You were Monsieur Madeleine, why not have said so?
You saved Javert, why not have said so?
I owed my life to you, why not have said so?"
"Because I thought as you do.
I thought that you were in the right.
It was necessary that I should go away.
If you had known about that affair, of the sewer, you would have made me remain near you.
I was therefore forced to hold my peace.
If I had spoken, it would have caused embarrassment in every way."
"It would have embarrassed what? embarrassed whom?" retorted Marius.
"Do you think that you are going to stay here?
We shall carry you off.
Ah! good heavens! when I reflect that it was by an accident that I have learned all this.
You form a part of ourselves.
You are her father, and mine.
You shall not pass another day in this dreadful house.
Do not imagine that you will be here to-morrow."
"To-morrow," said Jean Valjean, "I shall not be here, but I shall not be with you."
"What do you mean?" replied Marius.
"Ah! come now, we are not going to permit any more journeys.
You shall never leave us again.
You belong to us.
We shall not loose our hold of you."
"This time it is for good," added Cosette.
"We have a carriage at the door.
I shall run away with you.