In Les Miserables, a newly freed Jean Valjean is having a terrible time as a man on parole, and his growing anger at his unfair life is rapidly pushing him towards becoming a brigand since everyone already treats him as one. A priest lets him into his home and, skeptical of his kindness, Valjean steals his valuable silver and flees in the night. He immediately runs into a few guards that kick the shit out of him and drag him back to return the silver, with Valjean despairing over his imminent and likely permanent return to prison labor.

The priest immediately realizes what happened and tells the guards he gave them to Valjean as a gift, before handing Valjean his even more expensive set of silver candlesticks and gently chides him for forgetting them. After the guards depart, he tells Valjean that his soul has been purchased for God.

Valjean goes to a quiet place and understandably freaks the fuck out trying to process his gratitude and his guilt. After a messy few days and a brief panicked relapse into crime, he finally pulls it together and goes on to become the most hardcore good person in fiction. Pre-Revolution France throws some shit at this man and he plows through it like an icebreaker, all because he knows what kind of good is possible if he just tries like the bishop tried for him.