Abruptly he is transfigured, embraces Marius, seats him in an armchair, and listens with the deepest sympathy to his love story.
Eventually, the argument calms down and Mr. Gillenormand asks Marius to tell him more about the girl he (Marius) wants to marry.

History, Revolution, and Progress . The bishop gives him a place to stay and even forgives him when he (the convict) robs the bishop of his nicest cutlery.

He avoids her, but she follows him to the Rue Plumet and hides in a dark corner outside the gate, lost in unhappy thoughts.

An hour later, in the darkness of night, two men and a child presented themselves at No. She had neither eaten nor slept. His only recourse is to refuse identification with the past. Obsessed by his pain and the thought of his last rendezvous with Cosette, he is only dimly aware of the rumblings of the uprising. Several times he has seen Thénardier roaming the neighborhood. Themes and Colors Key LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in Les Miserables, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work. The book begins in 1815, following Napoleon's defeat by the British at Waterloo. All rights reserved.

Based on the classic novel, Les Misérables, by Victor Hugo, and the classic Broadway stage show of the same name, Les Misérables is the story of Jean Valjean, a prisoner who breaks parole, and the police inspector, Javert, who tries to hunt him down for breaking parole. Here light serves a somewhat different purpose than usual, exposing Jondrette’s true character in his face. They exchange trivial observations charged with emotion.

Alone, this frail creature challenges the entire gang and even when threatened with death declares she will rouse the whole neighborhood at the first hostile move.
Like the contrast between physical beauty and ugliness, the contrast between cleanliness and dirt has moral implications in Hugo. Even outnumbered seven to one, Leblanc nearly manages to escape, a testament to the remarkable strength developed in the galleys, which he’s employed before to more benign uses. Javert has attempted to infiltrate their ranks as a spy, but he has been discovered and lashed to a pole. Les Miserables E-Text contains the full text of Les Miserables. Jondrette once again takes on his theatrical persona, taking advantage of what he sees as the inevitability of his triumph to listen to himself prattle on and await the entrance of the Patron-Minette men. Themes and Colors Key LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in Les Miserables, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work. He finds the meeting awkward and she, for different reasons, is embarrassed too.

Though Jondrette is apparently looking for the philanthropist’s generosity to bring him out of his misery, getting the funds out of him now becomes Jondrette’s one obsession, such that he’ll make the hovel look even more wretched, with a sobbing young daughter to boot, just to ensure greater generosity. The political unrest has made the police extremely vigilant, and he is afraid of becoming an accidental victim of their investigations.