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>> Brie Carlisle: Values today well be

continuing.

Le miserable M by Victor Hugo

chapter six between four

planks who is in the

coffin? The reader knows. Jean

Valjean. Jean Valjean had arranged things so

that he could exist there, and he could almost

breathe. It is a strange thing to what a

degree. Security of conscience confers security of the

rest. Every combination thought out by Jean

Valjean had been progressing and progressing

favorably since the preceding day. He,

like Fauchelevert, counted on Father Massien.

He had no doubt as to the end. Never was there

a more critical situation, never more complete

composure. The four planks of the coffin breathe out

a kind of terrible peace. It seemed

as though something for the repose of the dead entered into Jean

Valjeans tranquillity. From the depths of that

coffin he had been able to follow, and he had followed

all the phrases of the terrible drama which he was playing with

death. Shortly after Fauchelevert had

finished nailing on the upper plank, Jean Valjean had felt

himself carried out, then driven off,

he knew from the diminution and the jolting. When they left the

pavements and reached the earth road, he had

divined from a dull noise that they were crossing the bridge of

Austerlitz. At the first halt, he had

understood that they were entering the cemetery. At the

second halt, he said to himself, heres the

grave. Suddenly he felt Hans seize

the coffin. Then a harsh grating against the

planks. He explained it to himself as the

rope which was being fastened around the casket in order to lower it

into the cavity. Then he

experienced a giddiness. The undertaker's

man and the gravedigger had probably allowed the coffin to lose

its balance and had lowered the head before the

foot. He recovered himself fully. When he

felt himself horizontal and motionless,

he had just touched the bottom. He had a

certain sensation of cold. A

voice rose above him. Hm. Glacial and solemn.

He heard latin words which he did not understand pass over

him so slowly that he was able to catch them

one by qui

ndormiit in terre pulver

eve bunt, le vitam et

hernam et ali et opprobrium

ut vident semper. A childs

voice said, de profundis. The grave

voice began again. Requiem eternam

donne et domine. The childs voice

responded. Et lux perpetua luciet

e. He heard something like the gentle

patter of several drops of rain on the plank which covered

him. It was probably the holy

water, he thought. Thisll be over

soon. Now patience for a little while

longer. The priest will take his departure.

Fauchelevert will take mustine off to drink. I shall

be left, then. Fauchelevert will return alone,

and I shall get out. That will be the work of a good

hour. A grave voice

resumed, requisite impaires.

And the childs voice said, amen.

Jean Valjean strained his ears and heard something

like retreating footsteps. There

theyre going now, thought he. im alone.

All at once he heard over his head a

sound which seemed to him to be the clap of thunder.

It was a shovelful of earth falling on the coffin.

A second shovelful fell. One of the

holes through which he breathed had just been stopped up.

A third shovelful of earth fell,

then a fourth. There are things

which are too strong for the strongest Mandev.

Jean Valjean lost consciousness.

Thank you for joining Byte at a time books today while we

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I hope you come back tomorrow, for the next bite of

le Miserable.

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Take it chapter by chapter one

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so many adventures and

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