He is, very sincerely, and he'll apologize too. He knew it was possible that someone would remember an old bourgeois man with a limp, and that word of that would pass to the one member of the Sûreté who would recognize such a vague description. But he tried very hard to pass all word anonymously, unremarked and unrecognized.
Well. He tried; he failed. Horribly poor repayment for such a great kindness as Valjean did them. He'll be upfront about it as soon as he sees the old man again.
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He is, very sincerely, and he'll apologize too. He knew it was possible that someone would remember an old bourgeois man with a limp, and that word of that would pass to the one member of the Sûreté who would recognize such a vague description. But he tried very hard to pass all word anonymously, unremarked and unrecognized.
Well. He tried; he failed. Horribly poor repayment for such a great kindness as Valjean did them. He'll be upfront about it as soon as he sees the old man again.