Les Miserables Page #2

Convict?

The mark of the collar

is still on your neck.

Don't linger here, convict.

Move on.

[ Wagon Approaching ]

[ Thunder Rumbling ]

[ Bell Tolling ]

- Will supper be ready soon?

- We will not serve you.

- Why?

- You're a convict. Get out.

I don't ask to eat with your guests.

I'll eat with the dogs, sleep in the stable.

- I-I have money.

- Convict money.

- I worked 1 0 years for it.

- I will not feed you. Get out.

You will feed me.

- Corporal. Corporal!

- [ Barking ]

- Fat pig!

- Ohh!

- Marco! Get him!

- [ Dogs Barking ]

[ Chattering, Indistinct ]

[ Barking Continues ]

[ Crowd Shouting ]

And it's a wonder anything gets done around here

at all, sending me across town at this hour.

After all, it was a christening,

and they do expect something from the bishop.

They all expect something

from the bishop.

But he didn't have to

give away half our dinner.

Let me stay. A few minutes, and I'll go.

Only a few minutes.

Twelve leagues I've walked today

through four towns...

and everywhere

they set the dogs on me.

I ask for food, they'll not give me any.

I say I can pay, they turn me out.

I even asked to stay in the prison,

and the jailer turned me away.

Set another place, please,

Madame Magloire.

You don't understand.

I'm a released convict, a galley slave.

My name is Jean Valjean,

number 1 -0-

We should be happy

if you will join us for supper, sir.

Is this an inn?

- I tell you, I can pay. I have money.

- There is no need.

- I am a priest.

- A priest?

Of course.

I should have seen.

You'll give me food, cur, and perhaps

you'll not want my money, priest.

This is Mademoiselle Courbet,

my sister.

And this is Madame Magloire,

my housekeeper.

- You'll join us, monsieur?

- If you'll give me food, I'll eat from the yard.

Would you prefer that,

Monsieur Valjean?

- This is your home.

- This is church property.

The church belongs to its people.

We would be honored

by your presence.

Ah. I'm afraid you will find our meal

a very slight one.

But the good Madame Magloire gave part

of our dinner to a deserving parishioner.

[ Clearing Throat ]

[ Praying In Latin ]

- [ Prayer Concludes ]

- Amen.

Madame Magloire!

We have a guest.

Aren't we missing something?

Forgive me, sir, but we have

so few opportunities for social life here...

that whenever we are

honored by a visitor...

I feel I must show you

all our fine things.

Thank you.

We lack candles, madame.

They are silver, sir.

A gift to me from the sisters of

the Convent of the Child Mary, near Paris.

Convent of the Child Mary can well

afford them after all you've done for them.

The Convent of the Child Mary

trains young ladies...

to be gracious women.

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