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CHAPTER V

END OF THE VERSES

OF JEAN PROUVAIRE

All flocked around Marius. Courfeyrac flung himself
on his neck.
‘Here you are!’
‘What luck!’ said Combeferre.
‘You came in opportunely!’ ejaculated Bossuet.
‘If it had not been for you, I should have been dead!’ be-
gan Courfeyrac again.
‘If it had not been for you, I should have been gobbled
up!’ added Gavroche.
Marius asked:—
‘Where is the chief?’
‘You are he!’ said Enjolras.
Marius had had a furnace in his brain all day long; now
it was a whirlwind. This whirlwind which was within him,
produced on him the effect of being outside of him and of
bearing him away. It seemed to him that he was already at
an immense distance from life. His two luminous months of
joy and love, ending abruptly at that frightful precipice, Co-

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