more than four miles, monsieur, with a corpse on his back! And with what aim? With the single aim of saving that corpse. And that corpse was I. He said to himself: ‘Perhaps there is a glimmer of life still there; I’ll risk my own life for that miserable spark!’ And he did not risk his own life once but twenty times! And each step was a danger. The proof is that on coming out of the sewer he was arrested. Do you know, monsieur, that that man did all that? And he could be expecting a recompense. What was I? An insurgent. What was I? A defeated man. Oh! If Cosette’s six hundred thousand francs
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