Deserved comeuppance

"Drag forth the legal monster into light,
Wrench from his hand Oppression's iron rod,
And bid the cruel feel the pains they give."

This quote at the beginning of chapter 22 tells us what is going to happen next. Line 1 means that deads of the Marquis de Montalt will be identified and laid out for all to see what he has done and that happens with the testimony of Du Bosse and La Motte. With this he is arrested and can no longer go after Adeline. Line 2 means that his ability to have power over others and adversely affect their lives has been taken away with his arrest for trying to kill Adeline who is now out of his reach. Line 3 voices the hope that he have to feel and experience the cruelty and hardship that which he made everyone else have to go through in his mission to kill his daughter because he did not want to recognize her or deal with the fall out of people finding out he had a child with her mother. This poem like many in the book when in place at the beginning of a chapter if read carefully can give you insight into what will happen, it helps move the story along and gives you a preview. This use of poems as a way to move the story and tie together ideas makes for a very interesting read because it is a different way to follow the story that I have not experienced before.