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CHAPTER I

THE LARK’S MEADOW

Marius had witnessed the unexpected termination of
the ambush upon whose track he had set Javert; but Javert
had no sooner quitted the building, bearing off his prison-
ers in three hackney-coaches, than Marius also glided out
of the house. It was only nine o’clock in the evening. Mari-
us betook himself to Courfeyrac. Courfeyrac was no longer
the imperturbable inhabitant of the Latin Quarter, he had
gone to live in the Rue de la Verrerie ‘for political reasons”;
this quarter was one where, at that epoch, insurrection liked
to install itself. Marius said to Courfeyrac: ‘I have come to
sleep with you.’ Courfeyrac dragged a mattress off his bed,
which was furnished with two, spread it out on the floor,
and said: ‘There.’
At seven o’clock on the following morning, Marius re-
turned to the hovel, paid the quarter’s rent which he owed to
Ma’am Bougon, had his books, his bed, his table, his com-
mode, and his two chairs loaded on a hand-cart and went
off without leaving his address, so that when Javert returned
in the course of the morning, for the purpose of questioning
Marius as to the events of the preceding evening, he found

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