I. HISTORY OF CORINTH FROM ITS FOUNDATION II. PRELIMINARY GAYETIES III. THE NIGHT BEGINS TO FALL ON GRANTAIRE IV. AN ENDEAVOR TO CONSOLE THE WIDOW HUCHELOUP V. PREPARATIONS VI. WAITING VII. THE RECRUIT OF THE RUE DES BILLETTES VIII. WAS HIS NAME LE CABUC? BOOK XIII. MARIUS ENTERS THE SHADOW. I. FROM THE RUE PLUMET TO THE QUARTIER ST. DENIS II. AN OWL'S-EYE VIEW OF PARIS III. THE EXTREME BRINK BOOK XIV. THE GRANDEUR OF DESPAIR. I. THE FLAG: ACT FIRST II. THE FLAG: ACT SECOND III. GAVROCHE HAD BETTER HAVE ACCEPTED THE CARBINE OF ENJOLRAS IV. THE BARREL OF GUNPOWDER V. END OF THE VERSES OF JEAN PROUVAIRE VI. DEATH'S AGONY AFTER LIFE'S AGONY VII. GAVROCHE CALCULATES DISTANCES BOOK XV. THE RUE DE L'HOMME ARMÉ. I. BLOTTING, BLABBING II. THE GAMIN THE ENEMY OF LAMPS III. WHILE COSETTE AND TOUSSAINT SLEEP IV. GAVROCHE'S EXCESS OF ZEAL ILLUSTRATIONS. "ONE MORNING WHEN THE SUN WAS SHINING, AND BOTH WERE ON THE GARDEN STEPS" Vol. IV. Frontispiece Drawn by G. Jeanniot. RECRUITS Drawn by G. Jeanniot. THE RUE PLUMET IDYLL AND THE RUE ST. DENIS EPIC. BOOK I. SOME PAGES OF HISTORY. CHAPTER I. WELL CUT OUT. 1831 and 1832, the two years immediately attached to the revolution of July, contain the most peculiar and striking moments of history; and these two years, amid those that precede and follow them, stand out like mountains. They possess the true revolutionary grandeur, and precipices may be traced in them. The social masses, the foundations of civilization, the solid group of superimposed and adherent interests, and the secular profiles of the ancient Gallic formations, appear and disappear every moment through the stormy clouds of systems, passions, and theories. These apparitions and disappearances were called resistance and movement, but at intervals truth, the daylight of the human soul, flashes through all.