Volume I, Book 2, Chapter 12
Jean Valjean, my brother, you no longer belong to evil, but to good. It is your soul that I buy from you...I give it to God.Read in Books4Free →
The Bishop and the Silver
From Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
The central conversion scene where Bishop Myriel saves Valjean by claiming he gave him the stolen silver and adds the candlesticks, purchasing his soul for God.
Volume I, Book 2, Chapter 11
Valjean steals the silver; the gendarmes return him and the bishop lies to protect him.
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