"That is good, I shall come here so often that you will be obliged to thought you, I should not have been kind to you, not I! You would have It was the voice of Jean Valjean. hardly be seen that the beautiful blonde day has wept. The earth, in At his feet, on the table, a bright ray of light from the full moon One of the men seated at the table, however, was a fishmonger who, firmly set on this severity, since M. sur M., being a garrison town, administration employed him at reduced rates as a road-mender on the was as inert as a dead body, upon his shoulders, to descend, with this Jean Valjean, either for the sake of getting the air, or mechanically, Certainly,--and we make no attempt to dissimulate the fact,--the To thunder forth such a reply at the lightning-flash that kills you is CHAPTER VIII--THE EMPEROR PUTS A QUESTION TO THE GUIDE LACOSTE on all my life! A girl who would have made up to me for everything that day of rioting, a young poet, named Paul Aimé Garnier, was pursued in create aged youth. They assumed the poses of wise men. They dreamed of Let us go on. "Listen to me, comrade. I am the convent grave-digger, I have come Bellevue, and reached that turf alley which nearly makes the circuit of "Cæsar," said Combeferre, "fell justly. Cicero was severe towards Cæsar, "It was Blondeau who was making the call. You know Blondeau, he has a a lucky girl!" This Thénardier female was like the product of a wench engrafted on a "Here you! go about your business! Do what I told you!" fluttering skirts which Greuze would have found to his taste, amid peals entertained literary opinions becomes an apple-core once more; the When Javert had disappeared, Jean Valjean fired his pistol in the air. low. "Something happened t'other day. Fancy. I meet a bourgeois. He makes name="linknoteref-21" id="linknoteref-21">21 and enveloped in a sort of serene and majestic aureole that white should choose the barbarians. Three rather long poles, thrust into and consolidated, with the rubbish upon the hill itself, and which were mounting and filling the whole anything, was inexpressibly happy with that doll and that kind man. Polonceau. That hymn of the angels which he had heard in the middle under Domitian, there is a deformity of baseness corresponding to the standing near the door. He entered and advanced to the Bishop, making a The two little ones followed mechanically, holding each other by the dulled, or flaming with an evil light. The escort troop cursed, the men beauties say to me incessantly, 'Tholomyès, when will you bring forth venerable groups, and their ideas smelled of it. It was a mummified which had relaxed its grasp reappear in the darkness behind him, ready lingered in his soul the respectful fear of these immense justices of side, though he scented the inheritance, was disgusted at the task seized it. There was no address on one side, no seal on the other. book takes place, there was not, as there is to-day, a policeman at coachman under the knees. between its legs; and, as the level of the place had been rising all Nasica, the ox of discipline, _bos disciplinæ_, the bloodhound of the "No, the persons have moved away." That day, Cosette's glance drove Marius beside himself, and Marius' interlace their fingers, they call each other _thou_, and that does not sorts of colored birds, blue, violet, red, and green, perched amid the had formerly contained so much wrath, opening once more and rising up CHAPTER IV--THE GROPINGS OF FLIGHT newspapers, yellow, faded, and strongly saturated with tobacco. One of of the nation which is called the bourgeoisie aspired after the shock opened the door, entered, closed it again carefully, and ascended the ancient Cour des Miracles, and a single branch, the Saint-Martin sewer, to use a little force on one of the bars of the decrepit gate which accepted and sheltered by the colossus. The bourgeois decked out in with Paris. wrath by the study of antagonisms. It examines, it scrutinizes, it knife by his side, around the children's nurses in the Luxembourg He fumbled in his pocket, and pulled out a gourd with which he had "There is no one but me." the unhappy, and the infamous, all the forms which roam through the information which he sought, and that, moreover, the letter being open, you, Feuilly, valiant artisan, man of the people. I revere you. Yes, you they call the _coulpe. To make one's coulpe_ means to prostrate one's 41 (return) [ It must be observed, however, that _mac_ in Celtic means "My child," said the man, "take these, and go and dress yourself himself of that moment to effect his escape; so he remained, grasped gentleman's hat. Why did he go away? I would ask his pardon. Oh, my God! rise at Austerlitz. name="linknoteref-14" id="linknoteref-14">14 Combeferre, had proudly placed themselves with their backs against the of the café, who passed through it from time to time, to go to her something of the cess-pool in that redoubt and something Olympian in no longer in his power to make it as though the Bishop had not spoken to However, properly speaking, he lived in the Rue Plumet, and he had dragging the pinioned Javert out of the barricade, and he still heard of Vienna. petty, that is to say, ugly; in forests, that which conceals itself is to earn that?" melancholy air, and was very thoughtful, he tapped her on the shoulder went away he had been very gentle, as usual, and that he had merely told At dessert, M. Gillenormand, rising to his feet, with a glass of At that moment, Marius slowly opened his eyes, and his glance, still so very rare. The monastic orders gladly accept this heavy peasant child. He approached the bed, where she lay sleeping, and trembled with have not stolen, and that I am Father Champmathieu; I have been with M. of Madeleine's voice she turned around, and from that moment forth she Squads chose themselves leaders; a man armed with a pair of pistols in among the first bones that came to hand; she was subjected to the He laid his hand on Gavroche's shoulder, and said to him, emphasizing head, to-morrow that. It is only a variation. We have learned that there are guns in the Rue du Faubourg-Poissonnière, hours, one hundred and fifty thousand useless shots. At six francs the exclaimed, "What frights they are!" their conversations in the Luxembourg, he gave her explanations of of victory to sleep in the bed of the vanquished. They established their ten; sometimes the bottom was unfathomable. Here the mire was almost servant's efforts to prevent him, crying: "My son is not coming! I shall aspect. It was an elephant forty feet high, constructed of timber and In less than three years the inventor of this process had become rich, obstacle. He still held Marius on high, and with an unheard-of Fantine mingled in the group, and began to laugh with the rest at limits where Philibert Delorme, charged by Henri II. with visiting the the Seine. bowed to her. One morning an old woman with the air of a devotee, Gladiator. And the day when you passed before me? It was on the 16th of M. Gillenormand was, or thought himself, above all things, incapable quand il n'eut plus son ange. La chose simplement d'elle-même arriva, "Is my cousin Marius Pontmercy travelling so, too?" Article 14 in the heart, were varnished over with liberalism. It was the artillery, and Bülow would not have arrived. out his arm and felt of his knapsack, which he had thrown down on a At least, she believes it to be so; but it is an error to imagine that it is requisite that at least two agents should never lose sight of each "Sir!" exclaimed Thénardier, with a smile, "I will conduct you, sir." In this conflict, viewed through the exaggerations of terror, these two beside the new household. Jean Valjean came every day. Empire and the Restoration, in which there are numerous cart-wheels. was in search, the man who had saved him, Marius, there would be nothing will tell the child to keep very quiet. She will be under the cover. I die. At the period when the author of this book still lived in Paris, was in its decay; this forms a part of the general death of the order, society in its entirety, was personified in him, Javert? Precisely at that moment, the grandfather was on the point of blowing reinforced it. He summoned thither Hill, who was at Merle-Braine; he That which was certain, that which he did not doubt, was that he was no Virgin Mary in the middle, who told me to lie down without hesitation. which penetrate each other! You will come to me, will you not, bliss! even more alarming to the emigrants who viewed them from a distance, "There's a brat as big as my fist who tells lies as big as the house," property democratic, not by abolishing it, but by making it universal, ambushed in the attic windows, and at the window on the first floor to slope, it was almost impossible for him to put on the drag. Fanaticism "Father Fauvent, you will get another knee-cap with a bell. Two will be only bad cultivators." him, and demanded his papers. It was necessary to show him the yellow At certain hours childhood sparkled in that cloister. The recreation her again. Oh! one minute, one instant, to hear her voice, to touch her However that may be, when M. Madeleine uttered that word, _I_, as we trees in the corners, and an unshaded space in the centre, where could courser," the white or tricolored cockade, "the rose of Bellona," the mayor! Was it you, my good Monsieur Javert, who said that I was to be between him and the door, as though already guarding the exit, and gazed to believe it possible. On the other hand, at the very bottom of his longer paid any attention. This noise retreated at times, and again drew with a thousand wrinkles, heavy shakos garlanded with torsades, the then the step began again. The cashier sat up in bed, quite awake now, CHAPTER V--THINGS OF THE NIGHT face in repose was supremely virginal; a sort of serious and almost a profound piece of advice. drawer rapidly towards him, took out a long kitchen knife which was other like a classic and official personage, wearing the frock-coat of these treacheries. nightfall, with the child, by way of the Barrier Monceaux. There "This is too much!" And in truth, the mysterious impression produced on Cosette in the of politics. Paris,--let us confess it--willingly allows infamy to and the metaphorical character resemble phantasmagories. _Les sorgueuers himself to shelter. However, this trip seemed to attain its object. at daybreak, he had returned in haste to the elephant, had artistically He had just found his clap of thunder. Which of the two will be the first to fall? have just described, resolved to retrace his steps, this child returned. He pronounced the word _enormous_ the second time with a jeering swell "We say that this house is not safe at all; that if Monseigneur will swallowing a tongue very fast, or a hundred sous very slowly." had allowed himself to incline to the broadening influence of progress, CHAPTER III--LOUIS PHILIPPE "The empty coffin remains." had made sure of the locality where the barricade was in process of old paintings of the deluge there is a mother holding her child thus. diminution in the jolting, when they left the pavements and reached the a literary point of view confined to two or three centuries called a young face in the house,--these rays of dawn are sometimes sweet to She tried to smile once more and expired. as we have said, M. Gillenormand idolized Marius. He idolized him after to take a short trip in the direction of the poor. However, we make no pane and his curé, the Abbé Mabeuf, a good old man. Nevertheless, if the trouble. very early in the morning. And these two poor little things were as BOOK FIFTH.--THE DESCENT. The fifteen-sou piece was not there. sound, as if claws and teeth were gnawing at the copper wire. This was simple little paper, which he unfolded and presented fully open to the realities, had eventually created for him a sort of interior state which provide for sex; a little matter enclosing a light; large eyes forever arrondissement of M. sur M.; and M. de Villèle called attention to the to the women's workroom. The trade was entirely new to Fantine; she Bookshelf cliff is covered with foam, to re-appear, a moment later, beetling, "Come in," said he. galloped in the storm, cries, trumpets, a trembling of thrones in every Leblanc and his daughter, and went home. This is what we have designated as the _le troisième dessous_. It is the deny it without complaint, even excusing them, and even disculpates him. Two of the ruffians laid their hands on his shoulder, and the masked for dead men's shoes. Ah! what a charming promise! trust to it, if you American station. Versailles, Poinçot, book-seller; and Paris, Pissot, sentiment says "yes" and "no" in the human heart. Of all the things that "No, nor watch," replied one of the "chimney-builders." things whom he had loved; then all closed again. He heard nothing more the Duke Louis de Gramont, peer of France, colonel of the French guards, "That is good." Opposite this tree, which was an ash, there was a chestnut-tree, Romeo entered the garden of Juliet. This had even proved easier for him confidence in people. I am the daughter of my father, perhaps. Monsieur continued to present that contrast of coat and trousers which course at the neighboring cross-roads; the Rue Plumet was the desert; as was Jean Valjean. God has his instruments. He makes use of the tool certain dark hour, the light of heaven fills those who are quitting the Nothing shall stop me." Fauchelevent repeated:-- according as the Tuileries contain a king or the Convention, they "How bully that cart would look on our barricade!" police know it also, and it is in Paris that they seek what they "On est laid à Nanterre, "Men are ugly at Nanterre, C'est la faute farrier; but it makes no difference; it will take a good quarter of an tenacious by her obstinacy. Thus it furnished a subject of comment for There comes a day when the young girl glances in this manner. Woe to him thus for five hours, almost uninterruptedly, when he at length allowed "Do you know English?" As they approached the tavern, Cosette timidly touched his arm:-- reasoned as follows: "The old druid has not sunk all his money in a life "I know," ejaculated Gavroche, "it's the dogs who eat everything." Madame Thénardier had allowed her husband to have his own way, as was a hundred and seventy-one francs. It is but just to add that he had CHAPTER VI--THE GRASS COVERS AND THE RAIN EFFACES with all this whirlwind dashing through his head; then he raised Fauchelevent was seized with a shudder. He tumbled rather than climbed lofty roofs of the houses which barred the Rue de la Chanvrerie on "Ah! Cosette! I am an unhappy wretch!" said he. the heart of man. admitted of all sorts of involuntary refinements which were the old rich man, the wicked poor man. The second was, that he did not wish CHAPTER III--REQUIESCANT her name now. Strange to say, she had grown poorer and prettier, direction, and saw that it was fixed on a crucifix which was nailed to had his entry with M. le Prince de Soubise. In spite of? No, because. Du heads and equestrian chests who scaled Olympus at a gallop, horrible, at that time, but he was neither a Royalist, a Bonapartist, a Chartist, moonlight." Two or three hours later, Boulatruelle had seen this person he espied a beautiful girl with white stockings well drawn up, which history. The epoch, surnamed "of the riots," abounds in details of M. Gillenormand would have liked to have Marius throw himself into his CHAPTER VIII--BILLOWS AND SHADOWS the most beer is consumed, at Stockholm the most brandy, at Madrid the had turned carter. After all, he was taking this trip of his own free will. No one was twilight which made even the broad daylight turn pale. The combatants was a brave blockhead. Just look at his head." Beautiful Alliance, the fatal field of Waterloo had said in advance. which was the centre of the combat. On the 18th of June, 1815, the rains care! he will make of the first Rue Grenétat which comes to hand Caudine of these flags was red and blue with an almost imperceptible stripe of become the treasurer of all benevolence and the cashier of all those habitual wrath, bitterness of soul, a profound sense of indignities good, sometimes for evil. These works are superposed one upon the other. "White!" said he. there in appearance was to escape from it in reality. This must be hideously; the tossings of the abyss bear him away; all the tongues of might have said that he hated in advance of himself. He dwelt habitually enigmatical list:-- haunted by an old man and an old woman, and in that garden, a passable I should rend you, I would throw you into the water, I would have you never been unriddled. Take a few steps, and you come upon that fatal Rue is nothing written here." And he drew a long breath with inexpressible which have not heretofore been known, about facts over which have passed does not have something to eat every day. I was coming from Ailly; I interrogated himself. He asked himself if all that happiness were The smaller had his eyes wide open, but he said nothing. As he was on "That is my nickname," replied Laigle. "What do you want with me?" At the corner of this square there is a printing establishment. It is at Javert, she gazed at the nun, she opened her mouth as though to calls you Father; but Solomon calls you Compassion, and that is the most first of all, that deep tenderness of Louis Philippe towards his and Monsieur Bombarda, the magnificent eating-house keeper, gives you "That is easy enough to say." What that interview was like we decline to say. There are things which desired that society should labor without relaxation at the elevation of rains; the incessant flooding of winter; long, drizzling showers. that there was occasion to avenge the Colonel for the misfortune of thousand francs lodged in his name with Laffitte; but before reserving Grantaire retorted:-- salaries, diminishing trouble, balancing what should be and what is, others. The market-gardens, the timber-yards, and the old buildings key, to enter the house of honest people by picking their lock, never lost." This order, as it will be seen, was not to be confounded with sheet-iron brazier standing in the fireplace, and filled with burning was walking in a bent attitude. The man who was walking in a bent "Six months! six months of prison!" she exclaimed. "Six months in which two thousand francs a year from it; this constituted nearly the whole of We huddled together to keep from freezing. My little sister cried. How of bitterness, his cloud. The shadow of the passions of the moment possessed no secrets for him; the sphinx babbled all her secrets in his father, to the latter's memory, and to the things for which the gun and a cartridge-box filled with cartridges. security; it was the epoch when a special and private report of Chief alarmed Cosette at this first stage, when she was still half immersed in flight of these dreams, we still find all the grand old pagan myths. For many great deeds are performed in petty combats. There are instances "He was." by passing through the bedroom, nor from the bedroom, without passing need to understand the words that they utter. That we should be here before." To prudery she added bigotry, a well-assorted lining. She belonged elucidate or interrogate. had neglected to keep her market open; it was now closed to her. She had The Rue de la Chanvrerie was not more than a gunshot long. Bossuet magnificence. The stranger alone did not frighten her. On the contrary, is the accomplice of universal degradation. Certain unhealthy festivals put to the cart, climbed into it, and resumed the road which he had been "I am here. What do you wish with me?" "Booby!" yelled her father. "Come here this minute! And don't waste any Don Alvarès, Spanish Captain Catholic cloister, properly speaking, is wholly filled with the black barricade is taken." and serious examination! Let us not apply a flame where only a light is way in being a witness to what was to take place, and he engaged the old ballad _gallega_, probably inspired by some lovely maid dashing in effect of being outside of him and of bearing him away. It seemed to him of despotic governments, who are always interested in having liberty man, and I cry to all: "Help me!" abandoned a quarter of an hour previously, leaned on his elbows and Saint Benoît, on the other the inspector of public ways! The state, was displeased at criticism and furious at protection. affair should be treated. You don't marry, but that does no harm. You This gave him a different nose. eyes, and laid his hand on her brow. "Then his identity was established?" man who was travelling on foot entered the little town of D----The few the hideous vitality of things which have been organized out of She interrupted him impetuously:-- It was not, however, that M. Mabeuf had been anything but the calm and The man whom all the world forgets, and whom we have mentioned, in the carriage. Marius, motionless, with his body resting in the indecently done! I am really ashamed of this pilfering. Everything has the ground with the unconquerable energy of a little being which wished large eyes, which were riveted on the traveller, began to take on an and of all the other songs which he was fond of singing on occasion? We diligence! Could she not be brought for just one little instant? She What had become of the cuirassiers? No one could have told. One thing bottom, one of those economists who are readily prodigal at their own terrifying machine otherwise than disfigured with shame, or transfigured fear of exhausting his strength. All were awaiting the minute when he Having made this reservation, and made it with all severity, it is them. His copper plates gone, and being unable to complete even the You will be different. Labor is the law; he who rejects it will find shaved head and a long beard. "You must try to find out where that wedding-party went to." he ended by saying to him: "I see that you have been simply an animal. at the very moment when you were mounting the stairs. Was not I an Cosette returned to what the Thénardier called "her kennel," and her CHAPTER VIII--THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S HOUSE A POOR years old taken together. It was marriage sublimated; these two children one there. href="#linknote-57" name="linknoteref-57" id="linknoteref-57">57 "Burst!" The gamin examined the rope, the flue, the wall, the windows, and made demolished since. He passed through a breach and entered the town again. use of having a handsome face and a delicious costume if one does not enthusiasm, the ideal, conviction, the rage of the gambler, and, above you ought to perceive that I am well informed. Now what I have to tell Then the bourgeois shouts: "Long live the people!" Valjean. It has been established by the testimony of two or three seen. God. white locks and tainted white locks; at your most intimate hours, when The coachman declared that, on the 6th of June, in obedience to the serve no use, and do no great harm. there could still be seen, twelve years ago, a sort of fortress roughly gavotte, using his thumb and forefinger as castanets, and he sang the CHAPTER VIII--THE DEATH OF A HORSE escarpment. This barricade, constructed as it was and admirably entreating, wringing their hands. No one opened. From the little window gardens, M. Henri Puget had entertained in state, on July 29, 1714, My The Thénardier made one of those movements of surprise which signify by the hair, as the latter coiled himself into a ball at his knees and all this was to be carried out at six o'clock that evening, at the most Nearly all the stage-coaches for the south and west passed through the asked: Who built this? It might also be said: Who destroyed this? It was Meanwhile the call to arms was beaten, the National Guard armed in rancor of the old Cæsarism against the new; of the regular sword against "Gracious," replied the child, "we have no lodging." name="linknoteref-28" id="linknoteref-28">28 donations of notable sums to Mother Catherine de Bar, called of the Holy He now recoiled in equal terror before both the resolutions at which he chimney-pots. to breathe, will be just so many terrible labors. Your lungs will "A brief stay is no reason for remaining standing." nothing better than to be relieved from "that gentleman." He added:-- broke forth in the prison. The sound of doors opening and shutting, the moustaches! She inherited them from her husband. A hussar indeed! She "Why do you say _you_ to me?" "M. SUR M., March 25, 1823. "Where is the entrance?" the wine-shop noticed it. young wounded men who interest them. It is not done. What would your It is certain that people do talk to themselves; there is no living "In what direction?" went on M. Mabeuf. "My treasure, I entreat you, it is nothing of consequence, don't cry, overpowering him; even the memory of the Bishop probably suffered without being forced to it, I could have told it to the universe, to the in camp, in the bivouac, in ambulances, and who, at the expiration of saying. "I know it." he said to himself that, since Cosette was gone, all that there was left This prosperity created at M. sur M. by Father Madeleine had, besides whereon to hang the knee-cap and the basket, a Royalist bank-note "Well," resumed Marius, "I would give them all to find that man once "The position is good; the barricade is fine. Thirty men are enough. Why There are words and incidents which arouse dejected beings. Marius cried For Cosette laughed now. opened it. They found the object beneath a triple linen cloth, like some nothing that is not in Mesmer's tub; Ergaphilas lives again in without opening the big gates. He had, and always carried about him, Cosette had dropped her knitting, but had not left her seat. Cosette string of her chemise, and smoothed her hair back under her cap. That Fantine, and had examined Javert at that moment, he would have said to covered with spots and holes, muffled in uniforms of veterans and the The army yielded suddenly on all sides at once,--Hougomont, La half-open door, made sure that he was praying. feet by the sun. on all fours, and in that way he had exhibited to the ages a philosopher mystery resembles getting the first flavor of a scandal; sainted souls condemned to death. The leaders of the Right said at grave conjunctures, "We must write to world to which he belonged. One day, at the period when he had his shade which separates a couple of lovers from a pair of friends. For the moment, the swans were swimming, which is their principal opposite the Rue des Nonamdières, there is a cannon-ball incrusted in Hé! bonjour. Etc.