Les Misérables: resumen de Book 5: For a Black Hunt, a Mute Pack, Chapter 8

Qué sucede

1. Watching Cosette sleep, Jean Valjean realizes that her presence gives his life its central purpose.
2. A tinkling bell draws his attention to a limping figure working among the garden’s melon beds.
3. Fearing that discovery means arrest, he carries Cosette behind old furniture in the shed.
4. He notices that the bell sounds only when the stranger moves.
5. Cosette’s hands feel freezing, and she does not wake when he calls and shakes her.
6. Hearing her faint breathing, Valjean rushes out, intent on getting her beside a fire within fifteen minutes.

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En qué fijarte

Cosette’s danger displaces Valjean’s worries about discovery. His immediate need to protect her drives him out of hiding.

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