Les Misérables Volume II Book 3 Chapter 3 - Men Must Have Wine...

In which the sombre atmosphere of a neglected inn unfolds around a little girl weighed down by suffering and hardened by harsh surroundings, where even the simplest needs like water become sources of strife and despair. The child's silent endurance amid the coarse demands and cruel reckonings of an uncaring world is quietly observed, revealing the starkness of her plight as night falls.