1 "Urbain Fabre," said the prisoner.
2 The prisoner uttered not a syllable.
3 The prisoner made a movement in his bonds.
4 The prisoner had relapsed into his taciturnity.
5 The prisoner was only attached to the bed now by one leg.
6 The prisoner shuddered, and raised his eyes to Thenardier.
7 Only five ruffians now remained in the den with Thenardier and the prisoner.
8 Thenardier seemed to be absorbed in gloomy reflections, the prisoner did not stir.
9 Pontmercy saw Wurmser at Mantua, Melas, and Alexandria, Mack at Ulm, made prisoners in succession.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH 10 When the prisoner's right arm was free, Thenardier dipped the pen in the ink and presented it to him.
11 Leblanc, were trying to plunge the sharp points which darted from the pupils into the very conscience of his prisoner.
12 In the same way, there were at Rome Carthaginian prisoners who refused to salute Flaminius, and who had a little of Hannibal's spirit.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH 13 Still, Marius fancied that at intervals, and for the last few moments, he had heard a faint, dull noise in the direction of the prisoner.
14 The third, a man with thick-set shoulders, not so slender as the first, held in his hand an enormous key stolen from the door of some prison.
15 Thenardier rose in an unpretending manner, went to the fireplace, shoved aside the screen, which he leaned against the neighboring pallet, and thus unmasked the brazier full of glowing coals, in which the prisoner could plainly see the chisel white-hot and spotted here and there with tiny scarlet stars.
16 The silence preserved by the prisoner, that precaution which had been carried to the point of forgetting all anxiety for his own life, that resistance opposed to the first impulse of nature, which is to utter a cry, all this, it must be confessed, now that his attention had been called to it, troubled Marius, and affected him with painful astonishment.
17 It is probable that the prisoner had this sou piece on his person at the moment when the ruffians searched him, that he contrived to conceal it in his hand, and that afterward, having his right hand free, he unscrewed it, and used it as a saw to cut the cords which fastened him, which would explain the faint noise and almost imperceptible movements which Marius had observed.
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