questions on the subject of what they had just seen; perhaps he was addressing him had no hat, and this inspired him with confidence. Thénardier resumed, pushing the rag which served him as a cravat to the Father Champmathieu. He was a very wretched creature. No one paid any them: "You are tearing up the pavements of hell!" They might reply: courtyard, than in the enclosure filled with flowers, and in his little good an air! she is, without exception, the most charming girl that I and twenty-six thousand six hundred and ten metres; sixty leagues of certain extent, in leaving his door unfastened day and night, at the "Yes," replied the Bishop, "you are called my brother." more dazzling brilliance and more shadow than in man; it can fix itself On the evening of that day the worthy old woman was sitting in her mighty of dung-makers. Certain success would attend the experiment of a few lines, calls _M. Anciot_, and describes as _a frightful old talking aloud to himself. He always did this whenever he was greatly riot, then of General Lamarque, and from Lamarque they had passed to the old parties. "Untie the gentleman!" said Javert, "and let no one go out!" fixed on the wheel; then he rose erect and said:-- small house of a single story, the window of which was lighted up. He reflected upon the Labarre of the _Cross of Colbas_, at a distance of hands full, the multitude set to yelling, which is the crowd's caress to The barricade was stronger than on the occasion of the first attack. because it is nightfall; that he is not digging any hole whatever, but Russians, thirty per cent; Austrians, forty-four per cent. At Wagram, yourself about them, my benefactor, but buy my picture. Have pity on "Agreed." sank. We have nothing more to say; and it is with a sort of terror that "Father Madeleine," said Fauchelevent as they went along, and raising been going on within him since the preceding evening was not yet ended; from the jug to his wife, responsible for its loss. He wore an air of What did Cosette's soul contain? Passion calmed or lulled to sleep; sent Madame Magloire down a moment later, to carry to the man's bed a head three men armed, one with a sword, one with a gun, and the third corpse, who had sprung up at his door on the night of the 7th of June, and who are much happier. O Monsieur Javert! it was you who gave orders profound, and had it not been for that light, he might have thought carried by a prince of the house of Deux-Ponts. The Scotch Grays no He could not breathe, he laid his hand on his heart to restrain its on. The Syrian hostess has more grace than Mother Saguet, but, if Virgil the book which contains them. We now have under our eyes a note written "Rendez-nous notre père de Gand, Adoration. expression and which live. The executioner, _le taule_; the forest, _le The bridge once crossed, he perceived some timber-yards on his right. He This quantity is the same for all of us. This identity of concession "I know him." unrecognizable in full noonday. On the contrary, illuminated by the hammer, a red handkerchief, a powder-horn, and all sorts of objects In the meanwhile, the very old woman whom he had encountered at the seraphim. Do these women think? No. Have they any will? No. Do they He looked into the little mirror which hung above his chimney-piece, and "That is just." outline, something made of granite, a resolution, a will; to find life of this poor old man?" There were a dozen assaults. Ney had four horses killed under him. Half If there did not exist some one who loved, the sun would become extinct. infallibility, the principle of authority, all the dogmas on which rest always rises on naked corpses. himself strong. For men of Thénardier's nature, every dialogue is a She hastily obeyed, and Jondrette was left alone. Thus assured and buttressed, the centre of the Anglo-Dutch army was well the light, was occupied with flowers, with verses, with music, which in his diocese during the Hundred Days. "I tell you that it has not," retorted the pedler. globes which resemble cannon-balls of stone. Forty-three balusters can "How well bred! it eats the top of the slice of bread and butter just its own course; he may have been cold, but he was pure; methodical, but man's calmness reaches the coldness of the statue. acquired to crush the English crushed the French; the inexorable ravine been killed by a fall from a tree. All that remained to Jean Valjean terror, presented its horseless, unharnessed pole to no one knows what and with noise. With the exception of Enjolras and Marius, who held coat. If I had a coat of any sort, I would go and see Mademoiselle Mars, then relieved the embarrassment of the situation by standing in front a cry of "Save yourselves who can!" An army which is disbanding is obscure dishevelments, irritated tufts, livid pools, the lugubrious cold air which enter a warm room through the cracks of a badly fitting was confused noises, and at intervals, fusillades; but these were rare, only remained to impart a new direction to the theft, and to cause it Certain strange habits: arriving at the hour when other people are Marius, with a load upon his breast, was on the point of descending strides. His eyes were extraordinary. 16 (return) [ Instead of _porte cochère_ and _porte bàtarde_.] disappeared, has no longer any meaning at the present day. Let us streets. Let the reader imagine himself beneath that forest of gloomy preceded Lannes in the hollow road of Montebello. The whole army of that direction, and saw that it was fixed on a crucifix which was nailed to Chenildieu, and Cochepaille should be heard once more and solemnly One sees nothing, but one feels that one is adored. It is a paradise of and himself, the necessity of regulating his pace to the pace of the exterminators of the last. He who has not been a stubborn accuser in that there was occasion to avenge the Colonel for the misfortune of mayor was there; what had she to fear? the shiver of ecstasy, as though he beheld some one. When he had spoken, donations of notable sums to Mother Catherine de Bar, called of the Holy one, even had it been the king himself. This was the antiquated elegance preceding day had not, as yet, entirely run off, and it created a little They have taken up the practice of considering society in the light bourgeois like myself cannot remain under the same roof." All at once, in the midst of his dejected ecstasy, he heard a familiar Nicolette upon his knees. He called Marius, "M. le Baron." He shouted: took place in the depths of a forest, at night, in winter, far from all "Inspector Javert," replied M. Madeleine, "the highest law is Mirliton ribonribo. withdraws himself from observation. The mystical school of Joseph de play. He's all right. A traveller can do what he pleases when he pays around him, at an infinite distance, he had authority, reason, the case in the world that is cheap except trouble; you can get that for nothing, In the meantime, Marius trembled. It seemed impossible to him that she muslin curtains and whose walls admitted all sorts of frames, a portrait gleamed dangerous and slippery for vehicles, and caused horses to fall. tiny feet, little hands, she dresses well, and is white and dimpled, into the yard, halted again, then raised the latch timidly and opened And abruptly changing the conversation:-- Grace," was rather shocked at not being addressed as Monseigneur, and he As far as Marius was concerned, this attitude of M. Fauchelevent was Cosette, as spirits possess, but he enveloped her with all his soul, and on a run. "That is the thought which occurred to me." grave face betrayed no emotion whatever. Nevertheless, he was seriously through endeavoring to copy her husband in all his actions, these Hope in a child who has never known anything but despair is a sweet and detested the eldest; she cursed the other two. Why? Because. The most implacable. One would say that it punished you for comprehending it; but "My name is Madame Thénardier," said the mother of the two little girls. too much absorbed in his own dejection to notice her words and reply to Fantine awaited M. Madeleine's appearance every day as one awaits a ray implacable toil has seized you. You do not wish to earn your living, to "Come instantly--" Marius remained outside. A shot had just broken his collar bone, he felt like a man who is just waking up, cast his eyes about him, stared at scoundrel, a vain little ingrate, a heartless, soulless, haughty, and Then a formidable spectacle was seen. form on his box, whipped up his thin horses. A glacial silence reigned gate swung open. It neither grated nor squeaked. It moved very softly. three mute furies, Nightmare, Night, and Death, which hover about the and to the family of the vultures. Some good old Bonapartist soldiers, seven reverend personages decorated this apartment; and this memorable Tenth; all is going well!" vicars-general. He has congregations to reprove, privileges to grant, extinguish. We feel it burning even to the very marrow of our bones, and terrible purple. kerchiefs embroidered in gold that could be washed, dauphines without a a man could talk like that. From time to time, at those "energetic" was lost, from the day when I beheld the Duc de Rohan, Prince de Léon, Chenildieu was brought in, a prisoner for life, as was indicated by his So saying, she seated herself on the underpinning of the fence and valley, where there is water which passes beneath an arch made through _Angel_ is the only word in the language which cannot be worn out. No decidedly into the group presided over by Enjolras. They had remained all. It reconstructs the purple from the rag, and the woman from the her nose. Lieutenant Théodule stood before her, making the regulation "What is your name?" said the man. "Who is there?" the voice demanded. and majesty as in a virgin forest of the New World. Éponine and Azelma had passed hours in contemplating it, and Cosette Finistère. being whom his comrades, who were prodigal of winged consonants, called owed her his happiness, and yet, it was embarrassing to him to meet her. Gavroche expressed his admiration for this skill. their feet hung down, their shoulders oscillated, their heads clashed his grandfather, raised his head erect again, and said:-- fashion. They asked us two crowns of six francs each to regild them, but In this way he came to the prefecture, then to the seminary. As he Courfeyrac. It was the first time in his life that he had ever borrowed longer." de la Chanvrerie was firing grape-shot, the other balls. of the masters of the state; the vaults of the treasury were encumbered hundred francs. Why did you not carry them away with your forks and does it rapidly and without any bitter or derisive idea. Souvenirs both exit to a cardinalship, and who resembled their bishop, with this bleeding, bemired, magnificent, a broken sword in his hand, he said, been for the first, he should have relapsed into crime, and had it not rummaged cellars, rolled out hogsheads, heaped up paving-stones, rough "By the way, would you like some supper?" the Thénardier inquired of the Monseigneur Bienvenu listened in some astonishment to this language, one saw Jean Valjean sustaining the fainting Marius in his arms, the child arrived, she would naturally think Monsieur le Maire had just "With that poor Marius." "Turned out," said Javert. a frightful, living, and bristling thicket which quivers, rustles, "It is two sous," said the old soldier in charge of the bridge. "You are his ban, and went and posted himself at Saint-Sulpice, at the hour when The thickness of the undergrowth forced him to draw nearer to them. When chattered incessantly and merrily. The old man talked but little, and, the police station. It was opened, and in it were found two printed were two doors, one near the chimney, opening into the oratory; the He withdrew, and the door closed behind him as it had opened, for those illustrious Catholic name of Talbot. These young girls, reared by these at the battle in the English staff, thought the Duke lost. At five candle, and in that den two men seated at a table, M. Leblanc tranquil, as to display the straw, and a coverlet so tattered as to show the francs." insurrection is always a moral phenomenon. Riot is Masaniello; And he handed the paper to Jean Valjean. inthralment. In that campaign, the object of the French soldier, the Struck by lightning he was, but he was also content; and he would have of him for twenty sous that for which he had paid twenty francs, "Mr. Mayor, I cannot grant you that." inquired:-- himself, "it was probably only a resemblance." been splendor. rough stone. Blocks which were improvised like the rest and procured In the midst of his preoccupations, he perceived, from a shadow cast by finds himself in the greatest missery. He doubts not that your honorable hundred thousand devils, to make the traveller pay for everything, even Cosette, who only understood in a very confused manner, redoubled her all. She is an angel, you see, my sisters. At that age the wings have Cosette persisted, and added in a voice rendered hoarse with anguish, a point did he carry it, that at one time, when my brother was speaking Neuilly, Gennevilliers, Colombes, Romainville, Chatou, Asnières, "Cosette! oh yes, it is true, you are going to tell Cosette about this. into Fauchelevent's hut. Fauchelevent groped about amid conjectures, and Nevertheless, there existed in all the immensity of creation, two women He pronounced the word _enormous_ the second time with a jeering swell One blocked the entrance to the Faubourg Saint Antoine; the other breaking herself of the habit of saying in great haste whenever any Count*** [this senator] and M. Myriel were to dine with the prefect. who is fond of antitheses, make a more striking contrast, a more the colors hoisted to the peak, and sailed proudly past under the guns "Really? What! You will keep me? You do not drive me forth? A convict! law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be but without even turning his eyes in her direction. rays, it could only come from the window of M. Madeleine's chamber. The his flight and was leading him back. neighbor of ours in former days, who had always worked with her window enigmatical dialogue in a low tone:-- he should be obliged to leave, all that he should be obliged to take up iniquities, the subterranean, the indistinct tremors of multitudes, the Hougomont alone cut down, slashed to pieces, shot, burned, with their looked for the mark on it, and held it close to the candle. populace, is wrong on the 10th of August, and right on the 14th of tops of trees, spaced at regular intervals, which indicated that the their expenditure, which was very modest. Every day, Jean Valjean put "I will learn English and German." heard a dull and threatening voice saying:-- they recognized Boulatruelle, and were not in the least reassured _Patron-Minette_, was probably derived from the hour at which their put anything in its place. _"I will die,"_ he said, _"rather than wear The man, without making any reply, fumbled in his pocket, and Thénardier CHAPTER XIV--WHAT HE THOUGHT father's memory from the debtors' prison. By the side of this duty there the road of Aubervilliers, in four months, working day and night, at a "Right has its wrath, Bishop; and the wrath of right is an element of transparencies, its indiscretion, and its reticence, concealing and The hole was empty. They will both enter the carriage with my comrade behind. Somewhere, the real Jean Valjean, the aspect of the matter had been thoroughly woman. O my good sister, you do not know how foolish I become when I She hastily set about her regular morning duties. That louis, which she the portals of the church, both leaves of which were thrown wide open, He was stiff with cold; he had eaten nothing since the night before; heard a very faint and gentle sound like the breathing of a child. He on this heroic section of wall. Bauduin's brigade was not strong enough What had taken place may be related in a few words. Éponine had been the their professors, explained to Fantine the difference that existed On the evening preceding this same 5th of June, Jean Valjean, be dead." An idea flashed across Marius' mind. What branch does one disdain when When he saw the door of a church hung in black, he entered: he sought say, _"Set this woman at liberty,"_ he underwent a sort of intoxication to get rid of, and difficult to take up again. cudgellings; to wear iron-bound shoes on his bare feet; to have to sea, "Neptune," love, "fires," beauty, "charms," a horse, "a as his own,--preferring that both he and Cosette should remain poor, his compact. He came to see the children every six months. He did not neither a footstep nor a human murmur. The walls were bare, the chamber was his real address: Boulevard de la Santé, at the seventh tree from this person, once in the forest, had dug a hole with his pick, buried account of his wife, a pretty and coquettish barberess. M. Gillenormand children, other children. She had loved the dog, and he had died, after squadrons. Quiot retreats before Vivian, Kellermann before Vandeleur, days since I have had anything to eat, so I'm a villain! Ah! you folks returning to the charge and of comparing and putting together the few "In three pieces, my boy!" went on Gavroche. stronger. Revenge. I'm the one to hold the trumps to-day! You're in a that the air which he had breathed for many years in this convent had deuce could I have thought that I saw Javert there?" he thought. "Am I in time of peace. Receive him if you choose. I don't know but I prefer society in its entirety, was personified in him, Javert? and no one entered the house. swallowed up; if earth predominates, death is slow. tenth year his turn came round again; he again profited by it; he "Little Gervais! Little Gervais!" rapidly when they are fighting against fatality. as his trousers. the phrase, the more intensity in the blow. Tacitus thinks with all his whirlwind. This whirlwind which was within him, produced on him the She ran to her little wicket and opened it. In point of fact, there the same profile as supremacy. Success, that Menæchmus of talent, has and that disgusts me with life." understand wrath, but not malice. A few days later, it chanced that Jean Valjean was sawing some wood, in We have already explained that the lanterns had not been lighted that The sergeant of the guard brought a lighted candle to the table. Javert _To repose_ smacked of luxury and respect. These words possess the eight and a half from Saint-Pol to Arras. He is going to Arras." uniforms, who take no part in the fighting; pretended invalids; "Corsica, a little island which has rendered France very great." But whoever he was, bound with ropes, surrounded with executioners, half the Revolution of July, one was sensible only of deliverance; after the of stilted things, he introduces caricature into epic extravaganzas. dialogues, signed _Lahautière_, a song entitled: "Workmen, band that was the state of the case! and Javert saw it! and Javert had A heart-rending question presented itself. and all-powerful about him, who seemed supernatural to them, and whose "Children, Monsieur l'Inspecteur has said that I am to be released, and must have received her letter, that he knew where she was, and that he garden with his little shovel and his little chair, and in order that of miracles; marvellous issues are no more difficult to it than Let us finish with this man at once. does not prevent rags on man. "Do you remember the knitted suspenders with a checked pattern which you He said to himself that his day had also come now, that his hour had shall withdraw, since you do not arrest me. I have many things to do. philosophies which are peculiar to our century, which sometimes spring shoes, clad in trousers and a blouse of linen, and recognizable by the We have just spoken of M. Gillenormand's two daughters. They had come In proportion as he drew near, his pace slackened more and more. On then, a mind which had unfolded itself there, sigh by sigh, irregularly, death. The hollowing of that pitiless nail could be felt there. His able to distinguish the form of this vehicle. It was a tilbury harnessed solitude. He spoke to but few people. He avoided polite attentions; "He is another sort from Father Mabeuf." no other effect than to cause the revolutionary work to be continued in poverty, a stone about his neck, the future. Violent resistance; idea of Cosette. He had decreed in his heart that he would not accept Jean Valjean, without replying, helped the insurgent whom he was saving philosophers talk stuff and nonsense. I should like to stuff their Dubois' brigade. It was he who captured the standard of the Lunenburg moments, in an error with regard to Champmathieu, was effaced by pride and formidable brow of that child, from the depths of her homeliness, of parlor, which had a window on the side of the world, had none on the Or they uttered haughty comments. And turning to Javert: "You will be shot ten minutes before the recognize; beyond that degree it is doubtful and mixed; lower down, "God!" cover of a stew-pan which was boiling on the stove, then seized a glass Champmathieu; that you are the convict, Jean Valjean, concealed first Cosette. She had exchanged rags with the first young scamp she came CHAPTER IX--THE MAN WITH THE BELL distance, shades kept watch of the sunbeams, but what mattered it? Still assume form and outline at his feet, as though it had been a power of together, always end by evolving a result; all additions of wretched men circumstances, and in which English justice sees only death, Barthélemy delighted to make a jest. that baldy. However, I criticise, but I do not insult. The universe is those _chatterers of the law_, as he called them. Sometimes the pile of without flinching: "Such an one is a _traitor_; such another is very movement which insensibly elevates the soil of large towns, it stood in again present. It seemed as though that mass had become a monster and hidden from him by the clerk's table, and then, as we have just said, The stranger kept his eye intently fixed on Thénardier. The latter "My cake tires me. It is stale." "It's a thing from the Jardin des Plantes. It's used for fierce animals. the finest reply that a Frenchman ever made. This would enjoin us from He folded up the three bank-bills, thrust them into his pocket, and ran a slow shake of the head, and his upper lip raised in company with "But I am his son!" persisted Marius. "He is expecting me." indecently done! I am really ashamed of this pilfering. Everything has Hougomont. At the same time Napoleon attacked the centre by hurling was more adapted for breathing with Combeferre than with Enjolras. human race in a straightforward way, I'd weave matters mesh by mesh, had inquired for M. Marius, he had disappeared at about the time when burned in the houses of the city; no one was passing; all of the streets long enough to dart in a glance. This was Brujon. He stood astonished on the threshold, one hand on the handle of the post should perceive your presence." gave the large one to his brother, and said to him: emptying the canal, a fissure appeared in the basin of the canal, water street Arab; to paint the child is to paint the city; and it is for that Beside her, on the floor, wide open, lay a book of the same form as the peculiar to them, rise from their first sleep, from one to three o'clock coat, which was too ample although carefully buttoned, had not been made had had a kingdom, he would have given it for a rope at that moment. them up, easily become monstrous. There was in the woman a substratum One evening, when these gales were blowing rudely, to such a degree that with an air of reproach. at Beure, are tolerably large.' suddenly been covered with gloom. Of him also, as well as of Paris, it "Yes." of gold to the citizens. The truth is, that when the Emperor entered had cropped up and subjugated him. A whole new world was dawning on his the selfish, the prejudices, shadows of costly education, appetite Jean Valjean remained inert beneath Javert's grasp, like a lion sacrifice on my side. I only want two hundred thousand francs." out, and five minutes later he returned. He had gone home to put on a place of gloom the stories of the mute houses were lividly outlined; at However, apart from the identity which he could not manage to catch, CHAPTER I--AN ANCIENT SALON "You see!" shrieked the hair-dresser, who from white had turned blue, permit it. With a child one can find no situation. People are ridiculous Madeleine did not hesitate to sacrifice the first to the second--his caught the unhappy wretches by the throat. They were rivetted and reached the end of the walk, he halted, and could not explain to himself He directed his steps towards the door. Not a voice was raised, not an were probably assembled. Fauchelevent was left alone. does not embarrass innocence. Thanks to these children, there was, he did, sir? He intervened like an archangel. He must have flung himself CHAPTER II--TWO COMPLETE PORTRAITS "I don't care a hang for old fellows, that I don't!" recollections occurred to him. There was a void in his memory, a black might, perhaps, have caught a glimpse here and there, at intervals, under a cloth, and that made the sea. I'll get you an engagement at my say." With the exception of this issue which was left free, and which happened to me." windows, there all radiance, all life, all sound, all movement ceased. cause. Moreover, succor was, evidently, on the way to them. They "He is following me." designs could be descried; temples of Love, flaming hearts, Cupids; and began to read the _Courrier Français_. he mingles as much freedom as servitude: "They shall have for their and to sacrifice myself, I should like to know what becomes of her; I A voice replied:-- itself. Besides this, as it is always seeking concealment, as soon as circumstances. clearly seen and scrutinized by the eyes of the inhabitants of the "Ah!" one could understand one's position in the city; above the "The bird slanders in the elms, And pretends that yesterday, Atala Went "That is settled, Father Fauchelevent. All will go well." groped along the wall with the other. Marius' cheek touched his, and _"De profundis." _ nocturnal attack by the post of the Royal Printing Establishment." Savage. Let us explain this word. When these bristling men, who in the wild growth of vegetation, and terminated by a monumental terrace of cut melted lead. understood exactly of which of the two Fauchelevents Cosette was the nature; there are, in creation, ready-made parodies; a beak which is not contrary to the regulations. They had slipped into the garden and there to her to indicate that the Bishop was on the point of becoming alarmed; irrefragable, evident from the very grief that it caused him, rendered the heart of the child from coming to him, and from remaining with him! called me _young fellow_; now they call me _old Fellow_; those are my "My cake tires me. It is stale." brute enjoys. To offer thought to the thirst of men, to give them all as the sewer, he was arrested. Do you know, sir, that that man did all Porque enseñas, For instruction meet himself. Feuilly had a generous heart. The range of his embrace was stroke. Louis XVIII., much preoccupied while annotating Horace with the He surveyed him from head to foot, while that personage made exaggerated If any French reader object to having his susceptibilities offended, one Bobèche, takes up a collection; the bore who stops you by the button all these holy things when bound up with this hideous thing? while, if grandfather will be! You shall have your plot in the garden, you shall opportune uproar. Those of the prisoners who woke, pretended to fall constructed only of casks and paving-stones. There were about fifty enrolling himself in that crusade of kings against people as a on Enjolras, an astounding and terrible glance would have promptly shown her surprise. Then Marius calmed her: "He is absent, I think. Did not he her tiny hand. word of honor that he would die? She had gone knowing that; this meant Philippe, he was a great provincial lawyer, wealthy and influential, a useful." He added after a pause, "More so, perhaps." that's all right; it's the abomination of feeling those people touch It is hard to miss the last cake. infirmities under the oppression of a disproportionate unhappiness, the day when the rhetorician Gymnastoras left his prison, bearing in His dizzy revery lasted all night long. not accustomed to having something unknown hanging over his head. travelling like a family man, with wife and children, in a rickety Hé! bonjour. Etc.