arm extended to hinder him. All stood aside. At that moment there was brother mentioned. Then he interrupted himself and addressed me:-- "Unless it's the old fellow." a roar in their mouths. They were savages, yes; but the savages of descend. He turned to the left. faith, perchance, and deceiving itself, devotee that it is. other, and to thrust Marius into it also. She had followed Courfeyrac, protection of all over each is called Fraternity. The point of a hole in the ceiling of his cage, and, above it, another hole in the basket-maker's shop having for its sign a basket in the form of Napoleon They ascended to the first floor. Post-Office. A third of Paris was in the hands of the rioters. who was watching them as they passed, probably a Friend of the A B C. He yellow capital ornamented with this inscription: approach of Evil through the density of the gulf, and to catch glimpses, how this half-light is to be created and of what it should consist. received no light except through a vaulted cloister on a level with the Marius bitterly:-- He examined his life, and it seemed horrible to him; his soul, and it flung upon the floor an old black coat all covered with blood. this address to your father!" This infallible passage of the king at the same hour was, therefore, the In the meanwhile, as he went on up the street, he perceived a The postmen called the house Number 50-52; but it was known in the the manner in which these men were travelling, and behind their backs sawdust, and shavings, on which stood a large dog, barking; then a long, 1815, when the supreme disasters filled the air, when France was seized Montparnasse, he addressed to him in a gentle voice, in the midst of the happiness and a real recreation for the scholars. They simply amused This child had not only grown, she had become idealized. As three days "Well?" organizations, like the German _tugendbund_ and Italian Carbonarism; but day, Babet, having been transferred to La Conciergerie, had made his who comes and abducts children from houses! I'm an old French soldier, match was not yet in existence; at that epoch the Fumade steel CHAPTER III--THEY RECALL THE GARDEN OF THE RUE PLUMET _sick man_; one who is condemned is a _dead man_. grand basin, and it was not without great difficulty that it was stopped CHAPTER I--THE SEVENTH CIRCLE AND THE EIGHTH HEAVEN "Have a care." humanity. Close to the right of the man, beside it, at the least, there the Imperial Russian Guard crushed a battalion of the 4th of the line, towards Tinques, which is only five leagues from Arras. Bahorel exclaimed:-- "That's good! it's hard! it breaks my teeth!" ways of M. Fauchelevent. Toussaint helped in this direction: "Monsieur At that moment, Cosette awoke. But in the midst of this pause Fantine exclaimed:-- "You?" copper lamp illuminated the tablecloth of coarse white linen, the pewter creature who walks along, holding in her hand the key to paradise It put a stop to torture, promulgated the truth, expelled miasma, behaves like a fellow of spirit. One shows good sense. Slip along, distributing life around her. The sound of the watering-pot on the That was Jean Valjean's secret; that was also God's secret. concluded that he was no longer under central Paris, and that he was the point, where, at certain gloomy hours, he said to himself, that would not allow the child to come into the printing office, because he paper he read the following line written that very morning, in large deigned to commute his penalty to that of penal servitude for life. Jean munitions came from a grocer in the Faubourg Saint-Antoine named Pépin. attorney that the liberated convict Jean Valjean during his flight of were open, he had suddenly perceived on the wall, the following line, trees were visible. When a ray of sunlight enlivened the courtyard, when the thread which binds her foot, and she departs. Does that suit you? made a shield of his knapsack, and made his way out of the kennel in the same moment, Napoleon at Saint Helena was treating in the same fashion celestial, angelic, divine; less like a sentiment than like an instinct, Towards ten o'clock in the evening, one of the two or three persons who and ultra skin, when he had cast off the aristocrat, the Jacobite and medallions. A severe façade rose above this door; a wall, perpendicular man was his heart. His wisdom was made of the light which comes from of the Temple, is one of the most terrible souvenirs of the elderly Jean Valjean quitted the room, leaving Cosette stupefied at this locksmith. If you wish to pass out, you will be condemned to execute a every one about her. She had long shared the universal veneration for men will come. Leave them to their own devices for a time. When you but suddenly grew manly. He was learned even to erudition, and almost an Jondrette's; the dog is, at times, no less terrible to meet than the phase of feminine revery abandoned to itself, in which the isolated The second article, which enters a little more into detail, is an "On the brow," added Tholomyès. more weakness than a woman, with more fright than a child. It seemed that this garden, created in olden days to conceal wanton hour; then two generals seated themselves on the truss of straw, pen in of Louis XVI., nor the Napoleon, nor the return of the Bourbons, nor good for much; a sort of plaything, the idle dream of a dream-ridden nation made him bankrupt. So that it was the house which demolished the by the rain, with lightning in their eyes. Gavroche accosted them would have become a millionaire; but an inn-keeper must browse where conflict, always muzzled, but always growling, was born armed peace, Tholomyès was the antique old student; he was rich; he had an income of that resignation which resembles indifference, as death resembles sleep. this mass which it was necessary to climb was not more than fourteen who is telling this story, was coming from Nivelles, and directing his Gavroche, as he sang, was lavish of his pantomime. Gesture is the strong "What sort of a man is that?" she muttered between her teeth. "He's some Jean Valjean's eyes remained fixed on the earth. must be remembered, nothing else than the old brook of Ménilmontant, father on the following morning. A diligence from the Rue du Bouloi here); stray children abounded in Paris. The statistics give an average must be destroyed also." CHAPTER IV--THE IMMORTAL LIVER 68 He made some remarks about a door which shut badly, and the noise of and fine. There was, so to speak, silence in her speech; she said just and mediatorial character; sweet and feeble beings possessing the misery happiness with as much ardor, and, apparently with as much joy, as The doctor saw Jean Valjean and spoke with him. but fangs. unfolding this paper. of hideous enlightenment flashed through him; an idea which made him himself in this boat until night. At night he swam off again, and It was thus that, at the beginning of the century, ancient society hands of Providence. in the act of passing the first false piece made by the man. She was close-shaven turf, those pebbly paths, that chalk, those pools, CHAPTER II--THE BEWILDERMENT OF PERFECT HAPPINESS Marius had not quitted his post. His feelings for the moment surpassed cheeks were crimson; her long golden lashes, the only beauty of her was no end of them." That light called history is pitiless; it possesses this peculiar and other; but whether it is that eyes constantly fixed on God know not how Time and rain assisting, a humble gastronomical announcement had become "Is it there that the Assizes are held?" he asked. garments that were very threadbare but clean; a bunch of seals depending the sky. them before him into the baker's shop, and flung his sou on the counter, "An idler." fellow, after all. I am not one of those people who, because they have ground something which appeared to be covered with a winding-sheet, and her heart, which nothing relieved, and which augmented every day; she no Then he resumed, with a laugh which resembled that of an idiot:-- At that time, as the reader will remember, it was penal servitude for loins. She is the first awake, the last asleep. She marches forwards. at Faverolles, without having been in the galleys? I tell you that I Waterloo; one of the scenes of the foundation of the story which we BRUJON, 1811. "And even now that I have seen the real Jean Valjean, I do not see how I "Nobody there! Rue Saint-Dominique, No. 17, no Monsieur Urbain Fabre! Marius left the hotel de la Porte Saint-Jacques, as he did not wish to finding themselves under the muzzles of this forest of guns, did not "dais" and the "censors,"--the first who held the cords of the dais, and he was about to say, and added: "You are in a position where reflection there. Thou knowest the promise that I gave thee, I shall keep it. I clouds, it is sixty fathoms long, and its diameter at its base is Everything conspired to increase this astonishment in him. There were and for the sake of cleanliness, in the next. I don't know anything more and to imagine that one can escape from misery through theft; that that "André Chénier!" when he rose there was no longer a ring on the hand. When Javert had taken his departure, M. Madeleine turned to her and said to make sheep's-eyes at the guillotine, to sing romances, and play on neck and shoulders belonged to Javert. then turning to the right and avoiding the Saint-Sebastian gallery, he light of nature was ignited in him. Unhappiness, which also possesses a rainstorm, to the treacherous wall of Hougomont, to the sunken road of of the unanimity of the witnesses, the accused appeared to be astonished was not even a monologue, so feeble had action become in him, and he "I know him." halts, and takes me. That is done every day. You do not know life, my In fact, as he had good sense, and as he had compared the two, Théodule obscurity, something which was moving. breasts were visible, and through the rent in their garments tattooed a life of privation, isolation, abnegation, chastity, with never the abyss where we are, on the other, the abyss whither we shall go; it That same evening the Bishop wrote out and handed to his sister a world, no one but this woman. Fantine had nursed her child, and this had "They are Madame Thénardier's young ladies; her daughters, as you would suffers the most, and in this exile of the cloister there is something Napoleon. Such are these immense risks proportioned to an infinite which "Oh! Cosette is a very ugly name that was given to me when I was knee-cap; henceforth he was official. His name was Ultime Fauchelevent. As she swept up she remarked to him:-- "You?" National Guard had read the words _Saint-Simon_ on the book, and had irritating than shoes that squelch, and go _ghi, ghi, ghi,_ the whole grandfather resumed:-- Fauchelevent. This hovel, built of old rubbish, which was still in Immediately after having laughed, at Cosette's graceful command, when no the exterminators of the last. He who has not been a stubborn accuser in political and civil security, sovereignty, justice, public truth, all as in the convent, but with glimpses of young men; a grating, but one less and vanish. After a certain time he was no longer anything more And he added:-- Madame Magloire understood the remark, went out without saying a word, interest in the world; another proof that in that ravishing opera called the petty arrangements of man, and which sheds herself always thoroughly closed eyes, and it might have been supposed that he was asleep. He furious. The wicked skies punish good deeds. in the house, no neighbors' glances were to be feared from across the arrival would speedily become an event for the whole town. linden; it was about eighteen feet in height. The angle which it formed A few paces in front of him, in the hollow road, at the point where was old; his white hair contrasting with his blackened face produced a not be distinctly made out. There were horses, wheels, shouts; whips direction, and saw that it was fixed on a crucifix which was nailed to The conventionary opened his eyes again. A gravity mingled with gloom woman he chanced to meet would have afforded him more pleasure. Blücher would not have found Wellington on his feet. "The battle was of plebeians, contemplates his bourgeois, who have flitted away into the write: "Langleviel La Beaumelle deserves a hundred _camouflets_." special activity of the last thirty years, was no less than sixty sank. We have nothing more to say; and it is with a sort of terror that _"I knew of none and I recognized none."_ made sport of Needham, and he was wrong, for Needham's eels prove that have already said, that with the exception of her eyes, she was homely terms, strengthening the present by the evident compatibility of the conscience; that all these absurdities should be realized and should Jean Valjean, on his side, experienced a deep and undefinable oppression Genesis, _In the beginning, the spirit of God floated upon the waters_. be bearing us to our papas and mammas. We are pulling up our stakes, as "It is impossible to wait another quarter of an hour," said Madeleine to cloister, that chaste peak, that abode of angels, that inaccessible its head out of its nest, glanced first at her husband, then at Jean Then he addressed Javert, and said:-- so cold there as elsewhere. From the refectory the names had passed to majesty was emitted by this titanic basket of rubbish. It was a heap of The Bishop replied:-- without, bent over mechanically, and almost without daring to avow to should retire before transfigured crime, and stammer its excuses?--Yes, longer any one but me to deal with. If he is drunk, I shall say to him: department is a revolutionary invention. God subordinated to the "At nine o'clock in the morning and at all hours, praised and adored be smuggler lives in the mountains or on the sea. The cities make ferocious hand, trouble on the other,--all this will support me." back of his chair, with a formidable and surprising gesture. melancholy. It seemed to her that her soul had become black since the He sprang to his feet, stood erect, with his hair flying in the wind, wanted to throw his cannon into the sea, to hide the soldiers between in turn upon the sick woman and the crucifix, as he had done two months to bed, he heard her say in a low voice, and as though talking to drop by drop in overwhelming efforts and which will never be renewed. "Monsieur!--" said Marius. resistance does the foot of the wall offer in our rear! "In the elephant!" they added to the system of ligatures which rendered every attempt at iron." Etc. bench, and Marius, on his side, continued his promenade, and thought yonder? I haven't dared to risk myself in it. Phew! you don't smell This communicates with the abyss. the air of being frightfully poor, would have been equivalent to an his place but woman reigns. I am no longer Royalist except towards that 21 (return) [ In order to re-establish the shaken throne firmly on its sufficed for Jean Valjean's happiness. The thoughts which Cosette "Really," he thought, "if my garden had not been watered, I should think hand. Wellington had drawn back. was a grave matter. The police agents were afraid of making a mistake; Nevertheless, Jean Valjean did not reappear in the open air without "Embrace me." "Peace is happiness digesting." where a man tries to make up his mind and to accept that which rends his to be reading; why did he pretend that? Formerly he had come in his old Let us have compassion on the chastised. Alas! Who are we ourselves? Who Then Madame Magloire began the whole story afresh, exaggerating it a This word _gamin_ was printed for the first time, and reached popular Widow Hucheloup's mirror from the wall, was examining his tongue in it. The unhappy man turned to the spectators and the judges with a smile stop again for a drink, two hundred paces further on, at the fountain in She did not ask him, she did not even wonder, how he had entered there, admirably, she divides it badly. This solution which is complete on be entirely proved; what had been proved was, that he had already been sous, a little copper crucifix which he had hung up on a nail opposite gardeners. Upon the occasion of the archbishop's next visit, the instruments lay spread out. The doctor bathed Marius' face and hair with replaced his passport in his pocket, and seated himself. Mademoiselle this aperture appeared the reverend and terrified face of a gray-haired time of Louis XIII., with its great roof oddly pierced with dormer the Petit-Picpus and to the house of the Temple, leaves those two orders "It must be, said a warrior." lines, the artillery between the brigades, the music at their head; as simple duties; to combat Caiphas the High-priest, Draco the Lawgiver, One of the mattress ropes was cut. internal satisfaction was composed, was, as we have just hinted, that he He sat down beside her and began to think. Little by little, as he gazed mysteries, had been transformed and become fitted to shelter chaste pavement. at twenty different spots in Paris at once. tell you that the profit was greater still on the buckles without It was winter; a couple of fagots were crackling in the fireplace. This The piece which was firing balls was pointed a little high, and the aim adventures of the corpse in the limitless shadow. The bottomless cold year. He found the man to his taste, but the girl insipid. "And listen to this also, Mister philanthropist! I'm not a suspicious the fortune of an entire city. As far as his personal fortune was that immodesty of a malicious man tasting the voluptuous delights Mobs, as the reader knows, are like a snowball, and collect as they still visible. stare all about her with wide-open eyes and a joyous air, and she said a brother who was a priest, and who had been rector of the Academy of which they forget to kiss. Pure on earth, but joined in heaven. They are Plumet." The folds of Cosette's gown lay across Marius. the worse, your humble servant!" répète:-- The gendarme repeats:--Sauvons nous! sauvons nous! On lui payait deux sous."