Contents · 367 sections
- BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN — CHAPTER I—M. MYRIEL5 min
- BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN — CHAPTER II—M. MYRIEL BECOMES M. WELCOME8 min
- BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN — CHAPTER III—A HARD BISHOPRIC FOR A GOOD BISHOP4 min
- BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN — CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS14 min
- BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN — CHAPTER V—MONSEIGNEUR BIENVENU MADE HIS CASSOCKS LAST TOO LONG5 min
- BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN — CHAPTER VI—WHO GUARDED HIS HOUSE FOR HIM10 min
- BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN — CHAPTER VII—CRAVATTE6 min
- BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN — CHAPTER VIII—PHILOSOPHY AFTER DRINKING7 min
- BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN — CHAPTER IX—THE BROTHER AS DEPICTED BY THE SISTER7 min
- BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN — CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT22 min
- BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN — CHAPTER XI—A RESTRICTION8 min
- BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN — CHAPTER XII—THE SOLITUDE OF MONSEIGNEUR WELCOME6 min
- BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN — CHAPTER XIII—WHAT HE BELIEVED8 min
- BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN — CHAPTER XIV—WHAT HE THOUGHT5 min
- BOOK SECOND—THE FALL — CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING20 min
- BOOK SECOND—THE FALL — CHAPTER II—PRUDENCE COUNSELLED TO WISDOM.7 min
- BOOK SECOND—THE FALL — CHAPTER III—THE HEROISM OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE.10 min
- BOOK SECOND—THE FALL — CHAPTER IV—DETAILS CONCERNING THE CHEESE-DAIRIES OF PONTARLIER.7 min
- BOOK SECOND—THE FALL — CHAPTER V—TRANQUILLITY3 min
- BOOK SECOND—THE FALL — CHAPTER VI—JEAN VALJEAN10 min
- BOOK SECOND—THE FALL — CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR14 min
- BOOK SECOND—THE FALL — CHAPTER VIII—BILLOWS AND SHADOWS4 min
- BOOK SECOND—THE FALL — CHAPTER IX—NEW TROUBLES3 min
- BOOK SECOND—THE FALL — CHAPTER X—THE MAN AROUSED6 min
- BOOK SECOND—THE FALL — CHAPTER XI—WHAT HE DOES7 min
- BOOK SECOND—THE FALL — CHAPTER XII—THE BISHOP WORKS6 min
- BOOK SECOND—THE FALL — CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GERVAIS16 min
- BOOK THIRD—IN THE YEAR 1817 — CHAPTER I—THE YEAR 181711 min
- BOOK THIRD—IN THE YEAR 1817 — CHAPTER II—A DOUBLE QUARTETTE8 min
- BOOK THIRD—IN THE YEAR 1817 — CHAPTER III—FOUR AND FOUR7 min
- BOOK THIRD—IN THE YEAR 1817 — CHAPTER IV—THOLOMYÈS IS SO MERRY THAT HE SINGS A SPANISH DITTY5 min
- BOOK THIRD—IN THE YEAR 1817 — CHAPTER V—AT BOMBARDA’S5 min
- BOOK THIRD—IN THE YEAR 1817 — CHAPTER VI—A CHAPTER IN WHICH THEY ADORE EACH OTHER3 min
- BOOK THIRD—IN THE YEAR 1817 — CHAPTER VII—THE WISDOM OF THOLOMYÈS10 min
- BOOK THIRD—IN THE YEAR 1817 — CHAPTER VIII—THE DEATH OF A HORSE4 min
- BOOK THIRD—IN THE YEAR 1817 — CHAPTER IX—A MERRY END TO MIRTH5 min
- BOOK FOURTH—TO CONFIDE IS SOMETIMES TO DELIVER INTO A PERSON’S POWER — CHAPTER I—ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER16 min
- BOOK FOURTH—TO CONFIDE IS SOMETIMES TO DELIVER INTO A PERSON’S POWER — CHAPTER II—FIRST SKETCH OF TWO UNPREPOSSESSING FIGURES4 min
- BOOK FOURTH—TO CONFIDE IS SOMETIMES TO DELIVER INTO A PERSON’S POWER — CHAPTER III—THE LARK5 min
- BOOK FIFTH—THE DESCENT — CHAPTER I—THE HISTORY OF A PROGRESS IN BLACK GLASS TRINKETS3 min
- BOOK FIFTH—THE DESCENT — CHAPTER II—MADELEINE7 min
- BOOK FIFTH—THE DESCENT — CHAPTER III—SUMS DEPOSITED WITH LAFFITTE6 min
- BOOK FIFTH—THE DESCENT — CHAPTER IV—M. MADELEINE IN MOURNING4 min
- BOOK FIFTH—THE DESCENT — CHAPTER V—VAGUE FLASHES ON THE HORIZON10 min
- BOOK FIFTH—THE DESCENT — CHAPTER VI—FATHER FAUCHELEVENT5 min
- BOOK FIFTH—THE DESCENT — CHAPTER VII—FAUCHELEVENT BECOMES A GARDENER IN PARIS2 min
- BOOK FIFTH—THE DESCENT — CHAPTER VIII—MADAME VICTURNIEN EXPENDS THIRTY FRANCS ON MORALITY5 min
- BOOK FIFTH—THE DESCENT — CHAPTER IX—MADAME VICTURNIEN’S SUCCESS5 min
- BOOK FIFTH—THE DESCENT — CHAPTER X—RESULT OF THE SUCCESS9 min
- BOOK FIFTH—THE DESCENT — CHAPTER XI—CHRISTUS NOS LIBERAVIT2 min
- BOOK FIFTH—THE DESCENT — CHAPTER XII—M. BAMATABOIS’S INACTIVITY5 min
- BOOK FIFTH—THE DESCENT — CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WITH THE MUNICIPAL POLICE18 min
- BOOK SIXTH—JAVERT — CHAPTER I—THE BEGINNING OF REPOSE6 min
- BOOK SIXTH—JAVERT — CHAPTER II—HOW JEAN MAY BECOME CHAMP15 min
- BOOK SEVENTH—THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR — CHAPTER I—SISTER SIMPLICE6 min
- BOOK SEVENTH—THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR — CHAPTER II—THE PERSPICACITY OF MASTER SCAUFFLAIRE8 min
- BOOK SEVENTH—THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR — CHAPTER III—A TEMPEST IN A SKULL36 min
- BOOK SEVENTH—THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR — CHAPTER IV—FORMS ASSUMED BY SUFFERING DURING SLEEP6 min
- BOOK SEVENTH—THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR — CHAPTER V—HINDRANCES19 min
- BOOK SEVENTH—THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR — CHAPTER VI—SISTER SIMPLICE PUT TO THE PROOF12 min
- BOOK SEVENTH—THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR — CHAPTER VII—THE TRAVELLER ON HIS ARRIVAL TAKES PRECAUTIONS FOR DEPARTURE8 min
- BOOK SEVENTH—THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR — CHAPTER VIII—AN ENTRANCE BY FAVOR6 min
- BOOK SEVENTH—THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR — CHAPTER IX—A PLACE WHERE CONVICTIONS ARE IN PROCESS OF FORMATION13 min
- BOOK SEVENTH—THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR — CHAPTER X—THE SYSTEM OF DENIALS13 min
- BOOK SEVENTH—THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR — CHAPTER XI—CHAMPMATHIEU MORE AND MORE ASTONISHED8 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—A COUNTER-BLOW — CHAPTER I—IN WHAT MIRROR M. MADELEINE CONTEMPLATES HIS HAIR5 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—A COUNTER-BLOW — CHAPTER II—FANTINE HAPPY7 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—A COUNTER-BLOW — CHAPTER III—JAVERT SATISFIED7 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—A COUNTER-BLOW — CHAPTER IV—AUTHORITY REASSERTS ITS RIGHTS7 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—A COUNTER-BLOW — CHAPTER V—A SUITABLE TOMB10 min
- BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER I—WHAT IS MET WITH ON THE WAY FROM NIVELLES3 min
- BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER II—HOUGOMONT13 min
- BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER III—THE EIGHTEENTH OF JUNE, 18155 min
- BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER IV—A4 min
- BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER V—THE QUID OBSCURUM OF BATTLES6 min
- BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER VI—FOUR O’CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON5 min
- BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER VII—NAPOLEON IN A GOOD HUMOR10 min
- BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER VIII—THE EMPEROR PUTS A QUESTION TO THE GUIDE LACOSTE5 min
- BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER IX—THE UNEXPECTED7 min
- BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER X—THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN9 min
- BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER XI—A BAD GUIDE TO NAPOLEON; A GOOD GUIDE TO BÜLOW3 min
- BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER XII—THE GUARD3 min
- BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER XIII—THE CATASTROPHE5 min
- BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER XIV—THE LAST SQUARE2 min
- BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER XV—CAMBRONNE4 min
- BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER XVI—QUOT LIBRAS IN DUCE?9 min
- BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER XVII—IS WATERLOO TO BE CONSIDERED GOOD?3 min
- BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER XVIII—A RECRUDESCENCE OF DIVINE RIGHT5 min
- BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER XIX—THE BATTLE-FIELD AT NIGHT11 min
- BOOK SECOND—THE SHIP ORION — CHAPTER I—NUMBER 24,601 BECOMES NUMBER 9,4305 min
- BOOK SECOND—THE SHIP ORION — CHAPTER II—IN WHICH THE READER WILL PERUSE TWO VERSES, WHICH ARE OF THE DEVIL’S COMPOSITION, POSSIBLY9 min
- 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
- BOOK THIRD—ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE DEAD WOMAN — CHAPTER I—THE WATER QUESTION AT MONTFERMEIL7 min
- BOOK THIRD—ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE DEAD WOMAN — CHAPTER II—TWO COMPLETE PORTRAITS10 min
- BOOK THIRD—ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE DEAD WOMAN — CHAPTER III—MEN MUST HAVE WINE, AND HORSES MUST HAVE WATER4 min
- BOOK THIRD—ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE DEAD WOMAN — CHAPTER IV—ENTRANCE ON THE SCENE OF A DOLL3 min
- BOOK THIRD—ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE DEAD WOMAN — CHAPTER V—THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE10 min
- BOOK THIRD—ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE DEAD WOMAN — CHAPTER VI—WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE’S INTELLIGENCE9 min
- BOOK THIRD—ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE DEAD WOMAN — CHAPTER VII—COSETTE SIDE BY SIDE WITH THE STRANGER IN THE DARK4 min
- 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
- BOOK THIRD—ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE DEAD WOMAN — CHAPTER IX— THÉNARDIER AND HIS MANŒUVRES13 min
- 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
- 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
- BOOK FOURTH—THE GORBEAU HOVEL — CHAPTER I—MASTER GORBEAU11 min
- BOOK FOURTH—THE GORBEAU HOVEL — CHAPTER II—A NEST FOR OWL AND A WARBLER3 min
- BOOK FOURTH—THE GORBEAU HOVEL — CHAPTER III—TWO MISFORTUNES MAKE ONE PIECE OF GOOD FORTUNE7 min
- BOOK FOURTH—THE GORBEAU HOVEL — CHAPTER IV—THE REMARKS OF THE PRINCIPAL TENANT4 min
- BOOK FOURTH—THE GORBEAU HOVEL — CHAPTER V—A FIVE-FRANC PIECE FALLS ON THE GROUND AND PRODUCES A TUMULT6 min
- BOOK FIFTH—FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK — CHAPTER I—THE ZIGZAGS OF STRATEGY7 min
- BOOK FIFTH—FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK — CHAPTER II—IT IS LUCKY THAT THE PONT D’AUSTERLITZ BEARS CARRIAGES3 min
- BOOK FIFTH—FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK — CHAPTER III—TO WIT, THE PLAN OF PARIS IN 17276 min
- BOOK FIFTH—FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK — CHAPTER IV—THE GROPINGS OF FLIGHT5 min
- BOOK FIFTH—FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK — CHAPTER V—WHICH WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE WITH GAS LANTERNS7 min
- BOOK FIFTH—FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK — CHAPTER VI—THE BEGINNING OF AN ENIGMA5 min
- BOOK FIFTH—FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK — CHAPTER VII—CONTINUATION OF THE ENIGMA4 min
- BOOK FIFTH—FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK — CHAPTER VIII—THE ENIGMA BECOMES DOUBLY MYSTERIOUS4 min
- BOOK FIFTH—FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK — CHAPTER IX—THE MAN WITH THE BELL6 min
- BOOK FIFTH—FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK — CHAPTER X—WHICH EXPLAINS HOW JAVERT GOT ON THE SCENT16 min
- BOOK SIXTH—LE PETIT-PICPUS — CHAPTER I—NUMBER 62 RUE PETIT-PICPUS7 min
- BOOK SIXTH—LE PETIT-PICPUS — CHAPTER II—THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA12 min
- BOOK SIXTH—LE PETIT-PICPUS — CHAPTER III—AUSTERITIES3 min
- BOOK SIXTH—LE PETIT-PICPUS — CHAPTER IV—GAYETIES6 min
- BOOK SIXTH—LE PETIT-PICPUS — CHAPTER V—DISTRACTIONS10 min
- BOOK SIXTH—LE PETIT-PICPUS — CHAPTER VI—THE LITTLE CONVENT5 min
- BOOK SIXTH—LE PETIT-PICPUS — CHAPTER VII—SOME SILHOUETTES OF THIS DARKNESS4 min
- BOOK SIXTH—LE PETIT-PICPUS — CHAPTER VIII—POST CORDA LAPIDES3 min
- BOOK SIXTH—LE PETIT-PICPUS — CHAPTER IX—A CENTURY UNDER A GUIMPE4 min
- BOOK SIXTH—LE PETIT-PICPUS — CHAPTER X—ORIGIN OF THE PERPETUAL ADORATION3 min
- BOOK SIXTH—LE PETIT-PICPUS — CHAPTER XI—END OF THE PETIT-PICPUS3 min
- BOOK SEVENTH—PARENTHESIS — CHAPTER I—THE CONVENT AS AN ABSTRACT IDEA1 min
- BOOK SEVENTH—PARENTHESIS — CHAPTER II—THE CONVENT AS AN HISTORICAL FACT5 min
- BOOK SEVENTH—PARENTHESIS — CHAPTER III—ON WHAT CONDITIONS ONE CAN RESPECT THE PAST4 min
- BOOK SEVENTH—PARENTHESIS — CHAPTER IV—THE CONVENT FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF PRINCIPLES3 min
- BOOK SEVENTH—PARENTHESIS — CHAPTER V—PRAYER2 min
- BOOK SEVENTH—PARENTHESIS — CHAPTER VI—THE ABSOLUTE GOODNESS OF PRAYER4 min
- BOOK SEVENTH—PARENTHESIS — CHAPTER VII—PRECAUTIONS TO BE OBSERVED IN BLAME2 min
- BOOK SEVENTH—PARENTHESIS — CHAPTER VIII—FAITH, LAW4 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—CEMETERIES TAKE THAT WHICH IS COMMITTED THEM — CHAPTER I—WHICH TREATS OF THE MANNER OF ENTERING A CONVENT14 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—CEMETERIES TAKE THAT WHICH IS COMMITTED THEM — CHAPTER II—FAUCHELEVENT IN THE PRESENCE OF A DIFFICULTY4 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—CEMETERIES TAKE THAT WHICH IS COMMITTED THEM — CHAPTER III—MOTHER INNOCENTE15 min
- 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
- BOOK EIGHTH—CEMETERIES TAKE THAT WHICH IS COMMITTED THEM — CHAPTER V—IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE DRUNK IN ORDER TO BE IMMORTAL10 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—CEMETERIES TAKE THAT WHICH IS COMMITTED THEM — CHAPTER VI—BETWEEN FOUR PLANKS3 min
- 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
- BOOK EIGHTH—CEMETERIES TAKE THAT WHICH IS COMMITTED THEM — CHAPTER VIII—A SUCCESSFUL INTERROGATORY5 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—CEMETERIES TAKE THAT WHICH IS COMMITTED THEM — CHAPTER IX—CLOISTERED13 min
- BOOK FIRST—PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM — CHAPTER I—PARVULUS2 min
- BOOK FIRST—PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM — CHAPTER II—SOME OF HIS PARTICULAR CHARACTERISTICS3 min
- BOOK FIRST—PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM — CHAPTER III—HE IS AGREEABLE2 min
- BOOK FIRST—PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM — CHAPTER IV—HE MAY BE OF USE2 min
- BOOK FIRST—PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM — CHAPTER V—HIS FRONTIERS4 min
- BOOK FIRST—PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM — CHAPTER VI—A BIT OF HISTORY4 min
- BOOK FIRST—PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM — CHAPTER VII—THE GAMIN SHOULD HAVE HIS PLACE IN THE CLASSIFICATIONS OF INDIA4 min
- BOOK FIRST—PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM — CHAPTER VIII—IN WHICH THE READER WILL FIND A CHARMING SAYING OF THE LAST KING3 min
- BOOK FIRST—PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM — CHAPTER IX—THE OLD SOUL OF GAUL2 min
- BOOK FIRST—PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM — CHAPTER X—ECCE PARIS, ECCE HOMO5 min
- BOOK FIRST—PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM — CHAPTER XI—TO SCOFF, TO REIGN4 min
- BOOK FIRST—PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM — CHAPTER XII—THE FUTURE LATENT IN THE PEOPLE2 min
- BOOK FIRST—PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM — CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GAVROCHE5 min
- BOOK SECOND—THE GREAT BOURGEOIS — CHAPTER I—NINETY YEARS AND THIRTY-TWO TEETH4 min
- BOOK SECOND—THE GREAT BOURGEOIS — CHAPTER II—LIKE MASTER, LIKE HOUSE2 min
- BOOK SECOND—THE GREAT BOURGEOIS — CHAPTER III—LUC-ESPRIT2 min
- BOOK SECOND—THE GREAT BOURGEOIS — CHAPTER IV—A CENTENARIAN ASPIRANT2 min
- BOOK SECOND—THE GREAT BOURGEOIS — CHAPTER V—BASQUE AND NICOLETTE3 min
- BOOK SECOND—THE GREAT BOURGEOIS — CHAPTER VI—IN WHICH MAGNON AND HER TWO CHILDREN ARE SEEN4 min
- BOOK SECOND—THE GREAT BOURGEOIS — CHAPTER VII—RULE: RECEIVE NO ONE EXCEPT IN THE EVENING1 min
- BOOK SECOND—THE GREAT BOURGEOIS — CHAPTER VIII—TWO DO NOT MAKE A PAIR4 min
- BOOK THIRD—THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON — CHAPTER I—AN ANCIENT SALON6 min
- BOOK THIRD—THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON — CHAPTER II—ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH12 min
- BOOK THIRD—THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON — CHAPTER III—REQUIESCANT14 min
- BOOK THIRD—THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON — CHAPTER IV—END OF THE BRIGAND6 min
- BOOK THIRD—THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON — CHAPTER V—THE UTILITY OF GOING TO MASS, IN ORDER TO BECOME A REVOLUTIONIST3 min
- BOOK THIRD—THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON — CHAPTER VI—THE CONSEQUENCES OF HAVING MET A WARDEN12 min
- BOOK THIRD—THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON — CHAPTER VII—SOME PETTICOAT8 min
- BOOK THIRD—THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON — CHAPTER VIII—MARBLE AGAINST GRANITE9 min
- BOOK FOURTH—THE FRIENDS OF THE A B C — CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC24 min
- BOOK FOURTH—THE FRIENDS OF THE A B C — CHAPTER II—BLONDEAU’S FUNERAL ORATION BY BOSSUET6 min
- BOOK FOURTH—THE FRIENDS OF THE A B C — CHAPTER III—MARIUS’ ASTONISHMENTS4 min
- BOOK FOURTH—THE FRIENDS OF THE A B C — CHAPTER IV—THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFÉ MUSAIN13 min
- BOOK FOURTH—THE FRIENDS OF THE A B C — CHAPTER V—ENLARGEMENT OF HORIZON7 min
- BOOK FOURTH—THE FRIENDS OF THE A B C — CHAPTER VI—RES ANGUSTA4 min
- BOOK FIFTH—THE EXCELLENCE OF MISFORTUNE — CHAPTER I—MARIUS INDIGENT4 min
- BOOK FIFTH—THE EXCELLENCE OF MISFORTUNE — CHAPTER II—MARIUS POOR6 min
- BOOK FIFTH—THE EXCELLENCE OF MISFORTUNE — CHAPTER III—MARIUS GROWN UP9 min
- BOOK FIFTH—THE EXCELLENCE OF MISFORTUNE — CHAPTER IV—M. MABEUF8 min
- BOOK FIFTH—THE EXCELLENCE OF MISFORTUNE — CHAPTER V—POVERTY A GOOD NEIGHBOR FOR MISERY4 min
- BOOK FIFTH—THE EXCELLENCE OF MISFORTUNE — CHAPTER VI—THE SUBSTITUTE8 min
- BOOK SIXTH—THE CONJUNCTION OF TWO STARS — CHAPTER I—THE SOBRIQUET: MODE OF FORMATION OF FAMILY NAMES6 min
- BOOK SIXTH—THE CONJUNCTION OF TWO STARS — CHAPTER II—LUX FACTA EST4 min
- BOOK SIXTH—THE CONJUNCTION OF TWO STARS — CHAPTER III—EFFECT OF THE SPRING2 min
- BOOK SIXTH—THE CONJUNCTION OF TWO STARS — CHAPTER IV—BEGINNING OF A GREAT MALADY6 min
- BOOK SIXTH—THE CONJUNCTION OF TWO STARS — CHAPTER V—DIVERS CLAPS OF THUNDER FALL ON MA’AM BOUGON2 min
- BOOK SIXTH—THE CONJUNCTION OF TWO STARS — CHAPTER VI—TAKEN PRISONER5 min
- BOOK SIXTH—THE CONJUNCTION OF TWO STARS — CHAPTER VII—ADVENTURES OF THE LETTER U DELIVERED OVER TO CONJECTURES4 min
- BOOK SIXTH—THE CONJUNCTION OF TWO STARS — CHAPTER VIII—THE VETERANS THEMSELVES CAN BE HAPPY3 min
- BOOK SIXTH—THE CONJUNCTION OF TWO STARS — CHAPTER IX—ECLIPSE4 min
- BOOK SEVENTH—PATRON MINETTE — CHAPTER I—MINES AND MINERS4 min
- BOOK SEVENTH—PATRON MINETTE — CHAPTER II—THE LOWEST DEPTHS3 min
- BOOK SEVENTH—PATRON MINETTE — CHAPTER III—BABET, GUEULEMER, CLAQUESOUS, AND MONTPARNASSE5 min
- BOOK SEVENTH—PATRON MINETTE — CHAPTER IV—COMPOSITION OF THE TROUPE5 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER I—MARIUS, WHILE SEEKING A GIRL IN A BONNET, ENCOUNTERS A MAN IN A CAP4 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER II—TREASURE TROVE3 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER III—QUADRIFRONS7 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER IV—A ROSE IN MISERY12 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER V—A PROVIDENTIAL PEEP-HOLE5 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER VI—THE WILD MAN IN HIS LAIR8 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER VII—STRATEGY AND TACTICS6 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER VIII—THE RAY OF LIGHT IN THE HOVEL4 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER IX—JONDRETTE COMES NEAR WEEPING7 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER X—TARIFF OF LICENSED CABS: TWO FRANCS AN HOUR6 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER XI—OFFERS OF SERVICE FROM MISERY TO WRETCHEDNESS5 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER XII—THE USE MADE OF M. LEBLANC’S FIVE-FRANC PIECE8 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER XIII—SOLUS CUM SOLO, IN LOCO REMOTO, NON COGITABUNTUR ORARE PATER NOSTER5 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER XIV—IN WHICH A POLICE AGENT BESTOWS TWO FISTFULS ON A LAWYER6 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER XV—JONDRETTE MAKES HIS PURCHASES4 min
- 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
- BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER XVII—THE USE MADE OF MARIUS’ FIVE-FRANC PIECE7 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER XVIII—MARIUS’ TWO CHAIRS FORM A VIS-A-VIS3 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER XIX—OCCUPYING ONE’S SELF WITH OBSCURE DEPTHS8 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER XX—THE TRAP43 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER XXI—ONE SHOULD ALWAYS BEGIN BY ARRESTING THE VICTIMS6 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER XXII—THE LITTLE ONE WHO WAS CRYING IN VOLUME TWO3 min
- VOLUME IV SAINT-DENIS — BOOK FIRST—A FEW PAGES OF HISTORY — CHAPTER I—WELL CUT10 min
- BOOK FIRST—A FEW PAGES OF HISTORY — CHAPTER II—BADLY SEWED6 min
- BOOK FIRST—A FEW PAGES OF HISTORY — CHAPTER III—LOUIS PHILIPPE13 min
- BOOK FIRST—A FEW PAGES OF HISTORY — CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION12 min
- BOOK FIRST—A FEW PAGES OF HISTORY — CHAPTER V—FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY IGNORES18 min
- BOOK FIRST—A FEW PAGES OF HISTORY — CHAPTER VI—ENJOLRAS AND HIS LIEUTENANTS7 min
- BOOK SECOND—ÉPONINE — CHAPTER I—THE LARK’S MEADOW11 min
- BOOK SECOND—ÉPONINE — CHAPTER II—EMBRYONIC FORMATION OF CRIMES IN THE INCUBATION OF PRISONS8 min
- BOOK SECOND—ÉPONINE — CHAPTER III—APPARITION TO FATHER MABEUF7 min
- BOOK SECOND—ÉPONINE — CHAPTER IV—AN APPARITION TO MARIUS8 min
- BOOK THIRD—THE HOUSE IN THE RUE PLUMET — CHAPTER I—THE HOUSE WITH A SECRET9 min
- BOOK THIRD—THE HOUSE IN THE RUE PLUMET — CHAPTER II—JEAN VALJEAN AS A NATIONAL GUARD5 min
- BOOK THIRD—THE HOUSE IN THE RUE PLUMET — CHAPTER III—FOLIIS AC FRONDIBUS7 min
- BOOK THIRD—THE HOUSE IN THE RUE PLUMET — CHAPTER IV—CHANGE OF GATE9 min
- BOOK THIRD—THE HOUSE IN THE RUE PLUMET — CHAPTER V—THE ROSE PERCEIVES THAT IT IS AN ENGINE OF WAR8 min
- BOOK THIRD—THE HOUSE IN THE RUE PLUMET — CHAPTER VI—THE BATTLE BEGUN6 min
- BOOK THIRD—THE HOUSE IN THE RUE PLUMET — CHAPTER VII—TO ONE SADNESS OPPOSE A SADNESS AND A HALF10 min
- BOOK THIRD—THE HOUSE IN THE RUE PLUMET — CHAPTER VIII—THE CHAIN-GANG18 min
- BOOK FOURTH—SUCCOR FROM BELOW MAY TURN OUT TO BE SUCCOR FROM ON HIGH — CHAPTER I—A WOUND WITHOUT, HEALING WITHIN4 min
- 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
- BOOK FIFTH—THE END OF WHICH DOES NOT RESEMBLE THE BEGINNING — CHAPTER I—SOLITUDE AND THE BARRACKS COMBINED3 min
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Les Miserables · Victor Hugo
BOOK THIRD—ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE DEAD WOMAN — CHAPTER IX— THÉNARDIER AND HIS MANŒUVRES
Read online · About 13 minutesOn the following morning, two hours at least before day-break, Thénardier, seated beside a candle in the public room of the tavern, pen in hand, was making out the bill for the traveller with the yellow coat.
His wife, standing beside him, and half bent over him, was following him with her eyes. They exchanged not a word. On the one hand, there was profound meditation, on the other, the religious admiration with which one watches the birth and development of a marvel of the human mind. A noise was audible in the house; it was the Lark sweeping the stairs.
After the lapse of a good quarter of an hour, and some erasures, Thénardier produced the following masterpiece:—
BILL OF THE GENTLEMAN IN No. 1.
Supper
3 francs.
Chamber
10 ”
Candle
5 ”
Fire
4 ”
Service
1 ”
———
Total
23 francs.
Service was written servisse.
“Twenty-three francs!” cried the woman, with an enthusiasm which was mingled with some hesitation.
Like all great artists, Thénardier was dissatisfied.
“Peuh!” he exclaimed.
It was the accent of Castlereagh auditing France’s bill at the Congress of Vienna.
“Monsieur Thénardier, you are right; he certainly owes that,” murmured the wife, who was thinking of the doll bestowed on Cosette in the presence of her daughters. “It is just, but it is too much. He will not pay it.”
Thénardier laughed coldly, as usual, and said:—
“He will pay.”
This laugh was the supreme assertion of certainty and authority. That which was asserted in this manner must needs be so. His wife did not insist.
She set about arranging the table; her husband paced the room. A moment later he added:—
“I owe full fifteen hundred francs!”
He went and seated himself in the chimney-corner, meditating, with his feet among the warm ashes.
“Ah! by the way,” resumed his wife, “you don’t forget that I’m going to turn Cosette out of doors to-day? The monster! She breaks my heart with that doll of hers! I’d rather marry Louis XVIII. than keep her another day in the house!”
Thénardier lighted his pipe, and replied between two puffs:—
“You will hand that bill to the man.”
Then he went out.
Hardly had he left the room when the traveller entered.
Thénardier instantly reappeared behind him and remained motionless in the half-open door, visible only to his wife.
The yellow man carried his bundle and his cudgel in his hand.
“Up so early?” said Madame Thénardier; “is Monsieur leaving us already?”
As she spoke thus, she was twisting the bill about in her hands with an embarrassed air, and making creases in it with her nails. Her hard face presented a shade which was not habitual with it,—timidity and scruples.
To present such a bill to a man who had so completely the air “of a poor wretch” seemed difficult to her.
The traveller appeared to be preoccupied and absent-minded. He replied:—
“Yes, Madame, I am going.”
“So Monsieur has no business in Montfermeil?”
“No, I was passing through. That is all. What do I owe you, Madame,” he added.
The Thénardier silently handed him the folded bill.
The man unfolded the paper and glanced at it; but his thoughts were evidently elsewhere.
“Madame,” he resumed, “is business good here in Montfermeil?”
“So so, Monsieur,” replied the Thénardier, stupefied at not witnessing another sort of explosion.
She continued, in a dreary and lamentable tone:—
“Oh! Monsieur, times are so hard! and then, we have so few bourgeois in the neighborhood! All the people are poor, you see. If we had not, now and then, some rich and generous travellers like Monsieur, we should not get along at all. We have so many expenses. Just see, that child is costing us our very eyes.”
“What child?”
“Why, the little one, you know! Cosette—the Lark, as she is called hereabouts!”
“Ah!” said the man.
She went on:—
“How stupid these peasants are with their nicknames! She has more the air of a bat than of a lark. You see, sir, we do not ask charity, and we cannot bestow it. We earn nothing and we have to pay out a great deal. The license, the imposts, the door and window tax, the hundredths! Monsieur is aware that the government demands a terrible deal of money. And then, I have my daughters. I have no need to bring up other people’s children.”
The man resumed, in that voice which he strove to render indifferent, and in which there lingered a tremor:—
“What if one were to rid you of her?”
“Who? Cosette?”
“Yes.”
The landlady’s red and violent face brightened up hideously.
“Ah! sir, my dear sir, take her, keep her, lead her off, carry her away, sugar her, stuff her with truffles, drink her, eat her, and the blessings of the good holy Virgin and of all the saints of paradise be upon you!”
“Agreed.”
“Really! You will take her away?”
“I will take her away.”
“Immediately?”
“Immediately. Call the child.”
“Cosette!” screamed the Thénardier.
“In the meantime,” pursued the man, “I will pay you what I owe you. How much is it?”
He cast a glance on the bill, and could not restrain a start of surprise:—
“Twenty-three francs!”
He looked at the landlady, and repeated:—
“Twenty-three francs?”
There was in the enunciation of these words, thus repeated, an accent between an exclamation and an interrogation point.
The Thénardier had had time to prepare herself for the shock. She replied, with assurance:—
“Good gracious, yes, sir, it is twenty-three francs.”
The stranger laid five five-franc pieces on the table.
“Go and get the child,” said he.
At that moment Thénardier advanced to the middle of the room, and said:—
“Monsieur owes twenty-six sous.”
“Twenty-six sous!” exclaimed his wife.
“Twenty sous for the chamber,” resumed Thénardier, coldly, “and six sous for his supper. As for the child, I must discuss that matter a little with the gentleman. Leave us, wife.”
Madame Thénardier was dazzled as with the shock caused by unexpected lightning flashes of talent. She was conscious that a great actor was making his entrance on the stage, uttered not a word in reply, and left the room.
As soon as they were alone, Thénardier offered the traveller a chair. The traveller seated himself; Thénardier remained standing, and his face assumed a singular expression of good-fellowship and simplicity.
“Sir,” said he, “what I have to say to you is this, that I adore that child.”
The stranger gazed intently at him.
“What child?”
Thénardier continued:—
“How strange it is, one grows attached. What money is that? Take back your hundred-sou piece. I adore the child.”
“Whom do you mean?” demanded the stranger.
“Eh! our little Cosette! Are you not intending to take her away from us? Well, I speak frankly; as true as you are an honest man, I will not consent to it. I shall miss that child. I saw her first when she was a tiny thing. It is true that she costs us money; it is true that she has her faults; it is true that we are not rich; it is true that I have paid out over four hundred francs for drugs for just one of her illnesses! But one must do something for the good God’s sake. She has neither father nor mother. I have brought her up. I have bread enough for her and for myself. In truth, I think a great deal of that child. You understand, one conceives an affection for a person; I am a good sort of a beast, I am; I do not reason; I love that little girl; my wife is quick-tempered, but she loves her also. You see, she is just the same as our own child. I want to keep her to babble about the house.”
The stranger kept his eye intently fixed on Thénardier. The latter continued:—
“Excuse me, sir, but one does not give away one’s child to a passer-by, like that. I am right, am I not? Still, I don’t say—you are rich; you have the air of a very good man,—if it were for her happiness. But one must find out that. You understand: suppose that I were to let her go and to sacrifice myself, I should like to know what becomes of her; I should not wish to lose sight of her; I should like to know with whom she is living, so that I could go to see her from time to time; so that she may know that her good foster-father is alive, that he is watching over her. In short, there are things which are not possible. I do not even know your name. If you were to take her away, I should say: ‘Well, and the Lark, what has become of her?’ One must, at least, see some petty scrap of paper, some trifle in the way of a passport, you know!”
The stranger, still surveying him with that gaze which penetrates, as the saying goes, to the very depths of the conscience, replied in a grave, firm voice:—
“Monsieur Thénardier, one does not require a passport to travel five leagues from Paris. If I take Cosette away, I shall take her away, and that is the end of the matter. You will not know my name, you will not know my residence, you will not know where she is; and my intention is that she shall never set eyes on you again so long as she lives. I break the thread which binds her foot, and she departs. Does that suit you? Yes or no?”
Since geniuses, like demons, recognize the presence of a superior God by certain signs, Thénardier comprehended that he had to deal with a very strong person. It was like an intuition; he comprehended it with his clear and sagacious promptitude. While drinking with the carters, smoking, and singing coarse songs on the preceding evening, he had devoted the whole of the time to observing the stranger, watching him like a cat, and studying him like a mathematician. He had watched him, both on his own account, for the pleasure of the thing, and through instinct, and had spied upon him as though he had been paid for so doing. Not a movement, not a gesture, on the part of the man in the yellow great-coat had escaped him. Even before the stranger had so clearly manifested his interest in Cosette, Thénardier had divined his purpose. He had caught the old man’s deep glances returning constantly to the child. Who was this man? Why this interest? Why this hideous costume, when he had so much money in his purse? Questions which he put to himself without being able to solve them, and which irritated him. He had pondered it all night long. He could not be Cosette’s father. Was he her grandfather? Then why not make himself known at once? When one has a right, one asserts it. This man evidently had no right over Cosette. What was it, then? Thénardier lost himself in conjectures. He caught glimpses of everything, but he saw nothing. Be that as it may, on entering into conversation with the man, sure that there was some secret in the case, that the latter had some interest in remaining in the shadow, he felt himself strong; when he perceived from the stranger’s clear and firm retort, that this mysterious personage was mysterious in so simple a way, he became conscious that he was weak. He had expected nothing of the sort. His conjectures were put to the rout. He rallied his ideas. He weighed everything in the space of a second. Thénardier was one of those men who take in a situation at a glance. He decided that the moment had arrived for proceeding straightforward, and quickly at that. He did as great leaders do at the decisive moment, which they know that they alone recognize; he abruptly unmasked his batteries.
“Sir,” said he, “I am in need of fifteen hundred francs.”
The stranger took from his side pocket an old pocketbook of black leather, opened it, drew out three bank-bills, which he laid on the table. Then he placed his large thumb on the notes and said to the inn-keeper:—
“Go and fetch Cosette.”
While this was taking place, what had Cosette been doing?
On waking up, Cosette had run to get her shoe. In it she had found the gold piece. It was not a Napoleon; it was one of those perfectly new twenty-franc pieces of the Restoration, on whose effigy the little Prussian queue had replaced the laurel wreath. Cosette was dazzled. Her destiny began to intoxicate her. She did not know what a gold piece was; she had never seen one; she hid it quickly in her pocket, as though she had stolen it. Still, she felt that it really was hers; she guessed whence her gift had come, but the joy which she experienced was full of fear. She was happy; above all she was stupefied. Such magnificent and beautiful things did not appear real. The doll frightened her, the gold piece frightened her. She trembled vaguely in the presence of this magnificence. The stranger alone did not frighten her. On the contrary, he reassured her. Ever since the preceding evening, amid all her amazement, even in her sleep, she had been thinking in her little childish mind of that man who seemed to be so poor and so sad, and who was so rich and so kind. Everything had changed for her since she had met that good man in the forest. Cosette, less happy than the most insignificant swallow of heaven, had never known what it was to take refuge under a mother’s shadow and under a wing. For the last five years, that is to say, as far back as her memory ran, the poor child had shivered and trembled. She had always been exposed completely naked to the sharp wind of adversity; now it seemed to her she was clothed. Formerly her soul had seemed cold, now it was warm. Cosette was no longer afraid of the Thénardier. She was no longer alone; there was some one there.
She hastily set about her regular morning duties. That louis, which she had about her, in the very apron pocket whence the fifteen-sou piece had fallen on the night before, distracted her thoughts. She dared not touch it, but she spent five minutes in gazing at it, with her tongue hanging out, if the truth must be told. As she swept the staircase, she paused, remained standing there motionless, forgetful of her broom and of the entire universe, occupied in gazing at that star which was blazing at the bottom of her pocket.
It was during one of these periods of contemplation that the Thénardier joined her. She had gone in search of Cosette at her husband’s orders. What was quite unprecedented, she neither struck her nor said an insulting word to her.
“Cosette,” she said, almost gently, “come immediately.”
An instant later Cosette entered the public room.
The stranger took up the bundle which he had brought and untied it. This bundle contained a little woollen gown, an apron, a fustian bodice, a kerchief, a petticoat, woollen stockings, shoes—a complete outfit for a girl of seven years. All was black.
“My child,” said the man, “take these, and go and dress yourself quickly.”
Daylight was appearing when those of the inhabitants of Montfermeil who had begun to open their doors beheld a poorly clad old man leading a little girl dressed in mourning, and carrying a pink doll in her arms, pass along the road to Paris. They were going in the direction of Livry.
It was our man and Cosette.
No one knew the man; as Cosette was no longer in rags, many did not recognize her. Cosette was going away. With whom? She did not know. Whither? She knew not. All that she understood was that she was leaving the Thénardier tavern behind her. No one had thought of bidding her farewell, nor had she thought of taking leave of any one. She was leaving that hated and hating house.
Poor, gentle creature, whose heart had been repressed up to that hour!
Cosette walked along gravely, with her large eyes wide open, and gazing at the sky. She had put her louis in the pocket of her new apron. From time to time, she bent down and glanced at it; then she looked at the good man. She felt something as though she were beside the good God.