VOLUME I

BOOK FIRST.--A JUST MAN
Preface
CHAPTER
    I.  M. Myriel
   II.  M. Myriel becomes M. Welcome
  III.  A Hard Bishopric for a Good Bishop
   IV.  Works corresponding to Words
    V.  Monseigneur Bienvenu made his Cassocks last too long
   VI.  Who guarded his House for him
  VII.  Cravatte
 VIII.  Philosophy after Drinking
   IX.  The Brother as depicted by the Sister
   XI.  A Restriction
  XII.  The Solitude of Monseigneur Welcome
 XIII.  What he believed
  XIV.  What he thought

BOOK SECOND.--THE FALL

    I.  The Evening of a Day of Walking
   II.  Prudence counselled to Wisdom
  III.  The Heroism of Passive Obedience
   IV.  Details concerning the Cheese-Dairies of Pontarlier
    V.  Tranquillity
   VI.  Jean Valjean
  VII.  The Interior of Despair
 VIII.  Billows and Shadows
   IX.  New Troubles
    X.  The Man aroused
   XI.  What he does
  XII.  The Bishop works
 XIII.  Little Gervais

BOOK THIRD.--IN THE YEAR 1817

    I.  The Year 1817
   II.  A Double Quartette
  III.  Four and Four
   IV.  Tholomyes is so Merry that he sings a Spanish Ditty
    V.  At Bombardas
   VI.  A Chapter in which they adore Each Other
  VII.  The Wisdom of Tholomyes
 VIII.  The Death of a Horse
   IX.  A Merry End to Mirth

BOOK FOURTH.--TO CONFIDE IS SOMETIMES TO DELIVER INTO A PERSON'S POWER

    I.  One Mother meets Another Mother
   II.  First Sketch of Two Unprepossessing Figures
  III.  The Lark

BOOK FIFTH.-- THE DESCENT

    I.  The History of a Progress in Black Glass Trinkets
   II.  Madeleine
  III.  Sums deposited with Laffitte
   IV.  M. Madeleine in Mourning
    V.  Vague Flashes on the Horizon
   VI.  Father Fauchelevent
  VII.  Fauchelevent becomes a Gardener in Paris
 VIII.  Madame Victurnien expends Thirty Francs on Morality
   IX.  Madame Victurnien's Success
    X.  Result of the Success
   XI.  Christus nos Liberavit
  XII.  M. Bamatabois's Inactivity
 XIII.  The Solution of Some Questions connected with the
            Municipal Police

BOOK SIXTH.--JAVERT

    I.  The Beginning of Repose
   II.  How Jean may become Champ

BOOK SEVENTH.--THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR

    I.  Sister Simplice
   II.  The Perspicacity of Master Scaufflaire
  III.  A Tempest in a Skull
   IV.  Forms assumed by Suffering during Sleep
    V.  Hindrances
   VI.  Sister Simplice put to the Proof
  VII.  The Traveller on his Arrival takes Precautions
            for Departure
 VIII.  An Entrance by Favor
   IX.  A Place where Convictions are in Process of Formation
    X.  The System of Denials
   XI.  Champmathieu more and more Astonished

BOOK EIGHTH.--A COUNTER-BLOW

I.  In what Mirror M. Madeleine contemplates his Hair
   II.  Fantine Happy
  III.  Javert Satisfied
   IV.  Authority reasserts its Rights
    V.  A Suitable Tomb
 
 

VOLUME II

BOOK FIRST.--WATERLOO

CHAPTER
    I.  What is met with on the Way from Nivelles
   II.  Hougomont
  III.  The Eighteenth of June, 1815
   IV.  A
    V.  The Quid Obscurum of Battles
   VI.  Four o'clock in the Afternoon
  VII.  Napoleon in a Good Humor
 VIII.  The Emperor puts a Question to the Guide Lacoste
   IX.  The Unexpected
    X.  The Plateau of Mont-Saint-Jean
   XI.  A Bad Guide to Napoleon; a Good Guide to Bulow
  XII.  The Guard
 XIII.  The Catastrophe
  XIV.  The Last Square
   XV.  Cambronne
  XVI.  Quot Libras in Duce?
 XVII.  Is Waterloo to be considered Good?
XVIII.  A Recrudescence of Divine Right
  XIX.  The Battle-Field at Night

BOOK SECOND.--THE SHIP ORION

    I.  Number 24,601 becomes Number 9,430
   II.  In which the reader will peruse Two Verses which are
          of the Devil's Composition possibly
  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

    I.  The Water Question at Montfermeil
   II.  Two Complete Portraits
  III.  Men must have Wine, and Horses must have Water
   IV.  Entrance on the Scene of a Doll
    V.  The Little One All Alone
   VI.  Which possibly proves Boulatruelle's Intelligence
  VII.  Cosette Side by Side with the Stranger in the Dark
 VIII.  The Unpleasantness of receiving into One's House a Poor
          Man who may be a Rich Man
   IX.  Thenardier at his Manoeuvres
    X.  He who seeks to better himself may render his Situation Worse
   XI.  Number 9,430 reappears, and Cosette wins it in the Lottery

BOOK FOURTH.--THE GORBEAU HOVEL

    I.  Master Gorbeau
   II.  A Nest for Owl and a Warbler
  III.  Two Misfortunes make One Piece of Good Fortune
   IV.  The Remarks of the Principal Tenant

BOOK FIFTH.--FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK

BOOK SIXTH.--LE PETIT-PICPUS

    I.  Number 62 Rue Petit-Picpus
   II.  The Obedience of Martin Verga
  III.  Austerities
-   IV.  Gayeties
    V.  Distractions
   VI.  The Little Convent
  VII.  Some Silhouettes of this Darkness
 VIII.  Post Corda Lapides
   IX.  A Century under a Guimpe
    X.  Origin of the Perpetual Adoration
   XI.  End of the Petit-Picpus

BOOK SEVENTH.--PARENTHESIS

    I.  The Convent as an Abstract Idea
   II.  The Convent as an Historical Fact
  III.  On What Conditions One can respect the Past
   IV.  The Convent from the Point of View of Principles
    V.  Prayer
   VI.  The Absolute Goodness of Prayer
  VII.  Precautions to be observed in Blame
 VIII.  Faith, Law

BOOK EIGHTH.--CEMETERIES TAKE THAT WHICH IS COMMITTED THEM

    I.  Which treats of the Manner of entering a Convent
   II.  Fauchelevent in the Presence of a Difficulty
  III.  Mother Innocente
   IV.  In which Jean Valjean has quite the Air of having read
          Austin Castillejo
    V.  It is not Necessary to be Drunk in order to be Immortal
   VI.  Between Four Planks
  VII.  In which will be found the Origin of the Saying: Don't
          lose the Card
 VIII.  A Successful Interrogatory
   IX.  Cloistered
 

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