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Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

CHAPTER II—IN WHICH THE READER WILL PERUSE TWO VERSES, WHICH ARE OF THE

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DEVIL’S COMPOSITION, POSSIBLY Before proceeding further, it will be to the purpose to narrate in some detail, a singular occurrence which took place at about the same epoch, in Montfermeil, and which is not lacking in coincidence with certain conjectures of the indictment. There exists in the region of Montfermeil a very ancient superstition, which is all the more curious and all the more precious, because a popular superstition in the vicinity of Paris is like an aloe in Siberia. We are among those who respect everything which is in the nature of a rare plant. Here, then, is the superstition of Montfermeil: it is thought that the devil, from time immemorial, has selected the forest as a hiding-place for his treasures. Goodwives affirm that it is no rarity to encounter at nightfall, in secluded nooks of the forest, a black man with the air of a carter or a wood-chopper, wearing wooden shoes, clad in trousers and a blouse of linen, and recognizable by the fact, that, instead of a cap or hat, he has two immense horns on his head. This ought, in fact, to render him recognizable. This man is habitually engaged in digging a hole. There are three ways of profiting by such an encounter. The first is to approach the man and speak to him. Then it is seen that the man is simply a peasant, that he appears black because it is nightfall; that he is not digging any hole whatever, but is cutting grass for his cows, and that what had been taken for horns is nothing but a dung-fork which he is carrying on his back, and whose teeth, thanks to the perspective of evening, seemed to spring from his head. The man returns home and dies within the week. The second way is to watch him, to wait until he has dug his hole, until he has filled it and has gone away; then to run with great speed to the trench, to open it once more and to seize the “treasure” which the black man has necessarily placed there. In this case one dies within the month. Finally, the last method is not to speak to the black man, not to look at him, and to flee at the best speed of one’s legs. One then dies within the year. As all three methods are attended with their special inconveniences, the second, which at all events, presents some advantages, among others that of possessing a treasure, if only for a month, is the one most generally adopted. So bold men, who are tempted by every chance, have quite frequently, as we are assured, opened the holes excavated by the black man, and tried to rob the devil. The success of the operation appears to be but moderate. At least, if the tradition is to be believed, and in particular the two enigmatical lines in barbarous Latin, which an evil Norman monk, a bit of a sorcerer, named Tryphon has left on this subject. This Tryphon is buried at the Abbey of Saint-Georges de Bocherville, near Rouen, and toads spawn on his grave. Accordingly, enormous efforts are made. Such trenches are ordinarily extremely deep; a man sweats, digs, toils all night—for it must be done at night; he wets his shirt, burns out his candle, breaks his mattock, and when he arrives at the bottom of the hole, when he lays his hand on the “treasure,” what does he find? What is the devil’s treasure? A sou, sometimes a crown-piece, a stone, a skeleton, a bleeding body, sometimes a spectre folded in four like a sheet of paper in a portfolio, sometimes nothing. This is what Tryphon’s verses seem to announce to the indiscreet and curious:— “Fodit, et in fossa thesauros condit opaca, As, nummas, lapides, cadaver, simulacra, nihilque.” It seems that in our day there is sometimes found a powder-horn with bullets, sometimes an old pack of cards greasy and worn, which has evidently served the devil. Tryphon does not record these two finds, since Tryphon lived in the twelfth century, and since the devil does not appear to have had the wit to invent powder before Roger Bacon’s time, and cards before the time of Charles VI. Moreover, if one plays at cards, one is sure to lose all that one possesses! and as for the powder in the horn, it possesses the property of making your gun burst in your face. Now, a very short time after the epoch when it seemed to the prosecuting attorney that the liberated convict Jean Valjean during his flight of several days had been prowling around Montfermeil, it was remarked in that village that a certain old road-laborer, named Boulatruelle, had “peculiar ways” in the forest. People thereabouts thought they knew that this Boulatruelle had been in the galleys. He was subjected to certain police supervision, and, as he could find work nowhere, the administration employed him at reduced rates as a road-mender on the crossroad from Gagny to Lagny. This Boulatruelle was a man who was viewed with disfavor by the inhabitants of the district as too respectful, too humble, too prompt in removing his cap to every one, and trembling and smiling in the presence of the gendarmes,—probably affiliated to robber bands, they said; suspected of lying in ambush at verge of copses at nightfall. The only thing in his favor was that he was a drunkard. This is what people thought they had noticed:— Of late, Boulatruelle had taken to quitting his task of stone-breaking and care of the road at a very early hour, and to betaking himself to the forest with his pickaxe. He was encountered towards evening in the most deserted clearings, in the wildest thickets; and he had the appearance of being in search of something, and sometimes he was digging holes. The goodwives who passed took him at first for Beelzebub; then they recognized Boulatruelle, and were not in the least reassured thereby. These encounters seemed to cause Boulatruelle a lively displeasure. It was evident that he sought to hide, and that there was some mystery in what he was doing. It was said in the village: “It is clear that the devil has appeared. Boulatruelle has seen him, and is on the search. In sooth, he is cunning enough to pocket Lucifer’s hoard.” The Voltairians added, “Will Boulatruelle catch the devil, or will the devil catch Boulatruelle?” The old women made a great many signs of the cross. In the meantime, Boulatruelle’s manœuvres in the forest ceased; and he resumed his regular occupation of roadmending; and people gossiped of something else. Some persons, however, were still curious, surmising that in all this there was probably no fabulous treasure of the legends, but some fine windfall of a more serious and palpable sort than the devil’s bank-bills, and that the road-mender had half discovered the secret. The most “puzzled” were the schoolmaster and Thénardier, the proprietor of the tavern, who was everybody’s friend, and had not disdained to ally himself with Boulatruelle. “He has been in the galleys,” said Thénardier. “Eh! Good God! no one knows who has been there or will be there.” One evening the schoolmaster affirmed that in former times the law would have instituted an inquiry as to what Boulatruelle did in the forest, and that the latter would have been forced to speak, and that he would have been put to the torture in case of need, and that Boulatruelle would not have resisted the water test, for example. “Let us put him to the wine test,” said Thénardier. They made an effort, and got the old road-mender to drinking. Boulatruelle drank an enormous amount, but said very little. He combined with admirable art, and in masterly proportions, the thirst of a gormandizer with the discretion of a judge. Nevertheless, by dint of returning to the charge and of comparing and putting together the few obscure words which he did allow to escape him, this is what Thénardier and the schoolmaster imagined that they had made out:— One morning, when Boulatruelle was on his way to his work, at daybreak, he had been surprised to see, at a nook of the forest in the underbrush, a shovel and a pickaxe, _concealed, as one might say_. However, he might have supposed that they were probably the shovel and pick of Father Six-Fours, the water-carrier, and would have thought no more about it. But, on the evening of that day, he saw, without being seen himself, as he was hidden by a large tree, “a person who did not belong in those parts, and whom he, Boulatruelle, knew well,” directing his steps towards the densest part of the wood. Translation by Thénardier: _A comrade of the galleys_. Boulatruelle obstinately refused to reveal his name. This person carried a package—something square, like a large box or a small trunk. Surprise on the part of Boulatruelle. However, it was only after the expiration of seven or eight minutes that the idea of following that “person” had occurred to him. But it was too late; the person was already in the thicket, night had descended, and Boulatruelle had not been able to catch up with him. Then he had adopted the course of watching for him at the edge of the woods. “It was moonlight.” Two or three hours later, Boulatruelle had seen this person emerge from the brushwood, carrying no longer the coffer, but a shovel and pick. Boulatruelle had allowed the person to pass, and had not dreamed of accosting him, because he said to himself that the other man was three times as strong as he was, and armed with a pickaxe, and that he would probably knock him over the head on recognizing him, and on perceiving that he was recognized. Touching effusion of two old comrades on meeting again. But the shovel and pick had served as a ray of light to Boulatruelle; he had hastened to the thicket in the morning, and had found neither shovel nor pick. From this he had drawn the inference that this person, once in the forest, had dug a hole with his pick, buried the coffer, and reclosed the hole with his shovel. Now, the coffer was too small to contain a body; therefore it contained money. Hence his researches. Boulatruelle had explored, sounded, searched the entire forest and the thicket, and had dug wherever the earth appeared to him to have been recently turned up. In vain. He had “ferreted out” nothing. No one in Montfermeil thought any more about it. There were only a few brave gossips, who said, “You may be certain that the mender on the Gagny road did not take all that trouble for nothing; he was sure that the devil had come.”
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1. Chapter 1 2. CHAPTER XIV—WHAT HE THOUGHT 3. CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GERVAIS 4. CHAPTER IX—A MERRY END TO MIRTH 5. CHAPTER III—THE LARK 6. CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WITH THE 7. CHAPTER II—HOW JEAN MAY BECOME CHAMP 8. CHAPTER VII—THE TRAVELLER ON HIS ARRIVAL TAKES PRECAUTIONS FOR 9. CHAPTER XI—CHAMPMATHIEU MORE AND MORE ASTONISHED 10. CHAPTER V—A SUITABLE TOMB 11. CHAPTER XIX—THE BATTLE-FIELD AT NIGHT 12. CHAPTER II—IN WHICH THE READER WILL PERUSE TWO VERSES, WHICH ARE OF 13. CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN PREPARATORY 14. CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE’S HOUSE A POOR 15. CHAPTER X—HE WHO SEEKS TO BETTER HIMSELF MAY RENDER HIS SITUATION 16. CHAPTER XI—NUMBER 9,430 REAPPEARS, AND COSETTE WINS IT IN THE LOTTERY 17. CHAPTER V—A FIVE-FRANC PIECE FALLS ON THE GROUND AND PRODUCES A TUMULT 18. CHAPTER X—WHICH EXPLAINS HOW JAVERT GOT ON THE SCENT 19. CHAPTER XI—END OF THE PETIT-PICPUS 20. CHAPTER VIII—FAITH, LAW 21. CHAPTER IV—IN WHICH JEAN VALJEAN HAS QUITE THE AIR OF HAVING READ 22. CHAPTER VII—IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE ORIGIN OF THE SAYING: DON’T 23. CHAPTER IX—CLOISTERED 24. CHAPTER VII—THE GAMIN SHOULD HAVE HIS PLACE IN THE CLASSIFICATIONS OF 25. CHAPTER VIII—IN WHICH THE READER WILL FIND A CHARMING SAYING OF THE 26. CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GAVROCHE 27. CHAPTER VIII—TWO DO NOT MAKE A PAIR 28. CHAPTER V—THE UTILITY OF GOING TO MASS, IN ORDER TO BECOME A 29. CHAPTER VIII—MARBLE AGAINST GRANITE 30. CHAPTER VI—RES ANGUSTA 31. CHAPTER VI—THE SUBSTITUTE 32. CHAPTER IX—ECLIPSE 33. CHAPTER IV—COMPOSITION OF THE TROUPE 34. CHAPTER I—MARIUS, WHILE SEEKING A GIRL IN A BONNET, ENCOUNTERS A MAN 35. CHAPTER XIII—SOLUS CUM SOLO, IN LOCO REMOTO, NON COGITABUNTUR ORARE 36. CHAPTER XVI—IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE WORDS TO AN ENGLISH AIR WHICH 37. CHAPTER XXII—THE LITTLE ONE WHO WAS CRYING IN VOLUME TWO 38. CHAPTER VI—ENJOLRAS AND HIS LIEUTENANTS 39. CHAPTER IV—AN APPARITION TO MARIUS 40. CHAPTER VIII—THE CHAIN-GANG 41. CHAPTER II—MOTHER PLUTARQUE FINDS NO DIFFICULTY IN EXPLAINING A 42. CHAPTER VI—OLD PEOPLE ARE MADE TO GO OUT OPPORTUNELY 43. CHAPTER II—IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM NAPOLEON THE 44. CHAPTER III—THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT 45. CHAPTER IV—THE TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE 46. CHAPTER VI—MARIUS BECOMES PRACTICAL ONCE MORE TO THE EXTENT OF GIVING 47. CHAPTER VII—THE OLD HEART AND THE YOUNG HEART IN THE PRESENCE OF EACH 48. CHAPTER III—M. MABEUF 49. CHAPTER V—ORIGINALITY OF PARIS 50. CHAPTER I—SOME EXPLANATIONS WITH REGARD TO THE ORIGIN OF GAVROCHE’S 51. CHAPTER VI—RECRUITS 52. CHAPTER VIII—MANY INTERROGATION POINTS WITH REGARD TO A CERTAIN LE 53. CHAPTER III—THE EXTREME EDGE 54. CHAPTER III—GAVROCHE WOULD HAVE DONE BETTER TO ACCEPT ENJOLRAS’ 55. CHAPTER VII—GAVROCHE AS A PROFOUND CALCULATOR OF DISTANCES 56. CHAPTER IV—GAVROCHE’S EXCESS OF ZEAL 57. CHAPTER IX—EMPLOYMENT OF THE OLD TALENTS OF A POACHER AND THAT 58. CHAPTER XX—THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE NOT IN THE 59. CHAPTER XXIV—PRISONER 60. CHAPTER VI—FUTURE PROGRESS 61. CHAPTER V—IN THE CASE OF SAND AS IN THAT OF WOMAN, THERE IS A FINENESS 62. CHAPTER VII—ONE SOMETIMES RUNS AGROUND WHEN ONE FANCIES THAT ONE IS 63. CHAPTER IX—MARIUS PRODUCES ON SOME ONE WHO IS A JUDGE OF THE MATTER, 64. CHAPTER XII—THE GRANDFATHER 65. CHAPTER I 66. CHAPTER II—MARIUS, EMERGING FROM CIVIL WAR, MAKES READY FOR DOMESTIC 67. CHAPTER IV—MADEMOISELLE GILLENORMAND ENDS BY NO LONGER THINKING IT A 68. CHAPTER VI—THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER HIS OWN 69. CHAPTER VIII—TWO MEN IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND 70. CHAPTER IV—THE IMMORTAL LIVER 71. CHAPTER II—THE OBSCURITIES WHICH A REVELATION CAN CONTAIN 72. CHAPTER IV—ATTRACTION AND EXTINCTION 73. CHAPTER III—A PEN IS HEAVY TO THE MAN WHO LIFTED THE FAUCHELEVENT’S 74. CHAPTER VI—THE GRASS COVERS AND THE RAIN EFFACES 75. CHAPTER I—M. MYRIEL 76. CHAPTER II—M. MYRIEL BECOMES M. WELCOME 77. 1712. This palace was a genuine seignorial residence. Everything about 78. CHAPTER III—A HARD BISHOPRIC FOR A GOOD BISHOP 79. CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS 80. CHAPTER V—MONSEIGNEUR BIENVENU MADE HIS CASSOCKS LAST TOO LONG 81. CHAPTER VI—WHO GUARDED HIS HOUSE FOR HIM 82. CHAPTER VII—CRAVATTE 83. CHAPTER VIII—PHILOSOPHY AFTER DRINKING 84. CHAPTER IX—THE BROTHER AS DEPICTED BY THE SISTER 85. CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT 86. CHAPTER XI—A RESTRICTION 87. CHAPTER XII—THE SOLITUDE OF MONSEIGNEUR WELCOME 88. CHAPTER XIII—WHAT HE BELIEVED 89. CHAPTER XIV—WHAT HE THOUGHT 90. CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING 91. CHAPTER II—PRUDENCE COUNSELLED TO WISDOM. 92. CHAPTER III—THE HEROISM OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE. 93. CHAPTER IV—DETAILS CONCERNING THE CHEESE-DAIRIES OF PONTARLIER. 94. CHAPTER V—TRANQUILLITY 95. CHAPTER VI—JEAN VALJEAN 96. CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR 97. CHAPTER VIII—BILLOWS AND SHADOWS 98. CHAPTER IX—NEW TROUBLES 99. CHAPTER X—THE MAN AROUSED 100. CHAPTER XI—WHAT HE DOES 101. CHAPTER XII—THE BISHOP WORKS 102. CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GERVAIS 103. CHAPTER I—THE YEAR 1817 104. CHAPTER II—A DOUBLE QUARTETTE 105. CHAPTER III—FOUR AND FOUR 106. CHAPTER IV—THOLOMYÈS IS SO MERRY THAT HE SINGS A SPANISH DITTY 107. CHAPTER V—AT BOMBARDA’S 108. CHAPTER VI—A CHAPTER IN WHICH THEY ADORE EACH OTHER 109. CHAPTER VII—THE WISDOM OF THOLOMYÈS 110. CHAPTER VIII—THE DEATH OF A HORSE 111. CHAPTER IX—A MERRY END TO MIRTH 112. CHAPTER I—ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER 113. CHAPTER II—FIRST SKETCH OF TWO UNPREPOSSESSING FIGURES 114. CHAPTER III—THE LARK 115. CHAPTER I—THE HISTORY OF A PROGRESS IN BLACK GLASS TRINKETS 116. CHAPTER II—MADELEINE 117. CHAPTER III—SUMS DEPOSITED WITH LAFFITTE 118. CHAPTER IV—M. MADELEINE IN MOURNING 119. CHAPTER V—VAGUE FLASHES ON THE HORIZON 120. CHAPTER VI—FATHER FAUCHELEVENT 121. CHAPTER VII—FAUCHELEVENT BECOMES A GARDENER IN PARIS 122. CHAPTER VIII—MADAME VICTURNIEN EXPENDS THIRTY FRANCS ON MORALITY 123. CHAPTER IX—MADAME VICTURNIEN’S SUCCESS 124. CHAPTER X—RESULT OF THE SUCCESS 125. CHAPTER XI—CHRISTUS NOS LIBERAVIT 126. CHAPTER XII—M. BAMATABOIS’S INACTIVITY 127. CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WITH THE 128. CHAPTER I—THE BEGINNING OF REPOSE 129. CHAPTER II—HOW JEAN MAY BECOME CHAMP 130. CHAPTER I—SISTER SIMPLICE 131. CHAPTER II—THE PERSPICACITY OF MASTER SCAUFFLAIRE 132. CHAPTER III—A TEMPEST IN A SKULL 133. CHAPTER IV—FORMS ASSUMED BY SUFFERING DURING SLEEP 134. CHAPTER V—HINDRANCES 135. CHAPTER VI—SISTER SIMPLICE PUT TO THE PROOF 136. CHAPTER VII—THE TRAVELLER ON HIS ARRIVAL TAKES PRECAUTIONS FOR 137. CHAPTER VIII—AN ENTRANCE BY FAVOR 138. CHAPTER IX—A PLACE WHERE CONVICTIONS ARE IN PROCESS OF FORMATION 139. CHAPTER X—THE SYSTEM OF DENIALS 140. CHAPTER XI—CHAMPMATHIEU MORE AND MORE ASTONISHED 141. CHAPTER I—IN WHAT MIRROR M. MADELEINE CONTEMPLATES HIS HAIR 142. CHAPTER II—FANTINE HAPPY 143. CHAPTER III—JAVERT SATISFIED 144. CHAPTER IV—AUTHORITY REASSERTS ITS RIGHTS 145. CHAPTER V—A SUITABLE TOMB 146. CHAPTER I—WHAT IS MET WITH ON THE WAY FROM NIVELLES 147. CHAPTER II—HOUGOMONT 148. CHAPTER III—THE EIGHTEENTH OF JUNE, 1815 149. CHAPTER IV—A 150. CHAPTER V—THE QUID OBSCURUM OF BATTLES 151. CHAPTER VI—FOUR O’CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON 152. CHAPTER VII—NAPOLEON IN A GOOD HUMOR 153. CHAPTER VIII—THE EMPEROR PUTS A QUESTION TO THE GUIDE LACOSTE 154. CHAPTER IX—THE UNEXPECTED 155. CHAPTER X—THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN 156. CHAPTER XI—A BAD GUIDE TO NAPOLEON; A GOOD GUIDE TO BÜLOW 157. CHAPTER XII—THE GUARD 158. CHAPTER XIII—THE CATASTROPHE 159. CHAPTER XIV—THE LAST SQUARE 160. CHAPTER XV—CAMBRONNE 161. CHAPTER XVI—QUOT LIBRAS IN DUCE? 162. CHAPTER XVII—IS WATERLOO TO BE CONSIDERED GOOD? 163. CHAPTER XVIII—A RECRUDESCENCE OF DIVINE RIGHT 164. CHAPTER XIX—THE BATTLE-FIELD AT NIGHT 165. CHAPTER I—NUMBER 24,601 BECOMES NUMBER 9,430 166. CHAPTER II—IN WHICH THE READER WILL PERUSE TWO VERSES, WHICH ARE OF THE 167. CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN PREPARATORY 168. CHAPTER I—THE WATER QUESTION AT MONTFERMEIL 169. CHAPTER II—TWO COMPLETE PORTRAITS 170. CHAPTER III—MEN MUST HAVE WINE, AND HORSES MUST HAVE WATER 171. CHAPTER IV—ENTRANCE ON THE SCENE OF A DOLL 172. CHAPTER V—THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE 173. CHAPTER VI—WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE’S INTELLIGENCE 174. CHAPTER VII—COSETTE SIDE BY SIDE WITH THE STRANGER IN THE DARK 175. CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE’S HOUSE A POOR 176. CHAPTER IX— THÉNARDIER AND HIS MANŒUVRES 177. CHAPTER X—HE WHO SEEKS TO BETTER HIMSELF MAY RENDER HIS SITUATION WORSE 178. CHAPTER XI—NUMBER 9,430 REAPPEARS, AND COSETTE WINS IT IN THE LOTTERY 179. CHAPTER I—MASTER GORBEAU 180. CHAPTER II—A NEST FOR OWL AND A WARBLER 181. CHAPTER III—TWO MISFORTUNES MAKE ONE PIECE OF GOOD FORTUNE 182. CHAPTER IV—THE REMARKS OF THE PRINCIPAL TENANT 183. CHAPTER V—A FIVE-FRANC PIECE FALLS ON THE GROUND AND PRODUCES A TUMULT 184. CHAPTER I—THE ZIGZAGS OF STRATEGY 185. CHAPTER II—IT IS LUCKY THAT THE PONT D’AUSTERLITZ BEARS CARRIAGES 186. CHAPTER III—TO WIT, THE PLAN OF PARIS IN 1727 187. CHAPTER IV—THE GROPINGS OF FLIGHT 188. CHAPTER V—WHICH WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE WITH GAS LANTERNS 189. CHAPTER VI—THE BEGINNING OF AN ENIGMA 190. CHAPTER VII—CONTINUATION OF THE ENIGMA 191. CHAPTER VIII—THE ENIGMA BECOMES DOUBLY MYSTERIOUS 192. CHAPTER IX—THE MAN WITH THE BELL 193. CHAPTER X—WHICH EXPLAINS HOW JAVERT GOT ON THE SCENT 194. episode of the thousand-franc bill. She had seen it! She had handled 195. CHAPTER I—NUMBER 62 RUE PETIT-PICPUS 196. CHAPTER II—THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA 197. CHAPTER III—AUSTERITIES 198. CHAPTER IV—GAYETIES 199. CHAPTER V—DISTRACTIONS 200. CHAPTER VI—THE LITTLE CONVENT 201. CHAPTER VII—SOME SILHOUETTES OF THIS DARKNESS 202. CHAPTER VIII—POST CORDA LAPIDES 203. CHAPTER IX—A CENTURY UNDER A GUIMPE 204. CHAPTER X—ORIGIN OF THE PERPETUAL ADORATION 205. CHAPTER XI—END OF THE PETIT-PICPUS 206. CHAPTER I—THE CONVENT AS AN ABSTRACT IDEA 207. CHAPTER II—THE CONVENT AS AN HISTORICAL FACT 208. CHAPTER III—ON WHAT CONDITIONS ONE CAN RESPECT THE PAST 209. CHAPTER IV—THE CONVENT FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF PRINCIPLES 210. CHAPTER V—PRAYER 211. CHAPTER VI—THE ABSOLUTE GOODNESS OF PRAYER 212. CHAPTER VII—PRECAUTIONS TO BE OBSERVED IN BLAME 213. CHAPTER VIII—FAITH, LAW 214. CHAPTER I—WHICH TREATS OF THE MANNER OF ENTERING A CONVENT 215. CHAPTER II—FAUCHELEVENT IN THE PRESENCE OF A DIFFICULTY 216. CHAPTER III—MOTHER INNOCENTE 217. CHAPTER IV—IN WHICH JEAN VALJEAN HAS QUITE THE AIR OF HAVING READ 218. CHAPTER V—IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE DRUNK IN ORDER TO BE IMMORTAL 219. CHAPTER VI—BETWEEN FOUR PLANKS 220. CHAPTER VII—IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE ORIGIN OF THE SAYING: DON’T LOSE 221. CHAPTER VIII—A SUCCESSFUL INTERROGATORY 222. CHAPTER IX—CLOISTERED 223. CHAPTER I—PARVULUS 224. CHAPTER II—SOME OF HIS PARTICULAR CHARACTERISTICS 225. CHAPTER III—HE IS AGREEABLE 226. CHAPTER IV—HE MAY BE OF USE 227. CHAPTER V—HIS FRONTIERS 228. CHAPTER VI—A BIT OF HISTORY 229. CHAPTER VII—THE GAMIN SHOULD HAVE HIS PLACE IN THE CLASSIFICATIONS OF 230. CHAPTER VIII—IN WHICH THE READER WILL FIND A CHARMING SAYING OF THE 231. CHAPTER IX—THE OLD SOUL OF GAUL 232. CHAPTER X—ECCE PARIS, ECCE HOMO 233. CHAPTER XI—TO SCOFF, TO REIGN 234. CHAPTER XII—THE FUTURE LATENT IN THE PEOPLE 235. CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GAVROCHE 236. CHAPTER I—NINETY YEARS AND THIRTY-TWO TEETH 237. CHAPTER II—LIKE MASTER, LIKE HOUSE 238. CHAPTER III—LUC-ESPRIT 239. CHAPTER IV—A CENTENARIAN ASPIRANT 240. CHAPTER V—BASQUE AND NICOLETTE 241. CHAPTER VI—IN WHICH MAGNON AND HER TWO CHILDREN ARE SEEN 242. CHAPTER VII—RULE: RECEIVE NO ONE EXCEPT IN THE EVENING 243. CHAPTER VIII—TWO DO NOT MAKE A PAIR 244. CHAPTER I—AN ANCIENT SALON 245. CHAPTER II—ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH 246. 1794. Pontmercy fought at Spire, at Worms, at Neustadt, at Turkheim, at 247. CHAPTER III—REQUIESCANT 248. introduction into history of M. le Marquis de Bonaparte, 249. CHAPTER IV—END OF THE BRIGAND 250. CHAPTER V—THE UTILITY OF GOING TO MASS, IN ORDER TO BECOME A 251. CHAPTER VI—THE CONSEQUENCES OF HAVING MET A WARDEN 252. CHAPTER VII—SOME PETTICOAT 253. CHAPTER VIII—MARBLE AGAINST GRANITE 254. CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC 255. CHAPTER II—BLONDEAU’S FUNERAL ORATION BY BOSSUET 256. CHAPTER III—MARIUS’ ASTONISHMENTS 257. CHAPTER IV—THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFÉ MUSAIN 258. CHAPTER V—ENLARGEMENT OF HORIZON 259. CHAPTER VI—RES ANGUSTA 260. CHAPTER I—MARIUS INDIGENT 261. CHAPTER II—MARIUS POOR 262. CHAPTER III—MARIUS GROWN UP 263. CHAPTER IV—M. MABEUF 264. CHAPTER V—POVERTY A GOOD NEIGHBOR FOR MISERY 265. CHAPTER VI—THE SUBSTITUTE 266. CHAPTER I—THE SOBRIQUET: MODE OF FORMATION OF FAMILY NAMES 267. CHAPTER II—LUX FACTA EST 268. CHAPTER III—EFFECT OF THE SPRING 269. CHAPTER IV—BEGINNING OF A GREAT MALADY 270. CHAPTER V—DIVERS CLAPS OF THUNDER FALL ON MA’AM BOUGON 271. CHAPTER VI—TAKEN PRISONER 272. CHAPTER VII—ADVENTURES OF THE LETTER U DELIVERED OVER TO CONJECTURES 273. CHAPTER VIII—THE VETERANS THEMSELVES CAN BE HAPPY 274. CHAPTER IX—ECLIPSE 275. CHAPTER I—MINES AND MINERS 276. CHAPTER II—THE LOWEST DEPTHS 277. CHAPTER III—BABET, GUEULEMER, CLAQUESOUS, AND MONTPARNASSE 278. CHAPTER IV—COMPOSITION OF THE TROUPE 279. CHAPTER I—MARIUS, WHILE SEEKING A GIRL IN A BONNET, ENCOUNTERS A MAN IN 280. CHAPTER II—TREASURE TROVE 281. CHAPTER III—QUADRIFRONS 282. CHAPTER IV—A ROSE IN MISERY 283. CHAPTER V—A PROVIDENTIAL PEEP-HOLE 284. CHAPTER VI—THE WILD MAN IN HIS LAIR 285. CHAPTER VII—STRATEGY AND TACTICS 286. CHAPTER VIII—THE RAY OF LIGHT IN THE HOVEL 287. CHAPTER IX—JONDRETTE COMES NEAR WEEPING 288. CHAPTER X—TARIFF OF LICENSED CABS: TWO FRANCS AN HOUR 289. CHAPTER XI—OFFERS OF SERVICE FROM MISERY TO WRETCHEDNESS 290. CHAPTER XII—THE USE MADE OF M. LEBLANC’S FIVE-FRANC PIECE 291. CHAPTER XIII—SOLUS CUM SOLO, IN LOCO REMOTO, NON COGITABUNTUR ORARE 292. CHAPTER XIV—IN WHICH A POLICE AGENT BESTOWS TWO FISTFULS ON A LAWYER 293. CHAPTER XV—JONDRETTE MAKES HIS PURCHASES 294. CHAPTER XVI—IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE WORDS TO AN ENGLISH AIR WHICH 295. CHAPTER XVII—THE USE MADE OF MARIUS’ FIVE-FRANC PIECE 296. CHAPTER XVIII—MARIUS’ TWO CHAIRS FORM A VIS-A-VIS 297. CHAPTER XIX—OCCUPYING ONE’S SELF WITH OBSCURE DEPTHS 298. CHAPTER XX—THE TRAP 299. CHAPTER XXI—ONE SHOULD ALWAYS BEGIN BY ARRESTING THE VICTIMS 300. CHAPTER XXII—THE LITTLE ONE WHO WAS CRYING IN VOLUME TWO 301. CHAPTER I—WELL CUT 302. CHAPTER II—BADLY SEWED 303. CHAPTER III—LOUIS PHILIPPE 304. CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION 305. CHAPTER V—FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY IGNORES 306. CHAPTER VI—ENJOLRAS AND HIS LIEUTENANTS 307. CHAPTER I—THE LARK’S MEADOW 308. CHAPTER II—EMBRYONIC FORMATION OF CRIMES IN THE INCUBATION OF PRISONS 309. CHAPTER III—APPARITION TO FATHER MABEUF 310. CHAPTER IV—AN APPARITION TO MARIUS 311. CHAPTER I—THE HOUSE WITH A SECRET 312. CHAPTER II—JEAN VALJEAN AS A NATIONAL GUARD 313. 1831. The municipal information collected at that time had even reached 314. CHAPTER III—FOLIIS AC FRONDIBUS 315. CHAPTER IV—CHANGE OF GATE 316. CHAPTER V—THE ROSE PERCEIVES THAT IT IS AN ENGINE OF WAR 317. CHAPTER VI—THE BATTLE BEGUN 318. CHAPTER VII—TO ONE SADNESS OPPOSE A SADNESS AND A HALF 319. CHAPTER VIII—THE CHAIN-GANG 320. CHAPTER I—A WOUND WITHOUT, HEALING WITHIN 321. CHAPTER II—MOTHER PLUTARQUE FINDS NO DIFFICULTY IN EXPLAINING A 322. CHAPTER I—SOLITUDE AND THE BARRACKS COMBINED 323. CHAPTER II—COSETTE’S APPREHENSIONS 324. CHAPTER III—ENRICHED WITH COMMENTARIES BY TOUSSAINT 325. CHAPTER IV—A HEART BENEATH A STONE 326. CHAPTER V—COSETTE AFTER THE LETTER 327. CHAPTER VI—OLD PEOPLE ARE MADE TO GO OUT OPPORTUNELY 328. CHAPTER I—THE MALICIOUS PLAYFULNESS OF THE WIND 329. CHAPTER II—IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM NAPOLEON THE 330. CHAPTER III—THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT 331. CHAPTER I—ORIGIN 332. CHAPTER II—ROOTS 333. CHAPTER III—SLANG WHICH WEEPS AND SLANG WHICH LAUGHS 334. CHAPTER IV—THE TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE 335. CHAPTER I—FULL LIGHT 336. CHAPTER II—THE BEWILDERMENT OF PERFECT HAPPINESS 337. CHAPTER III—THE BEGINNING OF SHADOW 338. CHAPTER IV—A CAB RUNS IN ENGLISH AND BARKS IN SLANG 339. CHAPTER V—THINGS OF THE NIGHT 340. CHAPTER VI—MARIUS BECOMES PRACTICAL ONCE MORE TO THE EXTENT OF GIVING 341. CHAPTER VII—THE OLD HEART AND THE YOUNG HEART IN THE PRESENCE OF EACH 342. CHAPTER I—JEAN VALJEAN 343. CHAPTER II—MARIUS 344. CHAPTER III—M. MABEUF 345. CHAPTER I—THE SURFACE OF THE QUESTION 346. CHAPTER II—THE ROOT OF THE MATTER 347. CHAPTER III—A BURIAL; AN OCCASION TO BE BORN AGAIN 348. CHAPTER IV—THE EBULLITIONS OF FORMER DAYS 349. CHAPTER V—ORIGINALITY OF PARIS 350. CHAPTER I—SOME EXPLANATIONS WITH REGARD TO THE ORIGIN OF GAVROCHE’S 351. CHAPTER II—GAVROCHE ON THE MARCH 352. CHAPTER III—JUST INDIGNATION OF A HAIR-DRESSER 353. CHAPTER IV—THE CHILD IS AMAZED AT THE OLD MAN 354. CHAPTER V—THE OLD MAN 355. CHAPTER VI—RECRUITS 356. CHAPTER I—HISTORY OF CORINTHE FROM ITS FOUNDATION 357. CHAPTER II—PRELIMINARY GAYETIES 358. CHAPTER III—NIGHT BEGINS TO DESCEND UPON GRANTAIRE 359. CHAPTER IV—AN ATTEMPT TO CONSOLE THE WIDOW HUCHELOUP 360. CHAPTER V—PREPARATIONS 361. CHAPTER VI—WAITING 362. CHAPTER VII—THE MAN RECRUITED IN THE RUE DES BILLETTES 363. CHAPTER VIII—MANY INTERROGATION POINTS WITH REGARD TO A CERTAIN LE 364. CHAPTER I—FROM THE RUE PLUMET TO THE QUARTIER SAINT-DENIS 365. CHAPTER II—AN OWL’S VIEW OF PARIS 366. CHAPTER III—THE EXTREME EDGE 367. CHAPTER I—THE FLAG: ACT FIRST 368. CHAPTER II—THE FLAG: ACT SECOND 369. CHAPTER III—GAVROCHE WOULD HAVE DONE BETTER TO ACCEPT ENJOLRAS’ CARBINE 370. CHAPTER IV—THE BARREL OF POWDER 371. CHAPTER V—END OF THE VERSES OF JEAN PROUVAIRE 372. CHAPTER VI—THE AGONY OF DEATH AFTER THE AGONY OF LIFE 373. CHAPTER VII—GAVROCHE AS A PROFOUND CALCULATOR OF DISTANCES 374. CHAPTER I—A DRINKER IS A BABBLER 375. CHAPTER II—THE STREET URCHIN AN ENEMY OF LIGHT 376. CHAPTER III—WHILE COSETTE AND TOUSSAINT ARE ASLEEP 377. CHAPTER IV—GAVROCHE’S EXCESS OF ZEAL 378. CHAPTER I—THE CHARYBDIS OF THE FAUBOURG SAINT ANTOINE AND THE SCYLLA OF 379. CHAPTER II—WHAT IS TO BE DONE IN THE ABYSS IF ONE DOES NOT CONVERSE 380. CHAPTER III—LIGHT AND SHADOW 381. CHAPTER IV—MINUS FIVE, PLUS ONE 382. CHAPTER V—THE HORIZON WHICH ONE BEHOLDS FROM THE SUMMIT OF A BARRICADE 383. CHAPTER VI—MARIUS HAGGARD, JAVERT LACONIC 384. CHAPTER VII—THE SITUATION BECOMES AGGRAVATED 385. CHAPTER VIII—THE ARTILLERY-MEN COMPEL PEOPLE TO TAKE THEM SERIOUSLY 386. CHAPTER IX—EMPLOYMENT OF THE OLD TALENTS OF A POACHER AND THAT 387. CHAPTER X—DAWN 388. CHAPTER XI—THE SHOT WHICH MISSES NOTHING AND KILLS NO ONE 389. CHAPTER XII—DISORDER A PARTISAN OF ORDER 390. 1832. Captain Fannicot, a bold and impatient bourgeois, a sort of 391. CHAPTER XIII—PASSING GLEAMS 392. CHAPTER XIV—WHEREIN WILL APPEAR THE NAME OF ENJOLRAS’ MISTRESS 393. CHAPTER XV—GAVROCHE OUTSIDE 394. CHAPTER XVI—HOW FROM A BROTHER ONE BECOMES A FATHER 395. CHAPTER XVII—MORTUUS PATER FILIUM MORITURUM EXPECTAT 396. CHAPTER XVIII—THE VULTURE BECOME PREY 397. CHAPTER XIX—JEAN VALJEAN TAKES HIS REVENGE 398. CHAPTER XX—THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE NOT IN THE 399. CHAPTER XXI—THE HEROES 400. CHAPTER XXII—FOOT TO FOOT 401. CHAPTER XXIII—ORESTES FASTING AND PYLADES DRUNK 402. CHAPTER XXIV—PRISONER 403. CHAPTER I—THE LAND IMPOVERISHED BY THE SEA 404. CHAPTER II—ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE SEWER 405. CHAPTER III—BRUNESEAU 406. CHAPTER IV 407. CHAPTER V—PRESENT PROGRESS 408. CHAPTER VI—FUTURE PROGRESS 409. 1806. All sorts of obstacles hindered this operation, some peculiar to 410. CHAPTER I—THE SEWER AND ITS SURPRISES 411. CHAPTER II—EXPLANATION 412. CHAPTER III—THE “SPUN” MAN 413. CHAPTER IV—HE ALSO BEARS HIS CROSS 414. CHAPTER V—IN THE CASE OF SAND AS IN THAT OF WOMAN, THERE IS A FINENESS 415. CHAPTER VI—THE FONTIS 416. CHAPTER VII—ONE SOMETIMES RUNS AGROUND WHEN ONE FANCIES THAT ONE IS 417. CHAPTER VIII—THE TORN COAT-TAIL 418. CHAPTER IX—MARIUS PRODUCES ON SOME ONE WHO IS A JUDGE OF THE MATTER, 419. CHAPTER X—RETURN OF THE SON WHO WAS PRODIGAL OF HIS LIFE 420. CHAPTER XI—CONCUSSION IN THE ABSOLUTE 421. CHAPTER XII—THE GRANDFATHER 422. CHAPTER I 423. CHAPTER I—IN WHICH THE TREE WITH THE ZINC PLASTER APPEARS AGAIN 424. CHAPTER II—MARIUS, EMERGING FROM CIVIL WAR, MAKES READY FOR DOMESTIC 425. CHAPTER III—MARIUS ATTACKED 426. 7. Ah! There we have it! Ah! so you want her! Well, you shall have her. 427. CHAPTER IV—MADEMOISELLE GILLENORMAND ENDS BY NO LONGER THINKING IT A 428. CHAPTER V—DEPOSIT YOUR MONEY IN A FOREST RATHER THAN WITH A NOTARY 429. CHAPTER VI—THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER HIS OWN 430. CHAPTER VII—THE EFFECTS OF DREAMS MINGLED WITH HAPPINESS 431. CHAPTER VIII—TWO MEN IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND 432. CHAPTER I—THE 16TH OF FEBRUARY, 1833 433. CHAPTER II—JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING 434. CHAPTER III—THE INSEPARABLE 435. CHAPTER IV—THE IMMORTAL LIVER 68 436. CHAPTER I—THE SEVENTH CIRCLE AND THE EIGHTH HEAVEN 437. CHAPTER II—THE OBSCURITIES WHICH A REVELATION CAN CONTAIN 438. CHAPTER I—THE LOWER CHAMBER 439. CHAPTER II—ANOTHER STEP BACKWARDS 440. CHAPTER III—THEY RECALL THE GARDEN OF THE RUE PLUMET 441. CHAPTER IV—ATTRACTION AND EXTINCTION 442. CHAPTER I—PITY FOR THE UNHAPPY, BUT INDULGENCE FOR THE HAPPY 443. CHAPTER II—LAST FLICKERINGS OF A LAMP WITHOUT OIL 444. CHAPTER III—A PEN IS HEAVY TO THE MAN WHO LIFTED THE FAUCHELEVENT’S 445. CHAPTER IV—A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN WHITENING 446. CHAPTER V—A NIGHT BEHIND WHICH THERE IS DAY 447. CHAPTER VI—THE GRASS COVERS AND THE RAIN EFFACES

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