1 I am a convict from the galleys.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE HEROISM OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE. 2 At times, amid his convict toil, he paused.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR 3 He obstinately denied everything, the theft and his character of convict.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IX—A PLACE WHERE CONVICTIONS ARE IN PROCESS OF ... 4 During his youth he had been employed in the convict establishments of the South.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—VAGUE FLASHES ON THE HORIZON 5 Monsieur to a convict is like a glass of water to one of the shipwrecked of the Medusa.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE HEROISM OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE. 6 Under the axle-tree hung, like drapery, a huge chain, worthy of some Goliath of a convict.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER 7 It is about a sort of blackguard; a man arrested for a second offence; a convict who has been guilty of theft.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VII—THE TRAVELLER ON HIS ARRIVAL TAKES ... 8 Like an owl, who should suddenly see the sun rise, the convict had been dazzled and blinded, as it were, by virtue.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GERVAIS 9 He was a convict whom I was in the habit of seeing twenty years ago, when I was adjutant-guard of convicts at Toulon.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—HOW JEAN MAY BECOME CHAMP 10 To climb a wall, to break a branch, to purloin apples, is a mischievous trick in a child; for a man it is a misdemeanor; for a convict it is a crime.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—HOW JEAN MAY BECOME CHAMP 11 An excessive emotion was required to wring from him, once or twice a year, that lugubrious laugh of the convict, which is like the echo of the laugh of a demon.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR 12 To all appearances, it was an occasion for preaching him a little sermon, and of impressing the Bishop on the convict, so that a mark of the passage might remain behind.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV—DETAILS CONCERNING THE CHEESE-DAIRIES OF ... 13 Beneath the cudgel, beneath the chain, in the cell, in hardship, beneath the burning sun of the galleys, upon the plank bed of the convict, he withdrew into his own consciousness and meditated.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR 14 Now, in order to convey an idea of what passed at that table, we cannot do better than to transcribe here a passage from one of Mademoiselle Baptistine's letters to Madame Boischevron, wherein the conversation between the convict and the Bishop is described with ingenious minuteness.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV—DETAILS CONCERNING THE CHEESE-DAIRIES OF ... 15 The lawyer wound up by beseeching the jury and the court, if the identity of Jean Valjean appeared to them to be evident, to apply to him the police penalties which are provided for a criminal who has broken his ban, and not the frightful chastisement which descends upon the convict guilty of a second offence.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IX—A PLACE WHERE CONVICTIONS ARE IN PROCESS OF ... 16 On the other hand, to surrender himself to save that man, struck down with so melancholy an error, to resume his own name, to become once more, out of duty, the convict Jean Valjean, that was, in truth, to achieve his resurrection, and to close forever that hell whence he had just emerged; to fall back there in appearance was to escape from it in reality.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—A TEMPEST IN A SKULL 17 Throughout this hideous meditation, the thoughts which we have above indicated moved incessantly through his brain; entered, withdrew, re-entered, and in a manner oppressed him; and then he thought, also, without knowing why, and with the mechanical persistence of revery, of a convict named Brevet, whom he had known in the galleys, and whose trousers had been upheld by a single suspender of knitted cotton.
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