Chapter 198 nine missing

We have just seen how Marius discovered, or thought he discovered, that her name was Yuxie. The bigger the appetite, the bigger the love.Knowing that her name is Yuxiuer is not bad, but it is still too little.For three or four weeks Marius had been feasting on this happiness.He asks for another happiness.He wanted to know where she lived. He made his first mistake: getting caught near the bench next to the gladiator.He made the second mistake: Mr. Bai went to the park alone, and he didn't stay there.He will make a third mistake, a huge mistake, he followed "Yuxiuer". She lived in a new four-story building with a simple appearance on the place with the fewest pedestrians on West Street.

From then on, Marius added to his happiness of meeting her in the park the happiness of being with her all the way home. His appetite has increased.He already knew her name, her Christian name, at least the sweet name, the real feminine name, and he knew where she lived, and he had to know who she was. One evening, he followed them to the house, and seeing them go in through the gate, he followed him in, and said to the porter with great dignity: "Is it the gentleman on the second floor who came home just now?" "No," replied the porter, "it's the gentleman on the fourth floor."

One step further.This achievement emboldened Marius. "Do you live on this side of the street?" "It doesn't face the street," said the porter. "This house has only one side facing the street." "What does this gentleman do?" asked Marius again. "Annuity man, sir. A very nice man, though not very rich, who can do good to the poor." "What's his name?" Marius asked again. The porter raised his head and said: "Sir is a spy?" Marius went away ashamed, but quite glad that he had gained again. "Okay," he thought to himself, "I know her name is 'Yu Xiuer', she is the daughter of a rich man, and she lives here, West Street, on the fourth floor."

The next day, Mr. Bai and his daughter only stayed in the Luxembourg Garden for a short while, and it was still bright when they left.It had become a habit for Marius to follow them to the West Street.When he reached the gate, Mr. Bai let his daughter go in first. Before he crossed the threshold, he stopped and looked back at Marius. The next day, they did not come to the park.Marius waited all day. After dark, he went to West Street and saw a light in the window on the fourth floor, so he walked up and down under the window until the light was turned off. Another day, no one in the park.Marius waited another day, and then went on patrol under the windows until ten o'clock.Dinner is out of the question.High fever nourishes patients, love nourishes lovers.

Eight days passed like this.Mr. Bai and his daughter are no longer in the Luxembourg Gardens.Marius was listless and dreamy, and he dared not look at the gate during the day, so he could only satisfy himself at night by looking up at the reddish light on the pane of the window.Sometimes he saw figures walking in the window, and his heart would not stop beating. On the eighth day, he went under the window, but there was no light. "Hey!" he said, "the lights haven't been lit yet, but it's already dark. Did they go out?" He waited until ten o'clock, midnight, and one o'clock in the morning.There was still no light on the window on the fourth floor, and no one came back.He walked away dejectedly.

The next day—because he lives on the next day now, it can be said that he doesn’t care about today—the next day, he went to the park again, but he didn’t meet anyone. Go under the building.There was no light at the windows, the shutters were closed, and the whole fourth floor was pitch black. Marius knocked at the door, went in and asked the porter: "Where's the gentleman on the fourth floor?" "Moved." The gatekeeper replied. Marius shook, and asked feebly: "When did you move?" "yesterday." "Where does he live now?" "I have no idea."

"He didn't leave the new address?" "No." The porter lifted his nose and recognized Marius. "Hey! It's you!" he said. "You must be a spy."