Les Misérables

Victor Hugo

VIII Two Men Impossible to Find Marius’ enchantment, great as it was, could not efface from his mind other preoccupations. While the wedding was in preparation, and while awaiting the date fixed upon, he caused difficult and scrupulous retrospective researches to be made. He owed gratitude in various quarters; he owed it on his father’s account, he owed it on his own. There was Thénardier; there was the unknown man who had brought him, Marius, back to M. Gillenormand. Marius e…