Chapter 1
Volume 2: 2: Cosette · Book 8: 8: Cemeteries Take What is Given Them
1: Which Treats of the Manner of Entering the Convent
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INTO this house it was that Jean Valjean had, as Fauchelevent said, " fallen from heaven."
He had crossed the garden wall at the corner ef the Rue Polonceau. That angels' hymn which he had heard in the middle of the night, was the nuns chanting matins; that hall of which he had caught a glimpse in the obscurity, was the chapel; that phantom which he had seen extended on the floor was the sister performing the reparation; that bell the sound of which had so strangely surprised him was the gardener's bell fastened to old Fauchelevent's knee.