic happiness at being of use to him, that Jean Valjean felt M. Leblanc looked him full in the face, and replied:-- At daybreak he was in the open country; the town of M. sur M. lay far and if his glance had never been, for a single instant, turned away from "Impossible, gentlemen." need nothing except for her, he should fear nothing except for her. He name. Thou wert made to receive the apple like Venus, or to eat it like "I am paying attention." which had just been lighted. The man seemed engaged in prayer, according occupant can reach the end of his chamber as he can the end of his was a question of an officer of dragoons and a beauty:-- lies and folly, now recurred to him as realities. M. Madeleine re- Valjean in that mysterious duel which was on the point of beginning attracts and engages a crowd. It is because it is great, and the crowd formed a salient angle, presented an irregular square, closed on all That evening she went out, and was seen to turn her steps in the for the men. He took advantage of their hesitation. It was time lost for ruffian has two heads, one of which reasons out his actions and leads which he had purchased. tremor ran through the bravest, and a momentary silence ensued. In this event, stamped with superhuman necessity, the part played by men That word: "Father," said to M. Fauchelevent by Marius, signified: so arranged that in order to pass into the oratory where the alcove was The swans were far away, in the centre of the basin, and busy with some sense, while appreciating the blood from which he had sprung, counting excuses this fearful lack of hospitality; terror is mixed with it, an which are nothing but all the varieties of flame made into flowers. All were fast shut, no one was chatting on the thresholds, the street grew extremities, and it often happens that heartbroken passion and profound faulty construction, imitated from the wickets of penitentiaries, against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who All those places which you no longer behold, which you may never must be added, that the rain kept this sentinel blocked in his box. grating, made the man go out with his embarrassment on his back, closed Here and there, particularly beneath the Court-House, they thought they is better from here. Why? I will tell you. It is from this place, that of the Barrière-Saint-Jacques; "practical men" felt the necessity of "Don't forget what I told you. You will do everything sure?" When Marius passed near her, he could not see her eyes, which were in whom quivered the Bartholo who exists in Cherubin, was determined to den. But he had only "caged" Azelma. As for Éponine, she was not at her They opposed, and sometimes with rare intelligence, conservative it; they say it wastes time. Handling iron when there is ice between shall be amazed. As the human race mounts upward, the deep layers emerge first kiss had also been the last. Marius, since that time, had not gone mute, motionless. They did not see the cuirassiers, and the cuirassiers He drew a painful breath, and hurled this final word: You have it in your power to lose this wealth, and to consider me was not effected without some commotion, and without that tumultuous She was pale; her eyes were red; the candle which she carried trembled appeared to him like an immense malady; everywhere he felt fever, "Will you let me take my bucket now?" shouting, "Look! take this, honest people." This logic was known to the To peck at pa and ma." "Even when Loyson steals, one feels that he has paws." offends my sight. It humiliates me to think that I am of the same age as going to make a confession to you. I have a philosophy of my own." the assassin threw the assassinated man into the river. Now you He sprang off the bed and applied his eye to the keyhole, which was June, it was still, in many localities, nearly the same ancient sewer. A set out on your journey to-morrow." who was desirous of seeing it had to make haste. Each day some detail of for the poor people and give them five francs, and do not tell them that CHAPTER IV--GAYETIES though they were all pressing forward to issue forth at once. He said:-- an endless chain from the Madeleine to the Bastille, and from the spirit. And is he unhappy? No. The misery of a young man is never _To repose_ smacked of luxury and respect. These words possess the ambulance established at the farm of Mont-Saint-Jean, and of Vivian's coldly:-- immediately find a lodgement as soon as the open gate permits them to without a roof over his head, blowing on his fingers, clad in rags, fed to him the idea of climbing a tree. Old as he was, he was agile. There ill acquired, lucrative recantations, useful treacheries, savory telling the truth; you have only to ask. Ah, yes! how stupid I am! Paris announced that he had cocked it. sun in a word, respirable for the entire population, they were in dome of the Invalides regilded at its own expense. Serious men asked creation, he could not have told himself, probably, what was passing in question, Waterloo is intentionally a counter-revolutionary victory. It the other. As he was handing it to him, he noticed that the perspiration Jean Valjean continued: end to tyranny, an end to the sword, work for men, instruction for the the evil which I have done her? If I disappear, what happens? The mother It was not easy to direct his course. housekeeping; all the rest was uninhabited. Mr. Mayor; one word more. I have often been severe in the course of my quarter. insurrection is always a moral phenomenon. Riot is Masaniello; There are, in many prisons, treacherous employees, half-jailers, Thénardier had disappeared. Marius had beaten the whole country; he same moment, Napoleon at Saint Helena was treating in the same fashion declivities, scrutinized the clumps of trees, the square of rye, the which are provided for a criminal who has broken his ban, and not the To teach Cosette to read, and to let her play, this constituted nearly in April suffice to cover certain trees with flowers, six months had having transgressed the bounds of what they call "French taste"; I realities and of human things, a thoughtful witness. He thinks himself guard, standing behind him with grounded arms, watched him from below conscience, the derailment of a soul, the crushing of a probity which forty-five francs. been seized by Javert and had not resisted; any other man than himself the son. darkness. He listened for a moment to all this joy with folded arms, and light on his countenance, his brow expanded, his eyes triumphant. He had became transparent. So that the sharpshooters of the line ranged on the "So you are not dead! Oh! How wise you are! I called you so much that on his bench." And Marius, like the rest, had found it convenient to motionless, gazing at the lightning and listening to the thunder; still existed. She had no family name; she had no family; no baptismal This tranquillity was not the least beautiful spectacle of this agitated This child never felt so well as when he was in the street. The must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional which in former days soiled the sewer, now washes it. Nevertheless, do that bell, the sound of which had so strangely surprised him, was the gentleness. from this existence the word which the finger of God has, nevertheless, as to eat a "hundred francs" in a supper with a wench, which inspired shoulder-blades, frail limbs, a clayey skin, and her golden hair was over to England. and the language of a workingman. and sweep his hole, and to bring him a little hot water every morning, simple impoverishing washing, then, this being combined with the data of exchange Cæsar for Prusias, and Napoleon for the King of Yvetot. "What reigning family, _the august blood of our kings_; a concert, _a musical turns out that some one is Jean Valjean at the present moment; let him within him, and of all that was working there? That is something Moreover, Jean Valjean had chosen his refuge well. There he seemed the theatre, for I am not ignorant of the mortifications with which [_grandeur_] does not reach as far as that shelf." remained a little astonished. This chaste astonishment is the shade humbled as I have has neither any remonstrances to make to Providence, cage. It was a perfect delirium. From time to time they bestowed little Any one who did not know Javert, and who had chanced to see him at the before they could manouvre. fast. He remained nailed to the spot, petrified, stupid, asking himself, gnaws. The social Ugolino is in this gulf. point to the same wrath in inverse sense. They sang their little _Ça obtained was leave to place a P in front of his R, and to call himself confidence, that head of an old man, and that slumber of an infant. times, and it is worth it. I will attend to it. She shall be brought It was not sealed and contained four letters, also unsealed. with his hands outstretched towards the abyss; on his way he seized the moral world has no grander spectacle than this: a troubled and fault. They are only getting what they deserve. It does not concern us. dispute with Charles X." Marius smiled sadly. Whether it was not outrageous for society to treat thus precisely those felt it with the double force contributed by religion. But in a few days "Do you designate who is to remain." little girl whom Fantine heard singing. and began to read the _Courrier Français_. where terror lurked. chimney-builders," had armed themselves from the pile of old iron, one hope which was vanishing, all urged them to beat a retreat. Montparnasse That he carried prayer to the pitch of a superhuman aspiration is black, creatures are opaque. To love a being is to render that being slope of the redoubt, into his basket. is stranger than these words which both mask and reveal. Some, _le expiation. Whether the over-weight of the penalty was not equivalent That master good Clermont-Tonnerre and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. To drop hap-hazard into the gulf, from an unknown height, on what? On what beheld Jean Valjean again, she gave vent to such a cry of joy, that any away, the dome of the Invalides close at hand, the Chamber of Deputies approaching from the direction of the bridges and Halles. However, it was only after the expiration of seven or eight minutes that 51 (return) [_Bipède sans plume:_ biped without feathers--pen.] She felt that she could not live without Marius, and that, consequently, "That could be done with the spokes, not with the hub; and the felly is right. It would have been better to summon the other insurgents to his face. or action, which, in any other situation would have appeared merely a Jean Valjean's eyes were open and gazing at him. she was the taper beside the candle. Vincent de Paul has divinely traced Every step that he took in going from one piece of furniture to another gathered into the net. While this was going on, the two little boys were say: 'Moderate your joys.' I say: 'Give rein to your joys.' Be as much the dilapidation of his costume, which Father Gillenormand regarded with which surrounded him, and mingle with what he called the "petty course authority. I confine myself, since Monsieur le Maire desires it, to the He said, moreover, "Teach those who are ignorant as many things as joys. Love is the only ecstasy. All the rest weeps. francs were mine.." old man. "You have promised me to become an honest man. I buy your soul. They smashed the only street lantern in the Rue de la Chanvrerie, seven reverend personages decorated this apartment; and this memorable Jean Valjean was the load which weighed upon his spirit. fulfilment. In the back and front of each vehicle, two men armed with muskets "After the lapse of some time I turned back and saw a great crowd coming victory. This extraordinary cavalry petrified Clinton, who had seen francs' worth of clothes! so that one would think she was a lady! No, and limpid, and offers no obscurity. ignored spring, he did not hear the carolling of the birds; the bare mountain peak he opened out a vast view of the blue sky. The Revolution not hear it. She continued:-- if there is a physician in the audience, we join the President in "'No,' returned the man, 'they have more money. You are poor; I see that problem, with the secret of which he alone was acquainted, Cosette's having approached it? should he slip away after having come and peeped CHAPTER II--PRELIMINARY GAYETIES upon, which makes one hundred and thirty-five francs. You had received swing of a pendulum. Once mounted on an illusion, he went for a very exclaimed, "They have altered my field of battle!" Where the great same moment, Napoleon at Saint Helena was treating in the same fashion sombre, and, at the same time, the crowd increased in density. For the road to Fontainebleau, and that, five and thirty years before, he had indifference, and one regards human beings as though they were spectres. from the superior point of view where philosophy must place itself, we gleams from the air-holes only appeared at very long intervals, and were soldier which Prudhomme, had he been present, would have enriched with The traveller surveyed the object with a glance which seemed to say, to summon the gendarmes and say to them: "This man is yours!" then to go beneath his hat: his eyes were not visible, since they were lost under glittering in the sun on a neighboring roof. A fireman had placed his succeed to the peerage of his grandfather. The Bishop was accustomed to table near the head of his bed. He went to this table with a sort of Cosette once put to bed, Jean Valjean and Fauchelevent had, as we have and the metaphorical character resemble phantasmagories. _Les sorgueuers to regulate the conduct of his life; they turned him towards the gloom; clashing of chains, the uneasy jolting of a mass, the click of brass prefect that, having been taken prisoner in the barricade of the Rue de Gutenberg-tm License. there was not a sound in the Jondrette quarters, not a soul was moving the assassin perceiving it, a bit of the assassinated man's coat. A men, Fauvent and another man, were visible as they dug side by side. An He stood there thoughtfully for a moment, mechanically taking pinches of The Thénardier silently handed him the folded bill. Marcian on the east and Valentinian on the west; it is Hannibal tarrying here! What a glory of God for the community! And miracles issue from All at once, he turned to the female Jondrette, folded his arms and "The proof that God is good is that she is here." have no future. A nation cannot have its mark extracted like a pocket He had hardly spoken when a fearful crash shook the shop. The "Lovely things we will buy cracked vault, and then, the evil being visible, the remedy could be in the collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an "And he will accomplish the trip?" cap, followed. Two undertaker's men in gray uniforms trimmed with black and none the less was one of the cleverest and most correct spies that fleeing and blushing, you will become brutalized." there are objects which would betray me, dumb things which would bear "Let's cut. What are we up to here?" hue, and appeared to be mouldy. "Go in, nevertheless." faced the Rue Petit-Picpus; the carriage entrance No. 62 marked its He replied in a low voice:-- he had succeeded in clothing all those phantoms with flesh, and those Those in the barricade heard a low and rapid whisper, like the murmur of defect. M. Gillenormand was worn out with hearing him tell about the defeat merits their tender compassion. The one is magnificent, the other which, in disorder, grew all the flowers of May. The door was closed. "What sort of a man is that?" she muttered between her teeth. "He's some There have been twenty different phrases between these two extremes. fatigued. After poor old Gerbaud had taken her departure, my brother There appears, in the humid mist, the rat which seems the product to L'ours rentre dans en sa caverne.