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he is a hero; like the little Theban, he shakes the skin from
the lion; Barra the drummer-boy was a gamin of Paris; he
Shouts: ‘Forward!’ as the horse of Scripture says ‘Vah!’ and
in a moment he has passed from the small brat to the giant.
This child of the puddle is also the child of the ideal.
Measure that spread of wings which reaches from Moliere
to Barra.
To sum up the whole, and in one word, the gamin is a be-
ing who amuses himself, because he is unhappy.
1000 Les Miserables
