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CHAPTER VIII

MANY INTERROGATION

POINTS WITH REGARD

TO A CERTAIN LE CABUC

WHOSE NAME MAY NOT

HAVE BEEN LE CABUC

The tragic picture which we have undertaken would not
be complete, the reader would not see those grand moments
of social birth-pangs in a revolutionary birth, which con-
tain convulsion mingled with effort, in their exact and real
relief, were we to omit, in the sketch here outlined, an inci-
dent full of epic and savage horror which occurred almost
immediately after Gavroche’s departure.
Mobs, as the reader knows, are like a snowball, and col-
lect as they roll along, a throng of tumultuous men. These
men do not ask each other whence they come. Among
the passers-by who had joined the rabble led by Enjol-
ras, Combeferre, and Courfeyrac, there had been a person

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