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you going?’ He replied: ‘Into the streets.’ His mother said to
him: ‘What did you come here for?’
This child lived, in this absence of affection, like the pale
plants which spring up in cellars. It did not cause him suf-
fering, and he blamed no one. He did not know exactly how
a father and mother should be.
Nevertheless, his mother loved his sisters.
We have forgotten to mention, that on the Boulevard du
Temple this child was called Little Gavroche. Why was he
called Little Gavroche?
Probably because his father’s name was Jondrette.
It seems to be the instinct of certain wretched families to
break the thread.
The chamber which the Jondrettes inhabited in the Gor-
beau hovel was the last at the end of the corridor. The cell
next to it was occupied by a very poor young man who was
called M. Marius.
Let us explain who this M. Marius was.

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