Speaker:
00:00:23
>> Brie Carlisle: Take a look, in the book and let's see
Speaker:
00:00:26
what we can find.
Speaker:
00:00:31
Take it chapter by chapter. One
Speaker:
00:00:34
fight M at a time
Speaker:
00:00:39
so many adventures and
Speaker:
00:00:42
mountains we can climb
Speaker:
00:00:47
to give word for word, line by
Speaker:
00:00:50
line, one bite at a time.
Speaker:
00:01:16
>> Brie Carlisle: Welcome to bite at a time books where we read you your
Speaker:
00:01:19
favorite classics one byte at a time. my name is
Speaker:
00:01:22
Bre Carlisle and I love to read and wanted to
Speaker:
00:01:25
share my passion with listeners like you. If you
Speaker:
00:01:28
want to know whats coming next and vote on upcoming
Speaker:
00:01:30
books, sign up for our
Speaker:
00:01:32
newsletter@biteattimebooks.com dot.
Speaker:
00:01:35
Youll also find our new t shirts in the shop,
Speaker:
00:01:37
including podcast shirts and quote shirts from your
Speaker:
00:01:40
favorite classic novels. Be sure to follow my
Speaker:
00:01:43
show on your favorite podcast platform so you get all the new
Speaker:
00:01:46
episodes. You can find most of our links in the
Speaker:
00:01:49
show notes, but also our website,
Speaker:
00:01:51
byteadatimebooks.com includes all of the links for
Speaker:
00:01:54
our show, including to our Patreon to
Speaker:
00:01:57
support the show and YouTube, where we have special
Speaker:
00:02:00
behind the narration of the episodes. We are part
Speaker:
00:02:03
of the bite at a Time books productions network. If
Speaker:
00:02:06
youd also like to hear what inspired your favorite classic
Speaker:
00:02:09
authors to write their novels and what was going
Speaker:
00:02:12
on in the world at the time, check out the bite at a time
Speaker:
00:02:14
books behind the story podcast. Wherever you
Speaker:
00:02:17
listen to podcasts, please note
Speaker:
00:02:20
while we try to keep the text as close to the original as
Speaker:
00:02:23
possible, some words have been changed
Speaker:
00:02:26
to honor the marginalized communities whove identified the
Speaker:
00:02:29
words as harmful and to stay in alignment
Speaker:
00:02:32
with Byte at a time books brand.
Speaker:
00:02:33
>> Brie Carlisle: Values today well be
Speaker:
00:02:36
continuing.
Speaker:
00:02:36
Les Miserable by Victor
Speaker:
00:02:39
Hugo chapter
Speaker:
00:02:41
two a nest for Owl and a
Speaker:
00:02:44
warbler it was in front of
Speaker:
00:02:47
this Gorbeau house that Jean Valjean halted
Speaker:
00:02:50
like wild birds. He had chosen this desert place to
Speaker:
00:02:53
construct his nest. He fumbled in his
Speaker:
00:02:56
waistcoat pocket, drew out a sort of a
Speaker:
00:02:58
passkey, opened the door,
Speaker:
00:03:01
entered, closed it again carefully, and ascended
Speaker:
00:03:04
the staircase, still carrying Cosette.
Speaker:
00:03:07
At the top of the stairs he drew from his pocket another
Speaker:
00:03:09
key, with which he opened another door.
Speaker:
00:03:12
The chamber which he entered, in which he
Speaker:
00:03:15
closed again instantly, was a kind of moderately
Speaker:
00:03:18
spacious attic, furnished with a mattress laid on the
Speaker:
00:03:21
floor, a table and several
Speaker:
00:03:23
chairs. A stove in which a fire was
Speaker:
00:03:26
burning and whose embers were visible, stood in one
Speaker:
00:03:29
corner. A lantern on the boulevard cast a
Speaker:
00:03:31
vague light into this poor room. At the
Speaker:
00:03:34
extreme end there was a dressing room with a folding bed.
Speaker:
00:03:38
Jean Valjean carried the child to this bed and laid her down
Speaker:
00:03:41
there. Without waking her, he struck a match
Speaker:
00:03:44
and lighted a candle. All this was prepared
Speaker:
00:03:47
beforehand on the table, and as he had done on the previous
Speaker:
00:03:50
evening, he began to scrutinize cosettes face with a gaze full
Speaker:
00:03:53
of ecstasy in which the expression of
Speaker:
00:03:55
kindness and tenderness almost amounted to
Speaker:
00:03:58
aberration. The little girl,
Speaker:
00:04:00
with that tranquil confidence which belongs only to extreme
Speaker:
00:04:03
strength and extreme weakness, had fallen
Speaker:
00:04:06
asleep without knowing with whom she was and
Speaker:
00:04:09
continued to sleep without knowing where she was.
Speaker:
00:04:12
Jean Valjean bent down and kissed that child's hand.
Speaker:
00:04:16
Nine months before, he had kissed the hand of the mother
Speaker:
00:04:19
who had also just fallen asleep.
Speaker:
00:04:22
The same sad, piercing, religious
Speaker:
00:04:25
sentiment filled his heart. He knelt
Speaker:
00:04:28
beside cosettes bed. It was broad
Speaker:
00:04:31
daylight, and the child still slept. A wain
Speaker:
00:04:33
ray of the December sun penetrated the window of the attic and
Speaker:
00:04:36
lay upon the ceiling in long threads of light and
Speaker:
00:04:39
shade. All at once a heavily
Speaker:
00:04:42
laden carriers cart which was passing along the
Speaker:
00:04:44
boulevard.
Speaker:
00:04:45
>> Brie Carlisle: Shook the frail bed like a clap.
Speaker:
00:04:47
>> Brie Carlisle: Of thunder and made it quiver from top to bottom.
Speaker:
00:04:50
Yes, madame. Cried Cosette, waking with a
Speaker:
00:04:52
start. Here I am. Here I
Speaker:
00:04:55
am. And she sprang out of bed,
Speaker:
00:04:58
her eyes still half shut with the heaviness of sleep,
Speaker:
00:05:01
extending her arms towards the corner of the wall.
Speaker:
00:05:04
Monsieur, my broom, said she.
Speaker:
00:05:07
She opened her eyes wide now and beheld the
Speaker:
00:05:10
smiling countenance of Jean Valjean. so it
Speaker:
00:05:13
is true, said the child. Good morning,
Speaker:
00:05:16
monsieur. Children accept
Speaker:
00:05:19
joy and happiness instantly and
Speaker:
00:05:21
familiarly, being themselves by nature.
Speaker:
00:05:24
Joy and happiness. Cosette caught
Speaker:
00:05:27
sight of Catherine at the foot of her bed and took possession
Speaker:
00:05:30
of her. And as, she played, she put a
Speaker:
00:05:32
hundred questions to Jean Valjean. Where
Speaker:
00:05:36
was she? Was Paris very
Speaker:
00:05:38
large? Was Madame thenardier very far
Speaker:
00:05:41
away? Was she to go back? Etcetera,
Speaker:
00:05:44
etcetera. All at once she
Speaker:
00:05:46
exclaimed, how pretty, pretty it is
Speaker:
00:05:48
here. It was a frightful hole, but
Speaker:
00:05:51
she felt free. Must I sweep?
Speaker:
00:05:54
She resumed at last. Play,
Speaker:
00:05:57
said Jean Valjean. The day
Speaker:
00:06:00
passed thus. Cosette, without
Speaker:
00:06:03
troubling herself to understand anything, was inexpressibly
Speaker:
00:06:05
happy with that doll and that kind man.
Speaker:
00:06:09
Thank you for joining Byte at a time books today while
Speaker:
00:06:12
we wrote a bite of one of your favorite classics.
Speaker:
00:06:15
Again, my name is Brie Carlisle, and
Speaker:
00:06:18
I hope you come back tomorrow for the next bite
Speaker:
00:06:21
of, le miserable.
Speaker:
00:06:24
>> Brie Carlisle: Dont forget to sign up for our
Speaker:
00:06:25
newsletter@biteetimebooks.com and check
Speaker:
00:06:28
out the shop. You can check out the show notes or
Speaker:
00:06:31
our website, byteaditimebooks.com, for
Speaker:
00:06:34
the rest of the links for our show. wed love to hear from you on
Speaker:
00:06:37
social media as well.
Speaker:
00:07:15
>> Brie Carlisle: take a look and let's
Speaker:
00:07:18
see what we can find.
Speaker:
00:07:23
>> Brie Carlisle: Take it chapter by chapter one.
