Post by Fatih Ergan

'... In the meantime Monsieur Bienvenu had approached as quickly as his great age permitted: ”Ah, there you are!“ said he, looking towards Jean Valjean. “I am glad to see you. But! I gave you the candlesticks also, which are silver like the rest, and would bring two hundred francs. Why did you not take them along with your plates?” Jean Valjean opened his eyes and looked at the bishop with an expres- sion which no human tongue could describe. ”Monseigneur,“ said the brigadier, “then what this man said was true? We met him. He was going like a man who was running away, and we arrested him in order to see. He had this silver.”  “And he told you,” interrupted the bishop, with a smile, “that it had been given him by a good old priest with whom he had passed the night. I see it all. And you brought him back here? It is all a mistake.” “If that is so,” said the brigadier, “we can let him go.” “Certainly,” replied the bishop. ...' LES MISÉRABLES - VICTOR HUGO Is it compassion, not punishment, that changes a person? Is justice without compassion truly justice? And, do we still need this book?