Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
CHAPTER VI—THE AGONY OF DEATH AFTER THE AGONY OF LIFE
A peculiarity of this species of war is, that the attack of the
barricades is almost always made from the front, and that the
assailants generally abstain from turning the position, either because
they fear ambushes, or because they are afraid of getting entangled in
the tortuous streets. The insurgents’ whole attention had been
directed, therefore, to the grand barricade, which was, evidently, the
spot always menaced, and there the struggle would infallibly
recommence. But Marius thought of the little barricade, and went
thither. It was deserted and guarded only by the fire-pot which
trembled between the paving-stones. Moreover, the Mondétour alley, and
the branches of the Rue de la Petite Truanderie and the Rue du Cygne
were profoundly calm.
As Marius was withdrawing, after concluding his inspection, he heard
his name pronounced feebly in the darkness.
“Monsieur Marius!”
He started, for he recognized the voice which had called to him two
hours before through the gate in the Rue Plumet.
Only, the voice now seemed to be nothing more than a breath.
He looked about him, but saw no one.
Marius thought he had been mistaken, that it was an illusion added by
his mind to the extraordinary realities which were clashing around him.
He advanced a step, in order to quit the distant recess where the
barricade lay.
“Monsieur Marius!” repeated the voice.
This time he could not doubt that he had heard it distinctly; he looked
and saw nothing.
“At your feet,” said the voice.
He bent down, and saw in the darkness a form which was dragging itself
towards him.
It was crawling along the pavement. It was this that had spoken to him.
The fire-pot allowed him to distinguish a blouse, torn trousers of
coarse velvet, bare feet, and something which resembled a pool of
blood. Marius indistinctly made out a pale head which was lifted
towards him and which was saying to him:—
“You do not recognize me?”
“No.”
“Éponine.”
Marius bent hastily down. It was, in fact, that unhappy child. She was
dressed in men’s clothes.
“How come you here? What are you doing here?”
“I am dying,” said she.
There are words and incidents which arouse dejected beings. Marius
cried out with a start:—
“You are wounded! Wait, I will carry you into the room! They will
attend to you there. Is it serious? How must I take hold of you in
order not to hurt you? Where do you suffer? Help! My God! But why did
you come hither?”
And he tried to pass his arm under her, in order to raise her.
She uttered a feeble cry.
“Have I hurt you?” asked Marius.
“A little.”
“But I only touched your hand.”
She raised her hand to Marius, and in the middle of that hand Marius
saw a black hole.
“What is the matter with your hand?” said he.
“It is pierced.”
“Pierced?”
“Yes.”
“What with?”
“A bullet.”
“How?”
“Did you see a gun aimed at you?”
“Yes, and a hand stopping it.”
“It was mine.”
Marius was seized with a shudder.
“What madness! Poor child! But so much the better, if that is all, it
is nothing, let me carry you to a bed. They will dress your wound; one
does not die of a pierced hand.”
She murmured:—
“The bullet traversed my hand, but it came out through my back. It is
useless to remove me from this spot. I will tell you how you can care
for me better than any surgeon. Sit down near me on this stone.”
He obeyed; she laid her head on Marius’ knees, and, without looking at
him, she said:—
“Oh! How good this is! How comfortable this is! There; I no longer
suffer.”
She remained silent for a moment, then she turned her face with an
effort, and looked at Marius.
“Do you know what, Monsieur Marius? It puzzled me because you entered
that garden; it was stupid, because it was I who showed you that house;
and then, I ought to have said to myself that a young man like you—”
She paused, and overstepping the sombre transitions that undoubtedly
existed in her mind, she resumed with a heartrending smile:—
“You thought me ugly, didn’t you?”
She continued:—
“You see, you are lost! Now, no one can get out of the barricade. It
was I who led you here, by the way! You are going to die, I count upon
that. And yet, when I saw them taking aim at you, I put my hand on the
muzzle of the gun. How queer it is! But it was because I wanted to die
before you. When I received that bullet, I dragged myself here, no one
saw me, no one picked me up, I was waiting for you, I said: ‘So he is
not coming!’ Oh, if you only knew. I bit my blouse, I suffered so! Now
I am well. Do you remember the day I entered your chamber and when I
looked at myself in your mirror, and the day when I came to you on the
boulevard near the washerwomen? How the birds sang! That was a long
time ago. You gave me a hundred sous, and I said to you: ‘I don’t want
your money.’ I hope you picked up your coin? You are not rich. I did
not think to tell you to pick it up. The sun was shining bright, and it
was not cold. Do you remember, Monsieur Marius? Oh! How happy I am!
Every one is going to die.”
She had a mad, grave, and heart-breaking air. Her torn blouse disclosed
her bare throat.
As she talked, she pressed her pierced hand to her breast, where there
was another hole, and whence there spurted from moment to moment a
stream of blood, like a jet of wine from an open bung-hole.
Marius gazed at this unfortunate creature with profound compassion.
“Oh!” she resumed, “it is coming again, I am stifling!”
She caught up her blouse and bit it, and her limbs stiffened on the
pavement.
At that moment the young cock’s crow executed by little Gavroche
resounded through the barricade.
The child had mounted a table to load his gun, and was singing gayly
the song then so popular:—
“En voyant Lafayette,
Le gendarme répète:—
Sauvons nous! sauvons nous!
sauvons nous!”
“On beholding Lafayette,
The gendarme repeats:—
Let us flee! let us flee!
let us flee!
Éponine raised herself and listened; then she murmured:—
“It is he.”
And turning to Marius:—
“My brother is here. He must not see me. He would scold me.”
“Your brother?” inquired Marius, who was meditating in the most bitter
and sorrowful depths of his heart on the duties to the Thénardiers
which his father had bequeathed to him; “who is your brother?”
“That little fellow.”
“The one who is singing?”
“Yes.”
Marius made a movement.
“Oh! don’t go away,” said she, “it will not be long now.”
She was sitting almost upright, but her voice was very low and broken
by hiccoughs.
At intervals, the death rattle interrupted her. She put her face as
near that of Marius as possible. She added with a strange expression:—
“Listen, I do not wish to play you a trick. I have a letter in my
pocket for you. I was told to put it in the post. I kept it. I did not
want to have it reach you. But perhaps you will be angry with me for it
when we meet again presently? Take your letter.”
She grasped Marius’ hand convulsively with her pierced hand, but she no
longer seemed to feel her sufferings. She put Marius’ hand in the
pocket of her blouse. There, in fact, Marius felt a paper.
“Take it,” said she.
Marius took the letter.
She made a sign of satisfaction and contentment.
“Now, for my trouble, promise me—”
And she stopped.
“What?” asked Marius.
“Promise me!”
“I promise.”
“Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead.—I shall feel it.”
She dropped her head again on Marius’ knees, and her eyelids closed. He
thought the poor soul had departed. Éponine remained motionless. All at
once, at the very moment when Marius fancied her asleep forever, she
slowly opened her eyes in which appeared the sombre profundity of
death, and said to him in a tone whose sweetness seemed already to
proceed from another world:—
“And by the way, Monsieur Marius, I believe that I was a little bit in
love with you.”
She tried to smile once more and expired.
Chapters
- Chapter 1 Ch.1
- CHAPTER XIV—WHAT HE THOUGHT Ch.2
- CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GERVAIS Ch.3
- CHAPTER IX—A MERRY END TO MIRTH Ch.4
- CHAPTER III—THE LARK Ch.5
- CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WITH THE Ch.6
- CHAPTER II—HOW JEAN MAY BECOME CHAMP Ch.7
- CHAPTER VII—THE TRAVELLER ON HIS ARRIVAL TAKES PRECAUTIONS FOR Ch.8
- CHAPTER XI—CHAMPMATHIEU MORE AND MORE ASTONISHED Ch.9
- CHAPTER V—A SUITABLE TOMB Ch.10
- CHAPTER XIX—THE BATTLE-FIELD AT NIGHT Ch.11
- CHAPTER II—IN WHICH THE READER WILL PERUSE TWO VERSES, WHICH ARE OF Ch.12
- CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN PREPARATORY Ch.13
- CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE’S HOUSE A POOR Ch.14
- CHAPTER X—HE WHO SEEKS TO BETTER HIMSELF MAY RENDER HIS SITUATION Ch.15
- CHAPTER XI—NUMBER 9,430 REAPPEARS, AND COSETTE WINS IT IN THE LOTTERY Ch.16
- CHAPTER V—A FIVE-FRANC PIECE FALLS ON THE GROUND AND PRODUCES A TUMULT Ch.17
- CHAPTER X—WHICH EXPLAINS HOW JAVERT GOT ON THE SCENT Ch.18
- CHAPTER XI—END OF THE PETIT-PICPUS Ch.19
- CHAPTER VIII—FAITH, LAW Ch.20
- CHAPTER IV—IN WHICH JEAN VALJEAN HAS QUITE THE AIR OF HAVING READ Ch.21
- CHAPTER VII—IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE ORIGIN OF THE SAYING: DON’T Ch.22
- CHAPTER IX—CLOISTERED Ch.23
- CHAPTER VII—THE GAMIN SHOULD HAVE HIS PLACE IN THE CLASSIFICATIONS OF Ch.24
- CHAPTER VIII—IN WHICH THE READER WILL FIND A CHARMING SAYING OF THE Ch.25
- CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GAVROCHE Ch.26
- CHAPTER VIII—TWO DO NOT MAKE A PAIR Ch.27
- CHAPTER V—THE UTILITY OF GOING TO MASS, IN ORDER TO BECOME A Ch.28
- CHAPTER VIII—MARBLE AGAINST GRANITE Ch.29
- CHAPTER VI—RES ANGUSTA Ch.30
- CHAPTER VI—THE SUBSTITUTE Ch.31
- CHAPTER IX—ECLIPSE Ch.32
- CHAPTER IV—COMPOSITION OF THE TROUPE Ch.33
- CHAPTER I—MARIUS, WHILE SEEKING A GIRL IN A BONNET, ENCOUNTERS A MAN Ch.34
- CHAPTER XIII—SOLUS CUM SOLO, IN LOCO REMOTO, NON COGITABUNTUR ORARE Ch.35
- CHAPTER XVI—IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE WORDS TO AN ENGLISH AIR WHICH Ch.36
- CHAPTER XXII—THE LITTLE ONE WHO WAS CRYING IN VOLUME TWO Ch.37
- CHAPTER VI—ENJOLRAS AND HIS LIEUTENANTS Ch.38
- CHAPTER IV—AN APPARITION TO MARIUS Ch.39
- CHAPTER VIII—THE CHAIN-GANG Ch.40
- CHAPTER II—MOTHER PLUTARQUE FINDS NO DIFFICULTY IN EXPLAINING A Ch.41
- CHAPTER VI—OLD PEOPLE ARE MADE TO GO OUT OPPORTUNELY Ch.42
- CHAPTER II—IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM NAPOLEON THE Ch.43
- CHAPTER III—THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT Ch.44
- CHAPTER IV—THE TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE Ch.45
- CHAPTER VI—MARIUS BECOMES PRACTICAL ONCE MORE TO THE EXTENT OF GIVING Ch.46
- CHAPTER VII—THE OLD HEART AND THE YOUNG HEART IN THE PRESENCE OF EACH Ch.47
- CHAPTER III—M. MABEUF Ch.48
- CHAPTER V—ORIGINALITY OF PARIS Ch.49
- CHAPTER I—SOME EXPLANATIONS WITH REGARD TO THE ORIGIN OF GAVROCHE’S Ch.50
- CHAPTER VI—RECRUITS Ch.51
- CHAPTER VIII—MANY INTERROGATION POINTS WITH REGARD TO A CERTAIN LE Ch.52
- CHAPTER III—THE EXTREME EDGE Ch.53
- CHAPTER III—GAVROCHE WOULD HAVE DONE BETTER TO ACCEPT ENJOLRAS’ Ch.54
- CHAPTER VII—GAVROCHE AS A PROFOUND CALCULATOR OF DISTANCES Ch.55
- CHAPTER IV—GAVROCHE’S EXCESS OF ZEAL Ch.56
- CHAPTER IX—EMPLOYMENT OF THE OLD TALENTS OF A POACHER AND THAT Ch.57
- CHAPTER XX—THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE NOT IN THE Ch.58
- CHAPTER XXIV—PRISONER Ch.59
- CHAPTER VI—FUTURE PROGRESS Ch.60
- CHAPTER V—IN THE CASE OF SAND AS IN THAT OF WOMAN, THERE IS A FINENESS Ch.61
- CHAPTER VII—ONE SOMETIMES RUNS AGROUND WHEN ONE FANCIES THAT ONE IS Ch.62
- CHAPTER IX—MARIUS PRODUCES ON SOME ONE WHO IS A JUDGE OF THE MATTER, Ch.63
- CHAPTER XII—THE GRANDFATHER Ch.64
- CHAPTER I Ch.65
- CHAPTER II—MARIUS, EMERGING FROM CIVIL WAR, MAKES READY FOR DOMESTIC Ch.66
- CHAPTER IV—MADEMOISELLE GILLENORMAND ENDS BY NO LONGER THINKING IT A Ch.67
- CHAPTER VI—THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER HIS OWN Ch.68
- CHAPTER VIII—TWO MEN IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND Ch.69
- CHAPTER IV—THE IMMORTAL LIVER Ch.70
- CHAPTER II—THE OBSCURITIES WHICH A REVELATION CAN CONTAIN Ch.71
- CHAPTER IV—ATTRACTION AND EXTINCTION Ch.72
- CHAPTER III—A PEN IS HEAVY TO THE MAN WHO LIFTED THE FAUCHELEVENT’S Ch.73
- CHAPTER VI—THE GRASS COVERS AND THE RAIN EFFACES Ch.74
- CHAPTER I—M. MYRIEL Ch.75
- CHAPTER II—M. MYRIEL BECOMES M. WELCOME Ch.76
- 1712. This palace was a genuine seignorial residence. Everything about Ch.77
- CHAPTER III—A HARD BISHOPRIC FOR A GOOD BISHOP Ch.78
- CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS Ch.79
- CHAPTER V—MONSEIGNEUR BIENVENU MADE HIS CASSOCKS LAST TOO LONG Ch.80
- CHAPTER VI—WHO GUARDED HIS HOUSE FOR HIM Ch.81
- CHAPTER VII—CRAVATTE Ch.82
- CHAPTER VIII—PHILOSOPHY AFTER DRINKING Ch.83
- CHAPTER IX—THE BROTHER AS DEPICTED BY THE SISTER Ch.84
- CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT Ch.85
- CHAPTER XI—A RESTRICTION Ch.86
- CHAPTER XII—THE SOLITUDE OF MONSEIGNEUR WELCOME Ch.87
- CHAPTER XIII—WHAT HE BELIEVED Ch.88
- CHAPTER XIV—WHAT HE THOUGHT Ch.89
- CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING Ch.90
- CHAPTER II—PRUDENCE COUNSELLED TO WISDOM. Ch.91
- CHAPTER III—THE HEROISM OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE. Ch.92
- CHAPTER IV—DETAILS CONCERNING THE CHEESE-DAIRIES OF PONTARLIER. Ch.93
- CHAPTER V—TRANQUILLITY Ch.94
- CHAPTER VI—JEAN VALJEAN Ch.95
- CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR Ch.96
- CHAPTER VIII—BILLOWS AND SHADOWS Ch.97
- CHAPTER IX—NEW TROUBLES Ch.98
- CHAPTER X—THE MAN AROUSED Ch.99
- CHAPTER XI—WHAT HE DOES Ch.100
- CHAPTER XII—THE BISHOP WORKS Ch.101
- CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GERVAIS Ch.102
- CHAPTER I—THE YEAR 1817 Ch.103
- CHAPTER II—A DOUBLE QUARTETTE Ch.104
- CHAPTER III—FOUR AND FOUR Ch.105
- CHAPTER IV—THOLOMYÈS IS SO MERRY THAT HE SINGS A SPANISH DITTY Ch.106
- CHAPTER V—AT BOMBARDA’S Ch.107
- CHAPTER VI—A CHAPTER IN WHICH THEY ADORE EACH OTHER Ch.108
- CHAPTER VII—THE WISDOM OF THOLOMYÈS Ch.109
- CHAPTER VIII—THE DEATH OF A HORSE Ch.110
- CHAPTER IX—A MERRY END TO MIRTH Ch.111
- CHAPTER I—ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER Ch.112
- CHAPTER II—FIRST SKETCH OF TWO UNPREPOSSESSING FIGURES Ch.113
- CHAPTER III—THE LARK Ch.114
- CHAPTER I—THE HISTORY OF A PROGRESS IN BLACK GLASS TRINKETS Ch.115
- CHAPTER II—MADELEINE Ch.116
- CHAPTER III—SUMS DEPOSITED WITH LAFFITTE Ch.117
- CHAPTER IV—M. MADELEINE IN MOURNING Ch.118
- CHAPTER V—VAGUE FLASHES ON THE HORIZON Ch.119
- CHAPTER VI—FATHER FAUCHELEVENT Ch.120
- CHAPTER VII—FAUCHELEVENT BECOMES A GARDENER IN PARIS Ch.121
- CHAPTER VIII—MADAME VICTURNIEN EXPENDS THIRTY FRANCS ON MORALITY Ch.122
- CHAPTER IX—MADAME VICTURNIEN’S SUCCESS Ch.123
- CHAPTER X—RESULT OF THE SUCCESS Ch.124
- CHAPTER XI—CHRISTUS NOS LIBERAVIT Ch.125
- CHAPTER XII—M. BAMATABOIS’S INACTIVITY Ch.126
- CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WITH THE Ch.127
- CHAPTER I—THE BEGINNING OF REPOSE Ch.128
- CHAPTER II—HOW JEAN MAY BECOME CHAMP Ch.129
- CHAPTER I—SISTER SIMPLICE Ch.130
- CHAPTER II—THE PERSPICACITY OF MASTER SCAUFFLAIRE Ch.131
- CHAPTER III—A TEMPEST IN A SKULL Ch.132
- CHAPTER IV—FORMS ASSUMED BY SUFFERING DURING SLEEP Ch.133
- CHAPTER V—HINDRANCES Ch.134
- CHAPTER VI—SISTER SIMPLICE PUT TO THE PROOF Ch.135
- CHAPTER VII—THE TRAVELLER ON HIS ARRIVAL TAKES PRECAUTIONS FOR Ch.136
- CHAPTER VIII—AN ENTRANCE BY FAVOR Ch.137
- CHAPTER IX—A PLACE WHERE CONVICTIONS ARE IN PROCESS OF FORMATION Ch.138
- CHAPTER X—THE SYSTEM OF DENIALS Ch.139
- CHAPTER XI—CHAMPMATHIEU MORE AND MORE ASTONISHED Ch.140
- CHAPTER I—IN WHAT MIRROR M. MADELEINE CONTEMPLATES HIS HAIR Ch.141
- CHAPTER II—FANTINE HAPPY Ch.142
- CHAPTER III—JAVERT SATISFIED Ch.143
- CHAPTER IV—AUTHORITY REASSERTS ITS RIGHTS Ch.144
- CHAPTER V—A SUITABLE TOMB Ch.145
- CHAPTER I—WHAT IS MET WITH ON THE WAY FROM NIVELLES Ch.146
- CHAPTER II—HOUGOMONT Ch.147
- CHAPTER III—THE EIGHTEENTH OF JUNE, 1815 Ch.148
- CHAPTER IV—A Ch.149
- CHAPTER V—THE QUID OBSCURUM OF BATTLES Ch.150
- CHAPTER VI—FOUR O’CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON Ch.151
- CHAPTER VII—NAPOLEON IN A GOOD HUMOR Ch.152
- CHAPTER VIII—THE EMPEROR PUTS A QUESTION TO THE GUIDE LACOSTE Ch.153
- CHAPTER IX—THE UNEXPECTED Ch.154
- CHAPTER X—THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN Ch.155
- CHAPTER XI—A BAD GUIDE TO NAPOLEON; A GOOD GUIDE TO BÜLOW Ch.156
- CHAPTER XII—THE GUARD Ch.157
- CHAPTER XIII—THE CATASTROPHE Ch.158
- CHAPTER XIV—THE LAST SQUARE Ch.159
- CHAPTER XV—CAMBRONNE Ch.160
- CHAPTER XVI—QUOT LIBRAS IN DUCE? Ch.161
- CHAPTER XVII—IS WATERLOO TO BE CONSIDERED GOOD? Ch.162
- CHAPTER XVIII—A RECRUDESCENCE OF DIVINE RIGHT Ch.163
- CHAPTER XIX—THE BATTLE-FIELD AT NIGHT Ch.164
- CHAPTER I—NUMBER 24,601 BECOMES NUMBER 9,430 Ch.165
- CHAPTER II—IN WHICH THE READER WILL PERUSE TWO VERSES, WHICH ARE OF THE Ch.166
- CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN PREPARATORY Ch.167
- CHAPTER I—THE WATER QUESTION AT MONTFERMEIL Ch.168
- CHAPTER II—TWO COMPLETE PORTRAITS Ch.169
- CHAPTER III—MEN MUST HAVE WINE, AND HORSES MUST HAVE WATER Ch.170
- CHAPTER IV—ENTRANCE ON THE SCENE OF A DOLL Ch.171
- CHAPTER V—THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE Ch.172
- CHAPTER VI—WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE’S INTELLIGENCE Ch.173
- CHAPTER VII—COSETTE SIDE BY SIDE WITH THE STRANGER IN THE DARK Ch.174
- CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE’S HOUSE A POOR Ch.175
- CHAPTER IX— THÉNARDIER AND HIS MANŒUVRES Ch.176
- CHAPTER X—HE WHO SEEKS TO BETTER HIMSELF MAY RENDER HIS SITUATION WORSE Ch.177
- CHAPTER XI—NUMBER 9,430 REAPPEARS, AND COSETTE WINS IT IN THE LOTTERY Ch.178
- CHAPTER I—MASTER GORBEAU Ch.179
- CHAPTER II—A NEST FOR OWL AND A WARBLER Ch.180
- CHAPTER III—TWO MISFORTUNES MAKE ONE PIECE OF GOOD FORTUNE Ch.181
- CHAPTER IV—THE REMARKS OF THE PRINCIPAL TENANT Ch.182
- CHAPTER V—A FIVE-FRANC PIECE FALLS ON THE GROUND AND PRODUCES A TUMULT Ch.183
- CHAPTER I—THE ZIGZAGS OF STRATEGY Ch.184
- CHAPTER II—IT IS LUCKY THAT THE PONT D’AUSTERLITZ BEARS CARRIAGES Ch.185
- CHAPTER III—TO WIT, THE PLAN OF PARIS IN 1727 Ch.186
- CHAPTER IV—THE GROPINGS OF FLIGHT Ch.187
- CHAPTER V—WHICH WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE WITH GAS LANTERNS Ch.188
- CHAPTER VI—THE BEGINNING OF AN ENIGMA Ch.189
- CHAPTER VII—CONTINUATION OF THE ENIGMA Ch.190
- CHAPTER VIII—THE ENIGMA BECOMES DOUBLY MYSTERIOUS Ch.191
- CHAPTER IX—THE MAN WITH THE BELL Ch.192
- CHAPTER X—WHICH EXPLAINS HOW JAVERT GOT ON THE SCENT Ch.193
- episode of the thousand-franc bill. She had seen it! She had handled Ch.194
- CHAPTER I—NUMBER 62 RUE PETIT-PICPUS Ch.195
- CHAPTER II—THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA Ch.196
- CHAPTER III—AUSTERITIES Ch.197
- CHAPTER IV—GAYETIES Ch.198
- CHAPTER V—DISTRACTIONS Ch.199
- CHAPTER VI—THE LITTLE CONVENT Ch.200
- CHAPTER VII—SOME SILHOUETTES OF THIS DARKNESS Ch.201
- CHAPTER VIII—POST CORDA LAPIDES Ch.202
- CHAPTER IX—A CENTURY UNDER A GUIMPE Ch.203
- CHAPTER X—ORIGIN OF THE PERPETUAL ADORATION Ch.204
- CHAPTER XI—END OF THE PETIT-PICPUS Ch.205
- CHAPTER I—THE CONVENT AS AN ABSTRACT IDEA Ch.206
- CHAPTER II—THE CONVENT AS AN HISTORICAL FACT Ch.207
- CHAPTER III—ON WHAT CONDITIONS ONE CAN RESPECT THE PAST Ch.208
- CHAPTER IV—THE CONVENT FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF PRINCIPLES Ch.209
- CHAPTER V—PRAYER Ch.210
- CHAPTER VI—THE ABSOLUTE GOODNESS OF PRAYER Ch.211
- CHAPTER VII—PRECAUTIONS TO BE OBSERVED IN BLAME Ch.212
- CHAPTER VIII—FAITH, LAW Ch.213
- CHAPTER I—WHICH TREATS OF THE MANNER OF ENTERING A CONVENT Ch.214
- CHAPTER II—FAUCHELEVENT IN THE PRESENCE OF A DIFFICULTY Ch.215
- CHAPTER III—MOTHER INNOCENTE Ch.216
- CHAPTER IV—IN WHICH JEAN VALJEAN HAS QUITE THE AIR OF HAVING READ Ch.217
- CHAPTER V—IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE DRUNK IN ORDER TO BE IMMORTAL Ch.218
- CHAPTER VI—BETWEEN FOUR PLANKS Ch.219
- CHAPTER VII—IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE ORIGIN OF THE SAYING: DON’T LOSE Ch.220
- CHAPTER VIII—A SUCCESSFUL INTERROGATORY Ch.221
- CHAPTER IX—CLOISTERED Ch.222
- CHAPTER I—PARVULUS Ch.223
- CHAPTER II—SOME OF HIS PARTICULAR CHARACTERISTICS Ch.224
- CHAPTER III—HE IS AGREEABLE Ch.225
- CHAPTER IV—HE MAY BE OF USE Ch.226
- CHAPTER V—HIS FRONTIERS Ch.227
- CHAPTER VI—A BIT OF HISTORY Ch.228
- CHAPTER VII—THE GAMIN SHOULD HAVE HIS PLACE IN THE CLASSIFICATIONS OF Ch.229
- CHAPTER VIII—IN WHICH THE READER WILL FIND A CHARMING SAYING OF THE Ch.230
- CHAPTER IX—THE OLD SOUL OF GAUL Ch.231
- CHAPTER X—ECCE PARIS, ECCE HOMO Ch.232
- CHAPTER XI—TO SCOFF, TO REIGN Ch.233
- CHAPTER XII—THE FUTURE LATENT IN THE PEOPLE Ch.234
- CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GAVROCHE Ch.235
- CHAPTER I—NINETY YEARS AND THIRTY-TWO TEETH Ch.236
- CHAPTER II—LIKE MASTER, LIKE HOUSE Ch.237
- CHAPTER III—LUC-ESPRIT Ch.238
- CHAPTER IV—A CENTENARIAN ASPIRANT Ch.239
- CHAPTER V—BASQUE AND NICOLETTE Ch.240
- CHAPTER VI—IN WHICH MAGNON AND HER TWO CHILDREN ARE SEEN Ch.241
- CHAPTER VII—RULE: RECEIVE NO ONE EXCEPT IN THE EVENING Ch.242
- CHAPTER VIII—TWO DO NOT MAKE A PAIR Ch.243
- CHAPTER I—AN ANCIENT SALON Ch.244
- CHAPTER II—ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH Ch.245
- 1794. Pontmercy fought at Spire, at Worms, at Neustadt, at Turkheim, at Ch.246
- CHAPTER III—REQUIESCANT Ch.247
- introduction into history of M. le Marquis de Bonaparte, Ch.248
- CHAPTER IV—END OF THE BRIGAND Ch.249
- CHAPTER V—THE UTILITY OF GOING TO MASS, IN ORDER TO BECOME A Ch.250
- CHAPTER VI—THE CONSEQUENCES OF HAVING MET A WARDEN Ch.251
- CHAPTER VII—SOME PETTICOAT Ch.252
- CHAPTER VIII—MARBLE AGAINST GRANITE Ch.253
- CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC Ch.254
- CHAPTER II—BLONDEAU’S FUNERAL ORATION BY BOSSUET Ch.255
- CHAPTER III—MARIUS’ ASTONISHMENTS Ch.256
- CHAPTER IV—THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFÉ MUSAIN Ch.257
- CHAPTER V—ENLARGEMENT OF HORIZON Ch.258
- CHAPTER VI—RES ANGUSTA Ch.259
- CHAPTER I—MARIUS INDIGENT Ch.260
- CHAPTER II—MARIUS POOR Ch.261
- CHAPTER III—MARIUS GROWN UP Ch.262
- CHAPTER IV—M. MABEUF Ch.263
- CHAPTER V—POVERTY A GOOD NEIGHBOR FOR MISERY Ch.264
- CHAPTER VI—THE SUBSTITUTE Ch.265
- CHAPTER I—THE SOBRIQUET: MODE OF FORMATION OF FAMILY NAMES Ch.266
- CHAPTER II—LUX FACTA EST Ch.267
- CHAPTER III—EFFECT OF THE SPRING Ch.268
- CHAPTER IV—BEGINNING OF A GREAT MALADY Ch.269
- CHAPTER V—DIVERS CLAPS OF THUNDER FALL ON MA’AM BOUGON Ch.270
- CHAPTER VI—TAKEN PRISONER Ch.271
- CHAPTER VII—ADVENTURES OF THE LETTER U DELIVERED OVER TO CONJECTURES Ch.272
- CHAPTER VIII—THE VETERANS THEMSELVES CAN BE HAPPY Ch.273
- CHAPTER IX—ECLIPSE Ch.274
- CHAPTER I—MINES AND MINERS Ch.275
- CHAPTER II—THE LOWEST DEPTHS Ch.276
- CHAPTER III—BABET, GUEULEMER, CLAQUESOUS, AND MONTPARNASSE Ch.277
- CHAPTER IV—COMPOSITION OF THE TROUPE Ch.278
- CHAPTER I—MARIUS, WHILE SEEKING A GIRL IN A BONNET, ENCOUNTERS A MAN IN Ch.279
- CHAPTER II—TREASURE TROVE Ch.280
- CHAPTER III—QUADRIFRONS Ch.281
- CHAPTER IV—A ROSE IN MISERY Ch.282
- CHAPTER V—A PROVIDENTIAL PEEP-HOLE Ch.283
- CHAPTER VI—THE WILD MAN IN HIS LAIR Ch.284
- CHAPTER VII—STRATEGY AND TACTICS Ch.285
- CHAPTER VIII—THE RAY OF LIGHT IN THE HOVEL Ch.286
- CHAPTER IX—JONDRETTE COMES NEAR WEEPING Ch.287
- CHAPTER X—TARIFF OF LICENSED CABS: TWO FRANCS AN HOUR Ch.288
- CHAPTER XI—OFFERS OF SERVICE FROM MISERY TO WRETCHEDNESS Ch.289
- CHAPTER XII—THE USE MADE OF M. LEBLANC’S FIVE-FRANC PIECE Ch.290
- CHAPTER XIII—SOLUS CUM SOLO, IN LOCO REMOTO, NON COGITABUNTUR ORARE Ch.291
- CHAPTER XIV—IN WHICH A POLICE AGENT BESTOWS TWO FISTFULS ON A LAWYER Ch.292
- CHAPTER XV—JONDRETTE MAKES HIS PURCHASES Ch.293
- CHAPTER XVI—IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE WORDS TO AN ENGLISH AIR WHICH Ch.294
- CHAPTER XVII—THE USE MADE OF MARIUS’ FIVE-FRANC PIECE Ch.295
- CHAPTER XVIII—MARIUS’ TWO CHAIRS FORM A VIS-A-VIS Ch.296
- CHAPTER XIX—OCCUPYING ONE’S SELF WITH OBSCURE DEPTHS Ch.297
- CHAPTER XX—THE TRAP Ch.298
- CHAPTER XXI—ONE SHOULD ALWAYS BEGIN BY ARRESTING THE VICTIMS Ch.299
- CHAPTER XXII—THE LITTLE ONE WHO WAS CRYING IN VOLUME TWO Ch.300
- CHAPTER I—WELL CUT Ch.301
- CHAPTER II—BADLY SEWED Ch.302
- CHAPTER III—LOUIS PHILIPPE Ch.303
- CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION Ch.304
- CHAPTER V—FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY IGNORES Ch.305
- CHAPTER VI—ENJOLRAS AND HIS LIEUTENANTS Ch.306
- CHAPTER I—THE LARK’S MEADOW Ch.307
- CHAPTER II—EMBRYONIC FORMATION OF CRIMES IN THE INCUBATION OF PRISONS Ch.308
- CHAPTER III—APPARITION TO FATHER MABEUF Ch.309
- CHAPTER IV—AN APPARITION TO MARIUS Ch.310
- CHAPTER I—THE HOUSE WITH A SECRET Ch.311
- CHAPTER II—JEAN VALJEAN AS A NATIONAL GUARD Ch.312
- 1831. The municipal information collected at that time had even reached Ch.313
- CHAPTER III—FOLIIS AC FRONDIBUS Ch.314
- CHAPTER IV—CHANGE OF GATE Ch.315
- CHAPTER V—THE ROSE PERCEIVES THAT IT IS AN ENGINE OF WAR Ch.316
- CHAPTER VI—THE BATTLE BEGUN Ch.317
- CHAPTER VII—TO ONE SADNESS OPPOSE A SADNESS AND A HALF Ch.318
- CHAPTER VIII—THE CHAIN-GANG Ch.319
- CHAPTER I—A WOUND WITHOUT, HEALING WITHIN Ch.320
- CHAPTER II—MOTHER PLUTARQUE FINDS NO DIFFICULTY IN EXPLAINING A Ch.321
- CHAPTER I—SOLITUDE AND THE BARRACKS COMBINED Ch.322
- CHAPTER II—COSETTE’S APPREHENSIONS Ch.323
- CHAPTER III—ENRICHED WITH COMMENTARIES BY TOUSSAINT Ch.324
- CHAPTER IV—A HEART BENEATH A STONE Ch.325
- CHAPTER V—COSETTE AFTER THE LETTER Ch.326
- CHAPTER VI—OLD PEOPLE ARE MADE TO GO OUT OPPORTUNELY Ch.327
- CHAPTER I—THE MALICIOUS PLAYFULNESS OF THE WIND Ch.328
- CHAPTER II—IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM NAPOLEON THE Ch.329
- CHAPTER III—THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT Ch.330
- CHAPTER I—ORIGIN Ch.331
- CHAPTER II—ROOTS Ch.332
- CHAPTER III—SLANG WHICH WEEPS AND SLANG WHICH LAUGHS Ch.333
- CHAPTER IV—THE TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE Ch.334
- CHAPTER I—FULL LIGHT Ch.335
- CHAPTER II—THE BEWILDERMENT OF PERFECT HAPPINESS Ch.336
- CHAPTER III—THE BEGINNING OF SHADOW Ch.337
- CHAPTER IV—A CAB RUNS IN ENGLISH AND BARKS IN SLANG Ch.338
- CHAPTER V—THINGS OF THE NIGHT Ch.339
- CHAPTER VI—MARIUS BECOMES PRACTICAL ONCE MORE TO THE EXTENT OF GIVING Ch.340
- CHAPTER VII—THE OLD HEART AND THE YOUNG HEART IN THE PRESENCE OF EACH Ch.341
- CHAPTER I—JEAN VALJEAN Ch.342
- CHAPTER II—MARIUS Ch.343
- CHAPTER III—M. MABEUF Ch.344
- CHAPTER I—THE SURFACE OF THE QUESTION Ch.345
- CHAPTER II—THE ROOT OF THE MATTER Ch.346
- CHAPTER III—A BURIAL; AN OCCASION TO BE BORN AGAIN Ch.347
- CHAPTER IV—THE EBULLITIONS OF FORMER DAYS Ch.348
- CHAPTER V—ORIGINALITY OF PARIS Ch.349
- CHAPTER I—SOME EXPLANATIONS WITH REGARD TO THE ORIGIN OF GAVROCHE’S Ch.350
- CHAPTER II—GAVROCHE ON THE MARCH Ch.351
- CHAPTER III—JUST INDIGNATION OF A HAIR-DRESSER Ch.352
- CHAPTER IV—THE CHILD IS AMAZED AT THE OLD MAN Ch.353
- CHAPTER V—THE OLD MAN Ch.354
- CHAPTER VI—RECRUITS Ch.355
- CHAPTER I—HISTORY OF CORINTHE FROM ITS FOUNDATION Ch.356
- CHAPTER II—PRELIMINARY GAYETIES Ch.357
- CHAPTER III—NIGHT BEGINS TO DESCEND UPON GRANTAIRE Ch.358
- CHAPTER IV—AN ATTEMPT TO CONSOLE THE WIDOW HUCHELOUP Ch.359
- CHAPTER V—PREPARATIONS Ch.360
- CHAPTER VI—WAITING Ch.361
- CHAPTER VII—THE MAN RECRUITED IN THE RUE DES BILLETTES Ch.362
- CHAPTER VIII—MANY INTERROGATION POINTS WITH REGARD TO A CERTAIN LE Ch.363
- CHAPTER I—FROM THE RUE PLUMET TO THE QUARTIER SAINT-DENIS Ch.364
- CHAPTER II—AN OWL’S VIEW OF PARIS Ch.365
- CHAPTER III—THE EXTREME EDGE Ch.366
- CHAPTER I—THE FLAG: ACT FIRST Ch.367
- CHAPTER II—THE FLAG: ACT SECOND Ch.368
- CHAPTER III—GAVROCHE WOULD HAVE DONE BETTER TO ACCEPT ENJOLRAS’ CARBINE Ch.369
- CHAPTER IV—THE BARREL OF POWDER Ch.370
- CHAPTER V—END OF THE VERSES OF JEAN PROUVAIRE Ch.371
- CHAPTER VI—THE AGONY OF DEATH AFTER THE AGONY OF LIFE Ch.372
- CHAPTER VII—GAVROCHE AS A PROFOUND CALCULATOR OF DISTANCES Ch.373
- CHAPTER I—A DRINKER IS A BABBLER Ch.374
- CHAPTER II—THE STREET URCHIN AN ENEMY OF LIGHT Ch.375
- CHAPTER III—WHILE COSETTE AND TOUSSAINT ARE ASLEEP Ch.376
- CHAPTER IV—GAVROCHE’S EXCESS OF ZEAL Ch.377
- CHAPTER I—THE CHARYBDIS OF THE FAUBOURG SAINT ANTOINE AND THE SCYLLA OF Ch.378
- CHAPTER II—WHAT IS TO BE DONE IN THE ABYSS IF ONE DOES NOT CONVERSE Ch.379
- CHAPTER III—LIGHT AND SHADOW Ch.380
- CHAPTER IV—MINUS FIVE, PLUS ONE Ch.381
- CHAPTER V—THE HORIZON WHICH ONE BEHOLDS FROM THE SUMMIT OF A BARRICADE Ch.382
- CHAPTER VI—MARIUS HAGGARD, JAVERT LACONIC Ch.383
- CHAPTER VII—THE SITUATION BECOMES AGGRAVATED Ch.384
- CHAPTER VIII—THE ARTILLERY-MEN COMPEL PEOPLE TO TAKE THEM SERIOUSLY Ch.385
- CHAPTER IX—EMPLOYMENT OF THE OLD TALENTS OF A POACHER AND THAT Ch.386
- CHAPTER X—DAWN Ch.387
- CHAPTER XI—THE SHOT WHICH MISSES NOTHING AND KILLS NO ONE Ch.388
- CHAPTER XII—DISORDER A PARTISAN OF ORDER Ch.389
- 1832. Captain Fannicot, a bold and impatient bourgeois, a sort of Ch.390
- CHAPTER XIII—PASSING GLEAMS Ch.391
- CHAPTER XIV—WHEREIN WILL APPEAR THE NAME OF ENJOLRAS’ MISTRESS Ch.392
- CHAPTER XV—GAVROCHE OUTSIDE Ch.393
- CHAPTER XVI—HOW FROM A BROTHER ONE BECOMES A FATHER Ch.394
- CHAPTER XVII—MORTUUS PATER FILIUM MORITURUM EXPECTAT Ch.395
- CHAPTER XVIII—THE VULTURE BECOME PREY Ch.396
- CHAPTER XIX—JEAN VALJEAN TAKES HIS REVENGE Ch.397
- CHAPTER XX—THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE NOT IN THE Ch.398
- CHAPTER XXI—THE HEROES Ch.399
- CHAPTER XXII—FOOT TO FOOT Ch.400
- CHAPTER XXIII—ORESTES FASTING AND PYLADES DRUNK Ch.401
- CHAPTER XXIV—PRISONER Ch.402
- CHAPTER I—THE LAND IMPOVERISHED BY THE SEA Ch.403
- CHAPTER II—ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE SEWER Ch.404
- CHAPTER III—BRUNESEAU Ch.405
- CHAPTER IV Ch.406
- CHAPTER V—PRESENT PROGRESS Ch.407
- CHAPTER VI—FUTURE PROGRESS Ch.408
- 1806. All sorts of obstacles hindered this operation, some peculiar to Ch.409
- CHAPTER I—THE SEWER AND ITS SURPRISES Ch.410
- CHAPTER II—EXPLANATION Ch.411
- CHAPTER III—THE “SPUN” MAN Ch.412
- CHAPTER IV—HE ALSO BEARS HIS CROSS Ch.413
- CHAPTER V—IN THE CASE OF SAND AS IN THAT OF WOMAN, THERE IS A FINENESS Ch.414
- CHAPTER VI—THE FONTIS Ch.415
- CHAPTER VII—ONE SOMETIMES RUNS AGROUND WHEN ONE FANCIES THAT ONE IS Ch.416
- CHAPTER VIII—THE TORN COAT-TAIL Ch.417
- CHAPTER IX—MARIUS PRODUCES ON SOME ONE WHO IS A JUDGE OF THE MATTER, Ch.418
- CHAPTER X—RETURN OF THE SON WHO WAS PRODIGAL OF HIS LIFE Ch.419
- CHAPTER XI—CONCUSSION IN THE ABSOLUTE Ch.420
- CHAPTER XII—THE GRANDFATHER Ch.421
- CHAPTER I Ch.422
- CHAPTER I—IN WHICH THE TREE WITH THE ZINC PLASTER APPEARS AGAIN Ch.423
- CHAPTER II—MARIUS, EMERGING FROM CIVIL WAR, MAKES READY FOR DOMESTIC Ch.424
- CHAPTER III—MARIUS ATTACKED Ch.425
- 7. Ah! There we have it! Ah! so you want her! Well, you shall have her. Ch.426
- CHAPTER IV—MADEMOISELLE GILLENORMAND ENDS BY NO LONGER THINKING IT A Ch.427
- CHAPTER V—DEPOSIT YOUR MONEY IN A FOREST RATHER THAN WITH A NOTARY Ch.428
- CHAPTER VI—THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER HIS OWN Ch.429
- CHAPTER VII—THE EFFECTS OF DREAMS MINGLED WITH HAPPINESS Ch.430
- CHAPTER VIII—TWO MEN IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND Ch.431
- CHAPTER I—THE 16TH OF FEBRUARY, 1833 Ch.432
- CHAPTER II—JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING Ch.433
- CHAPTER III—THE INSEPARABLE Ch.434
- CHAPTER IV—THE IMMORTAL LIVER 68 Ch.435
- CHAPTER I—THE SEVENTH CIRCLE AND THE EIGHTH HEAVEN Ch.436
- CHAPTER II—THE OBSCURITIES WHICH A REVELATION CAN CONTAIN Ch.437
- CHAPTER I—THE LOWER CHAMBER Ch.438
- CHAPTER II—ANOTHER STEP BACKWARDS Ch.439
- CHAPTER III—THEY RECALL THE GARDEN OF THE RUE PLUMET Ch.440
- CHAPTER IV—ATTRACTION AND EXTINCTION Ch.441
- CHAPTER I—PITY FOR THE UNHAPPY, BUT INDULGENCE FOR THE HAPPY Ch.442
- CHAPTER II—LAST FLICKERINGS OF A LAMP WITHOUT OIL Ch.443
- CHAPTER III—A PEN IS HEAVY TO THE MAN WHO LIFTED THE FAUCHELEVENT’S Ch.444
- CHAPTER IV—A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN WHITENING Ch.445
- CHAPTER V—A NIGHT BEHIND WHICH THERE IS DAY Ch.446
- CHAPTER VI—THE GRASS COVERS AND THE RAIN EFFACES Ch.447