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  VOLUME IV.--SAINT-DENIS.

  BOOK FIRST.--A FEW PAGES OF HISTORY CHAPTER I--WELL CUT CHAPTER II--BADLY SEWED CHAPTER III--LOUIS PHILIPPE CHAPTER IV--CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION CHAPTER V--FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY IGNORES CHAPTER VI--ENJOLRAS AND HIS LIEUTENANTS

  BOOK SECOND.--ÉPONINE CHAPTER I--THE LARK'S MEADOW CHAPTER II--EMBRYONIC FORMATION OF CRIMES IN THE INCUBATION OF PRISONS CHAPTER III--APPARITION TO FATHER MABEUF CHAPTER IV--AN APPARITION TO MARIUS

  BOOK THIRD.--THE HOUSE IN THE RUE PLUMET CHAPTER I--THE HOUSE WITH A SECRET CHAPTER II--JEAN VALJEAN AS A NATIONAL GUARD CHAPTER III--FOLIIS AC FRONDIBUS CHAPTER IV--CHANGE OF GATE CHAPTER V--THE ROSE PERCEIVES THAT IT IS AN ENGINE OF WAR CHAPTER VI--THE BATTLE BEGUN CHAPTER VII--TO ONE SADNESS OPPOSE A SADNESS AND A HALF CHAPTER VIII--THE CHAIN-GANG

  BOOK FOURTH.--SUCCOR FROM BELOW MAY TURN OUT TO BE SUCCOR FROM ON HIGH CHAPTER I--A WOUND WITHOUT, HEALING WITHIN CHAPTER II--MOTHER PLUTARQUE FINDS NO DIFFICULTY IN EXPLAINING A PHENOMENON

  BOOK FIFTH.--THE END OF WHICH DOES NOT RESEMBLE THE BEGINNING CHAPTER I--SOLITUDE AND THE BARRACKS COMBINED CHAPTER II--COSETTE'S APPREHENSIONS CHAPTER III--ENRICHED WITH COMMENTARIES BY TOUSSAINT CHAPTER IV--A HEART BENEATH A STONE CHAPTER V--COSETTE AFTER THE LETTER CHAPTER VI--OLD PEOPLE ARE MADE TO GO OUT OPPORTUNELY

  BOOK SIXTH.--LITTLE GAVROCHE CHAPTER I--THE MALICIOUS PLAYFULNESS OF THE WIND CHAPTER II--IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM NAPOLEON THE GREAT CHAPTER III--THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT

  BOOK SEVENTH.--SLANG CHAPTER I--ORIGIN CHAPTER II--ROOTS CHAPTER III--SLANG WHICH WEEPS AND SLANG WHICH LAUGHS CHAPTER IV--THE TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE

  BOOK EIGHTH.--ENCHANTMENTS AND DESOLATIONS CHAPTER I--FULL LIGHT CHAPTER II--THE BEWILDERMENT OF PERFECT HAPPINESS CHAPTER III--THE BEGINNING OF SHADOW CHAPTER IV--A CAB RUNS IN ENGLISH AND BARKS IN SLANG CHAPTER V--THINGS OF THE NIGHT CHAPTER VI--MARIUS BECOMES PRACTICAL ONCE MORE TO THE EXTENT OF GIVING      COSETTE HIS ADDRESS CHAPTER VII--THE OLD HEART AND THE YOUNG HEART IN THE PRESENCE OF EACH OTHER

  BOOK NINTH.--WHITHER ARE THEY GOING? CHAPTER I--JEAN VALJEAN CHAPTER II--MARIUS CHAPTER III--M. MABEUF

  BOOK TENTH.--THE 5TH OF JUNE, 1832 CHAPTER I--THE SURFACE OF THE QUESTION CHAPTER II--THE ROOT OF THE MATTER CHAPTER III--A BURIAL; AN OCCASION TO BE BORN AGAIN CHAPTER IV--THE EBULLITIONS OF FORMER DAYS CHAPTER V--ORIGINALITY OF PARIS

  BOOK ELEVENTH.--THE ATOM FRATERNIZES WITH THE HURRICANE CHAPTER I--SOME EXPLANATIONS WITH REGARD TO THE ORIGIN OF GAVROCHE'S POETRY. CHAPTER II--GAVROCHE ON THE MARCH CHAPTER III--JUST INDIGNATION OF A HAIR-DRESSER CHAPTER IV--THE CHILD IS AMAZED AT THE OLD MAN CHAPTER V--THE OLD MAN CHAPTER VI--RECRUITS

  BOOK TWELFTH.--CORINTHE CHAPTER I--HISTORY OF CORINTHE FROM ITS FOUNDATION CHAPTER II--PRELIMINARY GAYETIES CHAPTER III--NIGHT BEGINS TO DESCEND UPON GRANTAIRE CHAPTER IV--AN ATTEMPT TO CONSOLE THE WIDOW HUCHELOUP CHAPTER V--PREPARATIONS CHAPTER VI--WAITING CHAPTER VII--THE MAN RECRUITED IN THE RUE DES BILLETTES CHAPTER VIII--MANY INTERROGATION POINTS WITH REGARD TO A CERTAIN LE CABUC

  BOOK THIRTEENTH.--MARIUS ENTERS THE SHADOW CHAPTER I--FROM THE RUE PLUMET TO THE QUARTIER SAINT-DENIS CHAPTER II--AN OWL'S VIEW OF PARIS CHAPTER III--THE EXTREME EDGE

  BOOK FOURTEENTH.--THE GRANDEURS OF DESPAIR CHAPTER I--THE FLAG: ACT FIRST CHAPTER II--THE FLAG: ACT SECOND CHAPTER III--GAVROCHE WOULD HAVE DONE BETTER TO ACCEPT ENJOLRAS' CARBINE CHAPTER IV--THE BARREL OF POWDER CHAPTER V--END OF THE VERSES OF JEAN PROUVAIRE CHAPTER VI--THE AGONY OF DEATH AFTER THE AGONY OF LIFE CHAPTER VII--GAVROCHE AS A PROFOUND CALCULATOR OF DISTANCES

  BOOK FIFTEENTH.--THE RUE DE L'HOMME ARMÉ CHAPTER I--A DRINKER IS A BABBLER CHAPTER II--THE STREET URCHIN AN ENEMY OF LIGHT CHAPTER III--WHILE COSETTE AND TOUSSAINT ARE ASLEEP CHAPTER IV--GAVROCHE'S EXCESS OF ZEAL