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A gust of fetidness informed him of the place in which he stood.
After the lapse of a few minutes, he was no Cheap UGGS for toddlers longer blind.
A little light fell through the man-hole through which he had descended, and his eyes became accustomed to this cavern.
He began to distinguish something. The passage in which he had burrowed--no other word can better express the situation--was walled in behind him.
It was one of those blind alleys, which the special jargon terms Cheap UGGS sale branches. In front of him there was another wall, a wall like night. The light of the air-hole died out ten or twelve paces from the point where Jean Valjean stood, and barely cast a wan pallor on a few metres of the damp walls of the sewer.
Beyond, the opaqueness was massive; to penetrate thither Cheap UGGS with bow seemed horrible, an entrance into it appeared like an engulfment.
A man could, however, plunge into that wall of fog and it was necessary so to do.
Haste was even requisite. It occurred to Jean Valjean that the grating which he had caught UGG boots sale sight of under the flag-stones might also catch the eye of the soldiery, and that everything hung upon this chance.
They also might descend into that well and search it.
There was not a minute to be lost. He had deposited Marius on the ground, he picked him up again,-- that is the real word for it,--placed hi on his shoulders once UGG boots sale womens more, and set out.
He plunged resolutely into the gloom.
The truth is, that they were less safe than Jean Valjean fancied. Perils of another sort and no less serious were awaiting them, perchance.
After the lightning-charged whirlwind of the combat, the cavern of miasmas and traps; after chaos, the sewer. Jean Valjean had fallen from one circle of hell into another.When he had advanced fifty paces, he was obliged to halt. |
