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The Grass Covers and the Rain Effaces

A Night Behind Which there is Day

Bottle of Ink Which Only Succeeded in Whitening

A Pen is Heavy to the Man Who Lifted the Fauchelevent’s Cart

Last Flickerings of a Lamp Without Oil

Pity for the Unhappy, but Indulgence for the Happy

Attraction and Extinction

They Recall the Garden of the Rue Plumet

Another Step Backwards

The Lower Chamber

The Obscurities Which a Revelation Can Contain

The Seventh Circle and the Eighth Heaven

The Immortal Liver

The Inseparable

Jean Valjean Still Wears His Arm in a Sling

The 16th of February, 1833

Two Men Impossible to Find

The Effects of Dreams Mingled with Happiness

The Two Old Men do Everything, Each One After His Own Fashion, to Render Cosette Happy

Deposit Your Money in a Forest Rather than with a Notary

Mademoiselle Gillenormand Ends by No Longer Thinking it a Bad Thing that M. Fauchelevent Should have Entered with Something Under his Arm

Marius Attacked

Marius, Emerging from Civil War, Makes Ready for Domestic War

In which the Tree with the Zinc Plaster Appears Again

Javert Derailed

The Grandfather

Concussion in the Absolute

Return of the Son who was Prodigal of his Life

Marius Produces on Some One Who is a Judge of the Matter, the Effect of Being Dead

The Torn Coat-Tail

One Sometimes Runs Aground when One Fancies that One is Disembarking

The Fontis

In the Case of Sand as in that of Woman, There is a Fineness which is Treacherous

He Also Bears His Cross

The "Spun" Man

Explanation

The Sewer and its Surprises

Future Progress

Present Progress

A Visit Took Place

Bruneseau

Ancient History of the Sewer

The Land Impoverished by the Sea

Prisoner

Orestes Fasting and Pylades Drunk

Foot to Foot

The Heroes

The Dead are in the Right and the Living are Not in the Wrong

Jean Valjean Takes His Revenge

The Vulture Become Prey

Mortuus Pater Filium Moriturum Expectat

How From A Brother One Becomes A Father

Gavroche Outside

Wherein Will Appear the Name of Enjolras' Mistress

Passing Gleams

Disorder a Partisan of Order

The Shot Which Misses Nothing and Kills No One

Dawn

Employment of the Old Talents of a Poacher and that Infallible Marksmanship Which Influenced the Condemnation of 1796

The Artillery-Men Compel People to Take Them Seriously

The Situation Becomes Aggravated

Marius Haggard, Javert Laconic

The Horizon Which One Beholds from the Summit of a Barricade

Minus Five, Plus One

Light and Shadow

What is to Be Done in the Abyss if One Does Not Converse

The Charybdis of the Faubourg Saint Antoine and the Scylla of the Faubourg du Temple

Gavroche’s Excess of Zeal

While Cosette and Toussaint are Asleep

The Street Urchin an Enemy of Light

A Drinker is a Babbler

Gavroche as a Profound Calculator of Distances

The Agony of Death After the Agony of Life

The End of the Verses of Jean Prouvaire

The Barrel of Powder

Gavroche Would Have Done Better to Accept Enjolras’ Carbine

The Flag: Act Second

The Flag: Act First

The Extreme Edge

An Owl's View of Paris

From the Rue Plumet to the Quartier Saint-Denis

Many Interrogation Points with Regard to a Certain Le Cabuc Whose Name May Not Have Been Le Cabuc

The Man Recruited in the Rue des Billettes

Waiting

Preparations

An Attempt to Console the Widow Hucheloup

Night Begins to Descend Upon Grantaire

Preliminary Gayeties

History of Corinthe from its Foundation

Recruits

The Old Man

The Child is Amazed at the Old Man

Just Indignation of a Hair-dresser

Gavroche on the March

Some Explanations with Regard to the Origin of Gavroche’s Poetry. The Influence of an Academician on this Poetry

Originality of Paris

The Ebullitions of Former Days

A Burial; An Occasion to be Born Again

The Root of the Matter

The Surface of the Question

M. Mabeuf

Marius

Jean Valjean

The Old Heart and the Young Heart in the Presence of Each Other

Marius Becomes Practical Once More to the Extent of Giving Cosette his Address

Things of the Night

A Cab Runs in English and Barks in Slang

The Beginning of a Shadow

The Bewilderment of Perfect Happiness

Full Light

The Twos Duties: To Watch and to Hope

Slang Which Weeps and Slang Which Laughs

Roots

Origin

The Vicissitudes of Flight

In Which Little Gavroche Extracts Profit from Napoleon the Great

The Malicious Playfulness of the Wind

Old People are Made to go out Opportunely

Cosette After the Letter

A Heart Beneath a Stone

Enriched with Commentaries by Toussaint

Cosette's Apprehensions

Solitude and the Barracks Combined

Mother Plutarque Finds No Difficulty in Explaining a Phenomenon

A Wound Without, Healing Within

The Chain-Gang

To One Sadness Oppose a Sadness and a Half

The Battle Begun

The Rose Perceives that it is an Engine of War

Change of Gate

Foliis ac Frondibus

Jean Valjean as a National Guard

The House with a Secret

An Apparition to Marius

Apparition to Father Mabeuf

Embryonic Formation of Crimes in the Incubation of Prisons

The Lark's Meadow

Enjolras and his Lieutenants

Facts Whence History Springs and Which History Ignores

Cracks Beneath the Foundation

Louis Philippe

Badly Sewed

Well Cut

The Little One who was Crying in Volume Two

One Should Always Begin by Arresting the Victims

The Trap

Occupying One’s Self with Obscure Depths

Marius’ Two Chairs Form A Vis-a-vis

The Use Made of Marius’ Five-Franc Piece

In Which will be Found the Words to an English Air Which was in Fashion in 1832

Jondrette Makes his Purchases

In Which a Police Agent Bestows Two Fistfuls on a Lawyer

Solus Cum Solo, In Loco Remoto, Non Cogitabuntur Orare Pater Noster

The Use Made of M. Leblanc’s Five-Franc Piece

Offers of Service from Misery to Wretchedness

Tariff of Licensed Cabs: Two Francs an Hour

Jondrette Comes Near Weeping

The Ray of Light in the Hovel

Strategy and Tactics

The Wild Man in his Lair

A Providential Peep-Hole

A Rose in Misery

Quadrifrons

Treasure Trove

Marius, While Seeking a Girl in a Bonnet, Encounters a Man in a Cap

Composition of the Troupe

Babet, Gueulemer, Claquesous, and Montparnasse

The Lowest Depths

Mines and Miners

Eclipse

The Veterans Themselves Can Be Happy

Adventures of the Letter Undelivered over to Conjectures

Taken Prisoner

Divers Claps of Thunder Fall on Ma'am Bougon

Beginning of a Great Malady

Effect of the Spring

Lux Facta Est

The Sobriquet: Mode of Formation of Family Names

The Substitute

Poverty a Good Neighbor for Misery

M. Mabeuf

Marius Grown Up

Marius Poor

Marius Indigent

Res Angusta

Enlargement of Horizon

The Back Room of the Café Musain

Marius' Astonishments

Blondeau’s Funeral Oration by Bossuet

A Group Which Barely Missed Becoming Historic

Marble Against Granite

Some Petticoat

The Consequences of Having Met a Warden

The Utility of Going to Mass, in Order to Become a Revolutionist

End of the Brigand

Requiescant

One of the Red Spectres of that Epoch

An Ancient Salon

Two Do Not Make a Pair

Rule: Receive No One Except in the Evening

In Which Magnon and her Two Children are Seen

Basque And Nicolette

A Centenarian Aspirant

Luc-Esprit

Like Master, Like House

Ninety Years and Thirty-Two Teeth

Little Gavroche

The Future Latent in the People

To Scoff, To Reign

Ecce Paris, Ecce Homo

The Old Soul of Gaul

In Which the Reader will find a Charming Saying of the Last King

The Gamin Should Have His Place in the Classifications of India

A Bit of History

His Frontiers

He May Be of Use

He Is Agreeable

Some of his Particular Characteristics

Parvulus

Cloistered

A Successful Interrogatory

In Which Will be Found the Origin of the Saying: Don't Lose the Card

Between Four Planks

It is Not Necessary to be Drunk in Order to be Immortal

In Which Jean Valjean has Quite the Air of Having to Read Austin Castillejo

Mother Innocente

Fauchlevent in the Presence of a Difficulty

Which Treats of the Manner of Entering a Convent

Faith, Law

Precautions to be Observed in Blame

The Absolute Goodness of Prayer

Prayer

The Convent from the Point of View of Principles

On What Conditions One Can Respect the Past

The Convent as an Historical Fact

The Convent as an Abstract Idea

The End of The Petit-Picpus

Origin of the Perpetual Adoration

A Century Under a Guimpe

Post Corda Lapides

Some Silhouettes of this Darkness

The Little Convent

Distractions

Gayeties

Austerities

The Obedience of Martin Verga

Number 62 Rue Petit-Picus

Which Explains How Javert got on the Scent

The Man with the Bell

The Enigma Becomes Doubly Mysterious

Continuation of the Enigma

The Beginning of an Enigma

Which Would be Impossible with Gas Lanterns

The Gropings of Flight

To Wit, the Plan of Paris in 1727

It is Lucky that the Pont D'Austerlitz Bears Carriages

The Zigzags of Strategy

A Five-Franc Piece Falls on the Ground and Produces a Tumult

The Remarks of the Principal Tenant

Two Misfortunes Make One Piece of Good Fortune

A Nest For Owl and a Warbler

Master Gorbeau

Number 9,430 Reappears and Cosette Wins it in the Lottery

He Who Seeks to Better Himself May Render His Situation Worse

Thénardier and His Manœuvres

The Unpleasantness of Receiving into One's House a Poor Man Who May be a Rich Man

Cosette Side by Side with the Stranger in the Dark

Which Possibly Proves Boulatruelle's Intelligence

The Little One All Alone

Entrance on the Scene of a Doll

Men Must Have Wine, and Horses Must Have Water

Two Complete Portraits

The Water Question at Montfermeil

The Ankle-Chain Must Have Undergone a Certain Preparatory Manipulation to be Thus Broken with a Blow from a Hammer

In Which The Reader Will Peruse Two Verses, Which are of the Devil's Composition, Possibly

Number 24,601 Becomes Number 9,430

The Battle-Field at Night

A Recrudescence of Divine Right

Is Waterloo to be Considered Good?

Quot Libras in Duce?

Cambronne

The Last Square

The Catastrophe

The Guard

A Bad Guide to Napoleon; a Good Guide to Bülow

The Plateau of Mont-Saint-Jean

The Unexpected

The Emperor Puts a Question to the Guide Lacoste

Napoleon in a Good Humor

Four O'Clock in the Afternoon

The Quid Obscurum of Battles

A

The Eighteenth of June, 1815

Hougomont

What is Met with on the Way from Nivelles

A Suitable Tomb

Authority Reasserts Its Rights

Javert Satisfied

Fantine Happy

In What Mirror M. Madeleine Contemplates His Hair

Champmathieu More and More Astonished

The System of Denials

A Place Where Convictions are in Process of Formation

An Entrance by Favor

The Traveller on his Arrival takes Precautions for Departure

Sister Simplice put to the Proof

Hindrances

Forms Assumed by Suffering During Sleep

A Tempest in a Skull

The Perspicacity of Master Scaufflaire

Sister Simplice

How Jean May Become Champ

The Beginning of Repose

The Solution of Some Questions Connected with the Municipal Police

M. Bamatabois's Inactivity

Christus No Liberavit

Result of the Success

Madame Victurnien's Success

Madame Victurnien Expends Thirty Francs on Morality

Fauchelevent Becomes a Gardener in Paris

Father Fauchelevent

Vague Flashes on the Horizon

M. Madeleine in Mourning

Sums Deposited with Laffitte

Madeleine

The History of a Progress in Black Glass Trinkets

The Lark

First Sketch of Two Unprepossessing Figures

One Mother Meets Another Mother

A Merry End to Mirth

The Death of a Horse

The Wisdom of Tholomyès

A Chapter In Which They Adore Each Other

At Bombarda's

Tholomyès is so Merry That He Sings a Spanish Ditty

Four and Four

A Double Quartette

The Year 1817

Little Gervais

The Bishop Works

What He Does

The Man Aroused

New Troubles

Billows and Shadows

The Interior of Despair

Jean Valjean

Tranquility

Details Concerning the Cheese-Dairies of Pontarlier

The Heroism of Passive Obedience

Prudence Counselled to Wisdom

The Evening of a Day of Walking

What He Thought

What He Believed

The Solitude of Monseigneur Bienvenu

A Restriction

The Bishop in the Presence of an Unknown Light

The Brother as Depicted by the Sister

Philosophy After Drinking

Cravatte

Who Guarded His House for Him

Monseigneur Bienvenu Made His Cassocks Last Too Long

Works Corresponding to Words

A Hard Bishopric for a Good Bishop

M. Myriel Becomes M. Bienvenu

M. Myriel