soft.
During their conversations in the Luxembourg, he gave her explanations of everything, drawing on what he had read, and also on what he had suffered. As she listened to him, Cosette''s eyes wandered vaguely about.
This simple man sufficed for Cosette''s thought, the same as the wild garden sufficed for her eyes.
When she had had a good chase after the butterflies, she came panting up to him and said:
"Ah!
How I have run!"
He kissed her brow.
Cosette adored the goodman.
She was always at his heels. Where Jean Valjean was, there happiness was.
Jean Valjean lived neither in the pavilion nor the garden; she took greater pleasure in the paved back courtyard, than in the enclosure filled with flowers, and in his little lodge furnished with straw-seated chairs than in the great drawing-room hung with tapestry, against which stood tufted easy-chairs. Jean Valjean sometimes said to her, smiling at his happiness in being importuned:
"Do go to your own quarters! Leave me alone a little!"
She gave him those charming and tender scoldings which are so graceful when they come from a daughter to her father.
"Father, I am very cold in your rooms; why don''t you have a carpet here and a stove?"
"Dear child, there are so many people who are better than I and who have not even a roof over their heads."