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and when the galleys were again yawning; and that, had it
not been for the first, he should have relapsed into crime,
and had it not been for the second, into torment.
His whole heart melted in gratitude, and he loved more
and more.
Many years passed in this manner; Cosette was grow-
ing up.
[The end of Volume II. ‘Cosette”]

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