University of Virginia Library

The Works of
Victor Hugo
Les Miserables
Volume III
Ninety-Three
THE KELMSCOTT SOCIETY
PUBLISHERS NEW YORK
JEAN VALJEAN.
COPYRIGHT, 1887,
BY THOMAS Y. CROWELL & CO.

CONTENTS
BOOK FIRST. — THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS
I. The Charybdis of the Faubourg Saint-Antoine and the
Scylla of the Faubourg du Temple . . . . . . . . . 1
II. What Is to Be Done in the Abyss if One Does Not Converse
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
III. Light and Shadow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14
IV. Minus Five, Plus One . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16
V. The Horizon Which One Beholds from the Summit of a
Barricade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
VI. Marius Haggard, Javert Laconic . . . . . . . . . . .27
VII. The Situation Becomes Aggravated . . . . . . . . . .29
VIII. The Artillery-men Compel People to Take Them
Seriously . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
IX. Employment of the Old Talents of a Poacher and That
Infallible Marksmanship Which Influenced the Condemnation
of 1796 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
X. Dawn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39
XI. The Shot Which Misses Nothing and Kills No One . . .43
XII. Disorder a Partisan of Order . . . . . . . . . . . .45
XIII. Passing Gleams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .48
XIV. Wherein Will Appear the Name of Enjolras' Mistress .50
XV. Gavroche Outside . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .53
XVI. How from a Brother One Becomes a Father . . . . . .56
XVII. Mortuus Pater Filium Moriturum Expectat . . . . . .66
XVIII. The Vulture Becomes Prey . . . . . . . . . . . . . .68
XIX. Jean Valjean Takes His Revenge . . . . . . . . . . .72
XX. The Dead Are in the Right and the Living Are Not in
the Wrong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
XXI. The Heroes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .86
XXII. Foot to Foot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .91
XXIII. Orestes Fasting and Pylades Drunk . . . . . . . . .95
XXIV. Prisoner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .98
BOOK SECOND. — THE INTESTINE OF THE LEVIATHAN
I. The Land Impoverished by the Sea . . . . . . . . . .102
II. Ancient History of the Sewer . . . . . . . . . . . .106
III. Bruneseau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .110
IV. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .113
V. Present Progress . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .117
VI. Future Progress . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .119
BOOK THIRD. — MUD BUT THE SOUL
I. The Sewer and Its Surprises . . . . . . . . . . . .125
II. Explanation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .132
III. The "Spun" Man . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .134
IV. He Also Bears His Cross . . . . . . . . . . . . . .139
V. In the Case of Sand, as in That of Woman, There Is a
Fineness Which Is Treacherous . . . . . . . . . . 143
VI. The Fontis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .148
VII. One Sometimes Runs Aground When One Fancies That
One Is Disembarking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
VIII. The Torn Coat-Tail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .153
IX. Marius Produces on Some One Who Is a Judge of the
Matter, the Effect of Being Dead . . . . . . . . . 159
X. Return of the Son Who Was Prodigal of His Life . . .164
XI. Concussion in the Absolute . . . . . . . . . . . . .166
XII. The Grandfather . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .168
BOOK FOURTH. — JAVERT DERAILED
I. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .175
BOOK FIFTH. — GRANDSON AND GRANDFATHER
I. In Which the Tree with the Zinc Plaster Appears Again 189
II. Marius, Emerging from Civil War, Makes Ready for
Domestic War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
III. Marius Attacked . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
IV. Mademoiselle Gillenormand Ends by No Longer Thinking
It a Bad Thing That M. Fauchelevent Should Have
Entered With Something Under His Arm . . . . . . . 202
V. Deposit Your Money in a Forest Rather than with a
Notary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
VI. The Two Old Men Do Everything, Each One After His
Own Fashion, to Render Cosette Happy . . . . . . . 209
VII. The Effects of Dreams Mingled with Happiness . . . . 218
VIII. Two Men Impossible to Find . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
BOOK SIXTH. — THE SLEEPLESS NIGHT
I. The 16th of February, 1833 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
II. Jean Valjean Still Wears His Arm in a Sling . . . . 237
III. The Inseparable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248
IV. The Immortal Liver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
BOOK SEVENTH. — THE LAST DRAUGHT FROM THE CUP
I. The Seventh Circle and the Eighth Heaven . . . . . . 256
II. The Obscurities Which a Revelation Can Contain . . . 275
BOOK EIGHTH. — FADING AWAY OF THE TWILIGHT
I. The Lower Chamber . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285
II. Another Step Backwards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290
III. They Recall the Garden of the Rue Plumet . . . . . . 293
IV. Attraction and Extinction . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299
BOOK NINTH. — SUPREME SHADOW, SUPREME DAWN
I. Pity for the Unhappy, but Indulgence for the Happy . 301
II. Last Flickerings of a Lamp Without Oil . . . . . . 303
III. A Pen Is Heavy to the Man Who Lifted the Fauchelevent's
Cart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306
IV. A Bottle of Ink Which Only Succeeded in Whitening . 309
V. A Night Behind Which There Is Day . . . . . . . . . 330
VI. The Grass Covers and the Rain Effaces . . . . . . . 341
LETTER TO M. DAELLI.