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CONTENTS
BOOK FIRST. — A JUST MAN
I. M. Myriel.................................... 1
II. M. Myriel becomes M. Welcome................. 4
III. A Hard Bishopric for a Good Bishop........... 10
IV. Works corresponding to Words................. 12
V. Monseigneur Bienvenu made his Cassocks last too long 20
VI. Who guarded his House for him................ 22
VII. Cravatte...................................... 29
VIII. Philosophy after Drinking..................... 31
IX. The Brother as depicted by the Sister........ 37
X. The Bishop in the Presence of an Unknown Light 40
XI. A Restriction................................. 53
XII. The Solitude of Monseigneur Welcome........... 58
XIII. What he believed.............................. 61
XIV. What he thought............................... 65
BOOK SECOND. — THE FALL
I. The Evening of a Day of Walking............... 69
II. Prudence counselled to Wisdom................. 82
III. The Heroism of Passive Obedience.............. 90
IV. Details concerning the Cheese-Dairies of Pontarlier 92
V. Tranquillity.................................. 96
VI. Jean Valjean.................................. 97
VII. The Interior of Despair....................... 103
VIII. Billows and Shadows........................... 111
IX. New Troubles.................................. 114
X. The Man aroused............................... 115
XII. The Bishop works............................. 123
XIII. Little Gervais............................... 126
BOOK THIRD. — IN THE YEAR 1817
I. The Year 1817................................ 137
II. A Double Quartette........................... 143
III. Four and Four................................ 148
IV. Tholomyes is so Merry that he sings a Spanish Ditty 151
V. At Bombardas................................. 155
VI. A Chapter in which they adore Each Other..... 158
VII. The Wisdom of Tholomyes...................... 159
VIII. The Death of a Horse......................... 165
IX. A Merry End to Mirth......................... 168
BOOK FOURTH. — TO CONFIDE IS SOMETIMES TO DELIVER INTO A PERSON'S POWER
I. One Mother meets Another Mother.............. 172
II. First Sketch of Two Unprepossessing Figures.. 182
III. The Lark..................................... 184
BOOK FIFTH.— THE DESCENT
I. The History of a Progress in Black Glass Trinkets 188
II. Madeleine.................................... 189
III. Sums deposited with Laffitte................. 193
IV. M. Madeleine in Mourning..................... 197
V. Vague Flashes on the Horizon................. 199
VI. Father Fauchelevent.......................... 205
VII. Fauchelevent becomes a Gardener in Paris..... 208
VIII. Madame Victurnien expends Thirty Francs on Morality 210
IX. Madame Victurnien's Success.................. 213
X. Result of the Success........................ 215
XI. Christus nos Liberavit....................... 221
XIII. The Solution of Some Questions connected with the
Municipal Police......................... 225
BOOK SIXTH.—JAVERT
I. The Beginning of Repose...................... 236
II. How Jean may become Champ.................... 240
BOOK SEVENTH.—THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR
I. Sister Simplice.............................. 250
II. The Perspicacity of Master Scaufflaire....... 253
III. A Tempest in a Skull......................... 258
IV. Forms assumed by Suffering during Sleep...... 279
V. Hindrances................................... 283
VI. Sister Simplice put to the Proof............. 296
VII. The Traveller on his Arrival takes Precautions for De-
parture................................... 303
VIII. An Entrance by Favor......................... 308
IX. A Place where Convictions are in Process of Formation 312
X. The System of Denials........................ 319
XI. Champmathieu more and more Astonished........ 327
BOOK EIGHTH.—A COUNTER-BLOW
I. In what Mirror M. Madeleine contemplates his Hair 333
II. Fantine Happy................................ 336
III. Javert Satisfied............................. 340
IV. Authority reasserts its Rights............... 344
V. A Suitable Tomb.............................. 349
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