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Les Misérables by Victor Hugo原文Chapter 7:Love and DeathMarius lies for a long time between life and death.But months later, he is well again.Cosette visits him every day, and this of course, helps him a lot.His grandfather is happy to have his grandson back and is happy to have a new granddaughter in Cosette.The two young people marry and live in the house of Marius's grandfather in the Le Marais.There is a surprise for the young people.Cosette has money, a lot of money.Valjean tells them she has 600000 francs.This pleases Marius's grandfather very much,But the young people are only interested in love, not in money.Where does it come from, this money?Years ago,when Valjean was Monsieur Madeleine with a factory, he was a rich man.Before he left Montroy, he took his money and the bishop's candlesticks to a secret place.When he needs money, he goes back there.Now this money is for Cosette, and the candlesticks stand in Valjean's house in the Rue de l'Homme-Armé.They look very fine, and Toussaint cleans them every day.A new life begins for everybody, but there are still secrets from the past., and Valjean wants to tell them he feels old and tired.Death is coming for him at last, he feels.He calls Cosette and Marius to his bedside.“Listen,dearest Cosette, to the story of your mother…” he says.Cosette hears the story of Fantine's sadlife.”She learns that Valjean is not her real father.But in her life, there is only one father, and that is Valjean, she tells him.“Come closer,my children,” he says, “I love you dearly and I die happy. Come closer, and take my hands.”Cosette and Marius are by his bed, holding his hands and crying.His great hands are still, and do not move again.He lies with his head turned up to the sky, and the light from the bishop's candlesticks falls upon his face.翻译第七章：爱与死亡马吕斯在生死边缘徘徊了许久。但在几个月后，他终于痊愈了。珂赛特每天都来看望他，这当然对他康复起到了极大的帮助。他的祖父很高兴孙子能平安归来，也很高兴能迎来珂赛特这个新孙女。两个年轻人结了婚，住在马吕斯祖父位于玛黑区的宅邸里。这对年轻人还迎来了一个惊喜。珂赛特有一笔钱，一笔巨款。冉阿让告诉他们，她有六十万法郎。这让马吕斯的祖父非常高兴，但这两个年轻人只在乎彼此的爱，对金钱毫不在意。这笔巨款是从哪里来的呢？多年前，当冉阿让还是拥有工厂的马德兰先生时，他非常富有。在离开蒙特勒伊之前，他把这笔钱和主教送的银烛台藏在了一个隐秘的地方。每当他需要钱时，就会回到那里去取。现在，这笔钱全留给了珂赛特，而那对银烛台则摆在冉阿让位于武人街的家中。它们看起来依然十分精美，老女仆杜桑每天都会将它们擦拭得一尘不染。每个人的生活都翻开了新的一页，但过去的秘密依然存在。冉阿让觉得是时候把一切告诉他们了。他感到自己老了，也累了。他感觉到，死亡终于要向他降临了。他把珂赛特和马吕斯叫到床前。“听着，我最亲爱的珂赛特，我要给你讲讲你母亲的故事……”他说。珂赛特听到了芳汀那悲惨的一生。她也得知，冉阿让并不是她的亲生父亲。但在她的生命中，她只有一个父亲，那就是冉阿让。她这样告诉他。“走近些，我的孩子们，”他说，“我深爱着你们，现在我可以毫无遗憾地离去了。走近些，握住我的手。”珂赛特和马吕斯站在他的床边，紧紧握着他的手，泪流满面。那双宽大的手渐渐安静下来，再也没有动弹。

Les Misérables by Victor Hugo单词提示1.splash 落水声原文Chapter 6: The BarricadesIt is a long night at the barricade in the Rue de la Chanvrerie.The news is bad.More and more soldiers are arriving in the city, but the people stay in their homes.This time, they don't want to fight the government, only the students are still at the barricades waiting for the soldiers, bullets and death.Then a new man arrives at the barricade, a big man in dark clothes.Mario stares,it is Cosette's father, he is certain.Is he a friend or an enemy, who knows?Inside the tavern, Javert, too, waits for death.Rebels shoot spies, he knows that.Does he think about his life? Waiting there in the tavern? Is the law always right? Can a criminal change and be a good man?Does Javert ask these questions, who knows?Daylight comes and the shooting begins.“Rat ta tat, rat ta tat, rat ta tat…”, on the barricade, noise and shouting, cries and screams.Valjean saves Jean Enjolras's life.Two men die,Valjean carries the bodies into the tavern, sees Javert and Javert sees him.Then the shooting stops.The Rebelsneed more bullets, and Gavroche runs out to the front of the barricade.“Come back, Gavroche!”, he doesn't listen and start singing.There are dead soldiers lying in the street, Gavroche takes the bullets from their bags and puts them into his bag.He is small and quick, and his bag is nearly full before the soldiers start shooting at him.“Come back, Gavroche!”, he sings louder, but the fifth bullet hits him and he falls down in the street.He moves once, then falls back.Gavroche is dead.A child of the Paris streets, his singing now stopped forever,just another dead body in the rebellion.Smoke from the guns is everywhere, it is hard to see anything, but Marius runs out into the street, picks Gavroche up and runs back.He puts the small body on a table in the tavern and cries.It is going to be a long day.Behind the barricade, Enjolras talked to the men.“They're going to attack again soon, 60 soldiers to every one of us. Mariusand I are your two leaders, Gavroche brought us bullets, so let's use them well and fight to the end.” “Let's kill the spy now.” said one of the men.Then Valjean spoke, “give him to me. I can do that for you. I'd like to shoot him.”Enjolras looked at him, “You saved my life, friend. You can have the spy.”Valjean took Javert out of the tavern to a little street behind.He took out a knife.“Oh, a knife,” said Javert, “of course, a criminal's way to kill,so kill me and be quick.”Valjean said nothing.He cut the ropes around Javert's arms and legs, then stood up and said “You're free to go.”Javert stared,he could not understand this.“I live in the Rue de l'Homme-Armé. The next time we meet, you can arrest me. Now, go.”Javert turned and walked away.Valjean fired his gun into the air, then went back to the barricade.“It's done.”he told Enjolras.Now the second attack began.The government had more men, more guns, more bullets, and one by one the students began to die.Marius was on top of the barricade.He was one of the last men still alive, but then 1, 2 bullets hit him, and he fell.Two great hands at once, picked him up.Cosette whispered Marius, and then he went into that dark night.Jean Valjean knew Paris well, knew its little back streets, its secret places.He used them now with the dead or dying Marius in his arms.He ran through the back street, watching at every corner.Night came, and the sky was full of the smoke from the guns.Valjean stopped to rest, in Marius's pocket, he found a piece of paper, “Take my body to my grandfather's house.”The address was in the Le Marais, not far away.Valjean began to pick up Marius's body again, and a hand came down hard on his shoulder.Valjean turned, Javert stood behind him.“What are you doing here,” he said, “who is this man?”Valjean stood up.“Inspector Javert,” he said, “I told you I'm tired of running and hiding. You can arrest me, put me back in prison. I ask just one thing, help me to take this young man home, that is all.”“He's dead,”said Javert.“No, not yet,he lives in the Le Marais with his grandfather. Look…”He showed Javertthe piece of paper.Javert read the address, then called to a carriage along the street.They put Marius's body on the back seat and sat side by side on the front seat.At the house of Marius's grandfather, a servant opened the door.She gave a little scream when she saw Marius in Valjean's arms.“It's Monsieur Marius, take the boy in,” said Javert, “I'm waiting for you here at the door.”His voice was different.Uncertain,Valjean looked at him, then carried Marius's body into the house.“Call a doctor quickly!” he said to the servants, “He was out the barricade and has two bullets still in him.”Then he came back downstairs and out into the street.Javert was gone.Valjean looked up and down the street, nothing, nobody.Down by the River Seine, near the Place du Chatelet, Javert stoodon the bridge, looking down into the water.“What must I do?” he thought, but for the first time in his life he had no answer.Valjean's words at the barricade went through his head again and again,“You're free to go, free to go, free to go.”“I can do one of two things,”Javert said to the river, “I can arrest him or I cannot arrest him and say you are free to go. But the law is the law, so I must arrest him. But he gave me my life, so I must give him his life. But the law is the law.”And a voice in Javert's head said, “You worked for the law all your life, but Jean Valjean is a better man than you are.”For a long time, Javert stared down at the river, but the river gave him no answer to his question.Then he took off his hat and put it carefully on the ground.A moment later, he stood high on the bridge, then fell down into the dark river.There was a splash,and that was all.翻译第六章：街垒在尚夫雷里街的街垒，这是一个漫长的夜晚。局势很不妙。越来越多的士兵正在涌入这座城市，但普通百姓都躲在家里不敢出来。这一次，他们不想再反抗政府了。只有那些学生们依然坚守在街垒，等待着士兵、子弹和死亡。这时，街垒上来了一个陌生人，一个穿着深色衣服的高大男人。马吕斯死死盯着他，他确信那是珂赛特的父亲。他究竟是敌是友，谁又知道呢？在酒馆里，沙威也在等待着死亡。他知道，起义者们是会枪毙密探的。在酒馆里苦等的时候，他有没有思考过自己的人生？法律永远都是绝对正确的吗？一个罪犯真的能改邪归正，成为一个好人吗？沙威会问自己这些问题吗？谁又知道呢？天亮了，枪声随之响起。“哒哒哒，哒哒哒，哒哒哒……”街垒上充斥着巨大的噪音、呼喊声和惨叫声。冉阿让救了安灼拉的命。两名起义者牺牲了，冉阿让把他们的遗体抬进酒馆，他看见了沙威，沙威也看见了他。随后，枪声短暂地停歇了。起义者们需要更多的子弹，加夫罗什冲到了街垒的最前面。“回来，加夫罗什！”但他根本不听，反而唱起了歌。街上有几具士兵的尸体，加夫罗什从他们的弹药袋里掏出子弹，装进自己的口袋里。他身形娇小，动作敏捷，在士兵们开始向他开枪之前，他的口袋几乎已经装满了。“回来，加夫罗什！”他唱得更大声了，但第五颗子弹击中了他，他倒在了街上。他挣扎着动了一下，然后重重地倒了下去。加夫罗什死了。这个在巴黎街头长大的野孩子，他的歌声永远地停息了，他成了这场反叛中又一具冰冷的尸体。到处弥漫着枪炮的硝烟，什么都看不清。但马吕斯还是冲到了街上，抱起加夫罗什，又跑了回来。他把那小小的身躯放在酒馆的桌子上，痛哭失声。这将是漫长的一天。在街垒后方，安灼拉对众人说道：“他们很快又会发起进攻。敌军人数是我们的六十倍。马吕斯和我是你们的领袖，加夫罗什为我们弄来了子弹，让我们好好利用它们，战斗到最后一刻。”“现在就把那个密探毙了吧！”其中一个人喊道。这时，冉阿让开口了：“把他交给我吧。我来替你们解决，我想亲自枪毙他。”安灼拉看着他：“朋友，你救过我的命。你可以处置这个密探。”冉阿让把沙威从酒馆里带出来，走到后面的一条小巷。他掏出了一把刀。“哦，用刀啊，”沙威说，“当然，这是罪犯杀人的方式。那就杀了我吧，快点。”冉阿让一言不发。他割断了绑在沙威手脚上的绳子，然后站起身说：“你自由了，走吧。”沙威死死盯着他，完全无法理解这一切。“我住在武人街7号。下次我们再相遇，你可以逮捕我。现在，走吧。”沙威转过身，走了。冉阿让朝空中开了一枪，然后回到了街垒。“解决了。”他对安灼拉说。现在，第二次进攻开始了。政府军拥有更多的人、更多的枪和更多的子弹，学生们开始一个接一个地倒下。马吕斯站在街垒的最顶端。他是最后几个还活着的战士之一，但紧接着，一两颗子弹击中了他，他摔了下去。一双宽大的手瞬间将他接住。“珂赛特……”马吕斯喃喃低语，随后便陷入了无尽的黑暗。冉阿让对巴黎了如指掌，熟悉每一条幽暗的后巷和隐秘的角落。此刻，他正抱着垂死的马吕斯，在这些小巷中穿梭。他背着马吕斯在暗巷中狂奔，在每个拐角处都警惕地观察着。夜幕降临，天空中弥漫着火药的浓烟。冉阿让停下来稍作休息，他在马吕斯的口袋里摸到了一张纸条：“把我的遗体送到我祖父家。”地址在玛黑区，离这里不远。冉阿让重新背起马吕斯，突然，一只大手重重地拍在了他的肩膀上。冉阿让猛地回过头，沙威就站在他身后。“你在这里干什么？”沙威问，“这个人是谁？”冉阿让站起身。“沙威警长，”他说，“我告诉过你，我已经厌倦了东躲西藏。你可以逮捕我，把我重新关进监狱。但我只有一个请求：帮我把这个年轻人送回家，仅此而已。”“他已经死了。”沙威说。“不，还没死。他和祖父住在玛黑区。你看……”他把那张纸条拿给沙威看。沙威看了看地址，然后向街上叫来了一辆马车。他们把马吕斯放在马车后座上，两人并肩坐在前排。在马吕斯祖父的家门前，一个女仆打开了门。当她看到马吕斯躺在冉阿让的怀里时，忍不住发出一声尖叫。“是马吕斯少爷，快把少爷抬进去，”沙威说，“我就在门口等你。”他的声音听起来有些异样。冉阿让疑惑地看了他一眼，然后抱着马吕斯走进了屋子。“快叫医生！”他对仆人们说，“他刚从街垒上下来，体内还留着两颗子弹。”随后，他走下楼，回到了街上。沙威已经不见了。冉阿让环顾街道的两头，什么也没有，什么人也没有。在塞纳河畔、沙特雷广场附近，沙威正站在桥上，低头凝视着脚下的河水。“我该怎么办？”他想，但这是他一生中第一次找不到答案。冉阿让在街垒上说的话在他脑海中一遍又一遍地回荡：“你自由了，走吧，自由了，走吧。”“我只能做两件事中的一件，”沙威对着河水喃喃自语，“要么逮捕他，要么不逮捕他，告诉他‘你自由了'。但法律就是法律，所以我必须逮捕他。但他给了我一条命，所以我必须还他一条命。可是，法律就是法律啊。”沙威的脑海中有一个声音在说：“你一生都在为法律效劳，但冉阿让比你更是一个高尚的人。”沙威久久地凝视着脚下的河水，但河水并没有给他任何答案。然后，他摘下帽子，小心翼翼地放在地上。片刻之后，他站在高高的桥栏上，纵身跃入了黑暗的河水中。只听“扑通”一声水响，一切便归于死寂。

Les Misérables by Victor Hugo单词提示1.barricades 路障2.bullet 子弹3.Arsenal 军火库4.tavern 酒馆原文Chapter 5: Love and RebellionSo what is Marius's idea?It is this.He wants to marry Cosette, but he has no money, his grandfather has money.He must ask his grandfather, but his grandfather is an old man, and old men's ideas do not change easily.He shouts at Marius, Marius shouts back, and that is the end of that.The next evening, he goes as usual to the Rue Plume.There is nobody in the garden.The house is dark, the windows are closed, Cosette and her father are gone.Marius cannot live without Cosette.He wants to die, but Gavroche tells him that his friends need him.It is June 1832, and students and workers are running through the streets of Paris, bringing rebellion to the city and everyone must fight the government.Marius is soon at the barricades with a gun in his hand.He is happy, death can come at any moment with a bullet from a soldier's gun.These are dangerous times.Jean Valjean sees Inspector Javert in a street near the Rue Plume.What is he doing there? Are the police watching his house?Valjean does not wait the same night, he and Cosette leave Rue Plume.They moved to 7 Rue de l'Homme-Armé and begin to get ready for England.How can love find a way in these troubled times?When the soldiers attacked in front of the Arsenal building, the people turned and ran this way and that way through the streets of the city.Marius and his friends came to the Rue de la Chanvrerie, and they built their barricade there.It was, 2 meters high, made of wood and stone.Behind their barricade, the rebels waited for the soldiers.Night came,but nothing happened.Enjolras was the leader of the students, he called Gavroche to him.“You're small,”he said, “nobody sees you. Go and have a look round the city, and then bring us any news.”Just after midnight, Gavroche was back.“The soldiers aren't moving,” he said, “but there are a lot of them.”He stopped suddenly and whispered, “Hey, who's that? That tall man over there?”Enjolras and Marius turned to look.“I don't know him.” said Marius.“People are coming and going all night,” said Enjolras, “Why?Gavroche, do you know him?”“Yes,”whispered Gavroche, “he's not one of us, he's a spy, a police spy, name of Javert. He stopped me once down by the river, put me in prison all night.”“Are you certain about this, Gavroche?” said Marius.“I'm certain right,”said Gavroche “he's a spy.”The rebels did not like spies.Four of Enjolras's men jumped on Javert, pulled him into the tavern behind the barricade, and tied him to the wall.“Louise, shoot him now?” asked one of the men.“Later?” said Enjolras, “he can wait.”They went back outside to the barricade, and listened for the sound of soldiers.Gavroche found Marius at the far end of the barricade.“Marius,” he whispered, “on my way back here, I came past your rooms and went in.”“Why?”whispered Marius.“I was hungry,” said Gavroche, “the woman in your house is nice.She always gives me something to eat. But she had a letter for you. She gave it to me. It came two days ago, she said.”“A letter, a letter from whom?”Suddenly,there was hope in Marius's heart.“Quick, give it to me.”The letter was from Cosette.“My dearest father says we must leave at once. We go tonight to 7 Rue de l'Homme-Armé, and soon to England. Oh,my dear, how can I live without you? Cosette.”Marius read this letter four times and then kissed it.She still loved him.He must write back to her and say his last goodbye.There was still no sound of soldiers in the street.He found some paper and a pencil.“Cosette dearest, I came to the Rue Plume, but you were gone already. We cannot marry. I went to my grandfather, and he said no. I have no money, and you have no money. I love you, I can never forget you. The fighting begins here very soon. When I am dead, don't be sad. Our love was beautiful. Marius.”He called to Gavroche,“I want you to take this letter to the Rue de l'Homme-Armé. Can you do that for me?”“Yes, but, but now…” said Gavroche, “I am staying here for the fighting, I can shoot too, you know?”“Gavroche,you're just a boy, we don't want you to die in the fighting, stay away from the shooting. And this letter is very important to me. It must go now. I want you to put it into Cosette's hands. Please, Gavroche.”“Oh, very well.”said Gavroche.He took the letter, put it inside his shirt, and ran off into the dark.When Valjeanand Cosette left the house in Rue Plumet, Cosette was very sad.Valjean saw this, but he said nothing.In the Rue de l'Homme-Armé, Cosette stayed in her bedroom, Toussaint took her meals up to her in the night.Valjean could not sleep.The city was quiet, but for how long?He went outside the house and stood in the street, listening.There were voices in the next street, and then he heard singing, a boy singing.Gavroche came up the street, looking at the house numbers.He saw Valjean and stopped.“Well, young man, watch the news,” said Valjean,“The news is now I'm hungry.” said Gavroche.Valjean put his hand in his pocket and found a five-franc piece.Gavroche stared at it.He didn't see many five-franc pieces, and he was very pleased to see this one.He put it in his pocket.“You're all right,” he said, “Do you live in this street? Do you know number 7?”“What do you want with number 7?” said Valjean.“Letter for someone.” said Gavroche.“A woman?”Valjean stared at him.He felt cold.“A woman.”“Cosette”, he remembered once, the young man in the Luxembourg, he tried to smile.“That's the letter for Cosette,” he said, “I'm waiting for it.”“Yes, that's her. Well, here you are.” said Gavroche, “It comes from the barricade in the Rue de la Chanvrerie. I'm going back there now. Goodnight, monsieur.”Jean Valjean went back into the house with Marius's letter.He read it quickly.“I love you, I can never forget you…”So Cosette, his dear, dear daughter, was in love, she was his world.Without her, his life was nothing, he could not even think about it.“When I am dead, don't be sad”, those words gave him hope.So the young man was one of the rebels at the barricade.“When the soldiers start shooting,” he thought, “that's the end of all the rebels. I do nothing, I say nothing, I keep this letter and poof, nothing changes in our lives.”But Valjean did not feel easy, he remembered all their happy years as father and daughter.And he saw again Cosette's sad eyes, when they left the Rue Plumet.How could he take her away to England?He turned and went out of the room.A little later, he left the house wearing dark clothes and carrying a gun, and walked away down the street.翻译第五章：爱与反叛那么，马吕斯的计划究竟是什么呢？其实很简单。他想娶珂赛特，但他身无分文，而他的祖父却很有钱。他必须去求祖父，但祖父是个老人，而老人的观念是很难改变的。祖父冲他大吼，马吕斯也毫不退让地顶嘴，结果可想而知，谈话不欢而散。第二天傍晚，他像往常一样来到普吕梅街。花园里空无一人。整栋房子漆黑一片，窗户紧闭，珂赛特和她父亲已经搬走了。没有珂赛特，马吕斯根本活不下去。他万念俱灰，只想一死了之，但加夫罗什告诉他，他的朋友们需要他。那是1832年6月，学生和工人们涌上巴黎的街头，将反叛的火种播撒到整座城市，所有人都起来反抗政府。很快，马吕斯便手持火枪，站在了街垒之后。他感到一种悲壮的决绝，因为士兵的子弹随时都可能夺走他的生命。这是一个动荡危险的时代。冉阿让在普吕梅街附近的一条街上看见了沙威警长。他在那儿干什么？警察是不是在监视他的住处？冉阿让没有等到天亮，当晚便带着珂赛特离开了普吕梅街。他们搬到了武人街7号，并开始为前往英国做准备。在这样的乱世之中，爱情该何去何从？当士兵们在兵工厂大楼前发起进攻时，人群四散奔逃，在城市的街巷中四处乱窜。马吕斯和他的朋友们来到了尚夫雷里街，在那里筑起了一座街垒。街垒有两米多高，由木头和石头堆砌而成。在街垒后方，起义者们严阵以待，等待着士兵的到来。夜幕降临，但什么也没有发生。安灼拉是学生们的领袖，他把加夫罗什叫到身边。“你个子小，”他说，“没人会注意到你。去城里侦察一下，然后把消息带回来。”刚过午夜，加夫罗什就回来了。“士兵们还没行动，”他说，“但人非常多。”他突然停下脚步，压低声音说：“嘿，那是谁？那边那个高个子男人？”安灼拉和马吕斯转头望去。“我不认识他。”马吕斯说。“整晚都有人在街垒周围走来走去，”安灼拉说，“怎么回事？加夫罗什，你认识他吗？”“认识，”加夫罗什悄声说，“他不是我们的人，是个密探，警察的密探，名叫沙威。他有一次在河边把我拦住，把我关了一整夜。”“你确定吗，加夫罗什？”马吕斯问。“我百分之百确定，”加夫罗什说，“他就是个密探。”起义者们最痛恨密探。安灼拉手下的四个人猛扑向沙威，把他拽进街垒后面的酒馆，牢牢地绑在墙上。“路易，现在就把他毙了吗？”其中一个人问。“晚点再说，”安灼拉说，“他可以先留着。”他们回到街垒外，继续倾听是否有士兵逼近的脚步声。加夫罗什在街垒的尽头找到了马吕斯。“马吕斯，”他低声说，“我回来的路上，经过你的住处，就顺便进去了一趟。”“去干什么？”马吕斯问。“我饿了，”加夫罗什说，“你屋里的那个女人人挺好的，总是给我点吃的。不过她有一封给你的信。她说那是两天前到的，就交给了我。”“一封信？谁的信？”马吕斯的心里突然燃起了一丝希望。“快，给我！”那是珂赛特写来的信。“我最亲爱的父亲说我们必须立刻离开。我们今晚就要搬到武人街7号，很快就会去英国。哦，亲爱的，没有你我该怎么活？珂赛特。”马吕斯把信读了四遍，然后深深地吻了它。她依然爱着他。他必须给她写封回信，作最后的道别。街上依然没有士兵的动静。他找来纸笔。“我最亲爱的珂赛特：我去了普吕梅街，但你们已经走了。我们无法结婚了。我去求了祖父，但他拒绝了。我没有钱，你也没有。我爱你，我永远无法将你忘记。这里的战斗马上就要打响了。当我死后，请不要悲伤。我们的爱是美好的。马吕斯。”他叫来加夫罗什：“我想让你把这封信送到武人街。你能帮我这个忙吗？”“能是能，但现在……”加夫罗什说，“我要留在这里参加战斗，你知道吗，我也能开枪的？”“加夫罗什，你只是个孩子，我们不想让你死在战场上，离枪林弹雨远点。而且这封信对我来说至关重要。它必须立刻送出。我要你亲手交到珂赛特手里。求你了，加夫罗什。”“哦，那好吧。”加夫罗什说。他接过信，把它塞进衬衫里，一头扎进了黑夜中。当冉阿让和珂赛特离开普吕梅街的住处时，珂赛特伤心欲绝。冉阿让看在眼里，却什么也没说。在武人街的住处，珂赛特把自己关在卧室里，夜里由老女仆杜桑把饭菜端上去给她。冉阿让无法入睡。城市虽然安静，但这平静又能维持多久呢？他走出屋子，站在街上侧耳倾听。邻街传来了人声，接着他又听到了歌声，是一个男孩在唱歌。加夫罗什顺着街道走来，一边走一边看着门牌号。他看见了冉阿让，便停了下来。“小伙子，有什么消息吗？”冉阿让问。“现在的消息就是：我饿了。”加夫罗什回答。冉阿让把手伸进口袋，摸出一枚五法郎的硬币。加夫罗什盯着那枚硬币。他很少能见到五法郎的硬币，看到它让他非常高兴。他把硬币装进口袋。“你人不错，”他说，“你住在这条街上吗？你知道7号在哪儿吗？”“你找7号干什么？”冉阿让问。“给里面的人送信。”加夫罗什说。“是给一位女士的吗？”冉阿让紧紧盯着他。他感到一阵寒意。“是给一位女士的。”“珂赛特……”他想起了卢森堡公园里的那个年轻人，勉强挤出一丝微笑。“那是给珂赛特的信，”他说，“我在等这封信。”“对，就是给她的。喏，给你。”加夫罗什说，“信是从尚夫雷里街的街垒送来的。我现在得回去了。晚安，先生。”冉阿让拿着马吕斯的信回到了屋里。他飞快地看了一遍。“我爱你，我永远无法将你忘记……”原来，他亲爱的女儿恋爱了。她就是他的一切。如果没有她，他的生命将毫无意义，他甚至不敢去想那种可能。“当我死后，请不要悲伤”，这句话给了他一丝希望。原来，那个年轻人就是街垒里的起义者之一。“一旦士兵们开火，”他想，“那些起义者就全完了。我什么都不做，什么都不说，只要把这封信藏起来，然后‘噗'的一下，我们俩的生活就不会有任何改变。”但冉阿让的心里并不踏实。他回想起了他们作为父女相伴的那些快乐岁月。他又看到了离开普吕梅街时，珂赛特那双悲伤的眼睛。他怎么能就这样把她强行带到英国去呢？他转过身，走出了房间。

Les Misérables by Victor Hugo原文Chapter 4: MariusNine years pass, Valjean and Cosette are living in the Rue Plumet in Paris,in a house with a big garden.It is a quiet street and nobody comes there.This pleases Valjean, because he is still afraid of Inspector Javert.Cosette is now a young woman.She is tall with golden brown hair.She is beautiful, but there are many beautiful faces in the world.The wonderful thing about Cosette's face is her smile, a slow warm gentle smile like sunlight after rain.And now, we must meet Marius and his young friend Gavroche.Marius is a student, a young man with many ideas but no money.Paris is full of young men like this.Marius has a grandfather, his father is dead,But he does not talk to him, their political ideas are very different.At 17, he leaves home with 30 francs, his watch and a small bag of clothes.Now five years older, he lives with other students, and they talk all night about books and ideas, politics and government, life and death.All students are like this.They live for ideas and do a little work here and there when they need to.Gavroche is a child of the Paris streets.He is 11 or 12 years old, and wears a man's trousers and a woman's shirt.A kind woman gave these clothes to him.He lives on the streets, knows everybody,goes everywhere, and enjoys life.Well, why not? He knows no other life, only this one.Marius loved walking through the streets and gardens of Paris, and he often walked in the Luxembourg Garden.One day in the garden, he saw a man with a young girl.The man was about 60, and the girl, Marius thought, was about 17.He did not see her eyes, but he saw her golden-brown hair and her slow gentle smile.He walked past them once and did not look back, but he came to the Luxembourg the next day, and the day after that.And for the next five days, the man and the girl were always there.He could not stop looking at the girl.He wanted very much to see that smile, smile again.On the seventh day, the girl turned her head and looked at Marius.She looked into his eyes across the garden, and that look went like a bullet from a gun into Marius's heart.There were no words, but at once Marius knew, and the girl knew this was love.Life stopped for Marius then.He spent hours in the Luxembourg.And every time he saw her, the sun came out and all the birds in the garden began singing.But the man began to look at Marius too, and his face was not friendly.Marius was afraid and he went to Gavroche.“Gavroche, please, you must help me.”“Why? What's the matter? Monsieur Marius.”“There's a girl, Gavroche. She walks in the Luxembourg every day. I want you to follow her home, and tell me the address.”“Why don't you follow her? I am busy.” said Gavroche.“I'm afraid to,” said Marius, “her father,grandfather, I don't know, is watching me. He doesn't like me.”“Why is this important? Monsieur Marius.” Gavroche said.“He had a big smile on his face. Because I'min love,” shouted Marius, “Please, Gavroche, do it.”Gavroche ran away laughing.Two days later, he came to Marius's rooms,Rue plume.He said, “House at the end of the street,hard to find, you need to look for it.”Spring came and Cosette began to go out into the garden at Rue Plume.She was usually alone.Her old servant Toussaint was always in the kitchen, and Father Jean Valjean was in his room reading.Cosette was sad.She remembered the young man in the Luxembourg Garden, but Father no longer wanted to go there.But that evening, in the Rue Plume Garden something very wonderful happened.She heard a voice, a man's voice.She looked round and it was him.“I'm so sorry,” he said, “please don't be afraid. I just wanted to… You remember the Luxembourg Garden? I saw you therefor the first time, I can't forget you day and night, I think about you. Please don't be afraid, you see, I love you. It just happened to me, I can't stop it. Don't be afraid, please.”Cosette listened to this wonderful river of words and then held out her hand to him.He took her hand, and she pulled it to her and put it against her heart.“Then, you love me?”he said.“Of course, you know that.”A kiss, no words.They did not need words.Later words came, the story of his life, the story of her life, everything between lovers, everything is interesting.When they were done with words,Cosette put her head on Marius's shoulder and asked, “what is your name?”“My name is Marius, and yours?”“Cosette.”Every evening, they met secretly in the garden at Rue Plume.A kiss, a gentle laugh, whispered words of love.It was the spring and summer of their young lives.But around them, outside their garden, there was change.There were angry people, there were police and soldiers on the streets of Paris.And one day, Jean Valjean said to Cosette, “My dearest child, we live in dangerous times. We must leave France and go to England.”Cosette looked at him with frightened eyes.“Must we go, father?” She said.Valjean watched her face.“We must,” he said, “Get ready to leave very soon.”There was a change in Cosette.Valjean remembered the young man in the Luxembourg Garden and he looked at Cosette's beautiful young face.He was afraid, afraid of losing his dear daughter.That evening in the Rue Plume Garden, there were many unhappy tears.“But you must follow us to England,” cried Cosette.“How can I do that?” cried Marius, “I have no money, no passport. Even England to me is like the moon.”They held hands in the moonlight.“Listen, I have an idea,” Marius said slowly,“Wait two days, perhaps.”“Two days?” cried Cosette, “How can I live two days without you?”翻译第四章：马吕斯九年过去了，冉阿让和珂赛特住在巴黎的普吕梅街，那是一栋带大花园的房子。这是一条安静的街道，鲜有人至。这让冉阿让感到安心，因为他依然对沙威警长心存畏惧。如今的珂赛特已经长成了一个年轻女子。她身材高挑，留着一头金棕色的头发。她很美，但这世上美丽的容颜并不少见。珂赛特脸上最动人的，是她的微笑——那是一种缓慢、温暖、轻柔的微笑，宛如雨后初晴的阳光。现在，我们该认识一下马吕斯和他的年轻朋友加夫罗什了。马吕斯是个学生，一个满脑子想法却身无分文的年轻人。巴黎满大街都是这样的年轻人。马吕斯有个祖父，他的父亲已经去世了。但他和祖父互不说话，因为他们的政治理念截然不同。十七岁那年，他带着30法郎、一块怀表和一小包衣服离家出走。如今五年过去了，他和一群学生住在一起，他们整夜整夜地谈论书籍与思想、政治与政府、生与死。所有的学生都是这样。他们为理想而活，只在缺钱的时候才偶尔去打点零工。加夫罗什是个在巴黎街头长大的野孩子。他十一二岁，穿着一条男人的裤子和一件女人的衬衫。这是一位好心的女士给他的衣服。他风餐露宿，认识所有人，哪儿都敢去，而且非常享受这样的生活。是啊，为什么不呢？除了这种生活，他什么也没经历过。马吕斯喜欢漫步在巴黎的街道和花园里，他经常去卢森堡公园散步。有一天在公园里，他看见一个男人带着一个小姑娘。那个男人大概六十岁，马吕斯心想，那女孩大概十七岁。他没看清她的眼睛，但他看到了她金棕色的头发和那缓慢轻柔的微笑。他从他们身边走过，没有回头。但第二天、第三天，他又来到了卢森堡公园。在接下来的五天里，那个男人和女孩总是出现在那里。他无法控制自己的目光，总是忍不住看向那个女孩。他多么渴望能再次看到那个微笑。到了第七天，女孩转过头，看向了马吕斯。她隔着花园望向他的眼睛，那目光就像子弹一样，直击马吕斯的心脏。没有只言片语，但就在那一瞬间，马吕斯明白了，女孩也明白了——这就是爱情。那一刻，马吕斯的世界仿佛静止了。他在卢森堡公园里度过了好几个小时。每一次看到她，他都觉得阳光洒满了大地，花园里的鸟儿都在为他歌唱。但是，那个男人也开始注意到了马吕斯，而且眼神并不友善。马吕斯害怕了，他去找加夫罗什。“加夫罗什，求求你，你必须帮帮我。”“怎么了？出什么事了，马吕斯先生？”“有个女孩，加夫罗什。她每天都去卢森堡公园散步。我想让你跟着她回家，告诉我她的地址。”“你自己怎么不跟着？我很忙的。”加夫罗什说。“我不敢，”马吕斯说，“她父亲，或者祖父，我搞不清楚，一直在盯着我。他不喜欢我。”“这有什么关系吗，马吕斯先生？”加夫罗什说。“因为我恋爱了啊！”马吕斯大喊道，“求你了，加夫罗什，帮帮我吧。”加夫罗什大笑着跑开了。两天后，他来到了马吕斯在普吕梅街的住处。他说：“街道尽头的那栋房子，很难找，你得仔细留意。”春天来了，珂赛特开始走到普吕梅街的花园里。她通常是一个人。老女仆杜桑总在厨房里忙碌，而冉阿让父亲则在自己的房间里看书。珂赛特感到有些忧伤。她想念卢森堡公园里的那个年轻人，但父亲已经不想再去那里了。然而，那天傍晚，在普吕梅街的花园里，一件奇妙的事情发生了。她听到了一个声音，一个男人的声音。她回过头，正是他。“万分抱歉，”他说，“请别害怕。我只是想……你还记得卢森堡公园吗？我在那里第一次见到你，从此日夜都无法将你忘记，脑海里全是你。请别害怕，你看，我爱你。这感情就这样发生了，我无法阻挡。请别害怕。”珂赛特听着这如河水般倾泻而出的动人话语，然后向他伸出了手。他握住她的手，她却将他的手拉向自己，紧紧贴在自己的心口。“那么，你爱我？”他问。“当然，你是知道的。”一个吻，无需言语。他们不需要任何言语。后来，他们终于开口了，讲述彼此的人生故事。恋人之间的一切，都是那么有趣。当话语说尽，珂赛特把头靠在马吕斯的肩上，轻声问：“你叫什么名字？”“我叫马吕斯。你呢？”“珂赛特。”从此，每天傍晚，他们都在普吕梅街的花园里秘密相会。一个吻，一声轻柔的笑，几句耳鬓厮磨的情话。这是他们青春岁月里的春天与盛夏。但在他们周围，在花园之外，世界正在发生剧变。人们群情激愤，巴黎的街道上到处是警察和士兵。有一天，冉阿让对珂赛特说：“我最亲爱的孩子，我们正身处危险的时代。我们必须离开法国，去英国。”珂赛特用惊恐的眼神看着他。“我们必须走吗，父亲？”她说。冉阿让注视着她。“我们必须走，”他说，“准备一下，我们很快就要动身了。”珂赛特变了。冉阿让想起了卢森堡公园里的那个年轻人，他端详着珂赛特年轻美丽的脸庞。他害怕了，他害怕失去自己心爱的女儿。那天傍晚，在普吕梅街的花园里，充满了悲伤的泪水。“但你必须跟着我们去英国啊！”珂赛特哭喊道。“我怎么去得了？”马吕斯也哭喊道，“我没有钱，也没有护照。对我来说，去英国简直就像去月球一样遥远。”他们在月光下紧紧牵着手。“听着，我有个主意，”马吕斯缓缓地说，“等两天，也许只要两天。”“两天？”珂赛特哭喊道，“没有你，我该怎么熬过这两天？”

Les Misérables by Victor Hugo原文Chapter 3: CosetteMonsieur Madeleine is of course Jean Valjean.You knew that already after Denya.He sells the bishop's silver plates, but keeps the candlesticks.He comes to Montroy,builds his factory, works hard, is kind to other people.He makes a new good life, and is true to the bishop of Denya.But after Valjean left prison in Toulon and before he came to Denya, he was hungry, and in a street in Toulon he stole some money from a boy, just one franc, to buy bread.Because he did this, the law in France says that prisoner Valjean must go back to prison and stay there for life.He can never be a free man again.And so we meet Javert.Before Montroy,he was a prison guard at Toulon.The law is his god, and he hates all criminals.He remembers Jean Valjean, that big strong man, very well.He wants to see him in prison again, and he Inspector Javert is going to put him there.Jean Valjean remembers Javert now.He remembers the cold eyes, the hard voice, the cruel prison guard's smile.He remembers and is afraid.He knows that Javert is his enemy for life, but he remembers Fantine, too.He remembers her dying words, “Please take care of Cosette, please.”How can he leave this little girl without a mother, without a friend in the world?He must find her, Javert or no Javert.Monsieur and Madame Thenardier lived in a village called Montfermeil near Paris.There was no water in the village, and the nearest water was a small river in a wood 15 minutes ' walk away.People carried the water in buckets to their houses.Cosette hated that wood.At night, the trees made noises.She was frightened of the noises, frightened of the dark, and with a heavy bucket of water it was a long walk home.One dark winter night in 1823, Madame Thenardier sent Cosette out to the river for water.Cosette ran to the river.And then, with her heavy bucket of water, she began to walk home.The trees were noisy tonight, whispering and laughing at her.And the little girl began to cry.“Oh, please God, help me, please, dear God.”And suddenly the bucket was gone.A great hand came down and took it from her.She looked up and saw big man in an old yellow coat.Sometimes we know without words when something good is happening.The little girl knew that now, and she was not frightened of the big man, not a bit.The man spoke to her child, “This is a very heavy bucket. Shall I carry it for you?”“Yes, monsieur.”“How old are you?”“I'm 8 years old, monsieur.”“Where is your mother?”“I don't know,”said the child, “I haven't got a mother.”“What's your name?”“Cosette.”The big man stopped, he put the bucket down and looked into Cosette's face.“Why are you carrying a heavy bucket of water at this time of night, who sent you?”“Madame Thenardier.”“I would like to talk to this Madame Thenardier. Shall we go and see her?”“Yes,monsieur.”Cosette was not afraid of the tree noises now.This big man with his gentle voice was a new and wonderful thing in her life.They walked to the Thenardier's house.“Please,monsieur, can I carry the bucket now?”“But why?”“I can't ask people for help. Madame says she hits me when I do that,” Cosette said, “she hits me all the time.”He gave her the bucket.The Thenardiers were very surprised to see Cosette's new friend, this big man in the old yellow coat.Inside the house, the big man looked at Cosette.He saw her thin clothes, her dirty hair, her big frightened eyes.She was small for her 8 years.Her hands were red from kitchen work, and she had no shoes.“Why does this child have no shoes on her feet on this cold winter night?” He said to Madame Thenardier.Madame Thenardier looked at Cosette angrily.“Go into the kitchen, Cosette. There is work to do, go. And are you?Monsieur.” Thenardier said.“I am here for Fantine, the child's mother,” said the big man. “You don't need to know my name. Fantine is dead, so you can get no more money from her here.”He put some money on the table is 1500 francs.“Now call the child I'm taking her away.”When Jean Valjean and Cosette left Montfermeil, Cosette did not look back.She never wanted to see Madame Thenardier again.She put her cold little hand into Valjean's great hand and looked up into his face.“Monsieur,”she said, “can I, can I call you Father?”Valjean looked down at her big round eyes.“Yes,” he said.He did not know love, he did not understand love, but in that moment, suddenly he felt a father's love for this small child.“Yes,” he said again, “yes, you can call me father, it's a good name.”Hand in hand,they walked away on the road to Paris.In Paris,Cosette learn to laugh, and to sing like a bird, and to be happy.Jean Valjean learned to be father and mother to this child, and he loved her dearly.But they lived quietly, moved house often, and only went out at night.Because Javert too was in Paris.When Valjean escaped from Montroy, Javert came to Paris to look for him. He was now an important inspector in the Paris police.Every criminal in Paris was afraid of Inspector Javert.Once Valjeansaw Javert by the river, and the next day he looked for a new place to live.He found one behind the high walls of a girl school.The school gave Valjean a job as a gardener, and he lived in a little house in the big gardens.Cosette lived in the school, but every day, she came to the gardener's little house for one hour.They talked,and they sang, and they read books.It was the happiest hour in the day for her and for Jean Valjean.And so the years passed.翻译第三章：珂赛特马德兰先生当然就是冉阿让。在迪涅镇发生的那些事之后，你其实就已经知道了。他卖掉了主教给的银餐盘，却留下了那对银烛台。他来到蒙特勒伊，建起工厂，拼命工作，对他人仁慈宽厚。他开启了一段崭新而向善的人生，也没有辜负迪涅主教的期望。但是，在冉阿让离开土伦监狱、抵达迪涅镇之前，他曾饱受饥饿之苦。在土伦的一条街上，为了买面包，他从一个男孩那里偷了钱——仅仅只有一法郎。就因为这个，法国的法律规定，囚犯冉阿让必须重返监狱，并在那里度过余生。他再也无法成为一个自由人了。于是，我们认识了沙威。在来到蒙特勒伊之前，他是土伦监狱的一名狱卒。法律就是他的神明，他痛恨一切罪犯。他非常清楚地记得冉阿让——那个高大强壮的男人。他想再次看到冉阿让身陷囹圄，而他沙威警长，就要亲手把他送进去。此时的冉阿让也想起了沙威。他记得那双冰冷的眼睛、那副生硬的嗓音，还有狱卒那残忍的微笑。他回忆起了这一切，心中充满恐惧。他知道沙威将是他一生的死敌，但他同样想起了芳汀。他记起了她临终前的话语：“求您照顾珂赛特，求求您了。”他怎么能把这个没有母亲、在世上举目无亲的小女孩孤零零地丢下呢？他必须找到她，无论有没有沙威的阻拦。德纳第夫妇住在巴黎附近一个叫蒙费梅伊的村子里。村里没有水，最近的水源在十五分钟路程外的一片树林里的一条小河。人们只能提着水桶把水扛回家。珂赛特恨透了那片树林。一到夜里，树木就会发出各种声响。她害怕那些声音，害怕黑暗，而且提着沉甸甸的水桶，回家的路显得格外漫长。1823年一个漆黑的冬夜，德纳第太太又打发珂赛特去河边打水。珂赛特一路小跑来到河边。然后，提着那桶沉重的水，她开始往回走。今晚树林里的树木喧闹不止，仿佛在对着她窃窃私语、嘲笑她。小女孩忍不住哭了起来。“哦，上帝啊，求求您帮帮我，仁慈的上帝啊。”突然，水桶从她手里消失了。一只宽大的手伸下来，替她接过了水桶。她抬起头，看到一个穿着破旧黄外套的高大男人。有时候，无需言语，我们也能感觉到好事正在发生。小女孩此刻就明白了，她一点儿也不害怕这个高大的男人。男人用对孩子说话的温柔语气对她说：“这桶水太沉了。我帮你提好吗？”“好的，先生。”“你几岁了？”“我8岁了，先生。”“你妈妈在哪儿？”“我不知道，”孩子说，“我没有妈妈。”“你叫什么名字？”“珂赛特。”高大的男人停下脚步，放下水桶，端详着珂赛特的脸。“这么晚了，谁派你出来提这么重的一桶水？”“德纳第太太。”“我想和这位德纳第太太谈谈。我们一起去见见她好吗？”“好的，先生。”此时的珂赛特已经不再害怕树林里的声响了。这个说话温柔的高大男人，成了她生命中一个全新而美好的存在。他们一起走到了德纳第家。“先生，求求您，现在我可以自己提水桶了吗？”“为什么呢？”“我不能向别人求助。太太说，如果我要是求助，她就会打我。”珂赛特说，“她总是打我。”他把水桶还给了她。看到珂赛特的新朋友——这个穿着破旧黄外套的高大男人，德纳第夫妇感到非常惊讶。在屋里，高大男人仔细打量着珂赛特。他看到她单薄的衣服、脏乱的头发，还有那双充满惊恐的大眼睛。八岁的她，个头比同龄人小得多。她的双手因为干厨房的粗活而通红，脚上连双鞋都没有。“这么冷的冬夜，这孩子怎么连双鞋都没穿？”他问德纳第太太。德纳第太太恶狠狠地瞪了珂赛特一眼。“进厨房去，珂赛特。还有活儿要干呢，快去。那么您呢，先生？”德纳第太太问道。“我是为了这孩子母亲芳汀的事来的，”高大男人说，“你们不必知道我的名字。芳汀已经死了，你们再也别想从她那儿要到一分钱了。”他把一些钱放在桌上——那是1500法郎。“现在把孩子叫来，我要带她走。”当冉阿让和珂赛特离开蒙费梅伊时，珂赛特没有回头。她再也不想见到德纳第太太了。她把冰冷的小手放进冉阿让宽大的手掌里，仰起头看着他的脸。“先生，”她说，“我，我可以叫您父亲吗？”冉阿让低头看着她那双圆溜溜的大眼睛。“可以。”他说。他曾经不懂得爱，也不明白什么是爱，但在那一刻，他突然对这个小小的孩子生出了一种深沉的父爱。“可以，”他又说了一遍，“是的，你可以叫我父亲，这是一个很好的称呼。”他们手牵着手，走在通往巴黎的路上。在巴黎，珂赛特学会了笑，学会了像小鸟一样唱歌，学会了感受快乐。冉阿让也学着同时扮演这个孩子的父亲和母亲，他深深地爱着她。但他们过着深居简出的生活，经常搬家，并且只在夜里出门。因为沙威也来到了巴黎。当冉阿让从蒙特勒伊逃脱后，沙威便来到巴黎搜寻他。此时的沙威已经是巴黎警察局里一位举足轻重的警长。巴黎的每一个罪犯都对沙威警长闻风丧胆。有一次，冉阿让在河边看见了沙威，第二天他便立刻寻找新的住处。他在一家女子学校高高的围墙后找到了一个安身之所。学校给冉阿让提供了一份园丁的工作，他住在大花园里的一栋小房子中。珂赛特就在那所学校里生活，但每天，她都会来到园丁的小屋里待上一个小时。他们聊天、唱歌、读书。这是她和冉阿让一天中最幸福的一个小时。就这样，岁月悄然流逝。

Les Misérables by Victor Hugo单词提示1.misery 苦难2.bishop 主教3.candlestick 蜡烛台原文Chapter 1: Jean ValjeanIt is the year 1796, and the people of France are hungry; not the rich people, of course, they have food, they have warm clothes, they have beautiful houses; no, it is the poor people of France.Jean Valjean is one of these poor people.He is a young man, big, strong, and a good worker, but he has no work.He cannot find work, and he is hungry.He lives with his sister in the village of Bree, her husband is dead and she has seven children.It is a cold, hard winter and there is no food in the house, no bread.Nothing and seven children.Jean Valjean is a good man; he is not a thief.But how can a man just sit there when his sister's children cry all night because they are hungry?What can a man do?He leaves his house at night and goes down the village night.He puts his hand through the window of the bakery.“Crash!”,he takes a loaf of bread and he runs.He runs fast, but other people run faster.France is not kind to poor people.France send Jean Valjean to prison for five years.After four years, he escapes.They find him and bring him back.They give him six more years.Once again, he escapes, and two days later they find him and they give him another eight years,19 years in prison for a loaf of bread.In 1815, when he leaves prison, Jean Valjean is a different man.Prison changes people.Years of misery, years of back breaking work,years of cruel prison guards, these things change a man once.There was love in Jean Valjean's heart, now there is only hate.One evening in October in the year 1815,there was a knock on the door of the Bishop of Denya's house.“Come in”, said the bishop.The bishop was a kind man.Everyone in the town of Denya knew that poor people, hungry people, miserable people, they all came to the door of the bishop's house.The bishop's sister looked at the man at the door that night, and she was afraid.“Look at him,” she whispered to the bishop, “he is a big man and a dangerous one. He carries a yellow card, so he was once a prisoner, a bad man.”But the bishop did not listen.“Come in, my friend,” he said to the man at the door, “come in, you must eat dinner with us and sleep in a warm bed tonight.”The man stared at the bishop.“My name is Jean Valjean,” he said, “I was a prisoner in Toulon for 19 years. Here is my yellow card, see, people everywhere shut their doors in my face, but not you, why not?”“Because my friend, in the eyes of God, you are my brother,”said the bishop smiling, “So come in and sit by our fire.”The bishop turned to his sister, “Now sister, our friend Jean Valjean needs a good dinner. Bring out the silver dinner plates. It's a special night tonight.”“Not the silver plates,” whispered the bishop's sister.Her eyes went quickly to Jean Valjean, then back to the bishop's face.“Yes, the silver plates,” said the bishop, “and the silver candlesticks, too. The church has these beautiful things, but they are for our visitors, and our visitor tonight must have only the best.”And so, Jean Valjean sat down with the bishop and his sister, and ate from silver plates.He ate hungrily. It was his first good meal for weeks.“You're a good man,” he said to the bishop, “perhaps the only good man in France.”But Valjean could not take his eyes away from the silver plates.After the meal, the bishop's sister put the silver plates away, and Valjean's eyes watched.He saw the place, and he remembered it in the night, in his warm bed in the bishop's house.He thought about the plates, they were big,heavy, so much silver in them.“I can sell those plates,” he thought, “for just one of them. I can eat well for months.”19 years in prison is a long time, and 19 hard years change a man.By morning, Valjean was a long way from the bishop's house.But how do you carry big silver plates? How do you hide them?People in Denya began to whisper.“Did you see him? That big man carrying six silver plates? Where did he get them from? Those plates came from the church. A man like that doesn't have silver plates, no, and he carries a yellow card, did you see? So he was a prisoner once, he's a thief, he stole those plates.”The police heard the whispers, they went after Jean Valjean, found him and took him back to the bishop's house in the afternoon.But there, they had a surprise.“My dear friend,” the bishop, said to Jean Valjean, “I am so pleased to see you. You forgot the candlesticks, I gave you the silver plates and the candlestick, you remember, but you forgot to take the candlesticks when you left.”“But this man is a thief.” said one of the policemen.“No, no, of course not,” said the bishop smiling, “I gave the silver to Monsieur Valjean.”“You mean he can go? He is free?” said the policeman.“Of course,” the bishop said.All this time Jean Valjean stared at the bishop, and said not one word.The policeman went away, and the Bishop of Denya went into his house and came out again with the two silver candlesticks.They were tall and heavy and beautiful.The bishop put the candlesticks into Jean Valjean's hands.“Jean Valjean, my brother,” he said, “you must leave your bad life behind you. This is God's silver, and I am giving it to you. With it, you can begin a new good life. I am buying your soul for God.”Jean Valjean left the town of Denya with his silver plates and his silver candlesticks.Suddenly he was a rich man, but he did not understand why.“What's happening to me,” he thought, “everything is changing. How can I hate people when this bishop is so good to me? What shall I do, how shall I live?”Prisoner Valjean did not understand anything.He sat down by the road with his head in his hands and cried.He cried for the first time in 19 years.How long did he sit there crying? What didhe do next and where did he go?Nobody knows, but when the sun came up on anew day, he was a changed man.翻译第一章：冉阿让那是1796年，法国人民正饱受饥饿之苦；当然，富人不在其列，他们有充足的食物、温暖的衣物和漂亮的房子；挨饿的，是法国的穷苦百姓。冉阿让就是这些穷人中的一员。他是个年轻人，身材高大，体格强壮，也是个勤快的好工人，但他就是找不到工作。他找不到活儿干，只能忍饥挨饿。他和姐姐住在布里村，姐夫已经去世，留下姐姐独自抚养七个孩子。那是一个寒冷而严酷的冬天，家里已经揭不开锅，连一点面包都没有了。家里空空如也，却还有七张嗷嗷待哺的嘴。冉阿让是个好人，他本不是贼。可是，当姐姐的孩子们因为饥饿整夜整夜地啼哭时，一个男人怎么能干坐着无动于衷呢？他又能做些什么呢？他在夜里离开家，摸黑走进村庄。他把手伸进面包房的窗户。“哐当！”他抓起一条面包，拔腿就跑。他跑得很快，但别人追得更快。法国对穷人并不仁慈。法国把冉阿让送进监狱，判了五年。四年后，他越狱了。他们抓回了他，又给他加了六年刑期。他再次越狱，两天后又被抓了回来，这次又加了八年。仅仅为了一条面包，他在监狱里整整熬了十九年。1815年，当他走出监狱时，冉阿让已经变成了另一个人。监狱是会改变人的。多年的苦难、多年的苦役、多年残酷狱卒的折磨，这些经历彻底改变了一人。冉阿让的心里曾经有过爱，如今却只剩下仇恨。1815年10月的一个傍晚，迪涅主教的宅邸响起了敲门声。“请进。”主教说道。主教是个仁慈的人。迪涅镇上的每个人都知道，穷人、饿着肚子的人、走投无路的人，都会来到主教家门前求助。那天晚上，主教的姐姐看着门外的男人，心里十分害怕。“你看看他，”她低声对主教说，“他是个大块头，看着很危险。他带着黄护照，说明他曾经是个囚犯，是个坏人。”但主教没有听她的。“请进吧，我的朋友，”他对门外的男人说，“请进来，你必须和我们一起吃顿晚饭，今晚还要睡在温暖的床上。”男人死死盯着主教。“我叫冉阿让，”他说，“我在土伦的监狱里蹲了十九年。这是我的黄护照，你看，走到哪里人们都对我闭门不见，但你却没有，为什么？”“因为我的朋友，在上帝眼里，你就是我的兄弟，”主教微笑着说，“所以请进来，在炉火旁坐下吧。”主教转过头对姐姐说：“姐姐，我们的朋友冉阿让需要一顿丰盛的晚餐。把那些银餐盘拿出来吧。今晚是个特别的夜晚。”“别拿银餐盘。”主教的姐姐低声说。她的目光迅速瞥向冉阿让，又马上转回主教的脸上。“就要拿银餐盘，”主教说，“还有银烛台也要拿出来。教堂拥有这些精美的器物，但它们本就是为客人们准备的，而我们今晚的客人，理应享受最好的待遇。”于是，冉阿让和主教以及他的姐姐坐在一起，用银餐盘吃着饭。他狼吞虎咽地吃着。这是他几周来吃的第一顿饱饭。“你是个好人，”他对主教说，“也许是法国唯一的好人。”但冉阿让的目光始终无法从那些银餐盘上移开。饭后，主教的姐姐把银餐盘收了起来，冉阿让的眼睛一直盯着。他看清了存放的位置，并在当晚、在主教家温暖的床上，将这一切牢牢记在心里。他想着那些盘子，它们又大又沉，里面全是实打实的银子。“我可以把那些盘子卖掉，”他想，“哪怕只卖一个，也够我舒舒服服吃上好几个月了。”十九年的牢狱之灾太漫长了，十九年的苦难足以改变一个人。到了第二天清晨，冉阿让已经离开主教的宅邸，走出了很远。可是，那么大的银餐盘怎么带走？又该怎么藏匿呢？迪涅镇上的人们开始窃窃私语。“你看见他了吗？那个大块头带着六个银餐盘？他从哪儿弄来的？那些盘子是教堂的。像他这种人不可能有银餐盘，不可能，而且他带着黄护照，你看见了吗？所以他以前是个囚犯，他是个贼，那些盘子是他偷的。”警察听到了这些议论，他们追上冉阿让，在下午将他押回了主教的家。但在那里，他们却迎来了一个意想不到的转折。“我亲爱的朋友，”主教对冉阿让说，“见到你回来我太高兴了。你把烛台落下了。我给了你银餐盘和烛台，你记得的，但你走的时候忘了把烛台带走。”“可这个人是个贼啊。”一名警察说道。“不，不，当然不是，”主教微笑着说，“那些银器是我送给冉阿让先生的。”“您的意思是，他可以走了？他自由了？”警察问。“当然。”主教说。在这整个过程中，冉阿让一直呆呆地盯着主教，一句话也没说。警察离开后，迪涅主教走进屋里，拿着那两只银烛台走了出来。它们又高又沉，十分精美。主教把烛台放进冉阿让的手里。“冉阿让，我的兄弟，”他说，“你必须把过去的罪恶生活抛在脑后。这是属于上帝的银器，现在我把它送给你。有了它，你可以开始一段崭新而向善的人生。我是在替上帝买下你的灵魂。”冉阿让带着银餐盘和银烛台离开了迪涅镇。突然间，他成了一个富人，但他自己都不明白为什么。“我到底怎么了，”他想，“一切都在改变。当这位主教对我如此仁慈时，我怎么能继续去恨别人呢？我该怎么办，我又该怎样活下去？”作为囚犯的冉阿让，对这一切感到茫然不解。他坐在路边，双手捂着脸，哭了起来。这是十九年来，他第一次流泪。他在那里坐了多久？接下来他又做了什么，去了哪里？没有人知道。但当新的一天太阳升起时，他已脱胎换骨，变成了一个全新的人。

Les Misérables by Victor Hugo w/Jesan Sorrells & Libby Unger---Jesan Sorrells and Libby Unger explore Victor Hugo's masterpiece Les Misérables, examining its insights on moral authority, the impact of historical trauma, and the power of redemption in leadership. They discuss Hugo's romanticism, the enduring influence of French history on civic institutions, and how individual heroism still inspires contemporary audiences. The episode also draws parallels between Les Misérables' characters, modern social issues, and the necessity of aligning leadership values with virtuous action.Book Title: Les MisérablesAuthor: Victor HugoGuests: Jesan Sorrells, Libby Unger---Time-Stamped Overview---00:00 Introduction to a Classic Book06:31 Discovering French history through Les Mis13:15 European influence and historical trends17:10 Victor Hugo's impact on France26:14 Moral authority in leaders and characters27:34 Ben Hur and themes of revenge36:57 Monsignor Bienvenue's isolating virtue42:19 Life after prison struggles42:58 The power of small kindnesses49:50 Perceptions of America through the FIFA World Cup (2026)58:02 Discussing political candidates' solutions59:35 Consequences in a democratic republic01:07:35 Populism and public sacrifice01:12:55 Valjean's transformation through grace01:17:16 Reflections on Waterloo's aftermath01:23:54 Impact of Waterloo on French psyche01:28:57 Napoleon crowns himself emperor01:33:13 Understanding homelessness as a human issue01:39:34 Discussing poverty in Les Misérables01:45:57 Unexpected performance sparks epiphany01:48:24 Lessons on being heroic---Opening theme composed by Felipe Sarro - Bach - Silotti - "Air"  from Orchestra Suite No. 3, BWV 1068 Closing theme composed by Brian Sanyshyn of Brian Sanyshyn Music.---Pick up your copy of 12 Rules for Leaders: The Foundation of Intentional Leadership NOW on AMAZON!Check out the Leadership Lessons From the Great Books podcast reading list!---Subscribe to the Leadership Lessons From The Great Books Podcast: https://bit.ly/LLFTGBSubscribeCheck out Leadership ToolBox at: https://leadershiptoolbox.us/ ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

En el discurso de la montaña Jesús nos da unas indicaciones que revelan la gran confianza que Él tiene en que podemos ser buenos de verdad, le pedimos esa confianza para anhelar la santidad a la que nos llama.

P. Juan Pablo (México)En el discurso de la montaña Jesús nos da unas indicaciones que revelan la gran confianza que Él tiene en que podemos ser buenos de verdad, le pedimos esa confianza para anhelar la santidad a la que nos llama.[Ver Meditación Escrita] https://www.hablarconjesus.com/meditacion_escrita/no-hagan-resistencia-al-hombre-malo/

Jon Lindstrom joined me in The Locher Room to discuss his new novel Hollywood Payback and what it took to follow up Hollywood Hustle. He opened up about the pressure of writing a second book, the discipline of his early morning routine, and why he truly fell in love with the writing process.We also talked about the research behind the book, including the experts he leaned on to bring authenticity to the worlds of crime, prison life, and the legal system, and how those insights shaped the story.Jon shared how his role as Joey Armstrong on Beyond the Gates came to life through his longtime friendship with Michelle Val Jean, and just how much he's enjoying being part of a brand-new show that's already building momentum.He also reflected on his career in daytime television, from Kevin Collins and Ryan Chamberlain to Craig Montgomery, and how those experiences continue to influence his work today.Plus, Jon gave a preview of what's next, including his upcoming book Pressure Point, co-written with Jeff Ayers, set for release this December.

Marty with Valjean himself, Killian Donnelly ahead of Les Miserables at the 3 Arena Dublin mstarting May 29th.

Cw: reference to domestic and child abuse, discrimination against incarcerated people,  Nemo and Stevie are together at long last! This week we stare at a wall! It's the day after the wedding and Hugo immediately comes at us with his usual  gross bullshit. Valjean makes his confession because he's a (stupidly) honest man, and Cosette is transformed into … “a woman”. Marius thinks he's galaxy brained as he tries to make 2+2=5.   This podcast was produced by Nemo Martin. The audio direction and intro composing is by JDWasabi. It is a Captain's Collection Creation. Bread & Barricades (@LesMisPodcast) | Twitter Bread & Barricades | Tumblr Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/lesmispodcast  Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LesMisPodcast

Los Miserables sigue la historia de Jean Valjean, un exconvicto que busca redimirse tras salir de prisión. Perseguido incansablemente por el inspector Javert, Valjean reconstruye su vida mientras cuida a Cosette, la hija de Fantine, una mujer explotada por la pobreza.

C'est un des grands seconds rôles du cinéma français : Grégory Gadebois est à l'affiche du très réussi "Jean Valjean" de Éric Besnard, avec aussi Bernard Campan, Alexandra Lamy et Isabelle Carré. Le scénario s'intéresse aux 150 premières pages du chef d'œuvre de Victor Hugo, "Les misérables". Il raconte comment et pourquoi Valjean a été condamné au bagne, comment il s'en est sorti, pourquoi il lui est si difficile de de réinsérer... Ecoutez Laissez-vous tenter avec Stéphane Boudsocq du 19 novembre 2025.Hébergé par Audiomeans. Visitez audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

Cw: descriptions of grief, dehumanisation and incarceration Jean Valjean goes home to have sad flashbacks about Cosette's childhood, then wrestles with a new dilemma. Then we talk about Murderbot quite a bit before going back to him being sad, untherapised and traumatised.   This podcast was produced by Nemo Martin. The audio direction and intro composing is by JDWasabi. It is a Captain's Collection Creation. Bread & Barricades (@LesMisPodcast) | Twitter Bread & Barricades | Tumblr Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/lesmispodcast  Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LesMisPodcast

Send us a textMoon Valjean of Greek Fire  joins the @Vulgar Display of Podcast for a deep and nostalgic conversation about his career, the St. Louis music scene, and the evolution of music culture from the early 2000s to today. Known for his work with Goldfinger, ex - Story of the Year, and Maybe Today, as well as his role on @The Rizzuto Show, Moon shares insight into balancing creativity, family, and work while staying authentic in an industry that changes every few years.In this episode, Moon discusses his upcoming acoustic set @Surfside presents BOB-A-RINO'S Class of 2003 Reunion Show on Saturday, November 29 at OFF BROADWAY MUSIC VENUE in St. Louis, Missouri. Doors open at 6 PM and the show begins at 7 PM, featuring @Last Flight Home in their first reunion in 20 years, @Bi-Level, Moon Valjean (Goldfinger, Greek Fire, ex-Story of the Year, Maybe Today), Enemy Airship, and A Symphony of Punches featuring Jeff of Not Waving But Drowning (STL).#VulgarDisplayOfPodcast #MoonValjean #GreekFire #Goldfinger #StoryOfTheYear #StLouisMusic #BobArinosReunionShow #SupportLocalMusic #TheBarnMediaGroupPhoto by Ben Vogelsangwww.BetterHelp.com/TheBarnhttp://www.betterhelp.com/TheBarn http://www.betterhelp.com/TheBarnThis episode is sponsored by www.betterhelp.com/TheBarn and brought to you as always by The Barn Media Group. YOUTUBE https://www.youtube.com/@TheBarnPodcastNetwork SPOTIFY https://open.spotify.com/show/09neXeCS8I0U8OZJroUGd4?si=2f9b8dfa5d2c4504 APPLE https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1625411141 I HEART RADIO https://www.iheart.com/podcast/97160034/ AMAZON https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/7aff7d00-c41b-4154-94cf-221a808e3595/the-barn

durée : 00:07:05 - Bernard Campan enfile la soutane pour le film événement Jean Valjean Vous aimez ce podcast ? Pour écouter tous les autres épisodes sans limite, rendez-vous sur Radio France.

Cw: suicide reference, racism mention, anti-LGBT policits reference,  Straight out the gate with derailed impure thoughts about Valjean, then it's onto the wedding of a century. It's Mardis Gras and this old man needs to yell at a cloud before another old man gives a wedding speech!    This podcast was produced by Nemo Martin. The audio direction and intro composing is by JDWasabi. It is a Captain's Collection Creation. Bread & Barricades (@LesMisPodcast) | Twitter Bread & Barricades | Tumblr Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/lesmispodcast  Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LesMisPodcast

durée : 00:24:33 - La Série fiction - Jean Valjean et Cosette sont recueillis à Paris dans le couvent du Petit Picpus où l'enfant s'épanouit sous les yeux attendris du forçat devenu jardinier. - réalisation : François Christophe

durée : 00:24:50 - La Série fiction - Javert dénonce Jean Valjean et dévoile sa véritable identité à l'heure où un homme va être jugé à sa place. - réalisation : François Christophe

durée : 00:24:50 - La Série fiction - Javert dénonce Jean Valjean et dévoile sa véritable identité à l'heure où un homme va être jugé à sa place. - réalisation : François Christophe

durée : 00:24:33 - La Série fiction - Jean Valjean et Cosette sont recueillis à Paris dans le couvent du Petit Picpus où l'enfant s'épanouit sous les yeux attendris du forçat devenu jardinier. - réalisation : François Christophe

Philippians 3:1-16 We will look at the tension of grace and the law, mercy and justice. This biblical theme is played out beautifully in the Javert's hunt for Valjean, and it is exhibited in the life and spiritual journey of the Apostle Paul.

Philippians 3:1-16 We will look at the tension of grace and the law, mercy and justice. This biblical theme is played out beautifully in the Javert's hunt for Valjean, and it is exhibited in the life and spiritual journey of the Apostle Paul.

Cosette, Valjean, Javert.

Open Your Eyes. Goldfinger guitarist, Greek Fire showman and Ex-Story Of The Year founding member, Phil 'Moon Valjean' Sneed is our guest on Episode 350 of Sappenin' Podcast! During our summer at the Warped Tour, Moon invited us to the ska-punk trailer corner of backstage, to reconnect, talk candidly and explain a lot of unanswered questions from his twenty plus year tenure in the alternative scene. In this conversation, Valjean reveals exclusive news on the future of Greek Fire, nostalgic messages from his time in SOTY, retiring his famous backflip, replacing it with a Tony Hawk approved spin-kick, the tool of life as a creative, why Goldfinger is the best job ever, his love for John Feldmann, how he's changed his life, multiple times, the Page Avenue days, awkward online rumours, texting Dan Marsala, living in the moment, the time he got attacked by a duck and more! Turn it up and join Sean and Morgan to find out Sappenin' this week!Follow us on Social Media:Twitter: @sappeninpodInstagram: @sappeninpodSpecial thank you to our Sappenin' Podcast Patreons:Join the Sappenin' Podcast Community: Patreon.com/Sappenin.Kylie Wheeler, Janelle Caston, Paul Hirschfield, Tony Michael, Scarlet Charlton, Dilly Grimwood, Mitch Perry, Nathan Crawshaw, Molly Molloy, James Bowerbank, Amee Louise, Kat Bessant, Kieran Lewis, Alexandra Pemblington, Jonathan Gutierrez, Jenni Robinson, Stuart McNaught, Jenni Munster, Louis Cook, Carl Pendlebury, James Mcnaught, Martina McManus, Jason Heredia, John&Emma, Danny Eaton, RahRah James, Sian Foynes, Evan, Ollie Amesbury, Dan Peregreen, Emily Perry, Kalila Keane, Adam Parslow, Josh Crisp, Vicki Henshaw, Laura Russell, Fraser Cummings, Sophie Ansell, Kyle Smith, Connor Lewins, Billy Hunter, Harry Radford, George Evans, Em Evans Roberts, Thomas O'Neill, Sinead O'Halloran, Kael Braham, Jade Austin, Charlie Wood, Aurora Winchester, Jordan Harris, James Page, Georgie Hopkinson, Helen Anyetta, John Wilson, Lisa Sullivan, Ayla Emo, Kelly Young, Jennifer Dean, Tj Ambler-Shattock, Chaz Howkins, Michael Snowden, Justine Baddeley, David Winchurch, Jim Farrell, Scott Evans, Andrew Simpson, Shaun Croucher, Lewis Sluman, Ellie Gowers, Luke Wardle, Grazyna McGroarty, Nathan Matheson, Matt Roberts, Joshua Lewis, Erin Howard,, Chris Harris, Lucy Neill, Amy Thomas, Jessie Hellier, Stevie Burke, Robert Pike, Anthony Matthews, Samantha Neville, Sarah Maher, Owen Davies, Bethan Downing, Jessica Tiernan, Danielle Oldershaw, Samantha Bowen, Ruby Price, Jule Ferl, Alice Wood, Billy Parmiter, Emma Musgrave, Rhian Friggens, Hannah Kenyon, Patrick Floyd, Hayley Taylor, Loz Sanchez, Cerys Andrews, Dan Johnson, Eva B, Emma Barber, Helen Macbeth, Melissa Mercury, Joshua Ryan, Cate Stevenson, Emily Moorhouse, Jacob Turner, Madeleine Inez, Robert Byrne, Christopher Goldring, Chris Lincoln, Beth Gayler, Lesley Dargie-Walker, Sabina Grosch, Tom Hylands, Andrew Keech, Kerry Beckett, Leanne Gerrard, Ieuan Wheeler, Hannah Rachael, Gemma Graham, Andy Wastell, Jay Smith, Nuala Clark, Liam Connolly, Lavender Martin, Lloyd Pinder, Ghostly Grimoire, Amy Hogg.Diolch and Thank You x Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Cw: death mention, graphic injury description, drug use mention We made a joke about never coming back…. And then went away for a while. But we're back and with more chaotic energy than ever! Javert's ghost haunts other characters in the hunt for Valjean, and Hugo says happy pride before we settle in for our hardest job yet… caring about Marius.    This podcast was produced by Nemo Martin. The audio direction and intro composing is by JDWasabi. It is a Captain's Collection Creation. Bread & Barricades (@LesMisPodcast) | Twitter Bread & Barricades | Tumblr Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/lesmispodcast  Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LesMisPodcast

Galatians 4: From Law to Sonship—Living in the Freedom of Grace In this episode of the Exploring More Podcast, Michael Thompson and SJ Jennings continue their journey through Galatians, unpacking the powerful contrast between life under the law and life as sons and daughters of God. Using the characters of Les Misérables—Javert and Valjean—they illustrate the stark difference between rigid justice and transformative grace. Michael and SJ reflect on Galatians 4 and the metaphor of the law as a guardian or tutor—meant to lead us to maturity, not define our identity. With personal stories and biblical insight, they explore the theme of adoption into God's family, emphasizing both the legal authority and intimate connection that come with true sonship. The conversation calls believers to grow from spiritual slavery into spiritual maturity—moving from performance and obligation into freedom and responsibility, led by the Spirit. Grace isn't just forgiveness—it's the empowering presence of God that brings about real transformation. Listeners are encouraged to reflect on their own journey with grace, and to prepare their hearts for the next step in the series: the fruit of the Spirit in Galatians 5. We hope you enjoy this episode and invite you to connect with us!

A Chicago woman, Irna Phillips, birthed the daytime serial — and a Chicago woman, Michele Val Jean, is ushering in new interest in the genre. Val Jean has written for several shows, including Generations, Santa Barbara, General Hospital and The Bold and the Beautiful. Now, she's the creative force driving Beyond the Gates, the newest American soap, which debuted on CBS in February. The drama features a core Black family, the Duprees, who live outside Washington, D.C. It's full of delicious soapy drama, with slaps, villains, cliffhangers and fabulous clothes. Val Jean talks about her career, from writing the infamous catfight scene on Generations and revisiting the Luke and Laura rape on General Hospital to the joy she feels watching the reception of Beyond the Gates.

Cw: implications of suicide, death,  Hugo starts us off with some equal opportunity foot fetish, the return of a knob, and Javert and Valjean meet again in filthy circumstances. Javert and Valjean have a tense cab ride around town, Marius narrowly escapes becoming the protagonist of a different musical and if an old man can change, then so can other people. I talk about Nestor. It's not Nestor, it's Priam. War and Peace Daily    This podcast was produced by Nemo Martin. The audio direction and intro composing is by JDWasabi. It is a Captain's Collection Creation. Bread & Barricades (@LesMisPodcast) | Twitter Bread & Barricades | Tumblr Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/lesmispodcast  Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LesMisPodcast

Les Misérables | The Final Episode (Finale) || September 3, 1937Orson Welles adapted the 1862 novel by Victor Hugo, directed the series, and starred as Jean Valjean.01:20 || The Final Episode -- William Johnstone (Marius Pontmercy, Prosecutor), Orson Welles (Jean Valjean, Prisoner accused of being Jean Valjean), Ray Collins (Judge who sentences Valjean, Judge at Arras), Hiram Sherman ("Guilty!", Police Officer, Third Judge), Frank Readick (Bishop of Digne)#victorhugo #orsonwelles #lesmiserables #duaneoldtimeradio: : : : :My other podcast channels include: MYSTERY x SUSPENSE -- DRAMA X THEATER -- SCI FI x HORROR -- COMEDY x FUNNY HA HA -- VARIETY X ARMED FORCES.Subscribing is free and you'll receive new post notifications. Also, if you have a moment, please give a 4-5 star rating and/or write a 1-2 sentence positive review on your preferred service -- that would help me a lot.Thank you for your support.https://otr.duane.media | Instagram @duane.otr#orsonwelles #oldtimeradio #otr #radioclassics #citizenkane #oldtimeradioclassics #classicradio #mercurytheatre #duaneotr:::: :This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podtrac - https://analytics.podtrac.com/privacy-policy-gdrp

durée : 00:03:30 - Le Regard culturel - par : Lucile Commeaux - Alors que deux adaptations françaises sont en cours pour le cinéma, petite réflexion sur celle que propose la BBC du grand roman de Victor Hugo, disponible en ce moment sur la plateforme Arte.

Who gets to tell the story? It's the season finale, and it feels like a perfect time to travel back to 2015, when a blockbuster hip-hop musical about America's founders took the world by storm. That's right... Today, Peter and Nathan return to the room where it happened and consider the theology of Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton. _________________________________________ You'll hear: My Shot / Wait For It / The Ten Dual Commandments: Hamilton & Burr—like Valjean & Javert, like Jesus & Judas—represent oppositional forces, responding to similar circumstances with radically different approaches to life. They also each get a great “I Want” song. Burn / Quiet Uptown / Say No To This: Eliza Schuyler Hamilton, Maria Reynolds, Angelica Schuyler Church and the various roles that women play in this story. What does forgiveness look like – and what does Eliza see at the end of the musical? One Last Time / Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story: Few other musicals are so associated with presidential administrations as Hamilton is with Barack Obama. We think about the connections between the Hamilton project and the Obama project, wonder about the soft nationalism at the heart of this story, and think critically about the legacy of George Washington. Who gets to tell the story? You'll hear Lin-Manuel Miranda, Leslie Odom Jr, Phillipa Soo, Renee Elise Goldsberry, Christopher Jackson and the cast of the 2015 Original Broadway Cast Album. It won a Grammy. _________________________________________ Check out some of our all-time favorites! Phantom of the Opera Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Jesus Christ Superstar! Schmigadoon! (Season 1 / Season 2) West Side Story! Yentl! Frozen! Barbie! Never miss an episode! Sign up for our email list to get updates when new episodes are released, info about upcoming special events, and more.

durée : 00:02:12 - Le grand format - Le spectacle inspiré du roman de Victor Hugo, créé à Paris dans les années 1980, est paradoxalement devenu culte en version anglaise, attirant plus de 130 millions de spectateurs principalement à Londres et à Broadway. Ce mercredi, Cosette, Gavroche et Valjean sont revenus sur la scène du Châtelet.

Cw: death mention, discussion of racism/colonialist mentality,  Valjean and Javert explore some bondage together in the alleyway behind the tavern. We delight in this. And then Hugo reminds us that he was indeed a white man from the nineteenth century as he teaches us about protest and colonial power.  This podcast was produced by Nemo Martin. The audio direction and intro composing is by JDWasabi. It is a Captain's Collection Creation. Bread & Barricades (@LesMisPodcast) | Twitter Bread & Barricades | Tumblr Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/lesmispodcast  Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LesMisPodcast

La via do Brasil. Se c'è un indicatore che dà la misura delle difficoltà diplomatiche della Russia di Vladimir Putin, dopo l'aggressione all'Ucraina, è la telefonata di ieri che lo zar ha fatto al presidente carioca

Cw: drug mention, child death mention, description of child poverty, starvation, blood mention, injury description, suicide mention We discuss an album that was not made for us (but which becomes increasingly more imprinted on our souls), another person has pissed off Hugo so we get another session of Opinion Time, and it's time to get sad about bread. We rejoin the barricade and witness the preparations of the barricade boys as the soldiers prepare their final assault – and Valjean offers to blow Javert. This podcast was produced by Nemo Martin. The audio direction and intro composing is by JDWasabi. It is a Captain's Collection Creation. Bread & Barricades (@LesMisPodcast) | Twitter Bread & Barricades | Tumblr Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/lesmispodcast  Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LesMisPodcast

Join Rev. Tim as he has a fireside chat with J. Mark McVey - broadway actor and singer! Mark made his Broadway debut as Jean Valjean in 'Les Miserables' after having won the Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Actor while in DC. He is the first American to perform Valjean in London's West End, reprising the role with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and once again in the 25th Anniversary Tour of Les Miserables where he won the Ovation Award and the Broadway.com Award on his way to eclipsing more than 3,200 performances in the worlds favorite musical Les Miserables. But with all of this comes a fierce devotion and love for God and using his gifts to bring glory and honor to Jesus Christ! Listen to this powerful episode about a dark past, a bright future, and the God in the middle of it all! Join J. Mark McVey and Rev. Timothy J. Mercaldo for "Broadway for the Narrow Way" - limited tickets now available! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/broadway-for-the-narrow-way-tickets-1003082134667?utm_experiment=test_share_listing&aff=ebdsshios

Cw: descriptions of warfare, gun violence, death, child death, race riots,  Nemo and Stevie boil in their own sweat as the barricade comes under cannon fire. Valjean performs some sick snipes, the National Guard cause unnecessary bloodshed, there's some hope – and then despair. Pull the Trigger piglet https://iguanamouth.tumblr.com/post/72395907923    This podcast was produced by Nemo Martin. The audio direction and intro composing is by JDWasabi. It is a Captain's Collection Creation. Bread & Barricades (@LesMisPodcast) | Twitter Bread & Barricades | Tumblr Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/lesmispodcast  Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LesMisPodcast

Les Miserables is one of those profound stories that somehow encompasses the full depth of human experience. We have birth, death, falling in love, disappointment, justice, despair, young revolutionary zeal, forgiveness, and heavenly hope. From Valjean's first encounter with the Bishop - who forgives him, undeservedly so - to Valjean's own forgiveness of Javert (and Javert's inability to accept his mercy) - this a story of love offered, received, and sometimes (tragically) rejected. It is a story that promises the often miserable human condition always has the hope of redemption, if not in this life, “somewhere beyond the barricade.” Today on the podcast I am joined by The Lord of the Rings and Catholicism, was published in December 2023 with En Route Books and Media. You can also find her writing on Substack (Love of Literature), where she shares essays on finding goodness, truth, and beauty in literature and art. Her two essays on Les Miserables: “The Economy of Love” “He is not Here. He Has Risen.”   *Special thank you to my husband, Chris, for his piano renditions of some of my favorite Les Mis melodies throughout this episode. --- www.bornofwonder.com  www.mediamarqcreative.com Born of Wonder Substack Come to Ireland with me in October 2024!  --- Connect with Maddie online: https://maddiedobrowski.substack.com/  Instagram: @love_ofliterature   Read her book! The Lord of the Rings and Catholicism    Recommendation: Irish Wonders by D.R. McAnally, Jr.

Get bonus episodes on Patreon! Every Arya chapter is Valjean screaming “Who am I?” at the audience, but this one in particular really is a carousel of futures. Cam examines the half dozen personas explored in these pages and the constant refinements of that central question. Are you your circumstances? Are you your defining characteristics? Are you your vocation? Maggie revisits the Stark children / direwolf relationship for all its prophetic implications. Together, we take a closer look at the Stark family mantras, grappling with the survivability of the lone wolf vs the pack, and debating the utility of “winter is coming”. LINKS: Patreon, YouTube, Spotify, Instagram, Cam's stories Feedback & Theories: secondbreakfastpod@gmail.com

Cw: threats to a child, descriptions of gun warfare This episode is mostly about a Sumo!Grantaire AU. If you want to cut straight back to the actual story, it begins at 14:15. Valjean reads a letter and struggles with the overwhelming desire to murder Marius (mood) before getting dressed and heading out. The little King of the Barricades shows us how it's done and takes us to the end of the fourth of five parts. We talk about the remastered 2012 film, have a retrospective about what we've come across in this Part so far, and come up with about 76 AUs.  Bob the Builder Mambo no. 5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjERnmcjbAE  Who's Your Favourite Character poll: https://www.tumblr.com/oldbooksandnewmusic/742924029768400896    This podcast was produced by Nemo Martin and Julian Yap. The audio direction and intro composing is by JDWasabi. It is a Captain's Collection Creation. Bread & Barricades (@LesMisPodcast) | Twitter Bread & Barricades | Tumblr Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/lesmispodcast  Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LesMisPodcast

Cw: death, references to incest and implied pedophilia,  Eponine becomes a mermaid, cursed Marriage AUs, and the most heroic child (and secret leader of the barricade) goes on a mission. We solve a mystery involving a blotter, and then Hugo gives us a moral conundrum to really chew on.    This podcast was produced by Nemo Martin and Julian Yap. The audio direction and intro composing is by JDWasabi. It is a Captain's Collection Creation. Bread & Barricades (@LesMisPodcast) | Twitter Bread & Barricades | Tumblr Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/lesmispodcast  Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LesMisPodcast

Brian reads the hate-mail after SASF fired a few shots at Les Miserables. For some reason, Les Mis has become untouchable: one guy wrote that critics like Brian and Nate "will miss God's grace, for they do not have the capacity to receive it." Always willing to hear criticism themselves, the SASF guys take the opportunity to dive into Les Mis on a much deeper level, and eviscerate it in its own words. Not to overstate things, but Les Mis is teaching you to rely solely on your emotions. The vehicle for it is a heart-forward story, full of sentimental schlock and holy victimhood, and you need to inoculate yourself against its appeal. Only then can you enjoy the parts that are catchy and enjoyable (the songs, Valjean's forgiveness). After all, it's okay for you to enjoy things... once you can see where they're messing with you. The guys also perform a SASF emergency surgery on Les Miserables to determine what changes could make it good -- and they settle on Valjean being actively on the side of the government's troops. Imagine what could have been... #SASF #StoriesAreSoulFood #LesMiserables #InoculationStation #MerryChristmas #NDWilson #VictorHugo #LesMis #hatemail #LesMisIsLying

Episode 4: Engineering Series What is an ODN access point? How Does O'Brien transition from TNG to DS9? Does O'Brien have rizz? How does O'Brien rely on his crew of Bajoran and Starfleet engineers? Is O'Brien anti-buffer time? Join sisters, Ashlyn and Rhianna as we discuss Miles O'Brien in Deep Space Nine. SPOILER ALERT: Deep Space Nine This is the fourth episode of our Engineering Series, where Ashlyn and Rhianna talk about all the engineers in every Star Trek show, from The Original Series to Strange New Worlds. Hop aboard the Val Jean and hang out with us as we discuss all the best B'elanna Torres engineering moments in Voyager. DISCLAIMER: We do not own any of the rights to Star Trek or its affiliations. This content is for review only. Our intro and outro is written by Jerry Goldsmith.

On this episode of On the Rocks, we make the Miserable not so miserable with a few sips with the leading men of the national tour of Les Miserables, Nick Cartell (Jesus Christ Superstar, Phantom of the Opera) and Preston Truman Boyd (Sunset Boulevard, Kiss Me Kate) as we chat about recreating these iconic roles, traveling around the nation with a family, mental health for actors, how they went from community theatre to Broadway, and more! We also do a little crossover Confrontation...how did it go? You be the judge! Hosted by Alexander Rodriguez. Raise a glass, it's On the Rocks!From Straw Hut Media

This video explores what we can learn about the human heart and the grace of God from the characters Valjean and Javert in Les Mis. Zac Hicks Before We Gather: https://www.amazon.com/Before-We-Gather-Devotions-Worship/dp/0310145074 Truth Unites exists to promote gospel assurance through theological depth. Gavin Ortlund (PhD, Fuller Theological Seminary) serves as senior pastor of First Baptist Church of Ojai. SUPPORT: Become a patron: https://www.patreon.com/truthunites One time donation: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/truthunites FOLLOW: Twitter: https://twitter.com/gavinortlund Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TruthUnitesPage/ Website: https://gavinortlund.com/

As a psychologist, I'm often asked the question as to whether people can change. And since people are always in a constant state of change, I take this question to mean: "is radical personality transformation possible?" And my answer is: yes! However, it is typically only possible once people hit bottom. In today's episode, I make the case that my favorite musical, "Les Miserables," is actually a protracted examination of this question. Is Valjean's transformation legitimate, or will he forever be Javert's escaped convict, 24601? Let's take a look. "Valjean's Soliloquy": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJx1pRCey78 "The Confrontation": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jfRE_FljrE "Stars": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfoJEYicu7c "Javert's Suicide": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsZdfna1LKA Social Media Facebook: https://facebook.com/profile.php?id=100090053889622 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/orion-taraban-070b45168/ Instagram: https://instagram.com/psyc.hacks Twitter: https://twitter.com/oriontaraban Website: https://oriontarabanpsyd.com Orion's Theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrXBzQ2HDEQ Thinking of going to grad school? Check out STELLAR, my top-rated GRE self-study program based on the world's only empirically-validated test prep system. Use the code "PSYCH" for 10% off all membership plans: https://stellargre.com. GRE Bites: https://www.youtube.com/@grebites4993 Become a Psychonaut and join PsycHack's member community: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSduXBjCHkLoo_y9ss2xzXw/join Book a paid consultation: https://oriontarabanpsyd.com/consultations Sponsor an episode: https://oriontarabanpsyd.com/sponsor-an-episode Sound mixing/editing by: valntinomusic.com Presented by Orion Taraban, Psy.D. PsycHacks provides viewers with a brief, thought-provoking video several days a week on a variety of psychological topics, inspired by his clinical practice. The intention is for the core idea contained within each video to inspire viewers to see something about themselves or their world in a slightly different light. The ultimate mission of the channel is to reduce the amount of unnecessary suffering in the world. #psychology #lesmiserables #transformation

Romans 6:12-22Slaves to RighteousnessRev. Erik Veerman6/25/2023 A big thank you to David Fraser for preaching last week. Aren't we always blessed by his rich insights into the Gospel of Mark?A couple of weeks ago we started a summer sermon series in the book of Romans chapters 6 and 7. That will be our focus for the next 5 weeks. These are two chapters where the apostle Paul answers the question, “should we sin because we'll get more grace?” And as we considered two weeks ago, the emphatic answer is, “heaven forbid!” And he goes on to answer why.The reason we started with the first 11 verses are their emphasis on knowing. If you remember, that word “know” is used three times in those opening verses. Well, as we get to these next 11 verses it shifts to two things. • First, action. Over and over we're called to respond. As I read, listen for the word “present” as in “present yourself.” That's one emphasis, our responsibility. • But second, there's also an emphasis on something done to us. We've received action from God. Also listen for the phrase “have become” or “have been” as in “have been set free.”Those two ideas are interwoven throughout these verses. Our responsibility as a result of what God has done for us in Christ.Reading Romans 6:12-22 (Page 1120)PrayerI bought a lemon tree this week. It's too small right now to produce lemons, so I made some paper lemons so you can imagine it. This lemon tree is called a Meyer Lemon tree. The root system is not the original root system for this small tree. No, this stem with its branches had been cut off from its own roots and grafted into a new root structure. And as you can see, it's alive! One of the reasons for grafting fruit trees into new root stock is that it helps protect the fruit tree from disease and it gives it strength and durability in different environments.In the first 11 verses of Romans 6, we learned how believers in Christ have been grafted into him. The language used in verse 5 is “united.” We've been united to Christ. And let me say, it's one of the most theologically beautiful concepts in the whole of the Bible. Believers in Christ are united to him in a mysterious way. If you know and believe in Christ as your Savior, you have been grafted into him like this lemon tree has been grafted into a new root system. It's through that union that you receive the benefits of Jesus' death and resurrection. Through his death, you've died to your sin and its consequences, and through his resurrection you have assured hope beyond the grave.That's what the first 11 verses reveal - the great truth of your union with Christ; that your old self died with him and your new self is alive in him. Christ is now the source of your strength. All the nutrients and blessings of Christ are flowing through you because you are in him and he is in you.So, with that truth, the rest of this chapter now turns to the consequences of your union with Christ.And when you think about it, it's profound! Knowing that when you came to Christ as Lord and Savior, the change in your life was more than just setting your mind and heart on God. You became one with him, as a branch that has been grafted into the vine. The Holy Spirit united you to him. Even though we can't comprehend how that union that happens, it's true, andd it has deep implications for how we live our lives. And that's what this second half of chapter 6 focuses on.Two points. [CHECK: They are on the back of your bulletin.] I also included some of the related verses that go with each.1. First, You've been freed from your slavery to sin. (Romans 6:14, 17, 18, 20, 22)2. Second, Therefore, live as slaves to righteousness (Romans 6:12, 13, 16, 19, 21)You've been freed from your slavery to sin. Therefore, live as slaves to righteousness.1. You've been freed from your slavery to sin (Romans 6:14, 17, 18, 20, 22)Another way to describe point #1 is your status. You are freed. Or another word: redeemed. Or rescued. Or delivered. It's not something that you've accomplished yourself, rather, it's something that God has accomplished on your behalf.Look down at verse 14. This is right after that apostle Paul says you are to be an “instrument for righteousness.” We're going to come back to that in point 2. But look at what he says in verse 14. “For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.” Do you see how this is a statement of your status? Sin “will not have dominion over you.” “will not.” It's referring to the fact that because of your union with Christ, sin is no longer in control. And let me define sin again. Sin is when you break God's commands in what you think, say, or do… or in what you don't think, or don't say, or don't do.In other words, sin used to be in control of your life, but since you are in Christ, sin is no longer in control. The end of verse 14 further explains. “You are not under law but under grace.” If Christ is your Lord and Savior, your status is no longer condemned by God's law, but rather your status is redeemed by God's grace. Grace is God's free and underserved gift of salvation.Imagine chains tied to your arms and legs and secured to the wall of a prison cell. That's an image of your old self under the power of sin. You were bound by it.I was thinking of Les Mis this week. I've used this illustration before but there's an angle that connects really well with Romans 6. Jean Valjean is the protagonist. And the story starts out with Valjean in prison. We learn he had stolen bread to feed his sister's family.And his punishment is forced labor for years and years. He's consigned to grueling work in the galley and quarry. The guards constantly driving the prisoners like cattle. There's no escaping. That's like our old self, bound by sin, slaves of sin. But something happens to Jean Valjean when he's release. As a former prisoner, he was considered tainted and unworthy of being hired or helped. He had nowhere to go. But a bishop takes him in and feeds him. Despite that, in Valjean's desperation, he steals the bishop's silver utensils. Well, soon after he left, he's arrested and brought back to the bishop. But in an overwhelming display of grace, the bishop gives Valjean his silver candlesticks as well. Had the bishop spoken up, Valjean would have been condemned to live out his days as a slave. But instead, he's shown favor and love. And that grace changed him. In the musical, the Bishop sings to Valjean, “I have bought your soul for God.” A little bit later, Valjean responds that this man offers me freedom. And he concludes that out of the whirlpool of my sin, a new story must begin.Romans 6 over and over declares that your old self had been a slave to sin, or a slave to lawlessness and impurity. But, Christ bought your soul for God. You have been set free by him. That's the language here. Verses 17 and 18 and 20 and 22. You've been set free. It's a passive action that has happened to you. You see, you didn't set yourself free. You didn't break the power of sin. No, God has done that for you. It says, “you have been set free.”This language of slavery and freedom is Paul illustrating your union with Christ. He's using a metaphor. He says that right there in verse 19. “I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations.” In other word, “I'm using this life example because this is a difficult concept to understand.” You see, in the Roman Empire in the first century, indentured servitude was very common. Paul's audience would have been very familiar with slavery. A slave was forced to obey his master. And furthermore, the terms of the slavery and freedom were not in the control of the slave. I think we all get that. The metaphor teaches that before you were united to Christ, you were bound by sin to death (verse 16). Your branch was not grafted into the life-giving source of Christ, but rather it was bound to your former self. Your old root system was dead in your sin. There was nothing you could do to come alive. But God made you alive in Christ. You were cut from that old dead root and grafted into Christ into his life-giving root structure.The summary of point #1 is this. Sin no longer has dominion over you. God has given you his grace in Christ. You've been freed from your slavery to sin through your union with Christ. It's God's work, not your work. It's grace because you didn't deserve to be freed, but God has freed you.2. Therefore, live as slaves to righteousness (Romans 6:12, 13, 16, 19, 21)That brings us to point number 2. Therefore, live as slaves to righteousness.The implication of the grace that we have in Christ is to live, not as slaves to sin, but instead as slaves to righteousness.You probably noticed that the question in verse 15 is virtually the same question as in verse 1. “Are we to sin because we are not under the law but under grace?” And his answer is the same, “by no means!”To put the answer in another way. Since God gave you his underserved grace by freeing you from sin, then why would you want to continue to be in sin?Sometimes we call this misunderstanding “cheap grace.” The idea that because God is so gracious, we don't need to worry about how we live. We can willfully continue to sin knowing that God will forgive us. That's cheap grace.Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the German pastor who opposed the Nazi regime, wrote these words:“Cheap grace is the grace we bestow on ourselves. Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, communion without confession. Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, [and] grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.” In fact, I don't think we can even call it cheap grace. It totally misunderstands the purpose of grace.Bonhoeffer then writes about true grace which he calls costly grace. “Costly grace ... is the kingly rule of Christ, for whose sake a man will pluck out the eye which causes him to stumble… it is the call of Jesus Christ at which the disciple leaves his nets and follows him.”You see, the true grace of God causes us to pursue righteousness.To put it in another way, as a response to God's work in us, uniting us to Christ, we are therefore enabled and called to pursue him and his righteousness.That idea is captured in the language of verses 12 and 13 and 19. In verse 12, Paul writes, “Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions.” Your ears, your eyes, your mouth, your hands… each part of your body is directed by your mind and heart. God is saying in Romans 6 that as new creations in Christ, pursue the righteousness of God and not the sinful passions of your heart which are worked on in your mind, and mouth, and hands, etc.That word “present,” as you heard, is used multiple times in these verses.• Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, • but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life“Present” meaning “to offer” or “to give yourselves in service to.” So it's saying, because God has grafted you into Christ, so now give yourself in service to him and his righteousness. • If you look down at verse 19, its similar. “Just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity… • so now present your members as slaves to righteousness”There's that language again of slavery. This time, not a slave to sin, but as a slave to righteousness. The beautiful think about Jean Valjean's life is how he changed. After Valjean received that undeserved grace, he dedicated his life to helping and showing grace to others. He started a business that provided for many his town. He cared for Cosette, acting as her father after Cosette's mother passed away. He rescued Marius from the drama of the French Revolution, carrying him through the sewers of Paris to freedom. Yet the whole time he was being pursued by Javert, the inspector seeking to throw Valjean back into prison and slavery. But Valjean was a new man, with a new freedom, enslaved by grace. The ultimate picture of this was when the revolutionaries captured Javert, they planned to kill him, but Jean Valjean spared Javert's life. Valjean had the opportunity to take revenge on the man who had hunted him through the years. But instead, Valjean returned the grace given to him so long ago. He was now a slave to righteousness.His heart had been changed and there was a new master to serve.There's a word at the end of verse 19 that really captures the theological heart of our response. It says, “present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.” Sanctification is God's ongoing work in us. If you will, conforming us more and more, each day, to Christ. Sanctification is also a work of grace. But we have an active part in that. Our responsibility is to respond to the Holy Spirit's work in us through our union with Christ. That is sanctification. And look at verse 22. It continues that emphasis on God's sanctifying grace in our lives. It says, “But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification...”I love that phrase there. “The fruit you get.” It does not say “your fruit.” Imagine that you are this lemon tree, and you are growing yummy lemons. The thing is, you have a new root system. The nutrients that are causing those lemons to grow are flowing through you and in you to produce those lemons.You see, it's God working in you through your union with Christ that produces the fruit in your life.For a long time, I misunderstood this idea of fruit in the Christian life. When people would ask if I was displaying fruit, I would always think of things external to me. Like, are people coming to faith, am I seeing others grow in discipleship. But I came to realize that the fruit of the Christian life is an internal thing. It is God working in you. Galatians 5 captures it well, “the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.”Let me put it this way, bearing fruit is allowing God to work his sanctification in you. Now, you can constrict it. Imagine you are a branch, and you say, “I don't want fruit, I'm going to cut off the flow of nutrients to my branches.” But what will happen? Well, your leaves are also going to turn brown. And that's going to lead to a branch that is in poor spiritual health. But that's not what we're called to!Let me read our two points again and then summarize.#1 You've been freed from your slavery to sin. #2 Therefore, live as slaves to righteousness.What I'm saying is that God has taken you from death to life. Because he now lives in you, you can now live in his righteousness. It's still God working in you. It's God's fruit. Don't believe that it's you who are producing the fruit. But you are responsible to present yourselves to God in obedience. That's what it means to live as slaves to God and his righteousness.ConclusionNow, I think it's important for me to answer the how question. In other words, how do we do this? Where do we start? Where do we go to fulfill this call to live as slaves to righteousness?Well, part of the answer is right in verse 17. “But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart” (and here's the answer), “to the standard of teaching to which you were committed.” When God unites you to Christ, you become obedient from the heart (from within) to what? “to the standard of teaching to which you were committed.” It's saying, we go to God's Word. God commits us to it. In other words, he brings us to his standard of righteousness which is his Word. So, we read the Bible, we seek to know it, to understand it, and to apply it in our lives. And through that endeavor, God will produce that fruit which leads to sanctification.Now, every single one of us struggles with certain temptations and sin. The journey of sanctification is not an easy one. For example, addictions are very difficult to overcome. It takes prayer and outside help and the body of Christ supporting you. Also, the impact of past situations and broken relationships and grief is hard to navigate as we seek to pursue righteousness. The apostle Paul is not saying that the journey is easy. In fact, in the next chapter, he's going to be very clear about his struggles and how he looks to God's grace.But how do we take steps forward? Well, I want you to think about one or two areas of sin in your life. Is it sexual temptations that you act upon in your heart or mind or in pornography or adultery? Or is it anger or anxiety or covetousness? Or are there cultural idols that are distracting you from God – the love of money or you reputation or your appearance? What is it?Now let's apply Romans 6 to that sin. If you are a believer in Christ, you are united to him. And that gives you three things that will both challenge you and help you. • First, when you sin, or to use the words here, “when you present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness.” When you do that, you are sinning against Christ. Remember, he is in you. Actually, this is helpful to think about that when you are tempted… remembering that Christ is in you and you in him.• Second, and related to that. Because you are united to Christ, you can draw on the deep nutrients of his righteousness in your life. You can allow his fruit to develop in your life as you grow in sanctification. So, go to him with your sin. Go to his Word. Seek his righteousness which in you.• And third, because you are united to Christ, you have his grace… the grace of Jesus death and resurrection. I want you to hear me if you are struggling right now. God's grace should not be used to justify your sin. But that does not mean that God's grace is not sufficient for when you do sin. It is. Through your union with Christ, you are assured that you have been brought from death to life for eternity.As we close, you probably noticed - I did not include verse 23 this morning. Romans 6:23 is one of those well know verses in the Bible. So, we're going to consider it next week. And of course, it very much connects to the rest of chapter.To wrap up. If you know God in Christ. If you have professed faith in him, repenting of your sin, then you have been freed from your slavery to sin. In that new life, united to Christ, your call is to live no longer as a slave to sin, but as a slave to righteousness. If that's you, allow God to work his fruit in you, the fruit of sanctification.But if you do not know God in Christ. You need him. You need to be united to him by faith, you need him to free you from your slavery to sin. And you need to instead be his servant. He is a loving, gracious Lord to who will free you forever.

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