Chapter 5
Volume 2: 2: Cosette · Book 5: 5: A Dark Chase Needs a Silent Hound
5: Which Would Be Impossible Were the Streets Lighted With Gas
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Ax this moment a muffled and regular sound began to make itself heard at some distance. Jean Valjean ventured to thrust his head a little way around the corner of the street. Seven or eight soldiers, formed in platoon, had just turned into the Rue Polonceau. He saw the gleam of their bayonets. They were coming towards him.
These soldiers, at whose head he distinguished the tall form of Javert, advanced slowly and with precaution. They stopped frequently. It was plain they were exploring all the recesses of the walls and all the entrances of doors and alleys. _