y.
Grantaire was sitting opposite another figure, at a marble Saint-Anne table, strewn with grains of bran and dotted with dominos.
He was hammering the table with his fist, and this is what Enjolras heard:--
"Double-six."
"Fours."
"The pig!
I have no more."
"You are dead.
A two."
"Six."
"Three."
"One."
"It''s my move."
"Four points."
"Not much."
"It''s your turn."
"I have made an enormous mistake."
"You are doing well."
"Fifteen."
"Seven more."
"That makes me twenty-two." [Thoughtfully, "Twenty-two!"]
"You weren''t expecting that double-six. If I had placed it at the beginning, the whole play would have been changed."
"A two again."
"One."
"One!
Well, five."
"I haven''t any."
"It was your play, I believe?"
"Yes."
"Blank."
"What luck he has!
Ah!
You are lucky!
[Long revery.] Two."
"One."
"Neither five nor one.
That''s bad for you."
"Domino."
"Plague take it!"
BOOK SECOND.--EPONINE
CHAPTER I
THE LARK''S MEADOW
Marius had witnessed the unexpected termination of the ambush upon whose track he had set Javert; but Javert had no sooner quitted the building, bearing off his prisoners in three hackney-coaches, than Marius also glided out of the house.