Chapter 2
Volume 2: 2: Cosette · Book 8: 8: Cemeteries Take What is Given Them
2: Fauchelevent Facing the Difficulty
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A SERIOUS and troubled bearing is peculiar, on critical occasions, to certain characters and certain professions, especially priests and monastics. At the moment when Fauchelevent entered, this double sign of preoccupation marked the countenance of the prioress, the charming and learned Mademoiselle de Blemeur, Mother Innocent, who was ordinarily cheerful.
The gardener made a timid bow, and stopped at the threshold of the cell. The prioress, who was saying her rosary, raised her eyes and said: "Ah! it is you, Father Fauvent."