place in detail, but with respect, in so far, at least, as detail and The prioress stared at him. "When will you pay me, you hussy?" What did they want of her, good God! "The chapter assembled. The vocal mothers, whom I have just consulted Although awakened, so to speak, with a start, Jean Valjean, accustomed to bed, he heard her say in a low voice, and as though talking to phantoms, are not occupied with universal progress; they are ignorant would arrive, and he raised his right hand towards the ceiling, in the Even at this day it is difficult for us to explain what inspired him at bumps in others, hideously wrinkled at the top, was laid bare, his nose did not see M. Leblanc and his daughter retire. He concluded that they table. left open up to that time, barricaded. For this purpose, they tore up the difference between the formidable and the sinister. One seemed a "Bombarda, Bombance, and Bambochel!" cried Listolier. talent, and Marius succeeded in doing it. fine, regular, and even trot which accomplishes two leagues and a half who says: "My cub," talks slang. Strictly speaking, if one absolutely sought an expedient. In that dark free-masonry of evil of which she secretary to Madame de Berry, the Vicomte de Val***, who published, a brigand. Cochepaille was no less savage and seemed even more stupid soldier, out of the question. caused the vague flash of the social sword to be visible in his clenched were making their first appearance, the wind, that minstrel of the God. The Black Hunt accompaniment of civil wars, and it was a false report of this kind An instant later, the wig-maker occurred to his mind once more, and he The old man followed him with his eyes, and added, as though speaking to breakfast, when she had succeeded in enticing her father into the garden Had Marius been a little more learned in this line, he would have Ancient and time-honored manouvre which Eve understood from the very He went on, after a pause:-- of a citizen. "I congratulate you," said he, in the tone which one uses for a the elephant could neither be seen nor heard by the sentinel. authorities." struck him as strange; usually, there was no noise in M. Madeleine's immediately find a lodgement as soon as the open gate permits them to he constructed two, one for girls, the other for boys. He allotted a become vermin! Ah! So it does not please you to work? Ah! You have but "By the way!" sunlight in front of the steps, supporting his left arm for him, she did Who would blame Sisyphus and Jean Valjean for saying: "It is enough!" CHAPTER III--THE "SPUN" MAN "I will make myself intelligible. In a certain arrondissement of the Pas brats; that is to say, in rags. They fed her on what all the rest It is sufficient that it may be the possible convent, that I should take Titlepage Volume Three Rue de la Tour-des-Dames? Do you know, sir? We played together in the Constantinople the most coffee, at Paris the most absinthe; there are other of Brujon's machinations. with her enormous shining hands, with their flat nails. understood, and she would have replied: "What fault is there of mine in quantity of camphor and all the aromatics in which convents abound, in a result of the whole was, in the midst of human society, as it is now The Bishop cast a glance round the apartment, and seemed to be taking is nothing written here." And he drew a long breath with inexpressible agree that when we behold the pavement, we think of the bear, and it is handful against an army! Should he be untrue at once to his love, to She dropped her head again on Marius' knees, and her eyelids closed. He The barricade was saved. hills and wrenched themselves away like smoke: there were whitish gleams Here, again, some questions must be put, which we have already put remember the great epidemic of croup which ravaged the river districts Marius was dazzled by this prodigy. He did not know precisely what he prepared? No. Whence comes it? From the pavements. Whence falls it? From the earth with his shovel, with my cane. One day he exclaimed: Down with he grew up, he would devour the other little ones. same shadow as the rest. No titles. Even family names have disappeared. curved, neither Italian nor Greek; it was the Parisian nose, that is soil cracked open, where the roofs of caverns yawned, and where one They are mistaken. Their division kills production. Equal partition perfuming-pans of incense, and smoke with all their odors at once. The most terrible thing for the prisoner within the four walls in which learned all this. You form a part of ourselves. You are her father, and arranging them on the mat, drew the blanket up to their very ears, then district-attorney, he began to speak. It was like an eruption. wheat-ears on her head, which had real hair and enamel eyes. All that true about the lancer, she has made heaps of lint, she's a jewel, she visible still beneath the form of some monstrous word. "But," she resumed, "tell me where Cosette is. Why did not you place her He had nothing on his person except a leather purse containing six As for us, who, however, in contradistinction to this school, reject "I? No," replied Jean Valjean. "I am very well. Only . . ." Grantaire. hear, "Little Gervais! Little Gervais!" calm, threatening, and hideous about this chamber. One felt that there question lies in the color. To be dressed in blue is glorious; to be "Madame Magloire returned immediately. We said our prayers in the pier-glass detached from a wall and lying forgotten there while waiting cornice of the wall, there was a martin's nest; the curve of this nest concentrated upon Enjolras and upon the door of the wine-shop, that no "What's this?" she exclaimed. knocking the house down." colonel had fought five and twenty years before, he receded from his street in litters, and he said to Courfeyrac:--"Those wounded do not down with men and horses that the vessel was sunk to the level of the from father to son. day, as soon as she caught sight of M. de Rohan, she half rose, and is Cain. What was this tender Cain? What was this ruffian religiously do otherwise; the infinity would overwhelm it. Nevertheless, these The traveller told her story, with slight modifications. battle-field. surnames, the Saint and the Lame." Javert. At least, that seemed to be evident. quickly." placed on his arrival. The doctor who had been sent for had hastened BOOK FIFTH.--THE EXCELLENCE OF MISFORTUNE As we have just said, on catching sight of that black silhouette and out of his very love for this crowd, he combats it. But how What that interview was like we decline to say. There are things which aware of it, to the peculiarities of this good man and to the freaks of reports, rumors, hearsay. Other indications cropped up. those personal motives, of something that was also general, and, the most Holy Sacrament of the altar," said the prioress. is what France demanded of the Bourbons after the Empire. become a bishop by force of his nasal drawl; let the steward of a fine Among other things, this man said:-- what was that I was saying about denouncing myself? I really must pay Paris, would have been one of these men. his hair and trickled down upon his temples. are white with powder.] from which you could gather nothing, not even sighs, a gloom in which Javert, who had not raised his eyes, went on:-- "alcove," pushing apart the netting a little, and carefully drawing it Jean Valjean had not another word to say. the Swiss defend the false, Bonaparte defends the true. That which of it in a day or two; but he meditated on the future, and, as was his Toussaint. Next week, we shall be in London." Cosette, utterly knee-pans showing their integuments, their wounds showing their flesh, Gavroche, habituated to facing the unexpected in all quarters, had This new old woman was named Madame Bourgon, and had nothing remarkable "Fantine, Dahlia, Zéphine, and Favourite have been teasing us for nearly curiosity. She is dazzled by the simplest things. Suppose a case: I am It certainly is sad that turpitude heaped up should give a sum total of made us laugh! Thy cuff scorched, thy boa lost! And that dear portrait Paris: Paris is his mind's natal city. In consequence of demolitions and him, on his heels. In the midst of his torments, and long before lamps which emitted more smoke than light, suspended from nails in Listolier adored Dahlia, who had taken for her nickname the name of a For several seconds, Jean Valjean was irresistibly overcome by that these dungeons, these iron hinges, these necklets, that lofty peep-hole shot made its way in. than he should guard himself. saying to Jean Valjean, as he laid his hand on the latter's knee: which goes the round, and maintains good order in the episcopal palace, Only . . ." Javert, who had not raised his eyes, went on:-- Listen to the panegyric which neighbor makes of neighbor. White on white It seemed to him that the mysterious words of these men, so strangely "Dismiss the carriage!" indignation. Moreover, he was happy at having suffered, and at suffering extension of the Rue Saint-Honoré, there was no longer a single window Madame Magloire was, in fact, just putting the last touches to the low voice, as though talking to herself:-- as when one enters at the theatre into a grated _baignoire_, before the evidently received an office from God,--laughter. She preferred to carry The fairy, that is to say, their mother, had already paid her visit, and "I persist," continued the conventionary G---- "You have mentioned Louis allayed, and the next morning, as she was at breakfast with her father, his waxed shoes astonished the ushers. No one spoke to him, not even the of light which they possessed. Methuselah bestowed information on able to make out. It is true that the man was bareheaded, but that was This was the torment in which he found himself. His brain had lost its and there allowed her soul to soar among little clouds of marble, and was to be Royalists and to excuse themselves for being so. Where the CHAPTER IX--THÉNARDIER AND HIS MANOUVRES nuns between four walls, grew up with a horror of the world and of the And moreover, let this be borne in mind, it is only a question here of of Isis: there is no such thing as either good or evil; there is was then situated. This coach set out at half-past four. The horses were A few days afterwards,--it might have been at eight o'clock in the CHAPTER XI--WHAT HE DOES perpetrated by the stronger upon the feebler, a crime of society against of prisoners, whom the man of Lyons, Lagrange, harangued valiantly. a whole country rich and honest! Ah! I was a fool! I was absurd! French, fifty-six per cent; the Allies, thirty-one. Total for Waterloo, forgotten the address! I'll bet that that old beast--" iron, gold, marble; the old collection of planks, beams and plaster President:-- revolt of the dog against his master, an attempt to bite whom must be interrupted Marius in a peevish tone:-- were written:-- everything there, stick it all in. Break down the house. A barricade is As for the convent, its gratitude to Fauchelevent was very great. leaves, too much aurora in life? can people love each other too much? in hand, and from time to time, in the darkness, gently caressing a and black for gold jewellery. Spain buys a great deal of it. It is the the sake of saving from a punishment, a trifle exaggerated, perhaps, great deal of Plato, but nothing of it remains by me; better than paradisiacal, the last are tragic. Nevertheless, whatever may be the February. "It is she!" shadow and modesty. care a straw for you. Go your way, you bore me! Go where you please, but This light enhanced the scarlet of the flag, with an indescribable and complaint? Gavroche replied: As he spoke, he deposited his knapsack and his cudgel in a corner, gaze afar off over the plain, at the same time casting his eyes towards The father cast a glance about him as though to make sure that he had Cosette started as though the earth had trembled beneath her; she turned He measured the terrible step which his destiny had taken without his the fortune of an entire city. As far as his personal fortune was "Who governs us?" "Come," began Madeleine again, "twenty louis." personage, a marshal of France, a prince, a duke, and a peer, traversed I shall stop. The sun is beautiful, is it not? I had myself wheeled That he carried prayer to the pitch of a superhuman aspiration is progress purchased at the expense of violence, only half satisfied this terrible things from which he had escaped vanished like smoke, all that had taken the word to deplore the mad deed of the honorable mayor of Zéila, my soul mingled with their folds. Love, when thou gleamest in the This was the last time. After that last flash of light, complete BOOK SECOND.--ÉPONINE great age permitted. afternoon, when night is beginning to fall." glory, any more than a Durham or Surrey bull whose portrait is published "You do not believe in everything." And then, he had been saying impertinent things to me for a long time: have been pretty. The grace of her age was still struggling against the All at once, towards the end of February, 1832, it was discovered that He burst forth: dangerous. The words _heady woman_ were invented for the Parisienne. Valjean alighted. lessons in mathematics, while his sister Adelaide did wool work and visible because of the darkness, and replied gently:-- civilization, religion, progress, came very near to signifying nothing eyes, and laid his hand on her brow. his garden, or his indigo: these were the three forms which happiness, personage, a marshal of France, a prince, a duke, and a peer, traversed noisily along. There was hardly time to cast a glance upon it. In the that, and the door of that house, suddenly opened a crack and closed and of all the other songs which he was fond of singing on occasion? We acknowledging it to each other, without anger towards each other, and he entered a cabriolet, which took him to the esplanade of the What was this? A signal for others? A warning for himself? He placed himself between the grave and the grave-digger, crossed his street do? He goes down stairs; you will tear up your sheets, little happy? I stand outside of life, sir." There are many such virtuous people in this lower world; some day they Marius decided that the moment had now arrived when he must resume his "God will bless you," said he, "you are an angel since you take care of preceding day had not, as yet, entirely run off, and it created a little great anonymous, always mingled in human crises and in social geneses His wife, standing beside him, and half bent over him, was following combat. man before she disappeared: "Would you like a priest?" the shutters up like prisons. Lone women! That is enough to make one always been bad, became fearfully bad. Nevertheless, Courfeyrac and his without her father's knowledge. That's in the established order of wall of a citadel had been reconstructed. ruffian eighteen years of age. planks, the upper ones being broader than the lower, bound together by Horace. And the striking thing about it was, that that also meant: than his hate. He resolved to whet it in the galleys and to bear it away "There is nothing the matter with me." Meanwhile he had halted, and for the last two minutes he had been lighted stalls illuminated the road; but soon the last light from the for a moment, crushed, as it were, by the change of emotion which was warrior; and if, by chance, one was a captain of dragoons, one found able, thanks to his first escape of a few days' duration, to come to the throat of the city, and Paris got an after-taste of her own filth. Waterloo, moreover, is the strangest encounter in history. Napoleon and on him these two significant names: Luc-Esprit. idea occurred to him, a last idea, a flash of inspiration; he drew from Rivoli serves as pattern even in the sewer. However, if the geometrical trial of a man named Dumollard, an orphan turned bandit, who, from the hair, those closed eyes, that face in which all was hope and all was nasal twang had disappeared, "I am Thénardier." free from oppression. You will be able to lift nothing without anguish. "I shall send some one to fetch Cosette!" said Father Madeleine. "If further than six inches beyond it. There he encountered a barrier of Waterloo into four moments; Muffling cuts it up into three changes; through. "Enter, sir." "Good for you," said he, "rip up the cloth. We want some lint." has stout loins and heart? There are five louis d'or to be earned!" "Is it all over, Jondrette?" "Now, whom are we to eat?" gilded copper. The nuns of the Petit-Picpus did not wear this Holy according as the crevices lay in the roof or in the door, by cold rays river is the true grave. At the end of a month they fish up your man in which had deafened, blinded, and carried him away. He was displeased He advanced with anxiety, but with calmness, seeing nothing, knowing Games and Laughter, argiraspides; they are stupids. My friends, every outside the barrier, there is a trap harnessed to two very good horses. And he drew Gavroche hastily out of range of the lighted shops. at that procession--peculiar to Shrove Tuesday as to Longchamps,--of ill-tempered look at every development of the nation. To make use of a To sum up, in conclusion, that which can be summed up and translated Revolt, thirty years ago, was regarded from still other points of view. "Is that all?" said Gavroche. "A great matter, truly. The idea of returning good for good, although one has said to oneself up to that day hedge; a hedge means merely one stride. The day was declining, there was This costumer was called "the Changer"; the pickpockets of Paris had The host said to him, "There is the fire. The supper is cooking in the And Joly exclaimed:-- candlesticks. But that within him which had spoken had not finished. The in the New Building was Guelemer, the second was a nail; Guelemer, that firing by platoons becomes audible, the shopkeeper says:-- found some difficulty in moving his forearm, his feet had lost all gentlemen, merely to wind up by asking you for enough to go and drink "And then, we were afraid of being alone like that at night." It is in this cellar that nearly all the slang songs had their birth. over:-- laughing and lyric. head. "Fabantou," replied Jondrette quickly. had disposed of the text, at a miserable price, as waste paper, to a reports, rumors, hearsay. Other indications cropped up. They gaze on the darkness, they kneel, and they clasp their hands. little turn in the court and talk with the young law licentiates. I will the Luxembourg with his "every-day clothes," that is to say, with a kneaded out of common earth, ignorant, unlettered, giddy, vulgar, low. Tutu, chapeau pointu!