#56- Les Misérables, Victor Hugo- part 2 Cosette

Cosette- The daughter of Fantine. After Fantine dies, from approximately the age of three to the age of eight, Cosette is beaten and forced to work for the Thénardiers.  Mrs.Thénardier spoils her own daughters and abuses Cosette.  The ex-convict Jean Valjean feels sorry for Cosette and help raise her.

Cosette dreams and thoughts and reality:

There is a castle on a cloud

I like to go there in my sleep

Aren't any floors for me to sweep

Not in my castle on a cloud

There is a room that's full of toys

There are a hundred boys and girls

Nobody shouts or talks too loud

Not in my castle on a cloud

There is a lady all in white

Holds me and sings a lullaby

She's nice to see and she's soft to touch

She says, "Cosette, I love you very much"

I know a place where no one's lost

I know a place where no one cries

Crying at all is not allowed

Not in my castle on a cloud

Oh, help, I think I hear them now

And I’m nowhere near finished sweeping…. scrubbing and polishing the floors.

Oh, it’s her…

It’s madame

[Mrs. Thenardier:]

Now look who’s here!

The little madame herself

Pretending once again she’s been so awfully good

Better not let me catch you slacking.

Better not catch my eye

Ten rotten francs you mother sends me

What’s that’ going to buy?

Now take that pail,

My little mademoiselle

And go draw some water from the well

We should never have taken you in

In the first place

How stupid the things we do

Like mother like daughter, the scum of the street

Still there, Cosette?

Your tears will do you no good

I told you, fetch some water from the well in the wood.

COSETTE says:

Please do not send me out alone

Not in the darkness on my own

[Mrs. Thenardier:]

Enough of that …………………………

and don’t forget to be nice

You heard me ask for something and I never ask twice

Castle on a Cloud - Hannah Chick (Les Miserables 10th Anniversary Concert - Royal Albert Hall in London)

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