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>> Brie Carlisle: Values today well be

continuing.

Les miserables by Victor Hugo

chapter four the remarks of the principal

tenant Jean Valjean

was prudent enough never to go out by day.

Every evening at twilight he walked for an hour or

two, sometimes alone, often with

Cosette, seeking the most deserted side alleys of the

boulevard and entering churches. At

nightfall he liked to go to Saint

Medard, which is the nearest church.

When he did not take Cosette with him, she remained with the old

woman, but the childs delight was to go

out with the good man. She preferred an hour with

him to all her rapturous tte ttes with Catherine.

He held her hand as they walked and said sweet things to

her. It turned out that Cosette was a

very gay little person. The old woman

attended to the housekeeping and cooking and went to market.

They lived soberly, always having a little

fire, but like people in very moderate circumstances,

Jean Valjean had made no alterations in the furniture.

As it was the first day. He had merely had

the glass door leading to cosettes dressing room replaced by a solid

door. He still wore his yellow

coat, his black breeches and his old

hat. In the street he was taken for a poor

man. It sometimes happened that

kind hearted women turned back to bestow a sou on him.

Jean Valjean accepted the sou with a deep bow.

It also happened occasionally that he encountered some

poor wretch asking alms. Then he looked behind him to make sure that no

one was observing him. Stealthily approached the

unfortunate man, put a piece of money into his

hand, often a silver coin,

and walked rapidly away. This had

its disadvantages. He began to be

known in the neighborhood under the name of the beggar who gives alms

The old principal lodger, a cross looking

creature who was thoroughly permeated, so far as her neighbors

were concerned, with the inquisitiveness peculiar to

envious persons, scrutinized Jean Valjean a

great deal without his suspecting the fact

she was a little deaf, which rendered her talkative.

There remained to her from her past two teeth,

one above the other below which she was

continually knocking against each other. She had

questioned Cosette, who had not been able to tell her anything,

since she knew nothing herself, except that she

had come from Montfermeil. One morning,

the spy saw Jean Valjean with an air which struck

the old gossip as peculiar. Entering one of the

uninhabited compartments of the hovel, she

followed him with the step of an old cat and was able to

observe him without being seen. Through a crack in the door which was

directly opposite him. Jean

Valjean had his back turned towards the store. By

way of greater security, no doubt. The old

woman saw him fumble in his pocket and draw thence a case,

scissors and thread. Then he

began to rip the lining of one of the skirts of his coat, and, from

the opening he took a bit of yellowish paper, which he

unfolded. The old woman

recognized with terror the fact that it was a bank bill for a

thousand francs. It was the second or third only

that she had seen in the course of her existence. She

fled in alarm. A moment later,

Jean Valjean accosted her and asked her to go and get this thousand franc

bill changed for him, adding that it was his quarterly

income, which he had received the day before.

Where, thought the old woman, he, did not go

out until 06:00 in the evening, and the government

bank certainly is not open at that hour.

The old woman went to get the bill changed and mentioned her

surmises. That thousand franc

note, commented on and multiplied, produced a

vast amount of terrified discussion among the gossips of the rue des

Vignese Saint Marcel. A few days

later, it chanced that Jean Valjean was sawing some

wood in his shirt sleeves in the corridor.

The old woman was in the chamber putting things in order.

She was alone. Cosette was occupied

in admiring the wood as it was sought.

The old woman caught sight of the coat hanging on a nail and

examined it. The lining had been sewed up

again. The good woman felt of it

carefully in thought. She observed in the skirts and

revers thicknesses of paper, more thousand

franc bank bills, no doubt. She also

noticed that there were all sorts of things in the pockets, not

only the needles, thread and scissors which she had

seen, but a big pocketbook, a very

large knife, and a suspicious

circumstance, several wigs of various

colors. Each pocket of this coat

had the air of being in a manner provided against unexpected

accidents. Thus the

inhabitants of the house reached the last days of winter.

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Again. My name is Brie Carlisle and

I hope you come back tomorrow for the next bite

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>> Brie Carlisle: Many adventures and

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