Les Miserables Page #2

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with the other three seamstresses.

She's saving herself

for the man of her dreams.

Believe me, I tried myself.

I made a conquest,

but he's got a long beard.

Say, they can't take their eyes

off you over there.

Me? You think so?

Just for a kiss,

you'd have to promise to marry her.

I'll promise her

whatever she wants.

And if there's a child?

You're so naive!

Let me have your dance.

Introduce me. What's her name?

- Fantine.

- Fantine what?

Plain Fantine.

She's an orphan from

Montreuil-sur-Mer. She has no last name.

Come on.

Don't you think -

Allow me to introduce

one of our brightest law students,

my good friend

Felix Tholomys.

He's begged me to let him

have the next dance with you.

Mr. Tholomys...

Miss Fantine.

Yes, I'll say it again.

In five years, our little city

of Montreuil-sur-Mer

has been entirely transformed.

A dying community in 1815,

it now ranks with the most

prosperous regions in the land.

Thanks to whom?

Thanks to that untiring worker,

that man of integrity whose modesty

explains his absence here today:

Mr. Madeleine.

Ladies and gentlemen,

I have good news

to share with you.

The man who has just

endowed the city

with the splendid vocational school

we are inaugurating today,

our benefactor and friend,

who last year refused a decoration,

has finally accepted

to serve as our mayor.

What's the police view

of all this, Mr. Javert?

Fine and dandy, my dear notary.

Fine and dandy.

We'll see how things progress.

For the past five years,

Mr. Madeleine has not only

personified

social progress in our city.

He also made

a fabulous discovery

that has revolutionized

the glass jewelry industry in France.

Yes, it's gum lacquer.

Quite well done.

Simple enough,

but nobody ever thought of it.

In my country, we've been

working on it for 10 years.

Mr. Madeleine thought it up himself?

Where does he come from?

Wherever he came from,

he did it.

This same item, before he replaced

resin with gum lacquer,

cost three times as much.

It must have made his fortune.

He must be very rich.

Maybe.

How does he live?

Is that his chateau

near the woods?

Naturally.

Our Parisian again.

Quiet!

Your pay will be docked.

The chateau? Not at all.

Mr. Madeleine is rich now,

but he lives modestly

in a small house.

- He's an eccentric.

- He's a saint.

You're a saint, Mr. Madeleine.

You should have heard them

at the inauguration today.

You're a saint.

Don't utter that word,

my dear school commissioner.

I knew a real saint once.

He died last week.

Is it him

you're in mourning for?

The bishop of Digne.

I'll read it.

"Madame,

no need to worry.

Your little Cosette

is happy and in well health.

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