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>> Speaker A: Take a look, in the book and let's see

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Take it chapter by chapter. One

fight M at a time

so many adventures and

mountains we can climb

to give word for word, line by

line, one bite at a time.

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>> Brie Carlisle: Values today well be

continuing Les Miserable, by Victor

Hugo Book

fifth the descent

chapter one the history of a

progress in black glass trinkets.

And in the meantime, what had become of

that mother who, according to the people at Montfermier,

seemed to have abandoned her child?

Where was she, what was she doing?

After leaving her little cosette with the thenardiers, she

had continued her journey and had reached M. Sur M.

This m, it will be remembered, was in 1818.

Fantine had quitted her province. Ten years before,

M. Surim had changed its aspect.

While Fantine had been slowly descending from

wretchedness to wretchedness, her native town had

prospered. About two years

previously, one of those industrial facts which are the grand

events of small districts, had taken place.

This detail is important, and we regard it

as useful to develop it at length, we

should almost say, to underline it

from time immemorial. M. Sur M had, had for

its special industry the imitation of english jet

and the black glass trinkets of Germany.

This industry had always vegetated on

account of the high price of the raw material which

reacted on the manufacture. At the moment when

Fantene returned to M sur m an unheard of

transformation had taken place in the production of black

goods. Towards the close of

1815, a man, a stranger,

had established himself in the town and had been

inspired with the idea of substituting in its

manufacture gumlac for resin and

for bracelets, in particular, slides of sheet iron

simply laid together for slides of soldered sheet iron.

This very small change had affected a

revolution. This very small change

had, in fact, prodigiously reduced the cost of the raw

material, which had rendered it possible, in the first

place, to raise the price of manufacture, a

benefit to the country in the second place, to

improve the workmanship, an advantage to the

consumer, in the third place, to sell at a

lower price, while trebling the profit, which

was a benefit to the manufacturer. Thus,

three results ensued from one idea.

In less than three years, the inventor of this process

had become rich, which is good,

and it made everyone about him rich, which is

better. He was a stranger in the department

of his origin. Nothing was known of the beginning

of his career. Very little. It was rumored that he had

come to town with very little moneya few hundred

francs at the most. It was from this

slender capital, enlisted in the service of an

ingenious idea developed by method and

thought that he had drawn his own fortune and the

fortune of the whole countryside. On his arrival

at M sur m he had only the garments, the appearance, and

the language of a working man. It appears

that on the very day when he made his obscure entry into the little

town of M sur m just at nightfall on a December

evening, knapsack on back and thorn club

in hand, a large fire had broken out in the

town hall. This man had rushed into the

flames and saved, at the risk of his own

life, two children who belonged to the captain of the

gendarmerie. This is why they had forgotten

to ask him for his passport. Afterwards, they

had learned his name. He was called Father

Madeleine. Thank you for joining bite

at a time books today while we wrote a bite of one of your

favorite classics. Again, my name is Brie

Carlisle, and I hope you come back tomorrow for

the next bite of, le miserable.

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>> Speaker D: Hm.

Take a look at a book and let's

see what we can find

take it chapter by chapter one

adventures and mountains we

can climb

take your word.

>> Speaker A: Forward line by line one bite

at a time.