The Quantum of Good Contained in Evil275 The Four Institutions That Stand Opposed to the Republic280 Slow Movement of Normal Progress282 What an Assembly Would Have Done285 What Providence Has Done289 What the Ministers, Army, Magistracy, and Clergy Have Done291 The Form of the Government of God292 CONCLUSION—PART FIRST Pettiness of the Master—Abjectness of the Situation 293 298 301 CONCLUSION—PART SECOND Faith and Affliction 315 323 TOILERS OF THE SEA By Victor Hugo CONTENTS PART I SIEUR CLUBIN Book I.—The History of a Bad Reputation CHAP. PAGE I. A Word written on a White Page 1 II. The Bû de la Rue 3 III. For your Wife: when you Marry 7 IV. An Unpopular Man 9 V. More Suspicious Facts about Gilliatt 18 VI. The Dutch Sloop 20 VII. A Fit Tenant for a Haunted House 25 VIII. The Gild-Holm-'Ur Seat 27 Book II.—Mess Lethierry I. A Troubled Life, but a Quiet Conscience 30 II. A Certain Predilection 32 III. The Old Sea Language 33 IV. One is Vulnerable where one Loves 35 Book III.—Durande and Déruchette I. Prattle and Smoke 37 II. The Old Story of Utopia 39 III. Rantaine 41 IV. Continuation of the Story of Utopia 44 V. The Devil Boat 46 VI. Lethierry's Exaltation 50 VII. The same Godfather and the same Patron Saint 52 VIII. "Bonnie Dundee" 54 IX. The Man who discovered Rantaine's Character 57 X. Long Yarns 58 XI. Matrimonial Prospects 60 XII. An Anomaly in the Character of Lethierry 61 XIII. Thoughtlessness adds a Grace to Beauty 65 Book IV.—The Bagpipe I. Streaks of Fire on the Horizon 67 II. The Unknown unfolds itself by Degrees 69 III. The Air "Bonnie Dundee" finds an Echo on the Hill 71 IV. "A serenade by night may please a lady fair, But of uncle and of guardian let the troubadour beware." Unpublished Comedy 72 V. A Deserved Success has always its Detractors 74 VI. The Sloop Cashmere saves a Shipwrecked Crew 75 VII. How an Idler had the Good Fortune to be seen by a Fisherman 77 Book V.—The Revolver I. Conversations at the Jean Auberge 80 II. Clubin observes Someone 86 III. Clubin carries away Something and brings back Nothing 88 IV. Pleinmont 91 V. The Birds'-nesters 96 VI. The Jacressade 108 VII. Nocturnal Buyers and Mysterious Sellers 114 VIII. A "Cannon" off the Red Ball and the Black 117 IX. Useful Information for Persons who expect or fear the Arrival of Letters from beyond Sea 125 Book VI.—The Drunken Steersman and the Sober Captain I. The Douvres 130 II. An Unexpected Flask of Brandy 132 III. Conversations interrupted 135 IV. Captain Clubin displays all his great Qualities 142 V. Clubin reaches the Crowning-point of Glory 147 VI. The Interior of an Abyss suddenly revealed 151 VII. An Unexpected Dénouement 158