About this story
You find Cosette dragging a bucket through a wood, and in June Marius holds the Rue de la Chanvrerie barricade, where Gavroche goes over for cartridges. You carry the wounded boy through the great sewer, and Javert, waiting at the mouth, walks into the Seine. One hundred and fifty chapters carry you from a door in Digne to a blank stone.
Who you’ll meet
Bishop Myriel, the elderly country bishop whose household takes in the reader — an unnamed man just out of the galleys — without ever asking for his papers.
How it opens
After nineteen years in prison, you entered Digne carrying a yellow passport and road dust.
The evening wind drove cooking smells through streets where every door seemed already informed.
InnkeeperYour money is good, but the passport makes the room unavailable.
InnkeeperAnother house may decide differently, though I would not depend upon it.
Madame MagloireThe traveler at our gate has been turned from every public room.
Choose
I asked for a bed and supper, not your trust.
Write that you refused a paying traveler because of a passport.