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so many adventures and

mountains we can climb

to give word for word, line by

line, one bite at a time.

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Values today well be

continuing les miserable by Victor

Hugo chapter

nine new troubles

when the hour came for him to take

his departure from the galleys, when Jean

Valjean heard in his ear the strange words,

thou art free, the moment

seemed improbable and unprecedented.

A ray of vivid light, a ray of the true

light of the living, suddenly penetrated within him.

But it was not long before this ray paled.

Jean Valjean had been dazzled by the idea of

liberty. He, had believed in a new life.

He very speedily perceived what sort of liberty it is

to which a yellow passport is provided, and

this was encompassed with much bitterness.

He had calculated that his earnings during his

sojourn in the galleys ought, to amount to 171

francs. It is both. But just to add

that he had forgotten to include in his calculations the

forced repose of Sundays and festival days. During

19 years, which entailed a diminution

of about 80 francs at olivants, his

hoard had been reduced by various local levies to the sum of

109 francs, 15 sous,

which had been counted out to him on his departure.

He had understood nothing of this and had thought

himself wronged. Let us say the

word robbed. On the day

following his liberation, he saw at

grass in front of an orange flower distillery.

Some men engaged in unloading bales.

He offered his services. Business was

pressing. They were accepted. He set to

work. He was intelligent, robust,

adroit. He did his best. The

master seemed pleased. While he was at work, the

gendarme passed, observed him, and demanded

his papers. It was necessary to

show him the yellow passport. That done. Jean

Valjean resumed his labor. A little while before,

he had questioned one of the workmen as to the amount which they earned

each day at this occupation. He had been told

30 sous. When evening arrived

and he was forced to set out again. On the following day, he

presented himself to the owner of the distillery and requested to be

paid. The owner did not utter a word,

but handed him 15 sous. He

objected. He was told, that is enough

for thee. He persisted.

The master looked him straight between the eyes and said to

him, beware of the prison.

There again, he considered that he had been robbed.

Society, the state, by diminishing his

hoard, had robbed him wholesale.

Now it was the individual who was robbing him. At retail,

liberation is not deliverance. One

gets free from the galleys, but not from the sentence.

That is what happened to him at grass. We

have seen in what manner he was received at D.

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Many adventures and mountains

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Take your word forward, line by

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