The marvels of escape cannot always be accounted for. The man who makes his escape, we repeat, is inspired; there is something of the star and of the lightning in the mysterious gleam of flight; the effort towards deliverance is no less surprising than the flight towards the sublime, and one says of the escaped thief: "How did he contrive to scale that wall?" in the same way that one says of Corneille: "Where did he find the means of dying?"
- Les Miserables, Volume 4, Book 6, Chapter 3
In this episode, the Patron-Minette escape from La Force prison. This is all happening while public sentiment towards the government sours considerably.
You can obtain this episode from the standard anime torrent indexing sites.
Thanks for this mighty dose of WMT goodness!
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