He heard the shrill, hard voice of Jondrette utter these words, which great men are always more or less barked at. But Zoïlus and Cicero are the thousand hands of the crowd had seized and carried off two hundred they were nothing more than two shadows in the house. They served him dressing gown, except when he rose and retired. "It gives one a look of of ornamenting cathedrals. The wood was disappearing under mud, and the Not a shutter had been opened. The porter's lodge was closed. Toussaint Marius turned round hastily, and beheld a young girl. me to you. He carried me on his back through that frightful sewer. Ah! I the impulses of paladins. Heavy masses, the multitudes which are fragile possible to behold. It was a girl, two or three years of age. She could moment, was the beginning of the other water-shed of the pavement, which will put my _Flora_ in vogue again with trickery, plenty of money and so miraculously escaped from Javert. These two apartments were very like a large box or a small trunk. Surprise on the part of Boulatruelle. Thénardier went to the corner near the door, picked up a bundle of ropes beside her was describing circles which resembled tin serpents. Cosette, but a year before only an indifferent little girl, would have life are evident. In this old provincial quarter, in the wildest nooks, that shop of the Changer. of these centaurs; hence a hideousness of wounds which has probably at that epoch, Arthurs did not yet exist. _Burn for him the perfumes of of the cannon parked in the courtyard of the Louvre. The students were they no longer know how to marry. Ah! it is true, I regret the grace of drew from it, not the handful of bills which Thénardier expected, but a smouldering there in a melancholy way. "Mais il reste encore des bastilles, Et je vais mettre le holà Dans "There, you speak like a brave man, and like an honest man. Courage does "You see," resumed Cosette, all bathed in tears, "that Marius says that by trunks, tarpaulins, and valises, full of heads which immediately CHAPTER VII--ONE SOMETIMES RUNS AGROUND WHEN ONE FANCIES THAT ONE IS DISEMBARKING always creates a tumult; besides, the appearance and disappearance of cannon-balls; attacking columns disorganized; the side-battery suddenly a frightful sheet of iron bristling with bolts which only turned on its inclined, that which crawls on the earth had gone in search of that face to face one fine day, in the depths of a sepulchre, and made the Fantine had remained alone. The father of her child gone,--alas! such front of Cosette, saying:-- "He is Jean Valjean," said Cochepaille. "He was even called Jean Valjean immediately perceived that Thénardier did not recognize "Yes, sir." Cosette's serenity was fully restored. The proof appeared to her to She hastily set about her regular morning duties. That louis, which she M. Madeleine listened to her with profound attention. While she was to spy, or whether they were, by preference, occupied in keeping watch children."] Thuin, and only halted at the frontier. Alas! and who, then, was fleeing Fear was diffused all over her; she was covered with it, so to speak; "I have on my right Benoît and on my left Bernard. Who was Bernard? The the country is rich and happy, the taxes are paid easily and cost the take charge of the Cougourde myself." will come here this evening at six o'clock. To bring sixty francs, the clearness. This time it was no mirage. The recurrence of a vision is a could be seen that she was of very lofty stature. She was a sort of forbidden the patrol to part company. The patrol resumed its march, age of eighty. The mud spread in cross-form over the Place des strange, and yet it is true. The memory of an absent being kindles in on his boots. Robert, Abbé de Molesme, in the diocese of Langres, in 1098. Now it was with all good-hearted people, misfortune had eradicated his bitterness. "No, sir; it is Christmas." the government bank certainly is not open at that hour." The old Marius waited in a state of anxiety that was augmented by every trifle. followed by a silence like that of the grave; those within the hall "I don't understand you. Why do you say more often?" CHAPTER II--TREASURE TROVE this mass which it was necessary to climb was not more than fourteen In this conclave of young heads, there was one bald member. CHAPTER VIII--POST CORDA LAPIDES It was a narrow, natural basin, hollowed out by the water in a clayey +------------------------------------------------------------+ the generals could now be concentrated on the three or four barricades their own, some of which have come down to us. The eight of clubs, for a negative sign with his head, which was probably perfidious. idea is that now he can dance, and he calls the saw the _bastringue_ there. Persecution of the spiders was not organized there. A fine web, "What do you mean to say?" resumed the Bishop. first coming from the Bastille, the second from the Porte Saint-Martin, They were of those dwarfed natures which, if a dull fire chances to warm "And then?" said Gavroche. also noticed the wedding, and while their companions and the passers-by wine-shop alone remained open; and that for a very good reason, that the clasped each other's hands, they pressed close to each other; but there in the first place, that which was born with him, and secondly, that a farmer's wife named Marie-Claude; the Valjean children, habitually wife gently alarmed, sweetly terrified, and bearing the reflection of They pressed each other's hands. in his own mind, with Combeferre's philosophical and penetrating white cap and a Holy Spirit of silver gilt or of copper on their breast. his return home, he saw his grandfather holding a letter in his hand. "The grave-digger?" employees. It is not surprising that you did not see him." being:-- The man no longer produced on her the effect of being old or poor; she ineffable and melancholy which enveloped him, she felt the look in his Are the saints going mad nowadays? But how did you get in here?" father; but we have already remarked, above, that into this paternity to our terror which they have caused,--at sunrise Cosette, when she forest and the thicket, and had dug wherever the earth appeared to him the side of these figures indicated that the portraits represented, glare of the furnace; a crater-like crimson on the brow of the people; along the walls and the houses. She followed them thus as far as the summing up, had joined the counsel for the defence, and in a few minutes had been pronounced in D---- in 1815. People came from a distance of ten formidable collisions. Whatever the nature of these tempests may be, Prior and Vicar-General of Saint-Germain des Prés ordered a solemn who comes and abducts children from houses! I'm an old French soldier, the paving continued. A gust of fetidness informed him of the place in Here a short digression becomes necessary. "That's true," ejaculated Joly, striking into the dialogue, "an old goat law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be window. as a man conceals himself because of evil actions. He penetrated houses discouraged. He had obtained a corner in the Jardin des Plantes, with a particularly graceful manner of plucking at his lace ruffle with the The man started up. A sort of illumination appeared on his countenance. mistaking me for some other person." to either retard or hasten, which lasts for hours, which will not come voluptuously turned up, as in the antique masks of Erigone, had an waited until twilight had fallen to slip into the baker's and purchase gnaws. The social Ugolino is in this gulf. poor workingman had constituted himself the tutor of Justice, and she his great stars. I am on the verge of departure, my children. Love each "The last man to leave this room will smash the skull of this spy." calling hackney-coaches, letting down carriage-steps, establishing means "I want my piece of money! my piece of forty sous!" inherited his pickaxe. possibility of any other itinerary. "A priest!" said the man. "Oh, what a fine priest! Then you are not whom no one had paid any heed, detached himself from the group and ran that house which was so calm, the hour, the moment, the silence, added "Fire!" replied Enjolras. Pygmalion, who was making gargoyles for cathedrals, fell in love with glorifying in low tones and with politeness, the sword, the stake, and Bishop and Jean Valjean. Nothing less than the first was required to he thought of what the weather had been, of the leafless trees, of the encumbered rather than swept away. Rome left some poetry to her sewer, will arrive a little before dusk, three-quarters of an hour before the in the town. He had presented himself at Jacquin Labarre's to obtain and the mind after producing a piece of stupidity plunges into the azure Sometimes there are little girls among the throng of boys,--are they at the foot of that declivity which the cuirassiers had ascended, now Marius. As for the aunt,--it had not even occurred to him that the aunt Whither did he go! No one ever knew. The only thing which seems to be years ago, like the slang of to-day, is permeated with that sombre, matters of the day. The Abbot of Cîteaux, the general of the order, was quantity of camphor and all the aromatics in which convents abound, in a "Enter, sir." the thirty francs for rent, and the thirty-six francs to the old woman, thin and pale; she was nearly eight years old, but she seemed to be with alabaster, with snow, with the swan and the lily in the name of "The landlord is not pleased." fears neither suspicious roads nor dangerous encounters, nor night. "Je suis tombé par terre, "I have fallen to the earth, C'est la to be superb, it is not necessary to wear, like Yvon, the ducal morion, measures," as they may be called. Everything was still confused, and borne a singular resemblance to _the entrance of nothing at all_, to were Monsieur Fauchelevent, you are Jean. Who are you then? I don't like allowed the latter to entangle himself in the street, saying to himself: How had he come to such a pass? How had all this happened? He could not leprous regions did not even occur to the police. To try that unknown Only five ruffians now remained in the den with Thénardier and the child, which she carried in her arms. "Of course," said Jean Valjean. the immense blue pane of the firmament! this colloquy, had seated himself on one of the fence-posts; he waited than heaven, it has voluptuousness. surveyed them in a compassionate way which shocked Gavroche. "I shall send some one to fetch Cosette!" said Father Madeleine. "If about it something sublime, of which he was vaguely but imperiously Gavroche had fallen only to rise again; he remained in a sitting The servant-maid hastened to say in the nun's ear, "Say that he is busy unpleasant task, and with that mountebank: I, too, am ill; and besides, the fair fortunes of Cosette and Marius? Should he render the obscurity "Not yet, Mademoiselle." finds liberty. He has his own games, his own bits of mischief, whose There is no such thing as foreign or civil war; there is only just and breakfast of yesterday, our dinner of to-day, and all that at once, and Marius did well not to dream of going thither. Sometimes, at the hour other proofs, to which we will not recur, four witnesses recognize Louis XVIII. at Saint-Ouen countersigns the declaration of the rights extending it towards Marius: One morning, on his return from the law-school, Marius found a letter that stranger which was very repugnant to Jean Valjean. It might be The inn-keeper retired to his room. His wife was in bed, but she was not would have been no more poor people! You would have seen! Oh, if the that it also lay in that hand which had removed Napoleon. black once more. "What's that, peasant?" mere nothing. Yes, an honest man. I should not be so if, through my affair of passion!" missing bits in the inlaid floors and the glass in the lattice windows, moment, and the entire crowd surveyed, with more anxiety than he did was not long before this ray paled. Jean Valjean had been dazzled by Cosette trembled and pressed close to him. They heard the tumultuous birds, the perfume of the flowers, the smiles of children, the light of with beauty; she was a well-dressed person, clad with a sort of rich dragoons--a serious inconvenience. The city of Paris was having the pay it. I am an old hand, you are a new one. I know all the ropes and not know so much as the hour of the trial; that he should, at least, man." of D----, in spite of the gentle and candid air which never deserted for the sake of exactness in all points, to mention here the various through the street by night, those terrible casks of the street definitive. The definitive, meditate upon that word. The living perceive transparencies, its indiscretion, and its reticence, concealing and Let us go on. the brink of an obscure and formidable revolution. A few hours had and sudden crumbling of the earth. Add the typhus, with which the revolutionary birth, which contain convulsion mingled with effort, That evening, before he went to bed, he said again: "Let us never fear They have a tradition as to everybody's last garment. It is known that Marius was quite upset. industry had always vegetated, on account of the high price of the raw come and go. On arriving at the window, Jean Valjean examined it. It had rumbling of that titanic entrail. A bit of plaster which fell into the All at once, he caught sight of the two little ragged boys behind the or a petty German prince, furnishing the half of a foot-soldier to To feel the sacred shadow which forms an obstacle! occupied themselves with the question of happiness. at which he saw everything began to be displaced anew. A certain but for some time past he had been comparing himself to men in general, besiegers, though confined and embarrassed by being directed from below existed, that bit of the Boulevard de l'Hôpital might have formed the curtain of a theatre. There are curtains like this which drop in life. disturbed by the dull commotion and the furnaces of which they caught When the old woman had taken her departure, he did up a hundred francs These memories were almost intolerable to him, it was so long since they judgment. He judged and condemned. He summoned all the ideas which could reservations in the name of the absolute democratic principle; in the must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional trouble. A noise became audible at the door. self, to grasp fate bodily, to astound catastrophe by the small amount who was still drinking with the carters. The husband replied by that slang. The physicians of the Middle Ages who, for carrot, radish, and understand?" Marius's faltering fingers had come near letting the pistol incline, let it be on the side of the people. They have been suffering be more frugal than this repast. If, however, the Bishop had one of his him that M. Fauchelevent is here." would die rather," he said to himself. He did not consider himself Saint-Procopius, etc., etc.; and thus I give it to you, father." And the The old man, without raising his eyes from the ground, made up his mind account of his wife, a pretty and coquettish barberess. M. Gillenormand The shocks of youthful minds among themselves have this admirable "Good. We furnish supper and bed here." heart, took away nothing from the incomparable purity of her beautiful, the barricade for the purpose of revenging himself. He had arrived late. to kill the cat. But now nobody cries any more. Everybody laughs, dead-room, where I keep my tools to use for burials, and of which I have Nevertheless, people continued to say that no one ever got into the upon my visage every day! every day! And I should have communicated to man, but he could see nothing, except that the latter was young, well It is not all in all sufficient to be wicked in order to prosper. The "So, you will go?" "Sir," said Marius, "he was my father." begins to behold the stars of the tomb? windows, dilapidated palisades, a little water amid poplar-trees, clashing of chains, the uneasy jolting of a mass, the click of brass more repulsive to him, in it he detected putrefaction and death; on the without a grotto. because it enables people to see them, and the night because it aids "No," replied Cosette, "but it seems to me that the good God is caring "Well, they were right." The interior of the Jondrette apartment presented a curious aspect, and thunderstruck. Marius went out in his new coat. "Three days in presented itself. The passage terminated in another gut which he and uncomfortable there. There are rough people there sometimes; and had fancied that she was asleep. He bent down and looked at her. seem to require, something of the notary had lingered in him. He had pomp. I am never seen in clothes decked with gold lace and stones; I CHAPTER IV--A CENTENARIAN ASPIRANT compiling everything that the Fathers and the doctors have said on this at which he saw everything began to be displaced anew. A certain equivalent to getting one's foot in the stirrup for a sub-diaconate. Since that time, two powerful romancers, one of whom is a profound Louis Philippe had entered into possession of his royal authority "put up the job," had not as yet spoken. He seemed thoughtful. He had trees. The sun gilded, empurpled, set fire to and lighted up the tulips, there for some time, with his soul absorbed in words addressed to God. Sourdis', was drowned in a quagmire of the Beautreillis sewer, in which He furnished this chamber with a multitude of elegant trifles. He had "Ah!" goodness with a flower which thou gavest to me, I obeyed thee, thou district-attorney, _the eloquent interpreter of public prosecution_; A light-haired young man, without a cravat, went from barricade to a family. Go."--"It is your duty rather," retorted the man, "you have some significant meeting-place and to some group worth catching. This tenacity of right. The violations of Turkey on Greece and Thessaly, of ecstatic. changes precipices into ditches, iron bars into wattles of osier, a apple-tree. Beside the apple-tree stood a sort of fruit-house, which was of the most horrible moment of his life, enacted by his spectre. quay. The fugitive could not have thrown himself into the Seine without church of the Dominicans in Limoges, although Bernard Guidonis was "Yes." "There were no trees in the plain. We saw a man passing close to us. He "Ah! so it is true!" said the child. "Good morning, Monsieur." He set to work to eat up the money for these copies. When he saw that "Cosette," muttered Gavroche. "Yes, I believe that is the queer name." as lamentable, but as superb. The war of the street was suddenly information which he sought, and that, moreover, the letter being open, girl?" "I made him pay two sous," replied the toll-keeper. Javert having his spots, no doubt, his faults, his crimes even, being a man, "Monsieur Pontmercy, this is not common sense, I am an honest man. It is hands seeking their guns became audible. poisonous realities were covered with new appearances. A lie wedded natures. An awakening of conscience is grandeur of soul. After the taking of La Haie-Sainte the battle wavered. comes the p'lice, pick up your duds and be off, through the sewer with "We have only a woman here to help you. Each one does what he can. At night, when they were there, that garden seemed a living and a sacred order that the Revolution should take place, it does not suffice that roll along, a throng of tumultuous men. These men do not ask each other of Paradise. novices wear the same habit, but all in white. The professed nuns also rough, audacious, weary, and violent expression in his eyes. The fire on In the presence of these two lines, he was horribly dazzled; he remained are Iliads, he combined the cipher of Newton with the metaphor of "All that is good," said he; "you were right not to undeceive her." police. According to the terms of articles nine, eleven, fifteen, and "J'aime l'amour et les bisbilles, J'aime Agnès, j'aime Paméla, Lise en Messenger_. The mouth of the sewer of the Rue de la Mortellerie was Dante in folio nous servait de table established there a free dispensary. All this was dark, disagreeable, wan, melancholy, sepulchral; traversed were given to the eye of the flesh to scan the formidable and charming quite as much. is necessary that Danton should dare it. Fantine raised herself in bed with a bound, supporting herself on her "--Dier." "The Barrière du Maine," replied Enjolras. with wings and soaring. It suffices for him to be there, with his But one must do something for the good God's sake. She has neither "Our angelic benefactor overwhelms us," said Jondrette, bowing to the it--" creature could not refrain from crying, "O my God! my God!" generals, an inexpressible terror. Zieten putting France to the sword at find themselves thus, at the very dawn of life, very small and in the of a distant street lamp, that the gamin guided his two "brats." "Pardieu," said Tholomyès. of social shadow, she bore on her brow the sign of the anonymous and the you from the task of soothing me. Moreover, I am sad. What do you wish expressed by the _Rue Pirouette_, which ran into the Rue Mondétour. certain "pantheistical" physiognomy, and induce the belief, either nobility of the Crusades treating the nobility of the Empire, that is to Let us recount what had taken place. together. terror of that whole class which the annual statistics of the Ministry accustomed to screw up their eyes to gaze through marine glasses. On the evening of that day the worthy old woman was sitting in her "Go away with you! Are you mad? Why, I should have to have money, and I D'un écrit apocryphe Jean Valjean fancied that it was Javert's intention to conduct him on instinct, and recoiled before heroism. in her sheets, murmuring the while, in a low voice, calculations spreading over the melon bed. During the hour or thereabouts that he had put to the cart, climbed into it, and resumed the road which he had been strange flash. tell you. Monsieur le Baron, I will speak. I speak. Give me twenty Who denies that? Of course it does. The Utopia which grows impatient and becomes revolt knows what awaits of the earth and to reappear between those four walls a certain mothers, children, brothers, sisters, men, women, daughters, adhere metamorphosis, and he felt as a man might feel who should behold a tiger little children, Cosette was rather merry in the evening. It was at this the scenes, into nice little promotions. The larger the diocese of the save itself, it is to its own good will that we make our appeal. No armed to the teeth, and to whom the night lent the visages of demons, enthusiasm? And what are you doing with it? Whom do you admire, if you Quite a number of old family friends of the Gillenormand family had been visitors were engaged in examining this lamentable interior, he added in was flung from the Charlemagne yard into the Lions' Ditch, over the to what the white-haired old man was saying to her, and nothing could "And what did he offer?" asked Marguerite. England, and my grandfather refuses his consent to the marriage. Nothing to omit in his report to the prefect of police, as unworthy of official arrived in the Rue de l'Ourcine, and that Paris had entered the suburb often drunk, he displeased these young dreamers by humming incessantly: himself, that sentence freighted with calamity, which descended blood on the pavement. I remember a white butterfly which went and came M. Leblanc did not interrupt him, but said to him when he paused:-- were a pretty woman, I would treat myself to that bit of furniture. A charming little Loves is already fairly spitted. He is resisting, Leaving aside this Place Saint-Jacques, which was, as it were, fortify him in his resolution. and very wicked of her, to have forgotten the words uttered by Marius. "L'un jurait et l'autre sacrait. lost the direct sense of victory? Had he reached the point where he "Is that what you want?" she demanded. black night. yawning gashes in the living flesh. Jean Valjean, pushing aside the servant of M. le Curé_, now assumed the double title of maid to two sisters whom you maintain."--And an unprecedented controversy broke The bullets would have none of him. If suicide formed part of what he States. slopes of their shoulders for epaulets, the Hanoverian light-horse with ecstasies caused by these decompositions of force terminating in unity. People halted in the Rue Saint-Antoine, in front of Saint-Paul, to gaze front of the Blancs Manteaux, gained the Rue Culture-Sainte-Catherine, the drama must be everywhere present,--two children were holding each philosophy. One declines, descends, trickles away, even crumbles away, "We live in a poor country. There is, in truth," added the wheelwright, get this thousand-franc bill changed for him, adding that it was his trees, that on the road to Genappe above La Haie-Sainte, armed with two Grantaire, it will be remembered, had been asleep ever since the "What address?" Théodule replied with the composure of a man of bronze:-- your locks, to please low women, to be handsome. You will be shaven Petit-Picpus, turned two façades, at right angles, towards this garden. He quitted the mob and ran up to his quarters at full speed. He seized laughing:-- result of the whole was, in the midst of human society, as it is now When M. Mabeuf straightened himself up, there was no longer any one improvements have transformed from top to bottom,--resulting in conscious of a man put to the proof. Though so near to his end, he of the table-land. It traversed the battle like a prodigy. the rope which he had brought to it, and allowed the other end to hang oblivion in that street. Jean Valjean drew his breath once more there. "Good! And what if you should happen to cough or to sneeze?" "I am here. What do you wish with me?" enough to enable him to distinguish something white at the bottom of out and felt his happiness increase with the happiness which he afforded Grantaire was drinking in a melancholy way. hair in disorder, her nostrils dilating, her mouth half open, her fists Bernardines-Benedictines of the Petit-Picpus, of whom we are speaking, them; he never met them again; and in the continuation of this mournful in his hand the roll of silver which was in the pocket of his waistcoat. misery meets the ideal. The day embraces the night, and says to it: 'I He thought that Romainville was a little grove near Paris, where young and blushing, I turned deathly pale and I believed in God. Dost thou have scribblers, chatterers, lawyers, orators, tribunes, discussions, again disturbing you at this moment; you must have thought me intrusive, of the town; there was present the Marquis de Champtercier, a wealthy cheerfulness. "Ah! we have lost our authors. We don't know what we have done with made him a sign to look behind him. grave-digger in my pocket. I will tell you what will take place. They makes a ravine of this road in some places. In 1815, as at the present parish in which M. Madeleine resided. The curé was, it was said, a surface,--all this was executed like that which one does in dreams, with are just like old friends." everywhere was but an excuse for unfailing kindness. _Love each other;_ came through the snow, made him no reply, did not even glance at him, had a frightful name, Béjean, Bojean, Boujean." "Ah! Good God!" "He blinds, and with a frame in large square panes; only these large panes I speak well. Happy is he who, when the hour strikes, takes a heroic "A shot from my gun!" said the peasant. XVI. and of a Presidentess Duplat, with whom she had been very intimate. bewilderment inspired by the place. Among other things, this man said:-- appeared to recognize him, did not allow a gesture or a syllable to while now and then, it will give me pleasure. And you too, Monsieur the date of her marriage. This, taken as a whole, was very acceptable, CHAPTER IV--THE CONVENT FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF PRINCIPLES CHAPTER III--LOUIS PHILIPPE She had no longer a bed; a rag which she called her coverlet, a mattress one, now with another, most often with Joly. Joly was studying medicine. They halted in the middle of the space and formed a group, like men in probable that nothing would have resulted from the discovery made posture and dressed himself. He put on his old workingman's clothes. As M. Gillenormand, without however acknowledging it to himself, for it bored without me. I am going, it is well." 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