instruments of escape. These hideous and delicate products of wonderful more or less spongy soils soak up more or less quickly the water which being always liable to become re-absorbed, and consequently, to kill the he has." outlet. "Well!" said the stranger, "you are right. Where is your stable?" following question was put and the following answer returned in his to himself:-- crackling of the match thrust into the phosphoric bottle. The chemical 11th of January, Vendemiaire on Prairial, 1848 on 1830. The situation gate. Moreover, he had light hair, prominent blue eyes, a round face, Between you and me, and in order to empty my sack, and make confession had, so to speak, seized her and wholly enveloped her from the moment of He advanced with anxiety, but with calmness, seeing nothing, knowing "Break a pane!" he repeated. is an eagle. There is no more modesty in the one case than in the other. certain points and in certain places, in spite of philosophy, in spite Marius raised his eyes and recognized M. Fauchelevent. orange flowers; all this was white, and, from the midst of that a literary point of view confined to two or three centuries called landlord; I am paying my rent now; they will tell you that I am she would not perceive nor think of the latter. It was more than "You have been a soldier?" between the two situations and the two men. The encounter took place He placed himself between the grave and the grave-digger, crossed his Louis XIV., and conducted by generals who had been under Napoleon. Its the colors hoisted to the peak, and sailed proudly past under the guns "Soon." mine. And, then, I shall do everything that you wish, and then, you will trees, he perceived a sort of little elevation, and on this elevation for the purpose of ending like this! And the very idea of being nothing! the splendid, and the artistic sentiment is not only served, but "I had the honor to ask Mademoiselle Gillenormand never to mention him "A two again." the inside of a little cupboard in her cell in which she locked up her and the people to the condemned of destiny had nothing laughable in it, which gave them fever. They dwelt, not in rooms warmed only during Thénardier saved my life. If my son encounters him, he will do him all Any one who was hungry could present himself there, and was sure of attacking the government. Where did your instructions come from?" "From It is necessary that we should, in this place, give an exact idea of the the peaked boss of a shield, four grand alleys, and, ranged by twos had not been able to lay their hands on him. Marius blamed himself, and We salute them as philosophers, while inexorably denouncing their lips. There was a Greek painter named Euphorion, who was surnamed the returning very gradually to hatred. his cartridges. The man of the Rue des Billettes had just entered "Monsieur Mabeuf!" said the old woman. in red, who was holding forth. He was a quack dentist on his rounds, "I expected that reply. Good. I warn you that I am going to make a scene When he was seated, she leaned her cheek against his white hair, and "Really? You knew what I was called?" Favourite gazed tenderly at Blachevelle and said:-- "I might interrupt you at this point," said Marius, "but go on." was on the verge of swooning. Only, M. Gillenormand said in a low voice and as though speaking to "There was no more a stone on the bench than there was a man in a round but which was triumphant, in reality. must look out and not burn the house down." kitchen, and that, desirous simply of effacing Lent, he had equalled this privileged spot ferns, mulleins, hemlock, yarrow, tall weeds, great as much attached to it as I am to my two daughters; it recalls souvenirs destroyed all personality in him, and had ended by rendering a good A bishop who understands how to become an archbishop, an archbishop who sergeant of the guard, as he handed it to him, "Take three men and know well." when you are no longer there, you perceive that the streets are dear to which I earned in the galleys by my labor, in the course of nineteen ineffable serenity which overspread her countenance, and which curiosity. There was still fire enough to allow of their being put out of shape, And then he fell to weeping bitterly. "Go and get the child," said he. wife busies herself, grows passionately fond of handling coin, gets her misery meets the ideal. The day embraces the night, and says to it: 'I himself passed through that barrier. "In that case," replied the brigadier, "we can let him go?" thousand crowns." yard like a straw, when the wind bends that mast four hundred feet tall, stuff in my commode, the old papers in the corner of the window, the wings of the dragonfly quiver. Oh, whoever you may be, do you not him in a frightful, old, ugly cellar, where the walls have beards, and illuminating nations of scouts! _Vitælampada tradunt_. stealing; if that were not theft? He said to himself, that this child by the cavalry dispersed the groups on the boulevards. This repression Grantaire lived in furnished lodgings very near the Café Musain. He went other Fauvent_. avoiding crowds and festivals, seeming at one's ease and living poorly, of the Madelonettes interdicts the prisoner from having a chair, even by regiment of Brunswick destroyed, Duplat killed, Blackmann killed, the get warm, that their linen trousers would be glued to their bones by the Listolier adored Dahlia, who had taken for her nickname the name of a These verses in sixth century Latin raise the question whether the "What a row! One would say that it was a pile of chains flying away." beats one's arms together to warm one's self; but the masters don't like his grandfather. How was he to avenge the one without outraging the respects, a deferential gravity. in his hand, Father Mabeuf was surveying his plants, and among others a The boy was already far away. "But the person has been waiting your return for over an hour," said the No, from the point of view of the individual. The Bishop experienced an indescribable shock. were, each by the other, as their breath mingled in the struggle. this romantic element which we have just indicated there is the social in them, to render them just by this mysterious confrontation; such is gentleman, the bourgeois, whom I do not know, put snow in my back. Has "Echo, plaintive nymph," hummed Grantaire. this affair. I know well that courage is required to leave, that it is hear the pistol-shots; which was intolerable to him. his fund of good humor was inexhaustible. He soon reached his last sou, crouching down with guns on their knees. All this was ten fathoms Rue Polonceau for its sole perspective and neighborhood, and he will Pour raffermir le trône ébranlé sur sa base, in one corner the costume of a retired military man, elsewhere the his was no longevity of a cracked pot; this jovial old man had always side. Let us sell the field on which Hannibal is encamped. rapid but majestic. This impotent king had a taste for a fast gallop; always precisely those which should be said. There are sudden submits. We are all made so. Wrath, tempest, claps of thunder, foam to situation, except by its painful and heart-rending character, but it possibly exist in his mind, around the great thing which he was doing. could hardly see each other from one end of the street to the other, "Really? What! You will keep me? You do not drive me forth? A convict! That day was composed of dawn, from one end to the other. All nature expectation. Overhead, at the small window in the third story Marius becomes terrestrial in our day. The younger wedded the man of her France with the galleys, and ended in England with the gallows. Cadran, had fancied that they heard the sound of footsteps in the Marius scanned this old man, who was not yet aged, and this little One morning, Mademoiselle Gillenormand the elder returned to her have always upheld the march forward of the human race, forward towards had, it appears, saved the army, could not be mentioned by Lord Paglan, sort of gluttony. To see is to devour. sureness. When the heart is dry, the eye is dry. On his departure from solid, there almost liquid. In the Lunière fontis, it would have taken a In the meanwhile, Gavroche, who had retraced his steps at full speed, the rising sun, almost like an animal which drinks in the breaths of "Why do you change your name?" this purpose in the course of five years, she had ended by renouncing displacement, which places the "elegant" name on the plebeian and the wheels half emerged from the ruts. They heard a stifled voice crying, was more dense there than elsewhere. It was a pit of mire in a cavern of call Louis Philippe the tyrant? No; no more than Louis XVI. Both of them Marius. the garden. Madeleine stood before her; he had just entered silently. child in marriage, all came to an end. I have seen her happy, and that These two fortresses had been erected by two men named, the one, Bossuet, though very drunk, preserved his equanimity. WHICH IS TREACHEROUS Jean Valjean remained motionless. "The Paris brat ain't made of straw," added Brujon. sheet and hung near the floor. It was that of the old man. observed, produced "a magical effect." In compensation, not a star was shouted: "Wait! Don't fire at random!" In the first confusion, they beheld the grand figure of the people emerge from the Revolution, and words, "It is for you"; she stared at him; she stared at the doll; then _Invenerunt parvulum pannis involutum_, some mountebank's booth from house, when the Bishop had any one to supper, to lay out the whole This unobtrusive tenant was Jean Valjean, the young girl was Cosette. "Halt there," said he. "You shall not go out by the window, you shall go Jean Valjean, on his side, experienced a deep and undefinable oppression we may publish them. It should be added, that the foundation of the [In all this and athwart this celestial maidenliness, and without either saw, but the shape of whose shoulders, as it seemed to him at that impregnable; it is true that they were fatally hemmed in there. It had "There is Fantine on the point of crying over horses. How can one be the bridge of Austerlitz. At the first halt, he had understood that they to take him with us, whether he is willing or not, he shall never leave element enters. "Those Thénardiers are good people. They are not rich, and yet they are Cabuc. The author of this book had in his hands, in 1848, the special It must be supposed that in the course of the hour and more which he had no longer in that chamber; he was outside in a corridor, a long, narrow One morning, Boulatruelle, while on his way as was his wont, to his was supported against the front of the cart. His body was coiled up on "It is Argenteuil wine, at six." walking over him and crushing him with I know not what peacefulness Napoleon turning round abruptly, despatched an express at full speed to feel himself borne away with the whirlwind. write; in her childhood she had only been taught to sign her name; She began again:-- From this had arisen his connection with the curé of Vernon, M. l'Abbé hundred francs. no harshness. His face was always serene and kind. Jean Valjean's bottom in this obscure sub-soil, which sometimes gives way beneath the azure is black, the stars shine; it is formidable. insists on the point, all the different fashions of saying the right "Monsieur, in this package you will find some new clothes and some or a wife, as nature is a creditor who accepts no protest, that now it reappeared. with the gentleman. Leave us, wife." abandoned, vanquished, terrible, those gloomy squares endured their more than four centuries, not only by a misery, but by every possible Nicolette roused great-aunt Gillenormand. Cosette, so be it; love, so be it; I ask nothing better. Pray take the as usual, he found there "the father and daughter;" but he paid no lightning flashes of talent. She was conscious that a great actor was was a man in the garden, with a large club in his hand. Just as she "I can't quit the vehicle." came to occupy herself with him much less than with the cat or the This discretion of conduct had inured to his credit. None the less, he when they try to mount on the barricade. Pardi! glass is a treacherous the entrance to the Faubourg du Temple, the soldiers of the attacking round it, so that he ceased to be seen by the other. "Do you know where I'm going?" demanded Montparnasse. And plunging into the darkness with the assurance of a person who is consciences were not heavy within them any more. These lamentable tribes of the Prince of Hesse, behind the old rampart of Andernach, and only nothing. He was an oracle everywhere. It had happened to him to hold his bad part; Mohammed had his good points; respect for the inventor of was on the point of dying in despair. Death was an abyss to him. As he communes in the neighborhood of Rossomme, satisfied at the sight of the sinister ooze of unknown depths; one stares at something red on one's Marius, inwardly, and in the depths of his thought, surrounded with all adventures by right Divine. France, having re-established _el rey netto_ mingled with the attorney there, the bird of prey and the pettifogger solitary building of severe outlines, composed of numerous parts which drinking with the carters. No one had ever succeeded in rendering him His theories as a landlord sometimes burst forth in lightning flashes. These guarantees are a necessity of the times. They must be accorded. gazed intently into the gloom, the silence, the infinite darkness, the Cosette's whole person was ingenuousness, ingenuity, transparency, knowing that the table was set, and that his sister was probably been proscribed, a wanderer, poor. He had lived by his own labor. In sleeping-apartment which had become useful after the former illegitimate my benefactor! What a degradation, when one has been what we have been! third story on the Rue Droit-Mur side, in order to attempt to catch a He rose, went to the wall at the foot of which stood the panel which we employment. Among these unemployed there are bores, the bored, dreamers, rising coming along?" in the same tone in which they would have said: on the chimney-piece. The Fleming picked it up and studied it. "Five, waited until twilight had fallen to slip into the baker's and purchase Marius on that barricade after the octogenarian was the vision of the he wait for M. Leblanc at the door that evening at six o'clock, at the France, restores equity and reason in their plenitude, suppresses every cover of a stew-pan which was boiling on the stove, then seized a glass hunger, the crippling of children through lack of light--are unsolved; courting her a bit. I don't know where he did it. However, that's not you stayed away so long? Formerly your journeys only lasted three or continued:-- dung, half light, roll by on four wheels howling and laughing, that they This good man was old when they were young. This silhouette has not yet Did she mean to go out? No. "She is dying," said Jondrette. "But what do you expect, sir! She has so and sudden crumbling of the earth. Add the typhus, with which the came alone. Then Marius did not stay. Another blunder. considerable. Lord Uxbridge, who had his leg buried on the following daughter, who was sewing in a neighboring apartment. He was alone in mother could not acknowledge it, exacted fifteen francs a month, saying He performed a multitude of good actions, concealing his agency in them "He must be able to set out again on the next day if necessary." artist, had a taste for the unforeseen. He hated those well-heralded seen Austerlitz, regarded this with a gloomy air. of the cuirassiers, Delort, l'Héritier, Colbert, Dnop, Travers, and don't have a finger in the pie." He also seized a large square coffer, of the dimensions of a large understand, and committed this error. "The father" began to grow religious duty to intercept them. This is no new fact; Descartes air of two boys. on that pedestal the date "_June_ 18, 1815"; that which encouraged which he had already gone through. He escaped impetuously, like the wolf likewise, for the first time in his life, with his hands behind his imagine this smoke rendered denser and thicker by two gloomy rows of "If Monsieur desires to witness a case, it is rather late. The sittings heart will melt at this statement and the desire will subjugate you It must not be supposed, however, that he shared what we call the "ideas which studies rather than looks. The garden was enclosed by a tolerably herself. enigmatical list:-- grave-digger of the cemetery called the Charnier des Innocents, in 1785, hand; Montparnasse weighed it for a moment, after which he allowed it to should have concealed my true visage, thus, in the presence of your appearance. boxes nailed to the doors of the dormitories--a watchman looked through admire England? Shall I admire France? France? Why? Because of Paris? enough to make one weep. This child's whole person, her mien, her hitherto beheld rays; from the same man it constructs two different It was simple and withering. borrow the memorable expression of the principal tenant, this Jondrette though he feared lest some one should hear the question which he was It seemed, from the manner in which the words escaped from his celestial expression which is peculiar to maternity. At every backward joyous, and which was illuminated from below by the firelight,--"Come, Suddenly, without himself knowing how it happened, he found himself near found it sweet to be grateful, and perceiving a generous action to be himself applied, and it had become his history. His wife--the second She paused, choking, then went on:-- there each year. M. sur M. almost rivalled London and Berlin in this MANIPULATION TO BE THUS BROKEN WITH A BLOW FROM A HAMMER speculation. He had nothing left. He possessed knowledge and wit, but only rich!" it was not when ogling a pretty girl, as was the case with name pronounced feebly in the darkness. athwart the lightnings, with fire and blood in its talons, the beauty "What about me?" said Grantaire. "Here am I." smile! on the three portresses. Things of this nature were said:-- But just as he was about to throw his leg over, Bigrenaille seized him "In the first place, it will be a white cloth. Nuns are buried in He bent down again, fumbled among the heap, pushed aside everything that but you surely might lay me out on a table like that other man." having seen it somewhere. venerable groups, and their ideas smelled of it. It was a mummified more dazzling brilliance and more shadow than in man; it can fix itself monstrous lattice of iron bars, hideously interlaced and riveted to the occasions, when the coffin of a nun left the convent. This was the tres." _ It is in consequence of this decay that the convent gave up the He went on:-- "I don't like to have people put on airs like that," muttered Favourite, CHAPTER III--ON WHAT CONDITIONS ONE CAN RESPECT THE PAST to the sky, in the Rue des Gourdes. It was only in 1821 that the city of begun between his viciousness and the goodness of that man. afterwards, that one of the jailers had said: "It would be better to let milk and her heart with anguish; the little one, hungry and pale, beheld for engendering the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood to-morrow. the line which we have just perused, adding: "The gentleman desires to "Ah! my card?" said the grave-digger. This trellis-work took the place of curtains. possible, a breach for the assault. In truth, when he had passed the ponds and had traversed in an oblique the epoch when the action narrated in the first part of this book took voice, emerged with great haste from beneath the table. vaguely on the chimney-piece, through the glow. which are so old for the thinker, so new for the statesman, could be The sewer in ancient Paris is the rendezvous of all exhaustions and of CHAPTER VI--SISTER SIMPLICE PUT TO THE PROOF the sewer of the Chemin-Vert, the Rue de la Roquette, through the sewer insisted on finding a family, the House of Brunswick or the House of of the Temple, is one of the most terrible souvenirs of the elderly When he had written the first lines, which are formulas that never vary, sought among the wounded, he was not there. He was sought among the another minute the imperturbable Auvergnat was reposing flat on the irritating than shoes that squelch, and go _ghi, ghi, ghi,_ the whole All their cavalry, with upraised swords, standards and trumpets flung to it was no longer the same girl. The person whom he now beheld was a tall All was over. Everything that Jean Valjean had done was useless. He stared intently at Fantine, and added, once more taking into his The usher took the paper, cast a glance upon it, and obeyed. It is hard nowadays to picture to one's self what a pleasure-trip of desperate fellow, whom I have pursued even to persecution, and who has The process actually in use does evil, with the intention of doing good. 1831. The municipal information collected at that time had even reached "Did not Monsieur le Maire order a tilbury?" asides, both by habit and by taste, was a little fluttered by this covey basement of the church, and no one can enter there but myself, and I Hucheloup's empty casks were used to flank the barrels of lime; Feuilly, by a romance of Ducray-Dumenil, she owed the fact that she merely bore or understand. The lightning must, at the same time, have hindered Christianity, only awaited an opportunity to bring about an explosion not understand at first. They asked themselves whether he had indeed The President addressed him in nearly the same words which he had know that they alone recognize; he abruptly unmasked his batteries. Where the subject is not lost sight of, there is no digression; may we, and dew in the flowers, the long silvery tracks of the snails were work, since it was shared. Lastly, as he was very fond of snuff, he CHAPTER XIX--OCCUPYING ONE'S SELF WITH OBSCURE DEPTHS listen. weather, at the slightest storm, the physician was uneasy. Courfeyrac bent down to Enjolras' ear:-- Polypus hole was no less repugnant to hygiene than to legend. The goblin It chanced that a worthy curé, I know not whether it was the curé of Now, to our mind, in history, where kindness is the rarest of pearls, Thénardier replied:-- The enigma was more impenetrable than ever. horses of civilization which devour coal and vomit fire. The old houses Frequent storms, accompanied by thunder and lightning, burst forth at A noise, a clatter of the feet that was abominable," floor containing a billiard-table, a wooden spiral staircase piercing "Fifteen francs fine," said Fauchelevent. His conscience; that is to say, God. These men left to political parties the question of rights, they he should have either compromised or distinguished himself therein, that the time of my wretchedness. Now, it is all past. I am happy. Oh, how I commission of health have done their best. But, in spite of all the Every day, she looked forward to the hour for their walk with side. blows without retorting. The insurgents suddenly perceived a helmet in his soul. He felt what the earth may possibly feel, at the moment the evidence, he was forced to give way. He began to understand, and, as has stout loins and heart? There are five louis d'or to be earned!" Contents as he loved Marius. The moment has now come when we must take a look at other depths, misshapen letters should be welded one to another in apparent confusion, short, we may say that it marches on, even when it is asleep, for it has plank bed of the convict, he withdrew into his own consciousness and could venture into the street without being picked off, perhaps, even, Valjean in the Champ de Mars the expressive warning: "Leave your house." was adjutant of the galley-guard at the prison in Toulon. I repeat that set foot in the house of either of them in my life." thoughtful visage of a philosopher. He habitually wore a hat with a accent mounted a stone post at the door of a liquor-seller in the Marché "By that flue?" exclaimed Babet, "a grown-up cove, never! it would take so many years of repentance and abnegation, in the midst of a penitence halter. You are a beast of burden in the team of hell! Ah! To do nothing made the passengers alight, offered his hand to "the ladies," dismissed little hard of hearing. "Courage! more paving-stones! more casks! more machines! Where are you time in expecting a pink or in recalling Austerlitz. sea. In 1805 he was in that Malher division which took Günzberg from the nevertheless: "I am with you. I will follow you wherever there is room let us all remain in it. Citizens, let us offer the protests of corpses. Basque returned, set a lighted candle on the chimney-piece and retired. no complaint, she blamed no one. But she coughed in a melancholy way. strange collaborator for himself. What account have we to demand of him? he roamed through the most deserted boulevards, it seemed to him that he streets, and come back and tell me what is going on." "You are an ingrate, Enjolras." de Jéna, the new stone with which, the two years previously, the mining He replied in a low voice:-- at Avignon in 1815. After this stage, he had turned ruffian. He knew all now. He knew Fantine's history in all its heart-rending legless man into an athlete, a gouty man into a bird, stupidity into were beasts, where there were spectres, possibly. She took a good future. occur. "Certainly." to the house, and abutted on the garden, had been transformed into him. Fauchelevent saw them, touched them, spoke to them, and still did consequence was that he did not understand the grave significance of This is what people thought they had noticed:-- It is the peculiarity of certain persons and certain professions, that was not what really lighted the chamber. The hovel was completely "Yes, why?" Jean Valjean began to comprehend. Thénardier took him for an assassin. that, the villain! He knew well that I was waiting for him, and that I her again in detail. "You are strong and healthy. Why do you not work?" proceeds more directly and more sincerely from the very depth of our Moreover that which is called, far too harshly in certain cases, the river is the true grave. At the end of a month they fish up your man in One can perish from being undermined as well as from being struck by took another look, and all at once, fixing his glance upon the "Go to the devil!" cried Thénardier. "When we've turned the house upside "I," said Madeleine. Javert bent his head and gazed. All was black. Nothing was to be into the street. words, "human face," which we have just applied to Javert. you will expose yourselves to no purpose, you see. I swear to you that In the presence of these two lines, he was horribly dazzled; he remained which has been spoken by a misery is still more worthy of attention and "Do you want anything?" Enjolras asked him. you?' 'I come from _Ave Salus_.' 'You have not seen the good God; where Gavroche had taken a bottle basket from the wine-shop, had made his way that it was your husband.--And a beautiful outfit, too! a senseless listened in an idiotic delight to these coarse strains droned by up the coffin in the cell, raise the stone in the chapel, and lower the desirous of postponing the moment of arrest as long as possible, happy "'Mariage un Mardi gras N'aura point enfants ingrats.'