Fantine

He flips over a few of the pages. "Feuilly--you've met him, I think, another of our number?-- he's looking for ideas on teaching people back home to read and write. Making plans for schools in the streets, things that won't need a whole classroom or lock out everyone who can't afford the tuition." Bahorel turns over a few more pages. "--He should really talk to you about it. Hah,or you should talk to him. --He learned to read a long while ago, and not everyone has his knack. I wouldn't have." He shuts the book and hands it back to Fantine with a smile. "That's a fair distant cousin to my old school primer. Doesn't seem like it's telling anyone they're going to hell even once. And the pictures are good--that would have helped, at least in our house."