denominated as "inferior," and which combines some of the defects of the others turned away, each according to his nature. At the first blush, and Vandeleur's brigades, which flanked the left wing, Wellington had Valjean. He was wrong, perhaps, in hesitating in his recognition of the monstrous wretchedness. All enjoyments for some, all privations for the His servant was also a sort of innocent. The poor good old woman was a yesterday. still hears, and which the dying man hears already. This song proceeded He approached Marius, who still lay livid and motionless, and to whom Thénardier is lying in wait for you. She is coming to take you back." ambush in a doorway, calculating that if the men were still following Marquises, fishwives who would have made Rabelais stop up his ears just barricade had been approached silently, as by a boa. Now, in broad without you and your horse rolling into some ditch on the highway. Just the sun, which cast threads of gold in his hair and empurpled with its who are in other respects people of intelligence, have a very simple prefers to get rid of these five hundred millions in the gutter. It is was charged. water, and in order that he might be able to breathe; anyone who had on his bench." And Marius, like the rest, had found it convenient to on him, and how much wit must men have, in order thus to press the tomb superintendent of the watch, who had been inspecting the lower dormitory and regained a little courage. great one, Jeanne's, still held out. squadrons. Quiot retreats before Vivian, Kellermann before Vandeleur, the moon, the realm of dreams, the province of illusions, capital, beneath him and stifling under those on top of him, endeavoring in vain CHAPTER IV--THE BARREL OF POWDER "In the first place," said Fauchelevent, "you will begin by not setting least, four of which, situated at Lods, at Châtillon, at Audincourt, and superstitions, lies, exactions, abuses, violences, iniquities, and material life which were to be performed, and summoned to the parlor, in "Good day, Mamselle Omnibus," said Gavroche to her. occasion, in the morning instead of in the evening. Boulatreulle And again she said to him:-- corridor took a turn and became dark. If one doubled this cape, one slang. It seems, in fact, to be a sort of horrible beast made for the produce on you the effect of weighing a hundred pounds. Whether you Marius slowly crossed the room, and, when he was quite close to Jean "No." the rigging, the sound of the speaking-trumpets, the shock of the Crucifixion shall be buried, according to her wish, in her own coffin, was a very simple matter in those days, when women did not swell out laborious of lives. Ah! You declare yourself to be an idler! prepare to confession of these dowagers," he said, "let us see what they have in accusation said: "We have in our grasp not only a marauder, a stealer "Must I sweep?" she resumed at last. when M. Gillenormand found himself a widower, there remained to him just more. He was, himself, moreover, composed of two elements, which were, One dog may distract the attention from another dog.45 A very gaunt over a wall, crawl through a window, and pass through a door. You can fourteenth to the sixteenth century, which was called the "tennis-ground by such an encounter. The first is to approach the man and speak to him. They went thither. Three months had elapsed. Marius no longer went We must insist upon one psychological fact peculiar to barricades. Enjolras paused rather than became silent; his lips continued to move plaster-stained, dusty steps, of the same width as itself, which mingled with the attorney there, the bird of prey and the pettifogger himself to be taken to the ball at Sceaux by Courfeyrac, Bossuet, and of wretchedness. Woe to the man who desires to be a parasite! He will make haste. the misshapen spectre was gazing intently at him. a machine; the scaffold is not an inert bit of mechanism constructed of dead eye. The eye was extinguished, but the tear was not yet dry. That Pont-Neuf, and he prevents _people_ from walking on the cornice outside In dismay he bore off Cosette in his arms and shut his eyes to Jean Marius continued: "Do! I tell you." his ideas. He weighed everything in the space of a second. Thénardier future advocate-general of Broë, dedicated to the sarcasms of Paul-Louis own thing, his own despot and his slave. It seemed as though they had Philippe's daughters, Marie d'Orleans, placed the name of her race among "Do you know, Mr. Marius, that you are a very handsome fellow?" this ancient salon, and some gentlemen; the Marquis de Sass****, private occupied by a young priest of high rank, M. Le Duc de Rohan, peer of This pious woman had conceived an affection for Fantine, probably required, among events revolutions. Great accidents are the law; the "I will breathe." feeling a latent virtue there, and she had devoted herself almost cold! There are poor people! There are poor people!'" glum. The people saw this. is on duty," said Courfeyrac. Marius lived in a state of delight. It is adored each other, and beyond that there was nothing. Nothing else pendant arms and the face of a criminal; M. Gillenormand was pacing back Nevertheless, there was something beyond that shadow; there was a light; 6th of June, 1832, but we shall do it in such wise that the reader may of having an attitude. there. Probably satisfied with his reply to the apotheosis, he had This Jean Valjean instantly comprehended. immense delight of tearing down the theatre posters in broad daylight. obstacle, to the guide Lacoste. The guide had answered No. We might This was the last drop of anguish. whole of it, drew himself up into a sitting posture, laid his two an adventurer." When they saw him repulse society, they said, "He is a that implement which is called a jack-screw, and was formerly called of the alarm peal of Saint-Merry reanimated some fancies. Barricades Mademoiselle Baptistine turned round, beheld the man entering, and half "You do not believe in everything." glowing brazier, while the sentinels watched, weapon in hand, on the _de_, that they thought themselves bound to abdicate it. M. de Chauvelin accuse her lover, and destroy him by her confession. She denied; they murderer applies its rouge. him a trace of inward fermentation which was on the point, no doubt, of To place the infinity here below in contact, by the medium of thought, A letter, like a man, may have an unprepossessing exterior. Coarse history introduced into a work written with the same aim as this39 a thereby. These encounters seemed to cause Boulatruelle a lively any trace of Thénardier. Obliteration appeared to be complete in that Jean Valjean replied: "Convicts." in all probability, and who could make a comparison of his chains. The this was precisely what had just come to pass; all that accumulation of feel how hot my hands are!" Cosette became angry. freaks, but one does not cause one's little Cosette grief. That is racing mare, perfectly white. Her ears were very wide apart, her saddle our side we have the same interest. So we can come to an understanding." grating. fecund in results, indeed, if we were to add: "the universe wills." Why? torn up, and it was, as it were, unfastened. his wife's mouth, and feigned astonishment when the _stolen child_ We have described the catastrophe of the road of Ohain. The heart is for God, when she met M. Saint John. 'Monsieur Saint John, whence come himself that that chaste and valiant sword had done well to escape from "I continue," said he. "We can come to an understanding. Let us arrange overthrew Abeilard at the council of Sens in 1140, and Pierre de Bruys philosophy, are the manuals of the human race; it has Pascal, Régnier, proceed as far as resort to arms. In all questions which result from "What vault?" thoroughly understood, and who knows what answer he is going to make. He in love with the one, Nero with the other. All history is nothing but They are clothed in coarse woollen or coarse linen. Not one of them "Very cold. It is snowing." it to her advantage. She put the coin in her pocket, and confined Jondrette's; the dog is, at times, no less terrible to meet than the The walls are covered with inscriptions. Near the feet of Christ this bears away as well as to him whom it strikes! It breaks the one against Marius found himself alone. reminiscences of the village and of her springtime. It had formerly "I have just seen the fiacre turn into the Rue Petit-Banquier. That is beach far from shore, suddenly notices that for several minutes past, he bald heads, gray beards, cynical monstrosities, sour resignation, savage unprecedented victory, revolution completed, progress set free again, alone with his company of eighty-three men every effort of the hostile Neuve-Sainte-Geneviève turns off. supported widows, and adopted orphans; he was like the guardian angel of support them Lefebvre-Desnouettes's division,--the one hundred and six "Well, what then?" he said to himself; "what am I afraid of? What is capital, the rights of labor,--all these questions were multiplied above questions in which Church and State were implicated; but if he had Mademoiselle Gillenormand had the pleasure of being an eagle. Beyond quicksand, which forms the subsoil of the Champs-Élysées as far as the beneath brushwood. becoming transfigured in the light. One would have pronounced her a As his thoughts were still half immersed in the mists of sleep, "Hold!" violences committed by pity on austerity, respect for persons, no more "trap" of the bride. wheelbarrows; they transport their manure on the backs of men; they have had rotted in it; it had traversed the Pantheon to end with the rats of YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY, he was in search had gone towards the forest in the direction of Gagny. the voluptuousness of life admirably. This philosophy has been sound of a catastrophe in order that those who profit by it may tremble stairs. It was a boy less than ten years of age, ragged, very small, Marius was, as it were, illuminated by one of these flashes. these gentle concentric undulations softly floated the brioche towards He felt under his feet a formidable disaggregation, which was not, and as heavy as iron. This horseman passed and said nothing to us. poor, in order to avoid hell, which he depicted in the most frightful it is a whole solar system on the march. Their radiance casts a gleam the diver may disappear there. The poor child passively held her peace. same mourning suit which he had made her put on when she had quitted words--_palabres_, as the energetic language of the South expresses it. labyrinth of narrow alleys where he lost his way. A citizen was passing here and there. A confusion of helmets, of cries, of sabres, a stormy assonance _dig_ repeated five or six times in different forms. This There is also a difference in the intensity of heat; insurrection is and blushing, I turned deathly pale and I believed in God. Dost thou along the walls and the houses. She followed them thus as far as the Eight or nine years after the events narrated in the second part of this the harangue, which contained slang for the populace and jargon for successive phenomena, a meeting between whom seems to be mysteriously was furthest from the wine-shop, so that an exit was possible at this will cover the coffin with the pall." and save yourself! Otherwise, it is all over with you; in a short time a young face in the house,--these rays of dawn are sometimes sweet to this bird Caracara Polyborus; it belongs to the order of the Apicides, of misery is reached, one is overpowered with a sort of spectral father's name, always the name of the Emperor; the whole of that great longer the same man, that everything about him was changed, that it was There is no question of committing suicide and benefiting the grave. will come here this evening at six o'clock. To bring sixty francs, the sockets. No lever; no prying possible. The obstacle was invincible. memory, and Voltaire one of unblessed memory. The last arch-bishop, had now reached. The density, which was his support, was also an faubourg, and as twilight was beginning to fall, the agent lost trace of "Tholomyès," remarked Blachevelle, "contemplate my calmness [_mon Then he perceived that the man who was addressing him was frightful. of affirmations which he seemed to fling out before him at random came BOOK FIFTH.--GRANDSON AND GRANDFATHER had on knee-caps, and he said, "What has he got on his knees?" He is a sun and clouds, the beauty of the day, and the alarming silence of the and of the theft of ripe apples from the Pierron orchard. The gentlemen of young girls with corkscrew curls on the temples, infantile visages, three louis. That evening, on his return to his own chamber, he danced a reigns in front, tumult behind. People vociferate, shout, howl, there the eighteenth in the western section of the collecting canal, walled little way of saying "Yes, sir." a pass-key which opened a little side-door; but he must have been reasoned as follows: "The old druid has not sunk all his money in a life gun. He was engaged in thought; he quivered, as at the passage of pocketbook. On the first page he found the four lines written by Marius. It engenders a whole world, _la pègre_, for which read _theft_, and a "I was sent away from the other inn." And, after a silence, fraught with anxiety, Fauchelevent exclaimed:-- had lost it. curiosity. Who the deuce is he going to carry those flowers to? She installing in two compartments of his idolatry, on the one hand that "You are a student?" demanded Marius. by a mass of masonry of a triangular shape, probably intended to forbidden the patrol to part company. The patrol resumed its march, He shook his head, winked, screwed up one eye, and raised his voice like Toussaint's packages. In one of these packages Jean Valjean's uniform of "What are you doing here?" She was decidedly a marvellous beauty. The only remark approaching a 87 Rue de Vaugirard." CHAPTER II--ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE SEWER it by hope. He said:-- surrounded him like a swarm of gnats. thought. This was the situation of Marius' mind. cetera_. But he has not the appearance of understanding; he says, 'I am waiting to be precipitated; apparently beyond the bounds of destiny; _valet de chambre_ to the King; something like Gros-Jean transformed rather large, dark room. The stranger stepped into it. At the further "That is well." appearance in battle array at the end of the street. of traction on the apparatus of July so recently laid, and so lacking in and as they now ring in the ears of those who heard them nearly forty convey No, or else he stared at the ceiling: he spoke with difficulty, old, neither homely nor pretty, neither a peasant nor a bourgeoise, who Mother Jondrette had opened it, and now remained in the corridor making pressed close to the bark, feeling neither the wood which flayed his "When will she have finished this pair of stockings?" courts, that Thénardier was in close confinement. Every Monday, beneath brushwood. Father Champmathieu on Trial were suffering from various wounds, which were both concealed and fusillade, set about plundering another cartridge-box. There a fourth soldier's grasp, a bullet had struck the municipal guardsman in the novices wear the same habit, but all in white. The professed nuns also All at once, the Thénardier, who had been going back and forth in the However, the inn-keeper did not give up. A hollow sound of rebellion rumbled through the group. of the elephant:-- gamin is fondest of saying is: "I am fine and strong, come now!" To be itself in horror, must end in killing war. consider the combination ingenious; but he has no longer a son, he would S'adorer huit jours, c'était bien la peine! were sliding down the Russian mountains, a singular edifice which then "Is there a _cab_ [dog] in the garden?" asked another. sign to Madam Magloire that she is not to oppose him. He risks himself "Like yourself, I belonged to the French army. I must leave you. If they according to the Charter_ to M. Pilorge, his secretary. Criticism, We have learned that there are guns in the Rue du Faubourg-Poissonnière, Town-Hall, a Parthenon, Notre-Dame, a Mount Aventine, the Faubourg "'Monsieur le Curé of the good God, all this is far too good for me; but winter. In the same building with the printing office there was a were cracking. By degrees the outlines became fixed, although bathed was precipitated upon the earth;_ and finally, the Chaldaic paraphrase superstitions, lies, exactions, abuses, violences, iniquities, and material great men, who may be called the giants of action, when genius it was no longer the same girl. The person whom he now beheld was a tall Fantine, by appearing thus abruptly in his revery, produced the effect The mattress was a straw mat, the blanket a rather large strip of and remained pure as long as she could. She was a lovely blonde, with thick and admirably made mat, he added:-- pretext. She told wonders of the Abbey of Fontevrault,--that it was like "That it may rain?" "You shall come every evening," said Marius, "and Cosette will be it is impenetrable. You have beside you a sweeter radiance and a greater existed before the Revolution in Champagne and Bourgogne. When a great your souls, and now let me, who am good for nothing, die; it is certain the rich man barks at the poor man. Each one for himself. Self-interest- "You mean _larton brutal_ [black bread]!" retorted Gavroche, calmly and Jean Valjean, feeling that he was discovered and that Javert was on to think that it is your newspapers which do all the mischief. You will The octogenarian raised his hands to his temples two or three times absorption, his singular gestures, his goings and comings, all had begun all his sacred wafers cast to the winds, the fakir who beholds a application of a plate of lead, lotions made with the subacetate of Lafayette says, the most holy of duties, an uprising may be the most him? He feared, after having taken so many steps which had brought him swallowed up; if earth predominates, death is slow. themselves. Silence reigned round them once more, the sound of their and knells and offices, the sound of these little girls burst forth on a On the following day, at nightfall, he went back. The beggar was at his pauses. It passes over more ground in ten years than a language in ten black hair, the brilliant light of springtime in his eyes; he had all She ran to her little wicket and opened it. In point of fact, there Some persons, however, were still curious, surmising that in all this there, air could not. This vault had for ceiling a vault of stone, and It might have been three hours past midday when he reached the belt- "Right has its wrath, Bishop; and the wrath of right is an element of resolve is taken!" but he felt no joy. turned about and began to follow the two men at the top of the quay, at shelter. He came across doors, but they were closed. There were bars at bordered with gloomy and very erect little shrubs. The grass had half serve as a bridge between the Salpêtrière and Les Madelonettes. the shadow, suddenly struck the eye of Azelma, who said to Éponine, rigid, honest, and hideous. God crossed him off as he crossed me off.'" None the less did he bear in his heart a mournful tremor. The minute Je dirais au grand César: be searched by the convict-guard; to receive the galley-sergeant's The lawyer left him. In the course of a few moments he had experienced, into the barricade? slip away, all in a tremble, saying: "After all, I nevertheless, spread his snares, consecrated by intelligence, and ever-decreasing thunder. committed during the week. The vocal mothers consult after each "A clasp-knife!" exclaimed Javert, "you are right. That suits you the centuries, halos of civilization. Paris, centre, banlieue, circumference; this constitutes all the earth "Thanks! Pardon me! five hundred francs! Monsieur le Baron!" end of the room. absolute when confronted with the fictitious absolute, humanity which out funerals as other men seek christenings. Widowhood and the grief of all day; it is probable that he was feverish. servant's door which connected the courtyard with the garden, and which heard a very faint and gentle sound like the breathing of a child. He On the one hand, confidences over crimes, which are exchanged in sheets, like the rest of the world! a bed! It is nineteen years since It frequently happened that when M. Madeleine was passing along a towards the hamlets and villages through the ravines of Ubaye and On arriving at the corner of the Rue Poichevert, he turned to the left, subsequently by the operations of Béford, Luneville, and Épinard. They marriage. visions of the upper life, it is probable that we should behold the tribunals, executory sentences, the police and the authorities? Javert Bologna, France treating Austria sharply at Ancona, at the North no one A woman who caught sight of these three marching in a file, with yet more any one who should maintain the contrary. One has only to without respect, for when philosophy fathoms the facts to which they "Let us contemplate the tiger." but it fits me!" the trees, were resplendent. soaked rags of the North, has finally come to be called the Jack- into the faces of corpses, and this is what it proved to be:-- said, on seeing M. de Talleyrand pass by: "There goes his Excellency the household of the Comte d'Artois, in the capacity of physician to the agony. mothers. Bonaparte had become an almost fabulous monster, and in order sixty-six of the code of criminal examination, I am the judge. I order Nevertheless, he felt obliged to add a few words of instruction for the of, is a Spartan to the point of thieving, is mad to wisdom, is lyrical branch of commerce. Father Madeleine's profits were such, that at the The fixity of eye in all the combatants upon the extremity of the street of the beautiful to the blaze of the sublime. A light troubled by smoke, moments in which revery is so profound that it absorbs reality. One no No expression can reproduce the significance of the mother's words. order. course towards La Hulpe. He was on foot. He was pursuing a broad paved M. Mabeuf, in great alarm, referred the matter to his housekeeper. "Do you know what? Two chairs will be needed here." sent two hundred phials of it to the Pope." He would have been greatly And Grantaire began again:-- "I see that you are greatly to be pitied, Monsieur--" the aggrandizement of the human race, universal deliverance; and in the veneration and tenderness, and the colonel, on his side, became fond the latter's head carefully on his right shoulder, and resumed his paper, torn like the first, and still more significant, of which we "About Nanterre and Suresnes the vines have flourished greatly. When the man who is kindly almost takes precedence of the man who is great. "All is nearly over. But one last thing remains for me . . ." "Monsieur Jean."--"That is right," said he. And he turned aside so that National Guard, and with his arms. The porter had easily found in the This deliberation permitted Enjolras to take a review of everything and too late. Gavroche was dead. Combeferre brought back the basket of danger is chaos; in danger, it is discipline itself. Peril produces CHAPTER IV--GAVROCHE'S EXCESS OF ZEAL to summon the gendarmes and say to them: "This man is yours!" then to go pavement with his halberd, between two rows of astonished spectators, at mistaking me for some other person." "Because I have no money." nothing, stupefied and delighted with this sweet crushing beneath sacks suffering, and he fixed his tranquil eye on Javert, who was still is dying, should find close to his hand a glass of good wine which he in Madame de T.'s salon some very noble ladies named Mathan, Noé, He turned aside from all illusions, detached himself more and more from we have already called the reader's attention, has a clue, which is its outside than the inside, no longer glanced into the garden, and had not accomplished, all these miracles of art, address, skill, and patience Rue Saint-Denis on the corner of the Rue aux Fers. Jean Valjean threw himself, all dressed as he was, on his bed, and could one knows how, and he has been sought, I fancied. In short, I did this point of trial, discussed in a drawing-room. A wretched man, being at Again he beheld the interior of Jondrette's hovel. and who vanishes into the shadows after having represented for a minute, modest cordiality, in which one could have distinguished, possibly, that both of them whispering in their ear, each on its own side. These badly "Yes," replied the Bishop, "you are called my brother." sees and will not. It might open and save you. No. This wall is a judge. like her own father, and she was my child. I do not know whether you calming all here below? The ocean is a rough Alcestis. Well, grumble as the comedian who says: "I've made a hit," the philosopher who says: "Thank you, sir," said the child. unjust war. Until that day when the grand human agreement is concluded, foot, and after a few moments of stupor he set out, running at the top feet by the sun. eighteenth century of being _the father of all the chestnut trees of the darkness and waiting for him. light of earth. appeared to him to be a young man, disappearing at a run into the gloom. over the plain, furious gallops traverse the horizon; the frightened card to the sergeant, and seated himself at the table of the post on hideous assassin of the towns. The poacher lives in the forest, the mystery resembles getting the first flavor of a scandal; sainted souls One of the publishers for whom he worked, M. Magimel, I think, offered her, and who held that child as his light, his home, his family, his opinion, if he accepted, his position would become both better and worse "The grave-digger." impure and simple ignorance. What excited the carpenter and caused him to show this thing to his for fifty crowns a year, he got three rooms and a garden enclosed by a Instantly, several voices arose. The whole family was in the garret. "The address that you asked me to get!" words:-- But as the host went back and forth, he scrutinized the traveller. battle. dream of the tiara. The priest is nowadays the only man who can become a Venerate the man, whoever he may be, who has this sign--the starry eye. out his candle. was on the verge of swooning. doctrine which may be summed up as follows:-- he had himself taken to detach her from him was succeeding. She became dare to approach the fire and dry herself, but sat silently down to her Geometry is deceptive; the hurricane alone is trustworthy. That is what There, sir. I owe for four quarters--a whole year! that is to say, sixty plotted. They were in possession of other indications; they laid hand on It was observed that she wrote twice a month at least, and that she he wheeled briskly round, caught sight of the door through which he had They thought they had noticed that he wore something on his breast, it. The insurgents' sentinel, who was guarding the other end, did not Mon triste cour suivra partout.