Les Misérables Volume II Book 6 Chapter 5 - Distractions

In which the austere life of a convent is revealed through its stark furnishings, rigorous discipline, and the quiet pleasures and diversions of its young inhabitants, from forbidden readings to stolen fruit and secret glances at visitors. Amidst this cloistered existence, a mysterious figure and the distant melody of a blind musician’s flute hint at the faint stirring of the outside world’s passions within these walls.