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Twenty times he had been tempted to throw himself upon Jean Valjean, to seize him and to devour him, that is to say, arrest him.
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When he had so unexpectedly encountered Jean Valjean on the banks of the Seine, there had been in him something of the wolf which regains his grip on his prey, and of the dog who finds his master again.
June 7, 1832, just after one o’clock in the morning…
“He was less the man transfigured than the victim of this prodigy.”
- Victor Hugo (Hapgood translation, as is the text in the picture)
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