Chapter 5
Volume 2: 2: Cosette · Book 3: 3: Untitled (?)
5: The Little Girl All Alone
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As the Thenardier tavern was in that part of the village which is near the church, Cosette had to go to the spring in the woods towards Chelles to draw water.
She looked no more at the displays in the booths, so long as she was in the lane Boulanger; and in the vicinity of the church, the illuminated stalls lighted the way, but soon the last gleam from the last stall disappeared. The poor child found herself in darkness. She became buried in it. Only, as she became the prey of a certain sensation, she shook the handle of the bucket as much as she could on her way. That made a noise, which kept her company.