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CHAPTER II

JEAN VALJEAN AS A

NATIONAL GUARD

However, properly speaking, he lived in the Rue Plumet,
and he had arranged his existence there in the following
fashion:—
Cosette and the servant occupied the pavilion; she had
the big sleeping-room with the painted pier-glasses, the
boudoir with the gilded fillets, the justice’s drawing-room
furnished with tapestries and vast arm-chairs; she had the
garden. Jean Valjean had a canopied bed of antique dam-
ask in three colors and a beautiful Persian rug purchased
in the Rue du Figuier-Saint-Paul at Mother Gaucher’s, put
into Cosette’s chamber, and, in order to redeem the sever-
ity of these magnificent old things, he had amalgamated
with this bric-a-brac all the gay and graceful little pieces
of furniture suitable to young girls, an etagere, a bookcase
filled with gilt-edged books, an inkstand, a blotting-book,
paper, a work-table incrusted with mother of pearl, a sil-
ver-gilt dressing-case, a toilet service in Japanese porcelain.
Long damask curtains with a red foundation and three col-

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