BOOK SIXTH—THE SLEEPLESS NIGHT CHAPTER I—THE 16TH OF FEBRUARY, 1833 CHAPTER II—JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING CHAPTER III—THE INSEPARABLE CHAPTER IV—THE IMMORTAL LIVER BOOK SEVENTH—THE LAST DRAUGHT FROM THE CUP CHAPTER I—THE SEVENTH CIRCLE AND THE EIGHTH HEAVEN CHAPTER II—THE OBSCURITIES WHICH A REVELATION CAN CONTAIN BOOK EIGHTH—FADING AWAY OF THE TWILIGHT CHAPTER I—THE LOWER CHAMBER CHAPTER II—ANOTHER STEP BACKWARDS CHAPTER III—THEY RECALL THE GARDEN OF THE RUE PLUMET CHAPTER IV—ATTRACTION AND EXTINCTION BOOK NINTH—SUPREME SHADOW, SUPREME DAWN CHAPTER I—PITY FOR THE UNHAPPY, BUT INDULGENCE FOR THE HAPPY CHAPTER II—LAST FLICKERINGS OF A LAMP WITHOUT OIL CHAPTER III—A PEN IS HEAVY TO THE MAN WHO LIFTED THE FAUCHELEVENT’S CART CHAPTER IV—A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN WHITENING CHAPTER V—A NIGHT BEHIND WHICH THERE IS DAY CHAPTER VI—THE GRASS COVERS AND THE RAIN EFFACES LETTER TO M. DAELLI FOOTNOTES: List of Illustrations Bookshelf Bookcover Frontpapers Frontispiece Volume One Titlepage Volume One Titlepage Verso The Comforter The Fall Awakened Cossette Sweeping Candlesticks Into the Fire Father Champmathieu on Trial Frontispiece Volume Two Titlepage Volume Two The Ship Orion, an Accident The Gorbeau Hovel The Black Hunt Javert on the Hunt The Resurrection Royalist Bank-note Frontispiece Volume Three Titlepage Volume Three Little Gavroche Friends of the A B C Excellence of Misfortune Rose in Misery Red Hot Chisel Snatched up a Paving Stone Frontispiece Volume Four Titlepage Volume Four A Street Orator Code Table Succor from Below Cosette With Letter Slang The Grandeurs of Despair Frontispiece Volume Five Titlepage Volume Five Last Drop from the Cup The Twilight Decline Darkness LES MISÉRABLES PREFACE So long as there shall exist, by virtue of law and custom, decrees of damnation pronounced by society, artificially creating hells amid the civilization of earth, and adding the element of human fate to divine destiny; so long as the three great problems of the century—the degradation of man through pauperism, the corruption of woman through hunger, the crippling of children through lack of light—are unsolved; so long as social asphyxia is possible in any part of the world;—in other words, and with a still wider significance, so long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Misérables cannot fail to be of use. HAUTEVILLE HOUSE, 1862. VOLUME I FANTINE BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN CHAPTER I—M. MYRIEL In 1815, M. Charles-François-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D—— He was an old man of about seventy-five years of age; he had occupied the see of D—— since 1806.