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Des pots a fleurs, des tuyaux, de la brique.
A tout venant le Coeur vend des Carreaux.

This is the factory of Goblet Junior:
Come choose your jugs and crocks,
Flower-pots, pipes, bricks.
The Heart sells Diamonds to every comer.

He left behind him the Rue de la Clef, then the Foun-
tain Saint-Victor, skirted the Jardin des Plantes by the lower
streets, and reached the quay. There he turned round. The
quay was deserted. The streets were deserted. There was no
one behind him. He drew a long breath.
He gained the Pont d’Austerlitz.
Tolls were still collected there at that epoch.
He presented himself at the toll office and handed over
a sou.
‘It is two sous,’ said the old soldier in charge of the bridge.
‘You are carrying a child who can walk. Pay for two.’
He paid, vexed that his passage should have aroused
remark. Every flight should be an imperceptible slipping
away.
A heavy cart was crossing the Seine at the same time as
himself, and on its way, like him, to the right bank. This was
of use to him. He could traverse the bridge in the shadow
of the cart.
Towards the middle of the Bridge, Cosette, whose feet
were benumbed, wanted to walk. He set her on the ground
and took her hand again.

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