Les Miserables. by Victor Hugo. Translated by Isabel F. Hapgood CONTENTS VOLUME III BOOK FIRST.--PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM

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1 Les Miserables by Translated by Isabel F. Hapgood CONTENTS VOLUME III BOOK FIRST.--PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM I. Parvulus II. Some of his Particular Characteristics III. He is Agreeable IV. He may be of Use V. His Frontiers VI. A Bit of History VII. The Gamin should have his Place in the Classifications of India VIII. In which the Reader will find a Charming Saying of the Last King IX. The Old Soul of Gaul X. Ecce Paris, ecce Homo XI. To Scoff, to Reign XII. The Future Latent in the People XIII. Little Gavroche BOOK SECOND.--THE GREAT BOURGEOIS

2 I. Ninety Years and Thirty-two Teeth II. Like Master, Like House III. Luc-Esprit IV. A Centenarian Aspirant V. Basque and Nicolette VI. In which Magnon and her Two Children are seen VII. Rule: Receive No One except in the Evening VIII. Two do not make a Pair BOOK THIRD.--THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON I. An Ancient Salon II. One of the Red Spectres of that Epoch III. Requiescant IV. End of the Brigand V. The Utility of going to Mass, in order to become a Revolutionist VI. The Consequences of having met a Warden VII. Some Petticoat VIII. Marble against Granite BOOK FOURTH.--THE FRIENDS OF THE ABC I. A Group which barely missed becoming Historic II. Blondeau's Funeral Oration by Bossuet III. Marius' Astonishments IV. The Back Room of the Cafe Musain V. Enlargement of Horizon VI. Res Angusta BOOK FIFTH.--THE EXCELLENCE OF MISFORTUNE 2

3 I. Marius Indigent II. Marius Poor III. Marius Grown Up IV. M. Mabeuf V. Poverty a Good Neighbor for Misery VI. The Substitute BOOK SIXTH.--THE CONJUNCTION OF TWO STARS I. The Sobriquet; Mode of Formation of Family Names II. Lux Facta Est III. Effect of the Spring IV. Beginning of a Great Malady V. Divers Claps of Thunder fall on Ma'am Bougon VI. Taken Prisoner VII. Adventures of the Letter U delivered over to Conjectures VIII. The Veterans themselves can be Happy IX. Eclipse BOOK SEVENTH.--PATRON MINETTE I. Mines and Miners II. The Lowest Depths III. Babet, Gueulemer, Claquesous, and Montparnasse IV. Composition of the Troupe BOOK EIGHTH.--THE WICKED POOR MAN I. Marius, while seeking a Girl in a Bonnet encounters a Man in a Cap II. Treasure Trove III. Quadrifrons 3

4 IV. A Rose in Misery V. A Providential Peep-Hole VI. The Wild Man in his Lair VII. Strategy and Tactics VIII. The Ray of Light in the Hovel IX. Jondrette comes near Weeping X. Tariff of Licensed Cabs, Two Francs an Hour XI. Offers of Service from Misery to Wretchedness XII. The Use made of M. Leblanc's Five-Franc Piece XIII. Solus cum Solo, in Loco Remoto, non cogitabuntur orare Pater Noster XIV. In which a Police Agent bestows Two Fistfuls on a Lawyer XV. Jondrette makes his Purchases XVI. In which will be found the Words to an English Air which was in Fashion in 1832 XVII. The Use made of Marius' Five-Franc Piece XVIII. Marius' Two Chairs form a Vis-a-Vis XIX. Occupying One's Self with Obscure Depths XX. The Trap XXI. One should always begin by arresting the Victims XXII. The Little One who was crying in Volume Two Les Miserables VOLUME III MARIUS. 4

5 BOOK FIRST.--PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM CHAPTER I PARVULUS Paris has a child, and the forest has a bird; the bird is called the sparrow; the child is called the gamin. Couple these two ideas which contain, the one all the furnace, the other all the dawn; strike these two sparks together, Paris, childhood; there leaps out from them a little being. Homuncio, Plautus would say. This little being is joyous. He has not food every day, and he goes to the play every evening, if he sees good. He has no shirt on his body, no shoes on his feet, no roof over his head; he is like the flies of heaven, who have none of these things. He is from seven to thirteen years of age, he lives in bands, roams the streets, lodges in the open air, wears an old pair of trousers of his father's, which descend below his heels, an old hat of some other father, which descends below his ears, a single suspender of yellow listing; he runs, lies in wait, rummages about, wastes time, blackens pipes, swears like a convict, haunts the wine-shop, knows thieves, calls gay women thou, talks slang, sings obscene songs, and has no evil in his heart. This is because he has in his heart a pearl, innocence; and pearls are not to be dissolved in mud. So long as man is in his childhood, God wills that he shall be innocent. If one were to ask that enormous city: "What is this?" she would reply: 5

6 "It is my little one." 6