JEAN VALJEAN IN ANOTHER STRANGE SITUATION

VOCABULARY:

  • Reverie: a state of being pleasantly lost in one's thoughts
  • Hostile: unfriendly; antagonistic
  • Chimeric: impossible to achieve
  • Solicitude: care or concern for someone or something 

During the reading I learned that Jean Valjean meet again with Fauchelevent and he was helping him the way Jean Valjean helped him.

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