2266 Les Miserables
CHAPTER 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 doc-
tor, 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 Co-
sette.
‘The wonderful, beautiful girl!’ he exclaimed. ‘And she
has so sweet and good an air! she is, without exception, the
most charming girl that I have ever seen in my life. Later
on, she’ll have virtues with an odor of violets. How graceful!
one cannot live otherwise than nobly with such a creature.