Chapter 299 3. When Cosette and Toussaint are asleep

Jean Valjean went home with Marius' letter. He walked up the stairs in the dark, like a night owl catching prey, fortunately in the dark, gently opened and closed the door of his room, and listened carefully for any sounds around him. According to all signs, it seemed that Ke Seth and Dusan were both asleep. He stuffed three or four matches into the bottle of the Fimard lighter, and only a little spark came out. His hands were shaking too much, because he was naturally guilty of being a thief.At last, his candle being kindly lit, he leaned his elbows on the table, and unfolded the paper to look.

When people are emotionally strong and impulsive, they cannot take a good look at it.He grabbed the paper in his hand, so to speak, grabbed it with all his strength as if he were a prisoner, squeezed it into a ball, pinched his nails of anger or ecstasy, ran to the end at a glance, and jumped back to the beginning. When he had a high fever, he could only understand a rough outline of the situation. He grasped some of the main things, and the rest disappeared.In the paper which Marius wrote to Cosette Jean Valjean saw only these words: "...I am determined to die. My spirit will be by your side as you read this letter."

Facing these two lines, he felt a schadenfreude ecstasy, and he seemed overwhelmed by this sudden change of mood. He gazed at Marius' letter for a long time with a feeling of ecstasy mixed with surprise, and his eyes floated in front of him. Create a beautiful picture of the death of the enemy. He let out a ferocious cry in his heart.In this way, there will be nothing wrong.Things turned for the better sooner than had dared to anticipate.The stumbling block in his life was about to disappear.It walked away willingly and freely.He, Jean Valjean, had never interfered in this matter, and through no fault of his, "the man" was going to die.He might even be dead.Thinking of this, his feverish mind began to calculate: "No, he is not dead." This letter was obviously written for Cosette tomorrow morning. After the two explosions between eleven o'clock and midnight, He hadn't met anything yet, the barricades wouldn't be seriously attacked until daybreak, but that didn't matter, as soon as "the man" took part in the fight, he was finished, he was stuck in that set of gears.Jean Valjean felt himself saved.In this way, he can live alone with Cosette again.The competition has ceased, and the future has hope again.He had only to put the letter in his pocket.Cosette will never know the whereabouts of "this man". "Let things take their course. The man will never escape. If he is not dead now, he must die sooner or later. How happy!"

After he had told all this to himself, he felt depressed and anxious. He then went downstairs and woke the porter. At the end of about an hour, Jean Valjean went out, donning the full uniform of the National Guard, and armed.The gatekeeper didn't make much effort, so he prepared the equipment for him in the vicinity.He had a loaded rifle and a full magazine.He walked towards the vegetable market.