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In Marius’ conscious reckoning, in that moral calculus that those events had so recently shaken, a cloud had lifted from Jean Valjean's conscience - yet, absurdly, Marius found his discomfort with the old man's presence in his household only increasing. The lack of challenge from the man only seemed to rouse whichever pit was stirring within Marius. Once there had been a being, M. Fauchelevent, who seemed to stand guard over Cosette like a sheepdog, and that man Marius had felt able to face with at least the tenacity expected of a young man gone a-courting if not quite the ferocity of the wolf that he had only so recently found to exist within him (yet still seemingly only when it came to Jean Valjean). Now the dog had ceased even to guard, yet the idea that he must be brought to heel seemed impossible to smother.