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<noinclude>{{work}}</noinclude>=== Book 3—Accomplishment of the Promise Made to a Dead Woman ===
=== Book 3—Accomplishment of the Promise Made to a Dead Woman ===
==== CHAPTER I—The Water Question at Montfermeil ====
 
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At intervals the cry of a very young child, which was somewhere in the house, rang through the noise of the dram-shop. It was a little boy who had been born to the Thénardiers during one of the preceding winters,—“she did not know why,” she said, “the result of the cold,”—and who was a little more than three years old. The mother had nursed him, but she did not love him. When the persistent clamor of the brat became too annoying, “Your son is squalling,” Thénardier would say; “do go and see what he wants.” “Bah!” the mother would reply, “he bothers me.” And the neglected child continued to shriek in the dark.
 
 
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