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Les Miserables
book third.--the house in the rue plumet   Chapter IV. Change of Gate
Victor Hugo
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       It seemed that this garden, created in olden days to conceal wanton mysteries, had been transformed and become fitted to shelter chaste mysteries. There were no longer either arbors, or bowling greens, or tunnels, or grottos; there was a magnificent, dishevelled obscurity falling like a veil over all. Paphos had been made over into Eden. It is impossible to say what element of repentance had rendered this retreat wholesome. This flower-girl now offered her blossom to the soul. This coquettish garden, formerly decidedly compromised, had returned to virginity and modesty. A justice assisted by a gardener, a goodman who thought that he was a continuation of Lamoignon, and another goodman who thought that he was a continuation of Lenotre, had turned it about, cut, ruffled, decked, moulded it to gallantry; nature had taken possession of it once more, had filled it with shade, and had arranged it for love.
       There was, also, in this solitude, a heart which was quite ready. Love had only to show himself; he had here a temple composed of verdure, grass, moss, the sight of birds, tender shadows, agitated branches, and a soul made of sweetness, of faith, of candor, of hope, of aspiration, and of illusion.
       Cosette had left the convent when she was still almost a child; she was a little more than fourteen, and she was at the "ungrateful age"; we have already said, that with the exception of her eyes, she was homely rather than pretty; she had no ungraceful feature, but she was awkward, thin, timid and bold at once, a grown-up little girl, in short.
       Her education was finished, that is to say, she has been taught religion, and even and above all, devotion; then "history," that is to say the thing that bears that name in convents, geography, grammar, the participles, the kings of France, a little music, a little drawing, etc.; but in all other respects she was utterly ignorant, which is a great charm and a great peril. The soul of a young girl should not be left in the dark; later on, mirages that are too abrupt and too lively are formed there, as in a dark chamber. She should be gently and discreetly enlightened, rather with the reflection of realities than with their harsh and direct light. A useful and graciously austere half-light which dissipates puerile fears and obviates falls. There is nothing but the maternal instinct, that admirable intuition composed of the memories of the virgin and the experience of the woman, which knows how this half-light is to be created and of what it should consist.
       Nothing supplies the place of this instinct. All the nuns in the world are not worth as much as one mother in the formation of a young girl's soul.
       Cosette had had no mother. She had only had many mothers, in the plural.
       As for Jean Valjean, he was, indeed, all tenderness, all solicitude; but he was only an old man and he knew nothing at all.
       Now, in this work of education, in this grave matter of preparing a woman for life, what science is required to combat that vast ignorance which is called innocence!
       Nothing prepares a young girl for passions like the convent. The convent turns the thoughts in the direction of the unknown. The heart, thus thrown back upon itself, works downward within itself, since it cannot overflow, and grows deep, since it cannot expand. Hence visions, suppositions, conjectures, outlines of romances, a desire for adventures, fantastic constructions, edifices built wholly in the inner obscurity of the mind, sombre and secret abodes where the passions immediately find a lodgement as soon as the open gate permits them to enter. The convent is a compression which, in order to triumph over the human heart, should last during the whole life.
       On quitting the convent, Cosette could have found nothing more sweet and more dangerous than the house in the Rue Plumet. It was the continuation of solitude with the beginning of liberty; a garden that was closed, but a nature that was acrid, rich, voluptuous, and fragrant; the same dreams as in the convent, but with glimpses of young men; a grating, but one that opened on the street.
       Still, when she arrived there, we repeat, she was only a child. Jean Valjean gave this neglected garden over to her. "Do what you like with it," he said to her. This amused Cosette; she turned over all the clumps and all the stones, she hunted for "beasts"; she played in it, while awaiting the time when she would dream in it; she loved this garden for the insects that she found beneath her feet amid the grass, while awaiting the day when she would love it for the stars that she would see through the boughs above her head.
       And then, she loved her father, that is to say, Jean Valjean, with all her soul, with an innocent filial passion which made the goodman a beloved and charming companion to her. It will be remembered that M. Madeleine had been in the habit of reading a great deal. Jean Valjean had continued this practice; he had come to converse well; he possessed the secret riches and the eloquence of a true and humble mind which has spontaneously cultivated itself. He retained just enough sharpness to season his kindness; his mind was rough and his heart was soft. During their conversations in the Luxembourg, he gave her explanations of everything, drawing on what he had read, and also on what he had suffered. As she listened to him, Cosette's eyes wandered vaguely about.
       This simple man sufficed for Cosette's thought, the same as the wild garden sufficed for her eyes. When she had had a good chase after the butterflies, she came panting up to him and said: "Ah! How I have run!" He kissed her brow.
       Cosette adored the goodman. She was always at his heels. Where Jean Valjean was, there happiness was. Jean Valjean lived neither in the pavilion nor the garden; she took greater pleasure in the paved back courtyard, than in the enclosure filled with flowers, and in his little lodge furnished with straw-seated chairs than in the great drawing-room hung with tapestry, against which stood tufted easy-chairs. Jean Valjean sometimes said to her, smiling at his happiness in being importuned: "Do go to your own quarters! Leave me alone a little!"
       She gave him those charming and tender scoldings which are so graceful when they come from a daughter to her father.
       "Father, I am very cold in your rooms; why don't you have a carpet here and a stove?"
       "Dear child, there are so many people who are better than I and who have not even a roof over their heads."
       "Then why is there a fire in my rooms, and everything that is needed?"
       "Because you are a woman and a child."
       "Bah! must men be cold and feel uncomfortable?"
       "Certain men."
       "That is good, I shall come here so often that you will be obliged to have a fire."
       And again she said to him:--
       "Father, why do you eat horrible bread like that?"
       "Because, my daughter."
       "Well, if you eat it, I will eat it too."
       Then, in order to prevent Cosette eating black bread, Jean Valjean ate white bread.
       Cosette had but a confused recollection of her childhood. She prayed morning and evening for her mother whom she had never known. The Thenardiers had remained with her as two hideous figures in a dream. She remembered that she had gone "one day, at night," to fetch water in a forest. She thought that it had been very far from Paris. It seemed to her that she had begun to live in an abyss, and that it was Jean Valjean who had rescued her from it. Her childhood produced upon her the effect of a time when there had been nothing around her but millepeds, spiders, and serpents. When she meditated in the evening, before falling asleep, as she had not a very clear idea that she was Jean Valjean's daughter, and that he was her father, she fancied that the soul of her mother had passed into that good man and had come to dwell near her.
       When he was seated, she leaned her cheek against his white hair, and dropped a silent tear, saying to herself: "Perhaps this man is my mother."
       Cosette, although this is a strange statement to make, in the profound ignorance of a girl brought up in a convent,-- maternity being also absolutely unintelligible to virginity,-- had ended by fancying that she had had as little mother as possible. She did not even know her mother's name. Whenever she asked Jean Valjean, Jean Valjean remained silent. If she repeated her question, he responded with a smile. Once she insisted; the smile ended in a tear.
       This silence on the part of Jean Valjean covered Fantine with darkness.
       Was it prudence? Was it respect? Was it a fear that he should deliver this name to the hazards of another memory than his own?
       So long as Cosette had been small, Jean Valjean had been willing to talk to her of her mother; when she became a young girl, it was impossible for him to do so. It seemed to him that he no longer dared. Was it because of Cosette? Was it because of Fantine? He felt a certain religious horror at letting that shadow enter Cosette's thought; and of placing a third in their destiny. The more sacred this shade was to him, the more did it seem that it was to be feared. He thought of Fantine, and felt himself overwhelmed with silence.
       Through the darkness, he vaguely perceived something which appeared to have its finger on its lips. Had all the modesty which had been in Fantine, and which had violently quitted her during her lifetime, returned to rest upon her after her death, to watch in indignation over the peace of that dead woman, and in its shyness, to keep her in her grave? Was Jean Valjean unconsciously submitting to the pressure? We who believe in death, are not among the number who will reject this mysterious explanation.
       Hence the impossibility of uttering, even for Cosette, that name of Fantine.
       One day Cosette said to him:--
       "Father, I saw my mother in a dream last night. She had two big wings. My mother must have been almost a saint during her life."
       "Through martyrdom," replied Jean Valjean.
       However, Jean Valjean was happy.
       When Cosette went out with him, she leaned on his arm, proud and happy, in the plenitude of her heart. Jean Valjean felt his heart melt within him with delight, at all these sparks of a tenderness so exclusive, so wholly satisfied with himself alone. The poor man trembled, inundated with angelic joy; he declared to himself ecstatically that this would last all their lives; he told himself that he really had not suffered sufficiently to merit so radiant a bliss, and he thanked God, in the depths of his soul, for having permitted him to be loved thus, he, a wretch, by that innocent being.
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book first--a just man
   Chapter I. M. Myriel
   Chapter II. M. Myriel becomes M. Welcome
   Chapter III. A Hard Bishopric for a Good Bishop
   Chapter IV. Works corresponding to Words
   Chapter V. Monseigneur Bienvenu made his Cassocks last too long
   Chapter VI. Who guarded his House for him
   Chapter VII. Cravatte
   Chapter VIII. Philosophy after Drinking
   Chapter IX. The Brother as depicted by the Sister
   Chapter X. The Bishop in the Presence of an Unknown Light
   Chapter XI. A Restriction
   Chapter XII. The Solitude of Monseigneur Welcome
   Chapter XIII. What he believed
   Chapter XIV. What he thought
book second.--the fall
   Chapter I. The Evening of a Day of Walking
   Chapter II. Prudence counselled to Wisdom
   Chapter III. The Heroism of Passive Obedience
   Chapter IV. Details concerning the Cheese-Dairies of Pontarlier
   Chapter V. Tranquillity
   Chapter VI. Jean Valjean
   Chapter VII. The Interior of Despair
   Chapter VIII. Billows and Shadows
   Chapter IX. New Troubles
   Chapter X. The Man aroused
   Chapter XI. What he does
   Chapter XII. The Bishop works
   Chapter XIII. Little Gervais
book third.--in the year 1817
   Chapter I. The Year 1817
   Chapter II. A Double Quartette
   Chapter III. Four and Four
   Chapter IV. Tholomyes is so Merry that he sings a Spanish Ditty
   Chapter V. At Bombardas
   Chapter VI. A Chapter in which they adore Each Other
   Chapter VII. The Wisdom of Tholomyes
   Chapter VIII. The Death of a Horse
   Chapter IX. A Merry End to Mirth
book fourth.--to confide is sometimes to deliver into a person's power
   Chapter I. One Mother meets Another Mother
   Chapter II. First Sketch of Two Unprepossessing Figures
   Chapter III. The Lark
book fifth.-- the descent
   Chapter I. The History of a Progress in Black Glass Trinkets
   Chapter II. Madeleine
   Chapter III. Sums deposited with Laffitte
   Chapter IV. M. Madeleine in Mourning
   Chapter V. Vague Flashes on the Horizon
   Chapter VI. Father Fauchelevent
   Chapter VII. Fauchelevent becomes a Gardener in Paris
   Chapter VIII. Madame Victurnien expends Thirty Francs on Morality
   Chapter IX. Madame Victurnien's Success
   Chapter X. Result of the Success
   Chapter XI. Christus nos Liberavit
   Chapter XII. M. Bamatabois's Inactivity
   Chapter XIII. The Solution of Some Questions connected with the Municipal Police
book sixth.--javert
   Chapter I. The Beginning of Repose
   Chapter II. How Jean may become Champ
book seventh.--the champmathieu affair
   Chapter I. Sister Simplice
   Chapter II. The Perspicacity of Master Scaufflaire
   Chapter III. A Tempest in a Skull
   Chapter IV. Forms assumed by Suffering during Sleep
   Chapter V. Hindrances
   Chapter VI. Sister Simplice put to the Proof
   Chapter VII. The Traveller on his Arrival takes Precautions for Departure
   Chapter VIII. An Entrance by Favor
   Chapter IX. A Place where Convictions are in Process of Formation
   Chapter X. The System of Denials
   Chapter XI. Champmathieu more and more Astonished
book eighth.--a counter-blow
   Chapter I. In what Mirror M. Madeleine contemplates his Hair
   Chapter II. Fantine Happy
   Chapter III. Javert Satisfied
   Chapter IV. Authority reasserts its Rights
   Chapter V. A Suitable Tomb
book first.--waterloo
   Chapter I. What is met with on the Way from Nivelles
   Chapter II. Hougomont
   Chapter III. The Eighteenth of June, 1815
   Chapter IV. A
   Chapter V. The Quid Obscurum of Battles
   Chapter VI. Four o'clock in the Afternoon
   Chapter VII. Napoleon in a Good Humor
   Chapter VIII. The Emperor puts a Question to the Guide Lacoste
   Chapter IX. The Unexpected
   Chapter X. The Plateau of Mont-Saint-Jean
   Chapter XI. A Bad Guide to Napoleon; a Good Guide to Bulow
   Chapter XII. The Guard
   Chapter XIII. The Catastrophe
   Chapter XIV. The Last Square
   Chapter XV. Cambronne
   Chapter XVI. Quot Libras in Duce?
   Chapter XVII. Is Waterloo to be considered Good?
   Chapter XVIII. A Recrudescence of Divine Right
   Chapter XIX. The Battle-Field at Night
book second.--the ship orion
   Chapter I. Number 24,601 becomes Number 9,430
   Chapter II. In which the reader will peruse Two Verses which are of the Devil's Composition possibly
   Chapter III. The Ankle-Chain must have undergone a Certain Preparatory Manipulation to be thus broken with a Blow from a Hammer
book third.--accomplishment of the promise made to the dead woman
   Chapter I. The Water Question at Montfermeil
   Chapter II. Two Complete Portraits
   Chapter III. Men must have Wine, and Horses must have Water
   Chapter IV. Entrance on the Scene of a Doll
   Chapter V. The Little One All Alone
   Chapter VI. Which possibly proves Boulatruelle's Intelligence
   Chapter VII. Cosette Side by Side with the Stranger in the Dark
   Chapter VIII. The Unpleasantness of receiving into One's House a Poor Man who may be a Rich Man
   Chapter IX. Thenardier at his Manoeuvres
   Chapter X. He who seeks to better himself may render his Situation Worse
   Chapter XI. Number 9,430 reappears, and Cosette wins it in the Lottery
book fourth.--the gorbeau hovel
   Chapter I. Master Gorbeau
   Chapter II. A Nest for Owl and a Warbler
   Chapter III. Two Misfortunes make One Piece of Good Fortune
   Chapter IV. The Remarks of the Principal Tenant
   Chapter V. A Five-Franc Piece falls on the Ground and produces a Tumult
book fifth.--for a black hunt, a mute pack
   Chapter I. The Zigzags of Strategy
   Chapter II. It is Lucky that the Pont d'Austerlitz bears Carriages
   Chapter III. To Wit, the Plan of Paris in 1727
   Chapter IV. The Gropings of Flight
   Chapter V. Which would be Impossible with Gas Lanterns
   Chapter VI. The Beginning of an Enigma
   Chapter VII. Continuation of the Enigma
   Chapter VIII. The Enigma becomes Doubly Mysterious
   Chapter IX. The Man with the Bell
   Chapter X. Which explains how Javert got on the Scent
book sixth.--le petit-picpus
   Chapter I. Number 62 Rue Petit-Picpus
   Chapter II. The Obedience of Martin Verga
   Chapter III. Austerities
   Chapter IV. Gayeties
   Chapter V. Distractions
   Chapter VI. The Little Convent
   Chapter VII. Some Silhouettes of this Darkness
   Chapter VIII. Post Corda Lapides
   Chapter IX. A Century under a Guimpe
   Chapter X. Origin of the Perpetual Adoration
   Chapter XI. End of the Petit-Picpus
book seventh.--parenthesis
   Chapter I. The Convent as an Abstract Idea
   Chapter II. The Convent as an Historical Fact
   Chapter III. On What Conditions One can respect the Past
   Chapter IV. The Convent from the Point of View of Principles
   Chapter V. Prayer
   Chapter VI. The Absolute Goodness of Prayer
   Chapter VII. Precautions to be observed in Blame
   Chapter VIII. Faith, Law
book eighth.--cemeteries take that which is committed them
   Chapter I. Which treats of the Manner of entering a Convent
   Chapter II. Fauchelevent in the Presence of a Difficulty
   Chapter III. Mother Innocente
   Chapter IV. In which Jean Valjean has quite the Air of having read Austin Castillejo
   Chapter V. It is not Necessary to be Drunk in order to be Immortal
   Chapter VI. Between Four Planks
   Chapter VII. In which will be found the Origin of the Saying: Don't lose the Card
   Chapter VIII. A Successful Interrogatory
   Chapter IX. Cloistered
book first.--paris studied in its atom
   Chapter I. Parvulus
   Chapter II. Some of his Particular Characteristics
   Chapter III. He is Agreeable
   Chapter IV. He may be of Use
   Chapter V. His Frontiers
   Chapter VI. A Bit of History
   Chapter VII. The Gamin should have his Place in the Classifications of India
   Chapter VIII. In which the Reader will find a Charming Saying of the Last King
   Chapter IX. The Old Soul of Gaul
   Chapter X. Ecce Paris, ecce Homo
   Chapter XI. To Scoff, to Reign
   Chapter XII. The Future Latent in the People
   Chapter XIII. Little Gavroche
book second.--the great bourgeois
   Chapter I. Ninety Years and Thirty-two Teeth
   Chapter II. Like Master, Like House
   Chapter III. Luc-Esprit
   Chapter IV. A Centenarian Aspirant
   Chapter V. Basque and Nicolette
   Chapter VI. In which Magnon and her Two Children are seen
   Chapter VII. Rule: Receive No One except in the Evening
   Chapter VIII. Two do not make a Pair
book third.--the grandfather and the grandson
   Chapter I. An Ancient Salon
   Chapter II. One of the Red Spectres of that Epoch
   Chapter III. Requiescant
   Chapter IV. End of the Brigand
   Chapter V. The Utility of going to Mass, in order to become a Revolutionist
   Chapter VI. The Consequences of having met a Warden
   Chapter VII. Some Petticoat
   Chapter VIII. Marble against Granite
book fourth.--the friends of the abc
   Chapter I. A Group which barely missed becoming Historic
   Chapter II. Blondeau's Funeral Oration by Bossuet
   Chapter III. Marius' Astonishments
   Chapter IV. The Back Room of the Cafe Musain
   Chapter V. Enlargement of Horizon
   Chapter VI. Res Angusta
book fifth.--the excellence of misfortune
   Chapter I. Marius Indigent
   Chapter II. Marius Poor
   Chapter III. Marius Grown Up
   Chapter IV. M. Mabeuf
   Chapter V. Poverty a Good Neighbor for Misery
   Chapter VI. The Substitute
book sixth.--the conjunction of two stars
   Chapter I. The Sobriquet; Mode of Formation of Family Names
   Chapter II. Lux Facta Est
   Chapter III. Effect of the Spring
   Chapter IV. Beginning of a Great Malady
   Chapter V. Divers Claps of Thunder fall on Ma'am Bougon
   Chapter VI. Taken Prisoner
   Chapter VII. Adventures of the Letter U delivered over to Conjectures
   Chapter VIII. The Veterans themselves can be Happy
   Chapter IX. Eclipse
book seventh.--patron minette
   Chapter I. Mines and Miners
   Chapter II. The Lowest Depths
   Chapter III. Babet, Gueulemer, Claquesous, and Montparnasse
   Chapter IV. Composition of the Troupe
book eighth.--the wicked poor man
   Chapter I. Marius, while seeking a Girl in a Bonnet encounters a Man in a Cap
   Chapter II. Treasure Trove
   Chapter III. Quadrifrons
   Chapter IV. A Rose in Misery
   Chapter V. A Providential Peep-Hole
   Chapter VI. The Wild Man in his Lair
   Chapter VII. Strategy and Tactics
   Chapter VIII. The Ray of Light in the Hovel
   Chapter IX. Jondrette comes near Weeping
   Chapter X. Tariff of Licensed Cabs, Two Francs an Hour
   Chapter XI. Offers of Service from Misery to Wretchedness
   Chapter XII. The Use made of M. Leblanc's Five-Franc Piece
   Chapter XIII. Solus cum Solo, in Loco Remoto, non cogitabuntur orare Pater Noster
   Chapter XIV. In which a Police Agent bestows Two Fistfuls on a Lawyer
   Chapter XV. Jondrette makes his Purchases
   Chapter XVI. In which will be found the Words to an English Air which was in Fashion in 1832
   Chapter XVII. The Use made of Marius' Five-Franc Piece
   Chapter XVIII. Marius' Two Chairs form a Vis-a-Vis
   Chapter XIX. Occupying One's Self with Obscure Depths
   Chapter XX. The Trap
   Chapter XXI. One should always begin by arresting the Victims
   Chapter XXII. The Little One who was crying in Volume Two
book first.--a few pages of history
   Chapter I. Well Cut
   Chapter II. Badly Sewed
   Chapter III. Louis Philippe
   Chapter IV. Cracks beneath the Foundation
   Chapter V. Facts whence History springs and which History ignores
   Chapter VI. Enjolras and his Lieutenants
book second.--eponine
   Chapter I. The Lark's Meadow
   Chapter II. Embryonic Formation of Crimes in the Incubation of Prisons
   Chapter III. Apparition to Father Mabeuf
   Chapter IV. An Apparition to Marius
book third.--the house in the rue plumet
   Chapter I. The House with a Secret
   Chapter II. Jean Valjean as a National Guard
   Chapter III. Foliis ac Frondibus
   Chapter IV. Change of Gate
   Chapter V. The Rose perceives that it is an Engine of War
   Chapter VI. The Battle Begun
   Chapter VII. To One Sadness oppose a Sadness and a Half
   Chapter VIII. The Chain-Gang
book fourth.--succor from below may turn out to be succor from on high
   Chapter I. A Wound without, Healing within
   Chapter II. Mother Plutarque finds no Difficulty in explaining a Phenomenon
book fifth.--the end of which does not resemble the beginning
   Chapter I. Solitude and Barracks Combined
   Chapter II. Cosette's Apprehensions
   Chapter III. Enriched with Commentaries by Toussaint
   Chapter IV. A Heart beneath a Stone
   Chapter V. Cosette after the Letter
   Chapter VI. Old People are made to go out opportunely
book sixth.--little gavroche
   Chapter I. The Malicious Playfulness of the Wind
   Chapter II. In which Little Gavroche extracts Profit from Napoleon the Great
   Chapter III. The Vicissitudes of Flight
book seventh.--slang
   Chapter I. Origin
   Chapter II. Roots
   Chapter III. Slang which weeps and Slang which laughs
   Chapter IV. The Two Duties: To Watch and to Hope
book eighth.--enchantments and desolations
   Chapter I. Full Light
   Chapter II. The Bewilderment of Perfect Happiness
   Chapter III. The Beginning of Shadow
   Chapter IV. A Cab runs in English and barks in Slang
   Chapter V. Things of the Night
   Chapter VI. Marius becomes Practical once more to the Extent of Giving Cosette his Address
   Chapter VII. The Old Heart and the Young Heart in the Presence of Each Other
book ninth.--whither are they going?
   Chapter I. Jean Valjean
   Chapter II. Marius
   Chapter III. M. Mabeuf
book tenth.--the 5th of june, 1832
   Chapter I. The Surface of the Question
   Chapter II. The Root of the Matter
   Chapter III. A Burial; an Occasion to be born again
   Chapter IV. The Ebullitions of Former Days
   Chapter V. Originality of Paris
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 Poetry
   Chapter II. Gavroche on the March
   Chapter III. Just Indignation of a Hair-dresser
   Chapter IV. The Child is amazed at the Old Man
   Chapter V. The Old Man
   Chapter VI. Recruits
book twelfth.--corinthe
   Chapter I. History of Corinthe from its Foundation
   Chapter II. Preliminary Gayeties
   Chapter III. Night begins to descend upon Grantaire
   Chapter IV. An Attempt to console the Widow Hucheloup
   Chapter V. Preparations
   Chapter VI. Waiting
   Chapter VII. The Man recruited in the Rue des Billettes
   Chapter VIII. Many Interrogation Points with Regard to a Certain Le Cabuc, whose Name may not have been Le Cabuc
book thirteenth.--marius enters the shadow
   Chapter I. From the Rue Plumet to the Quartier Saint-Denis
   Chapter II. An Owl's View of Paris
   Chapter III. The Extreme Edge
book fourteenth.--the grandeurs of despair
   Chapter I. The Flag: Act First
   Chapter II. The Flag: Act Second
   Chapter III. Gavroche would have done better to accept Enjolras' Carbine
   Chapter IV. The Barrel of Powder
   Chapter V. End of the Verses of Jean Prouvaire
   Chapter VI. The Agony of Death after the Agony of Life
   Chapter VII. Gavroche as a Profound Calculator of Distances
book fifteenth.--the rue de l'homme arme
   Chapter I. A Drinker is a Babbler
   Chapter II. The Street Urchin an Enemy of Light
   Chapter III. While Cosette and Toussaint are Asleep
   Chapter IV. Gavroche's Excess of Zeal
book first.--the war between four walls
   Chapter I. The Charybdis of the Faubourg Saint-Antoine and the Scylla of the Faubourg du Temple
   Chapter II. What Is to Be Done in the Abyss if One Does Not Converse
   Chapter III. Light and Shadow
   Chapter IV. Minus Five, Plus One
   Chapter V. The Horizon Which One Beholds from the Summit of a Barricade
   Chapter VI. Marius Haggard, Javert Laconic
   Chapter VII. The Situation Becomes Aggravated
   Chapter VIII. The Artillery-men Compel People to Take Them Seriously
   Chapter IX. Employment of the Old Talents of a Poacher and That Infallible Marksmanship Which Influenced the Condemnation of 1796
   Chapter X. Dawn
   Chapter XI. The Shot Which Misses Nothing and Kills No One
   Chapter XII. Disorder a Partisan of Order
   Chapter XIII. Passing Gleams
   Chapter XIV. Wherein Will Appear the Name of Enjolras' Mistress
   Chapter XV. Gavroche Outside
   Chapter XVI. How from a Brother One Becomes a Father
   Chapter XVII. Mortuus Pater Filium Moriturum Expectat
   Chapter XVIII. The Vulture Becomes Prey
   Chapter XIX. Jean Valjean Takes His Revenge
   Chapter XX. The Dead Are in the Right and the Living Are Not in the Wrong
   Chapter XXI. The Heroes
   Chapter XXII. Foot to Foot
   Chapter XXIII. Orestes Fasting and Pylades Drunk
   Chapter XXIV. Prisoner
book second.--the intestine of the leviathan
   Chapter I. The Land Impoverished by the Sea
   Chapter II. Ancient History of the Sewer
   Chapter III. Bruneseau
   Chapter IV
   Chapter V. Present Progress
   Chapter VI. Future Progress
book third.--mud but the soul
   Chapter I. The Sewer and Its Surprises
   Chapter II. Explanation
   Chapter III. The "Spun" Man
   Chapter IV. He Also Bears His Cross
   Chapter V. In the Case of Sand, as in That of Woman, There Is a Fineness Which Is Treacherous
   Chapter VI. The Fontis
   Chapter VII. One Sometimes Runs Aground When One Fancies That One Is Disembarking
   Chapter VIII. The Torn Coat-Tail
   Chapter IX. Marius Produces on Some One Who Is a Judge of the Matter, the Effect of Being Dead
   Chapter X. Return of the Son Who Was Prodigal of His Life
   Chapter XI. Concussion in the Absolute
   Chapter XII. The Grandfather
book fourth.--javert derailed
   Chapter I
book fifth.--grandson and grandfather
   Chapter I. In Which the Tree with the Zinc Plaster Appears Again
   Chapter II. Marius, Emerging from Civil War, Makes Ready for Domestic War
   Chapter III. Marius Attacked
   Chapter IV. Mademoiselle Gillenormand Ends by No Longer Thinking It a Bad Thing That M. Fauchelevent Should Have Entered With Something Under His Arm
   Chapter V. Deposit Your Money in a Forest Rather than with a Notary
   Chapter VI. The Two Old Men Do Everything, Each One After His Own Fashion, to Render Cosette Happy
   Chapter VII. The Effects of Dreams Mingled with Happiness
   Chapter VIII. Two Men Impossible to Find
book sixth.--the sleepless night
   Chapter I. The 16th of February, 1833
   Chapter II. Jean Valjean Still Wears His Arm in a Sling
   Chapter III. The Inseparable
   Chapter IV. The Immortal Liver
book seventh.--the last draught from the cup
   Chapter I. The Seventh Circle and the Eighth Heaven
   Chapter II. The Obscurities Which a Revelation Can Contain
book eighth.--fading away of the twilight
   Chapter I. The Lower Chamber
   Chapter II. Another Step Backwards
   Chapter III. They Recall the Garden of the Rue Plumet
   Chapter IV. Attraction and Extinction
book ninth.--supreme shadow, supreme dawn
   Chapter I. Pity for the Unhappy, but Indulgence for the Happy
   Chapter II. Last Flickerings of a Lamp Without Oil
   Chapter III. A Pen Is Heavy to the Man Who Lifted the Fauchelevent's Cart
   Chapter IV. A Bottle of Ink Which Only Succeeded in Whitening
   Chapter V. A Night Behind Which There Is Day
   Chapter VI. The Grass Covers and the Rain Effaces