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Fantine's Arrest
Les Miserables

[Bamatabois is a well dressed gentleman.]

Bamatabois:

Here's something new, I think I'll give it a try.

Come closer you, I like to see what I buy!

The usual price, for just one slice of your pie

Fantine:

I don't want you, no, no, M'sieur, let me go.

Bamatabois:

Is this a trick? I won't pay more!

Fantine:

No, not at all.

Bamatabois:

You've got some nerve, you little whore

You've got some gall.

[He hits her with his stick, she claws at his face, drawing blood.]

Fantine:

I'll kill you, you bastard, try any of that!

Even a whore who has gone to the bad

Won't be had by a rat!

Bamatabois:

By Christ you'll pay for what you have done

This rat will make you bleed, you'll see!

I guarantee, I'll make you suffer

For this disturbance of the peace

For this insult to life and property!

Fantine:

I beg you, don't report me, sir

I'll do whatever you may want

Bamatabois:

Make your excuse to the police!

[Javert enters, accompanied by constables.]

Javert:

Tell me quickly what's the story

Who saw what and why and where?

Let him give a full description

Let him answer to Javert!

In this nest of whores and vipers

Let one speak who saw it all

Who laid hands on this good man here?

What's the substance of this brawl?

Bamatabois:

Javert, would you believe it?

I was crossing from the park

When this prostitute attacked me

You can see she left her mark

Javert:

She will answer for her actions

If you make a full report

You may rest assured, M'sieur,

That she will answer to the court.

Fantine:

There's a child who sorely needs me

Please M'sieur, she's but that high

Holy God, is there no mercy?

If I go to jail she'll die!

Javert:

I have heard such protestations

Every day for twenty years

Let's have no more explanations

Save your breath, save your tears

Honest work, just reward,

That's the way to please the Lord.

[Fantine gives a last despairing cry as she is arrested. Valjean as M. Madeleine emerges from the crowd.]

Valjean:

A moment of your time, Javert

I do believe this woman's tale

Javert:

But M'sieur Mayor!

Valjean:

You've done your duty

Let her be

She needs a doctor, not a jail.

Javert:

But M'sieur Mayor!

Fantine:

Can this be?

Valjean:

Where will she end -

This child without a friend?

(to Fantine) I've seen your face before

Show me some way to help you

How have you come to grief

In a place such as this?

Fantine:

M'sieur, don't mock me now, I pray

It's hard enough I've lost my pride

You let your foreman send me away

Yes, you were there, and turned aside

I never did no wrong

Valjean:

Is it true, what I have done?

Fantine:

My daughter's close to dying

Valjean:

To an innocent soul?

Fantine:

If there's a God above

Valjean:

Had I only known then...

Fantine:

He'd let me die instead

Valjean:

In His name my task has just begun

I will see it done!

Javert:

But M'sieur Mayor!

Valjean:

I will see it done!

Javert:

But M'sieur Mayor!

Valjean:

I will see it done!


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