What to do?
What to say?
Shall you carry our treasure away?
What a gem, what pearl, beyond rubies is our little girl!
How can we speak of debt?
Let's not haggle for darling Cosette...
Dear Fantine, gone to rest,
Have we done for your child what's best?
Shared our bread, shared each bone,
treated her like she's one of our own!
Like our own, monsieur...
Your feelings do you credit, sir,
then I will ease the parting blow.
Let us not talk of bargains or bones or greed...
Now may I say, we are agreed?
That would quite fit the bill,
if she hadn't been so often been ill
Little dear, cost us dear!
Medicines are expensive, monsieur!
Not that we begrudged a sou
it's no more than we Christians must do...
One thing more
One small doubt,
there are treacherous people about!