"Who, sir?"
"Andre Chenier!"
"Yes, sir," said Basque in alarm.
BOOK FIFTH.--GRANDSON AND GRANDFATHER
CHAPTER IV
MADEMOISELLE GILLENORMAND ENDS BY NO LONGER THINKING IT A BAD THING THAT M. FAUCHELEVENT SHOULD HAVE ENTERED WITH SOMETHING UNDER HIS ARM
Cosette and Marius beheld each other once more.
What that interview was like we decline to say.
There are things which one must not attempt to depict; the sun is one of them.
The entire family, including Basque and Nicolette, were assembled in Marius'' chamber at the moment when Cosette entered it.
Precisely at that moment, the grandfather was on the point of blowing his nose; he stopped short, holding his nose in his handkerchief, and gazing over it at Cosette.
She appeared on the threshold; it seemed to him that she was surrounded by a glory.
"Adorable!" he exclaimed.
Then he blew his nose noisily.
Cosette was intoxicated, delighted, frightened, in heaven. She was as thoroughly alarmed as any one can be by happiness. She stammered all pale, yet flushed, she wanted to fling herself into Marius'' arms, and dared not.
Ashamed of loving in the presence of all these people.
People are pitiless towards happy lovers; they remain when the latter most desire to be left alone.@@
Lovers have no need of any people whatever.