It was a dismal and depressing sight to see a great city thus suddenly overthrown; and the carpenter was deeply moved by the spectacle. How to hold her, how to keep her at his side; this was the problem with which he struggled. ‘Jacques, you have been very much my friend. Poor fellow! he sometimes indulges the hope of marrying you, when he grows old enough. "Shall I never banish those horrible phantoms from my couch—the father with his bleeding breast and dripping hair!—the mother with her wringing hands and looks of vengeance and reproach!—And must another be added to their number—their son! Horror!—let me be spared this new crime! And yet the gibbet—my name tarnished—my escutcheon blotted by the hangman!—No, I cannot submit to that. But a doll that rolled its eyes and had flaxen hair! Except for the manual labour—there had been natives to fetch and carry—she and Cosette were sisters in loneliness. Guiding this man of hers over the troubled sea of life had engraved these lines. ‘Bête!’ Gerald caught her hand as she pulled it back to deliver another blow. Charvill’s command of French was enough to tell him that, for its entire content was devoted to commending Nicholas Charvill’s fourteen year old daughter into the care of the Abbess.
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