By Christ you'll pay for what you've done I guarantee, I'll make you suffer
[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!
[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 and 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 by the constables. Valjean emerges from the crowd]
[VALJEAN] A moment of your time, Javert I do believe this woman's tale
[JAVERT]
[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?
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!