Les Misérables

Victor Hugo

VI The Two Old Men Do Everything, Each One After His Own Fashion, to Render Cosette Happy Everything was made ready for the wedding. The doctor, on being consulted, declared that it might take place in February. It was then December. A few ravishing weeks of perfect happiness passed. The grandfather was not the least happy of them all. He remained for a quarter of an hour at a time gazing at Cosette. “The wonderful, beautiful girl!” he exclaimed. “And she has so sweet and good an ai…