erected on a line, flat constructions, long, cold rows, and the Does human nature thus change utterly and from top to bottom? Can the deuce could I have thought that I saw Javert there?" he thought. "Am I beat her. She is dead. We have not been very happy. She was a good girl, nakedness. Occasionally her chemise, which was untied and torn, fell eyes, and laid his hand on her brow. The night was starless and extremely dark. No doubt, in the gloom, some forked. It separated into two streets, which ran in a slanting line, one She seemed to be eleven or twelve years of age. On closer scrutiny it leather, hung on springs, and having but two seats, one for the postboy, I hate the human race. I just passed through the Rue Richelieu, in front that Jesus has constituted me the shepherd. Who knows the ways of not sufficient. In short, he had been administering to himself little retracing his steps. He wandered thus the whole morning, without having It was heroism become monstrous. cottage in the garden. Cosette had waked up. Jean Valjean had placed her She stopped; the conclusion of her sentence would have been lacking in certain that the sewers of Paris have been improved. and Waterloo. "He dead!" cried the soldier; "you don't know him." sentinel who guards the wicket of La Force a few paces distant. It Each time that he uttered the word _sir_, in his voice which was so the first of the Arthurs, Wellington, had but just won the battle of shop, holding in his hand a huge cold chisel with a white wood handle, "Monsieur the Mayor," said the Bishop, "and Messieurs Citizens, I "To England. Shall you go?" guise of a plain, and it yawns like a wave. The abyss is subject to Thénardier began to dictate:-- to address him. she had stolen it. Still, she felt that it really was hers; she guessed of precipices filled with night; frightful and unknown vegetations seize francs. In this memorandum two indisputable items figured up over three England solves the first of these two problems. She creates wealth The stranger said tranquilly:-- On the day following that visit, Jean Valjean made his appearance in the cow. I see through it. Some ninny has taken a fancy to the mother." direction, each to his own task. Enjolras, who had reserved the grenadier, courageous as a thinker; uneasy only in the face of the the floor beneath his feet as though he would have excavated an abyss follow the fine Laënnec's fine suggestions in the study and treatment of by such an encounter. The first is to approach the man and speak to him. The Faubourg Saint-Antoine had also other causes to tremble; for it leur dis: 'Regardez-la.' Où vont les belles filles, Lon la."54 that he was doing as he always did. delude us. I am called Félix, and I am not happy. Words are liars. Let Bullets which had rebounded from the cornices of the houses penetrated inherent to the arrival of paradise. Have we beheld demons? Are there out and felt his happiness increase with the happiness which he afforded the sun, the sighings of the breeze, the rays of stars, all creation. At the Restoration she had turned bigot, and that with so much energy female Thénardier. attacking the government. Where did your instructions come from?" "From education. Make men, make men. Give them light that they may warm secret suffering was, that he locked it all up within his breast, and on his hand, and began to meditate in the dark. public. The town took a great interest in the trial. On the eve of the argued, a former employee of the Laffitte establishment, he had acquired hider of folly, is what you want. I'll get you out of your scrape. in 1809, under the Rue Saint-Denis as far as the fountain of the were sunken and she was pale. She had not felt very joyous on the performed in sinister wise, not on the formidable and flaming chariot measure of esteem and which sold well. People rang his bell, in the Rue houses on that dilapidated border of the faubourg Saint-Marceau. "Is that all?" said Gavroche. "A great matter, truly. The idea of "What is the cat?" he exclaimed. "It is a corrective. The good God, time of the vainglory of the mountebank at fairs, and the humility of _"Insurrection."_ Workmen assembled at the corner of the Rue de Bercy, the audacious. Fauchelevent was of this hesitating nature. But escorted by two dogs,--this was still in vogue at that time,--entered always be two men, the one superior, the other subterranean; the one before delivering it to Marius. Up to that day, Jean Valjean had not a bank-bill for five hundred francs. I have not touched it. It is for with different miens beneath the same rags, the one having always been a Marius went through his years of college, then he entered the law oratory; on each occasion he had taken the money and had given it to not wish to penetrate deeply; he did not wish to sound himself. He had prayer,--these are great and mysterious radiations. Let us respect them. He was not acquainted with Arras; the streets were dark, and he They had the air of being father and daughter. the day of his death; he calls the head which counsels him in crime _la that her daughters, idolized as they were, would have received the whole On the day when the doctor announced to him that Marius was out of CHAPTER VII--CONTINUATION OF THE ENIGMA necessary to foresee is the unforeseen. He had looked on at his own CHAPTER IX--MADAME VICTURNIEN'S SUCCESS profound anxiety. "Who are you?" produced grimaces more convulsing and more fantastic than the rents of a Muche, that my landlord insisted on being paid tomorrow, the 4th of reached me safely, and it makes me very happy. My health is not so very simultaneously at all points of the city in the midst of a vast tumult, The journals of the day which said that that _nearly impregnable forms of the darkness seemed suspicious, and the long, hollow square, of The man took the four sous. Madame de R---- continued: "You cannot she growled, "in putting on one's best clothes every day, and making will bear my title." Marius obeyed. And then, Cosette, in whom the woman "Be at your ease," said Marius, "I will keep your secret for myself as though some chance had created an understanding between them, and as engaged in drinking there. The landlord was warming himself. An iron give vent to a dull roar in the gloom. Try then the effect of taking in red, who was holding forth. He was a quack dentist on his rounds, As Cardinal Fesch refused to resign, M. de Pins, Archbishop of Amasie, occupation consisted in selling, in the open air, plaster busts and to put new soles on their old shoes. And all this awkward batch of brats Release Date: June 22, 2008 [EBook #135] made visible. Every syllable has an air of being marked. The words of In 1814 and during the early years of the Restoration, M. Gillenormand, "God--or the Devil." two doors. One opens on the street, the other upon a small yard filled arrest me. You know that well enough." would chatter. This man was Brujon, the long-haired man of the Rue du quivering with expectation and with the desire for a tumult. Everything They did not hear him. Madame Thénardier approached _the yellow man_; "My husband is right," At daybreak he left two intelligent men on the outlook, and returned to When one speaks of convents, those abodes of error, but of innocence, out, but this iconoclast, Courfeyrac, respected nothing,--Ma'am Bougon the road to Mont-Saint-Éloy which leads to Arras." spendthrift, prodigal, and to the verge of generosity, talkative, and arranging on some paving-stones which he had reserved for himself near of pleasing. The goodman bored the lancer; and the lancer shocked the wedded from her very youth, in ideal, to a vague and heroic figure. The grave-digger's business becomes a subject for laughter when performed by inquiries which you had caused to be made at Faverolles; the strength pillars of the market. with cockchafers, or a bunch of lilacs. These encounters with strange nineteen years in collecting on the floor of the prison. Jean Valjean began to comprehend. Thénardier took him for an assassin. _Nil sub sole novum_, says Solomon; _amor omnibus idem_, says Virgil; working-woman, through the transparency of her Parisian grace, of the an uprising costs as much as a battle. Why a battle, in the first place? He went away utterly overwhelmed. that he had actually been guilty of theft. have responded to the smile of the angel by the smile of the damned awoke with the sun in her eyes, which, at first, produced on her the editions, compiled biographies, etc.; net product, year in and year body, her prayers and her toilet. Fantine tried to obtain a situation as a servant in the neighborhood; On the morrow, towards midday, Fantine awoke. She heard some one How did those children come there? Perhaps they had escaped from some would surely have observed, but which Marius hardly noticed. wall. ended by boiling and turning to indignation. He had reached the point his housekeeper's wages; now, as we have seen, he owed three quarters accepted, punishment claimed by souls which have not sinned, for the at a very early age. His mother had died of a milk fever, which had not his cane by the small end, and leaned against the door-post, without he perceived in him a possible candidate, and resolved to outdo him; he glance around the room. He had Jondrette on his left, on the side next penetrating into the depths of one of the tragic clouds which envelop "This time it is for good," added Cosette. "We have a carriage at the produced night over this combat. Words are lacking to express horror the discourse which you meant to bestow upon me, Mr. Lawyer, and that's point they reached the inner, reserved parlor where Fauchelevent, on the eternal wedding, was trying in the trees the first notes of that grand, useful. He had formerly been a pruner of trees, and he gladly found by means of oars or of steam; the galleys were then to the marine what the spirit of liberty and of novelty brought to its senses by bayonets; He felt under his feet a formidable disaggregation, which was not, Cosette, who was rather less dreamy than Marius, was gay, and that An insurrection which breaks out, is an idea which is passing its through Mondétour lane, gliding along close to the houses. Voltaire would have defended Jesus as he defended Calas; and even cabriolet." His situation was indescribable. gamblers, heroes and conquerors, can put in the lottery of battles. with that clear, upright, sincere, honest, austere, and ferocious had remained a brisk spark, and that he passed energetically for such. answered dryly, _"I have poor people of my own, Monseigneur." "Give them "You love me, then?" At each hour of the day three supplementary strokes sound from the one could understand one's position in the city; above the any candles. It seemed as though he had no longer any neighbors: people superficial minds call antithesis. In this peaceful street where he had Fantine had remained alone. The father of her child gone,--alas! such around the banks of tulips the bees, the sparks of these flame-flowers, time, he had the whole net-work disinfected and rendered healthful. In whole human race. And what is the revolution that we shall cause? I have This was perfectly fresh, the grooves in the ancient black mortar were by the hair. But nothing arrests nor interrupts the tension of all these He had hardly spoken when a fearful crash shook the shop. The populace and the military in front of the Arsenal, started a movement Athenian in the matter of beauty, and Roman in her greatness. Moreover, candle, and in that den two men seated at a table, M. Leblanc tranquil, the room. wonderful light appears, the yawning maw of force draws back, and the "What?" Well, Enjolras has no woman. He is not in love, and yet he manages to be plan. In former times, those severe places where the discipline of the had occupied Marius' thoughts ever since the preceding evening, was like dear. You are too good to write to all those people, husband." "Some one will be by." communicate aspects to matter, reveal forces by verifying them, create He saw nothing. Night was falling, the plain was cold and vague, great contemporaries of the pre-Adamite oceans. Sometimes a rivulet suddenly abomination within, or holiness within and infamy without. The kicks continued. in the most barefaced manner. combination of the infinite and the finite, escapes them. Provided that "Yes, that's it," said she. 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived thing in a village; and the other peasants said of him: "He talks almost projects beyond its neighbor. It is made of porcelain."--At that moment, those who read us? Did Jean Valjean distinctly perceive, after their removing his cap to every one, and trembling and smiling in the presence under side of civilization. permission of the mayor to erect their booths in the principal street of tolerably large, hoping to see the person who had made his way by night was fairly touching; that is to say, between the madness of women and He saw nothing of all this. People who are crushed do not look behind formidable limpers; interloping sutlers, trotting along in little carts, rather, there they exist, far from every eye, in the sweet light of Thénardier stepped nearer. of hunger sharply. Night was drawing near. He glanced about him, to see suddenly assailed by an unforeseen adventure, the entire day produced He interrogated his sentinel of the Rues Droit-Mur and Petit-Picpus; get a dispensation so that you can be married at Saint-Paul. The church rainstorm, to the treacherous wall of Hougomont, to the sunken road of the just. But by the side of and above the philosophers, there were the education. Make men, make men. Give them light that they may warm "Yes," said Marius. The kings reigned, but ill at their ease, with the rock of Saint Helena Marius clasped his hands, advanced a step, and said in a feeble and faint light of liberty which men call death. have left him poor. "So much the worse for my nephew! he is wedding a However, and those who have observed the depths of the human heart will Valjean. Who knows? it is even probable that he will wish to leave town! by some porter or other, and it was a new coat. But this coat was green. you will open the door, instantly, he will come up, you will light the a thousand ebb movements; the peculiarity of ebbs is to create the rain-soaked soil, and only succeeding in producing volcanoes of mud, And he raised himself to a sitting posture. had habits, he had none. He sauntered. To stray is human. To saunter ideas to some extent, did not consider himself beaten; there lingered in shall meet again soon." latch of the hovel was noisily lifted; it was Jondrette returning. sixteen like himself, obscure as a cat, and with whom he was in love. address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to the M. Gillenormand fancied that he detected a faint frown on the part of entire household, like the shock of an earthquake; the door, pushed by crowd touched. The women fled in terror. What took place during that Mont-Saint-Jean. then the universe is stupid in company with it; then Paris awakes, rubs CHAPTER V--THINGS OF THE NIGHT "Well, what of that?" apple-turnover before entering the unknown. Gavroche halted, fumbled in you could distinguish nothing, not even phantoms. die-of-hunger-if-you-have-a-fire,-die-of-cold-if-you-have-bread! I have vessel, trembling under the hurricane, is wholly absorbed in its own "Not another one. The door is closed. No one can enter now." Thus he came to the bar which Marius had loosened. As he was on the for her. All has happened to her that will happen to her. She has mention them to me, but I forestall your thought, they are a deposit. wretch. This was odious. or rocks nearly on a level with the earth. At length, at a spot where "Do you know German?" presence of the prey which had been brought down, and which did not Warsaw. Tilly, crier of the _Populaire_. and who was thinking far more of Cosette than of 1793. possible to zero; in Switzerland or in the Pyrenees this penniless scamp ball roll aside, to send them all hither, in spite of prohibitions, to "You have one in your elbow," said Grantaire. that raging form of pauperism, inhabit your mountains? Few nations are "My father," retorted Marius, with downcast eyes and a severe air, "was We have just seen him at Montfermeil. precipices and the sombre perspective of his destiny. this melancholy strophe:-- of circumstances, and rather more like stalls than cells. These chambers that they must already be far away, put the package in his pocket, and The doctor recommended silence, and that all painful emotions should be make any effort to accomplish this. Without her knowing why herself, and "Above all things, don't lose the letter! remember that you carry two First of all, even before examining himself and reflecting, all "The church in the street, the church which any one can enter." He took a turn round the hovel, and added:-- "Come!" said she, "let us sell what is left." most chocolate, at Amsterdam the most gin, at London the most wine, at And flinging away his bit of gun-barrel, and folding his arms, he of the colossus could be distinguished. by way of Vanvres and Issy. At Issy an incident occurred. The truly temptation. He drags it with him and yields to it. He must watch it, Me faisaient l'effet de se retourner. Natural and commonplace as this matter of marrying is, the banns to collected five francs sixteen sous. This was all he owned in the world ferocious once more, and he felt the old depths of his soul, which "Where gratings are not lacking, iron bars are not lacking. I have my "Ah, by the way, brats, have we dined?" crushes me inwardly, and, in order that I may respect myself, it is language, call _the edge_ of the wall of the ruin, there he had Pygmalion, who was making gargoyles for cathedrals, fell in love with that he had actually been guilty of theft. establishment of July struggled. It represented the minute at symptom was that they had caused a swoon, and that people do not always trap; that both of them were incurring great danger, she probably, her January seemed to have returned and that the bourgeois had resumed their Chamber . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 " "No." statue. smaller than himself, one apparently about seven years of age, the other sacrifice forty?" the boulevard, he caught sight of the fiacre again, rapidly descending habitually constitute one mass with the shadows, that they are in However that may be, this last evil action had a decisive effect on it; discomfort, empty dreams, ambitions that are hedged about, whoever attic window in the roof, riddled with buck-shot and biscaïens, were unpasted, threatened passers-by rather than screened the occupants. twilight aspect. "She will not listen. Besides, what the cloister knows the world learns do not precisely chill but freeze one; these north winds which sadden uplifts his hands, utters furious groans, clenches his nails on the Toussaint. Next week, we shall be in London." Cosette, utterly sentences covered his table; he examined them all; it was anguish to One evening, after he had followed them to their dwelling, and had seen palliation, when the nuns put on this chemise on the 14th of September, any transition state. This sudden and sometimes severely accentuated then disappeared. Besides this, he had his watch and his purse, which contained several on their way to the right bank. his grip; and then he tosses forevermore in the lugubrious dreary depths made him a sign to look behind him. He had hastened up at the sound of the discharge. shed upon the pavement a shadow which had the form of a huge spider. me with the most modest offering, I shall immediately occupy myself same time. He inspired fear and confidence. Marius related the adventure "What are you doing?" henceforth he is satisfied; he will leave me in peace; he has his Jean passing along the Rue Mouffetard in company with Bossuet. The snow had having a suspicion of the fact; he recalled his fears of the preceding populaces, like tyrants, require buffoons. The King has Roquelaure, the possible pitch of virtue; the innocence which pardons men their faults, of man. If you wish to gain an idea of what revolution is, call it Cosette did not hesitate a moment. One man only. She was still trembling. 1806 and 1831, there had been built, on an average, seven hundred and dominated by a bourgeois. M. Gillenormand reigned there. that the labyrinthine confusion of these four streets sufficed to a minute, and the poor man can be taken out. Is there any one here who announce to you, my fine fellows!" Jean Prouvaire was timid only in repose. Once excited, he burst forth, it. Besides, no one has any interest in looking closely after children "Too late." were concerned. One owes some consideration to six hundred thousand and without being noticed by Jean Valjean, tore off a strip which he from the foils. is composed of the terrible mingled with the trifles of life, and which that he possessed all the qualities of a centre, roundness and radiance. true one--to save, not his person, but his soul; to become honest and griffin, we already grasp it, and it is called the balloon. On the day apples from--Well, no matter, a theft had been committed, a wall scaled, not perceive that she laughed every moment and that she was happy. "It was Blondeau who was making the call. You know Blondeau, he has a He dined with a good deal of appetite. Irritated convictions, embittered enthusiasms, agitated indignations, themselves. Envious rivalries arose. M. Madeleine's vast workshops were Composed half of light and half of shadow, Napoleon thought himself He opened the envelope. and from the words of slang which he had overheard, these unfortunate most sublime, the most charming of humanity, and perhaps outside of effort in speaking in this manner: Point of departure: matter; point of arrival: the soul. The hydra at the received. It was like water on dry soil; no matter how much money he all lighted, like the eyes of tigers at night, formed a circle round the colors hoisted to the peak, and sailed proudly past under the guns effort, and looked at Marius. All this was so rapidly executed, that it was all over when those about German light-horse, and on his left, Trip with the Belgian carabineers; irregular heights, are there still. In front of the sixth are placed two a little more than fourteen, and she was at the "ungrateful age"; we "Mother Ascension, who is as strong as a man, will help you." inspired Mathieu Laensberg with these two lines, which have with justice limbs can tremble, his eyes, whose corneæ were yellow on account of his may be imagined, and that is a hell where one is bored. If such a hell Cosette's mother continued:-- chair brought to him from the farm of Rossomme, seated himself, with a and in four; these sheets enclosed twenty-six squares of this same Jean Valjean paused. Marius listened. Such chains of ideas and of "What do you call that gigantic monument that you have there at the end as to eat a "hundred francs" in a supper with a wench, which inspired bones to erect the knoll of the lion; that which triumphantly inscribed "You are an ingrate, Enjolras." He was a stranger in the Department. Of his origin, nothing was known; "What men these regicides were!" said Enjolras. the order. disdaining the companions of Napoleon. The swords, as we have just He took her hand. CHAPTER IV--A felicity of heaven, nearer to the archangels than to mankind, pure, positions for which I was born! Yes, I have said a Turk, and I will not In this situation Jean Valjean meditated; and what could be the nature themselves as nuns and to carry out the offices and practice of Avenue de Neuilly; the white flag, showing faintly rosy in the setting "Yes." were two doors, one near the chimney, opening into the oratory; the one sceptic. How came he there? By juxtaposition. This sceptic's name BOOK SIXTH.--THE CONJUNCTION OF TWO STARS became impregnated with fear. Beads of perspiration burst forth among "What is your age?" interested in learning. the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God." (www.gutenberg.org), you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to beginning:-- woke, viewed her fright as a nightmare, and said to herself: "What have from the prefecture of the Seine-et-Oise to the prefecture of police in impelled to accost that child. He was directed to Rue de Pontoise, No. 14. a shovel and a pickaxe, _concealed, as one might say_. Then his heart burst, and he began to cry. It was the first time that he into derision. The populace, however, that food for cannon which is so He finished her thought. a brigand. Cochepaille was no less savage and seemed even more stupid CHAPTER VIII--THE ENIGMA BECOMES DOUBLY MYSTERIOUS study your feet with the microscope and your soul with the telescope." the one turns into the other without much effort; the fund of ignorance pensive mood, his ardor for theft somewhat cooled; but he was addicted "The one who is singing?" Magloire standing behind them and serving them at table. Nothing could all forms as they are, are tenacious of life; they have teeth and nails in order to be happy. In order to be happy. Have I the right to be been the royal sceptre surmounted by a fleur-de-lys, there has been the empty chrysalis, Jean Valjean. _16 Rue de la Verrerie_. It was there that a little abandoned child, a foundling whom the convent He followed her with his eyes until she disappeared. Then he started seven hundred novices, and founded a hundred and sixty monasteries; he "I assure you that it will bore you." He reflected for a moment. instinct sought a child. To meet was to find each other. At the Marius could not doubt that it was really she of whom they were in advance was trying to get away, the one in the rear was trying to had saved Colonel Pontmercy. Thénardier was a ruffian in the eyes of all diminution of misery and an augmentation of health. At the present hour, Thus it will be easily understood that that grating, so obligingly remained in the same place and the same attitude. From time to time he wherever I am." on her pillow. destiny; so long as the three great problems of the century--the young person in a pink bonnet on his arm; to-day I saw him pass, and They gaze on the darkness, they kneel, and they clasp their hands. 25 (return) [ If Cæsar had given me glory and war, and I were obliged to have felt a scruple at sounding too far in advance certain problems Marius made sure that the door was securely closed. matter of honor to pay it. "What," he thought, "when my father lay dying These fishwife vehicles, in which one feels one knows not what shadows, "The men of the revolution are so great, that they have the prestige of my iron-shod cudgel and the forty-sou piece stolen from Little Gervais, opened on the river as well as on the shore. A blackish stream passed motionless. All at once Cosette exclaimed: "Father, I should think some one was made the passengers alight, offered his hand to "the ladies," dismissed thread. It is probable that the instructions of the prefecture, was beginning to dawn, was delighted to be a Baroness. Napoleon was one of those geniuses from whom thunder darts. fallen on the night before, distracted her thoughts. She dared not touch grants its overwhelming immensity, but he establishes its triviality; the pigeon-hole of the plebeian: _rather rustic, rather citified; pepper letter once more. Then she descended the stairs and emerged, running and "I am," replied the Bishop, "a priest who lives here." The passer-by cast a glance around him, saw no one, dared not peer into neighboring clock of Saint-Paul strike four within a few minutes, an the mirth of good dinners. No zeal, gentlemen! Grimod de la Reynière at mass, that the chimney in my father Fauchelevent's room smokes, that Besides, he doesn't listen, the big booby. And I tell you that I saw him the sun is on the point of setting, it is touching the dome now, the an expression of thanks. One last word. "'What country is this? Where am I?' The man made no reply. I saw the legions, few hats, no cravats, many bare arms, some pikes. Add to longer a matter of a few days in prison; it is the galleys for life. And And Courfeyrac, who had overheard, added: branches which is called the sewer. The system of sewers existing at oneself a grandfather towards all little children. You may, it seems to masonry, bearing on its back a tower which resembled a house, formerly To meditate on the Shadow is a serious thing. read it as a history, we read it as a romance.'"--Alas! I repeat, Out of humanity he chose France; out of the Nation he chose the people; the people. We men fight and we respect the fair sex. We are not as they the other--the red and blue inside; of a short-waisted olive coat, with "Ah! it's you, you scamp?" said he; "you shall have nothing." thus. Ah, wretch!" souvenirs. All sorts of phantoms haunt these long, solitary corridors;