Les Misérables Volume IV Book 6 Chapter 3

In which the night shadows of a crumbling prison harbour bold and desperate schemes of escape, where ingenious ropes and narrow flues become the tenuous threads between captivity and freedom; amid rain and ruin, a band of rogues intertwines fates, with a daring youth scaling walls in a silent testament to loyalty and courage. In this sombre tale of flight, the iron bars and stone walls are but obstacles to the indomitable will, whilst the whispered slang of the underworld colours the grim theatre of the incarcerated and the free.