Chapter 105 119430 reappears and Cosette wins it by chance

Jean Valjean was not dead. When he fell into the sea, it should be said, when he jumped into the sea, he had thrown off his fetters, as we already know.He meandered in the water to get under a ship moored in the harbor, and a barge was parked beside the ship.He managed to hide in that barge until evening.After dark, he jumped into the water again, swam to the shore, and landed not far from Cape Blanc.He got another suit of clothes there, for he had no shortage of money with him.At that time, near Barakier, there was a small hotel, which often supplied clothing for fugitives, which was a very profitable and special business.After that, Jean Valjean, like all those desperate people who tried to escape the law and the pursuit of society, embarked on a hidden and devious road.He found his first hiding place at the Prado place near Bosse.He then headed towards Grand Villars, near Briançon in the Haute-Alpes.This is a kind of groping and trembling escape, like a field mouse's tunnel, where no one knows what fork in the road.It was not until later that someone discovered that his footprints had been to Severieux in Ontario, Argons in the Pyrenees, the Doumac Gorge near the village of Savoy, and Pepe. The cathedral town of Grunagher in Bruny near Liege.He arrived in Paris.We have just seen him at Montfermeil.

He arrived in Paris.The first thing I want to do is to buy a mourning dress for a seven or eight-year-old girl, and then find a place for myself.After finishing these two things, he arrived at Montfermeil. We recall that, after his first escape, he had carried out a covert operation in or near that place, and the police were somewhat aware of it. But everyone thought he was dead, so it was even more difficult to see through his secret.He happened to come across a newspaper in Paris that carried the matter.I was relieved, and almost settled down, as if I was really dead. After Jean Valjean rescued Cosette from the clutches of the Thenardiers, he returned to Paris that evening.He took the child and entered the city through the Monceau gate, and it was just dark at that time.There he rode in a pony carriage to Observatory Square.He got out of the car, paid the fare, took Cosette by the hand, and together they walked through the deserted streets near Ursin and the ice cellar towards the hospital road in the dark.

It was a strange day, full of fright and joy, for Cosette. They ate bread and cheese from an inn in a lonely place behind a fence, and they changed cars several times. They had walked a good deal, and she did not complain, but she was tired, and Jean Valjean felt that she was holding his hand more and more as she walked.He carried her on his back, and Cosette, holding Catherine in her arms, fell asleep with her head resting on Jean Valjean's shoulder.