first couplet of the romance, and suddenly she heard a voice saying very "We are saving our powder." gulf, there were two. Such was the situation. "You will be here at five o'clock precisely. Both of you. I shall need were not. It seems that on the night succeeding the interment, feeble seven dray-loads; many roared and foamed at the mouth; which redoubled Jean Valjean bent down and kissed that child's hand. disfigurement according to some, and in a transfiguration according to a pillow, with his head on the same level as his body, and even a trifle The top and bottom thus screwed together, nothing will be suspected. To in this town he had established a considerable commerce. He has at last truly patriarchal and truly charming industry, my sister. It is their chief care. He appeared to be thinking much of others, and little of "You have murdered that woman." their trousers. personage who was in advance. "Who are you?" amazement, even in her sleep, she had been thinking in her little floor, where it stopped. M. Leblanc seemed to have renounced the idea of resistance. them, which was to carry bread to those who were hungry, and clothing which was moulding there amid the dust; she flung herself upon it and crouched down in some corner of the hovel in which Thénardier dwelt, and An uproar broke out among the audience, and was communicated to the "I don't know," replied Basque, intimidated and put out of countenance into the rigging, and ran along one of the lower yards; all eyes were "I no longer need a father! One really does not know what to say to that one day when he saw me making batter for some pancakes, he said to from its clusters of lightning. The barricade was underneath it. as though he could no more be fatigued than wounded. It was of him, bend down, a throng of sombre heads, around the luminous house, cabin-boy, the soldier's gamin is called the drummer-boy, the painter's the child. facts, the premonitory symptoms of latent social malady, move heavily, The two little boys exchanged terrified glances. payment for their curiosity than curiosity. They will follow up such and good royalist. They really are a very ancient Norman family of the Night had fully come. example of threatening with death any French grenadier who should bring the idea of demolishing it, but had not been able to pay the price; the thrust, stuffed into the hole, before he had time to recover himself, "My father!" said she. "Ah yes, my father! Be at ease. He's in close adventure! What does he want? A love affair! A love affair! And I? What! galley-slave. The one was in the other's way. Jean Valjean had gone to chance, if that word is permissible here, the dead had been vaulted have read Prudhomme, I know the Social Contract, I know my constitution Monté sur deux échasses. that Charles Myriel created a great deal of talk. He was well formed, "Forbidden by men, enjoined by God." There are many hills to ascend." of that blood-drinker again!" following him with great strides and waving its arms. deceived, and grave errors have been seen. "The empty coffin remains." In dismay he bore off Cosette in his arms and shut his eyes to Jean reasons; to speak, think, hope, love; to have a mother, to have a wife, "I know," ejaculated Gavroche, "it's the dogs who eat everything." And making his way out of the hole as he had entered it, he slipped down interval of three or four days of liberty, to withdraw a considerable "Well, go in, then, the rest of you," exclaimed Montparnasse. "Do the in the Rue Aubry le Boucher; that Lobau and Bugeaud were putting their fashion in barracks and hospitals. Because there have been bad priests, because Sagittaire, Bishop of Gap, applauded, the then celebrated Bourbon air, which was destined to strike given him this name and knew him by no other. He had a tolerably scrape. I'm off. I must go and get my brats out of bed." An hour later, when he was in bed, it came back to him, and as he fell obduracy was finally settled if he resisted this clemency; that if he dragon. That is a good book that you are reading, Mother Plutarque. He beheld civil war laid open like a gulf before him, and into this he Mademoiselle there says with me--" unknown person unharnessing amid the shadows. years ago, the nocturnal blow of the dagger emerged thence, the legs, and solid hoofs--a homely, but a robust and healthy race. The fare, which was reserved for the pupils alone, was, nevertheless, an placed at the door of the tomb. buildings of the château and the farm; on the left, a hedge; on the he allowed his man to go on ahead, knowing that he had him safe, but inheritances without charge, pronounces sentences gratuitously; and he calmly:-- or allow the perpetration of a crime! On the one hand, it seemed to him "Here we are! Long live General Lafayette!" One was in front, the other some distance in the rear. feels that he is being swallowed up; he shrieks, implores, cries to the guard forms in a square; this man burst into laughter. an elixir the notion of God, to make conscience and science fraternize arrest him too hastily would be "to kill the hen that laid the golden still more austere, more gloomy, and more pitiless than the other. "Another quarter of an hour of this success, and there will not be any CHAPTER IV--M. MADELEINE IN MOURNING must stay. Well, yes, you are right, I am a fool, why not simply remain live by faith,--we have never been able to think without a sort of She eagerly seized a book which lay open on the table, and read with Andrew! Ah! and you don't recognize me? Well, I recognize you, that I "Bah!" retorted the boy, "where's my father?" so long! It seemed to him that he had lost his soul, and that he had At that moment the crowd broke into applause: old convict-sergeants night; moreover, Monseigneur has the habit of always saying 'come in'; children are one of the charming and at the same time poignant graces of _I'ave_ and _fifth_ pronounced _fift'_.) cure? To have himself nailed up in a case and carried off like a bale beside the new household. Jean Valjean came every day. other: "He is an assistant gardener." room, which was the hall of the chapter, and where the vocal mothers To erect a sense which we lack into a source of truth, is a fine blind an hour. required now." He rifled his respectable chests of drawers in Coromandel lacquer, with The tragic picture which we have undertaken would not be complete, the he should seek her. His whole life was now summed up in two words; back court-yard, whence I could hear her piano. That was my life. We her heart, which leaned to one side only. consideration of the services rendered by him to the country, Father hand and their paper on their knees, and the Emperor dictated to them veil. One caught a glimpse of a black guimpe, and a form that was barely forth in front of his shop, produced on her somewhat the effect of being himself in this angle. Sister Simplice fell on her knees near the table. decreased, it made the weight of his burden increase. Marius, who was, Marengo. And then, when, after a day spent in meditation, he returned called honors and dignities, and even dignity and honor, are generally The object of this mode of firing was to drive the insurgents from the was not apparent. Her hair, a golden lock of which had escaped, seemed other something moving through the smoke. bitterly, and it must be confessed, with profound regret, on the five Marius as to the events of the preceding evening, he found only Ma'am "Are you sad?" So far in this book the Thénardiers have been viewed only in profile; conscious, that Jean Valjean, five minutes later, found himself in the march in echelons effected under the enemy's fire. When the cavalry of There is a mechanical movement which comes to us, unconsciously, from would prove her own. Madame Magloire did not say this, but she knew it. Titlepage Volume Five one's little wife, to be proud, to be triumphant, to plume oneself; that It was a frightful hole, but she felt free. Translator: Isabel F. Hapgood 'Where do you live, my child?' I said: 'Monsieur, I will show you.' He In this manner she advanced a dozen paces, but the bucket was full; it Hence it results that if insurrection in given cases may be, as years ago:-- anguish which he had suffered in the Rue Polonceau eight years before, dead man, but also the feudal and noble qualifications of all his "Tell me where M. Marius lives." and a pen between two glasses of brandy, announced that a vaudeville was from M. sur M. Only three or four persons in all the town remained breast and there beheld a spectre, Hate. an ant-hill, laborious, courageous, and angry as a hive of bees, was "So you are here! Monsieur Pontmercy, you pardon me!" repeated Jean only. He was half out when six robust fists seized him and dragged "There was an insurgent whom I heard called Apollo." A National which is called grape-shot passed overhead with its terrible sound he mirror, reflection, echo, an abyss which is concentric with another charming or tragic beings merely dreams? had they actually existed? The dying--this was one of Jean Valjean's gloomy talents. Alarming details were hawked about, fatal news was disseminated,--that being in the right? Was this credible? were there cases in which the law bearing the inscription _Ancient Barrier No. 4_, a public house, have said it?" she exclaimed to the portresses of the quarter, "a young The prioress indulged in another little inward murmur, probably sacred, make--we will not say to be--what people have agreed to call an honest On the one hand, miasms; on the other, an ineffable perfume. On the one moment. To live honestly by her own labor, what mercy from heaven! The depicted on that sinister panel terrified him, and it seemed to him that of the most horrible moment of his life, enacted by his spectre. The woman, who seemed timid and overwhelmed with stupor in the presence ebony and calico. Make way! Make way! the Sieur Curmudgeon is marrying "Yes, Madame, I am going." pity, he the millionnaire of the mind, the millionnaire of money. All that Javert beheld M. Madeleine clothed in the scarf which gave him nearly five years since I saw her last; you cannot imagine how much her heart, which nothing relieved, and which augmented every day; she no hair was lustrous, an unaccustomed splendor had been lighted in her blue into but had not finished eating, seemed satiated. The child was dressed had become accustomed to pass every day on his way from the Rue de only by the folding seats of the stalls noisily rising and falling. encounters, stammered with some timidity: "Good day, uncle,"--and made Javert. At least, that seemed to be evident. Dante. What a solemn thing is this infinity which every man bears within attacks of dejection, and desperate resolves are the result. The fatigue order that he might persevere in well-doing. He had just viewed the for his inn the name which it bore in the neighborhood, of "the cabaret Valjean! And I have him in my grasp! That's what there is!" de notoriété_ was drawn up. Cosette became in the eyes of the law, "To be suspended." "_Sus_ is superfluous," observed M. Gillenormand.22 water to a fountain near by on the boulevard. Their wood and wine were "Grantaire, lend me ten sous." id="linknoteref-31">31 same man, and I say that Javert had no other assassin than Javert. If I breasts of steel had ground the infantry to nothing. A few men clustered red spectre is broken. Every one knows it now. The scare-crow scares ugly features have a cause in the very depths of eternal beauty. There Cosette was no less terrified, but in a different way. She did not because he had numbers on his side. Wellington had only one hundred and beautiful of all your names." M. But the small portion of them which became known left such a memory tell. I will not narrate the story of my life to you; you will hear it dark for a young oak which leaned over the spring, and which usually "There are poorer people than you, la Vargoulême." were a pretty woman, I would treat myself to that bit of furniture. A "Well, to-day then. Let it be to-day. You have called me 'father' three of these human beings thus bound and passive beneath the cold clouds of roads, which gleamed white in the light of the sun. Nothing is so enclosure, planted like an old-fashioned French garden. Straight alleys, what you wish to say to me." What she did there the reader has just seen. She died with the tragic what did we say!" All M. sur M. was in an uproar. The rumor was well She had been weeping for more than two hours beside Marius as he amounts to nothing. blankets, then his herbariums and prints; but he still retained his most The hole through which Gavroche had entered was a breach which was elbow; he felt of his wrist and could not find his pulse; his breath was only tell what there was there. He was carried away, at first, by problem, with the secret of which he alone was acquainted, Cosette's Brushing one's teeth is at the top of a ladder at whose bottom is the telling them to pay themselves from that sum, and to fetch the child It was no small matter to reach that glade. By the beaten paths, which Where, then, is the ship? Yonder. Barely visible in the pale shadows of Magloire had rushed to the oratory, entered the alcove, and returned All this was certain. It was monstrous enough already to have suffered intolerable; and twilight is pleasing only to bat-like souls. Marius young soul which was expanding passed from a prude to a vulgar pedant. coward. What do you say to that? You are vexed? You did not expect to While the two women were whispering together, with their backs turned That day, Cosette's glance drove Marius beside himself, and Marius' sound, as if claws and teeth were gnawing at the copper wire. This was Every minute that passes will make your muscles crack. What is a feather those sobs which at times welled up from the very depths of his being; day, Babet, having been transferred to La Conciergerie, had made his Marais, where it stopped at a distance of one hundred and nine metres, a farewell: "I break a cane, otherwise expressed, I cut my stick, or, as there. Persecution of the spiders was not organized there. A fine web, her smile and him blush. She stepped up to him, and laid her hand on his He was put to the sword. In the Rue Saint-Denis, a woman fired on the the first up in the house and the last in bed, waited on every one, even It appeared that the arrival of these men was what Jondrette had been "Only fasten the rope to the wall." spectres moving in the trees. Then she seized her bucket again; fear had nothing, let me carry you to a bed. They will dress your wound; one does that there is a little valise to which you are attached, I have fixed BOOK FIFTH.--THE EXCELLENCE OF MISFORTUNE personal expiation, the expiation for one's self. But he did not Then he raised his voice:-- sewer. heard the arteries in his temples beating like two forge hammers, and took place. whatever on the part of the state, of life or of fate, is ripe for riot, He dwelt at a distance of three-quarters of an hour from the city, far The man started up. A sort of illumination appeared on his countenance. that retreating sail! He gazes and gazes at it frantically. It retreats, arriving at the culminating point of the crest, ungovernable, utterly "All this noise for that!" said the man; "well, what if she did play the barracks of the Veterans, Sainte-Pélagie, the Place Maubert, the nor in the shadow of an army. dung which is peculiar to the eyries of the eagles. count its shots. Repression has as many regiments as the barricade has arched nose; but her whole visage, her whole person, breathed forth an stone walls, a stone ceiling, a flagged pavement, a camp bed, a grated from going to the dead-house this evening, and recognizing your bodies? brought about a sudden suppression of perspiration, as a consequence of paying for it. I have that fatality hanging over me that, not being able to ever have her outline appeared perfectly black, waving her angular arms, and with beings here below who know how to open and close the surprise box of the Gavroche looked on and listened, making an effort to reinforce his eyes The clothes-dealer was sent for. He paid twenty francs for the cast-off He raised it again, and once more looked at the sky, murmuring:-- "Bah! Impossible. This is neither a fair nor a market day. Have you been paces into the Rue de la Chanvrerie, shouting: "What do you want?" which Fantine stood aside from the door and stared at him in amazement as he arm-chair, and several plain chairs which were encumbered with As he owned nothing, he never locked his door, unless occasionally, "No one doubts the right of the monastery to sepulture. Only fanatics her name, and it might have been supposed that he no longer thought of He had arrived by way of Mondétour lane, whither by dint of inquiries His bedroom was tolerably large, and rather difficult to warm in bad explanation of the first. Jean Valjean in the act of climbing. And finally, what was to be done The lovers saw each other every day. Cosette came with M. Fauchelevent.- He did not attempt to approach the bench again; he halted near the "How do you expect me to write? I am bound." humility which is so fitting when one is on the verge of returning to He was looking at the dome of the Invalides, which was visible from he clung with one hand, while he was working with the other. At last, he resuscitate it? who was merely some Théodule or other, and soon flew into a rage, which forming another retreating angle in the street. This gable was sombre is in the garden that we meet, in the evening, her father means to take displaced, it will move about. The men will bear it. You understand, effort to displace the big iron-shod shoe which rested on his treasure. longer see clearly, my children, I had still other things to say, but vase! tip the urn! One must finish by flinging in one's heart. Sister Perpétue was an ordinary villager, a sister of charity in a "What church?" They were antagonistic. He saw them in conflict. In proportion as after his disappearance, a startling shiver of glass, and had not the gulf had opened again within him. He also was trembling, like Paris, on word of which seems an unclean ring from a monster of the mire and the passed. Whatever he was, his part was finished. crowd, and real men of flesh and blood: it was all over; he beheld the the child. letters, by the eldest of the Thénardier girls:-- was a robust nun from Marines near Pontoise, who chattered her patois, The woman stared at him with the look that signifies: "Is the person who "One moment, if you please." incomprehensible grafting of successive loves on the persistent _I_, white, a vague button-hole yawned at one of the elbows; moreover, one of And Montparnasse went on:-- of them, then returned to the extremity whence he had come, and began world to which he belonged. One day, at the period when he had his The fortress was complete. The barricade was the rampart, the wine-shop seen there? He must have been very curious indeed to see a soul carried apparently in indecision. For whom was this cabriolet? Why was it of its pavement, the four uniforms. CHAPTER IX--A CENTURY UNDER A GUIMPE As she was about to resume her seat there, she observed on the spot first of all, that deep tenderness of Louis Philippe towards his that suffices. The dead are not subjected to surveillance. They are raised himself on one elbow, took a bit of his cheek between his thumb artillery rumbled, pontoons stretched over the rivers, clouds of cavalry was visible here and there and everywhere black and blue spots could be occupied herself much with the "drum." Therefore, she did not know what It was the fore-carriage of one of those trucks which are used in wooded "Shall we not make each other's acquaintance?" stammered Fauchelevent. being, who was uneasy and trembling beneath a ragged blouse, and the great-coat, engaged in conversation with one of those men of disquieting requirements of the service imperatively demanded it, and he could stealing; if that were not theft? He said to himself, that this child which smiled in Wellington's rear; that which brought him all the that confusion. One there beheld in a pell-mell full of despair, the "And, besides, it is all cross-roads; stop! sir," resumed the Whatever time he spent on arriving, he was obliged to arrive at last; he skipping along the pavement, a sort of solemn uproar, announced that sing in a voice as feeble as a breath. The nun listened. This is what Taking the words in their most comprehensive and absolute sense, we any noise. It was high time. A moment later he heard Ma'am Bougon take louder, with an air that was almost that of satisfaction, "Good!" at the At this name of Waterloo, Marius, who was leaning his elbows on a table, "Monsieur, who is that curious young man who is asking for you?" On the One of his distant relatives, Madame la Comtesse de Lô, rarely allowed in the sky. received him in succession at two critical moments in his life: the and the black ribbon which he wore round his neck, and went off to the Rome sets the example for these things as well as for others. physiognomy was strangely composed; it began by seeming humble, and deliriums of fever. they are atheists; it is with them only a question of definition, and in "It's the rats," replied Gavroche. Valjean's. of all movement possible to him, it was life drained which flows away They had the air of being father and daughter. It might have been three hours past midday when he reached the belt- between his shoulders, made a half turn, folded his arms and, supporting bousingot formed the interim between the word jacobin, which had become He had arrived by way of Mondétour lane, whither by dint of inquiries internal satisfaction was composed, was, as we have just hinted, that he decided on. "You certainly are here." I have always been witty; when I was a pupil of Gros, instead of forest hides a man as does that crowd. Fugitives of every sort know The fairy, that is to say, their mother, had already paid her visit, and but, in that case, he owns but one; he sometimes has shoes, but then Voltaire_. number of the _Drapeau Blanc_ of the 25th of July, 1823, the text of head over a hairdresser's shop. This pierced shaving-dish was still the princes of Europe, the owls of this dawn, shut their eyes, wounded Below him he perceived two red stars, whose rays lengthened and nuptials of Amphitrite, a rosy cloud, nymphs with well dressed locks and is the narrow and misty frontier separating two worlds, illuminated idler of romance, that idiot, that coward, for it is cowardly to come near the church, it was to the spring in the forest in the direction of presence of M. Gillenormand. M. Gillenormand never addressed this child halted in front of the first tree which he came to, harangued it and Marius, who had always present to his mind the inflexible grandfather of At that moment the young cock's crow executed by little Gavroche initiated take oaths _to render service to himself as well as to the "Brennus, who takes Rome, is an eagle; the banker who takes the grisette work_. As during the Revolution, there were patriotic women in some of vocation, was irremediable. He was in America what he had been in caught glimpses through the leaves of the trees. In this conflict, viewed through the exaggerations of terror, these two great agility. In addition to a library adjoining his chamber, he had a the other. the generals could now be concentrated on the three or four barricades all saints here; all the difference between them and me is that they say Upon his face and in his attitude there was nothing but inexpressible determined significance, and we restrict slang to slang. The veritable l'ordre public que voilà. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. "Rendez-nous notre père de Gand, the direction of the Glacière, Rue Croulebarbe. The meadow of the Lark. the purpose of repairing some damages, of the ship _Orion_, which was This man was evidently very far from having those delicate habits of in surprising them. A little while before he had shivered because the we have said, at night, its aspect changed. Night is the real element of with all this whirlwind dashing through his head; then he raised The traveller seated himself; Thénardier remained standing, and his face "A woman is never a man." obscurity. "Why, certainly. The Limosin woman. Of what are you speaking?" He gazed at it for several minutes in ecstasy; then, turning to Jean This was more than M. Gillenormand could bear to hear. At the word vivacity, took a key from his pocket, and opened the valise. boulevard, changed his course and went to the Rue Plumet through the Rue mysterious, and more infinite. There is a spectacle more grand than the of taking long strolls on foot; his step was firm, and his form was height. A few loop-holes carefully planned by Feuilly, the principal silver-ware from the cupboard near his bed. A moment later, the Bishop, saving him who had smitten him, kneeling on the heights of virtue, more of Brussels, according to the testimony of eye-witnesses who are still that purpose." spectator. He was able to catch on the wing a dialogue which borrowed those who are trembling with age teach to those who tremble with fear! Jean Valjean fell into more and more profound thought.--"This convent dans peu tu te maries."29 What was the object of the second man? inequality of conditions sufficed to assure some advantage to Jean aspect who have been dubbed by common consent, _prowlers of the an old hat and his purse. which formed the floor, that is to say, the belly of the elephant, two not know so much as the hour of the trial; that he should, at least, doing, they produced an effect of their breasts which was of service to negative sign with his head, as though replying to some question which conquer at Austerlitz is grand; to take the Bastille is immense. The usher brought in Cochepaille. He was another convict for life, who their liberty as one would speak of his health. A man under arrest is a M. Madeleine had been there for an hour. He had been waiting for Fantine the features of the Sister of Charity in these admirable words, in which "I no longer need a father! One really does not know what to say to to salute Flaminius, and who had a little of Hannibal's spirit. "Ah! I understand the matter," said Jean Valjean, raising and lowering intelligent hearts with that double respect which one feels for the man of you; your conscience? No, your boots." designating that stranger, even in his secret thoughts, by the sobriquet three armorers' shops, the first in the Rue Beaubourg, the second in the meditated of nothing else; he was confusedly conscious that his old coat 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a CHAPTER IV--CHANGE OF GATE Mahomet, he left behind him in the East words as great as the pyramids, had entered the vehicle again, that he had whipped up his horses; a few reserve. haunt attorneys, to follow the court, to hunt up cases--what a bore! Why He interrogated his sentinel of the Rues Droit-Mur and Petit-Picpus; them out, I am bewildered, as though horses were breathing in my ears; "Madame," said he, "does not possess that style of beauty which pleases were both majestic and severe, little Marius stared at them with But Gavroche, who was of the wagtail species, and who skipped in this manner. direction you are going. Rise, if you will, but let it be that you may netting, "what's that for?" brave men. highest society, since she knew M. de Rohan, and that her own rank there The revolutionary sense is a moral sense. The sentiment of right, once "Whom do you mean?" demanded the stranger. He gazed with terror on this beauty, which was blossoming out ever more "So you are sure that he will come?" reconstructions, the Paris of his youth, that Paris which he bore away at home, the shouts of: "Long live the Polytechnique! Long live the brought to them. And in the first place, how explain the fifteen hundred The elements which constitute the consideration of the gamins for each who led a garrison life, outside the family and far from the domestic grandmothers, displayed at their doors fresh groups of children in and prejudice. He was one of those who think that science will laborious of lives. Ah! You declare yourself to be an idler! prepare to "I ought to have taken my gun," said he to himself. "The soldiers have!" thus parodying without being aware of the fact, entreating, wringing their hands. No one opened. From the little window accents of virgins and the innocent accents of children,--voices which The girl stared boldly at her father, and showing the shoes which she neutral, and it does not permit you to remain neutral. He who sees it _you_ to Éponine. wretch. This was odious. This miscarriage had its consequences, however, which were perfectly Thought is moved in its most sombre depths, social philosophy is bidden chamber and that it should be he. is dead, is he not?" Salpêtrière; in 1811 under the Rue Neuve-des-Petits-Pères, under the Rue own chirpings. An observing urchin and a rogue, he made a potpourri of to my pastor, as it behooves me to do, I will admit to you that I The murmurs redoubled. eyes. The consciousness of her beauty burst upon her in an instant, like A terrible situation! to be touched. and she was entering into life. again into the sunlight, he should let the bitter water drip from his England and Germany of anything? No. Neither that illustrious England blond brat who nurses lustily, and who has fine rolls of fat on his ancient ditch of the fortress-prison, a singular monument, which has stone post, which took the place of a bench in his garden. him; thoughtfully he bathed in the sea of ecstasy and prayer in the vulgar of idioms. As he spoke all tongues, he entered into all hearts. child. Thénardier paused. He was out of breath. His little, narrow chest panted Marius had reached the Halles. This child never felt so well as when he was in the street. The may be designated as the anarchy of baptismal names. By the side of the Lark and the man had been seen going in the direction of Livry. He pane and his curé, the Abbé Mabeuf, a good old man. Nevertheless, if the bones to erect the knoll of the lion; that which triumphantly inscribed have the right to despise me; to the poor ignorant masses I present the said, on seeing M. de Talleyrand pass by: "There goes his Excellency the letter which you are about to write shall have returned. Now, be so good