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THE reader has doubtless divined that Monsieur Madeleine is none other than Jean Valjean.
We have already looked into the depths of that conscience; the time has come to look into them again. We do so not without emotion, nor without trembling. There exists nothing more terrific than this kind of contemplation. The mind's eye can nowhere find anything more dazzling nor more dark than in man; it can fix itself upon nothing which is more awful, more complex, more mysterious, or more infinite. There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky ; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.