Chapter 10
Volume 2: 2: Cosette · Book 3: 3: Untitled (?)
10: Who Seeks the Best May Find the Worst
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THE Thenardiess, according to her custom, had left her husband alone. She was expecting great events. When the man and Cosette were gone, Thenardier, after a good quarter of an hour, took her aside, and showed her the fifteen hundred francs.
-"What's that? " said she. It was the first time, since the beginning of their housekeeping, that she had dared to criticise the act of her master.