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CHAPTER VI
THE CONSEQUENCES OF
HAVING MET A WARDEN
Where it was that Marius went will be disclosed a little
further on.
Marius was absent for three days, then he returned to
Paris, went straight to the library of the law-school and
asked for the files of the Moniteur.
He read the Moniteur, he read all the histories of the Re-
public and the Empire, the Memorial de Sainte-Helene, all
the memoirs, all the newspapers, the bulletins, the proc-
lamations; he devoured everything. The first time that he
came across his father’s name in the bulletins of the grand
army, he had a fever for a week. He went to see the gen-
erals under whom Georges Pontmercy had served, among
others, Comte H. Church-warden Mabeuf, whom he went
to see again, told him about the life at Vernon, the colo-
nel’s retreat, his flowers, his solitude. Marius came to a full
knowledge of that rare, sweet, and sublime man, that spe-
cies of lion-lamb who had been his father.
In the meanwhile, occupied as he was with this study
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