In Les Miserables book - pgs 120 -130
What does the Landlady see that makes Jean Valjean suspicious?

The landlady asks Valjean if he heard anyone come in during the previous evening. Valjean responds how he heard footsteps, and the landlady tells him it was most likely the new tenant, a man named Dumont. Valjean begins to worry that the landlady is spying on him for Javert. He resolves to leave the Gorbeau House as quickly as possible.

it shows that even through a starfish has lost its arm it can operate with only one that are left

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