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CHAPTER III

THE VICISSITUDES

OF FLIGHT

This is what had taken place that same night at the La
Force:—
An escape had been planned between Babet, Brujon,
Guelemer, and Thenardier, although Thenardier was in
close confinement. Babet had arranged the matter for his
own benefit, on the same day, as the reader has seen from
Montparnasse’s account to Gavroche. Montparnasse was to
help them from outside.
Brujon, after having passed a month in the punish-
ment cell, had had time, in the first place, to weave a rope,
in the second, to mature a plan. In former times, those se-
vere places where the discipline of the prison delivers the
convict into his own hands, were composed of four stone
walls, a stone ceiling, a flagged pavement, a camp bed, a
grated window, and a door lined with iron, and were called
dungeons; but the dungeon was judged to be too terrible;
nowadays they are composed of an iron door, a grated win-
dow, a camp bed, a flagged pavement, four stone walls, and

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