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Les Miserables — BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN — CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT

Victor Hugo
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  1. BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN — CHAPTER I—M. MYRIEL5 min
  2. BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN — CHAPTER II—M. MYRIEL BECOMES M. WELCOME8 min
  3. BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN — CHAPTER III—A HARD BISHOPRIC FOR A GOOD BISHOP4 min
  4. BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN — CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS14 min
  5. BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN — CHAPTER V—MONSEIGNEUR BIENVENU MADE HIS CASSOCKS LAST TOO LONG5 min
  6. BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN — CHAPTER VI—WHO GUARDED HIS HOUSE FOR HIM10 min
  7. BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN — CHAPTER VII—CRAVATTE6 min
  8. BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN — CHAPTER VIII—PHILOSOPHY AFTER DRINKING7 min
  9. BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN — CHAPTER IX—THE BROTHER AS DEPICTED BY THE SISTER7 min
  10. BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN — CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT22 min
  11. BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN — CHAPTER XI—A RESTRICTION8 min
  12. BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN — CHAPTER XII—THE SOLITUDE OF MONSEIGNEUR WELCOME6 min
  13. BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN — CHAPTER XIII—WHAT HE BELIEVED8 min
  14. BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN — CHAPTER XIV—WHAT HE THOUGHT5 min
  15. BOOK SECOND—THE FALL — CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING20 min
  16. BOOK SECOND—THE FALL — CHAPTER II—PRUDENCE COUNSELLED TO WISDOM.7 min
  17. BOOK SECOND—THE FALL — CHAPTER III—THE HEROISM OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE.10 min
  18. BOOK SECOND—THE FALL — CHAPTER IV—DETAILS CONCERNING THE CHEESE-DAIRIES OF PONTARLIER.7 min
  19. BOOK SECOND—THE FALL — CHAPTER V—TRANQUILLITY3 min
  20. BOOK SECOND—THE FALL — CHAPTER VI—JEAN VALJEAN10 min
  21. BOOK SECOND—THE FALL — CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR14 min
  22. BOOK SECOND—THE FALL — CHAPTER VIII—BILLOWS AND SHADOWS4 min
  23. BOOK SECOND—THE FALL — CHAPTER IX—NEW TROUBLES3 min
  24. BOOK SECOND—THE FALL — CHAPTER X—THE MAN AROUSED6 min
  25. BOOK SECOND—THE FALL — CHAPTER XI—WHAT HE DOES7 min
  26. BOOK SECOND—THE FALL — CHAPTER XII—THE BISHOP WORKS6 min
  27. BOOK SECOND—THE FALL — CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GERVAIS16 min
  28. BOOK THIRD—IN THE YEAR 1817 — CHAPTER I—THE YEAR 181711 min
  29. BOOK THIRD—IN THE YEAR 1817 — CHAPTER II—A DOUBLE QUARTETTE8 min
  30. BOOK THIRD—IN THE YEAR 1817 — CHAPTER III—FOUR AND FOUR7 min
  31. BOOK THIRD—IN THE YEAR 1817 — CHAPTER IV—THOLOMYÈS IS SO MERRY THAT HE SINGS A SPANISH DITTY5 min
  32. BOOK THIRD—IN THE YEAR 1817 — CHAPTER V—AT BOMBARDA’S5 min
  33. BOOK THIRD—IN THE YEAR 1817 — CHAPTER VI—A CHAPTER IN WHICH THEY ADORE EACH OTHER3 min
  34. BOOK THIRD—IN THE YEAR 1817 — CHAPTER VII—THE WISDOM OF THOLOMYÈS10 min
  35. BOOK THIRD—IN THE YEAR 1817 — CHAPTER VIII—THE DEATH OF A HORSE4 min
  36. BOOK THIRD—IN THE YEAR 1817 — CHAPTER IX—A MERRY END TO MIRTH5 min
  37. BOOK FOURTH—TO CONFIDE IS SOMETIMES TO DELIVER INTO A PERSON’S POWER — CHAPTER I—ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER16 min
  38. BOOK FOURTH—TO CONFIDE IS SOMETIMES TO DELIVER INTO A PERSON’S POWER — CHAPTER II—FIRST SKETCH OF TWO UNPREPOSSESSING FIGURES4 min
  39. BOOK FOURTH—TO CONFIDE IS SOMETIMES TO DELIVER INTO A PERSON’S POWER — CHAPTER III—THE LARK5 min
  40. BOOK FIFTH—THE DESCENT — CHAPTER I—THE HISTORY OF A PROGRESS IN BLACK GLASS TRINKETS3 min
  41. BOOK FIFTH—THE DESCENT — CHAPTER II—MADELEINE7 min
  42. BOOK FIFTH—THE DESCENT — CHAPTER III—SUMS DEPOSITED WITH LAFFITTE6 min
  43. BOOK FIFTH—THE DESCENT — CHAPTER IV—M. MADELEINE IN MOURNING4 min
  44. BOOK FIFTH—THE DESCENT — CHAPTER V—VAGUE FLASHES ON THE HORIZON10 min
  45. BOOK FIFTH—THE DESCENT — CHAPTER VI—FATHER FAUCHELEVENT5 min
  46. BOOK FIFTH—THE DESCENT — CHAPTER VII—FAUCHELEVENT BECOMES A GARDENER IN PARIS2 min
  47. BOOK FIFTH—THE DESCENT — CHAPTER VIII—MADAME VICTURNIEN EXPENDS THIRTY FRANCS ON MORALITY5 min
  48. BOOK FIFTH—THE DESCENT — CHAPTER IX—MADAME VICTURNIEN’S SUCCESS5 min
  49. BOOK FIFTH—THE DESCENT — CHAPTER X—RESULT OF THE SUCCESS9 min
  50. BOOK FIFTH—THE DESCENT — CHAPTER XI—CHRISTUS NOS LIBERAVIT2 min
  51. BOOK FIFTH—THE DESCENT — CHAPTER XII—M. BAMATABOIS’S INACTIVITY5 min
  52. BOOK FIFTH—THE DESCENT — CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WITH THE MUNICIPAL POLICE18 min
  53. BOOK SIXTH—JAVERT — CHAPTER I—THE BEGINNING OF REPOSE6 min
  54. BOOK SIXTH—JAVERT — CHAPTER II—HOW JEAN MAY BECOME CHAMP15 min
  55. BOOK SEVENTH—THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR — CHAPTER I—SISTER SIMPLICE6 min
  56. BOOK SEVENTH—THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR — CHAPTER II—THE PERSPICACITY OF MASTER SCAUFFLAIRE8 min
  57. BOOK SEVENTH—THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR — CHAPTER III—A TEMPEST IN A SKULL36 min
  58. BOOK SEVENTH—THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR — CHAPTER IV—FORMS ASSUMED BY SUFFERING DURING SLEEP6 min
  59. BOOK SEVENTH—THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR — CHAPTER V—HINDRANCES19 min
  60. BOOK SEVENTH—THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR — CHAPTER VI—SISTER SIMPLICE PUT TO THE PROOF12 min
  61. BOOK SEVENTH—THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR — CHAPTER VII—THE TRAVELLER ON HIS ARRIVAL TAKES PRECAUTIONS FOR DEPARTURE8 min
  62. BOOK SEVENTH—THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR — CHAPTER VIII—AN ENTRANCE BY FAVOR6 min
  63. BOOK SEVENTH—THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR — CHAPTER IX—A PLACE WHERE CONVICTIONS ARE IN PROCESS OF FORMATION13 min
  64. BOOK SEVENTH—THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR — CHAPTER X—THE SYSTEM OF DENIALS13 min
  65. BOOK SEVENTH—THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR — CHAPTER XI—CHAMPMATHIEU MORE AND MORE ASTONISHED8 min
  66. BOOK EIGHTH—A COUNTER-BLOW — CHAPTER I—IN WHAT MIRROR M. MADELEINE CONTEMPLATES HIS HAIR5 min
  67. BOOK EIGHTH—A COUNTER-BLOW — CHAPTER II—FANTINE HAPPY7 min
  68. BOOK EIGHTH—A COUNTER-BLOW — CHAPTER III—JAVERT SATISFIED7 min
  69. BOOK EIGHTH—A COUNTER-BLOW — CHAPTER IV—AUTHORITY REASSERTS ITS RIGHTS7 min
  70. BOOK EIGHTH—A COUNTER-BLOW — CHAPTER V—A SUITABLE TOMB10 min
  71. BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER I—WHAT IS MET WITH ON THE WAY FROM NIVELLES3 min
  72. BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER II—HOUGOMONT13 min
  73. BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER III—THE EIGHTEENTH OF JUNE, 18155 min
  74. BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER IV—A4 min
  75. BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER V—THE QUID OBSCURUM OF BATTLES6 min
  76. BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER VI—FOUR O’CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON5 min
  77. BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER VII—NAPOLEON IN A GOOD HUMOR10 min
  78. BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER VIII—THE EMPEROR PUTS A QUESTION TO THE GUIDE LACOSTE5 min
  79. BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER IX—THE UNEXPECTED7 min
  80. BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER X—THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN9 min
  81. BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER XI—A BAD GUIDE TO NAPOLEON; A GOOD GUIDE TO BÜLOW3 min
  82. BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER XII—THE GUARD3 min
  83. BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER XIII—THE CATASTROPHE5 min
  84. BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER XIV—THE LAST SQUARE2 min
  85. BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER XV—CAMBRONNE4 min
  86. BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER XVI—QUOT LIBRAS IN DUCE?9 min
  87. BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER XVII—IS WATERLOO TO BE CONSIDERED GOOD?3 min
  88. BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER XVIII—A RECRUDESCENCE OF DIVINE RIGHT5 min
  89. BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER XIX—THE BATTLE-FIELD AT NIGHT11 min
  90. BOOK SECOND—THE SHIP ORION — CHAPTER I—NUMBER 24,601 BECOMES NUMBER 9,4305 min
  91. BOOK SECOND—THE SHIP ORION — CHAPTER II—IN WHICH THE READER WILL PERUSE TWO VERSES, WHICH ARE OF THE DEVIL’S COMPOSITION, POSSIBLY9 min
  92. BOOK SECOND—THE SHIP ORION — CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN PREPARATORY MANIPULATION TO BE THUS BROKEN WITH A BLOW FROM A HAMMER15 min
  93. BOOK THIRD—ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE DEAD WOMAN — CHAPTER I—THE WATER QUESTION AT MONTFERMEIL7 min
  94. BOOK THIRD—ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE DEAD WOMAN — CHAPTER II—TWO COMPLETE PORTRAITS10 min
  95. BOOK THIRD—ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE DEAD WOMAN — CHAPTER III—MEN MUST HAVE WINE, AND HORSES MUST HAVE WATER4 min
  96. BOOK THIRD—ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE DEAD WOMAN — CHAPTER IV—ENTRANCE ON THE SCENE OF A DOLL3 min
  97. BOOK THIRD—ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE DEAD WOMAN — CHAPTER V—THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE10 min
  98. BOOK THIRD—ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE DEAD WOMAN — CHAPTER VI—WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE’S INTELLIGENCE9 min
  99. BOOK THIRD—ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE DEAD WOMAN — CHAPTER VII—COSETTE SIDE BY SIDE WITH THE STRANGER IN THE DARK4 min
  100. BOOK THIRD—ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE DEAD WOMAN — CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE’S HOUSE A POOR MAN WHO MAY BE A RICH MAN29 min
  101. BOOK THIRD—ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE DEAD WOMAN — CHAPTER IX— THÉNARDIER AND HIS MANŒUVRES13 min
  102. BOOK THIRD—ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE DEAD WOMAN — CHAPTER X—HE WHO SEEKS TO BETTER HIMSELF MAY RENDER HIS SITUATION WORSE9 min
  103. BOOK THIRD—ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE DEAD WOMAN — CHAPTER XI—NUMBER 9,430 REAPPEARS, AND COSETTE WINS IT IN THE LOTTERY3 min
  104. BOOK FOURTH—THE GORBEAU HOVEL — CHAPTER I—MASTER GORBEAU11 min
  105. BOOK FOURTH—THE GORBEAU HOVEL — CHAPTER II—A NEST FOR OWL AND A WARBLER3 min
  106. BOOK FOURTH—THE GORBEAU HOVEL — CHAPTER III—TWO MISFORTUNES MAKE ONE PIECE OF GOOD FORTUNE7 min
  107. BOOK FOURTH—THE GORBEAU HOVEL — CHAPTER IV—THE REMARKS OF THE PRINCIPAL TENANT4 min
  108. BOOK FOURTH—THE GORBEAU HOVEL — CHAPTER V—A FIVE-FRANC PIECE FALLS ON THE GROUND AND PRODUCES A TUMULT6 min
  109. BOOK FIFTH—FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK — CHAPTER I—THE ZIGZAGS OF STRATEGY7 min
  110. BOOK FIFTH—FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK — CHAPTER II—IT IS LUCKY THAT THE PONT D’AUSTERLITZ BEARS CARRIAGES3 min
  111. BOOK FIFTH—FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK — CHAPTER III—TO WIT, THE PLAN OF PARIS IN 17276 min
  112. BOOK FIFTH—FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK — CHAPTER IV—THE GROPINGS OF FLIGHT5 min
  113. BOOK FIFTH—FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK — CHAPTER V—WHICH WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE WITH GAS LANTERNS7 min
  114. BOOK FIFTH—FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK — CHAPTER VI—THE BEGINNING OF AN ENIGMA5 min
  115. BOOK FIFTH—FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK — CHAPTER VII—CONTINUATION OF THE ENIGMA4 min
  116. BOOK FIFTH—FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK — CHAPTER VIII—THE ENIGMA BECOMES DOUBLY MYSTERIOUS4 min
  117. BOOK FIFTH—FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK — CHAPTER IX—THE MAN WITH THE BELL6 min
  118. BOOK FIFTH—FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK — CHAPTER X—WHICH EXPLAINS HOW JAVERT GOT ON THE SCENT16 min
  119. BOOK SIXTH—LE PETIT-PICPUS — CHAPTER I—NUMBER 62 RUE PETIT-PICPUS7 min
  120. BOOK SIXTH—LE PETIT-PICPUS — CHAPTER II—THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA12 min
  121. BOOK SIXTH—LE PETIT-PICPUS — CHAPTER III—AUSTERITIES3 min
  122. BOOK SIXTH—LE PETIT-PICPUS — CHAPTER IV—GAYETIES6 min
  123. BOOK SIXTH—LE PETIT-PICPUS — CHAPTER V—DISTRACTIONS10 min
  124. BOOK SIXTH—LE PETIT-PICPUS — CHAPTER VI—THE LITTLE CONVENT5 min
  125. BOOK SIXTH—LE PETIT-PICPUS — CHAPTER VII—SOME SILHOUETTES OF THIS DARKNESS4 min
  126. BOOK SIXTH—LE PETIT-PICPUS — CHAPTER VIII—POST CORDA LAPIDES3 min
  127. BOOK SIXTH—LE PETIT-PICPUS — CHAPTER IX—A CENTURY UNDER A GUIMPE4 min
  128. BOOK SIXTH—LE PETIT-PICPUS — CHAPTER X—ORIGIN OF THE PERPETUAL ADORATION3 min
  129. BOOK SIXTH—LE PETIT-PICPUS — CHAPTER XI—END OF THE PETIT-PICPUS3 min
  130. BOOK SEVENTH—PARENTHESIS — CHAPTER I—THE CONVENT AS AN ABSTRACT IDEA1 min
  131. BOOK SEVENTH—PARENTHESIS — CHAPTER II—THE CONVENT AS AN HISTORICAL FACT5 min
  132. BOOK SEVENTH—PARENTHESIS — CHAPTER III—ON WHAT CONDITIONS ONE CAN RESPECT THE PAST4 min
  133. BOOK SEVENTH—PARENTHESIS — CHAPTER IV—THE CONVENT FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF PRINCIPLES3 min
  134. BOOK SEVENTH—PARENTHESIS — CHAPTER V—PRAYER2 min
  135. BOOK SEVENTH—PARENTHESIS — CHAPTER VI—THE ABSOLUTE GOODNESS OF PRAYER4 min
  136. BOOK SEVENTH—PARENTHESIS — CHAPTER VII—PRECAUTIONS TO BE OBSERVED IN BLAME2 min
  137. BOOK SEVENTH—PARENTHESIS — CHAPTER VIII—FAITH, LAW4 min
  138. BOOK EIGHTH—CEMETERIES TAKE THAT WHICH IS COMMITTED THEM — CHAPTER I—WHICH TREATS OF THE MANNER OF ENTERING A CONVENT14 min
  139. BOOK EIGHTH—CEMETERIES TAKE THAT WHICH IS COMMITTED THEM — CHAPTER II—FAUCHELEVENT IN THE PRESENCE OF A DIFFICULTY4 min
  140. BOOK EIGHTH—CEMETERIES TAKE THAT WHICH IS COMMITTED THEM — CHAPTER III—MOTHER INNOCENTE15 min
  141. BOOK EIGHTH—CEMETERIES TAKE THAT WHICH IS COMMITTED THEM — CHAPTER IV—IN WHICH JEAN VALJEAN HAS QUITE THE AIR OF HAVING READ AUSTIN CASTILLEJO10 min
  142. BOOK EIGHTH—CEMETERIES TAKE THAT WHICH IS COMMITTED THEM — CHAPTER V—IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE DRUNK IN ORDER TO BE IMMORTAL10 min
  143. BOOK EIGHTH—CEMETERIES TAKE THAT WHICH IS COMMITTED THEM — CHAPTER VI—BETWEEN FOUR PLANKS3 min
  144. BOOK EIGHTH—CEMETERIES TAKE THAT WHICH IS COMMITTED THEM — CHAPTER VII—IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE ORIGIN OF THE SAYING: DON’T LOSE THE CARD12 min
  145. BOOK EIGHTH—CEMETERIES TAKE THAT WHICH IS COMMITTED THEM — CHAPTER VIII—A SUCCESSFUL INTERROGATORY5 min
  146. BOOK EIGHTH—CEMETERIES TAKE THAT WHICH IS COMMITTED THEM — CHAPTER IX—CLOISTERED13 min
  147. BOOK FIRST—PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM — CHAPTER I—PARVULUS2 min
  148. BOOK FIRST—PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM — CHAPTER II—SOME OF HIS PARTICULAR CHARACTERISTICS3 min
  149. BOOK FIRST—PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM — CHAPTER III—HE IS AGREEABLE2 min
  150. BOOK FIRST—PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM — CHAPTER IV—HE MAY BE OF USE2 min
  151. BOOK FIRST—PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM — CHAPTER V—HIS FRONTIERS4 min
  152. BOOK FIRST—PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM — CHAPTER VI—A BIT OF HISTORY4 min
  153. BOOK FIRST—PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM — CHAPTER VII—THE GAMIN SHOULD HAVE HIS PLACE IN THE CLASSIFICATIONS OF INDIA4 min
  154. BOOK FIRST—PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM — CHAPTER VIII—IN WHICH THE READER WILL FIND A CHARMING SAYING OF THE LAST KING3 min
  155. BOOK FIRST—PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM — CHAPTER IX—THE OLD SOUL OF GAUL2 min
  156. BOOK FIRST—PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM — CHAPTER X—ECCE PARIS, ECCE HOMO5 min
  157. BOOK FIRST—PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM — CHAPTER XI—TO SCOFF, TO REIGN4 min
  158. BOOK FIRST—PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM — CHAPTER XII—THE FUTURE LATENT IN THE PEOPLE2 min
  159. BOOK FIRST—PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM — CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GAVROCHE5 min
  160. BOOK SECOND—THE GREAT BOURGEOIS — CHAPTER I—NINETY YEARS AND THIRTY-TWO TEETH4 min
  161. BOOK SECOND—THE GREAT BOURGEOIS — CHAPTER II—LIKE MASTER, LIKE HOUSE2 min
  162. BOOK SECOND—THE GREAT BOURGEOIS — CHAPTER III—LUC-ESPRIT2 min
  163. BOOK SECOND—THE GREAT BOURGEOIS — CHAPTER IV—A CENTENARIAN ASPIRANT2 min
  164. BOOK SECOND—THE GREAT BOURGEOIS — CHAPTER V—BASQUE AND NICOLETTE3 min
  165. BOOK SECOND—THE GREAT BOURGEOIS — CHAPTER VI—IN WHICH MAGNON AND HER TWO CHILDREN ARE SEEN4 min
  166. BOOK SECOND—THE GREAT BOURGEOIS — CHAPTER VII—RULE: RECEIVE NO ONE EXCEPT IN THE EVENING1 min
  167. BOOK SECOND—THE GREAT BOURGEOIS — CHAPTER VIII—TWO DO NOT MAKE A PAIR4 min
  168. BOOK THIRD—THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON — CHAPTER I—AN ANCIENT SALON6 min
  169. BOOK THIRD—THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON — CHAPTER II—ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH12 min
  170. BOOK THIRD—THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON — CHAPTER III—REQUIESCANT14 min
  171. BOOK THIRD—THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON — CHAPTER IV—END OF THE BRIGAND6 min
  172. BOOK THIRD—THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON — CHAPTER V—THE UTILITY OF GOING TO MASS, IN ORDER TO BECOME A REVOLUTIONIST3 min
  173. BOOK THIRD—THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON — CHAPTER VI—THE CONSEQUENCES OF HAVING MET A WARDEN12 min
  174. BOOK THIRD—THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON — CHAPTER VII—SOME PETTICOAT8 min
  175. BOOK THIRD—THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON — CHAPTER VIII—MARBLE AGAINST GRANITE9 min
  176. BOOK FOURTH—THE FRIENDS OF THE A B C — CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC24 min
  177. BOOK FOURTH—THE FRIENDS OF THE A B C — CHAPTER II—BLONDEAU’S FUNERAL ORATION BY BOSSUET6 min
  178. BOOK FOURTH—THE FRIENDS OF THE A B C — CHAPTER III—MARIUS’ ASTONISHMENTS4 min
  179. BOOK FOURTH—THE FRIENDS OF THE A B C — CHAPTER IV—THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFÉ MUSAIN13 min
  180. BOOK FOURTH—THE FRIENDS OF THE A B C — CHAPTER V—ENLARGEMENT OF HORIZON7 min
  181. BOOK FOURTH—THE FRIENDS OF THE A B C — CHAPTER VI—RES ANGUSTA4 min
  182. BOOK FIFTH—THE EXCELLENCE OF MISFORTUNE — CHAPTER I—MARIUS INDIGENT4 min
  183. BOOK FIFTH—THE EXCELLENCE OF MISFORTUNE — CHAPTER II—MARIUS POOR6 min
  184. BOOK FIFTH—THE EXCELLENCE OF MISFORTUNE — CHAPTER III—MARIUS GROWN UP9 min
  185. BOOK FIFTH—THE EXCELLENCE OF MISFORTUNE — CHAPTER IV—M. MABEUF8 min
  186. BOOK FIFTH—THE EXCELLENCE OF MISFORTUNE — CHAPTER V—POVERTY A GOOD NEIGHBOR FOR MISERY4 min
  187. BOOK FIFTH—THE EXCELLENCE OF MISFORTUNE — CHAPTER VI—THE SUBSTITUTE8 min
  188. BOOK SIXTH—THE CONJUNCTION OF TWO STARS — CHAPTER I—THE SOBRIQUET: MODE OF FORMATION OF FAMILY NAMES6 min
  189. BOOK SIXTH—THE CONJUNCTION OF TWO STARS — CHAPTER II—LUX FACTA EST4 min
  190. BOOK SIXTH—THE CONJUNCTION OF TWO STARS — CHAPTER III—EFFECT OF THE SPRING2 min
  191. BOOK SIXTH—THE CONJUNCTION OF TWO STARS — CHAPTER IV—BEGINNING OF A GREAT MALADY6 min
  192. BOOK SIXTH—THE CONJUNCTION OF TWO STARS — CHAPTER V—DIVERS CLAPS OF THUNDER FALL ON MA’AM BOUGON2 min
  193. BOOK SIXTH—THE CONJUNCTION OF TWO STARS — CHAPTER VI—TAKEN PRISONER5 min
  194. BOOK SIXTH—THE CONJUNCTION OF TWO STARS — CHAPTER VII—ADVENTURES OF THE LETTER U DELIVERED OVER TO CONJECTURES4 min
  195. BOOK SIXTH—THE CONJUNCTION OF TWO STARS — CHAPTER VIII—THE VETERANS THEMSELVES CAN BE HAPPY3 min
  196. BOOK SIXTH—THE CONJUNCTION OF TWO STARS — CHAPTER IX—ECLIPSE4 min
  197. BOOK SEVENTH—PATRON MINETTE — CHAPTER I—MINES AND MINERS4 min
  198. BOOK SEVENTH—PATRON MINETTE — CHAPTER II—THE LOWEST DEPTHS3 min
  199. BOOK SEVENTH—PATRON MINETTE — CHAPTER III—BABET, GUEULEMER, CLAQUESOUS, AND MONTPARNASSE5 min
  200. BOOK SEVENTH—PATRON MINETTE — CHAPTER IV—COMPOSITION OF THE TROUPE5 min
  201. BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER I—MARIUS, WHILE SEEKING A GIRL IN A BONNET, ENCOUNTERS A MAN IN A CAP4 min
  202. BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER II—TREASURE TROVE3 min
  203. BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER III—QUADRIFRONS7 min
  204. BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER IV—A ROSE IN MISERY12 min
  205. BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER V—A PROVIDENTIAL PEEP-HOLE5 min
  206. BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER VI—THE WILD MAN IN HIS LAIR8 min
  207. BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER VII—STRATEGY AND TACTICS6 min
  208. BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER VIII—THE RAY OF LIGHT IN THE HOVEL4 min
  209. BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER IX—JONDRETTE COMES NEAR WEEPING7 min
  210. BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER X—TARIFF OF LICENSED CABS: TWO FRANCS AN HOUR6 min
  211. BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER XI—OFFERS OF SERVICE FROM MISERY TO WRETCHEDNESS5 min
  212. BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER XII—THE USE MADE OF M. LEBLANC’S FIVE-FRANC PIECE8 min
  213. BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER XIII—SOLUS CUM SOLO, IN LOCO REMOTO, NON COGITABUNTUR ORARE PATER NOSTER5 min
  214. BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER XIV—IN WHICH A POLICE AGENT BESTOWS TWO FISTFULS ON A LAWYER6 min
  215. BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER XV—JONDRETTE MAKES HIS PURCHASES4 min
  216. BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER XVI—IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE WORDS TO AN ENGLISH AIR WHICH WAS IN FASHION IN 18326 min
  217. BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER XVII—THE USE MADE OF MARIUS’ FIVE-FRANC PIECE7 min
  218. BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER XVIII—MARIUS’ TWO CHAIRS FORM A VIS-A-VIS3 min
  219. BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER XIX—OCCUPYING ONE’S SELF WITH OBSCURE DEPTHS8 min
  220. BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER XX—THE TRAP43 min
  221. BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER XXI—ONE SHOULD ALWAYS BEGIN BY ARRESTING THE VICTIMS6 min
  222. BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER XXII—THE LITTLE ONE WHO WAS CRYING IN VOLUME TWO3 min
  223. VOLUME IV SAINT-DENIS — BOOK FIRST—A FEW PAGES OF HISTORY — CHAPTER I—WELL CUT10 min
  224. BOOK FIRST—A FEW PAGES OF HISTORY — CHAPTER II—BADLY SEWED6 min
  225. BOOK FIRST—A FEW PAGES OF HISTORY — CHAPTER III—LOUIS PHILIPPE13 min
  226. BOOK FIRST—A FEW PAGES OF HISTORY — CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION12 min
  227. BOOK FIRST—A FEW PAGES OF HISTORY — CHAPTER V—FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY IGNORES18 min
  228. BOOK FIRST—A FEW PAGES OF HISTORY — CHAPTER VI—ENJOLRAS AND HIS LIEUTENANTS7 min
  229. BOOK SECOND—ÉPONINE — CHAPTER I—THE LARK’S MEADOW11 min
  230. BOOK SECOND—ÉPONINE — CHAPTER II—EMBRYONIC FORMATION OF CRIMES IN THE INCUBATION OF PRISONS8 min
  231. BOOK SECOND—ÉPONINE — CHAPTER III—APPARITION TO FATHER MABEUF7 min
  232. BOOK SECOND—ÉPONINE — CHAPTER IV—AN APPARITION TO MARIUS8 min
  233. BOOK THIRD—THE HOUSE IN THE RUE PLUMET — CHAPTER I—THE HOUSE WITH A SECRET9 min
  234. BOOK THIRD—THE HOUSE IN THE RUE PLUMET — CHAPTER II—JEAN VALJEAN AS A NATIONAL GUARD5 min
  235. BOOK THIRD—THE HOUSE IN THE RUE PLUMET — CHAPTER III—FOLIIS AC FRONDIBUS7 min
  236. BOOK THIRD—THE HOUSE IN THE RUE PLUMET — CHAPTER IV—CHANGE OF GATE9 min
  237. BOOK THIRD—THE HOUSE IN THE RUE PLUMET — CHAPTER V—THE ROSE PERCEIVES THAT IT IS AN ENGINE OF WAR8 min
  238. BOOK THIRD—THE HOUSE IN THE RUE PLUMET — CHAPTER VI—THE BATTLE BEGUN6 min
  239. BOOK THIRD—THE HOUSE IN THE RUE PLUMET — CHAPTER VII—TO ONE SADNESS OPPOSE A SADNESS AND A HALF10 min
  240. BOOK THIRD—THE HOUSE IN THE RUE PLUMET — CHAPTER VIII—THE CHAIN-GANG18 min
  241. BOOK FOURTH—SUCCOR FROM BELOW MAY TURN OUT TO BE SUCCOR FROM ON HIGH — CHAPTER I—A WOUND WITHOUT, HEALING WITHIN4 min
  242. BOOK FOURTH—SUCCOR FROM BELOW MAY TURN OUT TO BE SUCCOR FROM ON HIGH — CHAPTER II—MOTHER PLUTARQUE FINDS NO DIFFICULTY IN EXPLAINING A PHENOMENON14 min
  243. BOOK FIFTH—THE END OF WHICH DOES NOT RESEMBLE THE BEGINNING — CHAPTER I—SOLITUDE AND THE BARRACKS COMBINED3 min
  244. BOOK FIFTH—THE END OF WHICH DOES NOT RESEMBLE THE BEGINNING — CHAPTER II—COSETTE’S APPREHENSIONS6 min
  245. BOOK FIFTH—THE END OF WHICH DOES NOT RESEMBLE THE BEGINNING — CHAPTER III—ENRICHED WITH COMMENTARIES BY TOUSSAINT5 min
  246. BOOK FIFTH—THE END OF WHICH DOES NOT RESEMBLE THE BEGINNING — CHAPTER IV—A HEART BENEATH A STONE6 min
  247. BOOK FIFTH—THE END OF WHICH DOES NOT RESEMBLE THE BEGINNING — CHAPTER V—COSETTE AFTER THE LETTER5 min
  248. BOOK FIFTH—THE END OF WHICH DOES NOT RESEMBLE THE BEGINNING — CHAPTER VI—OLD PEOPLE ARE MADE TO GO OUT OPPORTUNELY6 min
  249. BOOK SIXTH—LITTLE GAVROCHE — CHAPTER I—THE MALICIOUS PLAYFULNESS OF THE WIND6 min
  250. BOOK SIXTH—LITTLE GAVROCHE — CHAPTER II—IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM NAPOLEON THE GREAT36 min
  251. BOOK SIXTH—LITTLE GAVROCHE — CHAPTER III—THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT23 min
  252. BOOK SEVENTH—SLANG — CHAPTER I—ORIGIN13 min
  253. BOOK SEVENTH—SLANG — CHAPTER II—ROOTS15 min
  254. BOOK SEVENTH—SLANG — CHAPTER III—SLANG WHICH WEEPS AND SLANG WHICH LAUGHS8 min
  255. BOOK SEVENTH—SLANG — CHAPTER IV—THE TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE8 min
  256. BOOK EIGHTH—ENCHANTMENTS AND DESOLATIONS — CHAPTER I—FULL LIGHT10 min
  257. BOOK EIGHTH—ENCHANTMENTS AND DESOLATIONS — CHAPTER II—THE BEWILDERMENT OF PERFECT HAPPINESS4 min
  258. BOOK EIGHTH—ENCHANTMENTS AND DESOLATIONS — CHAPTER III—THE BEGINNING OF SHADOW6 min
  259. BOOK EIGHTH—ENCHANTMENTS AND DESOLATIONS — CHAPTER IV—A CAB RUNS IN ENGLISH AND BARKS IN SLANG12 min
  260. BOOK EIGHTH—ENCHANTMENTS AND DESOLATIONS — CHAPTER V—THINGS OF THE NIGHT2 min
  261. BOOK EIGHTH—ENCHANTMENTS AND DESOLATIONS — CHAPTER VI—MARIUS BECOMES PRACTICAL ONCE MORE TO THE EXTENT OF GIVING COSETTE HIS ADDRESS10 min
  262. BOOK EIGHTH—ENCHANTMENTS AND DESOLATIONS — CHAPTER VII—THE OLD HEART AND THE YOUNG HEART IN THE PRESENCE OF EACH OTHER21 min
  263. BOOK NINTH—WHITHER ARE THEY GOING? — CHAPTER I—JEAN VALJEAN3 min
  264. BOOK NINTH—WHITHER ARE THEY GOING? — CHAPTER II—MARIUS5 min
  265. BOOK NINTH—WHITHER ARE THEY GOING? — CHAPTER III—M. MABEUF7 min
  266. BOOK TENTH—THE 5TH OF JUNE, 1832 — CHAPTER I—THE SURFACE OF THE QUESTION6 min
  267. BOOK TENTH—THE 5TH OF JUNE, 1832 — CHAPTER II—THE ROOT OF THE MATTER11 min
  268. BOOK TENTH—THE 5TH OF JUNE, 1832 — CHAPTER III—A BURIAL; AN OCCASION TO BE BORN AGAIN10 min
  269. BOOK TENTH—THE 5TH OF JUNE, 1832 — CHAPTER IV—THE EBULLITIONS OF FORMER DAYS9 min
  270. BOOK TENTH—THE 5TH OF JUNE, 1832 — CHAPTER V—ORIGINALITY OF PARIS5 min
  271. BOOK ELEVENTH—THE ATOM FRATERNIZES WITH THE HURRICANE — CHAPTER I—SOME EXPLANATIONS WITH REGARD TO THE ORIGIN OF GAVROCHE’S POETRY. THE INFLUENCE OF AN ACADEMICIAN ON THIS POETRY4 min
  272. BOOK ELEVENTH—THE ATOM FRATERNIZES WITH THE HURRICANE — CHAPTER II—GAVROCHE ON THE MARCH6 min
  273. BOOK ELEVENTH—THE ATOM FRATERNIZES WITH THE HURRICANE — CHAPTER III—JUST INDIGNATION OF A HAIR-DRESSER3 min
  274. BOOK ELEVENTH—THE ATOM FRATERNIZES WITH THE HURRICANE — CHAPTER IV—THE CHILD IS AMAZED AT THE OLD MAN3 min
  275. BOOK ELEVENTH—THE ATOM FRATERNIZES WITH THE HURRICANE — CHAPTER V—THE OLD MAN3 min
  276. BOOK ELEVENTH—THE ATOM FRATERNIZES WITH THE HURRICANE — CHAPTER VI—RECRUITS3 min
  277. BOOK TWELFTH—CORINTHE — CHAPTER I—HISTORY OF CORINTHE FROM ITS FOUNDATION10 min
  278. BOOK TWELFTH—CORINTHE — CHAPTER II—PRELIMINARY GAYETIES17 min
  279. BOOK TWELFTH—CORINTHE — CHAPTER III—NIGHT BEGINS TO DESCEND UPON GRANTAIRE6 min
  280. BOOK TWELFTH—CORINTHE — CHAPTER IV—AN ATTEMPT TO CONSOLE THE WIDOW HUCHELOUP7 min
  281. BOOK TWELFTH—CORINTHE — CHAPTER V—PREPARATIONS4 min
  282. BOOK TWELFTH—CORINTHE — CHAPTER VI—WAITING4 min
  283. BOOK TWELFTH—CORINTHE — CHAPTER VII—THE MAN RECRUITED IN THE RUE DES BILLETTES6 min
  284. BOOK TWELFTH—CORINTHE — CHAPTER VIII—MANY INTERROGATION POINTS WITH REGARD TO A CERTAIN LE CABUC WHOSE NAME MAY NOT HAVE BEEN LE CABUC8 min
  285. BOOK THIRTEENTH—MARIUS ENTERS THE SHADOW — CHAPTER I—FROM THE RUE PLUMET TO THE QUARTIER SAINT-DENIS5 min
  286. BOOK THIRTEENTH—MARIUS ENTERS THE SHADOW — CHAPTER II—AN OWL’S VIEW OF PARIS5 min
  287. BOOK THIRTEENTH—MARIUS ENTERS THE SHADOW — CHAPTER III—THE EXTREME EDGE11 min
  288. BOOK FOURTEENTH—THE GRANDEURS OF DESPAIR — CHAPTER I—THE FLAG: ACT FIRST5 min
  289. BOOK FOURTEENTH—THE GRANDEURS OF DESPAIR — CHAPTER II—THE FLAG: ACT SECOND5 min
  290. BOOK FOURTEENTH—THE GRANDEURS OF DESPAIR — CHAPTER III—GAVROCHE WOULD HAVE DONE BETTER TO ACCEPT ENJOLRAS’ CARBINE2 min
  291. BOOK FOURTEENTH—THE GRANDEURS OF DESPAIR — CHAPTER IV—THE BARREL OF POWDER5 min
  292. BOOK FOURTEENTH—THE GRANDEURS OF DESPAIR — CHAPTER V—END OF THE VERSES OF JEAN PROUVAIRE3 min
  293. BOOK FOURTEENTH—THE GRANDEURS OF DESPAIR — CHAPTER VI—THE AGONY OF DEATH AFTER THE AGONY OF LIFE7 min
  294. BOOK FOURTEENTH—THE GRANDEURS OF DESPAIR — CHAPTER VII—GAVROCHE AS A PROFOUND CALCULATOR OF DISTANCES7 min
  295. BOOK FIFTEENTH—THE RUE DE L’HOMME ARMÉ — CHAPTER I—A DRINKER IS A BABBLER16 min
  296. BOOK FIFTEENTH—THE RUE DE L’HOMME ARMÉ — CHAPTER II—THE STREET URCHIN AN ENEMY OF LIGHT7 min
  297. BOOK FIFTEENTH—THE RUE DE L’HOMME ARMÉ — CHAPTER III—WHILE COSETTE AND TOUSSAINT ARE ASLEEP3 min
  298. BOOK FIFTEENTH—THE RUE DE L’HOMME ARMÉ — CHAPTER IV—GAVROCHE’S EXCESS OF ZEAL8 min
  299. BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER I—THE CHARYBDIS OF THE FAUBOURG SAINT ANTOINE AND THE SCYLLA OF THE FAUBOURG DU TEMPLE13 min
  300. BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER II—WHAT IS TO BE DONE IN THE ABYSS IF ONE DOES NOT CONVERSE7 min
  301. BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER III—LIGHT AND SHADOW3 min
  302. BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER IV—MINUS FIVE, PLUS ONE11 min
  303. BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER V—THE HORIZON WHICH ONE BEHOLDS FROM THE SUMMIT OF A BARRICADE8 min
  304. BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER VI—MARIUS HAGGARD, JAVERT LACONIC4 min
  305. BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER VII—THE SITUATION BECOMES AGGRAVATED7 min
  306. BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER VIII—THE ARTILLERY-MEN COMPEL PEOPLE TO TAKE THEM SERIOUSLY5 min
  307. BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER IX—EMPLOYMENT OF THE OLD TALENTS OF A POACHER AND THAT INFALLIBLE MARKSMANSHIP WHICH INFLUENCED THE CONDEMNATION OF 17963 min
  308. BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER X—DAWN7 min
  309. BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER XI—THE SHOT WHICH MISSES NOTHING AND KILLS NO ONE2 min
  310. BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER XII—DISORDER A PARTISAN OF ORDER6 min
  311. BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER XIII—PASSING GLEAMS4 min
  312. BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER XIV—WHEREIN WILL APPEAR THE NAME OF ENJOLRAS’ MISTRESS4 min
  313. BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER XV—GAVROCHE OUTSIDE5 min
  314. BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER XVI—HOW FROM A BROTHER ONE BECOMES A FATHER15 min
  315. BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER XVII—MORTUUS PATER FILIUM MORITURUM EXPECTAT3 min
  316. BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER XVIII—THE VULTURE BECOME PREY6 min
  317. BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER XIX—JEAN VALJEAN TAKES HIS REVENGE4 min
  318. BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER XX—THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE NOT IN THE WRONG16 min
  319. BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER XXI—THE HEROES8 min
  320. BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER XXII—FOOT TO FOOT7 min
  321. BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER XXIII—ORESTES FASTING AND PYLADES DRUNK6 min
  322. BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER XXIV—PRISONER5 min
  323. BOOK SECOND—THE INTESTINE OF THE LEVIATHAN — CHAPTER I—THE LAND IMPOVERISHED BY THE SEA7 min
  324. BOOK SECOND—THE INTESTINE OF THE LEVIATHAN — CHAPTER II—ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE SEWER6 min
  325. BOOK SECOND—THE INTESTINE OF THE LEVIATHAN — CHAPTER III—BRUNESEAU6 min
  326. BOOK SECOND—THE INTESTINE OF THE LEVIATHAN — CHAPTER IV7 min
  327. BOOK SECOND—THE INTESTINE OF THE LEVIATHAN — CHAPTER V—PRESENT PROGRESS3 min
  328. BOOK SECOND—THE INTESTINE OF THE LEVIATHAN — CHAPTER VI—FUTURE PROGRESS9 min
  329. BOOK THIRD—MUD BUT THE SOUL — CHAPTER I—THE SEWER AND ITS SURPRISES12 min
  330. BOOK THIRD—MUD BUT THE SOUL — CHAPTER II—EXPLANATION4 min
  331. BOOK THIRD—MUD BUT THE SOUL — CHAPTER III—THE “SPUN” MAN8 min
  332. BOOK THIRD—MUD BUT THE SOUL — CHAPTER IV—HE ALSO BEARS HIS CROSS7 min
  333. BOOK THIRD—MUD BUT THE SOUL — CHAPTER V—IN THE CASE OF SAND AS IN THAT OF WOMAN, THERE IS A FINENESS WHICH IS TREACHEROUS9 min
  334. BOOK THIRD—MUD BUT THE SOUL — CHAPTER VI—THE FONTIS4 min
  335. BOOK THIRD—MUD BUT THE SOUL — CHAPTER VII—ONE SOMETIMES RUNS AGROUND WHEN ONE FANCIES THAT ONE IS DISEMBARKING5 min
  336. BOOK THIRD—MUD BUT THE SOUL — CHAPTER VIII—THE TORN COAT-TAIL9 min
  337. BOOK THIRD—MUD BUT THE SOUL — CHAPTER IX—MARIUS PRODUCES ON SOME ONE WHO IS A JUDGE OF THE MATTER, THE EFFECT OF BEING DEAD8 min
  338. BOOK THIRD—MUD BUT THE SOUL — CHAPTER X—RETURN OF THE SON WHO WAS PRODIGAL OF HIS LIFE3 min
  339. BOOK THIRD—MUD BUT THE SOUL — CHAPTER XI—CONCUSSION IN THE ABSOLUTE3 min
  340. BOOK THIRD—MUD BUT THE SOUL — CHAPTER XII—THE GRANDFATHER11 min
  341. BOOK FOURTH—JAVERT DERAILED — CHAPTER I22 min
  342. BOOK FIFTH—GRANDSON AND GRANDFATHER — CHAPTER I—IN WHICH THE TREE WITH THE ZINC PLASTER APPEARS AGAIN6 min
  343. BOOK FIFTH—GRANDSON AND GRANDFATHER — CHAPTER II—MARIUS, EMERGING FROM CIVIL WAR, MAKES READY FOR DOMESTIC WAR9 min
  344. BOOK FIFTH—GRANDSON AND GRANDFATHER — CHAPTER III—MARIUS ATTACKED6 min
  345. BOOK FIFTH—GRANDSON AND GRANDFATHER — CHAPTER IV—MADEMOISELLE GILLENORMAND ENDS BY NO LONGER THINKING IT A BAD THING THAT M. FAUCHELEVENT SHOULD HAVE ENTERED WITH SOMETHING UNDER HIS ARM9 min
  346. BOOK FIFTH—GRANDSON AND GRANDFATHER — CHAPTER V—DEPOSIT YOUR MONEY IN A FOREST RATHER THAN WITH A NOTARY3 min
  347. BOOK FIFTH—GRANDSON AND GRANDFATHER — CHAPTER VI—THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER HIS OWN FASHION, TO RENDER COSETTE HAPPY15 min
  348. BOOK FIFTH—GRANDSON AND GRANDFATHER — CHAPTER VII—THE EFFECTS OF DREAMS MINGLED WITH HAPPINESS5 min
  349. BOOK FIFTH—GRANDSON AND GRANDFATHER — CHAPTER VIII—TWO MEN IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND8 min
  350. BOOK SIXTH—THE SLEEPLESS NIGHT — CHAPTER I—THE 16TH OF FEBRUARY, 183315 min
  351. BOOK SIXTH—THE SLEEPLESS NIGHT — CHAPTER II—JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING17 min
  352. BOOK SIXTH—THE SLEEPLESS NIGHT — CHAPTER III—THE INSEPARABLE5 min
  353. BOOK SIXTH—THE SLEEPLESS NIGHT — CHAPTER IV—THE IMMORTAL LIVER 688 min
  354. BOOK SEVENTH—THE LAST DRAUGHT FROM THE CUP — CHAPTER I—THE SEVENTH CIRCLE AND THE EIGHTH HEAVEN32 min
  355. BOOK SEVENTH—THE LAST DRAUGHT FROM THE CUP — CHAPTER II—THE OBSCURITIES WHICH A REVELATION CAN CONTAIN15 min
  356. BOOK EIGHTH—FADING AWAY OF THE TWILIGHT — CHAPTER I—THE LOWER CHAMBER8 min
  357. BOOK EIGHTH—FADING AWAY OF THE TWILIGHT — CHAPTER II—ANOTHER STEP BACKWARDS5 min
  358. BOOK EIGHTH—FADING AWAY OF THE TWILIGHT — CHAPTER III—THEY RECALL THE GARDEN OF THE RUE PLUMET8 min
  359. BOOK EIGHTH—FADING AWAY OF THE TWILIGHT — CHAPTER IV—ATTRACTION AND EXTINCTION4 min
  360. BOOK NINTH—SUPREME SHADOW, SUPREME DAWN — CHAPTER I—PITY FOR THE UNHAPPY, BUT INDULGENCE FOR THE HAPPY4 min
  361. BOOK NINTH—SUPREME SHADOW, SUPREME DAWN — CHAPTER II—LAST FLICKERINGS OF A LAMP WITHOUT OIL3 min
  362. BOOK NINTH—SUPREME SHADOW, SUPREME DAWN — CHAPTER III—A PEN IS HEAVY TO THE MAN WHO LIFTED THE FAUCHELEVENT’S CART6 min
  363. BOOK NINTH—SUPREME SHADOW, SUPREME DAWN — CHAPTER IV—A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN WHITENING32 min
  364. BOOK NINTH—SUPREME SHADOW, SUPREME DAWN — CHAPTER V—A NIGHT BEHIND WHICH THERE IS DAY18 min
  365. BOOK NINTH—SUPREME SHADOW, SUPREME DAWN — CHAPTER VI—THE GRASS COVERS AND THE RAIN EFFACES2 min
  366. BOOK NINTH—SUPREME SHADOW, SUPREME DAWN — LETTER TO M. DAELLI6 min
  367. BOOK NINTH—SUPREME SHADOW, SUPREME DAWN — FOOTNOTES:9 min

Les Miserables · Victor Hugo

BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN — CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT

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At an epoch a little later than the date of the letter cited in the preceding pages, he did a thing which, if the whole town was to be believed, was even more hazardous than his trip across the mountains infested with bandits.

In the country near D—— a man lived quite alone. This man, we will state at once, was a former member of the Convention. His name was G——

Member of the Convention, G—— was mentioned with a sort of horror in the little world of D—— A member of the Convention—can you imagine such a thing? That existed from the time when people called each other thou, and when they said “citizen.” This man was almost a monster. He had not voted for the death of the king, but almost. He was a quasi-regicide. He had been a terrible man. How did it happen that such a man had not been brought before a provost’s court, on the return of the legitimate princes? They need not have cut off his head, if you please; clemency must be exercised, agreed; but a good banishment for life. An example, in short, etc. Besides, he was an atheist, like all the rest of those people. Gossip of the geese about the vulture.

Was G—— a vulture after all? Yes; if he were to be judged by the element of ferocity in this solitude of his. As he had not voted for the death of the king, he had not been included in the decrees of exile, and had been able to remain in France.

He dwelt at a distance of three-quarters of an hour from the city, far from any hamlet, far from any road, in some hidden turn of a very wild valley, no one knew exactly where. He had there, it was said, a sort of field, a hole, a lair. There were no neighbors, not even passers-by. Since he had dwelt in that valley, the path which led thither had disappeared under a growth of grass. The locality was spoken of as though it had been the dwelling of a hangman.

Nevertheless, the Bishop meditated on the subject, and from time to time he gazed at the horizon at a point where a clump of trees marked the valley of the former member of the Convention, and he said, “There is a soul yonder which is lonely.”

And he added, deep in his own mind, “I owe him a visit.”

But, let us avow it, this idea, which seemed natural at the first blush, appeared to him after a moment’s reflection, as strange, impossible, and almost repulsive. For, at bottom, he shared the general impression, and the old member of the Convention inspired him, without his being clearly conscious of the fact himself, with that sentiment which borders on hate, and which is so well expressed by the word estrangement.

Still, should the scab of the sheep cause the shepherd to recoil? No. But what a sheep!

The good Bishop was perplexed. Sometimes he set out in that direction; then he returned.

Finally, the rumor one day spread through the town that a sort of young shepherd, who served the member of the Convention in his hovel, had come in quest of a doctor; that the old wretch was dying, that paralysis was gaining on him, and that he would not live over night.—“Thank God!” some added.

The Bishop took his staff, put on his cloak, on account of his too threadbare cassock, as we have mentioned, and because of the evening breeze which was sure to rise soon, and set out.

The sun was setting, and had almost touched the horizon when the Bishop arrived at the excommunicated spot. With a certain beating of the heart, he recognized the fact that he was near the lair. He strode over a ditch, leaped a hedge, made his way through a fence of dead boughs, entered a neglected paddock, took a few steps with a good deal of boldness, and suddenly, at the extremity of the waste land, and behind lofty brambles, he caught sight of the cavern.

It was a very low hut, poor, small, and clean, with a vine nailed against the outside.

Near the door, in an old wheel-chair, the armchair of the peasants, there was a white-haired man, smiling at the sun.

Near the seated man stood a young boy, the shepherd lad. He was offering the old man a jar of milk.

While the Bishop was watching him, the old man spoke: “Thank you,” he said, “I need nothing.” And his smile quitted the sun to rest upon the child.

The Bishop stepped forward. At the sound which he made in walking, the old man turned his head, and his face expressed the sum total of the surprise which a man can still feel after a long life.

“This is the first time since I have been here,” said he, “that any one has entered here. Who are you, sir?”

The Bishop answered:—

“My name is Bienvenu Myriel.”

“Bienvenu Myriel? I have heard that name. Are you the man whom the people call Monseigneur Welcome?”

“I am.”

The old man resumed with a half-smile

“In that case, you are my bishop?”

“Something of that sort.”

“Enter, sir.”

The member of the Convention extended his hand to the Bishop, but the Bishop did not take it. The Bishop confined himself to the remark:—

“I am pleased to see that I have been misinformed. You certainly do not seem to me to be ill.”

“Monsieur,” replied the old man, “I am going to recover.”

He paused, and then said:—

“I shall die three hours hence.”

Then he continued:—

“I am something of a doctor; I know in what fashion the last hour draws on. Yesterday, only my feet were cold; to-day, the chill has ascended to my knees; now I feel it mounting to my waist; when it reaches the heart, I shall stop. The sun is beautiful, is it not? I had myself wheeled out here to take a last look at things. You can talk to me; it does not fatigue me. You have done well to come and look at a man who is on the point of death. It is well that there should be witnesses at that moment. One has one’s caprices; I should have liked to last until the dawn, but I know that I shall hardly live three hours. It will be night then. What does it matter, after all? Dying is a simple affair. One has no need of the light for that. So be it. I shall die by starlight.”

The old man turned to the shepherd lad:—

“Go to thy bed; thou wert awake all last night; thou art tired.”

The child entered the hut.

The old man followed him with his eyes, and added, as though speaking to himself:—

“I shall die while he sleeps. The two slumbers may be good neighbors.”

The Bishop was not touched as it seems that he should have been. He did not think he discerned God in this manner of dying; let us say the whole, for these petty contradictions of great hearts must be indicated like the rest: he, who on occasion, was so fond of laughing at “His Grace,” was rather shocked at not being addressed as Monseigneur, and he was almost tempted to retort “citizen.” He was assailed by a fancy for peevish familiarity, common enough to doctors and priests, but which was not habitual with him. This man, after all, this member of the Convention, this representative of the people, had been one of the powerful ones of the earth; for the first time in his life, probably, the Bishop felt in a mood to be severe.

Meanwhile, the member of the Convention had been surveying him with a modest cordiality, in which one could have distinguished, possibly, that humility which is so fitting when one is on the verge of returning to dust.

The Bishop, on his side, although he generally restrained his curiosity, which, in his opinion, bordered on a fault, could not refrain from examining the member of the Convention with an attention which, as it did not have its course in sympathy, would have served his conscience as a matter of reproach, in connection with any other man. A member of the Convention produced on him somewhat the effect of being outside the pale of the law, even of the law of charity. G——, calm, his body almost upright, his voice vibrating, was one of those octogenarians who form the subject of astonishment to the physiologist. The Revolution had many of these men, proportioned to the epoch. In this old man one was conscious of a man put to the proof. Though so near to his end, he preserved all the gestures of health. In his clear glance, in his firm tone, in the robust movement of his shoulders, there was something calculated to disconcert death. Azrael, the Mohammedan angel of the sepulchre, would have turned back, and thought that he had mistaken the door. G—— seemed to be dying because he willed it so. There was freedom in his agony. His legs alone were motionless. It was there that the shadows held him fast. His feet were cold and dead, but his head survived with all the power of life, and seemed full of light. G——, at this solemn moment, resembled the king in that tale of the Orient who was flesh above and marble below.

There was a stone there. The Bishop sat down. The exordium was abrupt.

“I congratulate you,” said he, in the tone which one uses for a reprimand. “You did not vote for the death of the king, after all.”

The old member of the Convention did not appear to notice the bitter meaning underlying the words “after all.” He replied. The smile had quite disappeared from his face.

“Do not congratulate me too much, sir. I did vote for the death of the tyrant.”

It was the tone of austerity answering the tone of severity.

“What do you mean to say?” resumed the Bishop.

“I mean to say that man has a tyrant,—ignorance. I voted for the death of that tyrant. That tyrant engendered royalty, which is authority falsely understood, while science is authority rightly understood. Man should be governed only by science.”

“And conscience,” added the Bishop.

“It is the same thing. Conscience is the quantity of innate science which we have within us.”

Monseigneur Bienvenu listened in some astonishment to this language, which was very new to him.

The member of the Convention resumed:—

“So far as Louis XVI. was concerned, I said ‘no.’ I did not think that I had the right to kill a man; but I felt it my duty to exterminate evil. I voted the end of the tyrant, that is to say, the end of prostitution for woman, the end of slavery for man, the end of night for the child. In voting for the Republic, I voted for that. I voted for fraternity, concord, the dawn. I have aided in the overthrow of prejudices and errors. The crumbling away of prejudices and errors causes light. We have caused the fall of the old world, and the old world, that vase of miseries, has become, through its upsetting upon the human race, an urn of joy.”

“Mixed joy,” said the Bishop.

“You may say troubled joy, and to-day, after that fatal return of the past, which is called 1814, joy which has disappeared! Alas! The work was incomplete, I admit: we demolished the ancient regime in deeds; we were not able to suppress it entirely in ideas. To destroy abuses is not sufficient; customs must be modified. The mill is there no longer; the wind is still there.”

“You have demolished. It may be of use to demolish, but I distrust a demolition complicated with wrath.”

“Right has its wrath, Bishop; and the wrath of right is an element of progress. In any case, and in spite of whatever may be said, the French Revolution is the most important step of the human race since the advent of Christ. Incomplete, it may be, but sublime. It set free all the unknown social quantities; it softened spirits, it calmed, appeased, enlightened; it caused the waves of civilization to flow over the earth. It was a good thing. The French Revolution is the consecration of humanity.”

The Bishop could not refrain from murmuring:—

“Yes? ’93!”

The member of the Convention straightened himself up in his chair with an almost lugubrious solemnity, and exclaimed, so far as a dying man is capable of exclamation:—

“Ah, there you go; ’93! I was expecting that word. A cloud had been forming for the space of fifteen hundred years; at the end of fifteen hundred years it burst. You are putting the thunderbolt on its trial.”

The Bishop felt, without, perhaps, confessing it, that something within him had suffered extinction. Nevertheless, he put a good face on the matter. He replied:—

“The judge speaks in the name of justice; the priest speaks in the name of pity, which is nothing but a more lofty justice. A thunderbolt should commit no error.” And he added, regarding the member of the Convention steadily the while, “Louis XVII.?”

The conventionary stretched forth his hand and grasped the Bishop’s arm.

“Louis XVII.! let us see. For whom do you mourn? is it for the innocent child? very good; in that case I mourn with you. Is it for the royal child? I demand time for reflection. To me, the brother of Cartouche, an innocent child who was hung up by the armpits in the Place de Grève, until death ensued, for the sole crime of having been the brother of Cartouche, is no less painful than the grandson of Louis XV., an innocent child, martyred in the tower of the Temple, for the sole crime of having been grandson of Louis XV.”

“Monsieur,” said the Bishop, “I like not this conjunction of names.”

“Cartouche? Louis XV.? To which of the two do you object?”

A momentary silence ensued. The Bishop almost regretted having come, and yet he felt vaguely and strangely shaken.

The conventionary resumed:—

“Ah, Monsieur Priest, you love not the crudities of the true. Christ loved them. He seized a rod and cleared out the Temple. His scourge, full of lightnings, was a harsh speaker of truths. When he cried, ‘Sinite parvulos,’ he made no distinction between the little children. It would not have embarrassed him to bring together the Dauphin of Barabbas and the Dauphin of Herod. Innocence, Monsieur, is its own crown. Innocence has no need to be a highness. It is as august in rags as in fleurs de lys.”

“That is true,” said the Bishop in a low voice.

“I persist,” continued the conventionary G—— “You have mentioned Louis XVII. to me. Let us come to an understanding. Shall we weep for all the innocent, all martyrs, all children, the lowly as well as the exalted? I agree to that. But in that case, as I have told you, we must go back further than ’93, and our tears must begin before Louis XVII. I will weep with you over the children of kings, provided that you will weep with me over the children of the people.”

“I weep for all,” said the Bishop.

“Equally!” exclaimed conventionary G——; “and if the balance must incline, let it be on the side of the people. They have been suffering longer.”

Another silence ensued. The conventionary was the first to break it. He raised himself on one elbow, took a bit of his cheek between his thumb and his forefinger, as one does mechanically when one interrogates and judges, and appealed to the Bishop with a gaze full of all the forces of the death agony. It was almost an explosion.

“Yes, sir, the people have been suffering a long while. And hold! that is not all, either; why have you just questioned me and talked to me about Louis XVII.? I know you not. Ever since I have been in these parts I have dwelt in this enclosure alone, never setting foot outside, and seeing no one but that child who helps me. Your name has reached me in a confused manner, it is true, and very badly pronounced, I must admit; but that signifies nothing: clever men have so many ways of imposing on that honest goodman, the people. By the way, I did not hear the sound of your carriage; you have left it yonder, behind the coppice at the fork of the roads, no doubt. I do not know you, I tell you. You have told me that you are the Bishop; but that affords me no information as to your moral personality. In short, I repeat my question. Who are you? You are a bishop; that is to say, a prince of the church, one of those gilded men with heraldic bearings and revenues, who have vast prebends,—the bishopric of D—— fifteen thousand francs settled income, ten thousand in perquisites; total, twenty-five thousand francs,—who have kitchens, who have liveries, who make good cheer, who eat moor-hens on Friday, who strut about, a lackey before, a lackey behind, in a gala coach, and who have palaces, and who roll in their carriages in the name of Jesus Christ who went barefoot! You are a prelate,—revenues, palace, horses, servants, good table, all the sensualities of life; you have this like the rest, and like the rest, you enjoy it; it is well; but this says either too much or too little; this does not enlighten me upon the intrinsic and essential value of the man who comes with the probable intention of bringing wisdom to me. To whom do I speak? Who are you?”

The Bishop hung his head and replied, “Vermis sum—I am a worm.”

“A worm of the earth in a carriage?” growled the conventionary.

It was the conventionary’s turn to be arrogant, and the Bishop’s to be humble.

The Bishop resumed mildly:—

“So be it, sir. But explain to me how my carriage, which is a few paces off behind the trees yonder, how my good table and the moor-hens which I eat on Friday, how my twenty-five thousand francs income, how my palace and my lackeys prove that clemency is not a duty, and that ’93 was not inexorable.”

The conventionary passed his hand across his brow, as though to sweep away a cloud.

“Before replying to you,” he said, “I beseech you to pardon me. I have just committed a wrong, sir. You are at my house, you are my guest, I owe you courtesy. You discuss my ideas, and it becomes me to confine myself to combating your arguments. Your riches and your pleasures are advantages which I hold over you in the debate; but good taste dictates that I shall not make use of them. I promise you to make no use of them in the future.”

“I thank you,” said the Bishop.

G—— resumed.

“Let us return to the explanation which you have asked of me. Where were we? What were you saying to me? That ’93 was inexorable?”

“Inexorable; yes,” said the Bishop. “What think you of Marat clapping his hands at the guillotine?”

“What think you of Bossuet chanting the Te Deum over the dragonnades?”

The retort was a harsh one, but it attained its mark with the directness of a point of steel. The Bishop quivered under it; no reply occurred to him; but he was offended by this mode of alluding to Bossuet. The best of minds will have their fetiches, and they sometimes feel vaguely wounded by the want of respect of logic.

The conventionary began to pant; the asthma of the agony which is mingled with the last breaths interrupted his voice; still, there was a perfect lucidity of soul in his eyes. He went on:—

“Let me say a few words more in this and that direction; I am willing. Apart from the Revolution, which, taken as a whole, is an immense human affirmation, ’93 is, alas! a rejoinder. You think it inexorable, sir; but what of the whole monarchy, sir? Carrier is a bandit; but what name do you give to Montrevel? Fouquier-Tainville is a rascal; but what is your opinion as to Lamoignon-Bâville? Maillard is terrible; but Saulx-Tavannes, if you please? Duchêne senior is ferocious; but what epithet will you allow me for the elder Letellier? Jourdan-Coupe-Tetê is a monster; but not so great a one as M. the Marquis de Louvois. Sir, sir, I am sorry for Marie Antoinette, archduchess and queen; but I am also sorry for that poor Huguenot woman, who, in 1685, under Louis the Great, sir, while with a nursing infant, was bound, naked to the waist, to a stake, and the child kept at a distance; her breast swelled with milk and her heart with anguish; the little one, hungry and pale, beheld that breast and cried and agonized; the executioner said to the woman, a mother and a nurse, ‘Abjure!’ giving her her choice between the death of her infant and the death of her conscience. What say you to that torture of Tantalus as applied to a mother? Bear this well in mind sir: the French Revolution had its reasons for existence; its wrath will be absolved by the future; its result is the world made better. From its most terrible blows there comes forth a caress for the human race. I abridge, I stop, I have too much the advantage; moreover, I am dying.”

And ceasing to gaze at the Bishop, the conventionary concluded his thoughts in these tranquil words:—

“Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, this fact is recognized,—that the human race has been treated harshly, but that it has progressed.”

The conventionary doubted not that he had successively conquered all the inmost intrenchments of the Bishop. One remained, however, and from this intrenchment, the last resource of Monseigneur Bienvenu’s resistance, came forth this reply, wherein appeared nearly all the harshness of the beginning:—

“Progress should believe in God. Good cannot have an impious servitor. He who is an atheist is but a bad leader for the human race.”

The former representative of the people made no reply. He was seized with a fit of trembling. He looked towards heaven, and in his glance a tear gathered slowly. When the eyelid was full, the tear trickled down his livid cheek, and he said, almost in a stammer, quite low, and to himself, while his eyes were plunged in the depths:—

“O thou! O ideal! Thou alone existest!”

The Bishop experienced an indescribable shock.

After a pause, the old man raised a finger heavenward and said:—

“The infinite is. He is there. If the infinite had no person, person would be without limit; it would not be infinite; in other words, it would not exist. There is, then, an I. That I of the infinite is God.”

The dying man had pronounced these last words in a loud voice, and with the shiver of ecstasy, as though he beheld some one. When he had spoken, his eyes closed. The effort had exhausted him. It was evident that he had just lived through in a moment the few hours which had been left to him. That which he had said brought him nearer to him who is in death. The supreme moment was approaching.

The Bishop understood this; time pressed; it was as a priest that he had come: from extreme coldness he had passed by degrees to extreme emotion; he gazed at those closed eyes, he took that wrinkled, aged and ice-cold hand in his, and bent over the dying man.

“This hour is the hour of God. Do you not think that it would be regrettable if we had met in vain?”

The conventionary opened his eyes again. A gravity mingled with gloom was imprinted on his countenance.

“Bishop,” said he, with a slowness which probably arose more from his dignity of soul than from the failing of his strength, “I have passed my life in meditation, study, and contemplation. I was sixty years of age when my country called me and commanded me to concern myself with its affairs. I obeyed. Abuses existed, I combated them; tyrannies existed, I destroyed them; rights and principles existed, I proclaimed and confessed them. Our territory was invaded, I defended it; France was menaced, I offered my breast. I was not rich; I am poor. I have been one of the masters of the state; the vaults of the treasury were encumbered with specie to such a degree that we were forced to shore up the walls, which were on the point of bursting beneath the weight of gold and silver; I dined in Dead Tree Street, at twenty-two sous. I have succored the oppressed, I have comforted the suffering. I tore the cloth from the altar, it is true; but it was to bind up the wounds of my country. I have always upheld the march forward of the human race, forward towards the light, and I have sometimes resisted progress without pity. I have, when the occasion offered, protected my own adversaries, men of your profession. And there is at Peteghem, in Flanders, at the very spot where the Merovingian kings had their summer palace, a convent of Urbanists, the Abbey of Sainte Claire en Beaulieu, which I saved in 1793. I have done my duty according to my powers, and all the good that I was able. After which, I was hunted down, pursued, persecuted, blackened, jeered at, scorned, cursed, proscribed. For many years past, I with my white hair have been conscious that many people think they have the right to despise me; to the poor ignorant masses I present the visage of one damned. And I accept this isolation of hatred, without hating any one myself. Now I am eighty-six years old; I am on the point of death. What is it that you have come to ask of me?”

“Your blessing,” said the Bishop.

And he knelt down.

When the Bishop raised his head again, the face of the conventionary had become august. He had just expired.

The Bishop returned home, deeply absorbed in thoughts which cannot be known to us. He passed the whole night in prayer. On the following morning some bold and curious persons attempted to speak to him about member of the Convention G——; he contented himself with pointing heavenward.

From that moment he redoubled his tenderness and brotherly feeling towards all children and sufferers.

Any allusion to “that old wretch of a G——” caused him to fall into a singular preoccupation. No one could say that the passage of that soul before his, and the reflection of that grand conscience upon his, did not count for something in his approach to perfection.

This “pastoral visit” naturally furnished an occasion for a murmur of comment in all the little local coteries.

“Was the bedside of such a dying man as that the proper place for a bishop? There was evidently no conversion to be expected. All those revolutionists are backsliders. Then why go there? What was there to be seen there? He must have been very curious indeed to see a soul carried off by the devil.”

One day a dowager of the impertinent variety who thinks herself spiritual, addressed this sally to him, “Monseigneur, people are inquiring when Your Greatness will receive the red cap!”—“Oh! oh! that’s a coarse color,” replied the Bishop. “It is lucky that those who despise it in a cap revere it in a hat.”

Contents

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Les Miserables

Victor Hugo

  1. BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN — CHAPTER I—M. MYRIEL5 min
  2. BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN — CHAPTER II—M. MYRIEL BECOMES M. WELCOME8 min
  3. BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN — CHAPTER III—A HARD BISHOPRIC FOR A GOOD BISHOP4 min
  4. BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN — CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS14 min
  5. BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN — CHAPTER V—MONSEIGNEUR BIENVENU MADE HIS CASSOCKS LAST TOO LONG5 min
  6. BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN — CHAPTER VI—WHO GUARDED HIS HOUSE FOR HIM10 min
  7. BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN — CHAPTER VII—CRAVATTE6 min
  8. BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN — CHAPTER VIII—PHILOSOPHY AFTER DRINKING7 min
  9. BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN — CHAPTER IX—THE BROTHER AS DEPICTED BY THE SISTER7 min
  10. BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN — CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT22 min
  11. BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN — CHAPTER XI—A RESTRICTION8 min
  12. BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN — CHAPTER XII—THE SOLITUDE OF MONSEIGNEUR WELCOME6 min
  13. BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN — CHAPTER XIII—WHAT HE BELIEVED8 min
  14. BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN — CHAPTER XIV—WHAT HE THOUGHT5 min
  15. BOOK SECOND—THE FALL — CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING20 min
  16. BOOK SECOND—THE FALL — CHAPTER II—PRUDENCE COUNSELLED TO WISDOM.7 min
  17. BOOK SECOND—THE FALL — CHAPTER III—THE HEROISM OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE.10 min
  18. BOOK SECOND—THE FALL — CHAPTER IV—DETAILS CONCERNING THE CHEESE-DAIRIES OF PONTARLIER.7 min
  19. BOOK SECOND—THE FALL — CHAPTER V—TRANQUILLITY3 min
  20. BOOK SECOND—THE FALL — CHAPTER VI—JEAN VALJEAN10 min
  21. BOOK SECOND—THE FALL — CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR14 min
  22. BOOK SECOND—THE FALL — CHAPTER VIII—BILLOWS AND SHADOWS4 min
  23. BOOK SECOND—THE FALL — CHAPTER IX—NEW TROUBLES3 min
  24. BOOK SECOND—THE FALL — CHAPTER X—THE MAN AROUSED6 min
  25. BOOK SECOND—THE FALL — CHAPTER XI—WHAT HE DOES7 min
  26. BOOK SECOND—THE FALL — CHAPTER XII—THE BISHOP WORKS6 min
  27. BOOK SECOND—THE FALL — CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GERVAIS16 min
  28. BOOK THIRD—IN THE YEAR 1817 — CHAPTER I—THE YEAR 181711 min
  29. BOOK THIRD—IN THE YEAR 1817 — CHAPTER II—A DOUBLE QUARTETTE8 min
  30. BOOK THIRD—IN THE YEAR 1817 — CHAPTER III—FOUR AND FOUR7 min
  31. BOOK THIRD—IN THE YEAR 1817 — CHAPTER IV—THOLOMYÈS IS SO MERRY THAT HE SINGS A SPANISH DITTY5 min
  32. BOOK THIRD—IN THE YEAR 1817 — CHAPTER V—AT BOMBARDA’S5 min
  33. BOOK THIRD—IN THE YEAR 1817 — CHAPTER VI—A CHAPTER IN WHICH THEY ADORE EACH OTHER3 min
  34. BOOK THIRD—IN THE YEAR 1817 — CHAPTER VII—THE WISDOM OF THOLOMYÈS10 min
  35. BOOK THIRD—IN THE YEAR 1817 — CHAPTER VIII—THE DEATH OF A HORSE4 min
  36. BOOK THIRD—IN THE YEAR 1817 — CHAPTER IX—A MERRY END TO MIRTH5 min
  37. BOOK FOURTH—TO CONFIDE IS SOMETIMES TO DELIVER INTO A PERSON’S POWER — CHAPTER I—ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER16 min
  38. BOOK FOURTH—TO CONFIDE IS SOMETIMES TO DELIVER INTO A PERSON’S POWER — CHAPTER II—FIRST SKETCH OF TWO UNPREPOSSESSING FIGURES4 min
  39. BOOK FOURTH—TO CONFIDE IS SOMETIMES TO DELIVER INTO A PERSON’S POWER — CHAPTER III—THE LARK5 min
  40. BOOK FIFTH—THE DESCENT — CHAPTER I—THE HISTORY OF A PROGRESS IN BLACK GLASS TRINKETS3 min
  41. BOOK FIFTH—THE DESCENT — CHAPTER II—MADELEINE7 min
  42. BOOK FIFTH—THE DESCENT — CHAPTER III—SUMS DEPOSITED WITH LAFFITTE6 min
  43. BOOK FIFTH—THE DESCENT — CHAPTER IV—M. MADELEINE IN MOURNING4 min
  44. BOOK FIFTH—THE DESCENT — CHAPTER V—VAGUE FLASHES ON THE HORIZON10 min
  45. BOOK FIFTH—THE DESCENT — CHAPTER VI—FATHER FAUCHELEVENT5 min
  46. BOOK FIFTH—THE DESCENT — CHAPTER VII—FAUCHELEVENT BECOMES A GARDENER IN PARIS2 min
  47. BOOK FIFTH—THE DESCENT — CHAPTER VIII—MADAME VICTURNIEN EXPENDS THIRTY FRANCS ON MORALITY5 min
  48. BOOK FIFTH—THE DESCENT — CHAPTER IX—MADAME VICTURNIEN’S SUCCESS5 min
  49. BOOK FIFTH—THE DESCENT — CHAPTER X—RESULT OF THE SUCCESS9 min
  50. BOOK FIFTH—THE DESCENT — CHAPTER XI—CHRISTUS NOS LIBERAVIT2 min
  51. BOOK FIFTH—THE DESCENT — CHAPTER XII—M. BAMATABOIS’S INACTIVITY5 min
  52. BOOK FIFTH—THE DESCENT — CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WITH THE MUNICIPAL POLICE18 min
  53. BOOK SIXTH—JAVERT — CHAPTER I—THE BEGINNING OF REPOSE6 min
  54. BOOK SIXTH—JAVERT — CHAPTER II—HOW JEAN MAY BECOME CHAMP15 min
  55. BOOK SEVENTH—THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR — CHAPTER I—SISTER SIMPLICE6 min
  56. BOOK SEVENTH—THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR — CHAPTER II—THE PERSPICACITY OF MASTER SCAUFFLAIRE8 min
  57. BOOK SEVENTH—THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR — CHAPTER III—A TEMPEST IN A SKULL36 min
  58. BOOK SEVENTH—THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR — CHAPTER IV—FORMS ASSUMED BY SUFFERING DURING SLEEP6 min
  59. BOOK SEVENTH—THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR — CHAPTER V—HINDRANCES19 min
  60. BOOK SEVENTH—THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR — CHAPTER VI—SISTER SIMPLICE PUT TO THE PROOF12 min
  61. BOOK SEVENTH—THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR — CHAPTER VII—THE TRAVELLER ON HIS ARRIVAL TAKES PRECAUTIONS FOR DEPARTURE8 min
  62. BOOK SEVENTH—THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR — CHAPTER VIII—AN ENTRANCE BY FAVOR6 min
  63. BOOK SEVENTH—THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR — CHAPTER IX—A PLACE WHERE CONVICTIONS ARE IN PROCESS OF FORMATION13 min
  64. BOOK SEVENTH—THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR — CHAPTER X—THE SYSTEM OF DENIALS13 min
  65. BOOK SEVENTH—THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR — CHAPTER XI—CHAMPMATHIEU MORE AND MORE ASTONISHED8 min
  66. BOOK EIGHTH—A COUNTER-BLOW — CHAPTER I—IN WHAT MIRROR M. MADELEINE CONTEMPLATES HIS HAIR5 min
  67. BOOK EIGHTH—A COUNTER-BLOW — CHAPTER II—FANTINE HAPPY7 min
  68. BOOK EIGHTH—A COUNTER-BLOW — CHAPTER III—JAVERT SATISFIED7 min
  69. BOOK EIGHTH—A COUNTER-BLOW — CHAPTER IV—AUTHORITY REASSERTS ITS RIGHTS7 min
  70. BOOK EIGHTH—A COUNTER-BLOW — CHAPTER V—A SUITABLE TOMB10 min
  71. BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER I—WHAT IS MET WITH ON THE WAY FROM NIVELLES3 min
  72. BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER II—HOUGOMONT13 min
  73. BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER III—THE EIGHTEENTH OF JUNE, 18155 min
  74. BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER IV—A4 min
  75. BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER V—THE QUID OBSCURUM OF BATTLES6 min
  76. BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER VI—FOUR O’CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON5 min
  77. BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER VII—NAPOLEON IN A GOOD HUMOR10 min
  78. BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER VIII—THE EMPEROR PUTS A QUESTION TO THE GUIDE LACOSTE5 min
  79. BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER IX—THE UNEXPECTED7 min
  80. BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER X—THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN9 min
  81. BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER XI—A BAD GUIDE TO NAPOLEON; A GOOD GUIDE TO BÜLOW3 min
  82. BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER XII—THE GUARD3 min
  83. BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER XIII—THE CATASTROPHE5 min
  84. BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER XIV—THE LAST SQUARE2 min
  85. BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER XV—CAMBRONNE4 min
  86. BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER XVI—QUOT LIBRAS IN DUCE?9 min
  87. BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER XVII—IS WATERLOO TO BE CONSIDERED GOOD?3 min
  88. BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER XVIII—A RECRUDESCENCE OF DIVINE RIGHT5 min
  89. BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER XIX—THE BATTLE-FIELD AT NIGHT11 min
  90. BOOK SECOND—THE SHIP ORION — CHAPTER I—NUMBER 24,601 BECOMES NUMBER 9,4305 min
  91. BOOK SECOND—THE SHIP ORION — CHAPTER II—IN WHICH THE READER WILL PERUSE TWO VERSES, WHICH ARE OF THE DEVIL’S COMPOSITION, POSSIBLY9 min
  92. BOOK SECOND—THE SHIP ORION — CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN PREPARATORY MANIPULATION TO BE THUS BROKEN WITH A BLOW FROM A HAMMER15 min
  93. BOOK THIRD—ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE DEAD WOMAN — CHAPTER I—THE WATER QUESTION AT MONTFERMEIL7 min
  94. BOOK THIRD—ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE DEAD WOMAN — CHAPTER II—TWO COMPLETE PORTRAITS10 min
  95. BOOK THIRD—ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE DEAD WOMAN — CHAPTER III—MEN MUST HAVE WINE, AND HORSES MUST HAVE WATER4 min
  96. BOOK THIRD—ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE DEAD WOMAN — CHAPTER IV—ENTRANCE ON THE SCENE OF A DOLL3 min
  97. BOOK THIRD—ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE DEAD WOMAN — CHAPTER V—THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE10 min
  98. BOOK THIRD—ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE DEAD WOMAN — CHAPTER VI—WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE’S INTELLIGENCE9 min
  99. BOOK THIRD—ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE DEAD WOMAN — CHAPTER VII—COSETTE SIDE BY SIDE WITH THE STRANGER IN THE DARK4 min
  100. BOOK THIRD—ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE DEAD WOMAN — CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE’S HOUSE A POOR MAN WHO MAY BE A RICH MAN29 min
  101. BOOK THIRD—ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE DEAD WOMAN — CHAPTER IX— THÉNARDIER AND HIS MANŒUVRES13 min
  102. BOOK THIRD—ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE DEAD WOMAN — CHAPTER X—HE WHO SEEKS TO BETTER HIMSELF MAY RENDER HIS SITUATION WORSE9 min
  103. BOOK THIRD—ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE DEAD WOMAN — CHAPTER XI—NUMBER 9,430 REAPPEARS, AND COSETTE WINS IT IN THE LOTTERY3 min
  104. BOOK FOURTH—THE GORBEAU HOVEL — CHAPTER I—MASTER GORBEAU11 min
  105. BOOK FOURTH—THE GORBEAU HOVEL — CHAPTER II—A NEST FOR OWL AND A WARBLER3 min
  106. BOOK FOURTH—THE GORBEAU HOVEL — CHAPTER III—TWO MISFORTUNES MAKE ONE PIECE OF GOOD FORTUNE7 min
  107. BOOK FOURTH—THE GORBEAU HOVEL — CHAPTER IV—THE REMARKS OF THE PRINCIPAL TENANT4 min
  108. BOOK FOURTH—THE GORBEAU HOVEL — CHAPTER V—A FIVE-FRANC PIECE FALLS ON THE GROUND AND PRODUCES A TUMULT6 min
  109. BOOK FIFTH—FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK — CHAPTER I—THE ZIGZAGS OF STRATEGY7 min
  110. BOOK FIFTH—FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK — CHAPTER II—IT IS LUCKY THAT THE PONT D’AUSTERLITZ BEARS CARRIAGES3 min
  111. BOOK FIFTH—FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK — CHAPTER III—TO WIT, THE PLAN OF PARIS IN 17276 min
  112. BOOK FIFTH—FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK — CHAPTER IV—THE GROPINGS OF FLIGHT5 min
  113. BOOK FIFTH—FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK — CHAPTER V—WHICH WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE WITH GAS LANTERNS7 min
  114. BOOK FIFTH—FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK — CHAPTER VI—THE BEGINNING OF AN ENIGMA5 min
  115. BOOK FIFTH—FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK — CHAPTER VII—CONTINUATION OF THE ENIGMA4 min
  116. BOOK FIFTH—FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK — CHAPTER VIII—THE ENIGMA BECOMES DOUBLY MYSTERIOUS4 min
  117. BOOK FIFTH—FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK — CHAPTER IX—THE MAN WITH THE BELL6 min
  118. BOOK FIFTH—FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK — CHAPTER X—WHICH EXPLAINS HOW JAVERT GOT ON THE SCENT16 min
  119. BOOK SIXTH—LE PETIT-PICPUS — CHAPTER I—NUMBER 62 RUE PETIT-PICPUS7 min
  120. BOOK SIXTH—LE PETIT-PICPUS — CHAPTER II—THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA12 min
  121. BOOK SIXTH—LE PETIT-PICPUS — CHAPTER III—AUSTERITIES3 min
  122. BOOK SIXTH—LE PETIT-PICPUS — CHAPTER IV—GAYETIES6 min
  123. BOOK SIXTH—LE PETIT-PICPUS — CHAPTER V—DISTRACTIONS10 min
  124. BOOK SIXTH—LE PETIT-PICPUS — CHAPTER VI—THE LITTLE CONVENT5 min
  125. BOOK SIXTH—LE PETIT-PICPUS — CHAPTER VII—SOME SILHOUETTES OF THIS DARKNESS4 min
  126. BOOK SIXTH—LE PETIT-PICPUS — CHAPTER VIII—POST CORDA LAPIDES3 min
  127. BOOK SIXTH—LE PETIT-PICPUS — CHAPTER IX—A CENTURY UNDER A GUIMPE4 min
  128. BOOK SIXTH—LE PETIT-PICPUS — CHAPTER X—ORIGIN OF THE PERPETUAL ADORATION3 min
  129. BOOK SIXTH—LE PETIT-PICPUS — CHAPTER XI—END OF THE PETIT-PICPUS3 min
  130. BOOK SEVENTH—PARENTHESIS — CHAPTER I—THE CONVENT AS AN ABSTRACT IDEA1 min
  131. BOOK SEVENTH—PARENTHESIS — CHAPTER II—THE CONVENT AS AN HISTORICAL FACT5 min
  132. BOOK SEVENTH—PARENTHESIS — CHAPTER III—ON WHAT CONDITIONS ONE CAN RESPECT THE PAST4 min
  133. BOOK SEVENTH—PARENTHESIS — CHAPTER IV—THE CONVENT FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF PRINCIPLES3 min
  134. BOOK SEVENTH—PARENTHESIS — CHAPTER V—PRAYER2 min
  135. BOOK SEVENTH—PARENTHESIS — CHAPTER VI—THE ABSOLUTE GOODNESS OF PRAYER4 min
  136. BOOK SEVENTH—PARENTHESIS — CHAPTER VII—PRECAUTIONS TO BE OBSERVED IN BLAME2 min
  137. BOOK SEVENTH—PARENTHESIS — CHAPTER VIII—FAITH, LAW4 min
  138. BOOK EIGHTH—CEMETERIES TAKE THAT WHICH IS COMMITTED THEM — CHAPTER I—WHICH TREATS OF THE MANNER OF ENTERING A CONVENT14 min
  139. BOOK EIGHTH—CEMETERIES TAKE THAT WHICH IS COMMITTED THEM — CHAPTER II—FAUCHELEVENT IN THE PRESENCE OF A DIFFICULTY4 min
  140. BOOK EIGHTH—CEMETERIES TAKE THAT WHICH IS COMMITTED THEM — CHAPTER III—MOTHER INNOCENTE15 min
  141. BOOK EIGHTH—CEMETERIES TAKE THAT WHICH IS COMMITTED THEM — CHAPTER IV—IN WHICH JEAN VALJEAN HAS QUITE THE AIR OF HAVING READ AUSTIN CASTILLEJO10 min
  142. BOOK EIGHTH—CEMETERIES TAKE THAT WHICH IS COMMITTED THEM — CHAPTER V—IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE DRUNK IN ORDER TO BE IMMORTAL10 min
  143. BOOK EIGHTH—CEMETERIES TAKE THAT WHICH IS COMMITTED THEM — CHAPTER VI—BETWEEN FOUR PLANKS3 min
  144. BOOK EIGHTH—CEMETERIES TAKE THAT WHICH IS COMMITTED THEM — CHAPTER VII—IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE ORIGIN OF THE SAYING: DON’T LOSE THE CARD12 min
  145. BOOK EIGHTH—CEMETERIES TAKE THAT WHICH IS COMMITTED THEM — CHAPTER VIII—A SUCCESSFUL INTERROGATORY5 min
  146. BOOK EIGHTH—CEMETERIES TAKE THAT WHICH IS COMMITTED THEM — CHAPTER IX—CLOISTERED13 min
  147. BOOK FIRST—PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM — CHAPTER I—PARVULUS2 min
  148. BOOK FIRST—PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM — CHAPTER II—SOME OF HIS PARTICULAR CHARACTERISTICS3 min
  149. BOOK FIRST—PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM — CHAPTER III—HE IS AGREEABLE2 min
  150. BOOK FIRST—PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM — CHAPTER IV—HE MAY BE OF USE2 min
  151. BOOK FIRST—PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM — CHAPTER V—HIS FRONTIERS4 min
  152. BOOK FIRST—PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM — CHAPTER VI—A BIT OF HISTORY4 min
  153. BOOK FIRST—PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM — CHAPTER VII—THE GAMIN SHOULD HAVE HIS PLACE IN THE CLASSIFICATIONS OF INDIA4 min
  154. BOOK FIRST—PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM — CHAPTER VIII—IN WHICH THE READER WILL FIND A CHARMING SAYING OF THE LAST KING3 min
  155. BOOK FIRST—PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM — CHAPTER IX—THE OLD SOUL OF GAUL2 min
  156. BOOK FIRST—PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM — CHAPTER X—ECCE PARIS, ECCE HOMO5 min
  157. BOOK FIRST—PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM — CHAPTER XI—TO SCOFF, TO REIGN4 min
  158. BOOK FIRST—PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM — CHAPTER XII—THE FUTURE LATENT IN THE PEOPLE2 min
  159. BOOK FIRST—PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM — CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GAVROCHE5 min
  160. BOOK SECOND—THE GREAT BOURGEOIS — CHAPTER I—NINETY YEARS AND THIRTY-TWO TEETH4 min
  161. BOOK SECOND—THE GREAT BOURGEOIS — CHAPTER II—LIKE MASTER, LIKE HOUSE2 min
  162. BOOK SECOND—THE GREAT BOURGEOIS — CHAPTER III—LUC-ESPRIT2 min
  163. BOOK SECOND—THE GREAT BOURGEOIS — CHAPTER IV—A CENTENARIAN ASPIRANT2 min
  164. BOOK SECOND—THE GREAT BOURGEOIS — CHAPTER V—BASQUE AND NICOLETTE3 min
  165. BOOK SECOND—THE GREAT BOURGEOIS — CHAPTER VI—IN WHICH MAGNON AND HER TWO CHILDREN ARE SEEN4 min
  166. BOOK SECOND—THE GREAT BOURGEOIS — CHAPTER VII—RULE: RECEIVE NO ONE EXCEPT IN THE EVENING1 min
  167. BOOK SECOND—THE GREAT BOURGEOIS — CHAPTER VIII—TWO DO NOT MAKE A PAIR4 min
  168. BOOK THIRD—THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON — CHAPTER I—AN ANCIENT SALON6 min
  169. BOOK THIRD—THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON — CHAPTER II—ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH12 min
  170. BOOK THIRD—THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON — CHAPTER III—REQUIESCANT14 min
  171. BOOK THIRD—THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON — CHAPTER IV—END OF THE BRIGAND6 min
  172. BOOK THIRD—THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON — CHAPTER V—THE UTILITY OF GOING TO MASS, IN ORDER TO BECOME A REVOLUTIONIST3 min
  173. BOOK THIRD—THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON — CHAPTER VI—THE CONSEQUENCES OF HAVING MET A WARDEN12 min
  174. BOOK THIRD—THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON — CHAPTER VII—SOME PETTICOAT8 min
  175. BOOK THIRD—THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON — CHAPTER VIII—MARBLE AGAINST GRANITE9 min
  176. BOOK FOURTH—THE FRIENDS OF THE A B C — CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC24 min
  177. BOOK FOURTH—THE FRIENDS OF THE A B C — CHAPTER II—BLONDEAU’S FUNERAL ORATION BY BOSSUET6 min
  178. BOOK FOURTH—THE FRIENDS OF THE A B C — CHAPTER III—MARIUS’ ASTONISHMENTS4 min
  179. BOOK FOURTH—THE FRIENDS OF THE A B C — CHAPTER IV—THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFÉ MUSAIN13 min
  180. BOOK FOURTH—THE FRIENDS OF THE A B C — CHAPTER V—ENLARGEMENT OF HORIZON7 min
  181. BOOK FOURTH—THE FRIENDS OF THE A B C — CHAPTER VI—RES ANGUSTA4 min
  182. BOOK FIFTH—THE EXCELLENCE OF MISFORTUNE — CHAPTER I—MARIUS INDIGENT4 min
  183. BOOK FIFTH—THE EXCELLENCE OF MISFORTUNE — CHAPTER II—MARIUS POOR6 min
  184. BOOK FIFTH—THE EXCELLENCE OF MISFORTUNE — CHAPTER III—MARIUS GROWN UP9 min
  185. BOOK FIFTH—THE EXCELLENCE OF MISFORTUNE — CHAPTER IV—M. MABEUF8 min
  186. BOOK FIFTH—THE EXCELLENCE OF MISFORTUNE — CHAPTER V—POVERTY A GOOD NEIGHBOR FOR MISERY4 min
  187. BOOK FIFTH—THE EXCELLENCE OF MISFORTUNE — CHAPTER VI—THE SUBSTITUTE8 min
  188. BOOK SIXTH—THE CONJUNCTION OF TWO STARS — CHAPTER I—THE SOBRIQUET: MODE OF FORMATION OF FAMILY NAMES6 min
  189. BOOK SIXTH—THE CONJUNCTION OF TWO STARS — CHAPTER II—LUX FACTA EST4 min
  190. BOOK SIXTH—THE CONJUNCTION OF TWO STARS — CHAPTER III—EFFECT OF THE SPRING2 min
  191. BOOK SIXTH—THE CONJUNCTION OF TWO STARS — CHAPTER IV—BEGINNING OF A GREAT MALADY6 min
  192. BOOK SIXTH—THE CONJUNCTION OF TWO STARS — CHAPTER V—DIVERS CLAPS OF THUNDER FALL ON MA’AM BOUGON2 min
  193. BOOK SIXTH—THE CONJUNCTION OF TWO STARS — CHAPTER VI—TAKEN PRISONER5 min
  194. BOOK SIXTH—THE CONJUNCTION OF TWO STARS — CHAPTER VII—ADVENTURES OF THE LETTER U DELIVERED OVER TO CONJECTURES4 min
  195. BOOK SIXTH—THE CONJUNCTION OF TWO STARS — CHAPTER VIII—THE VETERANS THEMSELVES CAN BE HAPPY3 min
  196. BOOK SIXTH—THE CONJUNCTION OF TWO STARS — CHAPTER IX—ECLIPSE4 min
  197. BOOK SEVENTH—PATRON MINETTE — CHAPTER I—MINES AND MINERS4 min
  198. BOOK SEVENTH—PATRON MINETTE — CHAPTER II—THE LOWEST DEPTHS3 min
  199. BOOK SEVENTH—PATRON MINETTE — CHAPTER III—BABET, GUEULEMER, CLAQUESOUS, AND MONTPARNASSE5 min
  200. BOOK SEVENTH—PATRON MINETTE — CHAPTER IV—COMPOSITION OF THE TROUPE5 min
  201. BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER I—MARIUS, WHILE SEEKING A GIRL IN A BONNET, ENCOUNTERS A MAN IN A CAP4 min
  202. BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER II—TREASURE TROVE3 min
  203. BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER III—QUADRIFRONS7 min
  204. BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER IV—A ROSE IN MISERY12 min
  205. BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER V—A PROVIDENTIAL PEEP-HOLE5 min
  206. BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER VI—THE WILD MAN IN HIS LAIR8 min
  207. BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER VII—STRATEGY AND TACTICS6 min
  208. BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER VIII—THE RAY OF LIGHT IN THE HOVEL4 min
  209. BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER IX—JONDRETTE COMES NEAR WEEPING7 min
  210. BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER X—TARIFF OF LICENSED CABS: TWO FRANCS AN HOUR6 min
  211. BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER XI—OFFERS OF SERVICE FROM MISERY TO WRETCHEDNESS5 min
  212. BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER XII—THE USE MADE OF M. LEBLANC’S FIVE-FRANC PIECE8 min
  213. BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER XIII—SOLUS CUM SOLO, IN LOCO REMOTO, NON COGITABUNTUR ORARE PATER NOSTER5 min
  214. BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER XIV—IN WHICH A POLICE AGENT BESTOWS TWO FISTFULS ON A LAWYER6 min
  215. BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER XV—JONDRETTE MAKES HIS PURCHASES4 min
  216. BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER XVI—IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE WORDS TO AN ENGLISH AIR WHICH WAS IN FASHION IN 18326 min
  217. BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER XVII—THE USE MADE OF MARIUS’ FIVE-FRANC PIECE7 min
  218. BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER XVIII—MARIUS’ TWO CHAIRS FORM A VIS-A-VIS3 min
  219. BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER XIX—OCCUPYING ONE’S SELF WITH OBSCURE DEPTHS8 min
  220. BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER XX—THE TRAP43 min
  221. BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER XXI—ONE SHOULD ALWAYS BEGIN BY ARRESTING THE VICTIMS6 min
  222. BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER XXII—THE LITTLE ONE WHO WAS CRYING IN VOLUME TWO3 min
  223. VOLUME IV SAINT-DENIS — BOOK FIRST—A FEW PAGES OF HISTORY — CHAPTER I—WELL CUT10 min
  224. BOOK FIRST—A FEW PAGES OF HISTORY — CHAPTER II—BADLY SEWED6 min
  225. BOOK FIRST—A FEW PAGES OF HISTORY — CHAPTER III—LOUIS PHILIPPE13 min
  226. BOOK FIRST—A FEW PAGES OF HISTORY — CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION12 min
  227. BOOK FIRST—A FEW PAGES OF HISTORY — CHAPTER V—FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY IGNORES18 min
  228. BOOK FIRST—A FEW PAGES OF HISTORY — CHAPTER VI—ENJOLRAS AND HIS LIEUTENANTS7 min
  229. BOOK SECOND—ÉPONINE — CHAPTER I—THE LARK’S MEADOW11 min
  230. BOOK SECOND—ÉPONINE — CHAPTER II—EMBRYONIC FORMATION OF CRIMES IN THE INCUBATION OF PRISONS8 min
  231. BOOK SECOND—ÉPONINE — CHAPTER III—APPARITION TO FATHER MABEUF7 min
  232. BOOK SECOND—ÉPONINE — CHAPTER IV—AN APPARITION TO MARIUS8 min
  233. BOOK THIRD—THE HOUSE IN THE RUE PLUMET — CHAPTER I—THE HOUSE WITH A SECRET9 min
  234. BOOK THIRD—THE HOUSE IN THE RUE PLUMET — CHAPTER II—JEAN VALJEAN AS A NATIONAL GUARD5 min
  235. BOOK THIRD—THE HOUSE IN THE RUE PLUMET — CHAPTER III—FOLIIS AC FRONDIBUS7 min
  236. BOOK THIRD—THE HOUSE IN THE RUE PLUMET — CHAPTER IV—CHANGE OF GATE9 min
  237. BOOK THIRD—THE HOUSE IN THE RUE PLUMET — CHAPTER V—THE ROSE PERCEIVES THAT IT IS AN ENGINE OF WAR8 min
  238. BOOK THIRD—THE HOUSE IN THE RUE PLUMET — CHAPTER VI—THE BATTLE BEGUN6 min
  239. BOOK THIRD—THE HOUSE IN THE RUE PLUMET — CHAPTER VII—TO ONE SADNESS OPPOSE A SADNESS AND A HALF10 min
  240. BOOK THIRD—THE HOUSE IN THE RUE PLUMET — CHAPTER VIII—THE CHAIN-GANG18 min
  241. BOOK FOURTH—SUCCOR FROM BELOW MAY TURN OUT TO BE SUCCOR FROM ON HIGH — CHAPTER I—A WOUND WITHOUT, HEALING WITHIN4 min
  242. BOOK FOURTH—SUCCOR FROM BELOW MAY TURN OUT TO BE SUCCOR FROM ON HIGH — CHAPTER II—MOTHER PLUTARQUE FINDS NO DIFFICULTY IN EXPLAINING A PHENOMENON14 min
  243. BOOK FIFTH—THE END OF WHICH DOES NOT RESEMBLE THE BEGINNING — CHAPTER I—SOLITUDE AND THE BARRACKS COMBINED3 min
  244. BOOK FIFTH—THE END OF WHICH DOES NOT RESEMBLE THE BEGINNING — CHAPTER II—COSETTE’S APPREHENSIONS6 min
  245. BOOK FIFTH—THE END OF WHICH DOES NOT RESEMBLE THE BEGINNING — CHAPTER III—ENRICHED WITH COMMENTARIES BY TOUSSAINT5 min
  246. BOOK FIFTH—THE END OF WHICH DOES NOT RESEMBLE THE BEGINNING — CHAPTER IV—A HEART BENEATH A STONE6 min
  247. BOOK FIFTH—THE END OF WHICH DOES NOT RESEMBLE THE BEGINNING — CHAPTER V—COSETTE AFTER THE LETTER5 min
  248. BOOK FIFTH—THE END OF WHICH DOES NOT RESEMBLE THE BEGINNING — CHAPTER VI—OLD PEOPLE ARE MADE TO GO OUT OPPORTUNELY6 min
  249. BOOK SIXTH—LITTLE GAVROCHE — CHAPTER I—THE MALICIOUS PLAYFULNESS OF THE WIND6 min
  250. BOOK SIXTH—LITTLE GAVROCHE — CHAPTER II—IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM NAPOLEON THE GREAT36 min
  251. BOOK SIXTH—LITTLE GAVROCHE — CHAPTER III—THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT23 min
  252. BOOK SEVENTH—SLANG — CHAPTER I—ORIGIN13 min
  253. BOOK SEVENTH—SLANG — CHAPTER II—ROOTS15 min
  254. BOOK SEVENTH—SLANG — CHAPTER III—SLANG WHICH WEEPS AND SLANG WHICH LAUGHS8 min
  255. BOOK SEVENTH—SLANG — CHAPTER IV—THE TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE8 min
  256. BOOK EIGHTH—ENCHANTMENTS AND DESOLATIONS — CHAPTER I—FULL LIGHT10 min
  257. BOOK EIGHTH—ENCHANTMENTS AND DESOLATIONS — CHAPTER II—THE BEWILDERMENT OF PERFECT HAPPINESS4 min
  258. BOOK EIGHTH—ENCHANTMENTS AND DESOLATIONS — CHAPTER III—THE BEGINNING OF SHADOW6 min
  259. BOOK EIGHTH—ENCHANTMENTS AND DESOLATIONS — CHAPTER IV—A CAB RUNS IN ENGLISH AND BARKS IN SLANG12 min
  260. BOOK EIGHTH—ENCHANTMENTS AND DESOLATIONS — CHAPTER V—THINGS OF THE NIGHT2 min
  261. BOOK EIGHTH—ENCHANTMENTS AND DESOLATIONS — CHAPTER VI—MARIUS BECOMES PRACTICAL ONCE MORE TO THE EXTENT OF GIVING COSETTE HIS ADDRESS10 min
  262. BOOK EIGHTH—ENCHANTMENTS AND DESOLATIONS — CHAPTER VII—THE OLD HEART AND THE YOUNG HEART IN THE PRESENCE OF EACH OTHER21 min
  263. BOOK NINTH—WHITHER ARE THEY GOING? — CHAPTER I—JEAN VALJEAN3 min
  264. BOOK NINTH—WHITHER ARE THEY GOING? — CHAPTER II—MARIUS5 min
  265. BOOK NINTH—WHITHER ARE THEY GOING? — CHAPTER III—M. MABEUF7 min
  266. BOOK TENTH—THE 5TH OF JUNE, 1832 — CHAPTER I—THE SURFACE OF THE QUESTION6 min
  267. BOOK TENTH—THE 5TH OF JUNE, 1832 — CHAPTER II—THE ROOT OF THE MATTER11 min
  268. BOOK TENTH—THE 5TH OF JUNE, 1832 — CHAPTER III—A BURIAL; AN OCCASION TO BE BORN AGAIN10 min
  269. BOOK TENTH—THE 5TH OF JUNE, 1832 — CHAPTER IV—THE EBULLITIONS OF FORMER DAYS9 min
  270. BOOK TENTH—THE 5TH OF JUNE, 1832 — CHAPTER V—ORIGINALITY OF PARIS5 min
  271. BOOK ELEVENTH—THE ATOM FRATERNIZES WITH THE HURRICANE — CHAPTER I—SOME EXPLANATIONS WITH REGARD TO THE ORIGIN OF GAVROCHE’S POETRY. THE INFLUENCE OF AN ACADEMICIAN ON THIS POETRY4 min
  272. BOOK ELEVENTH—THE ATOM FRATERNIZES WITH THE HURRICANE — CHAPTER II—GAVROCHE ON THE MARCH6 min
  273. BOOK ELEVENTH—THE ATOM FRATERNIZES WITH THE HURRICANE — CHAPTER III—JUST INDIGNATION OF A HAIR-DRESSER3 min
  274. BOOK ELEVENTH—THE ATOM FRATERNIZES WITH THE HURRICANE — CHAPTER IV—THE CHILD IS AMAZED AT THE OLD MAN3 min
  275. BOOK ELEVENTH—THE ATOM FRATERNIZES WITH THE HURRICANE — CHAPTER V—THE OLD MAN3 min
  276. BOOK ELEVENTH—THE ATOM FRATERNIZES WITH THE HURRICANE — CHAPTER VI—RECRUITS3 min
  277. BOOK TWELFTH—CORINTHE — CHAPTER I—HISTORY OF CORINTHE FROM ITS FOUNDATION10 min
  278. BOOK TWELFTH—CORINTHE — CHAPTER II—PRELIMINARY GAYETIES17 min
  279. BOOK TWELFTH—CORINTHE — CHAPTER III—NIGHT BEGINS TO DESCEND UPON GRANTAIRE6 min
  280. BOOK TWELFTH—CORINTHE — CHAPTER IV—AN ATTEMPT TO CONSOLE THE WIDOW HUCHELOUP7 min
  281. BOOK TWELFTH—CORINTHE — CHAPTER V—PREPARATIONS4 min
  282. BOOK TWELFTH—CORINTHE — CHAPTER VI—WAITING4 min
  283. BOOK TWELFTH—CORINTHE — CHAPTER VII—THE MAN RECRUITED IN THE RUE DES BILLETTES6 min
  284. BOOK TWELFTH—CORINTHE — CHAPTER VIII—MANY INTERROGATION POINTS WITH REGARD TO A CERTAIN LE CABUC WHOSE NAME MAY NOT HAVE BEEN LE CABUC8 min
  285. BOOK THIRTEENTH—MARIUS ENTERS THE SHADOW — CHAPTER I—FROM THE RUE PLUMET TO THE QUARTIER SAINT-DENIS5 min
  286. BOOK THIRTEENTH—MARIUS ENTERS THE SHADOW — CHAPTER II—AN OWL’S VIEW OF PARIS5 min
  287. BOOK THIRTEENTH—MARIUS ENTERS THE SHADOW — CHAPTER III—THE EXTREME EDGE11 min
  288. BOOK FOURTEENTH—THE GRANDEURS OF DESPAIR — CHAPTER I—THE FLAG: ACT FIRST5 min
  289. BOOK FOURTEENTH—THE GRANDEURS OF DESPAIR — CHAPTER II—THE FLAG: ACT SECOND5 min
  290. BOOK FOURTEENTH—THE GRANDEURS OF DESPAIR — CHAPTER III—GAVROCHE WOULD HAVE DONE BETTER TO ACCEPT ENJOLRAS’ CARBINE2 min
  291. BOOK FOURTEENTH—THE GRANDEURS OF DESPAIR — CHAPTER IV—THE BARREL OF POWDER5 min
  292. BOOK FOURTEENTH—THE GRANDEURS OF DESPAIR — CHAPTER V—END OF THE VERSES OF JEAN PROUVAIRE3 min
  293. BOOK FOURTEENTH—THE GRANDEURS OF DESPAIR — CHAPTER VI—THE AGONY OF DEATH AFTER THE AGONY OF LIFE7 min
  294. BOOK FOURTEENTH—THE GRANDEURS OF DESPAIR — CHAPTER VII—GAVROCHE AS A PROFOUND CALCULATOR OF DISTANCES7 min
  295. BOOK FIFTEENTH—THE RUE DE L’HOMME ARMÉ — CHAPTER I—A DRINKER IS A BABBLER16 min
  296. BOOK FIFTEENTH—THE RUE DE L’HOMME ARMÉ — CHAPTER II—THE STREET URCHIN AN ENEMY OF LIGHT7 min
  297. BOOK FIFTEENTH—THE RUE DE L’HOMME ARMÉ — CHAPTER III—WHILE COSETTE AND TOUSSAINT ARE ASLEEP3 min
  298. BOOK FIFTEENTH—THE RUE DE L’HOMME ARMÉ — CHAPTER IV—GAVROCHE’S EXCESS OF ZEAL8 min
  299. BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER I—THE CHARYBDIS OF THE FAUBOURG SAINT ANTOINE AND THE SCYLLA OF THE FAUBOURG DU TEMPLE13 min
  300. BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER II—WHAT IS TO BE DONE IN THE ABYSS IF ONE DOES NOT CONVERSE7 min
  301. BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER III—LIGHT AND SHADOW3 min
  302. BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER IV—MINUS FIVE, PLUS ONE11 min
  303. BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER V—THE HORIZON WHICH ONE BEHOLDS FROM THE SUMMIT OF A BARRICADE8 min
  304. BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER VI—MARIUS HAGGARD, JAVERT LACONIC4 min
  305. BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER VII—THE SITUATION BECOMES AGGRAVATED7 min
  306. BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER VIII—THE ARTILLERY-MEN COMPEL PEOPLE TO TAKE THEM SERIOUSLY5 min
  307. BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER IX—EMPLOYMENT OF THE OLD TALENTS OF A POACHER AND THAT INFALLIBLE MARKSMANSHIP WHICH INFLUENCED THE CONDEMNATION OF 17963 min
  308. BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER X—DAWN7 min
  309. BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER XI—THE SHOT WHICH MISSES NOTHING AND KILLS NO ONE2 min
  310. BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER XII—DISORDER A PARTISAN OF ORDER6 min
  311. BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER XIII—PASSING GLEAMS4 min
  312. BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER XIV—WHEREIN WILL APPEAR THE NAME OF ENJOLRAS’ MISTRESS4 min
  313. BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER XV—GAVROCHE OUTSIDE5 min
  314. BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER XVI—HOW FROM A BROTHER ONE BECOMES A FATHER15 min
  315. BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER XVII—MORTUUS PATER FILIUM MORITURUM EXPECTAT3 min
  316. BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER XVIII—THE VULTURE BECOME PREY6 min
  317. BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER XIX—JEAN VALJEAN TAKES HIS REVENGE4 min
  318. BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER XX—THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE NOT IN THE WRONG16 min
  319. BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER XXI—THE HEROES8 min
  320. BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER XXII—FOOT TO FOOT7 min
  321. BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER XXIII—ORESTES FASTING AND PYLADES DRUNK6 min
  322. BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER XXIV—PRISONER5 min
  323. BOOK SECOND—THE INTESTINE OF THE LEVIATHAN — CHAPTER I—THE LAND IMPOVERISHED BY THE SEA7 min
  324. BOOK SECOND—THE INTESTINE OF THE LEVIATHAN — CHAPTER II—ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE SEWER6 min
  325. BOOK SECOND—THE INTESTINE OF THE LEVIATHAN — CHAPTER III—BRUNESEAU6 min
  326. BOOK SECOND—THE INTESTINE OF THE LEVIATHAN — CHAPTER IV7 min
  327. BOOK SECOND—THE INTESTINE OF THE LEVIATHAN — CHAPTER V—PRESENT PROGRESS3 min
  328. BOOK SECOND—THE INTESTINE OF THE LEVIATHAN — CHAPTER VI—FUTURE PROGRESS9 min
  329. BOOK THIRD—MUD BUT THE SOUL — CHAPTER I—THE SEWER AND ITS SURPRISES12 min
  330. BOOK THIRD—MUD BUT THE SOUL — CHAPTER II—EXPLANATION4 min
  331. BOOK THIRD—MUD BUT THE SOUL — CHAPTER III—THE “SPUN” MAN8 min
  332. BOOK THIRD—MUD BUT THE SOUL — CHAPTER IV—HE ALSO BEARS HIS CROSS7 min
  333. BOOK THIRD—MUD BUT THE SOUL — CHAPTER V—IN THE CASE OF SAND AS IN THAT OF WOMAN, THERE IS A FINENESS WHICH IS TREACHEROUS9 min
  334. BOOK THIRD—MUD BUT THE SOUL — CHAPTER VI—THE FONTIS4 min
  335. BOOK THIRD—MUD BUT THE SOUL — CHAPTER VII—ONE SOMETIMES RUNS AGROUND WHEN ONE FANCIES THAT ONE IS DISEMBARKING5 min
  336. BOOK THIRD—MUD BUT THE SOUL — CHAPTER VIII—THE TORN COAT-TAIL9 min
  337. BOOK THIRD—MUD BUT THE SOUL — CHAPTER IX—MARIUS PRODUCES ON SOME ONE WHO IS A JUDGE OF THE MATTER, THE EFFECT OF BEING DEAD8 min
  338. BOOK THIRD—MUD BUT THE SOUL — CHAPTER X—RETURN OF THE SON WHO WAS PRODIGAL OF HIS LIFE3 min
  339. BOOK THIRD—MUD BUT THE SOUL — CHAPTER XI—CONCUSSION IN THE ABSOLUTE3 min
  340. BOOK THIRD—MUD BUT THE SOUL — CHAPTER XII—THE GRANDFATHER11 min
  341. BOOK FOURTH—JAVERT DERAILED — CHAPTER I22 min
  342. BOOK FIFTH—GRANDSON AND GRANDFATHER — CHAPTER I—IN WHICH THE TREE WITH THE ZINC PLASTER APPEARS AGAIN6 min
  343. BOOK FIFTH—GRANDSON AND GRANDFATHER — CHAPTER II—MARIUS, EMERGING FROM CIVIL WAR, MAKES READY FOR DOMESTIC WAR9 min
  344. BOOK FIFTH—GRANDSON AND GRANDFATHER — CHAPTER III—MARIUS ATTACKED6 min
  345. BOOK FIFTH—GRANDSON AND GRANDFATHER — CHAPTER IV—MADEMOISELLE GILLENORMAND ENDS BY NO LONGER THINKING IT A BAD THING THAT M. FAUCHELEVENT SHOULD HAVE ENTERED WITH SOMETHING UNDER HIS ARM9 min
  346. BOOK FIFTH—GRANDSON AND GRANDFATHER — CHAPTER V—DEPOSIT YOUR MONEY IN A FOREST RATHER THAN WITH A NOTARY3 min
  347. BOOK FIFTH—GRANDSON AND GRANDFATHER — CHAPTER VI—THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER HIS OWN FASHION, TO RENDER COSETTE HAPPY15 min
  348. BOOK FIFTH—GRANDSON AND GRANDFATHER — CHAPTER VII—THE EFFECTS OF DREAMS MINGLED WITH HAPPINESS5 min
  349. BOOK FIFTH—GRANDSON AND GRANDFATHER — CHAPTER VIII—TWO MEN IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND8 min
  350. BOOK SIXTH—THE SLEEPLESS NIGHT — CHAPTER I—THE 16TH OF FEBRUARY, 183315 min
  351. BOOK SIXTH—THE SLEEPLESS NIGHT — CHAPTER II—JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING17 min
  352. BOOK SIXTH—THE SLEEPLESS NIGHT — CHAPTER III—THE INSEPARABLE5 min
  353. BOOK SIXTH—THE SLEEPLESS NIGHT — CHAPTER IV—THE IMMORTAL LIVER 688 min
  354. BOOK SEVENTH—THE LAST DRAUGHT FROM THE CUP — CHAPTER I—THE SEVENTH CIRCLE AND THE EIGHTH HEAVEN32 min
  355. BOOK SEVENTH—THE LAST DRAUGHT FROM THE CUP — CHAPTER II—THE OBSCURITIES WHICH A REVELATION CAN CONTAIN15 min
  356. BOOK EIGHTH—FADING AWAY OF THE TWILIGHT — CHAPTER I—THE LOWER CHAMBER8 min
  357. BOOK EIGHTH—FADING AWAY OF THE TWILIGHT — CHAPTER II—ANOTHER STEP BACKWARDS5 min
  358. BOOK EIGHTH—FADING AWAY OF THE TWILIGHT — CHAPTER III—THEY RECALL THE GARDEN OF THE RUE PLUMET8 min
  359. BOOK EIGHTH—FADING AWAY OF THE TWILIGHT — CHAPTER IV—ATTRACTION AND EXTINCTION4 min
  360. BOOK NINTH—SUPREME SHADOW, SUPREME DAWN — CHAPTER I—PITY FOR THE UNHAPPY, BUT INDULGENCE FOR THE HAPPY4 min
  361. BOOK NINTH—SUPREME SHADOW, SUPREME DAWN — CHAPTER II—LAST FLICKERINGS OF A LAMP WITHOUT OIL3 min
  362. BOOK NINTH—SUPREME SHADOW, SUPREME DAWN — CHAPTER III—A PEN IS HEAVY TO THE MAN WHO LIFTED THE FAUCHELEVENT’S CART6 min
  363. BOOK NINTH—SUPREME SHADOW, SUPREME DAWN — CHAPTER IV—A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN WHITENING32 min
  364. BOOK NINTH—SUPREME SHADOW, SUPREME DAWN — CHAPTER V—A NIGHT BEHIND WHICH THERE IS DAY18 min
  365. BOOK NINTH—SUPREME SHADOW, SUPREME DAWN — CHAPTER VI—THE GRASS COVERS AND THE RAIN EFFACES2 min
  366. BOOK NINTH—SUPREME SHADOW, SUPREME DAWN — LETTER TO M. DAELLI6 min
  367. BOOK NINTH—SUPREME SHADOW, SUPREME DAWN — FOOTNOTES:9 min
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