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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER VII. THE SITUATION BECOMES AGGRAVATED. Day grew rapidly, but not a window opened, not a door was sijar; it was the dawn, not an awaking. The end of the Rue de la Chanvrerie opposed to the barricade had been evacuated by the troops, as we stated; it appeared to be free and open for passers- by with sinister tranquillity. The Rue St. Denis was dumb as the Avenue of the Sphinxes at Thebes; there was not a living being on the square, which a sunbeam whitened. Nothing is so melancholy as this brightness of deserted streets; nothing could be seen, but something could be heard, and there was a mysterious movement at a certain distance off. It was evident that the critical moment was arriving, and, as on the previous evening, the vedettes fell back, but this time all of them did so. The barricade was stronger than at the prior attack, for since the departure of the five it had been heightened. By the advice of the vedette who had been watching the region of the Halles, Enjolras, through fear of a surprise in the rear, formed a serious resolution. He barricaded the small passage of the Mondetour Lane, which had hitherto remained free, and for this purpose a further portion of the street was unpaved. In this way thebarricade, walled in on three sides, ? in front by the Rue de la Chanvrerie, on the left by the Rue du Cygne, and on the right by the Rue Mondetour, ? was truly almost impregnable, but it is true that they were fatally enclosed within it. It had three fronts but no issue, it was a fortress but a mouse-trap, as Courfeyrac said with a smile. Enjolras had some thirty paving-stones piled up by the door of the inn. They dug up more than enough, said Bossuet. The silence was now so profound in the direction whence the attack must come, that Enjolras ordered all his m...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217497947 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217497942 |
| Weight | 0.81 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.56 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 246 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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