Chapter 3

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Limitations--_Han d'Islande_--_Bug-Jargal_--_Le Dernier Jour d'un Condamne_--_Claude Gueux_--_Notre-Dame de Paris_--The story easy to anticipate--Importance of the actual _title_--The working out of the one under the other--The story recovers itself latterly--But the characters?--The thirty years' interval--_Les Miserables_--_Les Travailleurs de la Mer_--The _genius loci_--Guernsey at the time--_L'Homme Qui Rit_--_Quatre-Vingt-Treize_--Final remarks.