[Masterpiece Les Miserables] Paris Sparks

When Annie opened the door at night and saw Corona, the first thing she said was to ask in surprise: "What are you doing here? It's so late!"

"It's okay, I'll ask old Duranto to send me, he'll be waiting outside." Corona replied.

Due to the frequent need for entertainment, she also rented a gorgeous carriage and driver herself - but a carriage suitable for driving on the paved avenues of the aristocratic districts is always not suitable for driving in the slums, so during the first few lessons, she Often accompanied by Jean Valjean on foot to and fro.Old Duranto's daughter, Eve, was a member of the advanced class, one of the youngest female workers who first learned to read from Corona.It was she who offered to ask her father to pick up and drop off Corona every day—her father, Old Duranto, was originally a driver of a public carriage.Corona agreed, added some more money, and from then on old Duranto became her semi-exclusive coachman.He was a simple and sincere middle-aged man who didn't talk much. When Corona went out at night, he was always picked up by him.

So, Annie asked in the second sentence: "Is there anything wrong with the literacy class? The textbooks are going to be changed?"

After more than a year, it is no longer possible to use simple "literacy" to describe the literacy class for female workers opened by Corona.

Now there are five classes in the literacy class, which are divided into three levels-the highest level class has learned vocabulary and grammar, and has basic reading and writing skills, so I started to learn a little law and history as part of continuing to study reading.The intermediate class is learning grammar, while the elementary class is still talking about letters and words.Among them, Corona is in charge of teaching the most advanced and intermediate classes, with one class per week; while the junior class is taught by female workers with excellent academic performance, and Corona will pay them a little salary to make up for the time they lost for this— ―Annie is one of them.

Therefore, when Annie saw Corona's sudden visit, she immediately thought of this.But Corona shook her head.Annie let her in, turned around and lit half of the candle on the table, suddenly she felt a weight on her back, and Corona grabbed her hand from behind and threw herself on her body. "Anne, Anne!" she sighed, "I don't know what to do!"

"What's the matter, what can make you helpless?" Annie asked and turned around to face Corona, but Corona just changed her posture and buried her face on her shoulder.Annie raised her hand to circle her, and stroked her hair like a little sister. "Okay, okay, don't act like a baby with me! What happened to you?"

"I..." Corona whispered, "I like...I fell in love with someone."

"Really?" Annie asked in surprise and joy, pushed Corona away from her body, and held her shoulders with both hands to look at her. Corona lowered her head, and under the candlelight, she could see that her cheeks were flushed.So Annie let out a burst of laughter: "What's the matter, so you actually blush when you talk about such things! I thought you were fearless, but why did you become shy when you fell in love with a man?"

In Corona's circle, and her education, it was very bold and shameless for an unmarried young girl to speak openly of her admiration for another young man.Although she refused to obey her parents' arrangement with her eyes closed like other girls, she still felt shy and seemed unable to open her mouth if she was asked to confess her love for another man.Annie is different. The bottom-level workers are exhausted for a bite of bread every day. How can there be so much attention and avoidance. "Tell me!" she asked happily. "Who is it that makes you fall in love? Am I going to attend your wedding soon?"

Corona smiled bleakly, not looking happy at all. "No." She said softly, "I can't marry him."

"How could it be? According to your conditions, you are rich, famous, kind-hearted, and as beautiful as a fairy, which man can't marry!" Anne said, "The only thing in Paris that can say that you are not worthy is-" ―Oh my God, Corona. You must be in love with His Majesty the Emperor, right?"

Although Corona was full of melancholy, she was also amused by her. "How can it be!"

"Who the hell is that?" Annie asked, pulling her to sit by the bed, "Who is it that doesn't even look down on you?"

Corona buried her face in her hands. "It's Enjolras," she said in a voice like a mosquito.

Annie let out a long "Oh--". "It's that Enjolras you go on talking about. But you're not good friends—no, God, he thinks you're a boy!"

"Yes." Corona said bitterly, "because he thinks I'm a boy, and we're good friends. You haven't seen how he treats women: he doesn't look straight at any woman. He treats love Absolutely disinterested, he just stares at all the girls who flirt with him, as if they did something wrong to be attracted to him."

"There's something wrong with him," said Anne curtly.

"Don't say that! Didn't I also have a time when I was never attracted to men?"

"But you didn't look coldly at them!" Annie said indignantly, "He himself is good-looking, what's wrong with girls looking at him more, and it won't make him earn a sou less! Why should he be punished by him?" stare?"

"What's the use of telling me that?" Corona shook her head with a wry smile, "I thought about telling them my true identity before: no matter what, I shouldn't keep lying to my friends. But today I I've been thinking about this all afternoon, but I still don't know how to speak. If Enjolras knew about this, what would he think of me? He might think that our friendship was a fraud, that I was right from the beginning. He has feelings of admiration, and I approach them just to make love—"

"Even if you approached him for the purpose of making love, so what?" Annie said confidently.

"Then not only will he not maintain his friendship with me, he will even despise me. I can't accept this--I know how he views love in his heart. Maybe in our communication, his attitude towards women It has changed, but I can imagine what they would think of a woman who only has love in her head: they will definitely look down on this kind of person. Not only women, Enjolras looks down on all people who have no lofty ideals, because he himself is too good, Too eye-catching, he stood too high, and he couldn't understand those mediocre, even self-deprecating people in his heart."

"You think too low of yourself!" Annie shook her hand and said, "If you don't even have lofty ideals, then I don't know who else has! Are you mediocre? Look at yourself in the mirror, Corona! Don’t you know what the girls in the literacy class say about you? They envy you and worship you! If that Enjolras dares to look down on you, tell him to wait, Let's show him how great the girls he despises are!"

Corona was amused by her again, and she shook Annie's hand emotionally. "If beating him can make him like me, I'll go to him to fight now! But what's the use of it?" She shook her head sadly, "Love is something that cannot be forced or controlled. .”

Annie sighed and ruffled her hair. "Then what are you going to do? You said you thought about it all afternoon, so you decide whether to tell your real identity?"

Corona bit her lip and shook her head. "—No, I dare not say it," she said, "let me keep this friendship a little longer."

After a pause, she said softly again: "Look, am I not just a weak, compromised girl who is full of love?"

"You are not!" Annie retorted loudly.

"If I'm not, I should explain my identity to them, the sooner the better—but I dare not." She shook her head, with tears in her eyes, "I know it's wrong to do so, even if I delay , and there will be no good results! But I dare not."

"So you're a human being," said Anne.

Corona didn't answer.

"Isn't this what you taught us? Isn't this what you used to comfort many female workers? Because we are human, we will be tired, lazy, procrastinate, and fall in love with people we shouldn't love. But also You fell in love with him because you are a human being! Your Enjolras, who intends to turn himself into a god, is of any benefit to whom?"

"If he is really a god, I am at ease! I can love a god without any worries. In fact, I always thought I loved him that much: he is my muse and guides my way. A friend is the ideal of the republic I pursue. But today I found that he is more than that - he will be injured, he will bleed, and he will be powerless. Anne, it is because he is just a living person, not a god, but embraces With the ideal of helping the suffering people in the world, I love him so much!"

"I don't understand your lofty ideals. When the revolution came, I only knew how to pick up a kitchen knife, and nothing else." Annie said bluntly, "But now I see something clearly, It is he who makes you so sad. Aren't you human? Aren't you included in the people?"

"How can I blame him for my sadness? I decided not to let him know about it."

"You are hopeless," said Annie, with a sigh.

"I understand that. I once said the same thing about Basil—my teacher. I used exactly the same tone as you. But, Anne." Corona said with a wry smile, "Love is It doesn't make sense."

Anne sighed loudly. "Okay, okay, unreasonable young miss, then you continue to be your snail and keep your head in your shell!"

She reached out and hugged Corona tightly.Corona buried her face on her shoulder, her body shaking slightly.

She made no sound at all.

The author has something to say: writing emotional dramas makes me hit the wall.

Why on earth should I choose Enjolras as the hero! ! !What's wrong with having a lily with Anne! ! ! !

(Just kidding, don't take it seriously x