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(Illustration for the book Les Miserables by Victor Hugo)

CHAPTER II—THE FLAG: ACT SECOND

Enjolras bent down, raised the old man’s head, and fierce as he was, he kissed him on the brow, then, throwing wide his arms, and handling this dead man with tender precaution, as though he feared to hurt it, he removed his coat, showed the bloody holes in it to all, and said:—