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by Victor Hugo
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The Works of Victor Hugo

Translated by Isabel F. Hapgood

CONTENTS

VOLUME I

BOOK FIRST.--A JUST MAN

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

X. The Bishop in the Presence of an Unknown Light

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

		We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can't tolerate. William James