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That very evening, the Emperor asked the Cardinal the name of the Cure, and some time afterwards M. Myriel was utterly astonished to learn that he had been appointed Bishop of D What truth was there, after all, in the stories which were invented as to the early portion of M. Myriel's life? No one knew. Very few families had been acquainted with the Myriel family before the Revolution.
That same evening the Bishop wrote out and handed to his sister a memorandum conceived in the following terms: Such was M. Myriel's budget.
Those who had and those who lacked knocked at M. Myriel's door, the latter in search of the alms which the former came to deposit. In less than a year the Bishop had become the treasurer of all benevolence and the cashier of all those in distress.
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