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There Jean Valjean halted, let Marius slide to the ground, placed his back against the wall, and cast his eyes about him.

He then talks to Valjean, telling him to see in this act of mercy a different path for his life, and sends him on his way.

In this peaceful street where he had taken refuge, Jean Valjean got rid of all that had been troubling him for some time past.

It was this operation which had caused him to execute the peculiar movements observed from the shed by Jean Valjean.

He saw Jean Valjean perfectly well but he took no notice of him.

The shadow cast by this man made Javert turn his head. He raised his eyes, and recognized Jean Valjean.

Thenardier thrust his fist into a large pocket concealed under his blouse, drew out a rope and offered it to Jean Valjean.

As she had seated herself beside him and leaned her head against him, Jean Valjean had fancied that she was asleep.

Those who were on his track had evidently lost the scent, and Jean Valjean believed himself to be out of danger.

Once, however, she did say to Jean Valjean: "Father, if I had known, I would have brought her away with me. "

He was not even absolutely sure that it was Javert, and then it might have been Javert, without Javert knowing that he was Jean Valjean.

Jean Valjean would not have appeared like a living man to any one who had examined him in that shadow.

If it had occurred to them to separate into two squads, and to go in both directions, Jean Valjean would have been captured.

Jean Valjean could glide along close to the houses on the dark side, and yet keep watch on the light side.

No doubt, Cosette did belong to another; but should he, Jean Valjean, retain of Cosette all that he could retain?

It seemed to her that she had begun to live in an abyss, and that it was Jean Valjean who had rescued her from it.

Javert raised his head, saw Jean Valjean, made an almost imperceptible movement, and said.

Jean Valjean did not move. It seemed as though his feet were nailed to the pavement.

A week passed, and Jean Valjean had not taken a step in his room.

Jean Valjean began to comprehend. Thenardier took him for an assassin.

Jean Valjean gruffly and grumblingly paid Marie-Claude for the pint of milk behind their mother's back, and the children were not punished.

Henceforth, Toussaint was of no use to Jean Valjean; Cosette inherited her and promoted her to the rank of lady's maid.

One day, she said to Jean Valjean: "Father, let us stroll about a little in that direction. "

Jean Valjean, his head drooping and his chin resting on his breast, perceived neither Basque nor the candle.

Jean Valjean held out his hand, and Fauchelevent precipitated himself upon it with the touching effusion of a peasant.

He had confined himself to gradually estranging Jean Valjean from his house and to effacing him, as much as possible, from Cosette's mind.

About an hour later, Jean Valjean went out in the complete costume of a National Guard, and with his arms.

This enthusiastic impulse was on the point of becoming poignant for Jean Valjean. He gently removed Cosette's arms, and took his hat.

When a shot laid Marius low, Jean Valjean leaped forward with the agility of a tiger, fell upon him as on his prey, and bore him off.

Jean Valjean pointed to his arm in its sling, charged Basque to explain his absence, and went away.

These stockings, which still preserved the graceful form of a tiny leg, were no longer than Jean Valjean's hand.

Jean Valjean had sat on the previous evening . As he ate his breakfast , Monseigneur Welcome remarked gayly to his sister.

Jean Valjean was like a man on the point of fainting.

Jean Valjean set out on a run, in the direction which he had first taken .

Jean Valjean did not hesitate for an instant. Unexpected as was this encounter, this man was known to him.

"No, " said Jean Valjean; "and how happens it that you know me? "

In all that has been related heretofore , the reader has, doubtless, been no less prompt than Thenardier to recognize Jean Valjean.

But what was he, Jean Valjean, to do with this happiness, now that it existed, now that it was there?

A few days later, it chanced that Jean Valjean was sawing some wood, in his shirt-sleeves, in the corridor.

It will be perceived that it was not without reason that Jean Valjean's passport described him as a very dangerous man.

Since Jean Valjean was alone, and there was no one there.

Jean Valjean immediately perceived that Thenardier did not recognize him.

Jean Valjean had not another word to say.

The abrupt advice: "Leave your house, " hurled at Jean Valjean by a stranger, had alarmed him to the extent of rendering him peremptory .

Jean Valjean allowed himself to slide down the roof, still holding fast to Cosette, reached the linden-tree, and leaped to the ground.

Jean Valjean was of that thoughtful but not gloomy disposition which constitutes the peculiarity of affectionate natures.

Nevertheless, Jean Valjean did not reappear in the open air without profound anxiety.

The passage of the hour produced no effect on Jean Valjean; Jean Valjean did not stir.

As the Bishop grew great and resplendent in his eyes , so did Jean Valjean grow less and vanish .

Jean Valjean continued to advance, supporting the dying man, who was, perhaps, a corpse.

"Well, " returned Jean Valjean, "keep the money for your mother! "

Jean Valjean remained inert beneath Javert's grasp, like a lion submitting to the claws of a lynx.

Jean Valjean was in the shadow, and stood motionless , with his iron candlestick in his hand, frightened by this luminous old man.

Jean Valjean looked at the walls, closed some of the cupboard doors, and went and came from one room to another.

He kept his eyes riveted on Jean Valjean. His chin being contracted, thrust his lips upwards towards his nose, a sign of savage revery.

He tells the officers that the silver was a gift, and that he also meant to give him two candlesticks.

Jean Valjean wept for a long time. He wept burning tears, he sobbed with more weakness than a woman, with more fright than a child.

He has escaped; we are in search of him--that Jean Valjean; you have not seen him?

And went rolling towards the brushwood until it reached Jean Valjean. Jean Valjean set his foot upon it.

"You see plainly, " he said, "that I am Jean Valjean. "

Jean Valjean set the two candlesticks on the chimney-piece, where they glittered to the great admiration of Toussaint.

Jean Valjean also had seen and heard, and he had silently removed his coat and flung it on the pile with the rest.

Certainly, if Jean Valjean had had a kingdom, he would have given it for a rope at that moment.

Jean Valjean fumbled in his fob and pulled out a five-franc piece.

Jean Valjean had not, as we have seen, an evil nature.

He speedily divined, however, that Jean Valjean would want to put the river between his pursuers and himself.

Jean Valjean had not uttered a single word.

Jean Valjean felt the pavement vanishing beneath his feet. He entered this slime.

The "principal lodger" of Jean Valjean's day was dead and had been replaced by another exactly like her.

Alas! How many times have we beheld Jean Valjean seized bodily by his conscience, in the darkness, and struggling desperately against it!

She returned thoughtfully to the house in the Rue del'Ouest, where Jean Valjean, according to his custom, had come to spend six weeks.

A damned soul, who, in the midst of the furnace, should suddenly perceive the outlet of Gehenna , would experience what Jean Valjean felt.

For some time, Jean Valjean had noticed the economical life led by the young people. He was troubled by it.

"Monsieur, " said Jean Valjean, "I should like to say a word to you in private. "

However, now knowing little more than how to be a criminal, Valjean wakes in the night and steals his silverware.

Jean Valjean himself opened the package; it was a bundle of bank-notes.

"Be off with you, " said Jean Valjean.

Jean Valjean stepped up to the mirror.

Jean Valjean drew from his pocket a knife, and opened it.

He lays Jean Valjean to rest, and takes the name Father Madeleine.

Jean Valjean mounted this inclined plane and reached the other side of the quagmire.

Jean Valjean had returned Enjolras' rifle, but he had his own gun.

Valjean's new life becomes very complex when a policeman called Javert starts following him.

What follows is a long game of cat and mouse which eventually takes Valjean into the dangerous, pre-Revolution streets of Paris.

He, Jean Valjean, had made her abandon those rags to clothe herself in these mourning habiliments.

It was quite natural that Cosette should think herself Jean Valjean's daughter.

The thief had flung away the loaf, but his arm was still bleeding. It was Jean Valjean.

Jean Valjean stared silently at the wall opposite him.

Nature, a difference of fifty years, had set a profound gulf between Jean Valjean and Cosette; destiny filled in this gulf.

"You can earn a hundred francs, " went on Jean Valjean, "if you will grant me shelter for this night. "

Jean Valjean was taken before the tribunals of the time for theft and breaking and entering an inhabited house at night.

It sometimes happened that Jean Valjean clasped her tiny red hand, all cracked with chilblains , and kissed it.

He stepped to the chimney-piece, took the two silver candlesticks, and brought them to Jean Valjean.

Faced with the religious police Savings Jean Valjean into believing that he offered his plate.

While these voices were singing, Jean Valjean thought of nothing.

"Minus fourteen or fifteen thousand francs, possibly, " said Jean Valjean.

Jean Valjean was, in fact, regularly installed; he had his belled knee-cap; henceforth he was official.

Jean Valjean had taken no other part in the combat than to expose himself in it.

When Javert had disappeared, Jean Valjean fired his pistol in the air.

Jean Valjean, a thoughtful man, and given to nocturnal strolls, often returned quite late at night.

His conscience weighed in turn these two men thus placed before it , -- the Bishop and Jean Valjean .

It was she who had conveyed to Jean Valjean in the Champ de Mars the expressive warning: "Leave your house. "

Jean Valjean, without replying, helped the insurgent whom he was saving to don his uniform.

Jean Valjean was still Monsieur le Maire to her.

"Citizen, " said Enjolras to Jean Valjean, "the Republic thanks you. "

Jean Valjean was still in the same place, motionless on his stone post.

"Because things are not agreeable, " said Jean Valjean, "that is no reason for being unjust towards God. " A silence ensued .

Moreover, Jean Valjean knew that he was delivered from Javert.

All the days which followed brought Jean Valjean at the same hour.

A rope would have been required; Jean Valjean had none.

It was usually when money was lacking in the house that Jean Valjean took these little trips.

Jean Valjean, a poor laborer, has stolen a loaf of bread to feed his sister's starving children.

Jean Valjean had halted at that moment at the most perilous of these crossroads.

Jean Valjean bent down and kissed that child's hand.

The gendarmes released Jean Valjean , who recoiled .

Jean Valjean accepted the sou with a deep bow.

It was in the sewers of Paris that Jean Valjean found himself.

Like Valjean though, I struggle to be a better man.

As the Cathedral clock struck two in the morning, Jean Valjean awoke.

Jean Valjean looked at Javert. This mode of procedure was but little in accord with Javert's habits.

Jean Valjean--we shall henceforth not speak of him otherwise-- had risen. He said to Fantine in the gentlest and calmest of voices

Valjean hides the mustard between two slices of ham, and the cat gobbles it all up.

He turned. A ray of moonlight outlined his profile, and Jean Valjean recognized old Fauchelevent.

"Ah! here you are! " he exclaimed, looking at Jean Valjean.

"Give it to me, " said Jean Valjean.

Jean Valjean knelt down before that hand, lifted it gently, and kissed it.

IF the grain of millet beneath the millstone had thoughts, it would, doubtless, think that same thing which Jean Valjean thought.

He is not the man whom you are in search of; it is I: I am Jean Valjean.

Shortly after Fauchelevent had finished nailing on the upper plank, Jean Valjean had felt himself carried out, then driven off.

Jean Valjean saw no other human creature than this good woman.

Jean Valjean having paused, the sound ceased.

And he handed the paper to Jean Valjean.

It was in front of this Gorbeau house that Jean Valjean halted.

Jean Valjean came from a poor peasant family of Brie.

Soon after, Valjean is arrested and brought before the bishop.

Jean Valjean stared him straight in the eye and thought that he was raving.

"Play! " said Jean Valjean.

Jean Valjean listened.

Later on, every time that Jean Valjean needed money, he went to get it in the Blaru-bottom.

"Why, no, " said Jean Valjean.

Jean Valjean was not dead.

Jean Valjean heaved a deep sigh.

Monsieur Jean Valjean, is it to Pontarlier that you are going?

There is a thief, a brigand, a convict named Jean Valjean!

Jean Valjean made no reply.

Jean Valjean's first care had been to get hold of his shoes and put them on again, then to step under the shed with Cosette.

The man seen one evening for the first time by Boulatruelle, was Jean Valjean.

Jean Valjean's manners were more tender and more paternal than ever.

Then, in order to prevent Cosette eating black bread, Jean Valjean ate white bread.

Jean Valjean made no attempt to disengage the hand which grasped the collar of his coat. He said

"And what are you doing here? " resumed Jean Valjean.

Jean Valjean drew near to the old man, and said to him in a grave voice

"Are you sleepy? " said Jean Valjean.

He stared intently at Fantine, and added, once more taking into his grasp Jean Valjean's cravat, shirt and collar

Which Jean Valjean was the captive, and of which he,

All at once she heard Jean Valjean's voice crying to her, though in a very low tone

But Jean Valjean's coolness prevailed over him in spite of himself. He grumbled

When intelligence re-awakened and beheld that action of the brute, Jean Valjean recoiled with anguish and uttered a Cry of terror

One was to go resolutely to Jean Valjean, and,

And every time that his arm had been raised convulsively towards Jean Valjean's collar,

Twenty times, as he sat in that carriage face to face with Jean Valjean,

And, becoming suddenly serious, she gazed intently at Jean Valjean and added

Without perceiving Jean Valjean, and tossed up his handful of sous,

Jean Valjean, stronger than the whole social order,

Upon Jean Valjean, to seize him and devour him,