Chapter 7
Volume 2: 2: Cosette · Book 8: 8: Cemeteries Take What is Given Them
7: In Which Will Be Found the Origin of the Saying: Don't Lose Your Card
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LET us see what occurred over the coffin in which Jean Valjean lay.
When the hearse had departed and the priest and the choir-boy had got into the carriage, and were gone, Fauchelevent, who had never taken his eyes off the gravedigger, saw him stoop, and grasp his spade, which was standing upright in the heap of earth. Hereupon, Fauchelevent formed a supreme resolve. Placing himself between the grave and the gravedigger, and folding his arms, he said : "I'll pay for it!"